For many years I fruitlessly chased information about this man. He died in Warren County, Pa. in the 1860s. His naturalization papers said that he was born in Canada in 1806. For a long time, we couldn't even place his marriage, but eventually we discovered that he married Rachel Hill in 1831 in Addison County, Vermont. In the marriage license, his name was misspelled Love, a very easy mistake to make. Based on the history of the area, and that he spoke French, we believe that he is descended from the Lord family found just over the border in Blairfindie, an area where French Acadian's settled in the mid/late 1700s after their removal in 1755, between the Vermont border and Montreal.

His middle or first name may have been Benjamin. His children were named (not in birth order) Curtis Benjamin, William Henry, Maria, Tunis, A.D or Adin, Solomon Jehiel, Minerva, Franklin (Francois), Nathaniel, Mary, Marella.

If anyone has any information about Lore/Lord families in this area of Canada around the year 1800, I'd be very grateful for any assistance.

I have done the DNA test on my Lore family and it is available at www.familytreedna.com/public/lore and I'm hoping that perhaps a Lord male will test so we can see if these two families are one and the same. In the early Acadian records I also found it spelled L'Or.

Roberta Estes
restes@comcast.net