MCCURDY/LEWIS (CANADA - COLCHESTER, ESSEX COUNTY) CONNECTION MADE - ALSO AMBROSE LEWIS (VA-REVOLUTIONARY WAR VET.)CONNECTION MADE.

JAMES LEWIS WAS THE SON OF MY GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER, (WILLIAM) BERRY LEWIS. IN LOOKING FOR MARRIAGE INFORMATION FOR JAMES, AND HIS MARRIAGE TO RACHEL MCCURDY (AT THE TIME BOTH RESIDENTS OF COLCHESTER,ONTARIO, CANADA), MY COUSIN, JANICE LEWIS-BOYD, SENT ME THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

From inGeneas Database, Record ID 381380:

GROOM: James Ambrose LEWIS
Age: 25
Residence: Colchester
Place of Birth: Ohio, US
Status: bachelor; farmer
Parents: Berry Lewis & Lucy Ann Lewis
Religion: Methodist

Bride: Rachel Ann MCCURDY
Age: 18
Residence: Colchester
Place of Birth: Pennsylvania, US
Status: spinster
Parents: William McCurdy & Mary Ann McCurdy
Religion: Methodist

Witnesses & Residence: George Bissell & George W. Wright; both of Colchester.

Married: 18 December 1873, at Colchester Township, Essex County, Ontario, Canada

I ALSO NEEDED CONFIRMATION THAT MY GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER, (WILLIAM) BERRY LEWIS WAS THE SON OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERAN, AMBROSE LEWIS. ONE OF MY ANCESTORS, THE FORMER FAMILY HISTORIAN, STATED THAT ONE OF BERRY'S SONS' MIDDLE NAME WAS BERRY'S FATHER'S FIRST NAME. NOTE: JAMES LEWIS' MIDDLE IS "AMBROSE." THE GAP CLOSES BUT I WOULD LIKE MORE INFORMATION.