Hi Bonny, Marcy and Shirley I'm overwhelmed! Thank you all so much for your quick response and all this information. It's going to keep me quiet for a while, but I'm sure I'll be back with more questions --- Regards Deirdre Briscombe -- Original Message ----- From: "Bonny Pond" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 10:09 PM Subject: Re: [ NB ] Mary Esther BLANCH > Maybe I can point you to an area of New Brunswick where you might begin > looking. And that is Botsford Parish in Westmorland County. Looking at > the > Land Grants for the name "Blanch" in the period 1825 to 1855 I found a > total > of 9; 8 of the 9 were in Botsford County. > (see: > http://archives.gnb.ca/APPS/GovRecs/RS686/Search.aspx?culture=en-CA&C=1 > > And the name sounds English - Mary Esther - but it is possible that her > mother was Acadian and her father Englsih as Westmorland County had (and > has) a mixture of French and English inhabitants. > > Bonny > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of dbriscombe > Sent: 12 November 2009 22:15 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ NB ] Mary Esther BLANCH > > Hi > I am new to the list and hope someone can help me find out more about my > GGGrandmother Mary Esther BLANCH, especially her marriage and birth > details > > Mary, born 1835, married my GGGrandfather William Mayne Pepperell sometime > prior to 1860. William, a Welsh master mariner sailed to North America > regularly from the time he first went to sea. On one of these voyages he > met > and married Mary Esther and took her back, first to Pembroke then to > Cardiff > where she died aged 79yrs in 1915. I can find no record of their marriage > in > the UK BDM's. > > As for her birth, UK census records says she was born in the following > places: > 1861- Cant find her or her 2 children > 1871 - New Brunswick > 1881 - America > 1891 - British North America, Can. in brackets > 1901 - Canada > 1911- Canada > > Can anyone head me in the right direction to find more information on her > birth and marriage > > One other point - My Mother said her father always referred to her as his > French Grandmother, but I feel her name would have been Marie or Maria if > there had been a French connection. > > Many thanks > > Deirdre Briscombe > Dungog, NSW Australia > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List Announcements can be found at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbcharlo/nblistann.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List Announcements can be found at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbcharlo/nblistann.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >