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From: "Lauraine Syrnick" <>
Subject: Re: [SCOTS-IN-CANADA] Dawdy family
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:12:40 -0600
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Attention: Joan Dawdy Wilton

Have you considered an alternate spelling to the Dawdy name such as "Doude,
Dowde,' etc.
A possibility is:

http://www.dowdgen.com/dowd/document/henry.html

The date 1780 does suggest a Loyalist. Have you tried the UEL list? The
spelling of surnames from Colonial times varies greatly even in church
documents. If this proved to be your family, the above site has an
inventory from a will which would grace any tree with historical content.

Lauraine


My Dad's side of the family is really my brick wall. The first one to
>> settle
>> in Canada arrived at York co., Ontario c 1780 from New Jersey. I am
>> currently trying to connect this man's father, James Dawdy, to a James
>> Dawdey also of N.J. who participated in the French Indian War. I've
>> scoured
>> the internet for N.J. muster rolls or anything else I can find relating
>> to
>> the miltary of that time and have come up empty handed except for a
>> widows
>> pension application who claims she is the daughter of James Dawdey. It is
>> really frustrating and ever so easy to make assumptions and just say the
>> James are one and the same but I want proof.
>> Oh well, it's late and my eyes are itchy from peering so long at the
>> moniter. Thanks for your message and offer of a lookup.
>> Joan Dawdy Wilton
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