Were there any French Canadians with HORNE surname in Fayette County PA (or nearby counties) ca 1700's?

Question

Thomas Horne, born 1774, married Priscilla Shacklette, daughter of John Shacklette, in 1795 in Fayette County PA. She was of French descent and Thomas was said to be a French Canadian. I am trying to trace the parents of Thomas Horne who could have resided near the Shacklette family.

Answer 1

Hey bluegrass2006,

let me see if I can help - Your queston looks like you know some about this already, hope not to duplicate what you already know.

Nothing on Thomas Horne in LDS Family Search. And nothing there on Priscilla either.

I put the moongenes site, but your family names were not on his data base. You might email him by visiting his site. He has good contacts in CA.


Are you talking to people on the GENFORUM? They are a good source and more interested in Horne. From my search on Horne, I see swedish and german web sites nothing french yet.

And, gee, I found your posting on Thomas Horne - good posting. I might not be helping you. I see you have done some homework - so, I will not give you the beginners stuff.

You are a difficult customer to give good info to, because you have been researching already.

Answer 2

Clearly Horne itself isn't a French name. But I'm wondering if he's not a descendent of one of the voyageurs who came down into NY State and the Great Lakes area. My first question is what is the earliest reference to the surname "Horne" that is documented? Were there variations in the spelling?

It's also clearly possible that during the Grand Derangement (1840-50s), there were many Acadians taken down into the American colonies and they intermarried with English-speaking people. So one parent may have been English, the other French and from Canada (though not technically "French-Canadian").

There are no immigration records to help, but if they were French/French-Canadians, then the first ancestors had to be baptized Catholics in order to emigrate. If that's the case, then once you crack the name "thing" you can probably find much of what you need in the Loiselle Marriage Index or PRDH (see the University of Montreal website for online access).

Answer 3

try ancestry.com