Thanks for your ideas, have tried them all. These were all definitely farmers who stayed in the Chatham-St. Andrews-Buckingham-Thurso area in Quebec. They were not part of the Robinson settlers and they never got as far west as Ottawa. It may be that they read about the Robinson plans, but they did come on their own, with wives and children, and bought or 'squatted' on their own farms.The names consisted of Conlin, McCafferty, Lannen, Driscoll, Johnston, Harrison, Spooner, O'Grady, Gleeson, O'Neil, McMillan, O'Donnell (spellings vary). First immigration we can prove was 1828. Diane