I'm 1/2 Scottish on my father's side (from Aye Shire but my family name is English so some where someone moved from England to Scotland), 3/8ths English on my mother's side, and 1/8th French-Canadian also on my mother's side. I'd like to know more about my family's history and although my family tree has been researched back to the 1480's I know little about them other then their names.
On my mother's side her family name was French from the Trois Riveres area of Quebec but I know little about the background of the women who married her male relations. I know that her familt was originally from Bordeaux but were shipped to New France for being debters sometime between 1560 and 1580. In New France they owned a leather tannery and a public house but my great-great-great-grandfather was forced to flee Canada after a failed rebellion by the French against the British. They moved to Illinois after that and remained in Chicago until my grand parents moved to Southern California after WW2. My father's family were all either farmers or machinists in Scotland until my great-grandfather, who was the youngest son of nine children, joined the army in the run up to the Boer War. My father's family moved to the US in 1948.
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On my mother's side her family name was French from the Trois Riveres area of Quebec but I know little about the background of the women who married her male relations. I know that her familt was originally from Bordeaux but were shipped to New France for being debters sometime between 1560 and 1580. In New France they owned a leather tannery and a public house but my great-great-great-grandfather was forced to flee Canada after a failed rebellion by the French against the British. They moved to Illinois after that and remained in Chicago until my grand parents moved to Southern California after WW2. My father's family were all either farmers or machinists in Scotland until my great-grandfather, who was the youngest son of nine children, joined the army in the run up to the Boer War. My father's family moved to the US in 1948.
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