PEI Census 1841 .. Example 1 Why the Census? Well, my McCormack ancestors lived there, and the oldest trace for my branch was PEI born in 1846. Lot 54 Census 1841 This page is a simple narrative description of farmland in eastern Prince Edward island, where McCormacks lived in 1841. The land is mixed in use, and not as profitable as Lot 55. The Lots coincide with townships planned by English surveyors after 1755; based loosely on the old French survey. Lot 55 .. includes Cardigan & the estuary called the Launching. A search for Vernon River and oter recods, as well as a name search indicated these lots. Also some of my ancestral McCormack great-grandfather's cousins died as children at the Launching Place. Cardigan is the home of the author of Anne of Green Gables.

PEI Census Doing a Search PEI Census 1841 Census Search Search Result Using the Census links above ... I searched for my ancestor McCormack ... only for 1841, and asked for a lisitng by 'Lot' number - all over PEI. Only the 1841 Census was used because Daniel F. McCormack, born in 1846 was off PEI and in Boston by 1872-5, and would not show up in the 1881 census. For 1841, I was looking for his family.

PEI Census Data Example 3 Michael McCormack Lot 55 ..was one of the Census search results .. a and Michael McCormack was the father of GGF Daniel McCormack. Other reasons .. reading the data... he also has four other males under 16 (he had four older brothers) .. and other info -- he owned 220 acres... owned? yup .. that's what 'fee simple' means. He probably leased more and to others. A further read of the census in detail see Family Search detailed Canada Census 1881 distinguishes this Daniel and Michael and likely cousins. My great grandfather born in 1846, became a real estate businessman in Boston, after expanding a string of livery stables. His basic trade was black-smithing. The land is efficiently farmed, boatbuilding also occurs -- other census records list McCormack cousins there as ships carpenters & joiners .. and they used the 'Launching'. Oats & barley are also a primary crop -for people and livery feed grains -- like truck farming -serving that island community, and any nearby waterpoints. The people living on the farm are Roman Catholic ... three Scotland born, and sic or more born on PEI in 1841. Still checking other records, but by 1881. .. my great-grandfather is in Boston with 4 children and a wife .. and a Michael who is about the right age '66' is living in Georgetown, PEI. ... probably off rents .. and McCormacks and others seem tenfold in increase. An advertisement from 1873? linked here via the Island Register offers passage to Boston via the Evangeline coastal route; leaving from Georgetown .. the port for the Lots 54-55 area.. at 0700 sharp.

USA Census Boston, Massachusetts 1880 Done by law for every town city state in the USA ..the Boston Census for 1880, as in every decade, has much data per individual .. but in an entie registration form. Mar reid, fortunately for me, had transcriebed to a computer data base german surnames for Bostonians in 1880. Every person with a surname from Germany, or whose parent was born in Germany were included in her base. My McCormack married a Caroline May, who was born in Boston in 1851 (family records & State birth certificate) .. and the May name and McCormack names are in this list. Marge Reid's excellent Boston German roots Data May Listing shows my greatgreat-grandfather ..born in Germany (Baden) .. married to Adelia 'Bridgit' Fitzmorris - Ireland born with a few more children in a household in a Politcal Voting Ward 19 of Boston ... his age '55' and his trade is a 'baker'. [Adelia, by the way, is the Anglicized name form for 'Bridgit']. German-American Surname Index for "M" 1880 Census -Boston, Massachusetts ..where May & McCormack show up After seeing the name or names, note the Ward number, and click its link from the table on the page bottom; then use your wordprocessing wordfinder to locate the name. .. .McCormack, Daniel comes up there as a black-smith in a different ward (Ward 24) than his father-in-law with wife Caroline, and four children in 1880 .. McCormack shows up because he married a German named May. That data is available to me on line b Ms Reid's transscription .. otherwise, I seek a book or CD copy of the census for 1880 and read every page for an address or name until found. Transcription or hand data entry done voluntarily by Marge Reid of a substabtial pool of census data has enabled me and scores of others to analyze and search part of the census on line. Similar Volunteer Work is needed If, and as desired search the census record personally.

Vital Records -- Birth, Marriage, Death In the USA these records are kept in every state & territory .. and many cities, towns, or counties. Modern laws (since the early 1800's or better .require the forwarding of these records to the sstate archive in US states. Some of these records, adn some photographs have been imaged (scanned) and can be seen here at a YAHOO Photos site. - - click the folder icon, then the images to enlarge.. My great-grandfather Daniel F McCormack is verified from these records -- one would request and receive a certified record of the event if the record exists. A death certificate -state law- lists place, and date of birth, parents, date and palce and cause of death .. and usually the last address.. A date of death can get you birth information .. ages calculated back etc. Daniel F.McCormack is doubly noted ... by family memy he was 90, died on Easter Sunday -- the death certificate from the State of Masachusetts & City of Boston shows he died April 12 buried the 15th, 1936 ..was born in PEI, Canada in 1846 ..parents Michael & Margaret Catherine (McPhee) McCormack and was one mothshy of 90 years old. The certificate also states: Burial/interrment at Holyhood Cemetery, Brooklne, Ma ..funeral by Cleary Bros .. occupation: Real Estate. He is there still in the McCormack plot off Sichem [Sachem] Path between Arbor Way. (He purchased his lot in 1884? ($84) for the burial of an infant daughter ..Caroline May McCormack lies with him, and several children. One of his sons in law, my great uncle -William Clinton, is deceased - and no relation,of course to Pres.Clinton. Great-Uncle Bill Clinton married a ver pretty Elizabeth (Aunt Bess) McCormack --she is the Elizabeth in the 1880 census. [By coincidence, a sepia tone family print of her twinly resembles British actress Claire Forlani - who bears classic McCormack looks.] I and a first cousin resemble my great-grandfather ..who would be 156 years old now. Other family and pulic 'life' records --marriage certifictes, land records, rent and voter lists, immigration or naturalization (citizenship), probate & court records, business records and directory listings would complete his life. Church records also exist which record his life .. you seek certificates from tehir records ..they keep the original records ..as with state records. In PEI ..all vital records were kept, in the main, by churches until 1906 ..then provincial records started ..and in the 80's PEI centralized copies of older church records island wide. Look at every source you can ...and use the inernet to ask others to look up in their area .. and reciprocate the courtesy if you can. You may be in California ..they may be in Massachusts ..etc. His last home, which he built in the new Blue Hills Avenue area of Mattapan stands today ..at 42 Wellngton Hill Street .. a Ms. Taleah Edge lives there (please don't bother her -a public phone listing). His first home was in Dorchester. Some of his great-grandchildren (I & siblings & nieces nephews) live in Western Massachusetts - others are still in the Boston area (some run a cafe-pub or two in Quncy Market). By our records check ..he meshes with Dugall McCormack's lineage compiled by Donald McCormack at Island register ..back to Scotland - Uist in the Hebrides .. outer isles (McCormack means of Cormac [the legendary kings of that name] the isles - Carmagh) coming to PEI about 1790. My mother's parents, both mother & father, descended from separate families of Scots PEI immigrants ..MacNeills & MacEacherns & McCormacks & McDonalds & MacPhersons & MacMellans and so on.

John McCormack John McCormack's family may have been a relation from Scotland or PEI before settling in the USA-Boston. The same 1880 census with PEI names pulled (also Marge Reid's work) shows a 17 year old fishcleaner from PEI. (1853 PEI birth) ..he and others may have hitched a ride with a fishing boat from the USA ..Immigration was open then. In any case an American born PEI Roman Catholic Scots, with some Irish mix, from Boston, named John McCormack, would be elected to the US House of represntatives, then become friend to several US Presidents, and Speaker of the House ... Yes ..that John McCormack. In his nephew and cousins's campaigns they were always explaining that they were also Scottish! .. but they wanted the votes and friendship of the Irish from Boston ... and were Scotch-Irish.

Emigration Records My May family genealogy shows Francis J May and Bridgit Adel Fitzmorris married in 1848 -- ..Germans were required to show 'permission' to emigrate from Germany .. and an index for that exists. Francis May and the Fitzmorris family appear in West Roxbury in the 1850 census (but those censues do not all specify all individual names in a household) ... a May family in West Roxbury in 1840 in the US Census may have employed GG-GF Francis May and his family after immigration. scottagin@webtv.net -webmaster -scottmcon -scott m connolly

About those Displaced Arcadians JOSEPH ARSENEAUX Margaret Bourgeois Place those two names, one at a time, or look for them at this link in the PEI Island Register Many Arcadians (french) were deported to Louisiana, brutally .. another Arsenault was the inspiration for the 'Gabriel' in Longfellow's famous "Evangeline". Those who stayed,like these, took loyalty oaths, intermarried sometimes and are in the census of 1790. The Scots far from an abettment to English civil war and invasion after the Jacobite rebellion, were trusted - but not as freely armed as the Americans - though local militias were permitted. The Royal Governor Belcher - of the maritimes and Massachusetts separately, renamed the town of New Glascow in western Massachusetts to Brimfield. He was taking no chances with Scots sympathies that close to the internal American frontier.

New Zealand & AUstralia All the above for Australia and New Zealand cousins from Scotland and the British Isles via PEI Island Register Ships Register & Passenger Lists From the Island Register ... In the mid 1800's, Farmland on P.E.I. was getting hard to obtain, due to the huge acreages held by the tenant landlords. As a result, many young families began looking for a life elsewhere. An offer of free land by New Zealand, lured many. After 1848,then again in 1867 immigrants from Ireland and the Scottish Highlands, fleeing the Great famine increased the population, too .. and new dominion taxes may have been another pushing factor. That joined with immigration options to America, maybe US Civil War service, drew them to the United States. Now I remember why my grandmother used to say we might have been Australians. (In my immediate family however, my father in WWII and brother in the Vietnam War, had some ANZAC TDY & liberty ..issue unknown!) Update 02/25/02 Daniel F McCormack is descended from the Angus McCormack of South Ulst, Hebrides Scotland, who emigrated directly to PEI among the first English settlers & Dugald McCormack his ancestor, via Donald & Donald & Michael McCormack -- te two generations of PEI islanders who preceded him. An older John McCormack of Ireland was settled in Boston, MA by 1860 (the US Census Boston). That McCormack joined the Masachusetts settled McCormacks such as: another John McCormack, & Henry McCormack & AUgustus McCormack in settlng Boston, and Lowell & Lawrence, Ma. after two generations of living in Newfoudland, then Prince Edward Island These latter McCormacks help develope and subscribed to Holy Hood Cemetery as early 'cemetery plot' purchasers ($200 in 1870-75 and are interred near and about Fenwick Lane there. They are in the 1880 US Census. Whether they met and knew or collaborated in business with other settling Massachusetts McCormacks like my G-GGF is still a subject of research. Also by US Census record -- a John McCormack - likely the 1860 & 1870 US Census recorded entry with property in West Roxbury adjoining Jamaica Plain & Mattapan .. was born in Ireland (as some Scottish ancestried McCormacks are - Scotch-Irish) and was a blacksmith. Whether my GGF Daniel F. McCromack met and gained starting employment with him on arriving in Boston in 1866 is still in research. A review of some of GGF McCormack's tools & horse shoes can supplement the census record by determining where he learned his craft. Many Scottish ancestried PEI people who were blacksmiths learned their craft and passed it on, from a Mr. Kircudbright, master blacksmith in 18th century PEI (named for the Scottish border county) However - by later US and Canadian Census records .. they can be individually distingushed .. . coupled with other public and private records. The Daniel McCormack first thought to have been GGF Daniel by Michael McCormack of PEI has been verified by the 1881 Canadian Census as still living on the family farm in 1881, in PEI. ...That was discovered by a look at newer, more detailed free-on-line publication of three major censuses by the Church of latter Day Saits (LDS-Morman Church). See them at Family Search . That site contains the data for the 1880 US Census, and the British and Canadian Censuses of 1881 - in even more detail for Canada. Hence the "little Daniel still back on the farm ..." of Michael McCormack turned out to be one of about four. GGF Daniel F McCormack's parents are likely listed in 1881 as off the farm .. living as a carenter and his wife and pssibly collecting rent off a much greater subdivision of the older farmstead of 40 years before - in Georgetown, PEI. Scott M Connolly - son of Dorothy L. McCormack - daughter of Charles A McCormack is one of his great-grandchildren .. and a great-great-great-great-great-grandson of a McCormack, who came to Prince Edward Island Canada, from South Uist in the Hebrides of Scotland. They are founders of the predecessor of various McCormack realtors in Boston, Ma. (McCormack-Epstein, McCormack Properties, McCormack Ralty Trust, Moore-McCormack Properties). While not any longer a formal clan .. Mcormacks in Boston and New York and Canada expanded as they did in Scottich Border country, Ulster and Scotland's Western lands and its isles.

Vernon River ,PEI, Canada

McCormacks farmed in this environ 130 years ago .. for sale about $275,000 9.25 acres .... (US$195,000) ...Great-great grandfather grew 900 bushels? of spuds, & barley & oats on 220 acres. As a smithy & stable owner they could always have eaten 'oats' !

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