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In this
month's COUSINS:
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WHAT'S NEW
In
December of 2000, I said myself, “Self, having discovered your
connections to such a prolific and wide spread family, perhaps it might be a
good thing to share the wealth with your relatives by way of a monthly
newsletter.” Little did I know how well this news would be received
. . . or that two years later, people would still be willing to read what I
write.
Recently,
a new cousin emailed me looking for the missing pieces to his Pepin
genealogy puzzle. In my reply (which also was sent via blind carbon to
the cousin to whom he's most likely connected) I suggested putting his query
in the newsletter but he asked me to hold off until he received some info he
was waiting for.
What has
continued to amaze me is that despite the distances of geography and blood,
the ties of family are still strong; we are family.
And as it
is That Time of Year, I would like to take this opportunity to say that not
only is it an honour to be a member of this Pepin family, I feel truly
blessed to know each and every one of you -- even if some of us have never
met eyeball to eyeball.
May this
holiday season bring you all good health, a happy hearth, warm loving homes,
and enough of all the other things necessary to basic human well being to
make this the best year yet.
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THIS MONTH'S FEATURE: Marie PEPIN and
her husband Quentin MAUROIS dit St. Quentin.
Last month, we took a second look at Marie’s big sister Suzanne and her
two husbands thanks to a PRDH look-up by Libby Quanstrom.
Marie, baptised in 1723, is
the 4th child of Robert PEPIN and second wife Marie-Anne DELASSE.
On 18 November 1743, she married Quentin MAUROIS dit St. Quentin, in Montréal.
Quentin, baptized 1718 “de St-Martin-de-St-Quentin, diocèse
de Noyon,
Ile-de-France”, is the son of Florent MAUROIS and Madeleine LENAIN.
Quentin was a soldier of the company of Leparvanche (to quote
“soldat de la compagnie de Leparvanche”).
Together Marie PEPIN and Quentin MAUROIS had 3 children.
1. Laurent, baptized 10
August 1744; buried 24 August 1745
2.
Marie-Charlotte, baptized 15 December 1745; buried 4 September 1746
3.
François, baptized 11 December 1746; buried 15 April 1749
If you can add/subtract/change any of this, send it
on via email.
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TANGUAY SAYS WHAT?
18593
Marie CARDINAL, baptized 1696; buried 17 April 1744, in Longueuil.
Says the footnote on her name, Tome 5, p 592, "Noyée
le 12 nov.
1743 et trouvée au rivage
du fleuve
St-Laurent." She was
married to Jacques HUBERT–LACROIX and Jean-Baptiste MÉNARD.
She
drowned on 12 November 1743 and was found on the river bank of the
St-Laurent.
2057 Jean MIGNOT dit Chatillon,
baptized 1628. Says the
footnote on his name, Tome 1, p 432, "En février 1647, Barbe, sauvagesse
séminariste
des Ursulines, après y avoir demeuré quaire ans, en étant sortie, fut
recherchée fortement et puissamment par un français, nommé Chatillon, qui
pria les mères de la vouloir retenir jusqu'aux vaisseaux.
Il donna assurance de sa volonté, mettant entre les mains de mères
une rescription de 300 livres, dont il consentit que 100 fussent appliquées
au profit de la fille, en cas qu'il manquât de parole.
Mais il se trouva que la fille n'en voulut pas, et aima mieux un
sauvage, et suivre les volontés de ses parents.--Journal des Jésuites." He was married to Louise CLOUTIER.
I took
two runs at it, and near as I can figure some one gave some one some
money, and it had something to do with the Ursulines, but it didn’t much
matter ‘cause in the end the girl married who her folks wanted her to.
10517
Pierre MIVILLE dit Le Suisse, buried 15 October 1669, in Québec.
Says the footnote on his name, Tome 1, p 435, "Un de ses
descendants est mort à la Louisiana, en 1896 à l'àge de 120 ans."
One of
his descendants died in Louisiana, in 1896 at the age of 120 years.
12437 Charlotte MAUGIS, wife of
10517, Pierre MIVILLE, baptized 1581; buried 11 October 1676.
Says the footnote on her burial, Tome 1, p 435, "Inhumée à Lévis,
dans le cimetière de l'église qui se fait en la dite Côte de Lauzon.--
Registres de Lévis."
Charlotte was buried at Lévis, in the cemetery of the church which was
made on the Coast of Lauzon. - Registers of Lévis.
18901 Joseph-Marie MIVILLE dit
Deschènes, baptized 28 September 1739.
Says the footnote on his name, Tome 6, p 51, "Etabli à
St-Louis, Mo., il u élève toiute sa famille et y compte encore des
descendants." Husband of
Anne CHANCELLIER.
Moved
to St-Louis, Missouri, he raised his family and still has descendant
there.
8378
Denis MOISAN aka Denis GERMAIN.
Says the footnote on his name, Says the footnote, Tome 6, p 58,
"Fils adoptif--Germain est son vrai nom."
Husband of Marie-Anne ALAIN.
Foster
son - Germain is is his true name.
12086
Michel MOISAN, baptized 4 October 1687; buried 20 May 1758.
Says the footnote on his name, Tome 6, p 57, "Il avait adopté
Denis Germain, qui prit le nom de Moisan et se maria à Lorette le 21 nov.
1735." Husband of Thérèse
BONHOMME.
He had
adopted Denis Germain, who took the name of Moisan and got married to
Lorette 21 nov. 1735.
I found
an online translator that’s seems to work a bit better than the run of the
mill stuff – IF my translations are closer to the mark than in the past.
The URL is http://www.translate.ru/text.asp?lang=en
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RAMBLINGS FROM THE EDITOR
You’ve heard the phrase “Good Old Days” or “Back in the Day”.
It usually precedes a comparative dialogue on Today versus Yesterday in
which Today comes out holding the Wrong End of The Stick.
I’ve got a quote I use occasionally as part of my sig line in email.
It goes something like this:
"Times are bad, children no
longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book."
In and of
itself, this quote tells us nothing we don’t already know.
However, *WHEN* it was said might be of interest.
Now there
may be one or two of you who have heard of Marcus Tullius Cicero (he wrote
this book that is a major source of quotable quotations, even now, as I
discovered when I looked to see just who he was), so you won’t be real
surprised when old Marcus lived. He
was born right around BC 106 and died in BC 43.
Yup—106 years Before Christ/Before Common Era – roughly 2108 years
ago.
There have
been a few changes in the intervening years, but obviously not Times, nor
children, nor most certainly people who write words down for others to read.
Writers are
odd critters. In fact, CREATIVE
people are odd critters. The one
thing we all have in common is that we can’t NOT be creative.
Oh, we can put it off, but eventually we get caught.
So, there I
was yesterday, doing some work on a new web site.
It’s so cool.
When I
started doing genealogy, I went in search of the horse thieves, dance hall
girls, and bootleggers that my father -- or his Uncle George – had told me
about. Got an odd entry in the
guest book of the Northwest Twig, something to the effect that if my Millers,
Clell and James, really had been members of the Miller Gang in Kansas, well,
then, they got what they deserved. I
rolled the exact words around in my head for a few minutes, and then grinned
and wondered if this was one of those things Great Uncle George told me that
happened more or less like he said it did.
When I
started the Children of Fort Langley descendants group, I went in buoyed up by
the glowing accounts left behind by the men who had worked at Fort Langley in
the 19th century. It’s
interesting to see the differences in attitude in historical accounts written
by those who were there, by their children, by those who interview them and/or
their children, and by people who read all about it.
But when you have that sort of variety in reference material, you start
to see the holes and, by extrapolation, what got left out.
It isn’t a pretty story, but it is what happened.
The individuals involved were history making trail-breakers who paved
the way for Civilization—but they were also human beings.
Now
there’s the Columbia Detachment of the Royal Engineers. In a nutshell,
in 1849 the US and Great Britain agreed to split North America down the 49th
Parallel, Great Britain getting everything north of that line, and the US
getting everything south of that line. Both
nations sent the cream of their engineers and together they cleared a 400-mile
long, 20 foot wide path from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
THEN they
discovered that Vancouver’s Island extended south of the 49th.
OOPS! In the end
Canada got Vancouver’s Island and the US got the San Juans.
The Royal Engineers were there, in the thick of things, brave and
honourable men of daring do—
—who were
also human beings. This new web
site will be dealing with the men of Her Majesty’s Royal Engineers, Royal
Navy, and Royal Artillery, who were in the colonies of Vancouver’s Island
and British Columbia between 1858 and 1863.
Thus far, the reality of the RE is far more entertaining than the
LEGEND of THE ROYAL ENGINEERS, which is cool by me.
The
Columbia Detachment of the Royal Engineers is also an historical reenactment
group, based in British Columbia. Great
bunch of folks – who are also human beings, but then that’s why I
like’em. Well, that, and two of them are collaborating on a book about
the Royal Engineers in British Columbia and what Really Happened.
I do hope that one day, in and amongst the lists of notable historians,
the names Watkins and Sherwood appear.
So, there I
was yesterday, doing some work on the Royal Engineers’ web site.
It was right around noon, I think.
Next thing I knew, Laurie’s come in from work and is asking me to
turn my music* down, please, and it’s TOTALLY dark outside.
Clock in the lower right hand corner of my monitor said it was 6:18pm.
Been a
while since I have been able to so thoroughly get lost in the creative act.
Why, the last time was pert nigh on the same time that Rob Halford had
HAIR—
He did —
all the way down to there!
Then again,
back in the Day, so did Ian Anderson, and Geddy Lee.
Back in The
Day.
The Good
Old Days . . .
*Music
de Jour: a shuffle of Rush, Jethro Tull, Judas Priest, Aerosmith, and ZZ
Top, with enough Flatt and Scruggs and
Jerry Reed to keep it interesting.
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NEWSLETTER INFORMATION
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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 and/or Internet access who you think might be
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This month's was finished 3 December 2002, 8:43 P.M. PDST
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