Anglican parish in St. Gilles, Quebec
Memory of Ann Later Cameron
Laters in Quebec
Most of what we know about the Later family in Quebec comes from church records of the Anglican parish in St. Gilles, Quebec, where their children’s births were recorded. Nathaniel married Elizabeth Armstrong, the daughter of Scottish immigrants who had arrived in Canada a generation earlier.
According to a note from a family record book kept by her daughter Ann Later Cameron, which was posted to Ancestry by Darcy Later Brieck in 2022, Elizabeth’s parents had eloped to Canada in 1819 because “their love was frowned upon” for class differences by her maternal grandparents.
Nathaniel and Elizabeth had eight children between 1848 and 1864. The fourth in order was George King Later, born November 3, 1854. We will learn how he travelled in the American west and settled as a tradesman in Chicago. Of his siblings, several went on to Ontario and some went to New Hampshire. None that I know of stayed in Quebec.
The family surname has several different spellings in records from the years in Quebec. Sometimes it is Later, but it also appears as Letter and Letters. In following generations, the Later spelling is the one that prevails.
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