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Deserters to Shelburne Co., N.S.Can.

Re: Deserters to Shelburne Co., N.S.Can.

Posted: 11 May 2012 8:33PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Reed, Smith, Brown
Hi noticed your post. I'm a descendant of Roland William Reed and Charlotte Ann O'Connell. They are my 2nd great grandparents. Her maybe marrying a Brown might explain why I could never find her on census searches. Her child Mary B. Reed married a James Goodwin in 1872.

Mary B. Reed and James Goodwin married 1872 in Shelburne County Item can be found in Registration Year: 1872 - Book: 1836 - Page: 41 - Number: 43

My great grandmother Grace Darling Reed was her sister. Grace married William Henry Smith and it was his son James Avard Smith who was my grandfather. I had been at a brick wall for a long time till someone just recently posted some new info on Roland, I had him as William R. Reid so never found anything. I only had Williams and Graces marriage register entry which was kind of sparse on names. I'm still very aggravated that they put his fathers name down as just B. and not Barzilla like one of his brothers had so I'll never be 100% sure he is his father :-((

After William Smith died at sea the whole family over a period of years drifted to the US, 1 family in Maine and the rest in Mass. I live in Westbrook, Maine myself and my mother was from Lynn, Mass. where her father James Avard Smith took up residence.

Re: Deserters to Shelburne Co., N.S.Can.

Posted: 10 Feb 2015 1:35PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hello Brian:
Have been away from genealogy for some time but back into it again. I can't remember if I ever answered your questions here.
My G. Grandfather , John (Holt/Hoyt ?) Brown , born in Ireland about 1813, married Catherine Snow, daughter of William and Abigail Hater. Their children were: William, Andrew, Abigail, John and Josiah (my grandfather). I have their info in a large family file (FTM) but "the deserter" remains a mystery to this day. So little is known about him--no photos, even exactly where in Ireland he was from. One family member thinks he was from Naas.
I believe I met you at the Smith reunion in Shelburne some time ago. Anne
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