Hi Donald! Great to hear from you so soon. I think we may have missed the connection by a generation.Let me tell you what I know...
Charles
Hillier(b.1793 in
England) married Mary
Pitman(b.1806 also from
England).
They had 12 children:
Charles-b.1822, moved to
Vancouver, never married
William-b.1825, married widow Jane
Pitman (
Laskey)
HooperCapt.Edward-b.1828, married Eleanor
Forsey & had 10 kids
Ann-b.1830,married Henry
Hickman & had 5 kids (1 survived)
*John-b.1831,married Emma
Pitman in 1860, had 8 kids
Mary-b.1834,married Thomas Maddigan, had 5 kids
Harriet-b.1836,married William
Purchase,had 10 kids
Capt.Isaac-b.1839,married Jane ?, 3 kids, lived in Halifax
Clarissa-b.1845,married John
Hickman,3 kids (1 died young)
Emmanuel-b.1848,married Elizabeth
Hooper,7 kids
Robert-b.1850,married Deborah
Bonnell,8 kids.Died at 33.
*John&Emma had Charles Isaac,Fred William,Mary Margaret, Clarissa,John Robert,Henry,Ellen,&Ann (b.1870) who married William D. "Angus"
MacDuff of Canso, N.S. They had Gerald, Les, Edith(died young),Emma, &Everett (my grandfather).
I know this is a lot but i just want to get things right. We live in Centreville,
Kings Co., Nova Scotia, but still vacation in Canso every summer where Ann and William put down roots.
Thank you for taking the time to help me figure this all out. Hope to hear from you soon Cuz! :) Katie