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Hello, I am researching my Mother\'s family from the U.S. and want to plan a trip to Gaspe. Her Father\'s name was William Thomas Cunningham b 1886 and died in 1952. He married Marion Akred from St. Clair Michigan and settled there. All of his family remained in Canada. His Father was Thomas Daniel Cunningham born 1847,died 1925, married Eliza Morgan of Newfoundland in i876 (she was born 1852 and died in 1929). They Lived in Newfoundland breifly with their 6 children and then moved back to Gaspe. I know the first generation was James Cunningham a united Empire loyalist and first master of the Cunning(ham)? family to settle in Gaspe and arrived in 1786. He settled in Haldimand(?) on lot No 8. His land was a government grant by the honorable John Collins. He built his home on a point near the St. John River. James was a farmer and a fisherman and owned at one time 700 acres of Land. The sit e of his old homestead is occupied today by Frederick Cunning a great grand son of James. Please, please email me if you have any information that could help! There is confusion as to the real family name..Cunning or Cunningham??? Were they of Scottish decent? I know very little about my great grandmother Eliza Morgan. Is there a Vital records site for Gaspe? Thank you!
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