This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McGinn Cook(e) Morris, Smith, Plaxton, Berkland, Coventry Hurd Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pBC.2ACE/3846 Message Board Post: Hi Folks! I am a newbie on this board. I have a 2 part query. Our family was originally in the Northern 13 Colonies but during the revolutionary war they remained loyal and fled to Canada. Most of the children of my great grand father John McGinn were born in the 1860s and 70s, moved west from Ontario early 19teens and some moved directly to Seattle. I am looking for any descendents of Henry and Mary Elizabeth (McGinn) Coventry who had a daughter Yvonne. The Coventrys arrived in Seattle in 1906. Yvonne married Merritt Hurd, date unknown to me, and they had a son Jimmie Hurd who married a Nelda ? They in turn had children Lee, (boy)Lonnie (boy) and Lyn (girl)and that is all I know. The other Seattle mystery in my research centers on Margaret Jane McGinn, born April 6th, 1865 in Lansdowne Twp Leeds County, Ontario, Canada . She married William Thomas Graham in 1901 in Toronto, Ontario but that marriage did not last. I have recently found Maraget married or common law living with John Berkland 1920, 1930 census and in the city directory 1914 to 1934 . After 1934, John is listed alone until May 13th, 1952 when he died at 77. John Berkland was a "tin Banger" ie Heating ducts and tin smithing etc and he owned his own shop apparently. I can not find any record of Margaret's death, likely in 1934-5 in Seattle. There is no record of marriage known to me either. Can anybody help? Rob McGinn in Thunder Bay, Ontario