Sorry, but I've done French charts only of the 1600s and only in Essex and Suffolk Counties when the Puritans emigrated to America. I'll send your email off to the French List. Mara On Mar 14, 2007, at 10:18 AM, Lori Hopper wrote: > Hi Mara, > > I am looking for a French family from England and am wondering > if perhaps our lines might be related. I have a man named John > French who was born about 1796 in Dorset, England. He was an > accountant. He married Marianne Hicks and they had one child named > William Henry. John died young and Marianne never remarried. > William Henry was born 1838 in Weymouth, Dorset. He married > Catherine Alexander Watson and they had 10 children. William was > an anglican minister and eventually became a canon. Catherine died > in 1875 in Middlesex, England. William took the twn children and > his mother and moved to Ontario, Canada. He then remarried and had > four additional children. I think, while in England, William was > transferred around from church to church quite a bit. I have never > been able to trace his father or his mother. Does any of this > sound familiar to you? > > Lori McKenney Hopper > Prince George, BC, Canada >