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 > >> >> > >> >> > >> > >> > > >