| Join in the 30th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS
of the QUEBEC FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY
At ROOTS 2007
THIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH
WILL BE HELD AT MONTREAL'S
McGILL
UNIVERSITY IN JUNE 2007
ALL EVENTS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
ALL LECTURES ARE IN ENGLISH
Any update to details, including dates, times, a list of speakers and topics,
and events will be published
in future issues of Connections
and on the QFHS webpage
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Dr. Luc Lépine
Mr Lépine received his Ph.D. form the Université du Québec à Montréal in 2005.
His thesis was on The militia district of Montreal. He studied four battalion of Militia: two urban,
the Montreal British Militia and the Deuxième bataillon de Milice de Montréal, and two rural, the
English speaking Argenteuil battalion and the French speaking Vaudreuil battalion.
After two years of study at Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. He completed his
B.A. honours at Concordia University in 1982. He received his M.A. History from the
Université de Montréal in 1987.
From 1989 to 1998, Luc Lépine was a reference archivist at the Archives Nationales du
Québec à Montréal than located on Mullins street In Pointe-Saint-Charles. He was able to
develop a strong expertise on genealogy and research in military related archives.
Since 1998, he works for the ministry of Education of Québec. He is currently in charge
of the application of the history and geography programs in the elementary and high school
of the English school sector of the province. He is also a part-time instructor for the Royal
Military College giving courses on Canadian military history aand also a course on the Impact
of military technology.
He published many articles on the seven year war and the war of 1812 in Canadian Defence
Quarterly, Canadian Legion, Conections, the Les Mémoires de la Société généalogique
canadienne-française, la revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française et Cap-aux-Diamants.
In 2003, he published an article on the impart of the DIT NAMES of the French soldiers
on the names we find in Québec today. In 1996 he published a book
on LowerCanada’s Militia Officers 1812-1815. This book contains more
than 2500 biographies of officers.
He is working on the PROJET MONTCALM of the Société généalogique canadienne-française
which will identify more than 7,000 soldiers and officers who fought in New France from
April 1755 to December 1760. He will write the chapter on the history of the period and the
role of those soldiers who fought and often died for the mother country. The book from the
PROJET MONTCALM will be published in October 2008.
Mr Lépine is frequent speaker in the genealogy and military history circles. He attend the Roots
convention in 1992, 1997 and 2002. In 2006, he presented a conference at the Univisersity of
Winnipeg and in 2000 he spoke on the War of 1812 in Lower-Canada at United State Naval
Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
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John D Reid
A native of Norfolk, England, he worked for many years as researcher, manager and policy analyst in the
atmospheric sciences, in which he has a PhD. He started researching his family history, all in the UK
with a branch going back to Amsterdam, twelve years ago. Since 1999 he has served as Director
of the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa, including two years as President
during which time the Society expanded membership by 15% to exceed 500. A member of the
Society of Genealogists (UK), author of "Researching Canada's Home Children", editor
of a local history "The Ottawa Sharpshooters", he has also given courses in researching
England and Welsh family history. He has authored articles, many with a technology angle,
in Family Tree Magazine (UK), Your Family Tree (UK), Family Chronicle (Canada) and
Anglo-Celtic Roots (Canada). As a member of the City of Ottawa Arts, Heritage and
Culture Advisory Committee he works to ensure recognition of local heritage.
He blogs on family history at www.anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.com
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Pepper Mintz
Creative Memories Director Pepper Mintz, based in Ottawa, has over 14 years experience in helping people
find solution to photo organization, photo preservation and the display of photos and stories.
She provides solutions to get your photos out of boxes, drawers and this century's electronic shoebox,
the computer hard drive and into photo-safe albums. Her goal is to help you tell your personal stories
and to celebrate both the special and everyday moments in your life and the life of your family.
Will your descendants be searching for their roots ?
A Retired Air Force Lieutenant-Colonel, Pepper Mintz leads now a team of over 170 Creative
Memories consultants across Canada. She has been recognized as one of the top
Creative Memories leaders in Canada.
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Glenn Wright
Glenn Wright has been actively involved in family history research for over 20 years
and has given presentations on Canadian military records at Ontario Genealogical
Society seminars and branch meetings, at meetings of the British Isles Family History
Society of Greater Ottawa, and local historical societies. Glenn was born and educated
in Toronto and was employed as an archivist and historian in the federal government for over
30 years at Library and Archives Canada, the Department of National Defence and at the RCMP.
He has published several articles on military records for genealogy and family history and in
1987, he co-authored with Desmond Morton. Winning the Second Battle: Canadian Veterans and the Return to
Civilian Life,
1915-1930. Glenn retired from the public service in January 2006 and now has more time to devote
to his own family history and to assist others with their research, especially with military records.
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Stephen Moore
Born:
Magog, Quebec (7th generation Townshipper)
Attended:
Sherbrooke High School
Ryerson Polytechnical University - Bachelor of Technology Business Management
Bishop's University - Bachelor of Arts History [Roderick Thayer Memorial
Prize in History], Master of Arts History [MA Thesis - T.B. Rider and the
Rider Family of Fitch Bay, 1850-1960: Enterprise and Enterpreneurship in a
Rural Quebec Village], Bachelor of Arts Geography
Served: '
Toronto Scottish Regiment
East York Jaycees
Townshippers Association, Board of Directors
Georgeville Historical Society, Board of Directors (1992-1998), President
(1998-Present)
Co-Produced:
An exhibition at Bishop's University/Champlain College Art Gallery,
entitled "The Eastern Townships: A Pictorial History", 1980
Released/Contributed:
A Bibliography of Genealogical Source Material Available at Bishop's
University, 1983, Revised in 1985 and 1993
Two articles and a book review to the Journal of Eastern Townships Studies
Conducted:
A number of private research projects for foundations, authors, academics
and journalists, as well as private individuals
Since 1983, employed part-time as a genealogist/historical researcher,
initially for the Eastern Townships Research Centre, and more recently, on
a freelance basis
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Lorraine Gosselin
Lorraine Gosselin is a former Director, Information Systems, with Canada's largest telecom company.
She returned to University upon her retirement and graduated from Concordia in 1997 with a BA Honours
in English and Creative Writing and a minor in Quebec history.
She is an amateur genealogist, and is a member of the Quebec Family History Society's Board and writes the
PC/Internet column for Connections, the Society's journal.
She has given seminars in English and French on library use, Internet research on such subjects as health,
writers' tools, gardening and, of course, genealogy. She has held a series of workshops at the QFHS
on Writing Your Family History and on Family Tree Maker software. Lectures were given at the
University Women's Club of Montreal, W.A.R.M. writers association, the Beaconsfield Library,
Beth Ora seniors club, Montreal Children's hospital, and a health conference in Kingston.
She was one of the speakers at the QFHS' Roots 2002 International Conference at McGill University in Montreal.
She has also given an interview on Irish research on Radio Ville-Marie. She was guest lecturer at several
genealogical societies such as the Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal, la Societe de genealogie canadienne
francaise, and la Societe de genealogie de la Jemmerais.
Her articles are published not only in Connections, but have appeared in the Loyalist Gazette,
W.A.R.M.'s newsletter, and as a regular feature in the Allergy/Asthma Information Association's newsletter.
Her other interests include the Allergy/Asthma Information Association (AAIA). She has been a member
of the AAIA for more than 15 years and has represented Quebec on the National Board since 1997.
She is currently the AAIA's Vice-Chair Development, serves on the Publications Committee,
and provides management advice and technical assistance to the Association. She writes the
English and French Internet columns for Allergy and Asthma News, distributed across Canada,
and has given conferences on health and the Internet at AAIA meetings. She participated in the
writing and editing of the AAIA Asthma and Anaphylaxis Kits and helps to edit their French publications.
She also serves on the board of the AIJPF (a journalists' association)
Her ancestors were French, Irish, Scots, and Palatine German.
She has been interested in genealogy since she was a teenager when her father inherited the
family tree prepared for his uncle, MP Louis Gosselin, by lawyer Joseph Drouin.
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Sharon Callaghan
Sharon Callaghan is a writer who recently completed her second book, both of which pertain
to Irish Montrealers of the 1800s. Articles of hers have appeared in journals and newsletters of
genealogy societies in three provinces and a writers' association. Following a previous career in the
Canadian Forces, she went on to complete a BA in sociology, with a minor in anthropology. She is an
avid researcher, for both her writing and the long-time pursuit of her ancestors. Her family roots are
mostly Irish, but also include German, British and French. The last accounts for her earliest
Canadian line, dating back to 1700s Montreal. This ancestral background and a deep interest in
history have served as an inspiration for her writing. She is also currently working on the
cataloguing of hundreds of files of the Norma Lee Collection. Most of these files, donated to the
Quebec Family History Society, are relevant to Quebec City research
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Denyse Beaugrand-Champagne Reference Archivist at Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
Denyse Beaugrand-Champagne, is a graduate student in History and was for several years
member of the research group of the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Amongst her
responsabilities, she researched the family history of all the Montreal landlords and tenants
of the 17th and 18th centuries. She has published many articles on different historical and
genealogical subjects including her in-depth research brought to light the origins, in Alsace,
of different protestant families believed until then to be Catholic and Acadian from Prince
Edward Island which won her the Percy.W.Foy Award in 2004. As an historian she has
worked on several historical movies and television series like the award winning series
'Canada, a popular history". She has also worked on the Great Peace Treaty of 1701 ; the
French attack against Deerfield, Massachusetts, in 1704; and the Canadian Rebellions of
1837-1838. She has done extensive research in notarial records and especially in the
court records of New France.
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Normand Charbonneau
Normand Charbonneau has been with the Archives nationales du Quebec
since 1990 and assumed several professional responsibilities prior to his nomination
as director of the archives centre in Quebec City in April 2002. In February 2006,
Mr Charbonneau was named director of the Montreal Centre and of the Private,
Court and Civil Records of Bibliotheque et Archives nationales du Quebec (BAnQ).
Amongst his current responsabilities is the coordination of the genealogical services
offered by BAnQ. Involved in his profession, for many years he taught archival studies
at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal and at Laval University. He has also contributed
to various specialized journals and has given several lectures on his favourite subject,
photographic archives.
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Dr. Daphne Phillips Daifas
A native Montrealer with a multicultural background, Daphne's passion for genealogy
began at the age of seven when she was allowed to hold the sword of an eighteenth-century ancestor.
Since then, Daphne has acquired over twenty five years experience researching family
history in several countries. When she is not avidly pursuing genealogical research, Daphne
lectures at McGill University in the Departments of Food Science & Agricultural Chemistry,
and Natural Resource^Sciences. She is thrilled to be able to participate in Roots.
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Dr. Lucille H. Campey
Lucille Campey is a Canadian researcher who has been studying Scottish emigration to Canada for fifteen years.
It was her interest in her father's Scottish roots in Picou, Nova Scotia which first led her to study the subject.
Having been awarded a doctorate by the University of Aberdeen in 1998 Lucille went on to write several books
about Canada's Scottish pioneers. Les Ecossais — The Pioneer Scots of Lower Canada, 1763-1855 was
published last year while her latest book, With Axe and Bible – The Scottish Pioneers of New Brunswick,
1784-1874 will be produced in 2007. Commenting on Lucille's books in the International Review of Scottish Studies
Elizabeth Ritchie states: "Campey's volumes are an invaluable resource for the historian or genealogist.
They are accessible,
with many illustrations and useful maps." Lucille is currently working on her eighth book which will
provide an overall
account of Scottish emigration to Canada. She lives near Salisbury, England with her husband Geoff.
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Robert Dunn
Bob’s interest in genealogy began when he discovered a birth certificate belonging to his great
grandfather amongst his father’s
personal items following his father’s death. This single piece of paper led him to the Quebec Family
History Society (QFHS) to
learn more of his family and relatives. Bob became an active volunteer member from the onset. He now
manages the
QFHS bookstore, represents the QFHS at genealogical conferences, has written or co-authored several
church repertoires
and is involved in cross checking BMD indices against church records. Bob is also part of the team
working to make all
QFHS databases available to members (free) and non-members (on a pay per view basis) on the QFHS website.
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Louise J. St Denis
Lectured extensively throughout Canada and the United States including as Keynote Speaker.
Evaluation forms usually contain remarks such as 'enthusiastic speaker', 'interesting to listen to',
'knows her topic', etc. Most frequently, referrals for future speaking engagements come from
those attending a previous lecture. Frequent guest on 'Talk Radio' shows as well as television programs.
As Managing Director of the National Institute for Genealogical Studies, I've presented lectures for the
University of Toronto as well as Online lectures. Here are just a few societies and organizations where
I've lectured: S Annual Provincial Conferences for the Alberta, BC, Manitoba & Ontario Genealogical
Societies S Annual State Conferences for the Ohio and the Washington Genealogical Societies S
Annual Conferences for the Ontario and Canadian Librarian's Association , * APG Pre-Conference
at FGS Davenport, Iowa, APG/FGS Conferences in Orlando, Florida S Other groups: Jewish International
Conference, United Empire Loyalists, Women's Economic Forum, Societe franco-ontarienne d'histoire et
de genealogie, and many public and private libraries, historical societies, genealogical organizations
and social clubs.
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Stanley M. Diamond
Born 1933, Montreal, Canada. Education: McGill University, Montreal (B. Commerce '54),
Harvard (MBA '58). Founder and Chairman, Intalite International Group of Companies,
1960 -1986. Winner of 1984 Canada Export Award.
Lecturer, author and subject of articles on entrepreneurial activity and international marketing. One
subject in "The New Entrepreneurs - 80 Canadian Success Stories", Alan Gould, Author; Seal
Books, Canada. Author of "A Jewish Genealogist's Wish List" [Avotaynu, The International
Review of Jewish Genealogy Spring 2003]; "The 1915-1932 Canadian Naturalization Index"
[Avotyanu, Fall 2002]; "Indexing the Jewish Vital Records of Quebec 1841-1942" [Avotaynu,
Summer 2002]; Documenting the Fate of the Jews of Ostrow Mazowiecka" [Avotyanu, Fall 2001];
"Shtetl-Based Jewish Genealogical Research" [Avotyanu, Spring 1998]; "Jewish yital Records
Research in Quebec" [Shem Tov, Journal of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Canada (Toronto)
June 1998];.
Active family historian (15 years); founder and president, Jewish Genealogical Society of
Montreal . Genealogist member of genetic research project team
with McGill University - Montreal Children's Hospital and Hebrew University-Hadassah
Hospital, Jerusalem; research related to Beta-Thalassemia genetic trait in Ashkenazi Jewish
families . Co-author of "Probable Identity by Descent and
Discovery of Familial Relationships by Means of a Rare B-Thalassemia Haplotype"
[Human Mutation, Volume 9, No. 1, 1997]. Executive Director, Jewish Records Indexing - Poland,
an award winning international project to create an Internet-searchable index of all surviving Jewish
vital records of Poland . Author of many articles on genealogical research.
Awarded the IAJGS (International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies) Lifetime
Achievement Award in 2002. Featured in an episode of a documentary series on Canadian television.
(''Past Lives" A Global Television Signature Series)..
Married to the former Ruth Mirjam Peerlkamp of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; three daughters and four
grandchildren.
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Dr Lisa Dillon
Lisa Dillon obtained her Ph.D. in History at the University of Minnesota in 1997 and is
now an assistant professor at the Departement de Demographie, Universite de Montreal.
The recipient of grants from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, the Social Sciences
and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Fonds quebecois de la recherche
sur la societe et la culture, Dillon supervises several projects to create, refine and use
nineteenth-century Canadian census microdata. Dillon also teaches courses in the
history of trans-Atlantic populations, historical demographic methods and population
politics. Dillon's research focuses on intergenerational relations, life course transitions,
concepts of age and population discourse in eighteen- and nineteenth-century Quebec,
Canada and the United States. Her forthcoming book, The Construction and Experience
of Old Age in Canada and the United States, 1870-1901, will be published by
McGill-Queen's University Press next year.
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Dr. Bertrand Desjardins
Bertrand Desjardins holds a Ph.D. in Demography from the University Lumiere-Lyon 2
and is the author of numerous scientific publications centered on the study of the Canadian
and Quebec populations. He has been associated all his professional life with the «Research
Program in Historical Demography)) (PRDH), a major project at the Universite de Montreal
aiming at setting up a data base of the entire French-Canadian population of Quebec from its
beginnings in 1608; this data base generates in-depth information allowing studies in the
fields of Demography, History, Anthropology, Population Genetics, etc. In collaboration
with the computer specialists of the project, he defined the methods leading to the
construction of the data base and its dissemination to both researchers and the general
public. In particular, he masterminded the highly considered internet site of the PRDH
which makes its genealogical information available on line. His personal research
interests focus on human longevity and on the demographic factors behind the genetic
composition of today's Quebec French speaking population
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Jacques Gagne
Jacques Gagne has been a volunteer genealogical researcher at the
Quebec Family History Society for the past four years handling a wide
variety of genealogical cases. He has conducted in depth research over
the past two years on the missing Protestant Church Registers for what
is now the province of Quebec for the years 1759-1899. This research
would turn out to be much more extensive than first expected with more
than one thousand churches involved. He is the father of Michelle living
in British Columbia and the father of Marc living in Pennsylvania with 4
grandchildren. He spent over 35 years working in the Recording Industry
of Canada in a wide variety of positions from management, sales, marketing,
merchandising,-to promotion. Along the way he rubbed shoulders with
various recording artists from Janis Joplin to Andy Williams
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Francois Lafreniere
Francois Lafreniere made his first genealogical research trip to France in 1982.
Since then he has made ten research trips to France visiting 25 " Departement"
archive centers, 10 Town Halls, the Archives Nationales de France and the Caran
Center both located on Paris. He has collected data on many of his French ancestors
including some for the " Fichier Origine " a project of the Societe Genealogique
Canadienne Francaise that collects data on Quebec and Acadian European pioneers.
He is a Vice President of the Richelieu River watershed committee (Covabar) for
some years. He is in charge of the genealogical aspects of a soon to be twinning
with the watershed committee of the Charente River (between La Rochelle and
Bordeaux) where Samuel de Champlain was born. In February 2006 he gave a
speech in Saintes on the genealogical ties existing between that area and New
France and Acadia. Since then much data has been exchanged including
information on the descendants of the military And Seignioral Lemoyne family.
First elected in 1977 to the Board of Directors of the Societe D'Histoire de La
Vallee du Richelieu founded in 1952, he became the President in June of 2006
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Denis Beauregard
Denis Beauregard .....
Denis Beauregard was struck by the genealogy virus in 1980. He focused on his own family for years,
visiting court houses and libraries in the Montreal area. His first message on the Internet
was sent in 1991 and he started a lot of projects since that time, most of them related to
the French-speaking Internet. He created the first newsgroup in French in 1993, the first
genealogy web site in French in 1995 (now Francogene.com), the CanadaGenweb and QuebecGenweb projects,
the Drouin Institute web site. From 1996, he specialized in tracking overseas records,
mostly in France, publishing in 1998 a complement to the dictionary of René Jetté with
more recent French findings. Since 2002, he is working on a database covering all the
former French colonies of the continent, from Acadia to Louisiana, starting from the early years,
and including foreign ancestors up to medieval times. This database is now available on
his web site (to 1720) and on a CD-ROM (to 1765), and it includes an index by French
départements so that French genealogists can find more records.
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Dr Robert Watts
Cartographer
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Dr. Christopher Milligan
Dr. Christopher Milligan is an associate professor in the Department of Integrated
Studies in Education, in McGill University's Faculty of Education
They have been colleagues in the development of the McGill Remembers project utilizing
McGill's War Record Office collection as well the Lost Schools of English Montreal endeavor.
The McGill Remembers project was featured in Higher Learning in 2005 and the Montreal
Gazette in 2006. CBC Radio also did a report on their work in 2006.
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Wes Cross
Wes Cross, is an administrator in the Office of the Dean of Students.
They have been colleagues in the development of the McGill Remembers project utilizing
McGill's War Record Office collection as well the Lost Schools of English Montreal endeavor.
The McGill Remembers project was featured in Higher Learning in 2005 and the Montreal
Gazette in 2006. CBC Radio also did a report on their work in 2006.
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Derek C. Hopkins eng.
Is Vice President of QFHS (Quebec Family History Society)and Projects Coordinator.
He is a member of BIFHSGO (British Isles Family
He has been interested in Genalogy for twenty years following an Aunt sending a Hand written Family
tree to his Father.
Since greatly expanded. and now goes back to 1680 in Dorset England.
He is a Retired Software Quality Assurance Engineer and worked for Pratt and Whitney of Canada.
Now for the last ten years he is deeply involved with computers including several DataBases and
Internet Web sites. for QFHS,
FreeBMD (england and wales BMD indexes) and Abney part Cemetary index of Graves.
History Society of Greater Ottawa), SOG (Society of Genealogists, based in London England)
and is a member of OIQ (Order of Enineers of Quebec)
Derek has co-authored several church repertoires
and is involved in the indexing project for BMD's from church records as coordinator.
Derek is also part of the team working to make all
QFHS databases available to members (free) and non-members (on a pay per view basis) on the QFHS website.
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Gary Schroder
Gary Schroder has been the President of the Quebec Family History Society since 1995.
He was the Chairman of Roots 1997 and Roots 2002 the International Conferences on
Family History held at McGill University in Montreal. He will be the Chairman of Roots 2007.
He has taught family history courses at McGill University and during the past two
decades has given numerous lectures and seminars at various historical and
genealogical societies across North America from New Hampshire to Victoria,
British Columbia. He was a Speaker at the 2001 International Conference on
Irish Family History held at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.
He is the editor of various published works including Christ Church, Montreal,
Marriages 1760-1854. He has been a frequent guest on Canadian radio and
television answering a wide variety of genealogical questions and promoting
the educational value of family history research. His primary research interests
are Canada, England, Ireland, and the United States. His first known ancestor
to set foot in Canada was his great great great grandfather Cornelius Flynn who
arrived in the port of Quebec City in 1805. Cornelius Flynn 1787-1861 served in
the Royal Navy for over twenty years and was wounded aboard HMS Agamemnon
during the Battle of Trafalgar.
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