Jim, It might not be such a long-shot. There WAS a BLAKELY family in SC who went to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. I just can't connect them with mine yet. Thanks for the suggestion. Happy hunting, Marianne Jim wrote: >My Millers are Prussian to Cabarrus Co., N.C. Most of my French to Mobile >were via Canada. Long-shot: if your Blakelys were Loyalist, try coastal >S.C., then Ga. Jim >----- Original Message ----- >From: Marianne Gilbert <blueskye@primenet.com> >To: <TXGALVES-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 11:50 PM >Subject: [TXGALVES] MILLER, DAVIS, BLAKELY/Mobile&Galveston > > >> Hi Jim, >> It sounds like some of your Mobile families were French. Were they from >> Quebec? I asked about your MILLER because I'm trying to find out something >> about George Poe MILLER, b. Washington Co., PA 27 Feb. 1798, d. Mobile 26 >> Mar. 1869. He was married to 1.?) Eliza DAVIS (b. London, England, d. 1 >> Mar. 1856 - daughter of George DAVIS, Sr.) and 2.?) Ann ___. I don't know >> if there were any other wives. I'm actually trying to find out something >> about Eliza and George DAVIS, but thought maybe Eliza and George MILLER >may >> have had children whose descendants were out there somewhere. Eliza's >> brother, Isaac DAVIS married a girl from Montreal, Matilda Sophia BLAKELY, >> in 1841. They are my gg grandparents, and moved to Galveston in 1860, both >> dying not long after arriving there. Matilda's father was either "Col." or >> "Councilia" George BLAKELY. (Lots of Georges!) If you know something about >> French names, would you happen to know what "Councilia" means? I'd like to >> find out if George Blakely had some kind of government job in Quebec. I >> think he may have been a Loyalist who went to Canada from I don't know >> where. I don't have any info on him. >> Thanks for any input. >> Marianne >> >> >> Jim wrote: >> >P.S. My ancestor, War of 1812, 3rd U.S. Infantry, defender of Mobil, Col. >> >Gilbert Christian Russell, Sr., was the great grandson of Gilbert >Christian >> >and Mrs Margaret Richardson Christian, who settled Christian's Creek, >> >Augusta Co., Va., from Penn. and alledgedly from Ireland? >> > >> >My 1702 and later Mobile families are Maj. Francoise Trudeau, Sr., Maj, >> >Pierre Gabriel Juzan, Charles Rochon, Sr., Jean Baptise Colon dit La >> >Violette, Etienne Burelle, Adam Hollinger, Col. Russell, Thomas Malone, >Sr., >> >with Mobile kin of Moniac, Owen, Bingham, van Buren, Ogden, and possibly >> >Nettles? Jim, Charlotte, N.C. >> >----- Original Message ----- >> >From: Marianne Gilbert <blueskye@primenet.com> >> >To: <TXGALVES-L@rootsweb.com> >> >Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 11:15 PM >> >Subject: Re: [TXGALVES] 1880 Galveston Co census >> > >> > >> >> Hi Jim, >> >> By any chance, your MILLERs didn't come from either Mobile or >Galveston, >> >> did they? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Marianne Gilbert <blueskye@primenet.com> >> >> Phoenix, AZ >> >> >> >> >I'd appreciate a look-up in yje 1850 and 1860 Galveston census of my >> >> >Mobile/Galveston cotton broker ancestor, Capt. Edward Malone, Sr., >CSA, >> >and >> >> >his brother-in-law Capt. H. Van Buren, CSA, and cotton broker >> >brother-in-law >> >> >Charles M. Bingham. Jim, Charlotte, N.C. >> >> >----- Original Message ----- >> >> >From: <M44as@aol.com> >> >> >To: <TXGALVES-L@rootsweb.com> >> >> >Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 12:30 PM >> >> >Subject: Re: [TXGALVES] 1880 Galveston Co census >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> >> >> I just read about a Galveston Co census. Could someone please tell >me >> >> >about >> >> >> what census years are available, where, and how it is arranged or >> >indexed? >> >> >> Also are the censuses on microfilm and available on interlibrary >loans? >> >> >> We have been researching my husband's g-gf and g-gm who lived in >> >Galveston >> >> >> from 1866 thru 1886. She was Anna (Annie LOBERT) who came from >Germany >> >to >> >> >> Galveston around 1868. She worked as a Governess until her marriage >to >> >> >> Shadrach G. (S.G.) ETHERIDGE. He was a cotton broker during those >> >years. >> >> >> Any help and answers would be very appreciated. Thanks. >> >> >> >> >> >> Marcia Snyder >> >> >> Holland, TX >> >> >> M44as@aol.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>