Hi Laura,
I am sorry I have taken so long to respond to you but I was never notified you had sent me an email. I am on facebook and have great photos of my grandparents,if you are on it please send me a message to add you as a friend, my name on facebook is Laurie White-Davalovsky and my email is
Ldavalovsky@live.caI did get in contact once with Liam Ezekiel who is a NFL football player born in Arlington, Massachusetts who is the great grandson to Peter Ezekiel who left Newfoundland to the US and he confirmed that he and his father researched their roots and found out they were from Newfoundland, Canada and went there to visit. I have no idea when they settled but I have a document that I downloaded a long time ago about the history of Harbour Main Newfoundland, and the Ezekiels were one of the first settlers in the early 1800's and the original Ezekiel was an Arab. My grandfather would tell me that we were Portuguese Jews and then I met a doctor very involved in a local synagogue in Vancouver, where I live and his family were originally from Iraq. I believe our family might have been from the middle east and migrated to Portugal the over to Newfoundland, but that is just a guess based on my research.