COUSINS

In this month's COUSINS:

• What's New This month's Feature:  The children of Louis PARANT (1Robert, 2Jean, 3Marie-Marguerite) and wife Marie-Louise MARCHAND.

• Glo's Cool Links

• Tanguay Says What?

• In Search of . . .

• Ramblings From the Editor

• NewsLetter info

WHAT'S NEW

Elise Dallemagne-Cookson has a NEW new website address . . . http://dallemagne-cookson.com/.

This and the next (August) newsletter will be late (like no one noticed this one was late [insert BIG grin HERE]). 

Ummm…. (she mutters, leafing through the email)

Got some info on a Stephen PAPPAN, born 25 DEC 1854  Half Breed Band,Osage & Kaw,Kaw Reservation, Kansas; died: 08 APR 1913

THIS MONTH'S FEATURE:  The children of Louis PARANT (1Robert, 2Jean, 3Marie-Marguerite) and wife Marie-Louise MARCHAND.

This month we look at François’ younger brother Louis (1RobertPepin, 2JeanPepin, 3Marie-MargueritePepin) and his wife Marie Louise MARCHAND.

Louis PARANT (1Robert, 2Jean, 3Marie-Marguerite), baptized 2 June 1728, is listed in the Tanguay as the 4^th of 5 children born to Marie-Marguerite PÉPIN and André PARANT

On 21 April 1749 in Québec, Louis married

Marie-Louise MARCHAND, baptized 1 Nov 1729, daughter of 3^rd  generation Charles MARCHAND and Marie-Louise LOISEL.

Together Louis PARANT (1Robert,2Jean,3Marie-Marguerite) and Marie-Louise MARCHAND (1Charles,2Charles,3Charles ) had 9 children.

1.  Marie-Louise PARANT, baptized 18 Dec 1749
2.  Marie-Marguerite PARANT, baptized 30 June 1751; buried 5 Dec 1751
3.  Marie-Charlotte PARANT, baptized 1752, Stadacona, New France; married 9 Sept 1776, Basile PREJEAN, Notre-Dame, Québec City, Lower Canada
4.  Louis PARANT, baptized 17 April 1754; married 19 Oct 1784 Marie-Anne TESSIER
5.  Marie-Madeleine PARANT, baptized 29 March 1757
6.  Marie-Madeleine PARANT, baptized 1 June 1758
7.  Marguerite PARANT, baptized 15 July 1761; buried 8 April 1762
8.  Marie PARANT, baptized 10 Jan 1763; married 7 Aug 1781, Eustache MCGEE, in Québec
9.  Marguerite PARANT, married 28 Jan 1783, Augustin SALOIS, in Québec

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

GLO’S COOL LINKS

Exploration, the Fur Trade and Hudson's Bay Company – Personalities at http://www.canadiana.org/hbc/person/intro_e.html

TANGUAY SAYS WHAT . . . ?

This month’s Tanguay Says What? addresses the reputation of the good father’s accuracy.

Example: Marie SELLE #182777

In Tome 1, on page 291, she is listed thus:

1667, (17 octobre) Québec

I. — GUILMET, Nicolas, b 1641, fils de Nicolas et de Jeanne Sauté, de St Antoine de Nesle, évèché de Soissons; s 16 déc 1700, à St. Jean, Ile d’Orleans³ ; s…
   SELLE, Marie, (1) b 1647, fille de Guillaume et de Marguerite d’Ormesnil, du Bois-Guillaume, évèché de Rouen ; s…

(1) Elle épouse, le 8 mai 1658, Denis Briére, à Québec.

Then we turn to page 546 in Tome 1 to see . . .

I. — SELLE, Guillaume, de Ste. Trinité, évèché  de Rouen.
   DORMENY, Marguerite, de Ste. Trinité, évèché  de Rouen.
   Marie, b 1648 ; 1• m à Nicolas GUILMET ; 2• m 18 juillete 1701, à Jean FLIBOT, à St. Jean, I.O. ; 3• m 19 août 1711, à Vincent BÉRIAU, à Québec.

The first thing you should notice right off is that Denis does not appear in the second listing.  It was what brought my attention to this. 

The second is that, though the B stands for baptism, I’m thinking that they got their kids baptized a bit closer to their birthdates that in the New World, so Marie might be just a tad too young to be marrying in 1658.

So, I went and gave page 291 a closer look and discovered something quite interesting.

Above the listing for Marie and hubby Nick Guilmet, is a listing for Charles GUILLEBOUT and wife Françoise BIGOT and Françoise has a (1) immediately following her name.

I looked at the bottom of the page where the footnotes where to discover that though there was a footnote (2), it corresponded with nothing up above.  However, it did agree with page 546 in that Marie’s second husband was Jean FRIBAUT, whom she married on 18 juillet 1701, at St. Jean, Ile d’Orléans. 

What . . . ?  You say FLIBOT and FRIBAUT are two different names . . .?  They may LOOK different by they are in fact interchangeable.

Tome 1, p 242, shows:

FRIBAUT, --Variations : FLIBOT – PHILIBOT.

1670, (1^er septembre) S^te Famille

I.— FRIBAUT, Charles, b 1644, fils de Jacques et de Françoise Baudeau, de St. Lambert, évèché d’Angers.
   1• GEOFFROY, Anne, b 1649, fils de François et de Claude Mator de St. Jean, évèché de Besançon ; s 1671
1673, (22 septembre) Ste Famille.³
   2• ROUSSELOT, Marguerite, b 1654, fils de Jean et de Simone Denys, de Ste. Madeleine, évèché de Troye, en Champagne ; s 20 déc 1687, à St. Jean, Ile d’Orléans.⁶
[…]Jean, b 1679; m 6 18 juillet 1701, à Marie SELLE. […]

Tome 4, p 39, shows:

1701, (18 juillet) St-Jean, I.O.

II.— FLIBOT, Jean,                                         [Charles I.
       b. 1679
   SELLE (2), Marie                                       [Guillaume I.
       b 1648 ; veuve de Nicolas Guilmet.

(2) Elle épouse, le 19 août 1711, Vincent Bériau, à Québec.

In Tome 4, page 111, it says:

FRIBAUT (5). – Voy. FLIBOT

(5) Ce nom est devenu Flibot—Phlibot.

What this all boils down to is that before you shrug and write it off to being “just another of Tanguay’s errors” triple check to be sure it isn’t a typo.

IN SEARCH OF…

I have three people looking for kin folk this month.  If you can help any of them out, send me an email with those particulars –and most importantly WHO you are helping-- to lisa@fortlangly.ca. 

Seeker #1, Cliff

Joseph PEPIN, (Papa), (Pappin)
b. June 17, 1825  d. April 28, 1902 Ontario
1871 census of Canada - Westmeath, Ontario (Papa) age 43
1881 census of Canada - Pontiac, Quebec (Pepin) b. 1836
married
Marie Ann SIMON (Simone) (Seymour)
Simone in French (Seemoan) sounds like Seymour in English.
1871 census of Canada - Westmeath, Ontario (Papa) age 35
1881 census of Canada - Pontiac, Quebec (Pepin) b. 1841

had children :

1.	Peter	b. 1853	married Catherine Jane LAVALLEY
2.	Mary	b. 1855	married Francis LAVALLEY
3.	Amble (Lamab)	b. 1856	married Susanuah SCOTT
4.	Joseph	b. 1864
5.	Maggy	b. 1866	married William LAVALLEY
6.	Rosanna	b. 1867	married 1. Jean Baptiste BERNARD 2. John (Jack) MORRISON
7.	John	b. 1868	married Emma LARONE (sister-in- law after his brother James drowned)
8.	Frank	b. 1869
9.	Comas James	b. 1871	married Emma LARONE
10.	Alexander	b. 1876

I have no data on Joseph, Frank & Alexander.
The rest I have most data on.
An interesting note: Rosanna's (Rose Ann) 1st husband was Jean (John) Baptiste BERNARD who drowned at Bancroft on June 19, 1895 at the age of 43.
Jean's last name was actually his Father's first name.
Jean was the son of Bernard NARISSON and Marie Catherine PAPINO. Marie PAPINO was the daughter of Francois K. PAPINEAU & Marie OTICKWEKIJIKOKWE.  All Algonquin Indians from the Mattawa area.  The Algonquin name Ka-on-di-no-ketch is alias for PAPINEAU/PAPINO.

In the 1871 Federal census for Ontario Renfrew North Westmeath I found an Abel PAPA age 76 and a Rose PAPA age 66 noted as 'stray' meaning individual bears a different surname than head of the family.  Both born in Quebec.  They are living with a Peter PAPA (age 35) married to Isabella (Bella) McDONALD.  I believe Abel and Rose are Peter's parents.  I also believe this Peter is a brother to my Joseph PAPA.  All census note Ontario as the birth place for both Joseph and Mary but I have data noting Joseph was born at Lake of Two Mountains (Lac des Deux Montaines), OKA, Que. and Mary was born at Trois Rivieres, Quebec.

I believe the family travelled up the Ottawa River from the Montreal area as the early Pappins were hunters and trappers before becoming farmers. Lake of Two Mountains (Lac des Deux Montaines), now Oka, Quebec was a place of trading.  They settled for some time on both sides of the Ottawa River near Pembroke Ontario.

Some time in Ontario, North Renfrew County, Westmeath Township (1871 census).
Some time in the unorganized territory of Pontiac, Quebec, District Fort William (1881 census).
Peter PEPIN and Catherine are in Golden Lake (1881 Census).
Joseph and Mary Ann & family, Peter and Catherine, Lamab are again in Ontario, North Renfrew County, Westmeath Township (1891 and 1901 census)

Hoping a reader can connect to my Joseph and Mary.

Thanks.

Cliff

[If you connect to Cliff’s Joseph and Mary, drop me an email at lisa@fortlangley.ca]

Seeker #2, Debbie

I have been doing family geneology and have hit a brick wall. I stumbled onto your site.  I am now in the process of calling people in the province of Quebec to find out if my information is even correct.  I am wondering since I seen a story about Jacque Marcotte in your site if you have any info on these people and if you can verify it as you will see some conflicts so any help at all would be appreciated.  I have been looking for 3 years now.

My grandfather died in 1943,when my mother was 7yrs. old, upon his death all his children were put in an orphanage as their mother was unable physically to care for them. So they all knew very little about their history. Now these children are gone and I am interested. Go figure. Anyways this is what I have ...

1. Marie Anne POUTRET DIT LAVIGNE.

Born on 6-4-1718 in Pointe-aux-Trembles, QC, CAN .

baptized 6-4-1718 in St-Enfant-Jésus, Pointe-aux-Trembles, QC, CAN

died 24-4 1793 in Montréal, QC, CAN at the age of 75.

On 22-4-1743 when Marie Anne was 25, she married Jean PROVAUD, navigateur and journalier, son of Pierre PROVAUD & Jacqueline CHÊNE, in St-Enfant-Jésus, Pointe-aux-Trembles, QC, CAN. Born abt 1727 in St-Pépin, St-Ursin, Coutances, Normandie, FR. Jean died abt 1-1800, he was 73. Anst File#: E.

They had the following children:

2 i. Jean Baptiste (1744-)
3 ii. Nicolas (1746-)
4 iii. Michel (1748-1819)
5 iv. Jacques (1750-1751)
6 v. Jeanne (1753-)
7 vi. Simon (1753-)
8 vii. Marie (1755-)
9 viii. Marie (1755-)

Marie Anne second married Jean ANGO.

4. Michel PROVOST

Born on 23-8-1748 in Pointe-aux-Trembles, QC, CAN.

baptized in St-Enfant-Jésus, Pointe-aux-Trembles, QC, CAN on 23-8-1748

died on 6-4-1819, he was 70.

Buried on 6-4-1819 in Ste-Anne, Varennes, QC, CAN.. Anst File#: E.
[OCCU]: Menuisier

On 11-4-1774 when Michel was 25, he married Marie Francoise ROLLAND, daughter of Jacques ROLLAND & Hélène DEFAILLY, in St-Enfant-Jésus, Pointe-aux-Trembles, QC, CAN.

They had the following children:

19 i. Pierre
20 ii. Jean Baptiste
21 iii. Marie
22 iv. Louise
23 v. Michel

On 28-2-1791 when Michel was 42, married Marie Anne CHARTIER, daughter of Joseph CHARTIER & Marie Anne DUCLOS, in St-Enfant-Jésus, Montréal, QC, CAN.

They had the following children:

24 i. Marguerite
25 ii. Thérèse
26 iii. Norbert
27 iv. Louis
28 v. Gertrude

Family of Michel PROVOST (4) & Marie Francoise ROLLAND

19. Pierre PROVOST. Anst File#: E.

On 18-4-1809 Pierre married M arie Josephte GARIEPY, daughter of François Jean GARIEPY & Marie Françoise MOYEN, in St-Enfant-Jésus, Pointe-aux-Trembles, QC, CAN.

They had the following children:

45 i. Pierre Jean Baptiste (~1811-)
46 ii. Adelaïde
47 iii. Joseph (1812-)
48 iv. Marie Dorothée (1819-)
49 v. Joseph Aimé (1821-)
50 vi. Antoine (1823-1824)
51 vii. Alfred (1829-)

49. Joseph Aimé PROVOST. Born on 30-4-1821 in La Purification, Repentigny, QC, CAN. Joseph Aimé was baptized in La Purification, Repentigny, QC, CAN on 1-5-1821. Anst File#: E.
[OCCU]: Cordonnier

On 24-7-1848 when Joseph Aimé was 27, he married Marie Louise LEDUC, daughter of François Xavier LEDUC & Louise PANNETON, in La Purification, Repentigny, QC, CAN.

They had the following children:

105 i. Edouard (1849-1851)
106 ii. Joseph (1851-)
107 iii. Adèle (1853-)
108 iv. Jean Baptiste
107. Adèle PRÉVOST. Born on 19-11-1853 in La Purification, Repentigny, QC, CAN. Adèle was baptized in La Purification, Repentigny, QC, CAN on 19-11-1853. Anst File#: E.

At this point my information is different.

Theirs is this:

On 2-11-1869 when Adèle was 15, she married Jean Baptiste MARCOTTE, in Notre-Dame, Montréal, QC, CAN.

My info. is this Adeline Prevost married Edouard Marcotte no marriage date and they had a son named Arthur Marcotte who was born April 4,1889

Arthur moved to Sudbury Ontario and married Margaret Bradley on May 5, 1932.

[If anyone can help Debbie, email me at lisa@fortlangley.ca]

Seeker #3, John

A John McClure is looking for the parents and grand parents of Moses McCluer born in the 1770's some where in the eastern states. Possibly Conneticut or Vermont.

[If you can help John, email me at lisa@fortlangley.ca]

 RAMBLINGS FROM THE EDITOR

Barkerville was great.  But then, when I go to An Event as Mary Huston, I always have a good time.

Barkerville, British Columbia—once called Williams Creek—is also as far north as I’ve ever been.  At an average speed of 100kpm (62 mph), Barkerville is a 9 hour drive north and a tad east of Vancouver.  In altitude, it’s far enough above sea-level that it took me a couple days to get used to it; for two days it was all I could do to pound in a single tent peg.

In 1870, gold was discovered in Williams Creek by a fellow named Billy Barker, and for a while it was The Largest City north of San Fran Cisco and west of Chicago.  In 1930 there was a second gold rush in the area, started by a fellow named Wells, but by the 1950s, the population had thinned out some.  The last permanent relatives were moved out in the 1960s because the Province was turning the small town into a Park to Preserve the significant town site “unto perpetuity”—and most of us know what “unto perpetuity” means to many governmental bodies.

The folks behind the marvelous street actors (profession re-enactors) have been a bit nervous for a year or more now.  Pity there.

The Coolest thing about Barkerville is the Street Actors.  They are what make Barkerville a cut above the rest.  Regardless of they are on their days off, in Barkerville each takes on the name and habits of someone who lived in Barkerville, and goes about business in town as the historical counterparts had or might have, depending upon the person.

Time in Barkerville ranged from 1863 through 1906; we were in 1863—but then things move a little slower on the back street.

My personal high points were when I scared the beejayzuz out of an early morning maintenance man.

It is common knowledge that much of Barkerville in haunted.  Franklin Johnson haunts the Theatre Royal.  In life, Franklin portrayed Judge Matthew Bailly Begbee many times in the theatre and has, upon one occasion, passed a few moments in pleasant conversation with a reenactor one evening between dusk and dark.  He rattled doors in the washrooms at the theatre when we used them after everyone else had gone home.  Barkerville has other ghosts as well, but none of their relatives came through to tell us their stories.

Anyway.

Unlike the Street Actors, the five of us who went to Barkerville were actually camped in town, sleeping in canvas tents and cooking our meals with wood fires and cast iron.  Despite the daily rain.  Though no one asked if the food we were preparing was real, many, many people asked if we were really sleeping in the tents.  The universal answer was yes and then they pointed at my bare feet (what with no crushed rock, bare feet were a breeze).  We were far enough north that sunset was late and sunrise very very early.  I woke up when it was as dark as it got there, probably about 1 or 2 am, threw on my capote and with my trusty candle lantern, made my way to a delightful little brown shack but a half block walk from my tent.  After taking care of that business, I was standing there, buttoning my capote up, and I heard a truck drive up, and stop.  The truck door opened, and then closed, and foot steps made their way up the narrow, damp dirt path.

I tied the belt on the capote, thinking that as I had my candle lantern with me, whomever was walking toward the door of the outhouse would see the light and be aware of my presence.

When the door of the outhouse was pulled open, I stood there, barefoot, my Canadian hat on my head, wearing a pale blue capote, and holding my small wood-and-glass candle lantern shoulder high in an otherwise pitch dark outhouse that faced away from the rest of the town.

Y’know, I do not believe I have ever heard a man scream quite That Way.

The Poor man.  He was all teeth and eye-balls while all at the same time taking a brief stab at juggling a lit flashlight and roll of toilet paper, trying to back away on legs that appeared to have gone all wobbly, and sucking air into lungs four sizes too small. 

It took me a moment to recover my own breath, but once I had, I stepped into the light of his flashlight and asked him if he was okay (“And my guess is that you did not expect to see a short fat 45 year old in a blue capote standing in there.”  “I didn’t expect to see ANYbody in there.”)

Another high point was the handful of folk from Québec who either asked where in Québec I was from, or—with a smile—started speaking French so we could have a more intelligent conversation.  [insert wry grin HERE]  My French is not yet good enough for conversation.

But the Best of All was the 5 or 6 year old boy who came in through with his Mum and Dad.

Mum and Dad were energetic, excited, full of vim, vigour, and an unparalleled zest for life; the boy appeared to be exhausted, his little shoulders curled over and in on themselves, staring down at the ground, answering everything Mum or Dad asked with a barely-breathed monosyllabic answer.

I let him try on my Canadian hat, I let him try on my genuine 19th century beaver top hat (Christie’s of London), and finally told him of my cousin Denis, the voyageur, and Denis’ pet martin Pierre.  And how Pierre became Denis’ hat (and helps Denis find his way home on “late nights”).

The boy’s eye’s lit up when I brought out Pierre.  His shoulders squared up when he put Pierre on his head, and his chin came up when I stepped aside at the last second so that the first picture his Mum took was of just the boy on the martin hat.  Mum waved me back for a second picture, but I don’t think her son noticed.  He did stare off into nothing for just a moment, then took Pierre off, saying, “Thank you, Mary.” (When I’m being Mary, I do refer to myself in 3rd person, which work good for Mary).  He bounced after his Mum and Dad away towards the main street, his head high, his shoulders back, and looking around at everything.

That boy is what makes reenactment—wet tent canvas, mosquitoes large enough to carry away small farm animals, bear scares, and bathing in sinks with wash clothes—all worth it for me.

And now, if you will all excuse me, I’m must decide what I’m taking to Fort Langley Brigade Days –held in Fort Langley, British Columbia, at the Fort Langley National Historic Site-- over the first weekend in August.

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