Second Generation

3. Napoleon Bonaparte Trask was born on 28 November 1836 in Swan's Island, Hancock County, Maine, USA. He died on 29 October 1865 in Mt. Sidney, Cape Briton, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was buried in Rose Hill cemetery, Atlantic. A fisherman.

Napoleon Bonaparte Trask and Cynthia A. Remick were married on 23 July 1854 in Swan's Island, Hancock County, Maine, USA. Married by Benjamin F. Stinson. Cynthia A. Remick was born on 3 October 1828 in Swan's Island, Hancock County, Maine, USA. Likely born at Ellsworth. She died on 14 March 1903 in Swan's Island, Hancock County, Maine, USA. She was buried in Rose Hill cemetery, Atlantic. What is the source of taking Napoleon's 2nd wife to be Cynthia A. Remick, daughter of Reuben and Mary Ann Remick? I can't find Cynthia in the 1850 census, where she should show with her pre-Trask surname. Presumably that would be either Remick (your website) or Staples (the Hancock Co. marriage record for Napoleon and Cynthia). Even when I search 1850 for all the Cynthias in the USA of any surname who were born in Maine between 1827 and 1829, I don't find her.

What I do find, by comparing 1850 and 1840 census data for the Reuben Remick family, is that the oldest child is a daughter identified as Cornelia in 1850. She was the same age then as Cynthia. Cynthia in later censuses was always identified as Cynthia A., so Cornelia was not her middle name. Perhaps the census enumerator misunderstood or didn't pay enough attention, and wrote Cornelia in error.

If he did that in error, and if Cynthia/Cornelia Remick married a Staples and became widowed or divorced between late 1851 and 1854, then we have an explanation for why the Hancock Co. marriage record has Napoleon's wife as Cynthia Staples (although it did not say Mrs. Cynthia Staples).

By the way, Reuben Remick and his family are found in Ellsworth in 1830 and 1840, and in Trenton in 1850 and 1860. Thereore, I question whether Cynthia/Cornelia was born on Swan's Island.
David Anderson, Sedgwick Dec 2006

Napoleon Bonaparte Trask-706 and Cynthia A. Remick-708 had the following children:

+17	i.	George Edgar Trask-1860.
+18	ii.	Eugene S. Trask-1266.
+19	iii.	Napoleon B. "Bonnie" Trask-2446.
+20	iv.	John H. Trask-3445.