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I have never seen any data concerning on Charles Lavanway and Elizabeth Miller on my side of the border in Canada. I spent about 10 years looking through the church records and notary records for my own ancestor (Antoine Benoit and Rose Pepin) disappeared from Marieville in 1814. After much research, I found they moved to Iberville in 1817, then to Georgia VT in 1829, then to Enosburg VT in 1839. Five of their children cam back to Canada.
Miller could be a translation of the French "Boulanger" and I will try to check my sources.
About 15 years ago when I was trying to locate where the family had gone to in Vermont, I went to be Middlesex Vermont Archives near Montpelier. What I found was a series of index cards that when the archives were set up they had asked all the town clerks send in their vitals. So I collected all the Benoit sounding names that I could find, and what villages or towns they came from. I really saw a lot of name changing, for example Enoch Benway marries Mary Turner on January 14, 1849 in Sheldon VT. The parents are not mentioned on this card and the records no longer exist at Sheldon. Dominique Benoit dit Livernois came back to Dunham Lower Canada in 1850. This was his 1st wife, no children who died 9 years later and her real name is Marie Letourneau. Incidently although Roman Catholics, they married at the closest Baptist church Enosburg.
My suggestion is to try the town clerk records where Charles Lavanway and Elizabeth Miller lived. You may also find some interesting other data as kids being baptized. Or if you can access the Middlesex archives, that would be a possibility. Some areas earlier records are lost, for example in in Georgia Vermont nothing before 1850. And my family left there in 1831!
Your Lavanways were located at Milton for some time, that is only about 6 miles from where my ancestors at Georgia. These were second or third degree cousins.
Definitely a town clerks or the Middlesex archives would be a possible solution.
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