Hello Canada, I am researching the surname GAULEY, which is in every province of the country. My great-grandmother was Mary GAULEY, who married Robert SHANNON,Jr., about 1875, in or around the Grenville, Lachute, Arundel area of Quebec, Canada. Some names of the men in the pioneer family were Thomas Gauley, William Gauley and of course Eliza Gauley. The information I have shows the matriarch of the clan was ELIZA GAULEY. From a brief outline written in 1962 by ALICE GAULEY-NICHOLSON, Eliza Gauley's children were: Elizabeth Gauley; mother of Alice Gauley Nicholson. Sarah Gauley; Kenneth Ault's mother. Mary Gauley; Wilfred and Lenore Shannon's mother and my great-grandmother. James Gauley George Gauley David Gauley. Taking from a letter I have, the Gauley family in Canada was begun by the Gauley brothers who emigrated to Canada from Ireland around 1835. There were possibly three of them. An unidentified brother returned to Ireland. The rest of the family settled in the Grenville, Lachute and Arundel areas of Quebec, but as the family grew, they spread out across the country. The letter I have, written in December 1962, was given the return address of "710 Smyth Road "Elmville Acres", Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Alice Gauley Nicholson says she was married around 1951 to a military man by the name of Mr. J.D. "Nick" Nicholson, who in 1962 was 17 months from completing his military service time and he planned on a career as a bookkeeper. This was Alice's second marriage. She refers to her son Captain Davison Curling, an Army man who on December 11, 1962, took his wife Lois and their two daughters, to Germany on a three year assignment. Alice's mother Elizabeth Gauley passed away in 1945. My great-grandmother Gauley-Shannon, passed away in 1912 in Michigan USA. Alice may have had a brother named Harry. The letter refers to "Kenneth and Elsie" whom I'm assuming are the Ault's; and an "Aunt Bertha." The name "Harry Davison" is there, probably related to Alice's first husband. He may have been a pharmacist. "Nick " had other brothers who apparently were in the Navy. If anyone recognizes these names or circumstances, please let me know. I'll gladly share any family information I have. Sincerely, Kevin O'Brien Laguna Hills, CA Researching: Shannon Perkins Warner Dorchester Van Schaick Gorman Pinkerton Gauley Lowe Gillie Halley Smith (Jefferson County, NY's Smith's)