Ancestors of Iain John Carson McCraine from Scotland.

Doucet Family Built by an Acadian family returning to PEI after the Grand Dérangement, or expulsion of the Acadians from the British ruled Maritime colonies, this house has been restored and made a part of the Farmers' Bank of Rustico Museum. Originally built by Jean Doucet at Grand-Père Point (Cymbria) a few miles away, the building was moved to its present site near the former bank and St. Augustine Catholic Church, the oldest Catholic church on PEI, in December of 1999. Dendrochronology performed on the logs of the house indicates it was very likely built between 1768 and 1772. It is certainly the oldest structure in the Rustico area. Rustico itself is the oldest Acadian settlement on the Island, having been resettled by returning Acadians shortly after the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1763. Completing the site are several contemporary items constructed to resemble their eighteenth century counterparts. These include a kitchen garden, a small apple orchard, a smal...

There is a lot of conjecture about the origins of the Melancon (Melanson) family.   However the family were living in a French district of London in 1642, with the name Merazon.   There are many who suggest that his wife was English.   That is not proven, rather it is more probable that she was also French, and that they had some sort of relationship with Major Germaine Doucet.   One of the earliest relatives is Petri Merazon and his wife Priscillae.   He was no doubt a French person,   who lived in London in 1837.    In all likelihood he lived in the Upper Brittany Region in France.   The family name was most likely a derivative of Merazon.   In 1670 Marie Marazin was born in Bourges, and many other family names of similar sounds can be sourced in the Berry region of France. But Petri Merazon also called himself La Verdure.   That has been translated into so many different derivatives.   Petri married a lady by the n...

DNA Matches from John Morrison The DNA which matches so many Acadian French, is from a Scot, named,  John Morrison. John was the son of John Morrison 1702 1740 and his wife Elizabeth Alleson 1707.  John was the brother of James, Dugald, Margaret, Janet and Elizabeth (known). Leaving Scotland Increasing agricultural prosperity, industrial expansion, and British policy forbidding the emigration of skilled artisans all combined to account for the temporary decline of Lowland emigration to North America, while the proverbial if perverse loyalty of Highlanders to the British Crown helps explain their preference for the British colonies, especially after American independence.6 As one Scots settler wrote to his mother in 1783, "It's an impossibility for any loyal subject to remain (or any to return) in the United States for any one that's found in the country is . . . inhumanly dealt with by its ungovernable mobs and encouraged by their rulers". American host...