My grandfather's cousin Saphroni Allen, daughter of William Hamilton Allen and his wife Hannah Mandigo married, according to to Knowlton United Church Records, John Alvin Boomhower on Dec 5 1867. He was the son of Martin Boomhower and Mercy Mahala(?). The children of John Alvin Boomhower and his wife Saphroni Allen were Charity (probably by a first wife of John), Mary, Willard, Gracie W., and John M., Boomhower. They were in East Bolton Township of Brome County in the 1871 Census. I have much information on Allens but very little on the Boomhowers. Frank Allen ----- Original Message ----- From: "David J. Ellis" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 9:01 AM Subject: [QC-ETANGLO] Roll call - Schoolcraft, Boomhower, Sisco, Medor > My main focus in the ET is Schoolcraft and Boomhower, although Sisco and > Medor occasional cross over from northern Vermont. > > Schoolcraft: The root for the QC families is Christian Schoolcraft and > Elizabeth Margaret Becker. Ten children have been found, seven with > extensive families in Quebec. The ancestral line can be traced into > England > and back to about 1620. > > Boomhower: The root for the QC families is Jacob Boomhower and Sarah > Kimmel. > Jacob was a German immigrant born in the 1720s. Some claim a lineage for > him > back as far as the late 1400s although, to the best of my knowledge, this > is > not proven. Three of their sons (Jacob, John and Walter) had extensive > families in QC. Their mother, Sarah, on her second marriage also came to > QC > from NY, as did another son although that fourth son does not appear to > have > children. Other children remained in NY near Albany. > > Sisco: The Sisco families are mostly in Orleans Co., VT and Franklin Co., > VT. Some of the Orleans Co. ones crossed into QC around Potton, Compton, > Coaticook, etc. My main interest is on the Swanton VT families, one of > whom > is my wife's grandmother. The root of the Sisco line goes back through New > Hampshire into Rhode Island circa 1720. > > Medor: The Medor family is mostly around Swanton and Highgate VT. The > family > is Abenaki and the name seems to have been changed to Medor from > Cayie/Cahah´/Cajiais. My wife's gg-grandfather was Peter Cayie Medor born > about 1803. I have not been able to trace farther back than about 1834 > when > the birth of his son, Medard Cahia, is indicated in St. Regis QC. > > ---- > I am David Ellis, an expatriate Englishman from the edges of Dartmoor who > married a girl from Bennington VT. We now live in New Hampshire. I got > into > this genealogical stuff as a favor to my mother-in-law who wanted to pass > on > the snippets she had from her own mother and grandmother to my wife. It > seems that family details had been passed from youngest daughter to > youngest > daughter through several generations of the Medor family. Unfortunately, > she > had only very limited recall of useful facts so I had to do a lot of > digging. > > > > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >