Jan 4, 2020, 11:17 AM

  1. Family members in USA and Canada. from 1500’s onward.
  2. Common eight, ten, twelve children. Almost universal.
  3. Common to lose a wife in childbirth and have two.
  4. Birthrate Lasts through civil war, industrial revolution. Then drops to six then to four, then three, now to two or even one.
  5. Almost universally husband and wife 5 years apart.
  6. Very common for english protestant men to marry french protestant then french catholic women. (disagreeableness an obedience)
  7. But very class driven.
  8. Both sides of family start out military. Paternal stays military. As usual, middle ranks.
  9. Prosecution of French proceeded that of Irish.
  10. English tended to be more middle class, french more lower classes.
  11. Both sides of the family originate in normandy, Dolietta’s going to England with the norman conquest, but then to the states, and the french left to Newfoundland, New Brunswick, or the Quebec settlements on the St Laurence river. After the french lose, 1M french move to the states.
  12. Poor French women were ‘russian brides’ of New France (Quebec). I only see one or two of those. All colonies were private entrepreneurial ventures, not state funded until they became strategic. Families were recruited. Men recruited, and when necessary, women (wives) recruited. The farther north the more likely they were to return to europe upon fulfillment of their contract. This is important since we don’t think of mothering and running a household as a career, but a woman’s choice was to be some other house-owning woman’s servant, or to get her own house, and so it was almost always preferable to have your own house, husband, and children to assist in the labor of running a household and farm.
  13. My family’s ‘legendary’ prosecution of the catholics in every way possible is somewhat funny since a lot of the maternal line is french, and a lot of it is clearly catholic, and at least one of my maternal great-x grandmothers was prohibited from practice of her religion upon marriage.
  14. No ‘irish’ until my paternal grandmother’s era, but they were pre-famine colonists, all from the east of Ireland, and it was three or four generations after integration.
  15. The men in my family are all over the middle class – probably because they’ve been literate since at least the 900s – military, reverends, lawyers, craftsmen, businessmen, fewer “ordinary” farmers, but even artists. The english tradition was farming in farm season and craftsmanship in off season, and warfare during the warring (high testosterone) summer months.
  16. All new englanders are inbred. Seriously. Until the Irish and Italians everyone was somehow related. 😉
  17. I love my NE people. they’re political ass clowns. But I love them anyway. And they make good business people and soldiers. They just need a monarchy to keep from virtue signaling themselves to death.