Roy Johnson wrote: > I just came across this in my files. Wonder why we haven't come across > descendents of any of these Paces? Or maybe we have in the non-matching > Paces. > Anyone recognize any of them? > http://www.castlegarden.org/help.html >>From ship manifests. Name, occupation, age, sex, date, country of origin, > ship name > > <http://www.castlegarden.org/quick_search_detail.php?p_id=5716437> > Watchmaker 18 M 11 Jul 1857 England Cromwell > > Roy Johnson > ------------------------------- <http://www.castlegarden.org/quick_search_detail.php?p_id=5716437> Watchmaker 18 M 11 Jul 1857 England Cromwell this was a HENRY PACE - watchmaker - arrived on ship 'Cromwell' 11 Jul 1857 when 18 years of age This age could possibly fit Henry Pace - watchmaker that was connected to my Pace family and had something to do with my Pace family coming from England and settling at Lethbridge, Alberta in the 1880s where Henry Pace operated a jewellery/watchmaker business. If it's the same HENRY PACE that HENRY PACE showed in the 1871 census of OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada 1877, 1878, 1879 OTTAWA Business Directory with Jewellery/watchmaker store 29 Sparks Street, Ottawa after 1880 had moved to St. Paul, Minnesota and record of daughter VIOLET PACE born Canada abt 1880 My father was named after HENRY and my aunt named after VIOLET. This Violet Pace had married ALFRED KITSON, younger son of Norman Wolfred Kitson, Mayor of St. Paul, partner in American Fur Co. and partner of James Jerome Hill of Great Northern Railway which developed from St. Paul and Manitoba Railway. The Minnesota county east of Red River, adjacent to international boundary was named Kitson County. Kitson and Hill operated steam boats on the Red River Norman Kitson, originally of Sorel Quebec, had another son, Dr. John Kitson of the North West Mounted Police. Henry Pace's brother Frederick Pace was also an original member of the NWMP This Henry Pace operated a watchmaker business in Lethbridge, Alberta next to the Lethbridge House and died in 1899 his body shipped by train to St. Paul, Minnesota for burial by his daughter, Mrs. Kitson. Henry Pace had two brothers, Sidney and Frederick Pace. Sidney Pace 1891 census bartender at Russell House, Lethbridge, Alberta. 1901 census living at Grande Hotel, Great Falls, Montana. Frederick Pace had joined the North West Mounted Police at Toronto, Ontario about 1873 and took part in the famous 'March West to Macleod' of 1874. From Winnipeg, Manitoba to Fort Macleod, Alberta. Frederick operated a trading post at Standoff, Alberta and had children, Annie, Fanny, Johnny. Fred Pace had married a woman from the Blood Reserve. The Blood Reserve is where Sitting Bull stayed while in Canada in the 1880s and also where Charles Russell of St. Louis spent time to gather knowledge of frontier life and created his famous paintings and his Museum at Great Falls, Montana. More at: http://www.pacefamilyhistory.info/fredpace.htm a partner of the Lethbridge House had sponsored another painter who was employed as a machinist with the Great Northern Railway, to also paint western frontier life paintings. These paintings hang in the Charles Russell Museum of Great Falls, MT. Info from Charles Russell Museum, Great Falls Oklahoma History Centre National Archives of Canada Pace Family Collection GTPace