Dear Brenda, My first husband, Wilmot DePue Foster's grandfather, Christopher Foster b. 1807, "somewhere" in Ireland, lived in Wilmot, Ontario and died in 1886 in St. Thomas, Elgin.. This year, my son, a third generation Wilmot Foster, visited, found the farm and took pictures. (Naturally, I nearly killed him because he didn't knock on the door) We also have a very stern looking portrait of Christopher Foster that no kid of mine wants in their living room. I am in the process of brainwashing a grandson. Christopher Foster, a Methodist, was married twice. Our family comes down from his only child by his second wife, Mary Coyne, and they only had one child, John Wesley Foster b.1854 in Wilmot, Ontario . Mary Coyne was born a Methodist in 1815 in Canada. She died before the 1881 Canadian census (or at least they missed her). Christopher Foster's first wife, Elizabeth (Eliza) Neilson Foster had four children. Mary b. 1841, James b. 1842, Neilson b. 1844, (often listed as "Nelson") and Catherine Foster b. 1846. Mary Foster b. 1841 married James Reddaway and moved to Oregon. Neilson Foster b. 1844 appears to have died fairly early because he has two nephews named after him b. 1872 and 1873. All I know about Catherine Foster is that she was born and baptised in 1846 and married a John Moukman James Foster b. 1842 married Margaret Cumming and had three children, Minnie Elizabeth Foster b. 1871, Nelson (Neilson?) Milton Cph'm (whatever that stands for?) Ornston Foster b. 1873, and Ernst William Washington Wesley Foster. b. 1875. They all show up in the Canadian 1881 census, but are gone by the next Canadian census. I would like to know what happened to them. And of course, most of all - I'd like to know bout the "somewhere" in Ireland. My Mother was a McKeag from Co. Down and my father was 7 generations from Mathias O'Connor a Sligo Protestant in Brooklyn. Misinformation on John Wesley Foster's death certificate claimed he was born in Scotland, but almost everything else was wrong also. That's happened twice in my family when the grieving widow left it up to some distant relative to fill out the death certificate and they even got maiden names wrong. Any suggestions of a route to pursue? Thanks, Thanks, Isabella Chappell In a message dated 1/14/2008 7:08:24 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, b-g.anderson@sympatico.ca writes: Hi Nan: Just going through me emails and found this one that you sent. Did you get any replies. I could look up the deaths here in Ontario to see if there is more information. Let me know Brenda Brampton, Ontario Nan Brennan wrote: >There was a Patrick McEvoy in the Ontario Canada Death Register >Simcoe District : Date of death Sept 17 1876, age 50, b Ireland @1826. >occupation Merchant. > >Another Patrick McEvoy, born Ireland, died in York (Ontario) on Dec >17, 1886, age 53 > > >I am still looking for my Greatgrandfather's brother: >My gG was MICHAEL MCEVOY, born Ballymagreen @1834, died >Ballymagreehan 1901. >He was the son of LAWRENCE MCEVOY AND MARY GRIBBEN of Ballymagreehan. > >Other siblings : Owen died in Iowa. Dennis died in Sunderland Durham >England. >Margaret married Patrick O'prey of Ballymagreehan. Died in >Ballymagreehan. >Bridget May have come to Iowa. No info on a daughter/sister "Mary" >and a son Patrick. > >I have no birth info on Patrick. I have no info on Patrick except >family stories that there was a Patrick. > >Does any one have knowledge of either of these Patricks that died in >Ontario Canada? > >Thanks for any help or info anyone might have. > >Nan/Çhicago. > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NIR-DOWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NIR-DOWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489