My gr.grandmother, Eliza Mary Catherine CONRAD, was born in 1844 at Blueberry, now known as West Berlin, Queens County, Nova Scotia. I firmly believe she enjoyed life -- had one daughter in 1869 - unmarried. Eliza married a Charles Thorpe from England in 1874, drowned 1875. James MacKenzie DAVIS, from Liverpool, England, arrived in Liverpool, Nova Scotia -- Eliza and James DAVIS were married January 1878 and my grandmother Jane Maria Conrad DAVIS was born in March 1878. I am not definite if James MacKenzie Davis stayed around too long -- he seemed to have been an educated man -- whereas my gr.grandmother was not. There was an Enoch Arden divorce, and Eliza married again in Maine in 1893 -- died 1915. All I know of the parents of James MacKenzie DAVIS are the names, John DAVIS and Lady Jane MacKENZIE -- believe from southern part of Scotland. Her family does not seem to like her being married to a common merchant trader (with a fleet of vessels) so all mention of her has been erased from any MacKenzie family line -- even DeBrett's Defunct Peerage!! My grandmother used the names when she had children -- one aunt had the dubious middle name of DAVIS, another of MacKENZIE. My mother escaped this naming pattern, thankfully. To top it off, I am able to learn more about my grandparents, plus birth certificates from 1900 census, and from Augusta, Maine. The family moved to Liverpool, Nova Scotia in 1909. I plan to contact Trish Lewis in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia -- she has researched for me before -- uses LDS and Old Scottish Records. It makes a very interesting story -- unfortunately it is true -- with unfinished bits and pieces. Muriel