Re: Steele & Foster - Donegal to Ontario,Can
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Re: Steele & Foster - Donegal to Ontario,Can
Betty 12/04/02
The Steele-Foster line I am following is my wife's and the Smith connection doesn't factor in. I have no Smith's coming to North America (except my parents).
David Steele & wife Elizabeth Foster came to Canada in about 1834-1835. Other Foster family members followed and many did go to the USA.
Shaver (Schafer, Schaeffer) married into the line when Catherine Shaver married James Fykes, Their daughterr Margaret Ann married William Steele in 1858. The Schaeffers descend from a line in New York State that originally came from Bavaria about 1700.
Does any of this tie in with your research?