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From: Uncharted Families <>
Subject: Re: [ACADIAN-CAJUN] Name changes?
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:41:13 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <1ea.46cb31f8.307bd27b@wmconnect.com>


Hello all;
Jerri....I'll get my fiancé to look into your Native
roots for you...if there is any information that man
will find it. He's currently working on a book of the
14th Kansas Cavalry in which his GGrandfather served.
His family, both maternal and paternal have long
Native ancestral lines and he's got tons of
information including British roots that were given
great tracts of land by the King of England in lieu of
paying back a loaned amount of money the King owed
them. He's also directly related to Pocahontas'
sister etc. etc. Seems no matter which direction we
started from we all have such a wonderful, colourful
history to explore and share.

Happy Thanksgiving to all you other Canucks and Happy
Columbus day to all Americans.
Nova
in drizzly, rainy Ontario (but hey - the leaves
finally changed and they're beautiful!)

--- wrote:

> Speaking of names changing, I am wondering how many
> of my other Ancestors
> were Acadian or French Canadian. I have others who
> ended up in Louisiana but who
> came through Mississippi Territory...before that
> Georgia and the Carolinas
> around the 1760-70s...The father of my last known
> Bennett is said on one census
> to have been born in Connecticut...I wonder if
> Bennett was once Benoit.
> All I know is that these ancestors of mine seemed
> to live in remote areas
> like the Mississippi Territory...when it became a
> state, they moved to the
> Florida Parishes in Louisiana...mostly St. Tammany
> area and Livingston...I started
> this to find our Native Roots but I am close to
> giving up on that...I'm
> wondering if they came from somewhere else
> Surnames include...Cooper, Scott, Hill, Cockerham,
> Whitten?, Wilson,
> Valentine, Raiford, Duvall, Sticker, Rushing, Ivy,
> Dennis...Any ideas??
> I believe that my Villar line was French but I don't
> have info on wher they
> lived or when they got to the US. So much to do but
> so much fun!
> Jerri
>
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