My father's side is interesting...
My direct ancestor, Philibert Couillaud dit ROCQUEBRUNE, was an officer in the Carignan-Salieres Regiment, the force sent by King Louis XIV to New France to help defend the colony against the Iroquois. I am the descendant of 14 of the men from that regiment. I have so many French-Canadian ancestors from my father's side it is too much to account for. If anyone here needs French-Canadian genealogical help, I will be more than happy to help!!
My great grandmother had Irish parents, one from Newfoundland and the other from Quebec in a nice little Irish area that few know about. She married my French-Canadian great grandfather, Catholics and all that. So, I have a lot of information on Irish Canadians in Quebec. The surname SHANNON, one family, actually goes back before 1820! I'm definitely a pre-famine Irish descendant.
I have one late French immigrant who arrived in Quebec in the 1720s. He was from Bretagne (Brittany). His grandson anglicized his name from DEGAUCHE to DEGOOSH, and married an American woman in Vermont.
My mother's side is a strong mixture of Norwegian, German, and English. My great great grandparents moved from Wisconsin out to South Dakota, where they lived in a tiny town in a sod house. My German ancestors were a part of the exodus from the Revolution of 1848 in Germany.
All of my English ancestry on my mother's side is all from New England. I have one Tory ancestor, who was a judge in Vermont, losing his property as well as his job. He named his son after the doctor I wrote about in the Useless Trivia thread. More in a Part II post!
my dad died in July 1999, he never talked about them, all I knew was that they both lived quite near to each other, my dad was more well known for playing with Jimmy Shand.
