This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0EB.2ACE/442.2 Message Board Post: A quick look at the census and some Massachusetts vital records suggests that there were very few Montcalms in the US in the early nineteenth century, and a people search suggests that there are very few even now. I found 76 listings in the US now. At least one was in Barnstable County, and perhaps a letter to that person might bring an answer to all your questions. There were more men named Anthony Montcalm than one in the 1800s. There was a father and son, both named Anthony W. (William I think) in Middlesex County, and an Anthony in Barnstable County. The Anthony in Barnstable County married a Naomi Phillips in 1850 and was the son of Moses and Nancy according to the death record at the state archives. Death records rely on an informant, though, and the informant may not know details such as the names of parents, so perhaps it's not Nancy. The death record says Moses was born in Nantucket. The Nantucket VR has some mentions of a Moses, but it's all a little vague. At least one wife was named Sarah/Sally and Moses is callled "2nd" at one point. The Anthony W. in Middlesex is listed as born in CT and the 1790 census has as the only Montcalm (spelled that way--I didn't try variants) a "Mosses" in New Haven, CT. Perhaps there's a hint in all that that might help. I have no idea where they all came from. The Marquis did have two sons who survived childhood, but I couldn't find a genealogy that would tell me what became of them, although I didn't look very hard. If I were looking I think I'd try writing to the Montcalm on the Cape. There appear to be so few of that name in the US that I'd think the odds would favor that person's being a descendant.