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Offline chenwil

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Research Links: Directories
« on: Monday 23 January 06 00:28 GMT (UK) »
Montreal Directories:  Lovells

This link was posted on a mail list I belong to.  The data base does not have a search engine but has loads of great info including municipalities that now form parts of other ones. It is a digitized record.

 

http://bibnum2.bnquebec.ca/bna/lovell/index.html



Seymour: Wales, England, Canada
Wilkinson: England
wilkinson-seymour:  anywhere
Gray/Yeates: Ireland
Bonehill: England
Adams: Blakeney, Tipton, B'ham

Offline DeniseA

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Re: Montreal Business Directories
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 12 February 06 04:45 GMT (UK) »
Canada/US - Aylestock, Cromwell, Lawson, Moore, Stonehouse
Kent - Cooper, Stock, Terry
Derby - Matthews, Rudkin, Sparham
Source: Library and Archives Canada's website www.collectionscanada.ca
Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

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Re: Research Links: Directories
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 28 April 07 10:03 BST (UK) »
I have mentioned this elsewhere, but it's a great resource, and belongs here as well:

4 volume book:  A Dictionary of Scotttish Emigrants to Canada before Confederation, by Donald WHYTE.  1986.

This is available in many libraries worldwide, usually in the Reference Department.
ARMSTRONG - Castleton Scot; NB; Westminstr Twp
BARFIELD - Nailsea
BRAKE - Nailsea
BURIATTE
CANDY - M'sex, Deptford
CLIFFORD - Maidstone
DURE(E) - France, Devon, Canada
HALLS - Chigwell
KREIN, Peter/Adam - Germany
LEOPOLD - Hanover, London
LATTIMER, MAXWELL - Ldn lightermen
MEYER - Lauenstein
MURRAY - Scot borders
STEWART - Chelsea; Reach
SWANICK - Mayo & Roscommon; Ontario
WEST - Rochester & Maidstone
WILLIS - Wilts, Berks, Hants, London
WOODHOUSE - Bristol tobacconist, London
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