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I’m from Canada …

As I have been building my family tree, I am discovering how many ‘places’ my ancestors have called home.

my grandmother and her brother and four of her sisters appear in this photo at a school in Nova Scotia in the early 1900s

The people I would call grandfather or grandmother (with greats added) include people who came to Canada or to the United States from England, Scotland, France, and Germany. Some of their parents came originally from the Netherlands.

John Winslow (b. 1597) Droltwich, Worcestershore, England (1620)
Mary Chilton (b. 1607) St. Peter, Sandwich, Kent, England (Mayflower 1620)
Patrick McMullen (b. 1704) Scotland
Peter LeValley (b. 1675) France
William Spavold (b. 1810) England (Trafalgar 1817)
Eliza Greenfield (b. 1790) England (Trafalgar 1817)
Stephen Hopkins (b. 1581) Upper Clatford, Hampshire, England (Mayflower 1620)
Elizabeth Fisher (b. unknown) England (Mayflower 1620)
Francis Cook (b. 1583) Gides Hall, Essex, England (Mayflower 1620)
Hester Mahieu (b. 1585) Canterbury, Kent, England (1623)
William Latham (b. 1608) Chorley, Lancashire, England (Mayflower 1620)
Conrad Hawk (Sr.) (b. 1744) Germany
Conrad Kresge (b. 1730) Amberg-Sulzbach, Bayern, Germany
Johan Ulrick Kohl (b. 1702) Pallatine, Germany
Solmey Cooll (b. 1702) Germany
Johann Nicholas Borger (b. 1720) Nassig, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
John Clark (b. 1793) Straiton, Ayrshire, Scotland
Jane Cooper (b. 1799) Greenock, Scotland
Margaret Miller (b. 1798) Hoddam, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
William Aitcheson (b. 1794) Annan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland (1832)
— Wayborne (b. 1836) Rockbeare, Devon, England
John Johnson (b. 1780) England

To make me, how many different people from so many different places had to get together!!! As my aunt used to say, just being here, we have already won the greatest lottery of all …

One of my next genealogy / virtual cycling project will be to track down when they came to Canada or the United States. Immigration records and passenger lists of ships will help me in this endeavor.