Beginning March 2nd, 2020 the Mailing Lists functionality on RootsWeb will be discontinued. Users will no longer be able to send outgoing emails or accept incoming emails. Additionally, administration tools will no longer be available to list administrators and mailing lists will be put into an archival state.
Administrators may save the emails in their list prior to March 2nd. After that, mailing list archives will remain available and searchable on RootsWeb
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
Author: Sherri_Czmyr
Surnames:
Classification: queries
Message Board URL:
http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.charland/150.2.2.1.3/mb.ashx
Message Board Post:
Would you happen to have pictures of your grandmother that you are willing to share? I'd like my mother to see them.
Important Note:
The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.
<br>
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
Author: Sherri_Czmyr
Surnames:
Classification: queries
Message Board URL:
http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.charland/150.2.2.1.2/mb.ashx
Message Board Post:
JB is also listed on a document as Joseph JB Charland. (I think it was the marriage certificate for him and my great grandmother.) I've been trying to find information attached to that name.
Important Note:
The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.
<br>
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
Author: Sherri_Czmyr
Surnames:
Classification: queries
Message Board URL:
http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.charland/150.2.2.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx
Message Board Post:
Yes, I did go in to search after receiving your post.
Yeah, the closed thing he probably got to France was the Canadian border! HA!
My grandmother and siblings were born after WWI, I see he registered for the draft, but haven't found anything that shows he actually served.
I can't say when, but my mom told me my Aunt Thelma, my grandmother's sister, had found Charlands in NH and mailed them a letter, she never got a response from them. My guess that had to be in the 70's. Now maybe the contact wasn't related and just never responded. She had said they were probably afraid she wanted something...IF you knew her, you'd know why she would say that...she was different to say the least, not my favorite family member.
Is your tree not public? I can't seem to view it. I won't be offended if you don't want to give me access.
Through ancestry.com last year I was able to reconnect with a great-uncle on my dad's side of the family. I hadn't seen him and my aunt since I was a young child. It's great having ties to my dad's family! I feel like I have known them all of my life. They live in CT a short distance from where we lived prior to moving to IN 16yrs ago. Interesting enough, the person that put me in touch with them is a 3rd cousin, he and his brother actually live in Indiana. I haven't met them as of yet.
It seems like I don't find any information or have contact with other members for a long period of time, then all of a sudden I get several messages from different people. Always happens just when I think about letting my subscription laps.
Thanks again.
Important Note:
The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.
<br>
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
Author: rumshum8
Surnames:
Classification: queries
Message Board URL:
http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.charland/150.2.2.1.1.1/mb.ashx
Message Board Post:
Hi,
I downloaded the article to attach it and send it but the print was super small. When I looked again it said you had also saved it, it's the Portsmouth Herald. I will keep trying to get it into a format that's easy to share. He must have been a charmer. My niece is doing a project for school, she is in 8th grade and crazy about all things French. When I told her I had heard her great great grandfather allegedly died fighting for France in WWI she wanted to research him. Now, her focus has changed and we are trying to find out if he was ever found again after attempting to murder that sheriff in Candia, NH. The divorce certificate between your great grandmother and him indicates that she divorced him on grounds of abandonment and that was 3 years after your grandmother was born. So we are going to call the NH department of corrections and see what they have on him and keep digging to see if there is a death certificate anywhere. But, I suspect he changed his name and!
has more families elsewhere. I will keep you posted.
Important Note:
The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.
<br>
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
Author: Sherri_Czmyr
Surnames:
Classification: queries
Message Board URL:
http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.charland/150.2.2.1.1/mb.ashx
Message Board Post:
Thank you for that information. Do you happen to have a copy of that article? I'd like to see it.
Nice people experimenting with chloroform on a young female...sort of makes you wonder what was behind that!
I was just talking to my mom and she says she never remembers anyone ever talking about JB, only my grandmother saying she'd never met him and thought he didn't want her. But there was never any talk between my great-grandmother and other family members.
All I can say is he must have a con man that had some charm, amongst other things.
Important Note:
The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.
<br>
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
Author: rumshum8
Surnames:
Classification: queries
Message Board URL:
http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.charland/150.2.2.1/mb.ashx
Message Board Post:
My grandmother would have been your grandmother's half sister. Marien Charland, was my grandmother, her mother was JB's first wife Mary Moul. My grandmother always told us that her father was killed in WW I. I am not sure whether her mother told her children this because she wanted to shield them from the truth or that my grandmother knew the truth and didn't want to tell the truth to her children and grandchildren. Either way the guy sounds like he was bad news. Mary Moul divorced him on the grounds that he was a convicted criminal. He and his brother Andrew robbed a delivery truck at gun point in 1909. An article I found also shares that they had been experimenting, prior to the robbery, with chloroform on a young female family member. I wonder if this was my grandmother as she was a small child at the time. I found a death certificate for his brother Andrew, who was often his partner in crime. Andrew lived to be 72 years old and died in St. J, Vermont.
I wish your grandmother could have had some peace of mind and known that distance from this man probably wasn't a bad thing.
Important Note:
The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.
<br>
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
Author: Sherri_Czmyr
Surnames:
Classification: queries
Message Board URL:
http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.charland/150.2.2/mb.ashx
Message Board Post:
Unfortunately, I don't have much information concerning JB Charland except what others have posted in this thread. My poor grandmother, Mary Helen Charland - Beaumont went through her entire life believing her father didn't want her. My great-grandmother never gave a hint to JB's whereabouts or what went on. Being sensative, Mary aka Helen carried that heartache her entire life. I am not even sure she had ever seen her father during her entire life, even as an infant. she had no recollection of him at all.
Important Note:
The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.
<br>
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
Author: highkidder
Surnames:
Classification: queries
Message Board URL:
http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.charland/150.2.1/mb.ashx
Message Board Post:
I have a copy of prison record for Charland , as well as my grandfather. I will look at it and let you know how long he was in.I can see if I can find death certificate for John.
Important Note:
The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.
<br>
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
Author: rumshum8
Surnames: Charland - Moul
Classification: queries
Message Board URL:
http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.charland/150.2/mb.ashx
Message Board Post:
My great grandmother, Marien Charland, was John Baptiste Charland's daughter from his first marriage to Mary Moul. My grandmother was told that her father fought in WWI and died. My grandmother died at 96 years old in 2004. My thoughts, now that I have learned more about John Charland are that his first wife also sought to protect her children from knowing him. Any and all information you have about him would be helpful. I know he did jail time in 1910, which is documented in that census. He was in jail in Concord, NH. Mary Moul divorced him in 1911 on the grounds that he was convicted of a crime and imprisoned. Then in 1916 he married Elizabeth McCardle. I wonder if he was in jail from 1910 to 1915 or 16. I also would love to find a death certificate for him and know where he ended up. Thanks, in advance.
Important Note:
The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.
<br>