JE ME SOUVIENS
Spring 1993
Volume 16, number 1
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
President's Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
From the Editor's Desk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Authors' Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Curiosites familiales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Mon Pepere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3
Visit to the Rouen, France, Municipal Library . . . 29
Dyers and Tanners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
The Search for My Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3
BookReview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2
Members' Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4
Librarian's Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Research Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2
Questions and Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4
Ancestor Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
New members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
A.F.G.S. Materials and Publications . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Index to Number 29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 7
Volume XVI. Number 1: Spring 1993
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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Message de la pr6sidente
Spring 1993! Impossible to believe that our
"anniversary year" is already half over! In September, we
awarded a free one year membership to Raymond H.
Pelletier from Coventry, RI . In October, we honored our
original 92 charter members and unveiled a beautiful
plaque which lists their names. About 400 of our members
have taken the opportunity to purchase one of our beautiful
lapel pins. In December, some of our members gathered for
an enjoyable Christmas party. It was very cold outside the
restaurant but warm and friendly inside. In January, we
announced plans for our trip to Montreal which will be held
in July. In February and March, we worked diligently on our
anniversary book which we hope to have available by May.
We've been very busy here at the library. There are more
activities to come.
A.F.G.S. has grown and prospered for 15 years. The
success of our Society is the result of the good planning
and foresight of our officers and directors. These dedicated
people have volunteered thousands of hours of their time.
They nurtured our Society, cared for it and proudly watched
it grow into the fine organization that it has become.
However, none of the many accomplishments of this
Society could have happened without you, our loyal
members. You have supported our projects with your time
and money. You are a friendly, warm, generous group of
people. I am very proud to be your president. I wish that I
could meet each and every one of you.
Our 15th year will soon be over. Happy Anniversary
and best wishes for many more!
Sincerely,
Jan Burkhart
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK
D u bureau d u r a a c t e u r en chef
When I founded our Society in the late Seventies,
I had hoped to lead it for several years. However, a t the
end of my first term as president, illness dictated that I
leave the leadership to others. For the next dozen
years, I played a behind-the scene role. For instance, I
acted a s a liaison between our Society and Le Foyer.
I was instrumental in our Society making its quarters
there a s well a s in our Society building a library there.
To mention just one other example, I secured the
Forget files for our Society. Then, in 1989, I was asked
to become editor of J e me souuiens. It seemed a n ideal
way for me to return to an active role in our Society. It
combined three great loves of mine: the Society, genealogy, and writing. What's more, it would be a project for my retirement years which were fast approaching. After detailing to the president the direction in
which I wanted to take J e me souuiens, I accepted to
become its editor. After 3 years on the job and a halfdozen issues under my belt, it seems appropriate to
review my goals to see which have been achieved and
which have yet to be met.
I had six goals for J e me souuiens. They were 1)
to make it reflect our French heritage, 2) to make it the
chronicler of our Society, 3) to make it a source of
practical information, 4) to make it a point of contact
with our Society, 5) to make it a point of contact
among members, and 6) to improve its appearances.
1: To make i t reflect our French heritage. To
achieve this goal, I initiated the publication of titles in
English and French. It was also my hope to include a s
fillers factoids of French, French-Canadian, and
French-American culture and history.
2 : To make it t h e chronicler of our Society.
Our members are scattered throughout the United
States and Canada. A s a result, most of them are un-
able to attend meetings to learn about our Society's
activities. Previously, only publications and research
projects were mentioned. A listing of new acquisitions
has been introduced. Hopefully, this will make members aware of what's available a t our library and encourage its further use. Donations should also be
mentioned not only to recognize donors but to encourage others to do the same. The names of Recognition
Night award recipients should be published not only
"to pat them on the b a c k but to show the membership
the kind and amount of work which they do to keep
our Society moving. Again, it might encourage others
to follow suit. Board decisions and the reasons for
them should be published. So should summaries of
the presentations of our guest-speakers. (Actually, the
whole text of these could be published as articles since
most members are unable to attend meetings.) It
should be possible in the future to write a history of
our Society from the pages of J e me souviens.
3: To make it a source of practical information. Two columns are specifically devoted to giving
our readers useful tips. The first of these is "Of
Interest" which lists books, companies, conferences,
and so on which may be of help to members. The second is "Family Association News" which Lists these
groups, publicizes their reunions, advertises their
books, and so on. These appear as frequently as material is available.
4. To make it a point of contact with our
Society. We've all had the experience of dealing with a
mail order company. It's a rather impersonal affair.
Because our members live far and wide and deal with
u s mostly by correspondence, they probably get the
same feeling. To counter this, the Members' Comer invites them to write to us. So far,most of the letters
have been of praise and thanks. Hopefully, members
will get around to using this column to make suggestions, voice concerns, give different points of view, and
so on. The Society's services are listed on the inside
front cover and the names, addresses, and phone
numbers of officers, directors, and chairpersons are
listed on page 2. These steps should give members a
more personal feelings towards the Society a s well a s a
feeling of truly belonging.
5. To make it a point of contact among members. Members who come to our library regularly help
each other. Members who live too far away to come
usually search alone. Our Members' Corner is an attempt to remedy this situation. In its columns, members may, among other things, publicize families on
which they're working, advertise books which they no
longer need, and request books which may be of use to
them. In Questions a n d Answers, members may ask
for help in solving their genealogical problems. In our
list of members, family names are capitalized to encourage correspondence among those of the same
name or those who are interested in a particular name.
Names are also alphabetized to make the search for a
particular name easier. This should also give members
the feeling of belonging. (Family names are also
capitalized in our index.)
6. To improve its appearance. My first step
here was to design a cover using our Society's original
logo and our Society's colors. I also switched to a
glossy cover because it holds u p better. I had hoped to
use uniform type, to flush text left and right, and to
use photos and illustrations. The latter attempts were
only partially met.
My tenure has been a difficult one. I took over a s
our printer of many years was retiring. There was the
need to find another printer and then another. I also
underestimated the time involved in producing J M S
which resulted in several late issues. Those problems
should be behind me.
.
Several changes have taken place in the last few
months which will, hopefully, help me to meet my initial goals as well as J M S deadlines. The most important of these is a change in the editorship from a oneman operation to a board which includes Jan
Burkhart, Roger Beaudry, Lucille Creamer, Paul
Delisle, and Joe Desrosiers. Readers will certainly note
the many improvements in this issue which must be
credited to their outstanding work. Backing u s u p are
Ray Desplaines and A1 BeruW (Questions and
Answers) as well a s Kathy Sharp and Lucille
MacDonald (the index). Their work is no less outstand-
ing.
I'd be remised if I didn't acknowledge the exceptional work of my son, Edward "Ted" LeBlond, who
worked side by side with me on producing this issue.
He proof-read and typed several articles and sections.
His expertise with computers was a great.help.
In the next issue, I would like to thank you!
You? Yes, you! I hope to thank you because I hope that
you'll become involved in producing our next issue. We
are in need of articles. We are hoping that you'll write
one. We are interested in genealogical articles such as
Paul C h a s d Curiositesfarniliales. We want biographical articles such as George Buteau's Mon Pepere. We
would like cultural articles such a s Pauline
Courchesne's Visit to the Rouen Municipal Library and
Richard Provost's Dyers and Tanners. We're looking for
practical articles such as researching tips, using computers in genealogy, book reviews and so on. For details on submitting articles, please see the author's
guide which follows. Incidentally, please submit only
original articles. We will not publish articles which
have appeared elsewhere.
Henri Leblond
Editor.
Articles Invited
AUTHORS' GUIDELINES
Subject Matter: J M S publishes articles of interest to
Americans of French Canadian descent. Articles on
genealogy are of primary interest. Of particular interest
are practical ones, that is those dealing with materials,
sources, techniques and so on. Biographies a s well a s
articles on culture and history of this ethnic group are
also of interest. In addition, J M S seeks fillers
(anecdotes. facts, quotes, etc.) on these subjects.
Style: A clear, direct, conversational style is preferred.
Length should be determined by the scope of your
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Numerals: Spell out cardinal numbers only to begin
sentences: Four generations were traced. Otherwise.
use Arabic numbers: There were 4 generations
present. Spell out cardinal numbersflrst through
ninth. Starting with loth, use figures. Use the following
format for dates: 20 Jan. 1896. Roman numerals
should be used to designate generations: I, 11, 111, etc.
Illustrations: Visuals are highly desirable. All graphics
must be in black and white and of good technical
quality.
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style that is difficult to read, 3) repetition of a recently
published topic, 4) possible violation of copyright law,
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accuracy of all material submitted. AU material
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Permission to reprint
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CURIOSITES FAMILIALES
by Paul P. Chasse
This anicle is dedicated to Dr. Remi Gilben of the
lnstitut Francophone de Gbnealogie, the Societe Historique
de Qubbec, the Societe Historique de Montreal. Trustee of
the Peribonka Louis Hernon Museum, and Doctor of
Philosophy, Honoris Causa, from Rhode Island College.
All of u s remember that hit tune "I'm My Own
Grandpa" and we all have witnessed a variety of
scenarios based on the ominous theme of a "menage a
trois." But how many of u s have enjoyed the
distinction of having an ex post facto brother-andsister team as grand-parents on the same side of the
family without being classified as a dysfunctional
incestuous family'?
To complicate matters even further, how many of
u s can pique ourselves of counting among our
forebears a "famille a cinq lits" and to have had the
privilege of knowing almost all of the offspring? Such
was my prerogative despite the fact that I haven't yet
attained "rage d'or," that French euphemism for the
Golden Age which indicates that the best is yet to
come.
How can my father's mother and father be
brother and sister after the fact? I suppose that it is
easier to imagine in an age when the traditional family
seems to have outstretched itself in new definitions
heretofore horrendous. Yet, remaining within the
collfines of its former concept, one can summarize this
formidable family in one succinct statement: one man
had three wives, the other two, and each was favored
by the same woman as the sun set on his final adieu.
The Chasse-Dumas Enigma
It all began with Jean-Baptiste Chasse (18371887)who married Marie-Eleonore Bolduc on January
8, 1861 in Saint Bernard de Beauce and who sired
twelve offspring of whom only three died in childhood.
Only two years his junior, Pierre Dumas (18391908)wed Philomene Barthell in Saint Francois du
Sud on April 24,1866. They had five children among
whom was Joseph (1872-1902)who died gold-mining
in the Klondike, and Georgiana, the youngest, who
married Xavier Saint-Pierre at Sainte Anne's in Fall
River on June 23, 1890.
Three of the spouses married in their twenties:
Philomene was nineteen. Both wives died in childbirth
in their thirties, collectively leaving fourteen orphans.
Jean-Baptiste was a widower at thirty-seven and Pierre
at thirty-three. Two years later. Pierre was married to
Malvina Bouchard (1854-1887)by a Reverend J. D.
Tierney in Medford, Massachusetts on May 10, 1874.
At nineteen, she is sixteen years his junior and not
only accepts the responsibility of caring for his five
children but has five of her own before dying of a long
illness at the young age of thirty-three. Pierre and
Malvina became the parents my paternal grandmother,
Malvina Dumas, who was born in Laurieville, Quebec
on March 9, 1877 and who died at ninety-seven on
September 7, 1974 in Somersworth, N. H..
Both men being widowers in their forties were to
marry again, never fancying that their separate paths
would eventually lead them to the same woman. It was
Jean-Baptiste Chasse who, at forty-five, wed a young
girl twenty-two years his junior, Josephine Campagna
(1859-1941) in the same small village of Laurierville on
January 7, 1878. In her turn, this nineteen year old
girl became the step-mother of his nine surviving
children, the eldest who was nearly sixteen, and had
six of her own during their nine happy years together.
Her eldest son, Noel, who was born on Christmas Day
1878 and who died on January 20, 1931 in
Somersworth, was my grandfather.
Malvina Dumas and Noel Charles Chasse who
each lost a parent at a tender age were soon to be
provided for by their surviving father and mother
respectively as Malvina's father, Pierre, and Noel's
mother, Josephine , were married in Laurierville-also
called Sainte Julie de Somerset--on January 14, 1895,
one year and a half before their children, now stepbrother and step-sister, were to wed at Saint Martin's
Church in Somersworth, N. H. on August 17, 1896.
The elder couple again had a twenty-year age
difference between them and nevertheless had four
children of their own. Meanwhile, Noel and Malvina set
about having a family of their own, nine children of
whom my father, Noel Charles, junior, (1898-1963)
was the eldest; three of them are still living.
Since it took me ten years to finally discover the
date and place of the Dumas-Bouchard wedding-(you
will note that not a single volume of genealogical data
has any inkling of the where and when)-it provided
me with the opportunity to review some of the trivia
which make genealogical detection fascinating and it
allows for the unveiling of hitherto unsuspected
oracular ancestral tropisms.
For example, my great-grandmother Josephine
did not find her marital situation as outlandish as we
might for she herself was born when her father was
sucty-one, and she was the daughter of his third wife, a
fact that the family apparently ignored since I have
never heard any reference to this. Some of us would
surely express dismay that another ancestor, Anne
Clouthier, was married at thirteen. Should we pursue
our research less impatiently, we would discover that,
though married so young, she did not take up with her
husband until four years later and that she bore her
first child only when she was eighteen. Nor were large
families a uniquely "French" phenomenon! One
ancestor (#1754) Ignace GagnSs daughters married
John Otis, a young captive the Abenakis brought to
Quebec from Dover, N. H. in 1689 whose relatives,
William and Barbara Pitman [married 1655) had
thirteen children. How many of u s know that our tenth
American president, John Tyler (1790-1862). had
ffiteen children?
Whether a myth or not that twins are born only
to parents who number a set among their ancestors,
everyone pondered the paternal precedent when the
C h a s d twins were born. Yet, there are no less than
four sets of twins in the Malvina Bouchard-Dumas
lineage.
Authors specializing in the Middle Ages are
aware that it was customary for the mother to transmit
her name to her daughter, a tradition much honored in
New France as exemplified in Genevieve Chamard [m.
1715). Genevieve Gagnon [m. 17401, Genevieve
Boucher [m. 1761) and Genevieve Gagnon (m. 1782).
We have remained faithful to this tradition as my own
grandniece bears the names of four generations of
"ancestresses", all of whom were living at the time of
her baptism: Tracy-Denise-Pauline-Annie-Malvina.Not
necessarily so for the man, however. My brother and I
are the only Adrien and Paul in twelve direct
generations of the Chasse family.
The Elusive Pierre Dumas
So, who was this enigmatic Pierre Dumas whose
date of birth (1839)always fascinated me because it
was one of the three most remote in time in
Somersworth's Mont Calvarie Cemetery. Even as a
child, I had associated his date of birth with that of the
hangings and exile of the Patriots of 1837-38! Some
detective work, and I was able, fmally, to conjecture a
wholly different "portrait-robot" of this mysterious man
whom neither my great-grandmother nor any of my
great-aunts [his children, some of whom were younger
than my own father, their nephew) had ever described
to me.
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He had just turned thirty when his younger
brother, Prudent Dumas, migrated to Fall River where.
in the absence of a French parish, the city records
indicated that he had been married by a nameless
"French Catholic Priest" to Henriette Sainte-Claire in
January 14,1872.Nine months later, Pierre is a young
thirty-three year old widower with five children. Filled
with compassion, -dent
and Henriette invite Pierre
and his children to join them in Fall River where he is
sure to find employment as a brick maker, a trade that
soon will serve him well.
The Medford Directory of 1874-75list only ten
names of French origin, one of which is the local tailor,
Charles St. Clair. Medford was a boom town in 1874,a
f a r cry from its original puritanical beginnings where
men had their ears cut off for swearing in 1631,where
"African slaves" were first introduced in 1638,where
"priests and Jesuits" were to be "put to death" if they
showed up a second time in 1647,where Indians were
sold as slaves in 1669,where "anyone observing
Christmas" was "fined five shillings" in 1687,and
where "Pope-day" was annually celebrated "for
replenishing the mind with hatred of the Catholics."
Medford had changed. it had become an
important ship building town between 1803 and 1873.
Launchings had become commonplace. Brickmakers
were needed to pave sidewalks. to build houses. public
buildings, business establishments, and to enlarge the
shipvard.
Charles Saint-Clair invited Pierre Dumas to
* Medford where he worked at least one year prior to his
meeting Malvina Bouchard, the fourth of eight siblings
whose two eldest sisters were twins and whose family
originated from Les Eboulements. Pierre and Malvina
were married in the spring of 1874.It seems that they
agreed to remain in New England for a short time
longer since, after the July 11, 1874 great fire of
Woonsocket's largest cotton factory. the Social Mill,
they moved there so that Pierre could accept
employment at the demand of the industrialists who
wanted to replace this mill with a new brick structure
600 feet long and five stories high.
Within three years, Pierre and Malvina had
accumulated enough money to return to Canada and
to buy a small house "au village", near the church, an
indication of affluence in those days, in Laurierville.
My grandmother, Malvina Dumas, their first child, was
born there and dwelled in that small attractive home
for eighteen years. Her mother died when she was but
ten, so she helped her father with the care of her
younger sisters and brother up to the moment her
father remarried ...to the widow of Jean-Baptiste
Chasse in Laurierville in 1895,the same year the
family emigrated and settled permanently in
Somersworth. A year later, the step-brother and stepsister were married in the local church, a fact that
puts to rest another mythical assumption pretending
that the Chasse-Dumas couple numbered among the
original founders of Saint Martin's in 1882 when the
town was then known as Great Falls, N. H.
The Curran-Thivierge Rhapsody
If you think that the paternal side of the family
is bewildering, let's take a minute to scan that
enigmatic Acadian transmission which will eventually
lead to a second article relating to our double maternal
royal lineage through Isabeau de Beam-Bonasse and
Marie de Salazar.
The Currans were from West Meath in Ireland
and emigrated to Lower Canada, or Quebec, in the
earlv thirties. Edward. the son of James Curran and
~ l i z i b e t hFullum was-married in Frampton (Quebec) to
Anastasia Walsh on February 6,1835 and their son
who h&dly spoke French married
Patrick (1839-1913)
Adele Lavertu (1843-1914)
who hardly spoke English
on November 14,1864 in Saint Jean Chrysostome,
(Quebec).My mother always mirthfully proclaimed that
the language of love was international (today, to be
politically correct, we would qualify it as being
"pluralistic") since, hardly knowing each other's
language, they had twelve children, most of whom lived
to be septuagenarians or older: Patrick died ten
months short of their Golden Wedding Anniversary.
Adele effortlessly honored the family with such
widely-known progenitors as Louis H6bert. Zacharie
Clouthier and the much neglected Sevestre family (our
ancestors on both sides of the family) which links u s
the most intimately to the Renaissance and to the Age
of Classicism. Four generations of Parisian bourgeois
whose family members successfully held a Master of
Arts degree from the Sorbonne and which were
commissioned by three kings of the Renaissance as
their master-printers. The Sevestres and their
associates were the first to publish Montaigne's
"Essays", the Plkiade's poetic works, Champlain's
"Explorations", and eventually Corneille's tragedies.
Three generations had been musicians in their own
right by the time Charles I1 Sevestre became one of
their first royal magistrates in New France.
Patrick and Ad6le.s sixth child, Henry (187519591, married Marie Thivierge (1879-1942) in Saint
Martin's church in Somersworth, on December 31,
1900. The third of their surviving five children was my
mother. Annie Curran (1907-1990). Marie Thivierge
was orphaned at three when her father, Paul Thivierge
(1892-1881) died suddenly after a brief illnes. He had
been married twice. Firstly to Ursule Boulet and
secondly to Arthemise Michaud (1854-1926)on
January 14, 1878 in Sainte Anne des Monts (Gaspe).
He was thirty-five years her senior and four of his five
children were already married and ready to leave
Gasp6 to establish themselves permanently in
Manchester and Fall River.
The emigration was in full swing and the
Thivierge and Curran families were soon to be among
the first parishioners of the recently founded Saint
Martin's parish in Somersworth in 1882. Arthhise
used to boast humbly of having a distant cousin who
was a bishop, a tremendous honor in those days. The
only name I could think of was Bishop John S.
Michaud (1834-1908)who was consecrated as
Burlington's coadjutor to Bishop Louis de Goesbriand
on June 29, 1892 and who succeeded him on
November 3, 1899. Yes, they did have the same
common ancestors: Joseph Michaud and Marguerite
Deslauriers of Kamouraska. Bishop Michaud's father
had died young while caring for Irish immigrants
suffering from typhus.
A Poet's Assessment
Arthemise had probably not relaized that the
same year she moved to Somersworth, the poet
laureate of her family passed away. I t was Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)who immortalized
Evangeline and the Acadians in 1847. As chidlren, we
knew the tale aggregately since my mother and father
must have sung Evangeline hundreds of time for u s
when we were chidlren and related factual and
legendary accounts of the first "boat people" of America
and of the world. My mother had learned it from her
grandmother who had also taught her many of the
"Compiaintes" imported from Normandy and Brittany.
And, a matter of family pride, it was my paternal
ancestors Pierre Melanson and Marguerite Mius
d'Entremont of Port Royal who were reputed to have
founded Grand Pre, the setting for Longfellow's poem.
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Longfellow had also put into verse the love-tale
of Arthkmise's forebears in the famous Tales of a
Wayside Inn wherein he included the story of JeanVincent d'Abbadie, the "Baron of Castine", and his
since famous Abenaki wife, Marie-Mathilde
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Pidicwanniske, whom he described poetically as "a
form of beauty undefined, a loveliness without a
name."
Of fictional interest, it may be noted in passing
that Alexandre Dumas had selected as a model of
Aramis, one of his three inseparable "Mousquetaires",
none other than one of Jean Vincent d'Abbadie's
cousins, the Sieur Henri d'Aramit, whom D'Artagnan
had proclaimed he would "endeavor to model (himself)
after" because Aramis was, as described by Dumas,
"mildness and grace personified."
To find the link between Arthemise and the
Abenaki princess, let us backtrack four genrations
(Michaud-Bemier. 1838;Bernier-Bernier, 1819;
Bemier-Bemier, 1794; Bemier-Robichaud. 1765) to
Pierre Robichaud who married Anne-Fran~oiseLe
Borgne de Belle-Isle in Port Royal on ~anu-&y16,
1737.
She was the daughter of Alexandre I1 Le Borgne.
the son and grandson of two Acadian governors, who
manied Anastasie de Sainte-Castin on December 4,
1707 in Pentagoet, the site of the first recorded double
wedding in Maine since her sister Therese married
Philippe Muis D'Entremont at the same ceremony. For
a time, the couple lived in Paineouaske which is now
Old TOwn, Maine. The two sisters were the daughters
of Jean-Vincent d9Abbadieand ~~rie-~athilde,Yherself
the dauehter of Madokawando, the Great Chief of the
Abenak--Algonquins in Maine. To better grasp the
intricacies of this Acadian connection, please refer to
Chart #2.
Any Indians in your family?
As we have just celebrated the quincentennial of
Columbus' discovery of the New World and many are
questioning the relationship between the Europeans
and the American Indians (Michael 0. Garvey of the
Univeristy of Notre Dame writes that the British had
conquered them while the French had been friendly
with them; Annette Kolodny of the University of
Arizona explains that Indian raids were a retribution
on the British for the massacres they inflicted upon
the Indians), some of us have seen the film Black Robe
which can provide some understanding of these
relationships. I would not be surprised that the model
for Daniel, the youthful dome played by Alden Young,
who falls in love with an attractive Indian maiden, may
very well have been one of my paternal ancestors, none
other than Jean Nicollet de Belleborne (1598-1642)
who came to Canada at twenty and was immediately
assigned to study the language and culture of the
Nipissing Indians of the Great Lakes region.
Eight years later, his "companion"gave birth to a
daughter, Euphrasie-Madeleine, whom he brought
back to Quebec with him when the mother died.
Nicollet later married Marguerite Couillard (October 7,
1637) and they cared for his young metis until she
married Jean LeBlanc on November 21, 1643.
Again on the paternal side of the family, the very
first French-Indian wedding to be blessed in Quebec
took place on November 3, 1644 when Martin Provost
married Marie-Olivier Sylvestre Manitouabewick, a
Huron; they became the parents of nine children.
Sainte-Castin's wedding, however, was sibyllic
inasmuch as it anticiapted today's lifestyle. He and
Marie-Mathilde had been cohabitating for too long a
time for Bishop Montmorency de Laval to tolerate that
a baron who was also a French officer should not
formalize his relationship. He therefore sent Father
Jacques Bigot, a Jesuit missionary whose young
brother, Vincent, would later establish a permanent
mission at Pentagoet for the Abenakis in 1694. to
Maine in order to perform the ritual of holy matrimony
in 1684. It was a lasting love that endured fifty-one
years!
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Two other "culture capsules" of interest: Pkre
Ragueneau, S. J . reports that Charles Sevestre and a n
Aigonquin Indian bore the dias for the procession of
the Blessed Sacrament during the Corpus Christi
octave of June 8, 1651, an honor still reserved for local
dignitaries. And my mother told me several times how
her grandmother's parents would shelter Micmac
Indian couples in their family grain mill when they
asked to bear their children in the security and
comfort of that building in the winter season.
Lastly, after sifting through Silvio Dumas' Les
FiUes du Roy, I discovered that among my ancestors,
fifteen per cent of them-twenty-five on my father's
side, thirteen on my mother's, and two on both-were
married to men waiting prostrately for wives provided
by our generous Godfather who even furnished
sizeable doweries, Louis XIV!
An interesting project for the future is to study
age patterns, life spans, average length of marriages,
the number of remarriages, the periods of mourning,
how many children per family, obituaries to follow the
peregrinations of the offspring, the frequency of saints'
names, etc. Meanwhile, how many of you can boast of
descending from a "famille a cinq lits" with your
grandparents marrying within eighteen months of their
own parents' wedding?
THE CHASSg-DUMAS
"FAMILLE A CINQ LITS 1861-1895"
CHART 1
1
1861
j o a n - m p t i s t e Chase6 11837-1887) b *arie-Blhwre
Bolduc 11842-1874)
marry on Jan8. 1861 at S a i n t Bernard d e Beaust
children: W i e
Wie-ledClara
BugCnie
CatbariM
cl-
Pi-e
J--cbarle8
11 1866
P i e r r e hnu 11839-19081 & Phil-=
earthell
11842-1872) marry on A p r i l 24. I866 a t S a i n t
Pram~oi.dm sud
children: Wilfred
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3Caepa
Melard
*aria
Georgian-
111 1874
11839-1908) & I l a l r i n a m&rd
11855-1887) w r y 011 Ilay 10, 1874 in miford.
Pi-e
M
c h i l d r e n : Pl.ina.*'*.
Pbiloan~
Maaide
Pierre
IV
1878
J--mptiste
ChasaG 11837-1887) a J d p h i n e C a m p q ~(1859-1941)
marry on J a n m r y 7. 1878 i n U u r i e i l l e
c h i l d r e n %m1*.*.-
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Flora
hil&
v 1895
kcisse
Alera-3
Pierre M s (1839-1908) & Jodpbiae C.lp.go.-Chass6
11859-1941) u r r y on Jammry 14, 1695 a t
s a i n t d d i c de S o u s e t 1 L a l l n e r n l l e )
children: J d p h i n e
ail.
Ilrie-Awe
mci-
a
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l C h a r l e s ChuG (Des. 25, 1878J.n.
20. 1931) a d M l ~ i - D o y s
I-. 9. 1877-sept. 7, 1974) u e -xi&
on ~ u w s t17, 1896 i n
s a i n t m r t i n . 8 Chmrch i m - s l ~ d ,
88.
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THE CHASSg-DUMAS
"PAMILLE A CINQ LITS 1861-1895"
CHART 2
13
c m m m - c m s ~11907-19901
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,.:
S i e w d e Belle-Isle, de la T o m
1688 Dos. of Acadia wed c. 1674
Sources acadiennes
daAbLbbadie, Baron Pidicwaruiske,
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5 a2i -n1t x7a0s7t iAn
Ilbeaaki,
C . 1678. red
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by
George H. BUTEAU
Most people i n my g e n e r a t i o n were c h i l d r e n when t h e i r
grandparents passed on b u t I was f o r t u n a t e t o see my
grandparents throuqh a d u l t eyes. I was 29 when my
g r a n d f a t h e r Gaspard ~ & n @ r e udied.
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I had then as I have
now more than twenty years l a t e r , many memories of
"PepPre."
Ihave i n t e r t w i n e d some o f these m e m o r i e s w i t h
f a c t s t h a t I have gleaned from v a r i o u s r e c o r d s and
recollectionsofconversationsthat1 h a v e h a d w i t h v a r i o u s
f a m i l y members.
Gaspard ~ 6 n e r e u xwas born i n Woonsocket, R I on 282eptember
1889, t h e seventh of L o u i s and O d i l e (Gagnon) Genereux's
8 sons.
N a t i v e - b o r n Canadians, L o u i s and O d i l e had
emigrated t o Woonsocket w i t h t h e i r r e s p e c t i v e f a m i l i e s .
They met i n Woonsocket and were m a r r i e d i n S a i n t C h a r l e s
Church on 29 March 1869.
As a young man, Gaspard had t h e o p p o r t u n i t y t o see t h e
world. He j o i n e d themerchant marine f o l l o w e d by thearmy.
I ' m n o t s u r e when he e n l i s t e d i n t h e merchant marine b u t
on 15 May 1911, he was e n l i s t e d i n t h e U.S. Army a t
J e f f e r s o n Barracks, NO as Gasper Gkn4reux. The r e c o r d
of h i s 3 year e n l i s t m e n t i n Company K, 6 t h I n f a n t r y , i n d i c a t e d t h a t , a t h i s e n l i s t m e n t a t age 21 years and 7
months, he was a seaman by occupation.
H i s discharge
r e c o r d s t a t e d t h a t he served i n t h e P h i l i p p i n e I s l a n d s
from 3 J u l y 1911 through 15 June 1912.
When I was a young boy, I enjoyed l i s t e n i n g t o Pepere's
accounts o f h i s adventures i n t h e P h i l i p p i n e s . The U.S.
had p a i d Spain $20 m i l l i o n f o r these i s l a n d s i n 1899
f o l l o w i n g t h e T r e a t y o f P a r i s which ended t h e SpanishAmerican War.
The F i l i p i n o people immediately d e c l a r e d
theirindependenceandwagedqueril1awarfareagainstU.S.
t r o o p s u n t i l 1902 when peace was e s t a b l i s h e d .
Fly
grandfather,nodoubt,waswiththeU.S.forcesmaintaining
t h a t peace so f a r away from home j u s t before World War
I.
Back from t h e P h i l i p p i n e s and s t a t i o n e d $t t h e P r e s i d i o
i n San F r a n c i s c o around 1913, Gaspard Genereux met and
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f e l l i n l o v e w i t h a F r e n c h woman, A n n e t t e L e f r P r e . F o u r
and a h a l f y e a r s h i s s e n i o r , she was t h e t r a v e l l i n g
companion o f t h e w i f e of an Englishman who had an i n t e r e s t
i n 1 o f t h e t h e a t e r s i n S a n F r a n c i s c o . Gaspard and A n n e t t e
were m a r r i e d i n San F r a n c i s c o on 10 J a n u a r y 1914 by F a t h e r
L. LeBihau. T h e i r n e i g h b o r s , C h a r l e s and J u l i a Videcoy,
signed as witnesses.
F o u r months l a t e r , on 14 Nay, i n
E l Paso, TX, Gaspard was h d n o r a b l y d i s c h a r g e d f r o m t h e
army as a p r i v a t e . The n e x t day, he c o l l e c t e d h i s f i n a l
wages o f $61.97 f r o m t h e army a t F o r t B l i s s , TX.
fly mother was b o r n i n San F r a n c i s c o on 6 Auqust 1914.
The f r o n t page o f t h e Ban F r a n c i s c o B u l l e t i n o f t h a t d a t e
had t h e f o l l o w i n g h e a d l i n e : " W i f e of P r e s i d e n t E x p i r e s Nrs. W i l s o n Succumbs a f t e r S e v e r a l S i n k i n g S p e l l s . " The
same newspaper c a r r i e d t h e f o l l o w i n g b i r t h announcement
on F r i d a y e v e n i n g , 14 August: "Genereaux - I n t h i s c i t y ,
August 6 t o t h e w i f e of J a s p e r Genereaux, a d a u g h t e r . "
She was b a p t i z e d Raymonde O d i l e G6nbreux on 7 Nay 1916,
i n H o l y F a m i l y Church, Woonsocket, R I .
I ' v e n e v e r l e a r n e d e x a c t l y why t h e young 66nareux f a m i l y ,
s o happy i n San F r a n c i s c o by my g r a n d m o t h e r ' s a c c o u n t s ,
d e c i d e d t o move t o t h e E a s t Coast. fly mother o f t e n t o l d
o f how she remembered (most l i k e l y remembered b e i n g t o l d
a b o u t ) t h e l o n g t r a i n r i d e e a s t d u r i n g t h e c o u r s e of w h i c h
she g o t t o s i t on t h e l a p of e x - P r e s i d e n t T a f t , whose
I remember my
r a i l r o a d c a r was on t h e same t r a i n .
grandmother t e l l i n g me t h a t , b e f o r e t h e y moved e a s t , she
had e x p e c t e d a l l of t h e U.S. t o be l i k e San F r a n c i s c o .
The l o n g t r a i n r i d e f o l l o w e d by s e t t l i n g i n Woonsocket,
R I , must have q u i c k l y d i s p e l l e d t h i s m i s c o n c e p t i o n .
D e s p i t e h e r a b i l i t y t o speak F r e n c h i n a town where more
t h a n h a l f t h e c i t i z e n s spoke French, she p r o b a b l y t o o k
sometime t o acclimate. For s t a r t e r s , theFrench-speaking
I can
i n h a b i t a n t s o f Woonsocket spoke Canadian-French.
o n l y i m a g i n e t h e f r i c t i o n t h a t must have e x i s t e d between
myFrance-borngrandmotherwhothoughtshespoke"correct"
Frenchandhernewneighborswhowerenodoubtlike-minded.
Ny g r a n d p a r e n t s f i r s t l i v e d w i t h G a s p a r d ' s w i d o w e d mother
i n 1916 b u t moved t o S l a t e r s v i l l e around 1921. I remember
my mother t e l l i n g a b o u t f a m i l y l i f e i n S l a t e r s v i l l e .
Gaspard worked i n t h e S l a t e r s v i l l e m i l l and t h e f a m i l y
l i v e d i n a company house t h a t had an o u t s i d e p r i v y . One
day, around 1923, Gaspard q u i t h i s j o b i n S l a t e r s v i l l e
i n sympathy w i t h h i s boss who had been f i r e d . The f a m i l y
moved back t o Woonsocket where Gaspard g o t a j o b as a
s t a t i o n a r y f i r e m a n i n t h e E n t e r p r i s e Dye m i l l on F i r s t
Avenue.
He worked h a r d s h o v e l i n g c o a l i n t o t h e f u r n a c e s
w h i c h g e n e r a t e d steam t o power t h e m i l l .
On F i r s t Avenue, t h e Genbrbux f a m i l y l i v e d i n a tenement
Ply
house d i r e c t l y a c r o s s t h e s t r e e t f r o m t h e m i l l .
g r a n d p a r e n t s r e n t e d and l a t e r b o u g h t a s i n g l e - f a m i l y h o u s e
on F a i r m o u n t S t r e e t d u r i n g t h e h e i g h t of t h e G r e a t
Depression.
I t was a r e l a t i v e l y b i g house, l a r g e enough
f o r t h e f a m i l y o f 6 c h i l d r e n . I t was, n o doubt, d i f f i c u l t
f o r t h e g r o w i n g f a m i l y t o be a b l e t o a f f o r d t h e expense
o f a house b u t t h e y nanaqed.
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Because we l i v e d o n l y a few b l o c k s away, I have many
Fly c h i l d h o o d memories of
memories o f my g r a n d p a r e n t s .
Pepere a r e more i n d e l i b l y i n p r i n t e d i n my mind t h a n t h o s e
o f Plemere.
That i s p r o b a b l y because flemere spoke o n l y
F r e n c h and, a s r young c h i l d , Ic o u l d n o t u n d e r s t a n d her.
We spoke o n l y E n g l i s h a t home b u t , a f t e r a few y e a r s i n
H o l y F a m i l y S c h o o l where F r e n c h was t a u g h t f o r a h a l f day
each s c h o o l day, I began t o u n d e r s t a n d and t o be a b l e t o
speak w i t h my grandmother.
PepPre, on t h e o t h e r hand,
was f l u e n t i n b o t h F r e n c h and E n g l i s h .
fly e a r l i e s t r e c o l l e c t i o n s o f my g r a n d f a t h e r a r e of h i m
w i t h a c i g a r i n h i s mouth. P e p P r e ' s c i g a r was a l w a y s i n
a c i g a r h o l d e r . Id o n ' t t h i n k Ie v e r saw h i m smoke a c i g a r
any o t h e r way.
He would s i t i n h i s easy c h a i r smoking
h i s c i g a r w h i l e l i s t e n i n g t o b a s e b a l l gameson h i s c o n s o l e
r a d i o and p l a y i n g s o l i t a i r e o r d o i n g c r o s s w o r d p u z z l e s .
I t was my u n d e r s t a n d i n g t h a t PepPre went t o s c h o o l o n l y
t h r o u g h t h e t h i r d g r a d e b u t I'llb e t t h e r e were n o t many
c o l l e g e g r a d u a t e s who c o u l d do a c r o s s w o r d p u z z l e as
q u i c k l y a s he c o u l d . I n t h e e a r l y 1 9 5 0 ' s a f t e r he owned
a TV, he would s i t i n t h a t easy c h a i r and w a t c h Red Sox
gameson T V w h i l e t w i s t i n g t h e r a d i o d i a l f r o m o n e b a s e b a l l
game t o a n o t h e r . I was a l w a y s amazed a t how a d e p t he was
a t remembering t h e s t a t i s t i c s f o r a l l t h o s e games.
He
a l w a y s knew t h e s c o r e and who was a t b a t i n each o f t h e
s e v e r a l games he was f o l l o w i n g . When h i s team l o s t , t h e y
o f t e n g o t c a l l e d a " n o good pack o f bums."
I f he were
around today, I can i m a g i n e PepPre s i t t i n g i n f r o n t of
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t h e T V w i t h a remote c o n t r o l f l i p p i n g from one t e l e v i s e d
game t o t h e n e x t .
To t h e b e s t of my knowledge, Pepere never d r o v e a car,
b u t he was always ready t o go f o r a r i d e i n one.
I have
memories of r i d i n g w i t h my a u n t and my g r a n d p a r e n t s i n
t h e c o u n t r y s i d e t o p i c k a p p l e s i n September, t o see t h e
f o l i a g e i n October and t o d e l i v e r C h r i s t m a s p r e s e n t s t o
r e l a t i v e s and f r i e n d s i n December.
Pepere v e r y much
enjoyed these r i d e s . When Iwas i n c o l l e g e Iwould occas i o n a l l y d r i v e him t o h i s Saturday n i g h t watchman job.
I r e c a l l one Saturday n i g h t , h a v i n g f i r s t p i c k e d up my
date, I p u l l e d up and Pepere s l i d i n t o t h e f r o n t s e a t
b e s i d e her, p u f f i n g h i s c i g a r a l l t h e way t o work.
The
g i r l b a r e l y t a l k e d t o me t h e remainder o f t h e evening.
As a young boy, I remember t h a t Pepere never cussed i n
f r o n t o f h i s g r a n d c h i l d r e n b u t used many euphemisms.
A
few o f h i s f a v o r i t e s were "goshdake gazebo," "crackerjack,"
" g o o d n i g h t s h i r t " and "Eh f l a r i e L o u i s e " ( i n F r e n c h ) . I
l a t e r l e a r n e d t h a t , u n t i l h i s d a u g h t e r s were teenagers,
he swore q u i t e p r o f u s e l y b u t my grandmother g o t him t o
s t o p . The summer Iwas e i g h t e e n , my b r o t h e r and I t o o k
PepPre o u t i n a row boat w h i l e we were on v a c a t i o n a t t h e
Rhode I s l a n d shore.
We were f i s h i n g about a h a l f m i l e
from l a n d when I hooked my f i n g e r and l e t o u t a s t r o n g
f o u r - l e t t e r e p i t h e t . The f l o o d g a t e opened and t h e t h r e e
of u s cussed and f i s h e d f o r an hour o r two. Once we were
b a c k o n shore,Peperestepped o u t o f t h e b o a t and commented
on how many "goshdake gazebo" f i s h had g o t t e n away.
I t d i d n ' t t a k e auch t o make PepPre happy.
C i g a r s made
him happy. He k e p t a count o f t h e c i g a r s he r e c e i v e d f o r
Christmas, F a t h e r ' s Day and h i s b i r t h d a y .
He would
o c c a s i o n a l l y announce how many c i g a r s were l e f t and how
l o n g t h e s u p p l y w a s e x p e c t e d t o l a s t . Pepere l i k e d sweets:
he had a sweet t o o t h . my s i s t e r s t i l l remembers s i t t i n g
and w a t c h i n g Pepere add 5 teaspoons of sugar t o a cup o f
c o f f e e u n t i l i t o v e r f l o w e d i n t o t h e saucer. He would t h e n
d r i n k t h e s p i l l e d coffee f r o m t h e saucer.
Pepere wasa s e r i o u s b l u e b e r r y p i c k e r . On t h o s e b l u e b e r r y
p i c k i n g e x p e d i t i o n s ( I c a l l them t h a t because they seemed
so l o n g and t e d i o u s when I was a boy), b o t h memere and
PepPre would p i c k f o r what seemed l i k e hours. They would
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f i n d a b l u e b e r r y bush and p i c k e v e r y s i n g l e r i p e b l u e b e r r y
fromit, easilyfilling
berries
Pepere o f t e n t a l k e d about
f r o m o n l y a few bushes.
b l u e b e r r y p i c k i n g i n Canada where i t was an a l l - d a y
communal summer a c t i v i t y .
I n h i s s t o r y , w h i c h we a l l
t h o u g h t t o be a n o t h o r o f h i s t a l l t a l e s , t h e b l u e b e r r i e d
f i l l e d many washtubs.
He p a i n t e d such a v i v i d p i c t u r e
o f people c a r r y i n g those tubs f i l l e d w i t h berries.
It
seemed so u n l i k e l y t o u s s i n c e t h e b e s t we c o u l d do i n
an hour o r s o was t o f i l l o u r puny q u a r t p a i l s .
I t wasn't u n t i l our family v i s i t e d r e l a t i v e s i n a small
v i l l a g e i n F r e n c h Canada d u r i n g t h e summer o f 1951 t h a t
we g o t t o see p e o p l e c a r r y i n g huge b u c k e t s of b l u e b e r r i e s
o u t of t h e woods and I r e a l i z e d PepPre's s t o r y w a s n ' t so
far-fetched a f t e r a l l .
When I was a young boy, I enjoyed l i s t e n i n g t o P e p e r e ' s
stories.
I d i d n ' t t h i n k of them as t a l l t a l e s t h e n b u t
I can remember one s t o r y about h i s o l y m p i c pancake e a t i n g
when he was i n t h e army.
Over t h e years, t h e s t a c k of
f l a p j a c k s i n t h e s t o r y grew f r o m a dozen t o o v e r 50. Ny
c o u s i n and Iwould s i t and l i s t e n t o t h o s e s t o r i e s , some
o f t h e m i n v o l v i n g a l l e g e d escapades w i t h G e n e r a l P e r s h i n g
chasing Pancho V i l l a t h r o u g h t h e American Southwest. To
t h i s day, I have no i d e a i f he e v e r d i d t h e t h i n g s he s a i d
he d i d b u t i t d o e s n ' t m a t t e r becausewe enjoyed l i s t e n i n g
t o those s t o r i e s .
I w i s h I c o u l d hear him t e l l of h i s
s t o r i e s today!
Pepere s u f f e r e d a s t r o k e when he was i n h i s l a t e 70's,
o n l y a few y e a r s a f t e r he and my grandmother c e l e b r a t e d
t h e i r 5 0 t h wedding a n n i v e r s a r y .
The s t r o k e l e f t him
p a r t i a l l y p a r a l y z e d and a l m o s t u n a b l e t o speak b u t t h a t
d i d n ' t d e t e r him f r o m s h u f f l i n g around t h e house smoking
h i s c i g a r s . He d i e d i n December 1970 o f a second s t r o k e
a t age 81.
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she accompanied my a u n t t o San F r a n c i s c o . She s t a y e d w i t h
u s across t h e bay w h i l e my aunt a t t e n d e d a conference i n
the c i t y .
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t o t h e c i t y which h e l d so many w o n d e r f u l memories f o r h e r
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A VISIT TO THE BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNlClPALE
OF ROUEN, NORMANDY
by Dr. Pauline Courchesne
Editor's Note: On July 8, 1992, Dr. Pauline
Courchesne, the director of the Foreign Language
Department at Shrewsbury, MA, High School, flew to
France to do research on her ancestors. She kept a journal.
She has permitted us to reproduce her entries of the 16th to
the 18th when she did some research in Rouen.
July
16
So this is the Biblioth'eque Municipale de Rouen en
Normandie. I have just requested the baptismal records of
I'Eglise St-Nicolas. Registry #502 lists the baptisms from
June 22, 1631 to December 23, 1670. Elizabeth LeProvost,
my great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother, wife of
Jean-Fran~oisFoucault (whose son would bear the name
Foucault dit Courchesne), should be in here. Here comes
the blond librarian. My heart skips a beat as she hands me
the book. What is this? I can't believe it! It's parchment. I'm
holding parchment in my hands ??!!! I've got the original! I
return to my numbered table with this sacred book and stare
at it for a few seconds. My heart skips a beat. Elisabeth
should be in here. I pull on the two leather bows.
The paper inside is yellow and feels as if it could
disintegrate with one quick flip of the page. How come
they're letting me use this? This is a national treasure!!!!! I
shouldn't be allowed to use this for my research. Why don't
they have copies of these things ??? Anyway, it's in my
hands. I can't read the handwriting! Panic. How am I going
to decipher these listings? I must because there is no
paleographer here to help me. I notice about 4 sheets of
xeroxed material tucked into the inner back cover of another
book I have on the table. It also lists baptismal records but
for dates later than 1670. The darker and more defined
letters facilitate my task. I compare these listings to the older
ones and am able to see some patterns. The listings always
begin with the day, followed by the date. The year is always
centered above its first listing. It goes like this: "On Monday,
January 29 of the said year ... "Then there is a statement as
to the sex and the parents of the newborn. Sometimes the
father's profession is mentioned. Next come the words:
by
and
"was baptized and named
, (godfather and godmother). So my only
problems seem to be in deciphering the family name
among all of them in the margin and the date and child's
name within the paragraph.
The recognizable loops and the disjoined strokes
help me to spot the "LePrevost" name easily as I vertically
scan the family names in the margin on each page. Here's
one. It's for 1646, page 167. On Sunday, January 14, of the
said year, the child of Adrien LePrevost and of Marie
LeBlond was baptized and named Jacques by Jacques
, tailor, and
, the godfather and
godmother. I find an Adrian, born in 1647; another Adrien
born in 1648; a Marguerite born in in 1649; and a Marie
born in 1652. 1 do not find Elisabeth. I am very disappointed
but not daunted. In the little time that I have, I look into the
St-Nicolas book of marriages: books #501 and #503.
Hmmmm. There are three Marie LeBlonds listed, all
daughters of Abraham LeBlond. They were born and
baptized in January of 1621, in 1626 and in 1627. Could
the first two have died? The researcher sitting next to me
tells me that death is not necessarily the reason for several
siblings bearing the same name. There could have been
three living siblings with the same name! He also tells me
that in those days, a man reached his majority only at age
25. O.K. Adrien would not have married before that age. If
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Jacques was the first child, the couple may have been
married the year before. I don't find a listing for this couple's
marriage. If Adrien was 25 in 1645, he was born in 1620.
The Marie LeBlonds were also born around that time. Could
these be my ancestors? I'll need to write to the Rouen
Genealogical Society when I return home. I know that there
are still many LePrevost and LeBlond families in Rouen.
Let's see if I have time for one more bit of research. I
want to know why St-Nicolas Church no longer exists.
Martine and Paulette, who housed me, and who are from
the area, have never heard of that church. Because there is
a Rue St-Nicolas, I'll bet the church was located on that very
street.
What could have happened to that church? Maybe it
burned down because the roof, made of wood, collapsed
after it was struck by lightning. It could have been bombed
during World War II, but Martine and Paulette would have
known about it. World War 1's arena was nowhere near
Rouen. Maybe Haussmann was commissioned to widen the
streets of Rouen as well as Paris? Oh, here's something:
"Les Eglises de Rouen", by Edgard Naillon, 1941.
According to this member of the Societe Fran~aise
d'~rch6ologieet de la Soci6t6 des Amis des Monuments
Rouennais, there were 38 churches in Rouen before the
French Revolution. He says: "La plupart des 6glises de la
Ville de Rouen n'btaient,
leur origine, que de simples
chapelles qui furent agrandies dans la suite, puis irigees
en Qglises paroissiales". So most of them were originally
just chapels that then blossomed into parish churches! And
he names St-Nicolas as one of them! Yeah! Naillon thinks it
was built somewhere around the tenth century. He says that
because of a decree by the ~ssemblheNationale in May of
1791, 13 churches within the city and five on the outskirts
were destroyed. St-Nicolas was among them. So that's it.
Imagine, 200 years ago, Elisabeth's nieces, nephews,
grand-nieces, grand-nephews and cousins' children would
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experience the suffering of the French Revolution. By this
time, Elisabeth's own descendants were struggling in the
New World ... in New France.
July
18
Well, I guess I'll take a walk down by the Cathedral.
That's where St-Nicolas d'Albane, Elisabeth's church, was
located ... a stone's throw from the Cathedral, indeed on the
rue St-Nicolas. Naillon has a map of the location of each of
the 38 churches. Behind the Cathedral, I come across a
group of young, well-dressed Mormons who tell me how to
find the rue de la Croix-de-Fer and the rue St-Nicolas. As I
advance, I notice a small curved street. It bears the name
Place d'Albane! Oh, my goodness! Somebody remembers
the name Albane! I must be right near the site! I turn the
corner and feel frozen in time. There, "stuck onto the angle
of an apartment building is a strip, about three feet wide and
twelve feet high, with its niches and tiny Gothic arches. I
can't believe it. I know, I know that I have found what
remains of I'Eglise St-Nicolas. I drink in the sight with my
eyes and my heart. I look at it and see Elisabeth looking at
the same angle of her church. I have found you, Elisabeth. I
have found you, and today is Dad's birthday. Happy
birthday, Dad. I can go home now.
DYERS AND TANNERS
by Dr. Richard Provost
Many of our ancestors to New France and the
English colonies were dyers and tanners. In recent
years, there has been a renewed interest in weaving
and dyeing cloth as a hobby.
On the frontier, the hemlock tree was known as the
tanner's friend. When rawhide was to be made into
leather, hemlock bark was cut into small pieces and
steeped in water. The hides were then soaked in this
tanbark liquor until it was soft and tan in color.
The Indians used the brain of animals to rub on
their skins to help tan them. To soften them, they
would then beat the hides against wooden post. The
result was a tanned skin that had the softness of
chamois.
Dyers were flourishing in Europe in the 10th
century and they reached their apex in the 13th
century. Their fme craftsmanship was due largely to
the guilds, which were vigilant in maintaining a high
standard of quality. As towns grew, trade increased
and exchanges of goods developed at large city fairs.
Centers for trading dyes developed at Champagne in
Northeastern France, Geneva and Basle, Switzerland:
Florence, Italy; Walden and London. England;
Antwerp, Netherlands and Frankfurt, Germany.
In 1492, the Venetian dyers' guild wrote a book on
dyeing for its members use. It contained a number of
dye formulas. In 1540, another book was published
called Plictho de Larti de Tentori by Giovanni Ventur
Rosetti of Venice, Italy. It contained 217 formulas for
dyeing cloth, linen, cotton, and silk. Although written
in the difficult Venetian dialect of that day, this book,
remained the best source of dyeing information for two
hundred years (1540-1740).
An efficient and extensive textile industry had
developed in France by the 13th century and in
England by the fourteenth century. Some of the dyes
used from then to the 1700's were onion (bird of
paradise color), saffron, (straw color), woad, madder,
walnut root, alder bark, oak bark, logwood (royal
purple color), gallnuts and vitriol. The French also
increased the dyers craft by developing varied dyeing
techniques to achieve additional colors from the basic
dye-stuff. At the end of the 16th century, 220 master
dyers were listed in Paris alone.
The great advance in dyeing methods began in
France in the 18th century when a dye chemistry
based on scientific principles was developed. When our
French-Canadian and English ancestors came to
Eastern Canada and New England, they found that the
Indians had made some progress in the art of dyeing.
Living close to nature, the Indians had acquired a
thorough knowledge of the local fauna. They made use
of certain plants and herbs for medicine and dyeing.
The greatest weakness in their dyeing technology is
found in their limited use of mordants, substances
which fur colors in dyeing. Dyeing cannot be done
humedly. Generally two processes are involved:
mordanting and dyeing. Fastness of color depends on
mordanting, so this process is as important as the
dyeing itself. It must be capable of combining
chemically with the coloring matter being applied.
While a few plant dyes can be applied directly, the
majority require a mordant for permanent color. The
mordanting is essential if the dye is to take properly
and remain permanent. It also enriches the color.
Substances used in mordants are the metallic salts
of alum, chrome, iron and tin. Among other agents
used are acetic acid, ammonia, copper sulfate (blue
vitriol), caustic soda, lime, tannic, and tartaric acid.
Most of these can be found on household shelves or
bought at grocery or drug stores. Some have to be
ordered directly from a chemical company.
I t was not until the Europeans came to North
America that the Indians learned to use a copper
vessel as a dye-pot and to add alum or copperas to
their dyes to fx the color.
Among the more important dues used for various
colors were alder, calliopsis, bloodroot, lamb'squarters, pokeweed, puccoon, dahlias, madder, and
sumac yielded various shades of red; goldseal,
goldthread, yellowroot barberry bark, sassafras, onion
skin, linchens, ageratum, privet leaves, Spanish moss,
peach leaves and butternut will give you various
shades of yellow. It always takes two items to make
green, such as, ash and yellow adder's tongue. Grape
and lavender as well as grape and onion make shades
for brown. wild grape and larkspur make blue and
purple flag make lilac blue. If you wish to make a gray
dye you could use rhododendron leaves. alder bark,
butternut, maple leaves or bark soaked in brass,
sumac bark, and tea grounds and copperas. Black is
one of the hardest colors to set but walnut mercury or
poison ivy make a pretty good black. Bittersweet and
zinnia make a good orange dye and juniper and red
cedar make a khaki dye.
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.
In surveying this new land, colonists were quick to
recognize trees and other plants that resembled those
that they had known in Europe. The early French and
English colonists brought seeds with them to plant:
some for food and herbs and others for clothing and
dyeing. Colonists also experimented with North
American plants they had found and those that had
been pointed out to them by the Indians.
The early colonists used rusty kettles, nails and
iron fillings from the blacksmith's forge to make
mordants. Another form of mordant was called
chamber lye (animal and human urine which was
easily procurable and saved for dyeing, even though its
use was offensive and odiferous. Sometimes the odor
was so offensive that sweet fern and/or oris root was
used to offset the odor. Other common mordants used
at this time were alum, tin, cream of tartar, lye,
vinegar drip lye (pouring water through wood ashes),
copperas and salt. Every family and professional dyer
had a dye pot into which the homespun cotton and
wool was put and a dye added to it plu! mordant.
The colonists found that using a brass ~ e r t l ewas
better for bright colors and an iron kettle was better for
dark colors. Dye colors and shades varied depending
on whether the material was used fresh or dried, leave.
fruit, bark or root as well as the season of the year the
material was picked.
A list of some of the best books on dyeing from the
1600's to the 1850's follows1. Plictho de larte de tentori che insegna tenger pani
telle banbasi et sede si per larthe magiore come per la
commune, by Gioanventura Rosetti, Venice Editions:
1540, 1548, 1565, 1611, 1672.
This was the first printed book on dyeing in
Europe. This book had hundreds of formulas for
dyeing various colors on different fibers and leather as
well as techniques used in the famous dye houses of
Europe. This was the dyers bible for almost 200 years.
2. Instruction gkdrale pow la teinture des laines et
manufactures de laine de toutes couleurs et pow la
culture des drogues ou ingrkdiens qu'on y employe, by
Colbert and D'Albo, Paris Editions: 1671, 1672, 1708,
1737.
This book gave the French regulations to control
the dyers in their operations. The dyers at this time
were divided into two categories: dyers "en petit teint",
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who were allowed to use only fugitive colors. The dyes
and chemicals to be used by each branch was
specified. This book was the foundation for the
industry in France.
3. Cart de la teinture des laines, et des etoffes de
laine, en grand et petit, auec une instruction sur les
&bouillis, by Jean Hellot, Paris. France. 1750.
This book gave a methodeical description of the
dyeing of wool and was considered one of the best
books at that time on the subject.
4. Experiemnts on Bleaching,by Francis Home,
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1756.
This book was the first to explain the great
chemical advances in the art of bleaching which took
place at the end of the 1700's.
5. Art de la teinture en soie, by Pierre Joseph
Macquier, Paris, France, 1763.
Macquier gave a good desription of the dyeing of
silk. He also made known the coloring principle of
prussian blue and tried to apply its use to dyeing. He
also described how to imprint brilliant colors to silk by
means of cochineal.
6.Cart defaire l'lndienne a l'instar d'Angleterre, et
de composer toutes les couleurs, bon teint, propres CI
l'lndienne. Suwi de lafwon de faire toutes les couleurs
en liqueur, pour peindre s w les ktoffes de soie, pour la
rnignature, le lavis des plans et pours colorer les h i s .
les plumes, la paale, le rrin, etc.. . by Delormas, Paris,
France, 1770.
This was one of the first books on calico printing.
7. Cart de la teinture d e s m et ktoffes de coton,
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proc&& d'une ti-&orienouvek des veritables causes de
l a w e des couIeurs de bon teint et suivi des cultures
du pastel, de la gaude et de la garance, by D'Apigny Le
Pileur, Paris, France, 1776.
This book was one of the first on dyeing cotton.
However, it wasn't too successfulthe cotton industry
was just in its early stages. D'Apligny did give a good
description of indian red which was then being widely
used in Rouen, France.
8. Essay on the New Method of Bleaching, by Means
of Oxygenated Muriatic Acid: With an Account of the
Nature, Preparation and Properties of that Acid, and its
Application to Several Other Useful Puposes in the Arts,
by Claude Louis Berthollet of France. Translated from
the French by Robert Kerr; London, England, 1790.
This is the first book on bleaching with cholrine.
9. L'art de la teinture du cotton en rouge, by Jean
Antoine Claude Chaptai Paris, France, 1807.
Cotton dyeing was still relatively new and
considered a dficult process, confined to only a few
colors. Chaptal did some research which resulted in
this text to take into account the special nature of
cotton as a vegetable fiber.
10. Trait&ti-&oriqueet practique de l'irnpression des
tissus, Volumes 1-4, by Jean Francois Persoz. Paris,
France, 1846.
This at that time was the classic text on textile
printing using the new coal-tar dyestuffs. They became
known as anilines.
11. Pr6ci.s de l'art de la teintwes, by Jean Baptiste
Dumas. Paris, France, 1846.
This book contained references to literature on
dyeing and presented both chemical theory and
practical dyeing formulas.
Natural dyes are very warm and rich in color. The
art of dyeing is no more difficult than the art of making
jellies, wines or beer in the home. Dyeing was once
commonly practiced in the home and has recently
made a comeback. Colors for dyeing can be obtained
from many plants, weeds, and bark in your area.
The chemicals needed as mordants are inexpensive.
A mordant is any chemical which possess a strong
e t y for both dye and cloth, and thus serves to bind
them together. One does need soft water (rain water
can be collected in barrels under the drain spouts or
one could use river water if not hard). City and well
water tends to be hard-water which contain chemicals
which can change the dye color or hamper the dyeing
of cloth.
Natural dyes adhere more firmly on wood. Silk also
does well with natural dyes. Cotton and linen,
however, are more difficult.
Before cloth is dyed or treated with mordant, it
must be free of oil or grease. Wool which is greasy
must be scoured before it is dyed. Silk should be
washed with soap and warm water. Before cotton and
linen can be dyed, they must be bleached and scoured
in alkaline lye. None of this would apply if the material
to be dyed had already been treated before you had
purchased it.
If you wish to experiment with home dyeing, start
by doing small amounts of cloth. You should have a
large copper or brass kettle for bright and light colors
and a large iron kettle for dyeing dark colored goods.
To make a mordant you should weigh your wool
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and, for each pound to be dyed, dissolve about two
ounces of alum. Usually, light colors take less alum.
Then add one half ounce of cream of tartar in a small
amount of hot water. Third, add two gallons of soft
water to this. Put the wool to be dyed in this solution.
Heat slowly until the mixture is simmering. It should
simmer for one half hour. Let the mixture cool, then
remove the wool and squeeze the solution gently from
the wool. Place the wool in a bag and hang in a dark
place for three or four days until it is dry.
Then, make your dye. The amount of dye depends
upon the shade of color desired. The dye material
should be chopped up fine and covered with soft water
and allowed to steep overnight. Strain the mixture
through many thicknesses of cheese cloth. Tie the
choppoed material into the cheesecloth and boil the
contents of this bag for one half hour in the water that
was strained off. Add more water if needed.
Remove the cloth bag and hang it above the dye
water and let it drip into the dye water. When the dye
water is lukewarm, add enough soft water to make two
gallons. This is enough to dye one pound of wool.
Rinse your mordanted wool in lukewarm water, and
squeeze out (do not wring) excess water, and immerse
the wool in dye. Bring the dye and wool slowly to a
boil. Stir the wool gently and continuoulsy with a wood
spoon or paddle. Keep the wool loose so you will get an
even dye. The dye solution should simmer for one half
hour. If too much water boils away, remove the wool
and add enough hot water to cover wool but stir well
before putting the wool back in solution. In this way
the wool will get an even dye. If the dye solution isn't
stined before putting the wool back you will get a n
uneven dye job.
When the wool is dyed to the tint you with remove
from the solution and rinse the wool in clear water of
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the same temperature as the dye solution. Repeat in
cooler water until the water is completely cool.
Remember to press the water out of the wool; never
wring out the wool. When the wool is almost dry, roll
the wool in a clean cloth to absorb any water left in the
wool. Hang in a shaded spot to dry.
Mordants not only fix colors to materials but
certain mordants will change colors or alter hues. For
example, madder usually dyes cloth a dull red but with
an alum mordant it will give cloth a bright crimson.
Tin mordants will also change some colors of certain
dyes, as will salts of iron.
Thus, by mixing certain mordants you can produce
many shades of color. Salts or oxides of tin or iron.
sulphate of iron and tannin are also mordants. If you
wish to make your own tannin you can make it from
hemlock bark, nutgalls, sumac, and tea.
Various shades of blue can be obtained from blue
bottle flowers, indigo and woad. Yellow hues can be
obtained from weld, fustic, quercitron bark, the inner
bark of staghorn suma, crabapple barl, hackbeny root,
clematic leaves, jewelweed, sawwort, yellowdock.
gambage, safflower, dyers broom and goldenrod. Red
hues can be obtained from kermes, cochineal.
carthamus, brazilwood, henna, saffron, poinsettia and
sandlewood. Black shades can be obtained from red
oxide of iron, tannin, logwood, sumac, and adler bark.
Brown hues can be obtained from birch, alder bark.
walnut hulls or roots and butternut bark and roots.
Orange can also be obtained by using osageorange
wood and sassafras root. By during with two different
primary dyes you will get shades of green, orange,
violet, and grey.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Meyer, Clarence. The Herbalist. Published by
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Meyerbooks, P.O.Box 427,235 West Main
Street, Glenwood, IL 60425.1918,1932,1960.
. Dye Plants and Dyeing-A Handbook.Vol. 20,
#3.Published at 3100 Elm Avenue, Baltimore,
Maryland: by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden,
Brooklyn, New York. 1964.
. The Pocumtuc Housewije. Published by the
Woman's Alliance of the First Church of
Deefield, MA. 1805,1897,1906,1925.
THE SEARCH FOR MY IDENTITY---MY
PATROMYHIC WIlE
by
J o h n F. C 6 t b J r .
Have you e v e r wondered a b o u t t h e o r i g i n of y o u r f a m i l y
n a a e ? Where d i d i t o r i g i n a t e ? I n w h a t c o u n t r y were t h e
r o o t s p l a n t e d ? To w h a t o t h e r c o u n t r y m i g h t t h e s e r o o t s
h a v e been t r a n s p l a n t e d and why? Does i t d e s i g n a t e or c a r r y
a n y p a r t i c u l a r d i s t i n c t i o n of t h e c o u n t r y o f o r i g i n ? W h a t
i s i t s meaning?
Example:
Champagna-Latin-field.
Champagne-French-field.
Lee-Lees-Anglo Saxon-meadow,
field.
You a r e w h a t you c l a i m t o b e by t h e v e r y v i r t u e of t h e
s u r n a m e you b e a r and w h a t y o u r a n c e s t o r s e v e r were. I t
i d e n t i f i e s you and them a s b e l o n g i n g t o a s p e c i a l g r o u p ,
c l a n , f a m i l y . I t f u r t h e r m o r e d e n o t es t h e i n t e r - r e l a t i o n s h i p s b e t w e e n you and o t h e r s of t h e same name, e i t h e r
d i r e c t o r c o l l a t e r a l . Of g r e a t e r i m p o r t a n c e p e r h a p s , i t
is t h e o n e and o n l y p o s s e s s i o n t h a t was l e f t t o you by
A l l else t h a t you
your parents, p a t e r n a l o r maternal.
might acquire, p o s s e s s o r control w i l l p e r i s h o r stopwhen
you d e p a r t t h i s w o r l d , b u t b u r i e d i n a r c h i v e s , i n c i t y
h a l l s , s t a t e and c h u r c h r e c o r d s , and m o s t l i k e l y i n
g o v e r n m e n t f i l e s , y o u r name w i l l be c o l l e c t i n g d u s t i n
p e r p e t u i t y w i t h m a n y o t h e r s . The o n l y t r a c e t h a t you o n c e
e x i s t e d w i l l b e o n your tombstone. Engraved, i t w i l l s t a t e
o n l y t h a t you were o n c e , o n e w i t h someone and you h a v e
l e f t a n o n - p e r i s h a b l e i d e n t i t y t o f u t u r e g e n e r a t i o n s and
d e s c e n d a n t s . T h i s w i l l s e r v e t o a l e r t them t h a t you a n d
t h e y h a v e a c o n s a n g u i n i t y w i t h a common h e r i t a g e .
many means a r e a v a i l a b l e t o d a y t o e s t a b l i s h k i n s h i p .
W h e t h e r t h e r e l a t i o n s h i p i s g e r m a n e o r c o l l a t e r a l , you
c a n i d e n t i f y w i t h o t h e r s o u t s i d e of t h e s u r f a c e you b o t h
b e a r . Some o f t h e s e a v a i l a b l e r e s o u r c e s a r e a " c o a t of
a r m s , " a h e r a l d i c emblem t h r o u g h w h i c h o n e may t r a c e
r e l a t i o n s h i p s by t h e s i m i l a r i t y o f t h e a r m s and emblem.
A n o t h e r is t h e g e n e a l o g i c a l s e a r c h f o r y o u r own f a m i l y ,
r u n n i n g b a c k w a r d s i n t o time t o d i s c o v e r y o u r a n c e s t r a l
o r i g i n s . O th e r methods, a l s o u s e f u l , a r e c i v i l r e c o r d s
i n v a r i o u s r e p o s i t o r i e s throughout t h e country.
Yet
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another c o n s t i t u t e s f a m i l y b i b l e s , d i a r i e s , a l o n g w i t h
r e c o l l e c t i o n s of an e l d e r ifyou a r e l u c k y t o have one
i n the fauiily.
The one I f i n d most i n t e r e s t i n g as w e l l
a s e d u c a t i o n a l i s t h e c o n n o t a t i o n of your surnameand i t s '
origin.
The above i n f o r m a t i o n i s a p r e l u d e t o my name
of C
a and i t s d e r i v a t i o n .
The name i s Norman French i n o r i g i n , from Normandie,
France, and can be l o c a t e d i n a r c h i v e s a s f a r b a c k a s 1087
A.D.
S p e c i f i c a l l y , i t i s from t h e Mortagne area o f t h e
Perche d i s t r i c t of 1'0rne.
Mortaqne i n a n c i e n t t i m e s was t h e c a p i t a l of t h e P r o v i n c e
o f Perche.
Today, i t forms p a r t of t h e department o f
L'Orne and i s t h e p r i n c i p a l town o f t h e d i s t r i c t . I t i s
s i t u a t e d o n t h e s u m n i t o r s l o p e (d'un coteau) o f t h e c h i p p e
R i v e r t h a t f l o w s around t h e base o f t h e town. The Church
It
of St. Jean de Mortagne i s preeminent i n t h e town.
was b u i l t between 1494-1635 and e n l a r g e d i n 1835.
Its
p o r t a l doors, d a t i n g back t o t h e 1 5 t h c e n t u r y , d e p i c t S t .
Denis.
Normandie i s i n t h e n o r t h e r n p a r t o f France
Orne. A s m a l l d i s t r i c t w i t h i n was known as
The name i s from t h e
name i t p r o p e r l y .
" P e r t i c u s Saltus," which denotes e x t e n s i v e
i n existence.
now known as
La Perche t o
L a t i n words
f o r e s t s once
Perche i s bounded on t h e n o r t h by Normandie, on t h e southe a s t by La Beauce and on t h e southwest by t h e d i s t r i c t
of fialne. A mountain chain s e n s i b l y , e q u a l l y separates
i n two p a r t s .
T h i s area, r u n n i n g e a s t t o west was t h e
homeland o f o u r ancestor Jean C8tb. Years ago, La Perche,
independent of and y e t p a r t of, was considered a d i s t r i c t
of Normandie.
h l t h o u g h very p i c t u r e s q u e and l i t t o r a l ,
t h e s u r r o u n d i n g c o u n t r y s i d e o f Tourouve and V e n t r o u z e a r e
d e c i d e d l y t h e most a t t r a c t i v e p a r t s of PPrche. Here, we
f i n d s m a l l v i l l a g e s r e n o w n f o r t h e i r l e i s u r e s t y l e country
l i f e and q u a i n t customs d a t i n g back c e n t u r i e s .
This
i d y l l i c corner o f t h e g e n t l e c o u n t r y s i d e i s famous f o r
i t s ' percheron breed o f horses, c i d e r and apples, amid
her a g r i c u l t u r a l p u r s u i t s . I t l i e s a t an a l t i t u d e o f 1 , 2 0 0
f e e t on a p l a t e a u , w i t h a c o o l mountain breeze r e f r e s h i n g
t h e weary t r a v e l e r , o r farmer, a f t e r a hard l o n g day,
l a b o r i n g i n t h e f i e l d s . I n Tourouve, s t a n d i n g beside t h e
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r u i n s o f an o l d c h a t e a u / f o r t , is a b e a u t i f u l o l d c h u r c h
d a t i n g b a c k t o t h e 1 5 0 0 ' s and s t i l l i n u s e t o d a y . The
a r c h i v a l r e c o r d s o f T o u r o u v e , d a t i n g b a c k t o t h e end o f
t h e XCI c e n t u r y ( 1 5 8 9 ) , r e v e a l n u m e r o u s names of o u r
C a n a d i a n a n c e s t o r s . They c o m p r i s e d t h e m a j o r i t y of t h e
o r i g i n a l C a n a d i a n s e t t l e r s coming f r o m t h e n o r t h e r n p a r t
of F r a n c e . i l o s t o f t h e e a r l y c o l o n i s t s i n Canada came
from Normandie. W
e owe much t o t h e s e h a r d y Normans who
were o u r f o r e b e a r s .
They g a v e u s o u r C a n a d i a n - F r e n c h
Norman h e r i t a g e f o r w h i c h we s h o u l d b e g r a t e f u l a n d p r o u d
i n r e c a l l i n g o u r b o n d s w i t h "La P a t r i e d e s o n amour," ma
Normandie.
Why a f f i x s o much i m p o r t a n c e t o i l o r t a g n e , P e r c h e ,
N o r m a n d i e , F r a n c e ? I f you, t h e r e a d e r , w i l l t a k e a f l i g h t
of i m a g i n a t i o n and f a n c y w i t h me, we'll r o l l b a c k t h e f i l m
of time to t h e s p r i n g o f 1634. We're now a t t h e w a t e r f r o n t
i n D i e p p e . I t is a c l e a r n i g h t w i t h a b r i g h t b e c k o n i n g
moon. The c h i l l of w i n t e r h a s p a s s e d and t h e h o p e s o f
s p r i n g i n v i g o r a t e e v e r y o n e . Look t o y o u r r i g h t and you
w i l l p e r c e i v e 4 s h i p s r e a d y i n g f o r a l o n g voyage, a w a i t i n g
t h e outgoing t i d e . In a few hours, t h e small 4 s h i p s w i l l
f a d e from view o v e r t h e h o r i z o n . S i e u r D u p l e s s i s , Royal
A d m i r a l , is s a i l i n g t o New F r a n c e on a v o y a g e t h a t w i l l
l a s t some 6 0 d a y s . His s h i p w i l l f i n a l l y make l a n d f a l l
J u n e 4 t h a t F o r t S t . L o u i s , Q u e b e c . The o t h e r 3 s h i p s
will a r r i v e l a t e r .
Now i n p o r t a t F o r t S t . L o u i s , a
He is R o b e r t G i f f a r d , S i e u r d e
gentleman disembarks.
P l o r t a g n e and B e a u p o r t . He and 7 c o l o n i s t s w i l l make t h e i r
new home on h i s l a n d g r a n t f r o m t h e k i n g , a b o u t 8
k i l o m e t e r s away on t h e S t . L a w r e n c e R i v e r . Q u e b e c sees
them b u t f o r a f e w d a y s , a s t h e y m u s t l e a v e f o r B e a u p o r t
t o make r e a d y f o r t h e c o m i n g w i n t e r . 4 m o n g t h e 7 c o l o n i s t s
is a c o n f i d e n t and a s s u r e d J e a n CGte/CostC f r o m i l o r t a g n e ,
Perche, France.
f i o r e a b o u t t h i s man and t h e s p e c i a l
r e l a t i o n s h i p t h a t e x i s t e d b e t w e e n t h e G i f f a r d s and t h e
C8tBs. l a t e r .
I n t h e F r e n c h l a n g u a g e , t h e noun " c o t e " h a s a d i s t i n c t
p r o n u n c i a t i o n and meaning when a p p l i e d i n p r e c i s e and
p a r t i c u l a r i n s t a n t , depending on t h e i n f l e c t i o n o r a c c e n t
u s e d . F r o m t h e L a r o u s s e F r e n c h - E n g l i s h d i c t i o n a r y , 1970
e d i t i o n , a s authority, w e d e r i v e t h e following.
Gate
feminineFrenchK6teslope, r i b , h i l l , shore, c o a s t , small
hummock. C b t e f e m i n i n e F r e n c h K 6 t e s h a r e , q u o t e , q u o t a ,
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quotation.
C8tC f e m i n i n e F r e n c h K8t) d i s t r i c t ,
aspect, d i r e c t i o n .
side,
There i s a n o t h e r accepted d e r i v a t i v e usage of t h e word
"Cote" from t h e E n g l i s h language b u t t h e meaning i s v e r y
d i f f e r e n t f r o n t h e F r e n c h version.
The f o l l o w i n g i s f r o m
W e b s t e r ' s New World D i c t i o n a r y , 1965 e d i t i o n .
Cote-K8te-Noun- M.E.-Cot
a s m a l l shed/coop f o r b i r d s ,
chickens, sheep, doves. Cot-Kot-Noun M.E.-cottage
A.S.
a h u t , a covered p l a c e a k i n t o I1.D. ( K o t e ) Another source
"The book o f American Surnames* by Eldsom C. Smith, 1986
editionoftheBaltimorePublishersCo.qivesthefollowing
which a r e of E n g l i s h o r i g i n s w i t h one e x c e p t i o n .
Cote--Cotter--Cottrel
onewho t i l l e d o n l y 5 a c r e s o r l e s s .
Cote
a d w e l l e r i n a c o t t a g e o r hut.
Cote--Coady A s m a l l wood o r shaw, a cope, grove, h e a r s t ,
wood, ( 5 ) .
Coat
Wearing a d i s t i n c t i v e o u t e r garment, a mantle,
cloak.
Coates One who t i l l e d 5 o r 10 a c r e s o r l e s s and l i v e d
i n a s m a l l c o t t a g e o r hut.
Cody I r i s h
One who helps, a s s i s t s .
A l l of t h e above a r e t h e common manner o f s p e l l i n g t h e
name Cote b u t have a d i f f e r e n t meaning and i n t e r p r e t a t i o n
i n t h e E n g l i s h speech p a t t e r n .
The l a c k of t h e a c c e n t
marks, which a r e p e c u l i a r t o t h e F r e n c h language, have
n o p l a c e i n t h e E n g l i s h words t o t h e r e f o r e t h e s p e c i f i c
meaning o r i n f l e c t i o n i s n o t t r a n s m i t t e d as e a s i l y as i n
French. The p r e c i s i o n i n p h r a s i n g a meaning i s l o s t i n
t h e E n g l i s h p r o n u n c i a t i o n of t h e word "Cote.'
I t i s the
same i n whatever c i r c u m s t a n c e s t h e word i s used.
From
a l l t h a t I have read and researched on my name, one f a c t
stands clear.
I t was t r a n s m i t t e d w i t h o u t changes o r
c o r r u p t i o n s o v e r t h e c e n t u r i e s and has n o t l o s t i t s
meaning.
Other b e a u t i f u l French names have n o t f a r e d
so w e l l . They have been 50 changed, c o r r u p t e d and misused
t h a t one can h a r d l y d i s t i n g u i s h o r f i n d h i s t r u e name.
I n my case I have t r a c e d t h e name o f "CbtBU back t o t h e
1 2 t h c e n t u r y and a v a r i a t i o n of t h e name back t o 1087 A.D.
I n "The O r i g i n s o f Some Anglo-Norman F a m i l i e s " by L e w i s
Coyd, t h e 1975 e d i t i o n p u b l i s h e d by t h e General
C.
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P u b l i s h i n g Co.
following.
of
B a l t i m o r e Nd.,
one w i l l
find
the
Thomas des Costes (des Costes--from the side--slope), c i r c a
1087, was g r a n t e d k n i g h t h o o d f o r s e r v i c e s t o t h e Crown,
s a i d knighthood being i n t h e Shropshire D i s t r i c t
( M i d l a n d s ) . T h i s can be found i n t h e Red Book o f t h e ExChecquer, e x t a n t today. Other n o t a t i o n s a r e subsequent
t o t h e m a t e r i a l . David Cote was o f England i n 1195. Roger
Coste a l s o o f England i n 1180-1195.
R a l p h Coste 1198.
Robert de Coete/Coiete 1180-1195.
The sound
One may n o t i c e t h e s i m i l a r s p e l l i n g o f Cote.
b e i n g a l m o s t thesame w h i l e t h e p r o n u n c i a t i o n i s t h e same.
N o t i c e a l s o t h a t t h e s p e l l i n g has c a r r i e d o v e r t o t h e
p r e s e n t day w i t h h a r d l y any changes and i s s t i l l i n use
today as such.
Many * C o t e s ' c a r r y a c o r r u p t e d v e r s i o n
o f t h e o r i g i n a l s p e l l i n g of b o t h t h e Norman and E n g l i s h
I am p e r s o n a l l y convinced t h a t t h e o r i g i n a l
versions.
s p e l l i n g was COIETE/COSTE and o f Norman-French o r i g i n .
The most p r o b a b l e r o o t s o f t h e name "Cote" would be t h e
a n c i e n t a r c h a i c Norman s p e l l i n g u s i n g t h e form of
Coiete/Coete.
The accepted form o f t h i s today would be
as f o l l o w s :
FRENCH
ENGLISH
c6te
Coty
c~tte
Coates
C8stB
Coat
Cost
Costes
The Norman f a m i l y o f Coete/Coiete/Cote/des
o r i g i n a l l y descended from V i k i n g f o r b e a r s and s e t t l e d i n
Norman-Land (Normandie.)
A t t h e t i m e o f t h e conquest,
t h e group s e p a r a t e d i n t o two e x i s t i n g branches, one i n
England and one i n France.
Their e n t i t y s t i l l exists
today.
The E n g l i s h C o t e ( s ) , d a t i n g back t o 1066, a r e
c o l l a t e r a l l y r e l a t e d t o t h e one o r i g i n a l source i n
Normandie.
-
Another i n t e r e s t i n g s i d e l i g h t i s t h e frequency w i t h which
t h e name "Cote" appears i n Canada and t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s .
Eldsom Smith, i n t h e 1969 e d i t i o n o f h i s book "American
Surnames," devotes somepages t o t h i s i s s u e and g i v e s 2 0 0 0
f a m i l y surnames i n use today i n t h e U.S. w i t h t h e o r d e r
o f t h e i r appearance.
"Cote' i s l i s t e d as
w i t h an
e s t i m a t e d 20.170 b e a r e r s i n v a r i o u s forms.
Yet a n o t h e r book p u b l i s h e d i n Canada i n 1976 by t h e Lava1
U n i v e r s i t y P r e s s e s t i m a t e d t h a t t h e r e were o v e r 30,000
Cotes i n Canada. O f t h a t number, 10,000 were enumerated
i n R o n t r e a l , t h e c i t a d e l of t h e A n g l o p h i l e s .
Thus, i n
America, t h e r e i s e s t i m a t e d t o be o v e r 50,000 "C6t6s"
making them t h e second l a r g e s t f a m i l y group o f Canadian
descent.
The Tremblays, who number a l m o s t 60,000, a r e
c o n s i d e r e d t o be t h e l a r g e s t f a m i l y o f Canadian a n c e s t r y .
When compared t o t h e American f a m i l y name of "Smith," who
r a n k # I w i t h 2,238,000 i n t h e U.S.,
t h e Canadian d e s c e n t
appears r e l a t i v e l y s m a l l .
An e x p l a n a t o r y f a c t i n t h i s
comparison i s t h a t many more thousands of i m m i g r a n t s came
t o t h e U.S. t h a n t o Canada.
PI n i c e c o u n t e r p o i n t t o t h i s s t o r y concerns t h e G i f f a r d s ,
g i v e n i n a book by Loyd 1951 e d i t i o n . I t i s e n t i t l e d "The
O r i g i n s o f Some Norman F a m i l i e s . "
Loyd, i n h i s book,
mentions and d e s c r i b e s t h e G i f f a r d s , whose f a m i l y p l a c e
o f o r i g i n was L o n g u e v i l l e L a G i f f a r d (now L o n g u e v i l l e s u r
S e i n e ) , i n Normandie.
Two b r o t h e r s , Walther and Osberne, were s t r o n g s u p p o r t e r s
o f Duke W i l l i a m o f Normandie.
They s u p p l i e d o v e r 100
s h i p s , food, men a t arms and weapons t o t h e Duke f o r t h e
i n v a s i o n o f England i n 1066. T h e y w e r e a p o t e n t , powerful,
s t e e l - c l a d n o b l e f a m i l y who f u l l y expected t o be g r e a t l y
rewarded w i t h booty, s p o i l s and l a n d , a f t e r t h e b a t t l e
and t h e d e f e a t o f H a r o l d t h e Saxon.
The G i f f a r d s were so favored by t h e conqueror t h a t 117
l o r d s h i p s a n d e s t a t e s w e r e q r a n t e d t o them as t h e i r reward
f o r h a v i n g m a t e r i a l l y and humanly s u p p l i e d Duke W i l l i a m .
E v e n t u a l l y , t h i s p o w e r f u l f e u d a l f a m i l y became t h e
i l l u s t r i o u s e a r l s of Buckingham. T h e i r l i n e a g e d i e d o u t
i n t h e 1 4 t h c e n t u r y as no male h e i r was issued. The t i t l e
then passed down t o a cousin.
The G i f f a r d s s e a t of honor ( C a p u t ) was L o n g u e v i l l e La
Giffard.
I n an o l d Norman c a r t u l a r i t y , one f i n d s t h a t
t h e p r i o r y ( a r e l i g i o u s house) was g i v e n as a f o u n d a t i o n
b y t h e G i f f a r d s . The c a s t l e r u i n s a r e s t i l l v i s i b l e t o d a y .
The f a m i l y o f G i f f a r t / G i f f a r d has been b r o u g h t i n t o t h e
C&t4/Coste h i s t o r y inasmuch as we f i n d b o t h a G i f f a r d and
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a C8tb a r r i v i n g i n Quebec i n 1634 and I had t o b u i l d a
b r i d g e spanning a t i m e frame o f 600 years.
Throughout my r e s e a r c h and i n f o r m a t i v e reading, the
f a m i l i e s of G i f f a r d and Cat6 a r e i n t e r m i n g l e d , connected
I am l e d t o b e l i e v e ,
and i n v o l v e d i n many a f f a i r s .
therefore, t h a t t h i s was t h e l o r d and s e r v a n t t y p e o f
r e l a t i o n s h i p t h a t d e s t i n e d b o t h t o be i n each o t h e r ' s
company.
T h i s was undoubtedly due t o t h e feudal
r e l a t i o n s h i p t h a t e x i s t e d a t t h a t time.
S t a r t i n g w i t h Thomas des Costes, k n i g h t e d i n 1087 f o r
s e r v i c e s t o t h e Crown, i n a d d i t i o n t o being g r a n t e d an
e s t a t e i n the mid-lands o f Enqland, t h e r e i s every reason
t o b e l i e v e t h a t Thomas was a man a t arms i n t h e t r a i n o f
e i t h e r Osberneof Walther G i f f a r d . T h i s then, knighthood
and e s t a t e , was t h e reward f o r h i s s e r v i c e a t t h e B a t t l e
of H a s t i n g s i n 1066.
We now come t o t h e s p r i n g o f 1634. The 4 s h i p s f i n a l l y
a r r i v e a t Quebec i n June 1634 w i t h t h e f o l l o w i n g as
passengers. R o b e r t G i f f a r d , S i e u r d e P l o r t a g n e a n d B e a u p o r t
w i t h 7 c o l o n i s t s . One such c o l o n i s t was a c e r t a i n Jean
CStb/Coste, h a b i t a n t f o r Robert, h i s Sieur. Bothnen came
from Normandie i n t h e Perche area.
Strange f a t e s and d e s t i n y a r e a t work. B 0 . h CBtbs, Thomas
and Jean, f o l l o w t h e i r l o r d f r o m t h e h a b i t a t i n Normandie.
A f t e r c r o s s i n q a body o f water, they a r r i v e i n a s t r a n g e
l a n d t o seek t h e i r f o r t u n e . Does h i s t o r y r e p e a t i t s e l f ?
I s t h e r e n o t h i n g new under t h e sun? T h i s i s y e t another
i n t e r e s t i n g f a c e t of genealogy when s e a r c h i n g f o r your
f a m i l y name and t h e b e a r e r s o f i t .
For persons i n t e r e s t e d i n t h e Canadian n o b i l i t y , t h e r e
arebooks p u b l i s h e d a b o u t t h e s u b j e c t t h a t can be purchased
o r ordered i n any book s t o r e . T h i s should be h e l p f u l f o r
them t o seek o u t and determine i f any of t h e i r ancestors
were ennobled f o r deeds rendered.
I n conclusion, I s a l u t e and honor t h e memories of a l l my
forbears. ToThomasdesCostes, 1087, k n i g h t a n d h o p e f u l l y
a l s o a c o l l a t e r a l descendant Jean Ctitb, 1634. They made
i t p o s s i b l e f o r me t o bear an honored name w e l l f o r over
60 years.
I have n o t d i s c r e d i t e d t h i s one and t r u e
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oossession of mine, my family name CSt@/CGst@.
CHRONDLOGICAL TINE TABLE FOR ORIGIN OF FANILY NAME COTE
Circa
Memoirares of Soc. Ant. of Normd.
OsbernedeLongueville/Bolbec,William
de Bolbec.
Robert flalet Gilbert de flenill gave to
Church of Pictoriville Norad. to
religious usage.
Thomas des Costes Knighted Conq.
Service to Crown "Red Bk. Exchecouer"
Family still exists today.
David Cote Knighted.
RobertdeCoete/CoieteofNormd.Notice
the "dew = from. The Norman People H.
S. Kinp 1874 ed. London.
Roger Cost/Coste of Normd.
Sacc.
Roger Cost Knighted.
person?
(Mao. Rot.
Question? Same
Roger Coete Knighted. Source? "Some
Anqle/Nornan Families" by Lewis Loyd.
R a l p h C o s t e o f Normd. (flaa.Rot.Scac.)
The Norman People by H.S. King.
David Cote of England. (Palqr. Rot.
Cur. Reaisl by H.S. King.
Roger Cote/Cotes EnqlishNath. Fellow
of Trinity College Cambridge 1705.
Plunian Prof. of Astronomy. Published
2nd Edition of "Newtons Principia".
Francis Cote/Cotes. Portrait painter
crayon & o i l s Irish extraction Worked
London & Bath.
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1734-1818
Samuel Cote/Cotes. Crayon portraits
and miniatures on enamels and ivory.
Exhibt. 1760-1789. Fellow of inc.soc.
of artists. Brother of Francis &
Student.
1878-1943
Joseph Gordon Cote/Coates.
N.Z.
Statesman. Rinister of Justice 19191920. See original bio & notes.
1903-1955
Alcide Cote.
Canadian Government
Official. Post Plaster General Canada,
Ottawa 1952. Chairman U.N. Delegation
1953. See original bio. & notes.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Sons of the Conqueror. L.G. Pine.
Roll of Battle Abbey. J.B. Burke 1848. p59. Reprint
1978. Gen. Pub. Co. Balt. MD.
Domesday Book p6 183.
The Norman People.
H.S.
King. 1874 Edition.
London.
Some Angle/Norman Families-Lewis Loyd 1973. Pub.
C.E. Tuttle Co. Rutland, VT.
They Came With The Conqueror-Lewis Loyd 1953. Pub.
C.E. Tuttle Co. Rutland. VT.
BOOK REVIEW
Critique
Acadian Hard Times: Farm Security Administration in
Maine's Saint John Valley, 1940-1943 by C. Steward
Doty with photographs by John Collier, Jr., Jack
Delano and Jack Walas. University of Maine, 1991.
$25.
Acadian Hard Times is a book of black and white
pictures taken in the Saint John Valley of Maine in the
early 1940's. The pictures were taken by John Collier,
Jr., and Jack Delano for the Farm Security
Administration. Several scene were reshot for
comparison sake by Jack Walas in 1989. The pictures
document the seed potato program. The text is by
Stewart C. Doty.
The Saint John Valley has a closeness to French
Canada not only geographically but linguistically and
architecturally as well. It is inhabited by Acadian
farmers. The pictures depict their unique and rugged
way of life during the Great Depression and how they
were helped by the Farm Security Administration. Jack
Walas' pictures taken 50 years later show us what
happened to these farmers and their families. The
focus in on the farms of Eva and Lawrence J. Brown,
IrPne and Oneil Daigle, Alice D. and Belonie Dufour,
Marie A. and Patrick Dumond, Emma and LConard
Gagnon, Baptiste and Julie C. Gendreau, ZCphirin
Gendreau, Lindore and Myrtle B. Labbe as well as
Claude and NClida Lkvesque. (See accompanying map)
For the most part, these families are now scattered
around the country. Many of them have settled in and
around Hartford, Connecticut. Most are now in nonfarm occupations. Doty comments, "If their lives got
better, it was through their own courage and
determination."
I feel a strong affinity to these people. I was a
child during the Great Depression. I was brought u p in
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a poor urban setting near New York City. Their home
life was similar to mine. For instance, the simple foods
which they ate were not unlike the simple foods which
my own French-Canadian mother prepared. I'm also
sure that, like me, these former Acadlan children must
laugh to see these same items now packaged as
gourmet foods.
This work, Acadian Hard Times, is both
historical and artistic.
Reviewed by C. Edmond Spaeth
MEMBERS' CORNER
Le coin des members
The purpose of this column is to help our
members get in touch with each other for mutual
benefit. All items for this column should be sent
directly to the editor
Henri Leblond
88 John Street
Pawtucket, RI
02861-1010
before July lst, if they are to appear in the next issue.
Because space is limited, they will be included on a
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in successive issues.
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Dans notre courrier
Do you have a question about something you
read in these pages? Do you have additional
information about a topic which was treated here? Do
you want to correct a mistake which you've spotted?
Do you have a comment on an article which you'd like
to make? Do you have a suggestion which may be of
interest? If so, write to the editor! Every letter will be
given his full attention and, if it has general appeal, it
will be printed in whole or in part subject to the
limitation of space.
John E. Atkinson of 42226 Rugby Drive, Toledo, Ohio
43607,writes "I'm trying to find the children of
Norman Gorton a s it relates to my search for Lemoine
(Lemoyne)ancestors. Norman Gorton was the brother
of Haniett Genevieve Atkinson (nee Gavitt). His last
name was Gavitt until he changed it to Gorton. I
believe the family, my cousins, have the family album
of the Gavitts and Lemoines which contains photos of
all concerned. I would very much like to contact any
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member of the family. Incidentally, Melvina (nee Godin)
Gavitt was a dancer and was burned in a fire a t the
Algonquin (?) Iroquois (?) Theatre in Chicago in the
early 1900's. Eddy Foy Sr. was on the playbill that
night. Melvina and her mother, Henrietta Godin (nee
Lemoine) lived in West Warwick for many years."
James E. Cundy of 845 Wakefield Street, Apt. A-7703,
West Warwick, RI 02893- 1451, is looking for
information on the Merci Train (Train de la
Reconnaissance Franqaise). It contained gifts from the
people of France to the people of Rhode Island. The
gifts were distributed at the State House from August
29th to September 2nd. 1949, under the direction of
Laure B. Lussier who was then the registrar of motor
vehicles. The gifts went to "museums, historical
societies, schools, organizations and persons who, over
the years, had done outstanding work for France in
interpreting French culture to Americans." The box car
which contained the gifts was reportedly destroyed by
fire. However, it is actually in a junk yard in South
County. Mr. Cundy is trying to write a history of it and
have it restored. He'd like to hear from anyone who has
information about the gifts: kinds, recipients, and so
on. Incidentally, similar Merci Trains went to other
states. If you know about any of them, he'd like to hear
from you too.
Joe Jolly of 3604 Torrey Pines Road, Rio Rancho, NM
87124, would like to get in touch with the Association
des descendants de Louis Blanchet. It seems that the
Association's president, Mr. Raymond Blanchet, has
moved from 758 Des Melenes, Sainte Foy, Quebec,
Canada C1X 3C9. Anyone who's interested in
contacting any family association in Quebec should
write to the Federation des familles souches quebecois,
Inc., C.P. 6700, Sillery, Quebec, Canada G1T 2W2.
Elaine Smith suggest including in J M S travel vignettes
about members' ancestral towns, places they've visited
in their genealogical searches and s o on. Great minds
think along the same lines! See Pauline Courchesne's
article in this issue.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Travaux de nos members
What family are you researching? Would you like
to hear from others who are working on the same
family We will list here free of charge the name of the
family which interests you along with your name,
address, and phone number. If you are working on
more than one family, we will list each of them a s
space permits.
John E. Atkinson of 42226 Rugby Drive, Toledo, Ohio
43607, is searching for his Lemoine (Lemoyne)
ancestors.
Bernice Hackney of 8236 Baymore Way, Citrus
Heights, CA 9542 1 is working on the following families:
Bernier, Charron, Gauthier and Machabbe-Manabe.
Sharon Sears of P. 0. Box 15024, Fritz Creek, Alaska
99603-6024 is researching the Broffle (Braffele)and
Johnstone names.
BOOKS WANTED
Livres demandks
Are you in need of a book to facilitate your
research? A co-member may have the book which
interests you and may be willing to sell it to you. We'll
list your request a t no charge. Send the name of the
book which you'd like along with your name, address,
and phone number to the editor. If you have more than
one request, we'll list them if there's room.
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BOOKS FOR SALE
Livres h vendre
Do you have a genealogical or historical book which
you no longer need but which may be helpful to
others? Are you interested in selling it? We will list
your book here at no cost. Send the name of the book
and your asking price along with your name, address,
and phone number to the editor. Do you have more
than one book to sell? We'll include them if we can.
Elaine Smith writes that the book on Charles
GarnierIGrenier which she offered in our last issue
went to Leon Guimond of Frenchville. Maine.
LIBRARY REPORT
Rapport du bibliothecaire
The Library Committee is delighted to announce an
important new purchase. We now have the new "Drouin
Series". It has more than 600 microfiches of of marriages
alphabetized by the bride's name which makes this a rather
unique work because marriages are usually alphabetized
by the groom's name. If you are collecting the names of
individuals with a specific surname, this new "Drouin
Series" will permit you to add the names of many women.
We are in the middle of a campaign raise money to
defray the cost of this wonderful, major addition to our
library collection. We are also trying to raise enough money
to purchase a reader-printer so that we will be able to copy
names from the fiches as well as from the microfilms which
we have in our collection. We feel that, with this printer, we
will be able to better serve our members who live away from
the library area. They will be able to ask us to copy certain
names or marriages from our collection and we will have
the means to do this.
The new reader-printers are very nice. They use
toner instead of the old chemicals and they use regular
copy paper. This makes upkeep a lot easier. Of course, new
technology does not come without cost. The new machine
costs about $3000. We hope that our current campaign will
be successful and that we will be able to purchase this
equipment soon.
We were also very fortunate to receive 10 microfiche
readers from Old Stone Bank. These machines were
surplus equipment, outdated for banking needs but very
helpful to us. They cleaned up beautifully and have added
greatly to our ability to service our library patrons. We are
very grateful to the bank for this very generous gift to our
library.
We have had a busy publishing year. We have had
very successful sales of our five Woonsocket repertoires.
The funeral records from Foley's Funeral Home have also
sold well. In addition, we have printed and sold about 600
cookbooks. We are now ready to introduce four new
marriage books and one new book of funeral home records.
These books will include the marriages of Holy Family of
Woonsocket, RI; St. Joseph of Pascoag, RI; Sacred Heart of
No. Attleboro, MA; and St. Theresa of Blackstone, MA. We
will also present the burials from the Hickey-Grenier
Funeral Home in Brockton, MA. These very fine books will
be wonderful additions to our library and your libraries. I
know you will enjoy using these books.
We wish to thank all those people who have helped
us prepare, edit, print, collate, bind and market these books.
Paul Delisle has become our "printer" and we would
certainly have been lost without his outstanding efforts on
our behalf. Roger Beaudry has been outstanding in his
marketing efforts and we have certainly kept Therese busy
preparing our orders for mailing. Lucille, Roland and Henry
have kept our binding machines busy and Mary did her
share before leaving for Florida. Since we do not have a
collator, Noella, Jeannette, Jan, Henry, Raymond, Eveline,
Eugene, Armand, Mary, Roger, Paul and Lucile have spent
many Saturday mornings walking around the library tables
putting our books together. Then, of course, there are all the
members who were recruited on library day and who also
walked cheerfully around the tables so that we could keep
up with our orders. Hard work? Definitely! But it was also a
lot of fun and a lot of laughs. The Library Committee is very
grateful to all our helpers for the unselfish donation of time
that each member has given.
Our obituary, bride and milestone projects continue
to grow weekly. Thanks to all the loyal members who
continue to clip, paste, copy and catalog this wonderful
information. Please keep up the good work. If you would
like to join us in this project, please feel free to do so. Just
clip out pertinent information from your local newspaper
and send it along to us.
We have undertaken a very ambitious project. We
are putting hard covers on all of our GBC bound books.
Armand invented a cover using old cardboard boxes and
contact paper. The result is impressive. It has really made a
big difference in how our books sit on the shelves. I am
quite sure that it will add to the life of the book because the
new cover gives much more support to its pages. Armand
and Mary Letourneau, Lucile McDonald and Roland
Bouliane have given many hours to this very large project.
We are grateful to them.
Our library has been open one Saturday and one
Sunday a month. This will continue throughout the Spring.
Our members have responded warmly to these new hours
and the week-end sessions have been very well attended.
This summer, we are planning to have several
workshops for beginners. We had these workshops last
winter and they were very well received. We hope many of
our new members will take advantage of this opportunity.
Paul Delisle and Roger Beaudry have been working
on an outstanding project. They have been cataloging the
cemeteries of Northern RI. They have gathered a
tremendous amount of material and will be adding to their
collection over the next few years. A.F.G.S. hopes to publish
their work. We feel that this unique work will be a major
resource for all genealogists. It will contain information from
all cemeteries including Catholic, Protestant, Quaker and
Jewish. Congratulations to Roger and Paul for an
outstanding effort.
Lucile McDonald has been helping the Blackstone
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(MA) Town Clerk computerize the town's vital records. As a
result, we have been receiving copies of these records. This
is valuable information which is being made available at
our library.
We have about $2000 worth of new books on order.
These books will be listed in our next report. We continue to
make every effort to keep our library up to date and to
purchase new books as they become available. We
appreciate those members who continue to donate to the
book fund. We thank you most sincerely.
RESEARCH POLICY
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research service:
steps
if you
wish
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'Your
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and a s e l f - a d d r e s s e d
stamped
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*Your c h o i c e of t h e t y p e of r e s e a r c h t o be done
according t o t h e f o l l o w i n g d e s c r i p t i o n .
A.
SINGLE IIARRIAGE ( O n l y one m a r r i a g e t o s e e k )
* f l a r r i a g e s of p a r e n t s w i l l a l s o be counted
as a d d i t i o n a l s i n g l e m a r r i a g e s and b i l l e d
a s such.
B.
DIRECT LINEAGE (A s t r a i g h t l i n e o f e i t h e r a
husband o r w i f e b a c k t o t h e i m m i g r a n t a n c e s t o r )
' T h i s w i l l i n c l u d e each couple, t h e i r d a t e
and p l a c e of m a r r i a g e , and t h e i r p a r e n t s '
names and l o c a t i o n of i m m i g r a n t s i n France.
'Price
for
direct
lineages
w i l l
be
d e t e r m i n e d by t h e number of g e n e r a t i o n s
found t i m e s t h e r a t e s f o r
r e s e a r c h as
applicable.
C. FIVE-GENERATION ANCESTRAL CHART ( S t a n d a r d 5
g e n e r a t i o n a n c e s t o r c h a r t of 3 1 a n c e s t o r s ,
m a r r i a g e s found. The l a s t column of names w i l l
g i v e p a r e n t s ' names o n l y , no m a r r i a g e s , a s t h e y
w i l l s t a r t a new 5 g e n e r a t i o n c h a r t . )
' P r i c e : $16 (members) $25 (non-members)
AFGS RESEARCH RATES ( S t a n d a r d )
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$16 f o r 5 g e n e r a t i o n c h a r t (AFGS members)
$25 f o r 5 g e n e r a t i o n c h a r t (Non-members)
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STEP TWO:
OUR JOB
A f t e r r e c e i v i n g your request, r e t u r n envelope and
c h o i c e of r e s e a r c h t o be performed, we w i l l s t a r t
immediately upon your research. We w i l l then
n o t i f y you by m a i l as t o o u r f i n d i n g s , and w i l l
b i l l you i n advance f o r t h e r e s e a r c h performed
u s i n g t h e r a t e s a p p l i c a b l e above.
STEP THREE: YOUR APPROVAL
A f t e r r e c e i v i n g our r e p o r t and b i l l i n g statement,
r e t u r n t h e t o p p o r t i o n w i t h a check payable t o
AFGS. Upon r e c e i p t , ue w i l l then forward your
requested research.
We b e l i e v e t h a t by f o l l o w i n g these t h r e e steps, we can
o f f e r our members a much more p r o f e s s i o n a l and o r d e r l y
way o f answering r e q u e s t s f o r research. Again, please do
@ send money i n advance.
A l l r e q u e s t s n o t found by t h e Research Committee w i l l be
B
placed i n t h e q u e s t i o n and answer s e c t i o n o f J
Souviens. See f o l l o w i n g pages.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Questions et rkponses
In keeping with our present research policy, the
folllowing marriages could not be found by our staff.
We are publishing them here, hoping that others who
may see them and have answers will contact u s so that
we may forward this information to the appropriate
researchers. All answers may be addressed to the A. F.
G. S. at P. 0.Box 21 13. Pawtucket. RI. 02861. When
answering a question, please use the call number, e. g.
16/1, 16/2, 16/3, etc.
P = Parents
M = Marraige date and
place
D = Descendants
= son of
d/o = daughter of
S/O
W/O
= widow/widower of
16/ 1 Seeking P amd M of Laurent Duval with Marie
Leclaire their son Michael was born 29-9-1828
in Quebec. (Alix Howatt)
16/2 Seeking P and M of Joseph Edouard Gariepy (b.
1818) to Marie Revost in Quebec or New York c.
1830-1838. (Robert Gariepy)
16/3 Sekking P and M Alexis Lemaistre-Duhaime
and Marguerite Foucher. Their son, Joseph
married Theotiste Joly Feb. 10, 1812, St.
Hyacinthe, Notre Dame. (Eugene Amos)
16/4 Seeking P and M of Oliver Sylvestre and
Philomene Dupuis (Al Gabouryl
1615 Seeking P and M of Eusebe or John
Chamberlain and Dina Enaire c. 1850. (Robert
Crowley)
16/6 Seeking P and M of Louis Cloutier and Anne
Dupuis c. 1780 St. Rose Laval or Montreal.
(Florence Anderson)
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16/7 Seeking P and M of Wilfrid Isabelle and
Marie Demers c. 1900.(Lynda Nash)
16/8 Seeking P and M of Bartelerni
Miteouamiqoukoue (Algonquin)and Carole
Pachirini. They had a daughter married in Trois
Riviere 1657.(M. Beaudet)
16/9 Seeking P and M of Jean-Vincentde St. Castin
and Pidicouammiskou. They had a daughter
married in Acadie in 1707.(M. Beaudet)
16/10 Seeking P and M for Antoine Cota and Harriet
Foyer either in New York or Canada. (R.
Desplaines)
16/11 Looking for information concerning Pierre
Favreau. He was born 1618 in Eveche de Dole,
France, and died 27 May 1708 in Quebec. He
married Marie Benoit in 1666.I am seeking
ancestors, exact birth date and parents. (Donald
Favreau)
16/12Seeking information about Marin Creste.
Information on spouse, parents, siblings, and
ancestors. (Donald Favreau)
16/13Seeking information about Jacques Chaloux
and Felicite Berthiaume. (Donald Favreau)
16/14Looking for parents, birth, marriage, death, and
children of Louis Are1 and Pauline Via. (George
Christian)
16/15 Seeking information on Jean Joseph Gauthier
(Michel and Ursule Petit) m. Melanie Bernier in
Centerville, Minn., in 1837.(Bernice Hackney)
ANSWERS:
15/21 Louis Trembly (Louis and Ursule Simard) and
M. Thecle Lavoie (Jacques and Angeline Trembly)
married about 1770 probably in Petite Riviere,
near Baie St. Paul.
15/22 Pierre Rancourt (Joseph and Therese Veilleux)
and Marquerite Maheu (Louis Marguerite
Busque) married 20-8-1804St. Francois de
Beauce.
15/23 Louis Consigny-Sansfacon (Nicole and
Madeleine Ducharme) and M. Anne Savoie
(Andre and Marie Arbour) married 18-7-1791St.
Basile N. B.
15/26 Paul Focault (Augustin and Amable Joly) and
Rosalie Cote (Hvacinthe and Marguerite
Arcand)
married c. 1820.
15/27Joseph Morel and Dorothee (Louis and Marie
Cartier) married 28-5-1827St. Michel,
Yamaska.
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Ymsccket, RI
02895
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Rovldence, RI
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Vlnchester. M
2042
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Neu BtdfoFd, M
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2024
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02021
2061
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15023
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BWDIEC, Phll lppe
WUIFEAU, Rev. Iennii
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BRIAN, Lucy
BIERE. BaDtlste
BHIERE, Euphrasine
BRINOMOUR, Plerre l P e t w i
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COMING EVENTS
APRIL 27
Business Meeting
7 P.M.
MAY 25
Business Meeting
7 P.M.
JUNE 29
Recognition Night
7 P.M.
JULY 11-15
Research Trip to Montreal
SEPTEMBER 28
Business Meeting
Nomination of Officers
7 P.M.
OCTOBER 26
Annual Meeting
Election of Officers
7 P.M.
All meetings are held in our library which is located in the basement of the
First Universalist Church at 78 Earle Street in Woonsocket. RI. They begin
at 7 p.m. and last about an hour during which time the library is not available
for research. They are open to the public at no charge.
ABOUT O U R COVER
Our Society's seal contains its coat of arms: a shield
with an oak tree, a symbol of genealogy, above which is a
star representing the United States flanked by two fleursde-lis representing France and Quebec. Our motto is the
same a s Quebec's: "Je me souviens" (I remember). The
coat-of-arms is ringed by acorns, another symbol of
genealogy, and circled by the words "American French
Genealogical Society, 1978." The border represents the
molten wax used to seal documents. Our coat-of-arms
and seal were designed by our founder, Henri Leblond.
They are registered with the Committee on Heraldry of
the New England Historical and Genealogical Society in
Boston, MA.