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From: "Betty" <>
Subject: [QUEBEC] St. Foye and the people and the battle (KERR)
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:11:39 -0500


Hello,

A researcher on the KERR Board is looking for information about a Miss KERR
and Mr. ROBERTS who married in St. Foye in 1838. Out of curiousity,
I searched "St. Foye" and found out there was a "Battle of St. Foye" in
1760.

Then I found it mentioned in 2 on-line books about the history of Quebec:

http://books.google.com/books?id=16sOAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA179&lpg=RA1-PA179&dq=%22St.+Foye%22&source=bl&ots=vDvo6obntY&sig=kwxpTcCcoqyanvTe_efelaP_hIg&hl=en&ei=q1FlS8isDJXwlAeuw6GUCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CA0Q6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=%22St.%20Foye%22&f=false


http://books.google.com/books?id=OA4TAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA88&lpg=PA88&dq=%22St.+Foye%22&source=bl&ots=OjXLQ-vI0v&sig=jo2ffQq1ZwEKODn0xLQey4yamzs&hl=en&ei=PVNlS9__C5WUlAeo-o2UCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CBgQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22St.%20Foye%22&f=false


I'm not finding a history of St. Foye, yet; it's probably part of the
history of Quebec City. But, there are references on-line to people being
born there during the late 1600's and marrying there in the early 1700's.

I see on this site that what is now Quebec City had major changes during the
1760's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City

Any comments?


Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA)


P.S. My KERR ancestors were part of a family-group which arrived in the
Prov. of Quebec in 1820's, but they settled in Argenteuil County. From
my 7 years of research on-line, I found out that KERR's arriving from 1800
to 1850 settled in 3 different areas of the Province - Argenteuil County
and in the Eastern Townships (Richmond and New Port, etc.). I don't
remember reading about KERR's in the City of Quebec.



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