St John's Anglican Church, Lunenburg, NS, Canada records Ann Catherine's name as Maria Catherine Jodrie per NW.
Doubs is right near Switzerlands NE border.
I had earlier posted the death date of 10 Jul 1791 in Lunenberg for Ann Catherine Jeaudry Petriquin Sertie, however, from St John's Anglican Church records it appears that Catherine Sarty, that died 10 Jul 1791, was an infant.
K Marshall shares notes she received from A. Alexander. He found theis information in
"The Montbeliard Setlers At Tatamagouche: DesBarres' First
Settlers in the 1770s". It's a small, informative booklet which indicates
that James Bigney and his family were one of the thirteen families that left
Lunenburg and moved to Tatamagouche at the invitation of Joseph Frederick
Wallet DesBarres, a man whose family came originally from Montbeliard.
DesBarres was trained as a military engineer in England and arrived in North
America at the time Louisbourg was captured. As a reward for surveying the
land that had been owned by the Acadians, prior to their expulsion from Nova
Scotia, DesBarres was granted 20,000 acres of land, including the former
Acadian lands at Tatamagouche.
Wanting to be like European land owners who rented out their farms to
tennants, DesBarres invited Bigney and the other 12 families to move to
Tatamagouche and farm on his land. This they did. Not wanting to be
tennant farmers forever, the Bigneys eventually moved from Tatamagouche to
River John (a distance of about 20 miles) where some of their descendants
still live. The first children of James BIGNEY and Mary CALAME were born in
Lunenburg; the rest were born in Tatamagouche.
St John's Anglican Church, Lunenburg, NS, Canada records Ann Catherine's name as Maria Catherine Jodrie per NW.
Doubs is right near Switzerlands NE border.
I had earlier posted the death date of 10 Jul 1791 in Lunenberg for Ann Catherine Jeaudry Petriquin Sertie, however, from St John's Anglican Church records it appears that Catherine Sarty, that died 10 Jul 1791, was an infant.
Family Search list "Edmon A West" with mother Alice age 21 and father George age 26, a trackman, from the 1881 Census the following source:
Source Information:
Census Place Upper, Londonderry, Colchester, Nova Scotia
Family History Library Film 1375810
NA Film Number C-13174
District 19
Sub-district E
Page Number 53
Household Number 249