From: "arthur drysdale" <drsdl@sprint.ca>
Subject: for the record
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:29:29 -0500
the Drysdale family of New Brunswick.
William Drysdalle was from England. <<according to family tradition, he
was engaged in british fisheries, left England, resided in P.E.I.,
first
settled at Nelson, N.B. and later removed to the Miramichi "at
Newcastle". he was married to Mary, her family name unknown>>. i have
not been able to prove all of this tradition. William died about 1792.
Mary, William Drysdalle's widow, married John (Chadwick) Shaddock, a
Maryland Loyalist. she died at her daughter's Mary, (mrs. John
McCallum), in Tabusintac.
>From the notes of Placide Gaudet; (translation).
"Les Drysdale:"
"William Drysdale died at Miramichi, was a cooper and his sons were
all coopers. his son William was the first white (British) child born
at
Miramichi. He, (William junior), was a pilot for a long time at
Miramichi before he settled at Tracadie, (N.B.). "
"William Drysdale emigrated from England to Miramichi and he married
an American by the name of Mary ........... from whom he had four
children: viz, William the first white British child born at Miramichi
who became the husband of Margaret Akerson, widow of William (John)
Thomas."
"David married Victoire Brideau", (David, ancestor of the Drisdels of
Kent-Westmorland, also of some Driscolls in Northumberland).
"Mary married (John) McCallum", (ancestor of the Tabusintac McCallums).
(Ann) "Nancy married Jean-Baptiste LeBreton, (Frs)."
William Drysdalle junior married (1) Margaret Higgenson, widow of John
Thomas of P.E.I. (ancestor of the Drysdales-Dresdells-Drysdelles of
Tracadie-Bathurst, the Dresdells of Quebec, and of some Driscolls of
Northumberland, of Nova Scotia and of New-Hampshire), (2) Married
Marguerite Comeau.
David died c1801 and his widow Victoire Brideau married Francois
Gautreau. they removed to the Memramcook region, in Wesmorland. David's
son, David junior, (Dresdell-Drisdel), married Marie Gaudet, widow of
Bienvenue Bourgeois, at Memramcook, in 1825.
name variations: Dresdel, Drysdelle, Drisdel. (also some Driscolls).
arthur drysdale
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