NS records

[chinakay]

YIKES!!! I get home from work and find I've been left behind in the DUST!!! I feel youse guys are better acquainted with my family than I am, by now

Give me a little time to check the links and digest stuff, okay? I won't really have time till tomorrow evening. Go ahead and party without me if you like, just don't think I'm sitting here watching you do all the work

And save me some cake if you do party. A bit with a frosting rose on it

Cheers,
China

[chinakay]

Okay, I have been giving this much thought and am willing to be persuaded that these families are the same. No idea how I could prove it, though.

Josephine, do you have access to the Canadiana website that you mentioned? I found the reference to George Moore tinsmith on Smyth St, but can't access the document. Does it give a house number?

I haven't been able to find any of the children of the 1881 family in 1901, except for Frank if it's the same guy. Interesting that there's an Eddy and an Edward. Didn't find any of them in the newspaper notices, either. It would have been very nice to find a marriage announcement...

I think of the two George Moore tinsmith death notices, one may have been an uncle of my George (born in 1830) and the other the father (born 1822). Possible the whole family were tinsmiths, I suppose.

Interesting reading, all of it, thanks for all the links everybody. I haven't read the Moore's Mills book yet but have made a start on it and it's really interesting so far!

So, any other thoughts that you've all been itching to post?

Cheers,
China

[J.J.]

well, a maybe for Eddy as Edley in 1901...
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/DisplayPagePanb.jsp?id=35422&highlight=8

[J.J.]

Maybe George, Says it's a George F. but not an F....
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/DisplayPagePanb.jsp?id=93665&highlight=1

oops, beg pardon, he was an NS/NB born child, wasn't he...

[chinakay]

A bit of a strange link, JJ, but I did find him in the 1901. He says he was born in Quebec, though. This Moore family is very hard to find!

I did have a thought about NS/NB...at one time they were both Nova Scotia. Sometime before Confederation the territory of New Brunswick was created out of what had been previously considered to be Nova Scotia's mainland area. It was populated mainly by Loyalists relocating from the American colonies and a separate province was marked out in 1784. The boundary between NB and Maine was fairly fluid until it was defined in 1842.

1784 is kind of a long way back but does anyone suppose somebody born in the 1840s might be kind of confused about the name of the province where he was born?

Cheers,
C

[J.J.]

Well, that's why I crossed out the above, as I get heck all the time for having a person born in the wrong Province...But my Gr.Gr.Grandfather, however, gave several places of birth on different censuses...so I always think that one might say where one was brought up just as easily as where they were born...it's where they may have spent a large part of their lives...
But all has to be proven, somehow...I just like to throw wrenches into the works when I find them...sorry if it has made for confusion...J.J.

[Carleton]

Nova Scotia has one of the best - if not THE best - genealogy sites in Canada. Try the Nova Scotia GenWeb at

http://www.rootsweb.com/~canns/

They are extremely helpful.

Dorothy
Ottawa

[aghadowey]

Still think that the "N.E." in the census is a mistake and that it's New Brunswick not Nova Scotia.

[Josephine]

I think it's important that China find the 1891 census entry(ies) to compare.

I've also seen the wrong birthplaces listed in census records.  My 3rd-great-grandfather was born in Prince Edward Island and I think it was recorded as N.S. once.  My 2nd-great-grandmother was born in Canada but her birthplace was listed as Maine once.

Regards,
Josephine