Hello, I was wondering if anyone may have information of any Benson family members that left Nfld. to settle in Manitoba? I have posted before with church records and newspaper accounts, but briefly: Ezra Churchill, merchant of Portugal Cove born 1825, was married to an 'Unknown' Picco lady. They had 4 daughters, 3 are known, one was a Tryphena Churchill b. 1858 who m. an Eli Benson, carpenter of St. John's, who lived with his mother Elizabeth (Janes) Benson at 17 Parade Street, St. John's. Eli died at age 36 in 1899 before the birth of their last child William Curtis, b. 1899, and he is buried in the General Protestant Cemetary. One of their daughter's is named Annie Paul Benson (the Paul middle name may be after William. D. Paul of Phiil., Penn. who married one of Tryphena's sisters. Churchill researchers remember that one of Ezra's daughters moved to Winnipeg and in the Vital Stats is listed a Tryphena Benson who died in 1929 age 71. Tryphena would have been 11/l2 years of age when Ezra remarried to my ggrandmother Sarah Ann Moulton/Gillett/Churchill originally from Pouch Cove. I believe Ezra and Sarah were married sometime in 1869/70 as their first daughter is born in the 1870s, Laura Priscilla Churchill (newspaper account). My grandfather James Gillott (Giilett) b. 1868 in Pouch Cove to Sarah Ann Moulton, daughter of George Moulton (b. Wareham, Dorset) and Sarah Hollett of Adam's Cove. My grandfather m. in Toronto and I believe he stayed with Ezra Churchill's brother Apollo and his family, and then went to Winnipeg where his step-sister Tryphena was living, as my aunt May Giillott was born there Nov. 19, 1894. If anyone may know of any Nfld./Winnipeg connections to the Benson family I would really appreciate hearing from you. Dee _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail