From: "Jane" <jane-benn@rogers.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 09:50:22 -0500

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As I mentioned, the Lakes (in Canada) in my database are not in my direct
line. So while I happened across information on them, I have made no
attempt to pursue it further, or even to verify it. But there certainly
were a number of the them in the area where my family resided.

I have a Charity Amanda Lake, who married my first cousin three times removed,
Adam Huffman Benn.

I found this at
http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1869883&id=I0048

and the submitter's sources and email address are also there.

I have a George Lake, who married my great great grand aunt, Eliza(beth)
Shorey. I got this off a posting on genforum

http://genforum.genealogy.com/shorey/messages/52.html

The Shorey book in question was written by Bobbie Shorey, a lady who lives
in Florida.  Her email address is beshorey@email.msn.com

I have a James P Lake, who married Amy Ann Gordanier (b. cir 1821), a second
cousin three times removed, who would never have even made it into my database
if she did not also have the distinction of being the great grand aunt of
my aunt by marriage. Someone sent me a gedcom, I noticed the unusual name,
and got curious to see if I could connect them up. I do have the name of the
researcher who gave me this information, but he was researching Gordaniers,
not Lakes, and she was an offshoot of his research rather than part of his
wife's direct line of descent.

I also have a Margaret Lake, who married William Madden, my great great
great grand uncle, who was born in 1785. I found some information about
her on Ancestry.com, but am not sure how seriously to take it. Supposedly,
her parents were married in Ernestown in 1781, but a number of the older
children were then born in New York state, although the younger ones show
as in Ernestown, which seems rather suspicious to me.

I did notice there is also some information on Ancestry about Margaret's
brother, James, who appears to have moved to the U.S. around 1833. This
made me think of location names. I have never heard of Tobaro, and don't
know if it ever existed. But some of the names of other locations have
changed.  Ernestown no longer appears on a map (most recently it was a
township surrounding the town of Bath), but people still use the name in
conversation. There is no longer a Camden, but there is a Camden East (go
figure). If you do go after further information, keep my email address and
feel free to check with me. As you can tell by my finding four Lakes married
to relatives with different surnames, I had a lot of relatives in that area.
In fact, it is only about 20 miles from where my mother and brother still
live. If I don't know where a place was, I probably know someone who knows.

Here is a URL for a marriage register for that area from 1788 to early 1813.
A number of Lakes appear in it, and you might find it useful.

http://www.tbaytel.net/bmartin/langhorn.htm

The Napanee museum has a file on the Lake family, as you can see here

http://home.fox.nstn.ca/~museum/geneol.html#L

and the local United Empire Loyalist branch also has some information

http://geocities.com/uelquinte/Ancestors2.html

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