This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AFB.2ACE/1648.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Catherine Ryan was born in England and John(husband) was born in Nova Scotia. They had a totaol of 7 children but only two lived Daniel (1890) and Edward J(1898) It seem to me the dates to make that connection are off. Maybe there is a connection throught Catherine Ryan. My Edward J married a total of 3 times as I think I said. His second wife was Ester M (Sivlerstein- Pearlmutter) and she brought 2 children into her marriage with Edward, which took place in Cambridge Ma in Jan of 1941. They together had a daughter(Carolyn) Jan of 1942. Edward J was a Boston Police officer, her retired in 1957, and died in 1960. Ester had been born in Russia. Gladys Barton was his 3rd wife, and they lived in Stoughton Ma where he died. So as I see it if there is a connection its either throught Catherine Ryan, or John H Gardner and his family in Nova Sctoita. Unless you can determine otherwise, something I may have missed. Good luck and keep me posted if you want to. I am very interested in what may turn up. I will do same. Barbara