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 Cullen Family History and Genealogy Near the Cullen homestead – the East Templeton railway station c1900 Qahn An Enduring Melding of CulturesOur colourful ancestry is a melding of three cultures: the industrious Irish Cullens and McClements of the 1800s near Bytown; the enterprising Scottish Turners in 1780s Fredericton; and our resourceful and creative French Canadian Lapointe and Joanis ancestors of the 1600s and 1700s who contributed to the growth of New France and Quebec. The principal surnames are Cullen, McClements, Turner and Joanis (Joanisse) with secondary surnames Carroll, Power, Powers, Cassidy, Audet, Lapointe, Depoca, Quévillon, Maisonneuve and Maheu. Other ancestral surnames by marriage are: Morse, Mårs, Johnson, Doré, Doray and Berry. Mark Cullen has published three books on his family history: The Cullens of Templeton: A Two Hundred Year Journey (2011); and A Melding of Cultures – Ancestors of George Turner and Bernadette Joanis Volume 1 subtitled Our Turners: Canadian Transportation Pioneers (2013) and Volume 2 subtitled Our Lapointe and Joanis Families: Four Hundred Years of French Canadian Heritage (2018) Family tree data can be accessed via the Search boxes on each page. Selected ancestor biographical sketches from Mark Cullen's books can be viewed via links under the Feature Articles column on this page. Other biographical book excerpts can be viewed by clicking on Histories in the left column. Genealogists are granted permission to use any data and information in book excerpts, provided specific attribution is made to Mark Cullen, this website, and, if appropriate, the relevant book.
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