I did a preliminary search of the web on the Rhéaume family and found this excellent website devoted to this early French Canadian family.
http://blog.stickyrice.net/rheaume/
This particular line diverges quickly from the line that I am working on but is an interesting discussion on the early history of the Rhéaume family.
Céline Rhéaume married Félix Lanoie 24 Jul 1878 at Cyrville (now part of Ottawa), ON. Their marriage lines give the parents of Céline as Isidore Rhéaume and Adèle St Amour. The date of birth for Céline of 26 Aug 1856 at Saint André Allevin I have from the census and the death registration. I need to find her baptism.
Isidore Rhéaume and Adèle St Amour were married 1 Jan 1850 at St Eustache, Deux Montagnes according to published accounts. I have yet to find this marriage and I spent some time today going through the St Eustache parish registers in 1849 - 1851. I also looked at St André, St André Avellin in the same time period. Perhaps presumptive of me to think I might find it when others have been unable to do so but more and more material is coming on line at the pay and the free sites.
I decided to look at the collateral lines and the sister of Adèle, Elisabeth, married Félix Boivin 7 Jan 1852 at St André Avellin. Elisabeth was about six years older than Adèle. If Adèle married in 1850 she was only 18 years old. Although this was productive in showing the same parentage, it did not lead to finding the marriage I was seeking.
A baptism of Isidore Rhéaume took place 24 Aug 1826 at St Eustache (Deux Montagnes).
Le vingt quatre Aout mil huitieme vingt six ___ nous
curé sossigné a été baptisé Isidore née hier, du Légitime mariage
de Charles Réaume journalier et de Marie Amarendgher
de cette paroisse parain Joseph Guilbau, marain Evran
ne Mousel qu'ons deéclaré ni savoir signer
L Paquin
A second Isidore Rhéaume was baptized at Ste Scholastique 15 Aug 1825
Isidore Réaume née hier to Charles Réaume
cultivateur de la Paroisse et l'Archange Lapierre
légitimé mariés, présente par son père et ___
les _____Baptismaux par Antoine Pervoyaux et Ursule
Stomalin qui ____ ont déclaré ne savoir signer a été baptisé
par Vous Pretre soussigné ce quize Aout mil huit cent vint cinq
P G de la Mollee Petre
Is one of these the correct Isidore Rhéaume? The census show him to be born consistently earlier in the 1820s - closer to 1822. His burial indicates a birth date in the range of 1822 but neither of these sources can be used to accurately say that he was born in 1822. Which one? Both are descendant of the same emigrant ancestor.
Next step is to look at all the children's baptisms to see if there is any usage of siblings' names.
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Sunday, May 8, 2011
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Watier dit Lanoie family
Another brickwall that took some time to work my way through was the Lanoie family who were living near Sturgeon Falls ON in Calvin near Bonfield in Nippissing County from the 1880s on into the 1900s. Mary Dora Lanoie was born 22 Feb 1891 on Lot 11, Concession 1 Calvin, Bonville, Nippissing, Ontario and baptized 15 Mar 1891 at Mattawa Ontario. Dora was the daughter of Félix Lanoie and Céline Rhéaume.
B 29 Mary Dora Lanoie
Le quinze Mars mil huit cent quatre vingt
onze nous pretre soussigné avons baptisé Mary
Dora née le vingt deux fevrier du légitime
mariage de Félix Lanoie et de Céline
Réaume Parrain Gervias Doyle marrain
Lidea Emard qui n'ont pu signer
L Guimet OMJ
In the margin at a later date and in a different hand is written: a épousé Téléspore Lauzon le 23 Mai 1910 a Sturgeon Falls. O François Payette OMJ.
What a simply wonderful clarification. Working my way back, I did find the marriage of Félix Lanoie and Céline Rhéaume 24 Jul 1878 at Cyrville (near Ottawa), Ontario.
M4
Le vingt quatre juillet mil huit cent soixante
dixhuit, dispense les trois Bans de mariage
ayant été ______ par Sr ______ Joseph
Thomas Duhamel, éveque d'Ottawa a
Félix Lanoie domicilié en cette paroisse
fils majeur de défunt Jacques Lanoie in
son vivant cultivateur et d'Emélie Boileau
de la paroisse de St André Avellin d'un part
et a Célina Rhéaume fille majeur d'Isi
dore Rhéaume journalier et d'Adèle
St Amour du cette paroisse d'autre part,
ni s'étant découvert au _____
________ mariage, nous
pretre soussigné ____ de cette paroisse
avons reçe leur mutuel consentement
et lui avons donné la bénédiction
nuptiale en présence d'Isidore Rhéaume
_____ l'épouse, les quels _______
__ savoir signer. L'épouse _____
Célina Rhéaume (signed)
L Lévesque P[re]tre
The marriage registration takes us back to the parents of Félix Lanoie; namely Jacques Lanoie and Emélie Boileau. Finding this marriage proved to be a real challenge. I simply never found a Jacques Lanoie so I started searching online to see if anyone else was researching this family. I discovered that the name had been used as Wathier dit Lanoie and that one side of the family used Lanoie and the other Wathier. With that knowledge I began searching once again and found the marriage of Jacques Wathier and Emélie Boileau 9 Jan 1832 at St Michel, Vaudreuil. Jacques Wathier was born 31 Oct 1808 at Vaudreuil and he was buried 3 August 1866 at St André Avellin. Certainly the right location for Félix Lanoie who was said to be of St André Avellin on the marriage registration with Céline Rhéaume.
Le neuf javier, mil huit cent trente deux
après la publication de trois Bans de mariage fai
te au prone de la messe paroissiale par deux di
manches et une faite ________, entre Jacques
Wathier, cultivateur en cette paroisse, fils
majeur Antoine Wathier, donat___ et de Josephte
Dubois ses père et mère aussi de cette paroisse d'un
part et Emélie Boileau, fille mineure de Pierre
Boileau, bordoleur en cette paroisse et de défunte
Catherine Bénard, ses père et mère, d'autre part.
ni l'étant découvert aucun empechement au
mariage avec ______des parents, nous pre
tre soussigné Cure, nous reçu le mutuel consente
ment des partis, et leur avons donné la bénédic
tion nuptiale en présence d'Antoine Wathier,
père de l'époux, d'Antoine Wathier, de Gré
goire Wathier, ses frères de Josephte Wathier,
de Marguerite Wathier de Reine Wathier
de Sophie Wathier de Marcelle Wathier,
ses Soeurs, d'Ignace Ti___aud, de Jean Baptiste
Gavant, de François Ten___, et de Jerome
Goulet, ses beau ___, d'André Dubois, son
oncle, et de Michel Pilon son te____, de
Pierre Boileau, père de l'épouse de Pierre Boileau, de
Louis Boileau, et de Hyacinthe Boileau ses frères,
de _ed__ Décair son beau frère de Joseph Pigeon
d'Hyacinthe Ménard et de Jean Bénard ses oncles,
de Felicite Pigeon, Angelique Ménard de Jean
Baptiste Ranger et de Mathias Normand, ses
_______qui _____ ont déclare n l'avons signer
P _ Archambeaut __
Wonderful information (and I will work on the transcription) to help place these two young people in their correct families.
The marriage of Antoine Wathier and Marie Josephte Dubois took place 17 Oct 1796 at Vaudreuil. Their marriages lines will take longer to transcribe as the page is somewhat blurry but I am able to extract the names of Antoine's parents Thomas Watier and Marie Josephte Lalonde. Searching for their marriage in Tanguay it was 17 Feb 1749 at Bout de l'ile (Montréal). Thomas was born in France and was a Royal Notary the son of Thomas Watier and Jeanne Agnier.
Thomas Watier is the emigrant and thus Generation 1.
Antoine Watier married to Marie Josephte Dubois is Generation 2.
Jacques Wathier dit Lanoie married to Emélie Boileau is Generation 3.
Félix Lanoie married to Céline Rhéaume is Generation 4.
Mary Dora Lanoie is Generation 5 (married to Joseph Télésphore Augustin Lauzon)
I would like to know about Thomas Watier to include in this family history so will pursue that information on the next research day.
B 29 Mary Dora Lanoie
Le quinze Mars mil huit cent quatre vingt
onze nous pretre soussigné avons baptisé Mary
Dora née le vingt deux fevrier du légitime
mariage de Félix Lanoie et de Céline
Réaume Parrain Gervias Doyle marrain
Lidea Emard qui n'ont pu signer
L Guimet OMJ
In the margin at a later date and in a different hand is written: a épousé Téléspore Lauzon le 23 Mai 1910 a Sturgeon Falls. O François Payette OMJ.
What a simply wonderful clarification. Working my way back, I did find the marriage of Félix Lanoie and Céline Rhéaume 24 Jul 1878 at Cyrville (near Ottawa), Ontario.
M4
Le vingt quatre juillet mil huit cent soixante
dixhuit, dispense les trois Bans de mariage
ayant été ______ par Sr ______ Joseph
Thomas Duhamel, éveque d'Ottawa a
Félix Lanoie domicilié en cette paroisse
fils majeur de défunt Jacques Lanoie in
son vivant cultivateur et d'Emélie Boileau
de la paroisse de St André Avellin d'un part
et a Célina Rhéaume fille majeur d'Isi
dore Rhéaume journalier et d'Adèle
St Amour du cette paroisse d'autre part,
ni s'étant découvert au _____
________ mariage, nous
pretre soussigné ____ de cette paroisse
avons reçe leur mutuel consentement
et lui avons donné la bénédiction
nuptiale en présence d'Isidore Rhéaume
_____ l'épouse, les quels _______
__ savoir signer. L'épouse _____
Célina Rhéaume (signed)
L Lévesque P[re]tre
The marriage registration takes us back to the parents of Félix Lanoie; namely Jacques Lanoie and Emélie Boileau. Finding this marriage proved to be a real challenge. I simply never found a Jacques Lanoie so I started searching online to see if anyone else was researching this family. I discovered that the name had been used as Wathier dit Lanoie and that one side of the family used Lanoie and the other Wathier. With that knowledge I began searching once again and found the marriage of Jacques Wathier and Emélie Boileau 9 Jan 1832 at St Michel, Vaudreuil. Jacques Wathier was born 31 Oct 1808 at Vaudreuil and he was buried 3 August 1866 at St André Avellin. Certainly the right location for Félix Lanoie who was said to be of St André Avellin on the marriage registration with Céline Rhéaume.
Le neuf javier, mil huit cent trente deux
après la publication de trois Bans de mariage fai
te au prone de la messe paroissiale par deux di
manches et une faite ________, entre Jacques
Wathier, cultivateur en cette paroisse, fils
majeur Antoine Wathier, donat___ et de Josephte
Dubois ses père et mère aussi de cette paroisse d'un
part et Emélie Boileau, fille mineure de Pierre
Boileau, bordoleur en cette paroisse et de défunte
Catherine Bénard, ses père et mère, d'autre part.
ni l'étant découvert aucun empechement au
mariage avec ______des parents, nous pre
tre soussigné Cure, nous reçu le mutuel consente
ment des partis, et leur avons donné la bénédic
tion nuptiale en présence d'Antoine Wathier,
père de l'époux, d'Antoine Wathier, de Gré
goire Wathier, ses frères de Josephte Wathier,
de Marguerite Wathier de Reine Wathier
de Sophie Wathier de Marcelle Wathier,
ses Soeurs, d'Ignace Ti___aud, de Jean Baptiste
Gavant, de François Ten___, et de Jerome
Goulet, ses beau ___, d'André Dubois, son
oncle, et de Michel Pilon son te____, de
Pierre Boileau, père de l'épouse de Pierre Boileau, de
Louis Boileau, et de Hyacinthe Boileau ses frères,
de _ed__ Décair son beau frère de Joseph Pigeon
d'Hyacinthe Ménard et de Jean Bénard ses oncles,
de Felicite Pigeon, Angelique Ménard de Jean
Baptiste Ranger et de Mathias Normand, ses
_______qui _____ ont déclare n l'avons signer
P _ Archambeaut __
Wonderful information (and I will work on the transcription) to help place these two young people in their correct families.
The marriage of Antoine Wathier and Marie Josephte Dubois took place 17 Oct 1796 at Vaudreuil. Their marriages lines will take longer to transcribe as the page is somewhat blurry but I am able to extract the names of Antoine's parents Thomas Watier and Marie Josephte Lalonde. Searching for their marriage in Tanguay it was 17 Feb 1749 at Bout de l'ile (Montréal). Thomas was born in France and was a Royal Notary the son of Thomas Watier and Jeanne Agnier.
Thomas Watier is the emigrant and thus Generation 1.
Antoine Watier married to Marie Josephte Dubois is Generation 2.
Jacques Wathier dit Lanoie married to Emélie Boileau is Generation 3.
Félix Lanoie married to Céline Rhéaume is Generation 4.
Mary Dora Lanoie is Generation 5 (married to Joseph Télésphore Augustin Lauzon)
I would like to know about Thomas Watier to include in this family history so will pursue that information on the next research day.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Blake Family One Name Study and Bédard
With my membership in the Guild of One Name Studies comes the perk of Marriage Challenges. These are very handy especially with the price of a marriage registration certificate being now nine pounds sterling. The marriages help to establish the family lines in the 1800s and are an absolute must in any family study. I am slowly working away on the 30,000 Blake marriages in England matching up couples where possible but individual marriage challenges do this for me automatically as the data is pulled from the original parish registers and civil registers. I searched out my marriages for two today and I had already prepared my excel file for both of them so it was an easy transfer. I hadn't matched up all the marriages using the census so I proceeded to do that and it is a lengthy task to do 35 marriages working through FreeBMD and the census.
I am also working on the The Blake Newsletter and it was written by Barrie Blake this time. I am just adding or revising a couple of items - we do each others and that works very well as it is really difficult to proofread your own work.
It is certainly nice to be settling back into regular research. I need to now plan my research time for the French Canadian lines of our son in law. I have allotted one hour per day (it can easily run to two hours because of the placement) to work on each of his 32 3x great grandparents. This may seem like a lot but indeed I could just as easily of gone back to the 6x great grandparents and worked on all of them as well. It is a consideration on my part as I have assigned 28 to their own individual day and then I have placed two on the weekends where it works otherwise I have three in one day on a weekday because the calendar doesn't have an exact number of days per month. My own lines I have rotating on an eight week basis - five to a week but I do not have nearly as many of my 4x great grandparents covered in my research!
I will be working on Bédard, Whélan, Matte, Gagnon, Mourier, Bertrand, Nepveu, Audet dit Lapointe, Grégoire, Séguin dit Ladéroute, Tremblay, Labelle, Lauzon, Brunet, Lanoie, Rhéaume, Dumoulin, Renaud, Larente dit Vinet, Cadieux, Clément, Charlebois, Pomainville, Pilon, Prévost, Desjardins, Deschatelets, Quesnel, St-Jean, Lavigne, Chénier and Racine. I am considering doing a second month which would include Patry, Fournier dit Larose, Bénoit dit Vaillacourt, Doutre, Monestier, Piché, Richer, Hémard dit Poitvin, Groux, Bernard dit Blondin, Lacroix, Thibaut, Constantineau, Boileau, Payette dit St-Amour, Sarrazin, Demers, Blais, Racicot, Lamarque dit Matthieu, Chantal, Desloges dit Poirier, Monette dit Boiseux, Creujeur (Kruger), St-Denis, Legault, D'Amour, Campeau, and Douras (Douvas). This would then take me back to the 4x great grandparents and mostly in the early 1800s/late 1700s. I have already taken his lines back to early New France and to the parents in France but I have not yet collected all the registrations. I would also like to now seek out the notary records and other records that might be at Library and Archives Canada which would give a fuller picture of these families.
I shall follow approximately the same process each day. First I will check to make sure I have all the registrations from Ancestry or the LDS website as an image in the family folder. Then within each folder I shall arrange them by generation from the emigrant. If I eventually find the registrations for these families in France then I shall simply alter the arabic to a roman numeral with the roman numerals marking the generations back from the emigrant and the parents being the I generation. I shall then check Tanguay to see if what I have also blends in with what he has (I started to use Tanguay about a year after I started). In the cases where I am still in the late 1700s, Tanguay is great to help you look at the lines going back to the emigrant. I shall also have a look at Ancestry family trees and World Connect. I will also search the Library and Archives Canada website to note items that I wish to check on my next visit.
Process:
I am also working on the The Blake Newsletter and it was written by Barrie Blake this time. I am just adding or revising a couple of items - we do each others and that works very well as it is really difficult to proofread your own work.
It is certainly nice to be settling back into regular research. I need to now plan my research time for the French Canadian lines of our son in law. I have allotted one hour per day (it can easily run to two hours because of the placement) to work on each of his 32 3x great grandparents. This may seem like a lot but indeed I could just as easily of gone back to the 6x great grandparents and worked on all of them as well. It is a consideration on my part as I have assigned 28 to their own individual day and then I have placed two on the weekends where it works otherwise I have three in one day on a weekday because the calendar doesn't have an exact number of days per month. My own lines I have rotating on an eight week basis - five to a week but I do not have nearly as many of my 4x great grandparents covered in my research!
I will be working on Bédard, Whélan, Matte, Gagnon, Mourier, Bertrand, Nepveu, Audet dit Lapointe, Grégoire, Séguin dit Ladéroute, Tremblay, Labelle, Lauzon, Brunet, Lanoie, Rhéaume, Dumoulin, Renaud, Larente dit Vinet, Cadieux, Clément, Charlebois, Pomainville, Pilon, Prévost, Desjardins, Deschatelets, Quesnel, St-Jean, Lavigne, Chénier and Racine. I am considering doing a second month which would include Patry, Fournier dit Larose, Bénoit dit Vaillacourt, Doutre, Monestier, Piché, Richer, Hémard dit Poitvin, Groux, Bernard dit Blondin, Lacroix, Thibaut, Constantineau, Boileau, Payette dit St-Amour, Sarrazin, Demers, Blais, Racicot, Lamarque dit Matthieu, Chantal, Desloges dit Poirier, Monette dit Boiseux, Creujeur (Kruger), St-Denis, Legault, D'Amour, Campeau, and Douras (Douvas). This would then take me back to the 4x great grandparents and mostly in the early 1800s/late 1700s. I have already taken his lines back to early New France and to the parents in France but I have not yet collected all the registrations. I would also like to now seek out the notary records and other records that might be at Library and Archives Canada which would give a fuller picture of these families.
I shall follow approximately the same process each day. First I will check to make sure I have all the registrations from Ancestry or the LDS website as an image in the family folder. Then within each folder I shall arrange them by generation from the emigrant. If I eventually find the registrations for these families in France then I shall simply alter the arabic to a roman numeral with the roman numerals marking the generations back from the emigrant and the parents being the I generation. I shall then check Tanguay to see if what I have also blends in with what he has (I started to use Tanguay about a year after I started). In the cases where I am still in the late 1700s, Tanguay is great to help you look at the lines going back to the emigrant. I shall also have a look at Ancestry family trees and World Connect. I will also search the Library and Archives Canada website to note items that I wish to check on my next visit.
Process:
- Label generations within the family folder
- Pull missing registrations from Ancestry and LDS website
- Check Tanguay
- Check Ancestry family trees
- Check World Connect family trees
- Search LAC for incidences of family name
Friday, January 8, 2010
Jacques Watier family
I made an interesting discovery as I worked my way back through the Lanoie family. They are located at Sturgeon Falls on the census. I had been looking for the marriage of the parents of Dora Lanoie and did know from her marriage to Telesphore Lauzon that their names were Félix Lanoie and Céline Rhéaume. I found their marriage 24 Jul 1878 at Cyrville and discovered that Félix Lanoie's parents were: Jacques Lanoie and Émélie Boileau. I then searched online and discovered that Jacques name was listed as Jacques Watier dit Lanoie but I could not find the marriage of Jacques and Émélie. By luck I did find the burial for Émélie Boileau and discovered that she was listed as the widow of Jacques Lanoie tying the names together. The date in a personal family tree that I found listed the marriage as 9 Feb 1832. I searched on Watier and Boileau and found the marriage of Hyacinthe Boileau and Sophie Watier (same parents!). I moved back in the register to check out 9 Feb 1832 and discovered that the marriage of Jacques and Émélie was actually 9 Jan 1832 and the name of the groom was Jacques Watier son of Antoine Watier (deceased) and his wife Marie Josephte Dubois. One of the webpages (personal family) that I looked at gave the possible reason for the name Lanoie as:
There's a site on the city of Laon in French.
http://damien-peiffer.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html
Scroll down to the photo of the train & medieval church. It says, "Laon is a French commune situated in the dept. of Aisne, region of Picardy. Its name is pronounced "lan". Its inhabitants are called Laonnais, pronounced "lanoi." Perhaps that is the reason for this "dit" name: Thomas Watier dit Laonnois.
This Thomas was a royal notary in Montréal and he married Marie Josephte Lalonde. What I now need to prove with records is that the Antoine Watier married to Marie Josephte Dubois is their son. The personal trees I found online do make this connection but I would like some paperwork if I can find it.
I continue working on this tree as I promised to give a copy to my son-in-law's paternal grandmother and I wanted to add a few generations to it before doing so.
I have a couple of other projects that I will start to concentrate on as well now that those long cold winter days are here once again. Our temperature has been somewhat moderated by the Atlantic current this last week but the deep freeze will eventually reach us I suspect :)
There's a site on the city of Laon in French.
http://damien-peiffer.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html
Scroll down to the photo of the train & medieval church. It says, "Laon is a French commune situated in the dept. of Aisne, region of Picardy. Its name is pronounced "lan". Its inhabitants are called Laonnais, pronounced "lanoi." Perhaps that is the reason for this "dit" name: Thomas Watier dit Laonnois.
This Thomas was a royal notary in Montréal and he married Marie Josephte Lalonde. What I now need to prove with records is that the Antoine Watier married to Marie Josephte Dubois is their son. The personal trees I found online do make this connection but I would like some paperwork if I can find it.
I continue working on this tree as I promised to give a copy to my son-in-law's paternal grandmother and I wanted to add a few generations to it before doing so.
I have a couple of other projects that I will start to concentrate on as well now that those long cold winter days are here once again. Our temperature has been somewhat moderated by the Atlantic current this last week but the deep freeze will eventually reach us I suspect :)
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
French Canadian ancestry - Lauzon
I had a very successful day looking at the Lauzon family and discovered a tree online which I shall pursue with the actual records. I tend to do genealogy from the respect of what others have done before me. The Lauzon family has been quite researched I have discovered with at least five distinct trees online tracing back to the founding couple Pierre Lauzon and Anne Boivin. The line I am looking at descends through their son Gilles and Marie Archambault, their son Gilles and Marie-Anne Grolx, their son Gilles and Marie Anne Viau dit Lesperance, their son Joseph and Marie Catherine Fontigney dite St Jean. This marriage I have found on Drouin and was the point that I was at in my research yesterday when I found the earlier information where I now need to locate the records. I have the marriage for Augustin (son of Joseph and Marie Catherine) who married Clemence Chaumont to their son Joseph married to Rosalie Thibaut. Their son Augustin married Hélèna Brunet at Notre Dame de la Salette, Papineau and their eldest son Joseph Telesphore Augustin Lauzon married Dora Lanoie at Sturgeon Falls in 1910. I wondered if this was correct but my good fortune yesterday was to find Augustin and Hélèna at Sturgeon Falls on the 1901 census so this marriage is now working for the tree.
I now have all the information for the tree for the Lauzon family back nine generations (chart is nine generations) once I find all the records before the marriage of Joseph Lauzon and Marie Catherine Fontigney dite St Jean. I would also like to find all the baptisms and burials before I actually give the chart away. I am still lacking information on some of the feeder lines into this family Brunet, Constantineau, Deguire dit LaRose, Brunet dit Lalang, Lanoie, Boileau, Rhéaume, and St Armour. For the first four I need two generations and for the next four I need three generations. So still quite a bit of work.
That still leaves me with three other main lines (Grégoire, Bédard and Mourier). I already know the Mourier line will be more difficult because the furtherest back member that I have traced thus far was born in France in 1845 (although still four generations have been born in Canada!). Amazingly in this entire family that I have researched thus far this is the only individual not born in Canada until we get back into the 1600s (earliest baptism thus far is 1639). An amazing number of French Canadian families (no duplicates thus far) is part of this entire tree. I am putting the emphasis on this research now because of the new baby coming in the spring (our daughter's first niece or nephew, her husband's brother's child). It would be so nice to have a chart all ready for the baby.
Today I shall find the proofs for the Lauzon family and then continue working on the other feeder families for this particular main line.
I now have all the information for the tree for the Lauzon family back nine generations (chart is nine generations) once I find all the records before the marriage of Joseph Lauzon and Marie Catherine Fontigney dite St Jean. I would also like to find all the baptisms and burials before I actually give the chart away. I am still lacking information on some of the feeder lines into this family Brunet, Constantineau, Deguire dit LaRose, Brunet dit Lalang, Lanoie, Boileau, Rhéaume, and St Armour. For the first four I need two generations and for the next four I need three generations. So still quite a bit of work.
That still leaves me with three other main lines (Grégoire, Bédard and Mourier). I already know the Mourier line will be more difficult because the furtherest back member that I have traced thus far was born in France in 1845 (although still four generations have been born in Canada!). Amazingly in this entire family that I have researched thus far this is the only individual not born in Canada until we get back into the 1600s (earliest baptism thus far is 1639). An amazing number of French Canadian families (no duplicates thus far) is part of this entire tree. I am putting the emphasis on this research now because of the new baby coming in the spring (our daughter's first niece or nephew, her husband's brother's child). It would be so nice to have a chart all ready for the baby.
Today I shall find the proofs for the Lauzon family and then continue working on the other feeder families for this particular main line.
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