DNA, Harvey, Lyn Mullay, lynmullay

J.B. (administered by lynmullay)                

Amount of Shared DNA, 106 centimorgans shared across 6 DNA segments 

Ethnicity

Regions: Great Britain, Ireland, Finland/Northwest Russia, Scandinavia

Trace Regions: Europe East, Europe West, Iberian Peninsula, Italy/Greece

JimHueglin35

Oct 02, 2016

It would appear that your GG mother Jane Harvey and my GG father Robert Harvey were siblings. My wife June and I live in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Regards jimhueglin@gmail.com

 lynmullay

Oct 04, 2016

Hello Jim, Yes it does appear that our GG parents were siblings. When did your family move to Canada. It seems to me that Jane moved to the Shetlands after her husband died to live with her daughter Margaret my Grandmother. My dad came to Australia in 1924 after the last of his siblings died of TB. We have always been curious of any Spanish connection on that side of the family. Can you enlighten us at all? Regards lynmullay@hotmail.com


My GG father Robert followed his older brother David to Canada and settled in the Stratford, Perth, Ontario area. In 1874 he (30) married Janet Mather (25) whose family had come from the Channel Islands by way of Valcartier, Quebec. They had four children before they went West to Emerson, Alberta sometime after 1879. They had one more child before he died in 1883. Janet then moved the family back to the Stratford area where she worked as a washerwoman to support her family. It never ceases to amaze me how we came to be who and where we are.

Regards, Jim

DNA, Mercier

 

 

Amount of Shared DNA

19.0 centimorgans shared across 2 DNA segments

Ethnicity

Regions: Great Britain, Europe West, Ireland, Scandinavia

Trace Regions: Italy/Greece, Finland/Northwest Russia, Middle East, Europe East, Iberian Peninsula, Caucasus 

 

Sep 27, 2016 1_philweiler

Shared ancestor

Catherine Mercier is listed in my family tree as my 4th great-grandmother. My email is philweiler@live.com if you wish to correspond on this matter outside the Ancestry system.

Phil, Catherine was my wife June's 3rd great-grandmother. June and I live in Kingston, Ontario, however, she was born in the Windsor, Ontario area. Her line of the Gervais family settled in the Stoney Point, Ontario area, although a number of them moved to the USA and changed their name to Jarvis. If you are interested, I did put together some information on June's Gervais ancestors, but have nothing on your other lines. Hope this finds you well. Regads, June and Jim Hueglin.

Philip Weiler

Thanks for this response. My wife Barbara and I now live in San Diego CA, but our roots were in Minnesota and western Wisconsin. My data on this particular line of my ancestry is pretty sketchy: names, spouses’ names, and some general background. According to this data, Catherine Mercier’s parents were married in “Soulange” (I believe, near Montreal) on August 25, 1786. She was born four years later, and was married to Jean Baptiste Gervais (place and date unknown). A daughter, Clothilde Blandine Gervais dit Rochefort was born to this couple in 1821. My record goes on to list this child as having been married in 1840 to Joseph Zepharine Marcotte in “Beauhamois” (likely the Montreal-related community), and having died in 1898 in Inver Grove, MN. That gets that line to our territory, for Inver Grove is a suburb of St. Paul MN, where I was born four generations later, in 1931. My records indicate that this couple had 18 children (all listed by name). One of them, Josephine/Alphonsine, married Etienne Tallon (anglicized to Stephen Tylum), a French immigrant from Nice, in the St. Paul area, and they became my great-great-grandparents. One of their children, Julia Belle Tylum, was my paternal great-grandmother, and I knew her as a child.

So anything more you can supply to flesh out this data (or perhaps correct it) would be interesting to me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link - Gervais Lineage