In this month's COUSINS:
- What's New:
- This month's Feature:
Marie-Françoise PEPIN and her husbands, Augustin
GRENIER and Jacques BOETARD.
- COUSIN Speak
- Ramblings From the Editor
- NewsLetter info
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WHAT'S NEW
I got a new
printer! (Thank you Don & Janis) A
Lexmark Z42. It's SO cool.
And the Monster
Data Base now stands at 13,172 individuals, which I'm
guessing to be the half-way point. I'm working my
way through Tome 1 and at the end of the Bs, I'm
discovering that a good half of the children for each
family is already entered in. Through a
semi-permanent loan of an 1871 French/English dictionary,
I'm translating some of the information Tanguay including
on many of the folks in his genealogy dictionary, adding
translations to the footnotes. These translations
are being put in the footnotes of the source info (I'm
working with PAF 4.0), including the text I'm
translating, just in case I'm wrong.
Some of it's
pretty simple. "Noyé/Noyée" means
"Drowned." "Tué par les
Iroquois" means "killed by the
Iroquois". Then there's the tougher (for me)
ones.
The most recent
is from the listing for René Branche. Who is René
Branche? Husband of Marie-Catherine VARIN, father
of Françoise BRANCHE, grandfather of Claude LEGRIS, and
great grandfather of Marie-Anne LEGRIS. Marie-Anne
LEGRIS and Louis-Etienne PEPIN (the great grandson Robert
PÉPIN & Marie CRETE) are 1st cousins; their mothers
are sisters; Mary-Joseph MARTIN dit Jolicœur and
Mary-Madeleine MARTIN dit Jolicœur dit Lachance.
Anyway. I'm
adding René's info into the data base and see a phrase
tucked in with his vital statistics. This is how it
is presented in the Tanguay:
I.--BRANCHE,
René, b. 1641, fil de Jean et de Jeanne Bardon, de
Notre-Dame de Fontenay, évèché de Poitiers;
trouvé mort sous sa traine chargée de bois, sur le
chemin des Rochers; s. 8 janv 1681
"Trouvé mort sous
sa traine chargée de bois, sur le chemin des Rochers" intrigued me. I recognized
the word "mort" (dead) and remembered "sur" ("on" like "on the
table") from high school French. My first run
at it was "found dead (squashed) under a load of
wood on the road from Rochers."
I tossed this
past cousin Marcel and he brought to my attention that
"La Traine" is Old French and Québec slang
for "The Sled", with a bit of info about
transporting lumber with sleds on hilly corduroy roads,
and how one miss step from the guy in front could really
mess up the rest of the day. I chewed all this info
over for a bit and then entered "he got squashed
under a lumber-loaded sled near Rochers" figuring
it's pretty darn close.
I think I might
start saving up these up and toss'em past you guys each
month. (Yvonne, I still haven't heard back from
Juno about why they keep kicking back your email to me)
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THIS MONTH'S FEATURE: Marie-Françoise
PEPIN and her husbands, Augustin GRENIER and Jacques BOETARD.
Remember: check
it out in the Red and Blue Drouin, as well as the René
Jetté, most especially the info on the older
families. (If anyone has the titles of other good
reference works, please feel free to pass them along.)
Last month we
looked at Louis-Joseph(2Jean, 1Robert) and his wife
Marguerite BERGEVIN, and their 10 kids.
This month we
look at Louis-Joseph's little sister Marie-Françoise
PEPIN and her two husbands, Augustin GRENIER and
Jacques-Guillaume BOETARD dit St. SÉVÈRE.
Marie-Françoise
(2Jean, 1Robert), the 11th of Jean PEPIN and Marguerite
MOREAU's children, was baptised 27 February 1712 at St.
Joseph.
Marie-Françoise
married Augustin GRENIER 15 September 1732 in
Charlesbourg.
Augustin GRENIER,
son of Nicolas GRENIER and his second wife Marie-Anne
CHRÉTIEN, was baptised 30 January 1704 and buried 2 May
1743.
Marie-Françoise
and Augustin had 5 children:
1. Marie-Genviève GRENIER,
baptised 5 January 1734; married Charles-RenéVASSOR
dit LAFRAICHEUR 13 January 1750; 1 child
2. Joseph-Augustin GRENIER,
baptised 31 May 1736; buried 2 July 1737
3. François GRENIER,
baptised 10 October 1737.
4. Charles-François
GRENIER, baptised 9 July 1739; buried 28 July 1739.
5. Marguerite GRENIER,
baptised 13 January 1742; married Jean-Baptiste REMOT
dit Latendresse 4 July 1757 in Montréal. No
children listed.
Then on 20 April
1744, Marie-Françoise married soldier Jacques-Guillaume
BOETARD dit St. SÉVÈRE, in Québec.
Jacques-Guillaume
BOETARD dit St. SÉVÈRE is the son of Jacques BOETARD
and Marie HERVIER of St. Sévère, Rouen.
Marie-Françoise
and Jacques had 4 children.
1. Jean-Jacques BOETARD,
baptised 7 January 1745; buried 8 September 1745.
2. Denis BOETARD, baptised
17 July 1746; buried 20 August 1746.
3. Marie-Louise BOETARD,
baptised 10 September 1747; buried 22 February 1748.
4. Marie-Joseph BOETARD,
baptised 24 April 1750
If you see
something that doesn't quite agree with your personal
family history, e-mail me and tell me about it.
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COUSIN SPEAK
I found the
following in the guestbook, and thought I would share it
with the rest of you.
A while back
Sharon Pepin Baysinger contacted me in search of Pepin
kin (her first query can be seen on the Pepin Query pages
on the web site), and we'd exchanged a few emails.
In that time, my computers has crashed a couple times and
just recently my email program had a seizure. I did
save most of my archived email, but it's obvious I have
to work out a better filing system.
Anyway. Sharon
recently signed the guestbook, saying:
"Still looking for
Stephen Earnest Pepin's parents, b1863 in NY."
As I recall, her
Stephen is being as hard to find as my Etienne.
If anyone can
help her out, let me know.
And via email on
3 Jan 2002, I got:
"It is Marie
Françoise (dau of Étienne) who married Charles
LeSieur (no c) Sieur de la Pierre.
Regards
Donna-Lee Desaulniers
(LeSieur dit Desaulniers)"
I'll get that
correction added within the next few days. I think
this is from the main Pepin page.
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RAMBLINGS FROM THE EDITOR
Just the other
day, my kidney stone doctor said to me, "We've gotta
stop meeting this like this." And, after
looking over the CAT scan, followed up with a smile and
a, "Well, when you do something, you do it
good."
Now, the latter
is a good thing to hear when the comment is in regards to
a recently rendered work of art, a musical composition,
or piece of writing, poetry or prose. It's also
good to hear when one has just won a motorcycle
race. Or built something useful.
The Pepin line
has a bounty of talents, ranging from the musical (as
evidenced most readily by our illustrious cousin Canadian
classical composer Clérmont Pepin, and more recently by
my own youngest brother Jim Peppan {though the members of
Juxtapose have now gone their separate ways}), to skilled
craftsmen (our ancestor Robert, the slate roof maker, and
our photographically/cartographically skilled cousin
Marcel to name but two), as well as the word smiths (not
just me, but cousin Jackie LaVaque, and no doubt a few
others, too).
There are the
risktakers, at which point my brother Don comes
immediately to mind (the faster and scarier, the
better). And then the fellow he met while
motorcycle road racing, one René Pepin from eastern
Canada; as both enjoyed pushing the envelope, they joked
about being related. Then there are our ancestors
from France and Normandy, who voluntarily left the known
behind to jump on a sailing vessel for a cross-Atlantic
voyage to a new and unknown world.
And then there
are those I've discovered by doing a general purpose web
search for the surname Pepin: those who revel in the
pursuit of danger, the stuntmen -- one fellow in
particular who specializes in jumping out of airplanes on
bicycles -- and the number crunchers and scientists with
enough alphabet soup after their names to feed a small
country. Such a legacy is ours: Intelligence,
courage, and creativity, in prolific abundance--
-- but I, for
one, would have preferred that the kidney stone thing was
not part of it. My stone doc is determined to find
a way to shut down Peppan Sand and Gravel for good.
If his findings are of a positive nature, I'll let you
all know.
In the meanwhile,
if you get a chance, go to your favorite search engine
and type in the word PEPIN. I was entertained for hours.
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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
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COUSINS can be found at:
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