April 2004 -- Vol 5, No. 4

In this month's COUSINS:

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WHAT'S NEW

 Well, I’M bummed.

 It looks like I’m not going away for the summer after all.  A number of people are pleased about it, I’m not one of them (I was really looking forward to a summer away from the City).

 On the brighter side of the news, we got some new cousins to greet this month.  Linda Tricarico, Ron Young (Ron, as a descendant of Marie and her second husband, you are most definitely a cousin), and Patti-Lynn.  Welcome, Linda, Ron, and Patti-Lynn!

And tonight I received an email regarding my great grandfather Seymour Peppan aka Simon Pepin, that read:

 ”I may have found your great grandfather's death.  The local newspaper of 21 April 1909 tells of the death in Port Ludlow of a man thought to be Sam Peppea.  If this sound like a possible I will mail you the copy.   The funeral home records here start in 1913 and the coroner's records in 1911 - it was a case for the coroner.  There is no cemetery record for him. 

”The only other record I found of him in this county is an application for citizenship in 1879 and citizenship granted in 1881.  Those records are in the Northwest Regional Branch of Washington State Archives in Bellingham – in Drawer E-12-8 and 9.  Address:  Western Washington University, MS-9123, Bellingham WA 98225-9123.  state.archives@wwu.edu. 

“If you decide to contact them you might ask if they also have the coroner's 1909 records.”

I have written to the appropriate people and will wait as patiently as possible for a reply.  Why have I put this here?  I don't know that Sam Peppea is actually Seymour aka Simon, but I COULD be.  I won't know for sure until I see the newspaper article.

THIS MONTH'S FEATURE: Marie-Anne PÉPIN, her husband Jean-Baptiste-François MAILLOT, and their children

Last month we looked at Marie-Thérèse, her husband François GRAVEL, and their children.

This month we look at her younger sister Marie-Anne, her husband Jean-Baptiste-François MAILLOT and their children.

Marie-Anne PEPIN (IIILouis, IIJean, IRobert) daughter of Louis Pepin and Marie Martin dit Jolicoeur dit Lachance, baptized 18 Jun 1732

and

Jean-Baptiste-François MAILLOT, son of Louis MAILLOT and Marie-Madeleine HOUY, baptized 18 Jan 1728, in Lotbinière,

married in 1750.

Marie-Anne and Jean-Baptiste-François had 7 children,

•	Geneviève MAILLOT, baptized 1751; married François AUGER dit Vignet 20 Feb 1775; married Jean-François COUTURE 14 Sept 1795; buried 27 nov 1802
•	Marie-Catherine MAILLOT, baptized 1 oct 1752
•	Marie-Catherine MAILLOT, batised 12 mar 1754; married Antoine Hamel, 24 jan 1780; buried 25 aug 1790
•	Marie-Joseph MAILLOT, baptised 12 jul 1756; buried 6 aug 1756
•	Michel MAILLOT, baptised 11 Sept 1758; married Judith LEMAY 4 april 1785 in St-Jean-Deschaillons
•	Marguerite MAILLOT, baptised 20 Sept 1760
•	Marie-Elizabeth MAILLOT, married René HAMELIN 8 Oct 1781 in St-Jean-Deschaillons

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

RESOURCES

For those of you who may be unaware there are a couple PEPIN messages boards, as well as a PEPIN mailing list.  Of the latter, it’s a ROOTSWEB mailing list, and I have been giving some thought to moving the newsletter over to there, but it’s still in the thinking-about-it stage.

Now, the two PEPIN message boards can be found at:

http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=an&p=surnames.pepin
 and
 http://genforum.genealogy.com/pepin/

There may be more, and probably is.  If you know of other sites, let me
know.  Let’s see how many we can find.
 

THE MAIL BAG

It started with a message in the guestbook from a Linda Tricarico that read:

“I am the great-great grand daughter of Narcisse David Lachance and Philinize Memarde.  Their second child Elizabeth Lachance was my grandmother, who married Antonio Nicodemo Candito (who's name was spelled Candido on immigrations listed at Ellis Island) who immigrated from Italy.  My mother is their first daughter Palma.  She married Stanley A. Toczko of Worcester, MA.  I am their only child.”

So I emailed her, and asked if she wanted get the newsletter.  She said,

“I can't begin to tell you how excited I was to hear from you.  I would love to hear from any cousins or any relatives that I have out there, so you can put my name on your cousin newsletter.  It will be fun to hear from them.  I am located in Massachusetts in the USA, in a little town that is about 50 minutes from Boston.  Where are you located?”

Linda’s email address is lintricarico@yahoo.com.  (A Lisa Note to Linda:  I’m in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, which is just a tad south and east of Vancouver.)

Now, I try real hard to ask for permission to post stuff in the newsletter,
but there are times when it slips my mind (the 70s were entirely too good to me)

Example: the email I received Mar 25, 2004, from Ron Young, who said:

"My name is Ron and I am a descendant of Marie Crete.  I have been on a quest for a long time to find my Native roots, ever since my late Father told us the story of his Mom and how her cousins were Natives.

"I have found one Grandmother that was Algonquin but something told me that my quest did not end there and I kept searching and I found your web sight.  When I saw the name of our Grandmother I wasn't surprised because I had my suspicions for a while but couldn't find the answer, and I still need your help.

"Your letter asks for the descendants of Robert Pepin and Marie Crete this is where I am still concerned you see as you must know Marie Crete married Robert Pepin in 1670-11-04 and she also married Jean Brideau a few years later in 1687-04-21 in Quebec, well I hope it doesn't leave me out of your family because my line comes from the marriage with Jean Brideau.

"I am going to send you my line in hopes that it will be all right.

1.	Marie Crete m. Jean Brideau 1687-04-21
2.	Daughter, Marie Anne Brideau m. Joseph Morin 1704-11-04 Quebec
3.	Son, Joseph Morin m. Charlotte Marie Charles Croquelois Laviolette 1736-02-06 Quebec
4.	Son, Louis Marie Morin m. Marie Josephe Hubert 1767-03-17 Notre Dame Montreal Quebec
5.	Son, Nicolas Morin m. Cicile Auclair 1800-01-11 Notre Dame Montreal Quebec
6.	Daughter Cicile Leocadie Morin m. Pierre Renaud 1834-10-31 Ottawa Ontario
7.	Daughter, Emilie Renaud m. Clement Noel 1851-03-04 Aylmer Quebec
8.	Daughter Julie Noel m. Calixte Duval 1870-06-27 Aylmer Quebec
9.	Daughter Marie Anne Duval m. Henry Young 1905-07-17 Aylmer Quebec
10.	Son Alfred Allan Young m. Agnas Ryan 1947-07-10 Deschenes Quebec
11.	Son Ronald Young. Me

"There you have it, if everything is ok and if it's not to much trouble could you send me some information on the Native ancestry of the family it means so much to me, thanks Ron .

"P.S.  I know I don't know anyone in your family but say hi anyway."

Consider the “hi” delivered, Ron.  <insert a large cheeky grin HERE>

Hey, Cousins, can any of you help out Cousin Ron? (For now send any replies for Ron to me at lisa@ fortlangley.ca, and as soon as I get the okay from Ron, an email link will appear >here< on the online version of this newsletter. (Ron, how would you feel about your email address being added to the online version of this issue of the newsletter?)

On March 23, 2004 (can you tell I’m working my way back through my email?), I got this from Patti-Lynn:

 “I just in the last 20 minutes started to do some research for my cousin on our family tree.  This is what I have:

Jean Pepin - Jeanne Dumont

Robert Pepin - Marie Crete

Louis Pepin - Elizabeth Boutin

Jacques Francois Pepin - Marie Genevieve Renault

Joesph Pepin - Marie Josephte Savard

Jean Bte? Pepin - Sophie Carrierre

Magloire Pepin (Papin) - Elisa Poulin

Alexandre Pepin (Papin) - Marie Papineau

Georges Pepin - Idola Brunet

Then there is the kids which include my mother

“I have marriage dates and places.

“It looks like Jacques Francois Pepin and Marie Genevieve Renault only had two children and I am looking for a third Joseph Pepin.  Where can I go to find this info?

“Thanks for your web site!”

Any one from this Pépin/Renault line who can help her out?  Let me know and I’ll pass it along to Patti-Lynn. (Patti-Lynn, who do you feel about your email address being added to the online version of this issue of the newsletter?)

COMIC RELIEF

There have been an assortment of this type of funny, but this version made me laugh out loud.

You know you're living in 2004 when...

1.	You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.
2.	You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.
3.	You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
4.	You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
5.	Your reason for not staying in touch with friends is that they don't have e-mail addresses.
6.	When you go home after a long day at work you still answer the phone in a business manner.
7.	When you make phone calls from home, you accidentally dial "9" to get an outside line.
8.	You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.
10.	You learn about your redundancy on the 11 o'clock news.
11.	Your boss doesn't have the ability to do your job.
12.	Contractors out number permanent staff and are more likely to get long-service awards.
13.	You read this entire list, and kept nodding and smiling.
14.	As you read this list, you think about forwarding it to your "friends."
15.	You got this email from a friend that never talks to you anymore, except to send you jokes from the net.
16.	You are too busy to notice there was no #9
17.	You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9.

IN THE NEWS

From Cousin Libby

This appeared in The Montreal Gazette on March 19 2004
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In search of roots

$70-million project launched. Roman Catholic Church to open genealogical centre that will trace Quebec's family trees back to 1600s

ALAN HUSTAK
The Gazette

Friday, March 19, 2004

Families throughout North America with Roman Catholic roots in Quebec should find it easier to trace their ancestry once the diocese of Quebec opens a $70-million historical archives and genealogical centre in Quebec City.

The fundraising campaign to build the centre was initiated yesterday by Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the archbishop of Quebec, and Abdou Diouf, a former president of Senegal and now the secretary-general of the Francophonie, the international organization of French-speaking countries.  The launch took
place during a breakfast at Montreal city hall.

Both men are honorary patrons of the foundation, established to consolidate 350 years of church records under one roof.

With the closing of various churches in the diocese in recent years, many historic parochial and diocesan documents - including birth, marriage and death certificates - are stored in warehouses.  Without proper care, they are in danger of disintegrating.

The Quebec diocese has records that go back to 1658.  That's when Pope Alexander VII and King Louis XIV of France named François Laval the first bishop of the colony of New France.  At the time, the diocese included all of North America east of the Mississippi River.

The diocese of Baltimore, for example, the first diocese in the new republic of the United States, was carved out of the Quebec diocese in 1789.

Plans call for the archives to be housed in the Quebec Seminary building, in the heart of the provincial capital's Old Town.

An estimated $20 million will be spent to renovate the buildings, another $20 million to catalogue and restore the collection and $30 million to finance the centre's operating costs for the next 60 years.

The centre will be promoted as a tourist attraction, and will include a multimedia room that will feature a film about the history of the Quebec diocese.

The fundraising committee hopes most of the money it needs will come from corporate sponsors, but will solicit some government funding.

"The research centre will be a multifunctional place, open to university students, teachers and the public at large who want to conduct historical or genealogical searches," André Noreau, the foundation's founding president, said yesterday.  "We also hope to put some of the archives online."

Noreau said he hopes the centre will be operating by 2008, the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec City.

Although Montreal was originally part of the Quebec diocese, its church records will remain in this city.  Canon law requires each diocese to maintain its own parish information and historical records.

According to church spokespeople, the proposed centre will be one of the most important archives in Canada because it is the prime source of information about the church in Canada from 1647 to 1826, when the diocese of Kingston, Ont., was established.

RAMBLINGS FROM THE EDITOR

 If you get out a map of Canada, the long province on the west side
(left-hand side of the map) of is British Columbia.  British Columbia is a
BIG province.  Down in the lower left-hand corner of British Columbia is the city of Vancouver.

 Vancouver is a fair sized city, comparable to Seattle.  If your map of
British Columbia–aka BC–includes Washington state, you can see the tiny bit of space between the two.  As the cab driver drives, it’s a 2 hours and 20 minutes drive without factoring in the 5 minutes to 5 hours that you may or may not spend at the border (and any traffic you might encounter going through North Seattle, Lynnwood or Everett).

I mentioned that BC is a pretty big place.  It is.  If you drive 9 hours
north from Vancouver, on Hwy 97, you’ll come to a place called Quesnel.  No, not KWEZ-nel, it’s pronounced kweh-NEL, probably after some French guy (yes, as a matter of fact, there are a couple in the Monster Data Base).  If you turn right at Quesnel, and drive for another hour or so on Hwy 26, 10 minutes the other side of the town of Wells (you’ll know you’re in Wells because of the “See the Camel” signs) , the road ends at the Barkerville National Historic Site of Canada.  At this point you are little over a third and a little under a half way up the province of British Columbia; it's about the same distance as Seattle, Washington, to Boise Idaho.

In about 1857, a fellow named James Houston discovered gold on the Thompson River, but James Douglas, Chief Factor for the Hudson’s Bay Company, did his very best to keep a lid on it, but one-the-less, word did get out.  Soon, everybody knew that gold had been found on Fraser’s River –even if nobody knew exactly where Fraser’s River was.  The 49ers came north from the panned-out gold fields of California, followed closely by people from just about everywhere else where gold had value.  Yes, I said people, ‘cause though there weren’t many, some women did come and they did pan for gold.

In 1862, “Dutch Bill” Deitz discovered a whopping $1 in gold on an unnamed creek waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out in the weeds, a ways east of Fort Kamloops, nestled in the foot hills of the Cariboo Mountains.  Though his panning buddies weren’t too terribly enthused by his find, old Dutch Bill he says, and I quote, “If you vill call it by me, I vill hoppen for you de very first case of vine vot comes into de country.”  They agreed and the unnamed creek became Williams Creek.  More gold was found, and a town sprang up.  Life was good.

Then there was the obligatory Great Fire (every major city’s had one), and the Rebuilding, a Re-naming to Barkerville, and like most gold towns, things died down after a while, and buy the early part of the 20th century, things were looking bleak.  There was a small boom in 1930, but that, too, fizzled out and by 1958, Barkerville was well on its way to being just another ghost town.  However, a few folks weren’t ready to let Barkerville, once the largest city north of San Francisco, to pass into obscurity.

Fast forward a few years.  Barkerville, with its well-preserved historic
buildings, costumed street actors and business proprietors has become one of the premier historic sites in North America, winning awards for the quality of its historic portrayals.  And last year, it lost its government funding.

The street actors who had been there for the last 10 years said “screw it” and went to work for a place called The Historium in downtown Vancouver, leaving the job of street actor open to anyone with a good enough proposal.

 One of the members of our merry band of players in the RE Living History Society decided to try for the job. I was one of a handful of people Simon knew could get away for the 5 months required for the job.  I was excited.

Then we got the word:  We had won the bid!!!!!  We were going to spend 5 whole months playing in the 19th century, dressing and acting like someone else AND getting paid (handsomely) to do it.  I mean, we do this because we enjoy it, our only reward being the satisfaction of making one or two visitors smile.  But this year, THIS year we were going to get PAID!  Five months way from the sounds and smells of an industrial society!

So there we were, rushing round like mad, gathering this, collecting that,
deciding who we were going to be, I was looking for someone to handle the newsletter while I was away—when we got another word: someone came down with a wicked case of twisted knickers because we had been awarded the bid, and successfully pitched a bitch, resulting is the contract being taken away from us.  We re-bid, but were unsuccessful.

So, I will be at the usual places this summer, though I may still hand a
couple issues over to a guest editor (if you’re still interested, Glo).  I’m
really really bummed out.  Yeah, there’s next year, but . . . that’s*next*
year.

However, Barkerville is a really cool place to visit.  The people who did
win the bid are very nice people, and Hwy 26 has got to be The Sweetest
piece of motorcycling road I've seen in years.  There are a bunch of
Barkerville websites but the easiest to get around in is at
http://www.heritage.gov.bc.ca/bark/bark.htm.

NEWSLETTER INFORMATION

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COUSINS
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This month's was finished
7 April 2004, 11:37 PM PST