Your info matches mine very well. I have not researched much beyond Matthew TRUTHWAITE in England.

I have Jacob TRUTHWAITE married to Sarah Swanson McDONALD b-1861, daughter of Elizabeth TAIT & Duncan McDONALD b-1825. I also do not so far have parents for Jane McDONALD.

According to Manitoba Vital ...

Son Edward was baptized in London on Nov 12, 1792. I presume he was taken there to be educated, and since his father died soon later, he probably remained in England thereafter.
I wasn't aware that he had a brother, but HBC Archives indicate that Matthew had a sister named Hannah KIPLING. Where did ...

Louanne wrote in the Fidler Forum:

William had siblings named Joseph, Pierre, James Jr., Marie, Margurite, Christine and an Unknown. After doing some number crunching according to 1955 Archives doc. I got the number for Elizabeths birthdate. In that same document, it shows that she was 12 years ...

This is to announce a new posting, click here: NAHOVWAY & WILLIAM SINCLAIR

To discuss this family, please do so hereunder.

Welcome aboard Louanne!

At this point I cannot be certain, but it looks like Betsy may have been a daughter of Sophie CADOTTE & Philip THOMAS (b-c1841) who lived in the St Peters Reserve.

Just by coincidence I am currently working on the descendants of NAHOVWAY & William SINCLAIR (1766-1818), the ...

A few years back I exchanged Emails with Allen Lawrence LAVOIE , son of Lawrence LAVOIE who was probably your mother’s uncle. I have a fair amount of info on the LAVOIE family that I received from him. Unfortunately, I lost the emails that he sent me (as well as some pictures).

It looks like I’m ...

I have James SPENCE (1753-1795) (not George) with TOMINSON at Buckingham House during 1792-1795 (from HBC Archives). Go to my Ancestors page, on the list there click on James SPENCE to see what I have.

I'm interested in your own lineage back to George. Could you provide that?

If you click on ‘ Descendants ’ at the top of this page you will find PRUDEN, John Edward in the listing there. Click on that and you will see that John Edward b-1839 (who married Mary ISBISTER) was the son of Josephte JOLICOEUR & Peter PRUDEN (1807-1889).

Edward had about 11 siblings (children of ...

Ann FLETT was born Jan 26, 1844 in St Paul Parish, daughter of Euphemia HALCROW & Peter FLETT (1812-c1905). Around 1860 Annie began a relationship with John BALSILLIE who you already know about.

My information seems to indicate that Annie and John BALSILLIE parted ways. John remarried in 1867 to ...

Thanks very much for that information Beth!

I have made those corrections on the J.E. PRUDEN web page. Are you a descendant of one of those families?