It's James here, I am sorry to hear of your father's passing. I was trading email with him about 10 or 15 years ago reqarding our common Finlayson ancestor and now I am writing a biography of Nicol Finlayson so I had some questions about your father's RRS website and some of the information on it ...

Is there anyone still moderating this discussion, I'm trying to reach Gary Still.

I am very curious about his middle name "Finlayson". Do you know where he got his middle name. Was his father or mother related to HBC Post Master at Pic River, Long Lake and Mitchipicoten John Finlayson, s/o HBC Chief Factor Nicol Finlayson?

Hi Erin; nice to hear from you!

Confusing – Are you concluding that Joseph FINLAYSON (b-1830) was a child of Nichol FINLAYSON and Nancy DAVIS (b-1816), daughter of Nancy HODGSON and John DAVIS (1785-1824)??

My apologies for the delayed reply.

I am concluding that sometime after John Davis's ...

I read on your Nicol Finlayson page that you have Nicol's oldest child being Anne Nancy born in 1818. That's interesting because I always thought that her name was Anne (Nancy) Mckenzie Finlayson and was born after Hector, John, and Benjamin, in fact I have her born after Joseph in 1831 which would ...

I am currently doing some research on the Davis family for my doctoral dissertation.

Today I was reading the Davis family files, and came across a couple of letters that might clarify which Nancy is the mother of Joseph Finlayson.

In the Davis Family Fonds at the Archives of MB (P2342/21 ...