Had three sons, at least two of which married in Wakefield, MA, providing ample evidence that the family had relocated there; however, no evidence of Reuben can be found in Massachusetts census data or death records. One source says that Reuben died in Nova Scotia relatively young, after which his widow Charlotte came to Massachusetts with her family.
It was around the mid 1800s that, for reasons unknown, all of the Nova Scotia "Dulains" began instead to call themselves "Dulongs."
The transition took some time and seems to have gone back and forth for awhile; The 1871 census has all Dulongs and no Dulains, but in the 1881 census, they're all Dulains again with no Dulongs. By the 1900s, however, the switch to Dulong was permanent.
BIRTH: Birthdate derived from the 1901 census, assuming the year was calculated wrong by a full decade.
It is assumed that Charlotte moved to Massachusetts with family following the death of her husband, where she remarried to David Armand Doucette; later, she and David moved back to Nova Scotia and built a house in Belleville next door to her son, Alexander.
It was around the mid 1800s that, for reasons unknown, all of the Nova Scotia "Dulains" began instead to call themselves "Dulongs."
The transition took some time and seems to have gone back and forth for awhile; The 1871 census has all Dulongs and no Dulains, but in the 1881 census, they're all Dulains again with no Dulongs. By the 1900s, however, the switch to Dulong was permanent.
It was around the mid 1800s that, for reasons unknown, all of the Nova Scotia "Dulains" began instead to call themselves "Dulongs."
The transition took some time and seems to have gone back and forth for awhile; The 1871 census has all Dulongs and no Dulains, but in the 1881 census, they're all Dulains again with no Dulongs. By the 1900s, however, the switch to Dulong was permanent.
BIOGRAPHY: Became a nun in the Halifax Sisters of Charity; took the name Sister Mary Perpetua.
Possibly listed in the 1881 census as "Elene," age 8.