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Member #814 Query

Donald E.Lake, 121 Village Crescent, Sudbury, ON. P3A 4X8

EMAIL: donal@personainternet.com  

I am seeking assistance from Armstrong researchers or anyone else who
may offer tips as I try to determine (1) whether my great-uncle's wife
was an ARMSTRONG and (2) what became of their children. Benjamin LAKE
and his wife Ellen (aka Ella) and four children appear in the 1861
census as residents of Dalhousie. Ellen died at some time after the
census, but perhaps not before giving birth to a fifth child.

By the time of the 1871 census, Benjamin had a new wife, Mary McFARLANE,
whom he had married at Perth in 1867. The 1871 census lists a new
child, also called Benjamin (2). Of the four children listed in 1861,
only Richard, the second oldest (now 14), appears as a member of the
household. The oldest, Catherine (now 16) may the be the "stray"
identified in District 79 of the census, as she rejoins the family for
the 1881 census.

The remaining children may have been adopted by Armstrongs. In 1871, a
boy named James LAKE (13) was with Thomas ARMSTRONG (33) and his wife
Margaret (Family 43, District 64, Addington, Oso Twp). Mary LAKE, who
was a year old in 1861, has so far not been traced in 1871. (She
appears to have survived to marry John BUCHANAN (perhaps the Buchanan
cited in P. E. Andersen, vol 2, p. 49?). If Ellen had a fifth child
after the 1861 census he may be the Thomas LAKE (10) who was with
Richard ARMSTRONG (74) and his wife Mary (Family 44, Oso Twp) in 1871.

I am so new at this game that any assistance I may receive will be helpful.