No new research today. I’m celebrating a big event with family, and taking a few days off from emails and major blog posts while I do.

“They just don’t name ’em like they used to…”

I’m loath to leave loyal blog readers without some Clark House History to while away the time until our next big CHH post, so I made another word search puzzle.

Your assignment today is to find the vintage Stanstead-area settler first names, all of which are documented from Clark-era sources in and around Stanstead, Lower Canada, circa 1790-1840, and many of which will feature in future posts as we search for JMC’s roots.

As in our previous post, just click the image to open and print your own copies of this version of the puzzle. Or, if you’d like to play online, just click this link: https://thewordsearch.com/puzzle/6173938/stanstead-first-names-c-1790-1840/

Look for the vintage first names in all directions: horizontally, vertically or diagonally, both forwards and backwards. You can solve the online puzzle as many times as you like, and each time you play again, the layout of the puzzle changes. (If you play online, ignore the big orange rectangular button at the bottom of the screen that says “Next→”. It’s just a link to a page of unrelated ads.)

Have fun

Have fun with today’s puzzle and if you enjoyed the challenge, check out Finding JMC’s roots: Word Search. There you’ll find another Clark House puzzle, and you can test your expert level word-finder skills with a look at some important handwritten petition pages from the original (1792) Stanstead “leaders and associates” petition from the Land Petitions of Lower Canada, 1764-1841.

I’m working on a full length post about that petition, complete with full bibliographic details. That should be up sometime later this coming week.

And if you have sent me comments or questions and don’t see them here yet, no worries! I look forward to reading and responding to them—and publishing any of your Leave a Reply comments—after our family festivities are done.

Cheers!

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P. S. Are you stumped by today’s word search? Here’s a link to the solution of the version of the puzzle shown above.