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this month's COUSINS:
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What's
New
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This
month's Feature: The children of Marie-Marguerite PARANT (1Robert,
2Jean, 3Marie-Marguerite) and husband Charles BRACONNIER.
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Writing
Corner: Elise Dallemagne-Cookson and her new book Marie Grandin
– Sent by the King
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Ramblings From the Editor
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NewsLetter
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WHAT'S
NEW
I’ve started to put the surnames from the Monster Data Base on the
web site. What’s more, I’m
counting them as they go up. To see this for yourself, go to http://www.fortlangley.ca/pepin/MDB_02.html
There’s 1033 surnames there and these are only
the names beginning with A, B, and C and three that have a user optional
“Le” in front of them.
And! Elise
Dallemagne-Cookson’s book, Marie Grandin - Sent by the King, an
historical fiction novel about her ancestors, in particular, a Filles du Roi
named Marie Grandin, but more on this a little further down.
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THIS
MONTH'S FEATURE: The children of Marie-Marguerite PARANT (1Robert,
2Jean, 3Marie-Marguerite) and husband Charles BRACONNIER.
Last month, we looked a the children of Joseph
(1Robert, 2Robert) PEPIN and wife Marie-Louise FRENCHE dit Laframboise
This month we look at Joseph’s 1st cousin once
removed, Marie Marie-Marguerite PARANT (1Robert, 2Jean,
3Marie-Marguerite), her husband Charles BRACONNIER and their children.
Marie-Marguerite
PARANT (1Robert, 2Jean, 3Marie-Marguerite), baptized 15 April 1721 at
Beauport, is listed in the Tanguay as the 1st of 5 children
born to Marie-Marguerite PÉPIN and André PARANT
On
10 September 1742 in Québec, Marie-Marguerite married
Charles
BRACONNIER, baptized 2 May 1706, son of 1st generation
Jean-Baptiste BRACONNIER and Françoise CHAPELAIN.
Together Marie-Marguerite PARANT (1Robert, 2Jean,
3Marie-Marguerite) and Charles BRACONNIER (1Jean-Baptiste) had 6
children.
1.
Jean-Charles BRACONNIER, baptized 27 March 1745, Beauport;
buried 27 June 1745
2.
Charles BRACONNIER, baptized 1 July 1746; married 5 July 1773
Catherine DESAUTELS
3.
André BRACONNIER, baptized 3 October 1748; buried 3 November
1748
4.
Antoine-Gabriel BRACONNIER, baptized 30 January 1751; buried 15
June 1751
5.
Catherine BRACONNIER, baptized 6 October 1752
6.
Jean-Marie BRACONNIER, baptized 13 October in Terrebonne
If you can add/subtract/change any of this, send it on via email.
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WRITING
CORNER
A while back, the COUSINS newsletter came to the attention of writer Elise
Dallemagne-Cookson. Mind you at the time, I didn’t know she was a
writer. To me she was a descendant a Filles du Roi – Daughter of
the King – offering new information about one of the Filles du Roi
mentioned in one of the newsletters because she had done more than a
little research on them.
It was the second email that I found out she was an author, and the reason
she had done research on the Filles du Roi was for her newest book, Marie
Grandin – Sent by the King. Marie married Jean Baudet 28
September 1670, and they are individuals 11033 and 8687, marriage number
3525 in the Monster Data Base, making Elise a Cousin. As such, she
asked if I would start sending her the newsletter. I did.
On April 6, 2003, Elisa sent the following via email. She said, and
I quote:
My
news is that my historical novel,"Marie Grandin - Sent by the
King," is in production and release date is set for August 1 - time
for the Nouvelle France festival in Quebec Aug. 6 - 10. This book
is based on the life of my ancestors and covers the period in Canadian
history from 1664 to 1715.
You
can find out more about this novel (and me and my other books) on the
franco-american writers website:
http://franco-american.happyones.com/fa-writers/Elise-Dallemagne/
Something
maybe for your newsletter? Just received word that my latest book
released in January has won the Writer's Digest book award for 2003 in
the Life Stories category.
Again,
thank you for your newsletter,
Elise
Dallemagne-Cookson
That latest book is The
Red-Eye Fever - Adventures in the Belgian Congo, published in 2002,
where Elise recounts tales of her adventures hunting crocodiles in the
Congo before it became independent in 1960 and introduces us to some
extraordinary people she met at that time.
In the meantime, you can find out about all of Elise’s books, including
Marie Grandin-Sent by the King on the Franco-American website
http://franco-american.happyones.com/fa-writers/Elise-Dallemagne
You will find a synopsis of Sent by the King, plus a sample chapter, plus
endorsements from well known historians.
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RAMBLINGS
FROM THE EDITOR
So, there I was, trying to wrap my brain around the number 20,291.
What’s the significance of the number 20,291 you ask?
That’s how many individuals there are in the Monster Data Base when I
decided to start a list of the surnames in it. Yup, I’ve cracked
the 20,000 mark. I have in fact, entered in 20300 individuals.
This boggles my already boggled mind. As most of you know, I
started with Robert Pepin and Marie Crete and the widow of Robert’s
dead brother Louis, Catherine Crampon who married Pierre Voyer 1
December 1662. Then because I found that at least one of
Robert’s descendants married a descendant of Antoine Pepin, and
another married a descendant of Guillaume Pepin, I added in Antoine and
wife Marie Testu, as well as Guillaume and wife Jeanne Méchin.
I’m currently in the Rs, at the surname RAPIN. Once I’ve
gotten all the way through to Catherine YVORY, I’ll take one last run
through to be sure that everyone who can be is connected with parents,
and then I’ll start the long tedious process of putting up the
individual family lines. Out of this many folks I expect there’s
gonna be a few.
The reason I’m waiting is that as I’ve gone along, I’ve discovered
that I had a number of duplicate individuals. And in adding in
additional spouses that got missed first time through, I’m sure I’ve
added at least a half dozen new duplicates. Can’t be helped
really. In some instances, you got Marie, who is listed as the
daughter of Jean II. I go to look for an appropriate II--Jean to
select as her father and find at least three to choose from, so I add a
new II—Jean, whom I can sort out the third run through.
And since I have been teaching my friend Simon how to use Front Page so
that he can work on the Royal Engineer website at his leisure, I can get
back to my first love: family research.
So for now, the Monster Data Base starts with Agnes Unknown, wife of
Arthur Levesque and ends with Ed ZOYARRA husband record of my Great Aunt
Susan Peppan. I mentioned Catherine YVORY above because, well,
I’m not all that sure Ed Zoyarra existed. As Great Aunt Susan
danced the Pantages Circuit (aka Vaudeville) right around 1915, Zoyarra
may be that it was just a name she chose; Daddy said her stage name was
something that sounded very much like Sue-WAH-rah, which is phonetically
similar to Zoyarra.
Ah, there we go, PAF is done searching out all Individuals whose names
are preceded by a I-- indicating that they are the 1st North American
Generation of their line. Mind you a handful of these 1810 are
women, but they have a I—in front of their names because Tanguay put
‘em there.
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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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