Hello, My great-grandfather, John "Stanley" LEWIS, was only in Nova Scotia from 1874 to 1881. He had come from England in 1874 as a "British Home Child." * And, in 1881 he brought his new family down to MA where they settled in Stoneham. He and his wife had 13 children. But, on the ship with Stanley were 3 LEWIS girls, ages approx. 14 down to 7. I believe the 14-yr-old married a few years later. But, I've never found out what happened to the 2 younger girls, Elizabeth and Mary. Because they were young, they might have been adopted in the 1870's and had their names changed. During my 5-6 years of researching them, I found out there was a Waitstill LEWIS in Nova Scotia early on, and there were annual reunions for his descendants for many years. Just an FYI for you. However, I am still looking for other people researching LEWIS families around 1800 in Shropshire Co., England, and then in Lancashire, England, after 1830. Betty (near Lowell, MA) ("British Home Children" is the term for the "tens of thousands" of children who arrived in Canada from 1860 to 1930's - from all over the U.K. In the U.K. they were referred to as "Child Migrants.")