This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------1121D92DC0D89966576C7E8C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit If you go to this URL http://www.rootsweb.com/~irish/ it explains that the website is being revised. Perhaps that is why your url does not work? Robert Carley Ontario, Canada searching for Carley/Free/Brown Lucy wrote: > > To the list: > > Re: The discussion of the web page regarding Wexford Immigration to Upper > Canada. > > I had this URL bookmarked and now it does not work. Is this the same one > the list has been discussing? > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~irish/ireland/wexemig.htm > > I copied the information from that page so if anyone wants it E mail me and > I will send it to you. > > I agree with the reasons mentioned by others as to why so many came to > Canada just after the Napoleonic Wars. > > Also, many of these first settlers to crown lands in Canada served in the > British military, stationed in Upper Canada, during the War of 1812. They > were encouraged to settle the land. > > Somewhere there is a list of names of memebers of the military stationed in > Upper Canada on the web but I'm not sure where. I'll try and search my > files. > > I think my ggreatgrandfather, John Grant (1837-1875), emigrated from > Wexford ca. 1840 as an orphan and lived with some of those original > settlers from Wexford. > > Lucy > > ==== WEXFORD Mailing List ==== > Archives from the list can be searched at: > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl --------------1121D92DC0D89966576C7E8C Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Dr. Robert Carley Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" begin: vcard fn: Dr. Robert Carley n: Carley;Dr. Robert org: Office of Open Learning, University of Guelph email;internet: rcarley@uoguelph.ca title: Distance Learning Specialist note: Rm. 151 Johnston Hall, Guelph, Ontario N1W 2G1 Phone: 519 824-4120, ext. 6387 x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version: 2.1 end: vcard --------------1121D92DC0D89966576C7E8C--