Comments on: General Index: The Iroquois of Kahnawake http://acanadianfamily.com/2009/08/30/the-mohawk-iroquois-of-kahnawakecaughnawaga-native-american-genealogy-indian/ Genealogy, Family History & Vintage Postcards Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:56:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Nicole Vincent http://acanadianfamily.com/2009/08/30/the-mohawk-iroquois-of-kahnawakecaughnawaga-native-american-genealogy-indian/#comment-17142 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:42:18 +0000 http://acanadianfamily.com/?p=18486#comment-17142 Hi! I’ve been doing my family tree for over 35 years now. Anytime I had to deal with the records in Quebec, I just wanted to bang my head against a wall. In 2005, I submitted my tree to the Quebec Metis Federation, based on my maternal information. On my father’s side, it was just brick wall after brick wall – so I never figured I would ever get anywhere.

A few days after I submitted my tree, they contacted us asking if we knew you we were. Apparently I came from a long line of Huron Chiefs – the Vincents..

So I continued to try to trace them. The biggest problem is the last name, and when it switched over to actually “Vincent”. I was ecstatic when I read your comment about trying to get all versions of all the surnames synchronized, I decided you would be my new Best Friend.

I was able to discover that 2 of the Vincent went to go live in Kahnawake some where around 1812 – 1850. I have not yet been able to establish why, but I am still working on it. One of those 2 Vincents received a land grant for his role in the battle of chateauguay – despite the fact that he was native. That land grant is somewhere in what is now St. Hyacinthe. And that is my great great grand father. He married Henriette Lacoste. There is no record of that wedding. or actual birth certificates for their kids birth.

I noticed you have Vincent listed on your list of surnames. Any information you have on the Vincents in your records, I would REALLY appreciate seeing, or hearing about.

Thanks for reading this.

Nicole Vincent

Note from Evelyn: Answered privately.

]]> By: Lynn http://acanadianfamily.com/2009/08/30/the-mohawk-iroquois-of-kahnawakecaughnawaga-native-american-genealogy-indian/#comment-14152 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 13:33:20 +0000 http://acanadianfamily.com/?p=18486#comment-14152 I have a Daniel F. Gray born 1830 to unknown parents. He married Mary Frances Mead (b. 1830, Rockingham, VT) about 1854. The family is on the 1860 & 1870 census for Altona, NY. I believe Dan is on the 1850 Westminster, VT census living in a household not his own, as a laborer. His death certificate says he was born in Waterbury, VT but I haven’t found the records. Most of the family is buried in the Old Mooers Cemetery in NY where they spent the majority of their lives. The 1880 Dannamora, NY census shows Dan as a widower, living in a house hold other than his own. He died at the house of his daughter, Harriet, in August of 1900 in St Albans, VT where he was staying for the last six sick years of his life.

Myself and other genealogists have looked into this family and can not find Dan’s parents. I have a list of deceased Gray’s in Akwesasne from the mission but need a connecting generation or two. If anyone can help me with these Gray’s I would be ever so grateful. It has been a brick wall for some time.

I have more information if needed. Would appreciate communication. Dan and Mary were my g.g.g grandparents. Am looking to document them if possible. NOT looking for inclusion in any tribe, money, or etc.
Thank you,
Lynn

]]> By: Andrew Carpentier http://acanadianfamily.com/2009/08/30/the-mohawk-iroquois-of-kahnawakecaughnawaga-native-american-genealogy-indian/#comment-13169 Mon, 09 May 2011 21:20:32 +0000 http://acanadianfamily.com/?p=18486#comment-13169 Our family oral history always assumed that Rose de Lima Lafontaine, born 1827 in Quebec, was the Mohawk in our lineage. But that does no longer seems to be the correct person. In fact, my gr. grandmother, Salome Riel, daughter of Pierre Napoleon Riel of Kanawake seems to be the Mohawk link. What do you think?

Note from Evelyn: Answered by email

]]> By: Antoinia J Breau http://acanadianfamily.com/2009/08/30/the-mohawk-iroquois-of-kahnawakecaughnawaga-native-american-genealogy-indian/#comment-12826 Sun, 13 Mar 2011 03:49:16 +0000 http://acanadianfamily.com/?p=18486#comment-12826 looking for information on on our decendents Birth and marriges between Jean Chapados and his wife
Catherine Larocque,Francois Larocque his wife
Marguerite Caplan, her father Guillaume Caplan and wife Metis women ?

]]> By: Evelyn Yvonne Theriault http://acanadianfamily.com/2009/08/30/the-mohawk-iroquois-of-kahnawakecaughnawaga-native-american-genealogy-indian/#comment-10711 Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:07:41 +0000 http://acanadianfamily.com/?p=18486#comment-10711 Do you know the name of Guillaume Paquette’s wife?
Evelyn

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