• What's New: A welcome
• Why I've been a little slow with private e-mail
• This month's Feature:  The children of Jean Pepin and Marguerite Moreau
• First names
• Ramblings from the Editor
• NewsLetter info

WHAT'S NEW

Cousins,

We have grown by two.

Please welcome Jim Dick.  He descends from Angélique Pepin and Joseph Deguire dit Desrosiers.  Angélique is the daughter of Robert Pepin and Elizabeth Royer, and the granddaughter of Robert Pepin and Marie Crete.

And please welcome Gerry Grady.  He ties into Jean Pepin and Marguerite Moreau.  He found his way here through the Rootsweb.com mailing list MetsGen.

WHY I'VE BEEN A LITTLE SLOW WITH PRIVATE E-MAIL

One word: MetisGen.

What is MetisGen?

It's one of many genealogy oriented mailing lists available through the web site Rootsweb.com.  The primary focus of this list is Metis genealogy.

What *is* Metis?

First of all, a word that translates as "of all nations." Historically, Metis is a person who had one ancestor who was French who married a person who was Cree; this makes some of us Metis.  More recently, there has been a movement to make Metis include anyone who had a European ancestor who married a person who was a member of any of the First Nations peoples; *this* would make a bunch more us Metis.  The Metis have a language, called Michif according to one fellow on the MetisGen mailing list, and at a website found at http://www.metisresourcecentre.mb.ca one can find 10 lessons in Michif.  I haven't checked it out yet.

However, being a Metis only really counts if you live in Canada, and gives those who qualify a much nicer label than many of the old and tired phrases common throughout history.  Most major cities in Canada have one or both of the two big Metis organizations up there.  In the states, there's one in Tacoma, WA.  And a fellow I met at the Fort Nisqually Brigade Days last year is making the attempt to get Metis recognized in the United States; he descends from a good friend and neighbor of a fellow named Louis Riel, who was Metis and gave his life for the Metis cause.

In a nutshell, Louis was trying to make a place for the Metis, but other people wanted the land; "Sorry, Louis, I know we said you could maybe have this land, but we want it now."

Now the folks on the side that hanged Louis make him out to be a really bad guy -- but the winners do write the history.

Anyway <she says, kicking the soapbox back in the closet> some of us may not know about our Native lines.  Being Native was unfashionable for a bit and those ancestors of ours who were Metis hid the Native side, some very successfully, some embraced it; others hid their European roots.  Which brings back round to MetisGen.

I've been an on-and-off member of the MetisGen list for quite some time now.  I rejoined not too long ago because I had found the missing piece to my branch's Pepin puzzle, have I discovered that there are a *BUNCH* of our cousins there.  There's two women with whom I'm in the process of swapping Crete lines with; one has Cretes back 12 generations.

If you're interested in checking out MetisGen, I recommend the digest mode; there must be close to 50 messages a day, but in digest mode, you only get one, two, sometimes three actual e-mails with the days messages as attachments.  It is one of the cooler genealogy lists, which in "Lisa Speak" means a certain amount of "off topic" chatter is allowed, and politics and racial slurs are a BIG no-no.  To join MetisGen in digest mode, send and e-mail to METISGEN-D-request@rootsweb.com.  In the subject line and then as the only part of the message, type SUBSCRIBE.

I recently posted a list of the surnames in the monster database I'm compiling and got nearly a dozen requests for info on some of the surnames, including LORION and ROBINSON.  For both of those surnames I told the folks asking questions that -- with their permission -- I would forward their requests along to the cousins involved because the only info *I* have is for living people.  So when I get an answer back, I'll let those involved know via private e-mail.

THIS MONTH'S FEATURE: JEAN PEPIN and MARGUERITE MOREAU

I would again like to stress that as most of this information comes from the Tanguay, before you go out and have these names and dates engraved upon the family silver, go hunt up copies of the Red and Blue Drouin, as well as the René Jetté, and double check all of the info on the older families.  Was typing a collateral line in and found that Tanguay had two brothers marrying the same woman, on the same day, in the same place.  I made a note of this in the database.

The database -- comprised of all the families connected to Robert Pepin and Marie Crete -- now numbers just a tad over 4700 individuals, and I'm still typing folks in.  At some point I will be asking those of you who haven't already to think about sharing your Pepin line with me -- not the whole shooting match, but just the folks up to about 1900.  If you want to include the living, that's cool, but since I plan on posting the resultant tree on the web, I rather NOT have any living people listed.

Anyway.  Last month we looked at the children of Robert and Marie.  This month we look at his eldest child's family.  So this means that next month we'll be looking at Robert, the month after Marie Rosalie, and finally Louis.  Then the plan is to move along, starting always with the eldest married child and working forward as far as I can with the info I have here in the Tanguay.

Some where down the road, I'm going to trot on over to my local Morman Family History Center and check out their copy of the Jetté, then hunt up copies of the Red and Blue Drouin, and if they change contradict anything in the Tanguay, I'll pass it along.  Also, if you see something that does NOT match your own family history, let me know.

Now, for Jean and Marguerite.

Jean was baptised in Québec City on 11 Sept 1675, and buried 31 Dec 1752 in Charlesbourg, Québec.  Marguerite was baptised 4 Nov 1676 in Québec City, and buried 14 Jan 1752, in Charlesbourg, Québec.  They married 10 Oct 1695 in Quebec City, and their children are:

1.  Marie-Jeanne baptised in 25 Jan 1696, and buried 16 Feb 1703, in Charlesbourg.

2.  Marie-Marguerite baptised 9 May 1697 in Québec City; 1st marriage 8 Jul 1720 to André Parent, in Charlesbourg; 2nd marriage 29 April 1731  to René Joseph Rodrigue; 3rd marriage 20 Jan 1732 to Joseph Groinier dit Bisêtre in Beauport.  She had 5 children (3 shown with spouses) with André, none with Rene, and 7 (3 shown with spouses) with Joseph.

...Extra Info for Marie-Marguerite's husbands:

a) André Parent, son of  André Parent and Marguerite Coté was baptised 2 Dec 1698 and buried sometime before 29 Apr 1731.

b) Rene Joseph Rodrigue, son of René Rodrigue and Elisabeth Dauphin, baptised 29 Aug 1704; died before 20 Jan 1732.

c) Joseph Groinier dit Bisêtre, son of Nicolas Groinier and 2nd wife Marie-Anne Chrétien; baptised 1709.  Joseph remarried, 16 Aug 1746 to Elisabeth Balan dit Lacombe; they had 9 children.

3.  Jean Hilaire baptised 15 Sep 1698; buried 31 Jan 1703.

4.  Charles baptised 28 Apr 1700; buried 26 Jan 1703, in Charlesbourg.

5.  Louis, baptised 26 Jul 1702; married 30 Oct 1724 to Marie Madeleine Martin dit Jolicoeur dit Lachance, in Quebec City.  They had 6 children, 4 of whom are shown with spouses.

...Extra Info on Louis' wife.

Madeleine is the daughter of Nicholas Martin dit Jolicoeur and his 1st wife Marie-Angélique Bacon. Madeleine was baptised 29 Jun 1700 in Quebec City; buried 14 Aug 1774, Quebec City.

6.  Jean-Baptise baptised 26 Mar 1704.

7.  Charles baptised 18 Sep 1705; married 3 Sep 1731 Marie-Louise Mercereau in Montréal.  They had 4 children, 3 of whom are shown with spouses.

...Extra info on Charles' wife:

Marie-Louise, listed as Mercereau as well as Mergedeau in the Tanguay, but is listed as the daughter of Pierre Mercereau and Louise Guilmot dit Lalande.

8.  Marie-Jeanne baptised 16 Jun 1707; married 18 Jul 1735 to Louis-Joseph Roy-Audy.  They had 11 children, 2 of whom are shown with spouses.

...Extra info on Marie-Jeanne's husband:

...Louis-Joseph Roy, also listed as Louis-Joseph Roy-Audy, is the son of Jean Le Roy and Thérèse Jobin, b 1698.  Marie-Jeanne was his 3rd wife.  With 1st wife, 21 Oct 1726 Château-Richer, Marguerite Lefrançois, daughter of Alexis-Nicolas Lefrançois, he had three children; with 2nd wife Marie-Elisabeth Pichet, daughter of Jacques Pichet and, he had 1 daughter.

9.  Marie-Thérèse baptised 4 Feb 1709; 1st marriage 4 Oct 1734 Jacques Thomas in Charlesbourg; 2nd marriage 7 Feb 1757 to Quentin Adam in Charlesbourg.

...Extra info on Marie-Thérèse's husbands:

a)  Jacques Thomas, son of Claude Thomas and Marie Villeneuve, baptised 17 Feb 1713; buried 16 Dec 1743. Says Tanguay, Jacques' paternal grandparents were "de Douvres, Angleterre" which unless I'm mistaken translates into they were from Dover, England.  Jacques gave Marie-Thérèse 6 children, 3 of whom are shown with spouses.

b)  Quentin Adam, son of Pierre Adam and Marie-Geneviève Richer.  Says Tanguay, Quentin was a Soldat de la Compagnie de Lanaudière.  No children listed for Quentin and Marie-Thérèse.

10. Louis Joseph, baptised 7 Sep 1710; married 12 Nov 1736 Marguerite Bergevin in Beauport.  They had 9 children, 2 of whom are shown with spouses.

...Extra info on Louis-Joseph's wife:

Baptised Louise-Marguerite Bergevin on 3 Jun 1719, she is the daughter of Louis Bergevin dit Brechevin and Marguerite Tessier dit Laplante.

11. Marie-Françoise baptised 28 Feb 1712; 1st marriage 15 Sep 1732 to Augustin Groinier in Charlesbourg; 2nd marriage 20 April 1744 Jacques Boetard in Québec.

...Extra info on Marie-Françoise's husbands:

a)  Augustin Groinier, son of Nicolas Groinier and 2nd wife Marie-Anne Chrétien, was baptised 30 Jan 1704 at St-Michel-d'Yamaska; buried 2 May 1742, in Québec.  Augustin gave Marie-Françoise 5 children, two of whom are shown with spouses.

b)  Jacques-Guillaume Boetard dit St-Sévère, a soldier, son of Jacques Boetard and Marie Hervier of St-Sévère, Rouen.  Jacques gave Marie-Françoise 4 children.

12. Jean-Pierre baptised 28 May 1714; buried 11 Sep 1714.

13. Pierre baptised 30 Aug 1715; married 29 Oct 1738 Madeleine Bedard.  They had 9 children.

...Extra info on Pierre's wife:

Madeleine Bedard, baptised 14 Feb 1714, is the daughter of Bernard Bedard and his 1st wife Marie-Thérèse Roy-Audy (aka Anne-Thérèse Le Roy).

14. Pierre-François baptised 19 Dec 1717.

15. Marie-Marguerite baptised 10 Mar 1720; married 28 Aug 1752 to Mathieu Hianveu.  They had 7 children, 3 of whom are shown with spouses.

...Extra Info on Marie-Marguerite's husband.

Mathieu Hianveu dit Lafrance, son of Mathieu Hianveu and Marie Seeney of Gisors, diocèse de Rouen, Normandie, baptised 19 Dec 1724; buried 7 Mar 1793 in Québec.

16. Marie-Joseph 13 Oct 1721; married 24 Oct 1746 Charles Loisel in Charlesbourg; buried 30 Aug 1756.  They had 4 children.

...Extra info of Marie-Joseph's husband

Charles Loisel, son of Louis Loisel and 2nd wife Marie-Anne Michel, was baptised 4 Sept 1720; buried 30 Oct 1743.  When Marie-Joseph died in 1756, Charles married Marguerite Bouré on 16 Aug 1757, and they had 3 more children.

I hope I spelled everything right.  If you see something that doesn't quite agree with your personal family history, e-mail me and tell me about it. An error could be *my* typo, the error of the Tanguay, Eusèbe Senécal's typo, or Abbot Tanguay's typo -- ya just don't know unless you ask.

QUOTE OF THE MONTH

FIRST NAMES

Back in the early 1980s I bought a set of Encyclopedia Britannica.  One of the things that came with this was a three volume dictionary -- Webster's Third New International Dictionary, unabridged, and Seven Language Dictionary copyright 1981 -- and in the third volume of this dictionary was a list of common first names and how they look in 7 other languages -- French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, and Yiddish.

A lot of these names look the same, so I'm only listing those whose French spelling and/or pronunciation is different from the English, first in English followed by their French counterpart.

RAMBLINGS FROM THE EDITOR

I almost didn't do a March issue.  Then I decided it would be excellent for the distraction potential -- I was right.  It is, by my clock 7:16 pm Pacific Standard Time.  Tomorrow morning at 6 am PST, I report to Stevens Memorial Hospital for a day surgery procedure.

Officially, the procedure I'm having done is called a Bilateral Extracorporeal Shockwave Lithotripsy.  The fully anesthetized patient is placed into a shallow water bath and this dandy little machine bombards the effected kidney(s) with sound waves, making large stones into sand that will "pass" more easily; day surgery means I get to come home to pass the sand.

The laws of Physics say that for every action an there will be an equal and opposite reaction ; the stones will explode and bounce around inside both my kidneys, turning their insides to hamburger, and -- well, let's just say I'm not going to be feeling particularly chipper for a few days; if I get dressed I'll be doing good.  My urologist says compared to my other lithotripsies, "this one will be a walk in the park".

Yeah, uh-huh, we'll see.

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