This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Shaw, Henderson, McCavour, Bedell, Lewis, Boyle, Kerr Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/yNi.2ACEB/5484 Message Board Post: Hello. I have been working on a genealogy project for my newly found step-cousins this summer. When I met them in peson this summer (found on Internet), they knew very little to almost nothing about their grandparents, Charles BEDELL and Mrs. Hazel (SHAW) (McCAVOUR) BEDELL. As it turns out, Hazel was born in New Brunswick in 1895 and was a child of Edward SHAW and Eliza(beth) HENDERSON who probably married in Saint John, NB, ~1878. (In 1881 Canadian Census) Because of the Internet, I was put in contact with a descendant of another member of that SHAW family. I heard from him this morning, and he tells me that the parents of Eliza HENDERSON were probably John HENDERSON and Mary BOYLE. They probably married in New Brunswick in 1850. This person also believes that John HENDERSON came from a HENDERSON "Loyalist" who came up to Canada from Massachusetts. I was wondering if anyone knows which HENDERSON from Massachusetts was "a Loyalist." .... FYI: Mrs. Hazel (SHAW) (McCAVOUR) BEDELL became the second wife of my grandfather, Silas Dean LEWIS, ~1938, and thus the four BEDELL children became the step-children of my grandfather. Thank you for your time. Betty (near Lowell, MA) Another FYI: I have an Elizabeth HENDERSON on "my" family tree. She was born in Quebec, Canada, in 1827, and, in 1851, married her cousin, Robert KERR. Their parents were part of a "HENDERSON / KERR family group" which left Sligo, Ireland, in 1823. William KERR was the first child of Robert and Elizabeth KERR, and he would grow up to become my great-grandfather; he migrated to Boston, MA ~1870.