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From: admin@SEE.MESSAGE.FOR.ADDRESS <admin@SEE.MESSAGE.FOR.ADDRESS>
To: am1@stratos.net <am1@stratos.net>
Date: Thursday, March 09, 2000 3:51 AM
Subject: New SINCLAIR Queries Post
>SINCLAIR Queries
>A new message, "Catherine Sinclair Oregon before 1839," was posted by Laura
>on Thu, 09 Mar 2000
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>Surname: SINCLAIR, ERMATINGER
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>NAME: Laura
>EMAIL: pinkya@gte.net
>DATE: Mar 09 2000
>QRYTEXT: 1858 SINCLAIR, Catherine married ERMATINGER, Edward
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>1825 ERMATINGER, Edward (1797- ): Edward was born in 1797 on the island of
Elba, the s/o Lawrence Edward Ermatinger and an unnamed Italian woman;
educated in England; he and his brother, Francis, (see Francis bio for
additional information) were appointed clerks in the service of the Hudsons
Bay Company in 1818; on July 21, 1825 Edward and his brother left York
Factory for the Columbia district, where both had been appointed to serve as
clerks; Edward became Chief Clerk at Ft. Vancouver; he retired from the fur
trade in 1830 1825 ERMATINGER, Francis (1798-1858): m'd 1858 SINCLAIR,
Catherine; Francis was born in Lisbon, Estre Madura, Portugal in 1798, the
s/o Lawrence Edward Ermatinger and an unnamed Italian woman; he was educated
in England; he and his brother, Edward, were appointed clerks in the service
of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1818; they sailed from Gravesend on May 18
and arrived at York Factory on August 14; on Sep 8, Francis left York
Factory for the Severn distric!
>t, where he was stationed during his first years of service; on July 21,
1825, Francis and his brother left York Factory for the Columbia district,
where they both had been appointed to serve as clerks; described in 1828 by
Governor Simpson as "a stout active boistrous fellow who is a tolerable
Clerk and Trader and qualified to be useful where bustle and activity
without any great exercise of judgment are necessary."; Frances spent almost
40 years in the service of the company, mostly on the Pacific Coast and was
promoted to chief trader in 1841; Francis was elected first treasurer of the
new Provisional Government, a post which he kept until his retirement and
return to Canada; he died in 1858 at St. Thomas, Canada West was buried in
St. Thomas, Parish Cemetery, Ontario, Canada
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