May 2004 -- Vol 5, No. 5

In this month's COUSINS:

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WHAT'S NEW

Not much is new . . . I think.  Been busy enough I’m not sure if I should scratch my watch or wind my bum.  Sewed a new patch into my tent.  Hah, simple you say.  HAH, I say.  The tent is a 12 x 9 foot canvas jobbie, and the patch was 6 feet wide by 7 feet long, sewn in by hand with waxed thread.  I'm pretty pleased that it only took four days AND the waterproofing worked . . . this time.  I have learned that sewing a big patch AND playing cricket all in the same month is a Bad Thing.  <insert wry grin HERE> Good thing black and dark blue are colours I wear well.

Oh, and I'm in the Ls on the final pass through the Monster Data Base, at the LeMAYs, as a matter of fact.

THIS MONTH'S FEATURE: Louis-Etienne PEPIN and his wife Jeanne Marie Jennette MCCLURE and their children.

Last month, we looked at Louis-Etienne’s older sister Marie-Anne, her husband Jean-Baptiste MAILLOT, and their 7 children.

Louis-Etienne PEPIN (IIILouis, IIJean, IRobert) son of Louis Pepin and Marie Martin dit Jolicoeur dit Lachance, baptized 28 Jun 1737; buried 9 Dec 1813, in Yamaska county Québec

and

Jeanne Marie Jennette MCCLURE, daughter of John MACLURE and Jeanne FINN, born 1745, in Québec City; died 5 Aug 1815, Yamaska county Québec

married in 25 May 1761, Hospital Chapel, Québec City, Québec.

Louis-Etienne and Jeanne had 10 children,
 

1.	Jeanne PEPIN, baptized 10 June 1762, Québec; married Jean-Baptiste GIGUERE 14 Jan 1782, Yamaska county, Québec
2.	Marie-Madeleine PEPIN, baptized 22 Feb 1764
3.	Etienne-Louis PEPIN, baptized 19 Oct. 1765, St-Michel-d’Yamaska; married Marie BLANCHET 28 Oct 1788, Yamaska county Québec; married Catherine GRANDMONT 28 July 1801, St. Charles, Missouri
4.	Joseph PEPIN, baptized 25 Aug 1767; married Suzanne HUBERT dit Lacroix 23 Feb 1797, St. Charles Missouri
5.	Antoine PEPIN, baptized 29 April 1769; married Charlotte DESROSIERS 10 May 1790, Yamaska county Québec
6.	Louis PEPIN, born 18 April 1771, Yamaska county Québec; died 28 Feb 1847, Yamaksa county Québec; married Marie-Catherine GERMAIN 22 Oct 1792, Yamaska county Québec ; married Agathe ROCHE dit LaLancette 25 Oct 1802, Yamaska county Québec
7.	Jean-François PEPIN, born 3 Aug 1776
8.	Anne PEPIN, born 1776; married Antoine B. BONENFANT, 20 Nov 1797, Yamaska county Québec
9.	Pierre PEPIN, born 16 March 1779
10.	Marguerite PEPIN, baptized 22 July 1784, St-Michel, Yamaska, Québec; buried 21 June 1818, St-Michel, Yamaska, Québec; married Michel MAY/MAIE 3 May 1802, St-Michel, Yamaska, Québec

It is through Louis-Etienne and Jeanne that most of us connect, and it is through those who descend from Louis-Etienne and Jeanne that some of the above info comes.  Unfortunately, I neglected to make a note of the earliest contributions and would most sincerely appreciate a reminder.  Let my error be an object lesson: Always always always note where you find your information, whether it’s from a mother, father, sister, brother, cousin, or genealogy resource, public or private, trust me on this one, You Will Not Remember.  I *think* I know where the info for Louis, Jean-François, Anne, and Pierre came from, but I would like confirmation – please (and I promise to type it into the Monster Data Base as soon as I get it).  Genealogy without documentation is mythology.
 
My most heartfelt thanks to Dwight Hebert and his father Henry Hebert for the information on Marguerite, her husband Michel, their 10 kids, and Michel’s second wife, Angélique GENEREAU, and their 6 kids.

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

RAMBLINGS FROM THE EDITOR

 I have a new camera.  It’s not an expensive one.  It has no flash, no extra lenses, no tripod . . . no batteries.  It has to be The Simplest camera I have ever owned, up to and including the 110 Instamatic I stumbled across earlier this month going through some stuff in storage.  And it takes those wide panorama shots that, when taken with cameras with that Special Setting, cost an arm, a leg, and a couple toes to develop.  Though someday I hope to own a digital camera, for now I’m happy with my no-frills special. 
 
Since the last newsletter, I’ve been to 2 events; the last was just this last weekend.  It was at the Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site on Vancouver Island.  At this event, there were military encampments ranging from the newly arrived Royal Engineers & Marines in 1859 through the Korean War.  Though the site did provide meals, I and another woman also prepared meals for our group of 8.  On a wood stove that was 12 inches wide, 24 inches long, and 12 inches tall.  The star of the weekend menu was the pot roast (potatoes, carrots, and onions) that simmered for two days and was served as stew to the last 10 people on-site Sunday night.  I had every intention of serving it as roast but, well, one thing led to another and by the time we got around to eating in the roast had lost all structural integrity. Then there was the pea soup.
 
Picture if you will a pot two 18 inches deep and 10 inches across, filled full of home-made pea soup (green split peas, white onion, garlic, yellow onion, garlic, red onion, garlic, green onion, leek, garlic, carrot, celery . . . oh, and garlic.  Mrs. Bonson is a vegetarian so there was no ham bone), served with home-made honey oat bread.  By the end of the first day, it got a bit surreal.  I, as Sapper John Scales’ wife, and Midori, as Serjeant Bonson’s wife, stood there, dressed in 1859 dresses, serving soup from a copper-clad kettle with a wooden ladle to red-tunicked Royal Engineers, blue tunicked Royal Marines, WW I cavalry man, a WW II CWAC driver, and Korean War cook.  About the same mix we had with the after hours cricket game.  Playing cricket in a corset is a bit of challenge. 
 
I wasn’t even thinking about running –cricket and baseball are similar in that both involve a bat and a ball and running when you’ve hit the ball with the bat– until I got the bat under the ball just right and was able to walk to the opposing wicket.  Very satisfying, that very special *CRACK* when the bat and ball connect just right . . . most especially when everyone is standing in close and can only watch the ball sail over their heads.  As a baseball player, I could not catch, didn’t run or throw very well, but if I could get the bat under the ball, I could swat it out of the park.  My fused wrist is extremely annoyed with me –right up to and including holding its breath until it’s turned quite blue in protest– but I don’t have to do anything for a couple weeks.
 
But O! My it felt good to smack that hard red-leather ball into the next century.

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