Frank Joseph CANTON (also recorded as Francis, Joe, FJ) b. New Orleans.
His parents were supposedly Joseph Canton and Josephine ? who possibly
arrived in New Orleans from Havre (port they sailed from) France in 1849. I have
found no record of them other than their port arrival. In some census' he
reports his father was born in Pennsylvania, again no proof.
Frank Joseph is first recorded in a census in a Catholic orphanage in St.
Louis MO. In the 1860 census he's recorded as age 13 and born in Ireland,
although all the boys on that page were recorded as born in Ireland. One of his
daughters reports that his year of birth was had really 1846. The Union Army
has his year of birth 1849.
Any information about Canton's that left their home country in the late
1840's and arrived in New Orleans is of interest to me.
Lin