• What's New: about the newsletter
• This month's Feature:  The children of Robert Pepin and Marie Crete
• Quote of the Month
• February Birthdays
• Ramblings from the Editor
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WHAT'S NEW

As I was archiving last month's newsletter, it dawned on me that I made a bit of a blunder in numbering the newsletters.  Counting this newsletter, there have been 3.  To go a bit further:

The first was Vol 1, No. 1 -- being as it was the first year AND the first issue.  This was December 2000.

The second *should* have been Vol 2, No. 1, being as it was the second calendar year of the newsletter, and the January issue.

This issue is Vol. 2, No. 2; second year, second issue.

So, the Vol. number shows what year it was and the No. number will correspond with the month it came out.  Thus, should we find ourselves in the year 2010, month of March, that issue will be Vol 11, No 3.  With this said, I apologize for any confusion.  If any of you are missing issues, let me know.

FEBRUARY FEATURE

The Children of Robert PEPIN and Marie CRETE

We'll start with what Father Cyprien Tanguay had to say about them in his book "DICTIONNAIRE GÉNÉALOGIQUE des FAMILLES CANADIENNES depuis la fondation de la colonie jusqu'a nos jours par L'Abbé Cyprien Tanguay."  (rough translation: Genealogy Dictionary of the Canadian families from the foundation of the colony to now"), also known as (aka) The Tanguay.

1.  Jacques.

.....Baptized 1674, in Quebec City, he was buried 9 Feb 1691, also in Quebec City.

2.  Jean.

.....He was baptized 11 Sept 1675 in Quebec City; buried 31 Dec 1752 in Charlesbourg.  On 10 Oct 1695 he married Marguerite MOREAU.  Marguerite, daughter of Martin MOREAU (Moreau/Gabar) and Jeanne LECOCQ (Lecocq/Bodeleau), was baptized 4 Nov 1676, Quebec City; buried 14 Jan 1752, Charlesbourg.  Jean and Marguerite had 14 children, 10 of whom married.  The spousal surnames are Parant, Roderiguez, Groinier, Martin dit Jolicoeur dit LaChance, Mergedeau, Roy-Audy, Thomas, Adam, Bergevin, Groinier, Boetard, Bedard, Hianveu, and Loisel.

3.  Robert.

.....Baptized 1677; buried 12 May 1754, St-Geneviève, Montréal.  On 16 Nov 1700, he married Elisabeth ROYER, at St. Jean, Ile d'Orleans. Elisabeth, daughter of Jean ROYER (Royer/Païse) and Marie TARGER (Targer/Martin), was baptized 14 Sept 1669; buried 22 June 1715 in Montréal. Robert and Elisabeth had 7 children, 3 of whom married. Spousal surnames are Campion, Courcy, Legros dit St Laurent, and Deguire.

THEN, on 15 Sept 1715, Robert married Marie-Anne DELASSE, in Montréal. Marie-Anne, daughter of Jean-Pierre DELASSE dit LAFLEUR (Delasse/Claude) and Jeanne CHABAUDIER dit LÉPINE (Chabaudie/Mercier) was baptized 1691. Robert and Marie-Anne had 7 kids, 5 of whom married.  Spousal surnames are Frenche, Godfroy, Javray, Maurois, Boileau, and Plouf.

To make this *that* much more fun, when Robert died Marie-Anne married, on 21 Feb 1757, Jean DANY at Ste-Geneviève, Montréal.  Jean and Marie-Anne had no children.

4.  François.

.....Baptized 25 Feb 1680; buried 12 Dec 1680, in Beauport.

5.  Francóis.  Yes, there were two.

.....Baptized 5 Jan 1682; buried 3 Nov 1684.

6.  Marie Rosalie.

.....Baptized 3 June 1684; buried 23 Oct 1721.  On 5 July 1700, she married Pierre ÉLIE-BRETON, in Quebec.  Pierre aka Pierre Hély, son of Jean HÉLIE and Jeanne LABBÉ (Labbé/Françoise), was baptized 25 Feb 1676; buried 21 Nov 1760 at St-Valier.  Marie and Pierre had 13 kids, 11 of whom married.  When Marie died, Pierre, on 30 July 1722, married Marie-Hélène GROMELIN, in Beaumont.  Pierre and Marie-Hélène had 13 kids, 5 of whom married.  Spousal surnames are Lefebvre, Rémillard, Bissonet, Corriveau, Cosset, Balan-Lacombe, Alaire, Royer, Tibaut, Tanguay, Buisson.

7.  Louis

.....Baptized 13 Feb 1686. On 17 Nov 1710, he married Anne Elizabeth BOUTIN, at L'Ancienne Lorette.  Anne Elizabeth, daughter of Jean BOUTIN (Boutin dit Larose/Rocheteau) and Marie-Anne FONTAINE (Fontaine/Brassard), was baptized 14 Dec 1692 at L'Ancienne Lorette; buried 17 Nov 1744, Charlesbourg.  Louis and Anne-Elizabeth had 12 kids, 7 of whom married.  Spousal surnames are Renault, Alard, Crépin, Verret, Saucier, Savard, Renault, Roufiat, and Saucier.

Now.  In "Our French-Canadian Ancestors" by Thomas J. LaForrest, a footnote in his biography for Robert says that Msgr. Cyprien Tanguay, in DGFC, Volume 1 p 472, attributes Jacques, born in 1674 and buried at Québec on 9 Feb 1691, to Robert, and that this Jacques was probably the son of Antoine Pepin dit Lachance, baptized at Château-Richer on 4 Sept 1667.

Looking in the Tanguay, Tome 1, p 472, it shows that Antoine *did* have a son named Jacques, who was baptized 4 Sept 1667, though there is no burial info.

Though it doesn't make a *lot* of difference, mostly because Jacques never had children, but it might be nice to know who was right, Tanguay or LaForrest.

QUOTE OF THE MONTH

On one of the e-mail lists I'm on, a message got posted with the above quote in the sig line.  The poster was Lucille Hoag, who is a descendant of a Fort Langley employee (my great great granddad worked with one of her great great granddads).  I asked her about it and she said that a few years ago her son started using it in his sig line.  When he recently retired it, Lucille liked it well enough she started using it.  Neither know where it came from exactly, but like them I think it's just a really cool quote.

FROM THE "WELL, IT WAS A GOOD IDEA" DEPARTMENT

I thought that it might be kinda cool to do family birthdays and anniversaries month by month from the data base I'm building, but when I printed out the calendar, it was *3* pages long.  Mind you, I selectedoptions that would give me *everybody* back to Jean Coté who would be celebrating his 357th birthday on Feb 25th . . . if he were still alive.

It has been said that each family has a "birth pattern"; in this familyFebruary is a popular month with 200 birthdays and 147 anniversaries.

That's a lot of typing.

So instead, we'll deal with the living -- to the best of my knowledge -- listed by name at birth.  Mind you, I'm still building my data base, but with the living some of the information I have may be incorrect or incomplete.  Speaking of incomplete, I know Jason Arneson's birthday is in February but I don't know which day.

RAMBLINGS FROM THE EDITOR

Just call me the Kidney Stone Kid.  No, I haven't lost what little mind I have left, I've found out where it's been going -- it's being converted to kidney stones.

This month's newsletter is as it is because the day I figured I'd work on it I went, instead, to the ER with a naggingly familiar pain in my left side.  After a little over 7 hours, 2 tests, and a bazillion Special X-rays, I was sent home with a bottle of antibiotics and the knowledge that, after being declared officially stone- and infection-free in Sept 2000, I now have sand in my right kidney, and pebbles, a fair sized rock, and an infection in the left one.

Yes, it *is* scary.  One of the possible causes for this "talent" of mine is heredity, meaning that regardless of the fact that I've been doing what the Good Doctor told me, I got the *&%$^#!@ things back just because I'm me -- which is why I'm rambling on about it this month.

Now I don't know what runs on Mom's side of the family; she was adopted, though glaucoma and high cholesterol appear to be her family curses.

Daddy's side has diabetes.  Type II, Adult Onset, I think it's called.  It's the one where right about the time you get the kids out on their own and can "do as you please" you suddenly find yourself learning to count carbs and scratching sugar permanently off the shopping list.

The descendants of Donald Louis Peppan and Catherine Marie Stuckey -- my grandparents -- get the double whammy: diabetes *both* sides.

The diabetes on the Stuckey side appears to favorite the women folks over the men folk, settling in right around menopause.  Near as I can figure, the diabetes on the Peppan/Pepin side just *is*.  Thus, Don and Kit's descendants should know that diabetes is a real possibility.  The good news is that if caught early enough, it's very manageable with diet and exercise.

Hypertension.  High Blood Pressure.  Same sort of thing as with the diabetes, catch it early, do the proper diet thing -- subscribe to the Mind Over Matter club (Their motto: "If you don't mind, it don't matter."), *stick* to the proper diet thing, and you should be able to maintain a sensible blood pressure without the pills.

Mental problems.  I forget what the current politically correct term is, but it comes down through Don's side.  Two of my great aunts, Grampa Don's sisters had "problems".  Lizzie tried to off herself by drinkingLysol, doing no greater damage than burning her mouth and throat, and her older sister Susie I'm *guessing* also suffered from Depression.

I have pictures of a smiling, elvin-faced girl and I have pictures taken of Susie when she was older with that pretty little heart-shaped face drawn and worn, with bags the size of steamers trunks under her eyes.  Then there's the pic of Lizzie and Susie's mom, Emma, taken on 4th of July in the late 1920s.  On the back Emma wrote, "I'm not so fat now as I've bein worried about Susie."  Emma died in 1930; Susie is notincluded in the list of surviving family members.

Now maybe Susie had other problems.  Maybe she, too, had kidney stones but I've seen her face in my mirror; I was diagnosed with clinical depression back in 1989.  Which brings us to another prossible familyheirloom -- or it could be from Mom's side.

The Merck Index calls it a Paradoxical Reaction to Medication.  About 10% of the population have it.  I do.  It's where OTC or prescription medication works improperly, or not at all.  My docs tried me on 15 different combinations of antidepressant medication over the course of a year and a half; I went sideways on the lot.  Most any Over The Counter cold medication -- you know, the stuff that says "Caution: May cause drowsiness" -- will make me feel like I've just consumed the caffeine equivalent of a bath tub full of espresso.  Any pain medication stronger than Aspirin or Tylenol makes me ill -- which makes kidney stones even *that* much more fun.

I know one of you out there have dealt recently with such wretchedness, but as I recall, the sufferer was not Pepin. . .?  Anybody else an unwillingly kidney stone grower out there?

Anyway.  The whole point here was why this month's newsletter appears as it does.  As the gravel migrates south, I find my concentration suffers a bit.  But this way, everybody who gets this *should* be able to read it -- even my brother Don, who just got himself a Mac.  (Don's also talking about road racing again; maybe he'll share his season racing schedule with us.)  I have given some more thought to the on-line version of the newsletter and think perhaps if it doesn't take up too much room, I may do each one up fancy -- fancy text and all that.  (How's it going, Marcel?)

But for now I must away to consume yet another quart of water. . .

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