COUSINS

•  What's New: Pictures, People, and a Passing
•  This month's Feature: Marie-Agnes PEPIN and husband Pierre PLOUF
•  Tanguay says what?
•  Ramblings From the Editor
•  NewsLetter info

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WHAT'S NEW

Now, it has been a while since I first mentioned doing a page with everybody’s picture on it, but I finally got to it.  I sat up entirely too late the last couple nights working on the Scrapbook page on the website.  This is the page where I am putting pictures of everybody.  Do be aware that at this point in time, it’s a HUGE page (300 and some odd seconds to load at 28.8), but it does have a number of pictures on it.  There’s even pictures of living people.  It’s kinda cool.  It’s at http://www.fortlangley.ca/pepin/pepinpic.html

If any of you would like to offer up an image of your smiling face for the Scrapbook, bring it on! Me, Glo, Marcel, Mike, and Richie are there, as well as my brothers, cousins, aunt, uncle, granddad, his sibs, and their father Simon/Seymour.

It’s at http://www.fortlangley.ca/pepin/pepinpic.html Click the link, load the addy into your browser and then go grab a cup of coffee or tea or whatever pleases your palate while it loads.

Also, the last few months, I’ve noticed that some of the addresses I have for you folks are no longer good.  Those folks being:

Jill Cheramie

Patti Slade

Nicole Arneson

Gary Frechette

Brian McClure

And a sad note.  One of our number - Mr. Bergeron - passed away a couple months ago. I was notified by a family member to please stop sending COUSINS.  I don’t know that I ever knew his first name.

Rest in peace, Cousin Bergeron.

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THIS MONTH'S FEATURE: Marie-Agnes PEPIN and her husband Pierre PLOUF

Last month, we took a look at Marie-Agnes’ big sister Thérèse and her husband Etienne BOILEAU.

Marie-Agnes, baptized 13 July 1730, is listed in the Tanguay as the 7th child of Robert PEPIN and second wife Marie-Anne DELASSE.

On 13 July 1750, Marie-Agnes married Pierre PLOUF.

Pierre PLOUF is the son of Pierre PLOUF and Marie-Joseph (or Josette) ERICHER.

Together Marie-Agnes PEPIN and Pierre PLOUF had 6 children.

1. Pierre, baptized 1750; buried 25 November 1755, St-Laurent, Montréal

2. Louise, baptized 1752; buried 11 November 1755

3. Geneviève, baptized 12 March 1755

4. Pierre, baptized 16 Jan 1757; buried 7 June 1757

5. Marie-Madeleine, baptized 23 July 1758

6. Marie-Joseph, baptized 25 March 1761; buried 27 March 1761

Tanguay doesn’t indicate if or who the two apparent surviving children - Geneviève and Marie-Madeleine - married.

If you can add/subtract/change any of this, send it on via email.

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TANGUAY SAYS WHAT?

18674, I--Michel MESSIER, b 1640; s 3 nov. 1725, Varennes. Says the footnote on his name, Tome 1, p 427, "Neveu du précédent. Au baptême de Jeanne, sa fille, le 18 juin 1661, on voit qu'il avait été pris par las Iroquois et que l'ou ignorait s'il était encore vivant.--Registres de Montréal"

Nephew of the previous, the “previous” being I--Jacques MESSIER, b 1600; s 22 mars 1697, in Varennes (wife unknown; father of Martin and Jacques).

When daughter Jeanne was baptized on 18 June 1661,he was taken by the Iroquois. But since Jeanne has 9 younger siblings, all baptized between 1665 and 1681, I think one can safely presume that though Michel may have been inconvenienced, he wasn’t done any serious harm.

18714, Jacques MÉTIVIER, b 14 mai 1715. Says the footnote on his name, Tome 6, p 10, "Sourd-muet"

Jacques was a deaf mute.

Imagine my surprise when I went to my new favorite online translator at http://www.translate.ru/text.asp?lang=en and found a number of the languages are temporarily offline. Bummer, Do0d. However, it did coerce me into using the 19th century French/English dictionary I have.

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RAMBLINGS FROM THE EDITOR

The drive to Edmonton was pretty cool.  Just what The Doctor ordered.

On March 23rd, 1981, I started working for a small mom-and-pop taxi cab company. It was great. I liked to drive, and I could get paid to do just that. And what, pray tell, did we do on our days off . . . ? We drove.

In the spring of 1981, North End Taxi had 5 taxicabs - when they all ran - and half the Crew lived at the dispatch office. There was a tavern a block and a half from Dispatch, down a deep rutting alley, across a once-paved parking lot, and up a long flight of rickety wooden stairs.

Most of us worked four 12-hour days.  Of the three days off, one was for sleeping and laundry, one was for recreation, and one was for Driving.  Going some place that was three or four hours away was nothing.

It was a great job.  When I got retired, that was one of the things I really missed.  But I had a car, so, though I couldn’t get in the mileage I did as a cab driver, I was mobile.  But, as most of you know, this idyllic interlude ended this last June.  The car did not come with me.

Public transportation in the Greater Vancouver area is a Good Thing.  Between the buses, sky train, and sea bus, there aren’t too many places you can’t get to within the Greater Vancouver area.  Problem is, as good as BC Transit is, I haven’t figured out how to get where you can only get to with a car on public transportation.  And I can’t afford a car . . . just yet.

There were long stretches where we were the only vehicle on the road.  Lots of trees.  HUGE snow covered mountains.  A whole great herd of Big Horn sheep.  I got to drive AND I got to take pictures.

This Quixtar thing looks like it’s going to be a good thing, too.  As soon as I get first check I shall bore you all with the wonders of online wholesale/retail.

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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 and/or Internet access 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.

Back issues of COUSINS can be found at:
http://www.fortlangley.ca/pepin/cousins.html

This URL will take you to the COUSINS Front Desk. Or, you can click on any of the red lions that appear on the Pepin pages and Site Directory.

For a hard copy of the newsletter, send an email to lisa@fortlangley.ca, and if for any reason you wish to change the way you receive the newsletter -- or if you no longer wish to receive COUSINS -- drop me an e-mail at lisa@fortlangley.ca and tell me.

If you just wanted to chat, drop me an email.

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COUSINS
comes out once a month -- more or less.
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This month's was finished
10 February 2003, 7:45 P.M. PDST

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