Nicolas Wingfield was baptised 20 September 1715 at Hastings, Sussex. He married Hannah Brett there 28 October 1740. The family includes sons Nicholas, George, Richard, Peter, Thomas, Benjamin and Henry and a single daughter Hannah. Nice and normal - except that is for the records regarding his occupation as a "privateer" and his execution for "piracy on the high-sea." In 1757, the government of King George II allied Britain with Prussia against France, Russia and Austria in

In 1884, Andrew Sinclair Sr. (1829-1899) endured the devastating loss of multiple family members during a virulent smallpox outbreak that swept through Hungerford Township in Hastings County, Ontario, Canada. A case of the ‘black measles’ was misdiagnosed in Belleville and the carrier returned home to the isolated rural community just in time for harvesting season. As neighbour helped neighbour the spread was tragically accelerated, resulting in at least 200 local infections

In the back of the theatre with a full box of Kleenex – I bawled through the entire Schindler’s List  movie in my late teens (Thank-you Itzhak Perlman). I poured over Anne Frank’s diary  and read The Book Thief [Markus Zusak]  and Art Spiegelman’s Maus  - each only once as horrer invaded and my heart ached The most recent QuinTrees Family Story of Polish-Ukrainian-German ancestry intersected with several European conflicts. The Schleswig Wars, The Seven Weeks War, The Napoleo

June 1798, the petition of John, Barnabas, William, Mary, and Katherine Hare, children of Lieutenant Henry Hare,  United Empire Loyalist, was received and read in the Executive Council of Upper Canada. The above claimed that their father was made a prisoner in the ‘late American War’ [Revolution] and hung as a spy. The subsequent Council Order recommended 500 acres to be granted to each as children of a subaltern soldier -Lieutenant. [1]   Henry Hare  was born about 1742 in t

Using Family Stories to Expand Genealogical Research ‘Ann Elizabeth Rutherford – Galloway was a very spry and wiry lady who could handle almost any situation requiring work.. When she wanted to do some special shopping, she would arise before daylight, do the necessary farm chores which women did then, get ready, take a little lunch in her shopping bag and strike out on her own two feet for Belleville. She would get the odd wagon ride on the way and would finally reach her de

Descendants. That is what we leave behind right? Well, sometimes there are other things - artifacts, manuscripts, legacies or belongings that somehow make it into the present and tell stories of the lives of one's ancestors. Peter Quackenbosch was the founder of the Quakenbosch family in America; traveling to settle New Netherlands in 1654. He was a brickmaker in Rensselaerswijck living outside of the North Gate on Court Street (now Broadway Street), New York. ( Bibliography

A discussion of Source, Information and Evidence as key to 'good' Genealogical Research Shopping at a local bookstore I met a young man who had a similar interest in genealogy. He stated he had successfully researched his family tree back to the 7th century (600 A.D.) My internal alarm bells went off and I smiled and nodded knowing I did not have the time that day for a proper conversation about his research techniques. As I left, I wondered, did he really have the sources, i

Les Filles du Roi were approximately 800 unmarried women sponsored by King Louis XIV of France to immigrate to New France 1663-1673 with the aim of solving the gender imbalance in the Colony. These women, ages 16-40, were married to labourers and soldiers from the Carignan-Saliéres regiment. They were to settle the colony with the goal of maintaining French Dominion and the French Language. Supplied with dowries from the King, the filles du roi travelled to the New World with