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I tried to contact Willa Sawyer-Ormond (see messages below 2005) but her address no longer works. If anyone knows her new address or is themselves interested in the Marshes and Caseys of New Carlisle I'd be glad to share information on them. Here is what I tried to send to Willa: I had been looking for info recently on the New Carlisle Marshes and ran across several messages from you on family research boards back in 2005 asking for info on George Marsh who was married to Alice Moriarty. They are my great, great grandparents on my mother's side. Their daughter Mary Magdelen Marsh was my great grandmother and I have a fair bit of info about her and her brothers and sisters. My mother visited New Carlisle in the 1920's and 30's with Mary Magdelene, met her great aunts and uncles (including Hiram Casey), saw the ruins of the original Marsh house etc. and heard quite a bit of the family history from that generation. I'd be glad to share this with you and learn whether you have found out anything else since your messages or have been in contact with anyone who might have other information. My interest at the moment is centred on the first Marsh to come to Canada and settle in New Carlisle a generation or two back from the George above. It's unclear whether his name was George or John (the family recollections differ on this) but it is certain that he was a veteran of the Penninsula War and probably Waterloo as well, settled at New Carlisle after 1815, built a house, a store, a wharf, ran schooners to the Barbados and England and was a postmaster for a while under the postmark Fauvel. If I can find a bit more info and better identify him, I can find out quite a lot more in the UK where I am working about his background, military service and departure for Canada. My problem at the moment is that there quite a few Marshes in Wellington's armies. If anyone has mentioned him to you, please let me know. I'd really appreciate it. I'm away from home, where I have my papers on this, but if anyone contacts me (claquet@wanadoo.fr)in the meantime I will put together the Marsh info I have and sent it to you when I'm back the weekend of the 24-25th. Thanks very much and I look forward to hearing from you. Charles Simpson
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