When I saw the opportunity to join Atlantic Provinces web ring I realized none of my connections to Canada were on this site. They are all collateral lines. Some relating to inlaws married to my aunts, uncles, cousins. many more due to loyalist refugees after the American Revolution. Here are the primary family connections with Canada, they are more like brick walls to me. I have some data, but lots of questions. Am happy to share what I do know.

1a) VAN BUSKIRKS atleast a dozen different families have been identified in Nova Scotia and Prince Edwards Island after 1783, from many different parts of the Van Buskirk tree. In 1654 we had one immigrant family with 4 sons, then about 40 grandchildren, and 400 great grand children, etc. Only a few of the Canadian families are well traced, the rest are problems. Most of the stray families un placed disconnect in Nova Scotia. Some did come back to the states out west, but essentially covered their tracks, some families actually disowned children for their support of the King in the states, and others in Canada disowned children going back to the states. Glad to discuss any Van Buskirk situations, no guarantees I can help, but I have previously been a catalyst connecting researchers with two sides of the same family problems.

1b) Several of the families covered on this site do have individual loyalist refugees which I have not documented or followed. If you have a connection, I’d be glad to exchange what I do have.

2) MUNRO MORRISON of Pictou NS. My uncle Charles H Dayton did a paper on the Dayton Family 1951 and covered some of his wife’s (my Aunt’s) lines to

JOHN MUNRO em to Pictou 1815 from Scotland, d1872 at age 80 married Mary Ann DURHAM d 1881 age 80. shows 12 children including

ELIZA MUNRO d1908 age 83 m WILLIAM MORRISON D1884 AT 63 buried Halliburton Pictou NS 6 children include Daniel Morrison 1859 - 1900 b Truro, NS died Syracuse, NY pastor of several Presbyterian churches, married Fanny Jane OSTRANDER 1859 - 1951 Son John m Marjorie Benedict; Dau FANNY JEAN m CHARLES H DAYTON.

MORRISON, WILLIAM one of 5 brothers John, Angus, Murdoch and Alexander from cemetery data at St Peters. info from family bible not followed up, but Charlie does expand the coverage of the two families to about 10 pages after a visit to Pictou in the 1950s.

3) BURTON FAMILY

A WARREN DAYTON brother of Charles,my mother Margaret DAYTON, married FLORA BURTON

born in Onasbruk,Ontario Canada 1907 married 1933 LeRoy NY died 1997 Le Roy, NY

.Last fall my cousins got interested in genealogy, knew we had Daytons traced and asked about Floras’ family, heretofor not really explored. We have discovered so far

James Burton 1822 -1897 m Mary Ann Rombough b 1834 had 10 children including

Charles R Burton 1878 - 1955 m Martha Warner b1879 m 1901 North Valley Ontario

had 5 children Aleatha Mabel 1904-1998, Flora 1907 - 1997 m A W Dayton, sons Carl and Wilbur still alive, and a baby Gladys died young.

The family moved from Stormount Ontario near Cornwall to Genesee Co NY about 1915

Some of this came from a website of : FRED COOPER

His interest is the family of Johannes Wert and Dorothea Hartman of Germany and Mohawk, NY including Mary Ann Rombough. etc. It is believed that the Burtons were also refugees from the states as loyalists following the revolution, and probably were in Nova Scotia first.

4) DU FRESNE This is probably a France to Quebec family. My brother-inlaws daughter Lisa Stech connects with this family in Syracuse, NY supposed to be from up north, Northern New York or Quebec. nothing else known.

Generation No. 1