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Baker Family from around Sherbrooke

Baker Family from around Sherbrooke

Posted: 31 Jul 2015 2:23AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 31 Jul 2015 2:25AM GMT
Surnames: Baker, LeMay, Smith, LeGault
I am looking for information regarding my grandfather's family on my dads side starting with Fredrick James Baker (my grandfather) born in Quebec Nov 25, 1881 - his father John Baker born in 1850/51 and died 1924 in Lennoxville, and his father another John Baker born abt 1814 in Quebec, The trial stops there.
My dad once told me that he went to Sherbrooke with his father to visit family and that they all spoke english. This lead to a uncle of mine commenting that maybe they had been scottish troops fighting in the War of 1812 that decided to stay.

The first names on the baker side are quite British.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Re: Baker Family from around Sherbrooke

Posted: 31 Jul 2015 11:21AM GMT
Classification: Query
Here is a link to Malvern Cemetery in Lennoxville. Many Bakers there and likely some of yours. I also found, in Drouin, a John Arthur Baker, son of William and Ida, born 1887 in Lennoxville. This was just a very quick look. There were Bakers in Lennoxville when I was growing up. They lived on Belvedere Street - a long-established Lennoxville family. I believe their names were Nancy and Reg. I believe their son still lives in that house. Belvedere Street is now called College Street. Search Canada411 and you will find him at that address and can contact him.

Just as an aside, there are many, many English-speaking people in Quebec. They are not descended from Scottish troops fighting in the War of 1812. Although I suppose a few of them might be. Some of them are descended from Americans who came in seeking land when southern Quebec was opened up to settlement after 1790; some of them came from England, Ireland and Scotland after the British took Quebec in 1759. Some of them came from Ireland during the potato famine or following the Highland Clearances. All this to say that you will find a large number of English-sounding names in Quebec, Baker among them.

If you can't find that Baker on College Street, e-mail me at sreed85@sympatico.ca and I will send you his name and address.

Re: Baker Family from around Sherbrooke

Posted: 31 Jul 2015 11:41AM GMT
Classification: Query
See that I forgot the cemetery link. Here it is: http://interment.net/data/Canada/qc/sherbrooke/malvern/malv_...

PS: If you enter the surname Baker in an Ancestry search and specify Lennoxville under Keyword, you come up with a tremendous list of Baker events.
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