X00262 Everett Delahaye Timeline

Everett Delahaye is the son of John Delahaye and Nancy Lawson. He was born 23 March 1890. But here's where it gets interesting.

A birth registration has been found for him showing him as having being born in Romney, Kent, Ontario. But there is also a second birth certificate out there with the exact same birth date and parents names, showing him as being born in Chicago:

Now, is it a delayed birth registration, so it was created many years after the birth took place and so there are reasons to be a bit suspect. There may have been reasons to suggest an alternative birth location. but this does require tome analysis to determine which birth location is correct. There is the possibility that there could be two individuals with the same name born on the same day, but with the same parents names, it seems very unlikely. It should be noted that his birth location is given as Chicago in his death registration.

Another interesting note is in his delayed birth registration, both parents are listed as being born in the US, which goes against all other information that I've found. I'm inclined to think that the information in the delayed birth record is inaccurate, but I need to do more of an analysis first before ruling it out entirely.

Big Breakthrough!!

So, with a great deal of help from a distant cousin and the French Heritage Project, I think i may have finally broken through the Delaheye-LaForme brick wall on my maternal line and managed to trace the line back to the early 1600s and a fille-du-roi names Francoise Michau. More information to come later....

Leach Marriage Record found!

I have managed to find the marriage record for Charles Leach and Margaret Delahaye [D02745].

Based on the fact that they both are unmarried in the 1851 census and their first child was born around 1853, I figured that they married between 1851 and 1853. Sure enough, I managed to find them in the records for St. Luke's Anglican Church married on February 4 1853.



A couple of notes:
1. Charles' occupation is listed as yeoman. I have not seen a record that describes his profession as a yeoman to date. He's usually been listed as a carpenter
2. It is a bit unusual that they would be married in an Anglican church when it is very likely that Margaret comes from a Roman Catholic background. Then again, given the time period and the region, there may not have been much in the way of church options to get married in.

X00151 is now closed!