British, Irish, Scottish, Loyalist, American, German, Scandinavian, Dutch, Huguenot families in Lower Canada and Québec Compiler: Jacques Gagné - [email protected] Last update; March 24th 2015 1 British, Irish, Scottish, Loyalist, American, German, Scandinavian, Dutch, Huguenot families in Lower Canada and Québec Table of Contents A.................................................................................................................................................................. 4 B ................................................................................................................................................................ 10 C ................................................................................................................................................................ 23 D ............................................................................................................................................................... 35 E ................................................................................................................................................................ 41 F ................................................................................................................................................................ 46 G ............................................................................................................................................................... 50 H ............................................................................................................................................................... 57 I ................................................................................................................................................................. 65 J................................................................................................................................................................. 66 K ................................................................................................................................................................ 68 L ................................................................................................................................................................ 71 M .............................................................................................................................................................. 81 Mc ............................................................................................................................................................. 91 N ............................................................................................................................................................... 92 O ............................................................................................................................................................... 97 2 P ................................................................................................................................................................ 99 Q ............................................................................................................................................................. 106 R .............................................................................................................................................................. 106 S .............................................................................................................................................................. 112 St. ............................................................................................................................................................ 122 Ste. .......................................................................................................................................................... 129 T .............................................................................................................................................................. 130 U ............................................................................................................................................................. 134 V .............................................................................................................................................................. 135 W ............................................................................................................................................................ 137 Y .............................................................................................................................................................. 143 Z .............................................................................................................................................................. 143 Contributors or source material; ............................................................................................................ 144 Map of the Province of Quebec Links to old county maps of Quebec: http://www.royandboucher.com/tng/showmedia.php?mediaID=208&tngpage=9 Click on #7 for counties in Quebec http://www.leveillee.net/ancestry/Map3QuebecCounties.htm http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~30556~3000134:Quebec- Where they resided from about 1760 onward 3 Many of the hamlets or villages or settlements listed no longer exist as such or have gone through a name change. Compiled and researched by Jacques Gagné from 2007 to 2015 Original Counties – 1792 – Bedford - Buckinghamshire - Cornwallis - Devon - Dorchester - Effingham - Gaspé - Hampshire - Hertford - Huntingdon - Kent - Leinster - Montréal - Montréal (East) - Montréal (West) - Northumberland - Orléans - Québec - Québec (Lower Town) - Québec (Upper Town) - Richelieu - St-Maurice - Surrey - Trois-Rivières - Warwick - William Henry - York. A Abbottsford – Shefford County – First settled about 1803 and located east of Marieville, north ofGranby and west of Mawcook – The town has since been renamed St-Paul d’Abbotsford - Saint-Paul- d'Abbotsford on modern maps Abbott’s Corners – Missisquoi County - A village first settled about 1795 and located about 2 km east of Frelighsburg – All that exist today as a memorial to the past is an old Baptist church building and two Protestant cemeteries - Frelighsburgh on modern maps Abenakis – Dorchester County – Located south of Ste-Claire and north of Saint- Malachie - Sainte-Claire on modern maps Abercorn – Brome County – A village on the Vermont border first settled in 1810 and located within Sutton township near East Pinnacle – The town was originally named Shepard’s Mills - Sutton on modern maps Abercrombie Township – Terrebonne County - First settled about 1852, the township comprised the villages of Shawbridge, Prévost, Piedmont – Abercrombie was bordered to the east by Kilkenny, to the south by des Plaines, to the west by Morin and Howard and to the north by Wexford Aberdeen – Pontiac County – A village first settled in 1870 also referred to as Rapides des Joachims and located along the Ottawa river within Sheenboro, Esher, Malakoff, Aberdeen today - see the latter group of towns on modern maps Aberford – Témiscaminque County – A hamlet first settled in 1869 within the township of Lake Nilgault Acadie County – A county located west of the Richelieu river and created in 1829, which included then the ancient seigniories of Lacolle, De Léry, St-George, St-James, St-Normand, Thwaite and Sherrington township – The county of Acadie ceased to exist in 1840 4 Acadie Village – St-Jean County – see L’Acadie or Blairfindie Acton – Bagot County – First settled in 1806 and located next to Acton Vale, the village is now referred to as St-Théodore d’Acton - Saint-Théodore-d'Acton on modern maps Acton Vale – Bagot County – Fitst settled about 1806 and located east of Saint-Hyacinthe, between Upton and Durham South, the town was first known in pioneering days as Acton - Acton Vale on modern maps Adamsville – Brome County – A village established about 1849 near the township of East Farnham - East Farnham on modern maps Adderley – Mégantic County – Located within Inverness township on the 1st Range near the town of Saint-Jean Baptiste - see the latter on modern maps Addington Township – Papineau County – A township of the 1880’s and located east of Preston, north of Suffolk and Ponsonby, east of Amherst, southwest of Clyde - A region now referred to as Boileau, see the latter on modern maps Adstock – Frontenac County – First settled prior to 1812 and now known as St-Méthode de Frontenac. It is located halfway between Thetford Mines in Mégantic and Saint-Georges in Beauce - Saint-Méthode- de-Frontenac on modern maps Adstock Township – Frontenac - Mégantic Counties – A region first settled in the 1810’s, the township straddles two modern day counties, Frontenac and Mégantic Agnes – Frontenac County – The town of Agnes and the town of Lake Mégantic Village are the same, they are separated from each other by the Chaudière river at the entrance of Lake Megantic – The town of Agnes is also referred to as Sainte-Agnès or Lac Mégantic - see the latter on modern maps Aird – Missisquoi County – A hamlet within the Parish of St.Thomas and located just north of the Vermont border and south of Clarenceville and Nutt’s Corners - Clarenceville on modern maps Akwesasne – St-Regis First Nation Village – Huntingdon County – The largest First Nation Village