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COUSINS
A newsletter pertaining to the descendants of Robert
Pepin and Marie Crete
May 2001 -- Vol 2, No. 5
In this month's COUSINS:
======================================= WHAT'S NEW Not too long ago I added my Children of Fort Langley web site to the Canadian Web Ring and since then I've heard from a few new cousins, one of whom is a Child of Fort Langley. Now I don't know if joining the Canadian Web Ring has anything to do with it, it may just be that with the growing popularity of home computers has finally made it possible for us to seek each other out. It's a big family. And there may come a time when this whole thing gets to be too much for me to handle by myself. When that day comes, I will hopefully have kept our mutual lines organized enough to either upload the whole shebang to a secure web site or make other arrangements -- whichever is easiest for the most people; more on this in a few paragraphs. So now, who have I heard from recently? Jacques Pepin was a pleasant surprise. He descends from Antoine Pepin dit Lachance's line and after seeing his site we both added links to each other -- which is kinda of a cool thing. Why? Well, there Gilles Pepin's web site devoted to Guillaume Pepin dit Trachemontagne's line; there's my site dealing with Robert Pepin's line; and now there's Jacques and his dit Lachance line. This is a cool kinda thing because between just these three web sites we have the three main Pepin families covered. Now I'm pretty sure there are more sites out there done by Pepin descendants and one day I'll go web surfing and start "collecting" them. (Get the whole set!) And, yeah, there were *five* Pepin families who settled in Québec in the 1600s, but of the remaining two, one was Guillaume's brother and the other, a soldier whose line appears to have daughtered-out before the daughter hit puberty, I'm pretty sure will turn out to be connected in some way with Guillaume, Antoine, and/or Robert. I don't know this for certain, but the odds are pretty real good. A popular theory is that ALL the Pepins can trace back to Charlemagne and Pepin the Short -- but then again, half the known world is said to go back in way or another to Charlemagne. Anyway, where was I . . . ? Oh, yeah. There was Cindy, who said that one of her ancestors, Benjamin Beauchamp, married Phililomene Pepin. Phililomene, Ben's first wife, is the daughter of Pierre Pepin and Henriette Belanger, though she has no idea who Pierre father is. And Marcella, who descends from Anne Pepin, daughter of Louis-Etienne Pepin and Jeanne McClure. Anne married Antoine B. Bonenfant. Then there's Brent Pepin who wrote to say he was emailing because his name was Pepin and he was wondering if we were related. (I'll be emailing you back to see if we can figure that out, Brent, but I think it's a safe bet you're related to someone reading this newsletter. All we need is some of the names of your older Pepin ancestors) And Gwen with a most intriguing story about her ancestor Thomas Peppin who was born in Russian Territory Alaska about 1830 something and was brought to America in Slavery around 1850. He had wife named Marguerite and some children but she's having a heck of time finding names, though two may be Phaltial and William. Thomas's name was changed to Thomas Tuck; he was a free man. No doubt the biggest problem here is the spotty record keeping in that area during that time frame. (Got some ideas for ya, Gwen. Look for email soon.) And Ed who descends from Robert's son Robert. (Hey, Ed, meet some more cousins.) And J. Guy Pepin who descend from Robert and Marie. Jackie Drews from the MetisGen list sent me an obit on a lady named Katherine Lorraine Loberg. 75, who died peacefully on Nov. 5, 2000. Katherine was born March 5, 1925 in Havre to Adolph and Katherine Ann Pepin. Then there's Paulette and Libby also from the MetisGen list, with their Crete/Creste connections. There's another family that has a lot of descendants. (Hey Paulette; Hey, Libby) Joyce Pahanem who descends from Pierre Pepin married to a Françoise Prieur from France. Pierre and Françoise are the parents of Guillaume Pepin, who was born 1607 in France and married Jeanne Mechin. Guillaume and Jeanne are the parents of Jean Pepin born 1647, and Jean married Madeline Loyseau. Jean and Madeline, are in turn the parents of Madeline Pepin born 1689 who married Jean Baptiste Casavan. Alfred Leo Pepin Jr. from Milton, Vt., USA. His grandfather was Jules Pepin. He has no info on anyone on his father's side of the family, but he thinks his grandfather was from Canada. Alfred was born in Colchester VT in 1949. (Alfred, I think you and Jeanne DeSantis need to talk to each other -- if you haven't already. Would you both email me if you don't know each other and I'll do the introduce thing.) Yvonne Dolbec, who descends from Jeanne, a daughter of Louis-Etienne and Jeanne Maclure, her daughter Marie-Anne Giguere. In Yvonne's line the PEPIN name got misremembered as PEPPA. I got to know Yvonne through the Children of Fort Langley web site. Then there was a fellow named Victor Pippett who was curious if his PIPPETT surname had come from PEPIN. Wanda Lena who descends from Marie Pepin and Antoine Bonnenfant (Wanda, do you know Marcella? If you don't, could both you ladies drop me some email, please?) The most recent -- 30 April 2001 in fact -- is Jeanne DeSantis who descends through this month's feature couple, Marie-Rosalie Pepin and hubby Pierre Élie-Breton. Now, normally I do ask before sending anyone this newsletter, but things have been really nuts here the last few months. For some of you named above, this is my first reply to your query -- I wasn't ignoring you, I've just had more going on that this retired cabbie can handle. If you do NOT want to receive future editions, it's as simple as hitting your reply key and type in as the subject line "No Thank you." That's it. But I will be replying to you all as fast as I can get at it. For the rest of you, I've been busier than a one-legged man in a shin kicking contest. Between a wretched run of ill-health and my under-employed other half, I haven't had anywhere *near* the time I'd like at the computer. There is daylight at the end of the tunnel but as I went through my backlog of email (941 and counting) I felt a need to let you all know that I haven't forgotten about any of you, and bit by bit, you will hear from me individually. Which brings me round to a thought I've had for some time. Through Rootsweb.com there's a mailing list specifically for the surname PEPIN. I've been on it for a while now and it's a real slow list. I think I've seen 4 messages in the last 6 months. I was thinking about asking each of you to join this list, which would make swapping info a whole bunch easier . . . and you wouldn't have to rely solely on me to keep everybody up to date with everybody else. ======================================= THIS MONTH'S FEATURE: MARIE-ROSALIE PEPIN and her husband PIERRE ÉLIE-BRETON. Remember, 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. Still haven't been able to resolve this yet. Last month we looked at the children of Robert Pepin and first wife Elisabeth Royer and second wife Marie-Anne DELASSE. This month we look at his younger sister Marie-Rosalie's family. Marie-Rosalie PEPIN was baptized on 3 June 1684, and buried 23 Oct 1721 Her husband, Pierre ÉLIE-BRETON, son of Jean HÉLIE and Jeanne LABBÉ, was baptized 25 Feb 1676 and buried 21 Nov 1760 at St Valier. Marie-Rosalie and Pierre married 5 July 1700, and their children are:
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. ======================================= QUOTE OF THE MONTH From cousin Jan Knowlton: "Genealogist never die, they just loose their census." ======================================= GENETICS Back on Nov 18 of 2000, cousin Glo Carr sent me this and I thought it'd be a cool thing to share. She said:
-- Glo ======================================= GLO'S LINKS Speaking of Glo, she's been sending me these wonderful a bunch of wonderful web site addys pertaining to Pepin research. I haven't yet had a chance to go look at all of these, but some I do know.
======================================= RAMBLINGS FROM THE EDITOR The newest item on my list of least favorite things is problems with my sciatic nerve. If you've never had the pleasure of this, it's the nerve that controls everything from the hips on down. When it goes sour, everything from the hips on down hurts, and it feels an awful lot like That Set of lower muscles got shrunk in the wash. It made sitting at the computer difficult at best. But I'm one of those hard-headed Pepins; 15 minutes with the tens unit, followed by a long HOT shower, and several non-asprin, the first two of which were chased down with a small cup of white willow bark tea have almost stretched those muscles back out to factory specs. It could be "just" stress. 'Sides, writing -- especially combined with genealogy -- is a delightful distraction. I have a brand new neighbour who likes to crank his stereo up at 4 in the morning. Living in an older mobile home in an older mobile home park means that my neighbours are so close (how close are they?) not only can I tell what they're having for dinner with but a single sniff, I can hear the burp when they seal their leftovers in Tupperware -- or the frosty *crack-FFffp* every time the new neighbour cracks a fresh beer. Now it's not that I don't like his choice of music, it's his timing. And with my other-half sitting out the winter and most of the spring waiting for his boss to call to say they *finally* have work, it leaves him plenty of time to speak with the new neighbour about how to win friends and influence people. Their last exchange -- a loud and lively debate -- came about after the new neighbour chose to completely disregard the nice policeman's warning, but I do believe my sweety got his point across at long last. We've had three peaceful nights in a row. Then again, the new neighbour's not been home for the last three nights. However, I think if the new neighbour does it again, I'll take it as a stereo wars challenge. My weapon of choice . . . ? 70s heavy metal rock band Nazareth turned up until the speakers bleed. The backup weapon . . . ? <impish grin> The Spike Jones and his City Slickers version of the Dance of the Hours. But, so far, all is quite on the Western Front. ======================================= NEWSLETTER INFORMATION If you have family you want to share this with but they don't have a computer, please feel free to print it out and share it with them. If you have family with a computer who you think might be interested in the newsletter, drop'em an e-mail and let'em know about it; feel free to pass along my e-mail address. If at anytime you wish to be change the way you receive the newsletter, drop me an e-mail at lisa@fortlangley.ca and tell me. ======================================= COUSINS comes out once a month - more or less.
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