September 2004 -- Vol 5, No. 9

In this month's COUSINS:

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WHAT'S NEW

I have found, or rather have been found by yet another cousin who has created an email list on Yahoo.  Check out http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pepin_gen .  Not much traffic yet, but then I'm the first official member of Michael Pepin's list.  It's his first attempt at making a group.  I'll be sending COUSINS to him, and they'll be going into the files portion of the Pepin_Gen at Yahoo Groups.  Check him out.

Oh, yeah. <insert silly grin HERE>

Welcome to COUSINS, Michael!

THIS MONTH'S FEATURE:  Marguerite PÉPIN and husband Joseph Bonaventure BUISSON

Last month we looked at Marie-Charlotte PÉPIN and husband Charles-Etienne LAROCHE. This month we look at Marie-Charlotte's little sister Marguerite.

Marguerite PEPIN (IIICharles;IIJean;IRobert)

Married 16 August 1763, in Trois Rivières

Joseph Bonaventure BUISSON, baptized 10 April 1741, son of Jean-Baptiste BUISSON and Agathe PINARD dit Lauzière

There are no children listed.

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

TANGUAY SAYS WHAT . . . ?

First-- a short "How to Read Tanguay" lesson.

The children of any given couple are listed under their parents in italics; the italics are on the online version.

b = baptized
m = married
s = buried
veuve = widow
janvier = January
féverier = February
mars = March
avril = April
mai = May
juin = June
juillet = July
août = August
sept. September
1er = 1st

The Roman Numerals indicate which North American generation he is.

Second: the Interesting Error of the Month.

His name: IV--Jean Baptiste JANOT, baptized 11 Aug 1736, son of Nicolas JANOT and Anne SENET dit LALIBERTÉ, and on 7 Feb 1763 in Longue-Pointe, he got married to Marie-Joseph PEPIN.

Now, this is where is gets complicated.

Tanguay found TWO women named Mary-Joseph PEPIN, who each married a fella named Jean-Baptiste JANOT on 7 Feb 1763.

Mary-Joseph PEPIN number 1 was baptized 2 March 1729, daughter and last child of III--Jacques PEPIN and Isabelle DUFRESNE, and the widow of Pierre SAUVAGE

Says the entry in Tome 6 on page 294/295:

1713, (25 février) Pte-aux-Trembles, M.

III.--PEPIN, Jacques                                 [Jacques II
         b 1685; s 14 août 1747, à la Longue-Pointe
     1.  DUFRESNE, Elisabeth,                     [Jean-Bte II
         b 1694; s 3 mars 1729
   Jacques, b 4 janvier et s 6 oct. 1714.-- Joseph, b . m 6 juin 1746, à Hélène FISSIAU.-- Elisabeth, b 1717; m 18 janvier 1737, à Jean ARCHAMBAULT.-- Jacques, b 6 avril 1718; m 1739, à Marie-Joseph POUDRET.-- Jean-Baptiste, b 12 avril 1719; 1.m 8 février 1751, à Lucille BAUDREAU; 2.m 7 janvier 1760, à Madeleine LEBEAU.-- François, b 1 sept. 1720; m 14 avril 1749, à Marie-Joseph LEMONE-JASMIN, à Chambly.--Toussaint, b 29 juillet 1722; m 13 avril 1750, à Françoise BLAIS.-- Basile, b 19 juin 1724; m 10 février 1749, à Marguerite MORISSEAU, à Boucherville.-- Pierre, b 22 sept. 1726; s 26 mai 1741.--> Marie-Joseph, b 2 mars 1729; 1., 21 sept. 1750, à Pierre SAUVAGE; 2.m 7 février 1762, à Jean-Baptiste JANOT. <--

Mary-Joseph PEPIN number 2 is the daughter and second child of IV--Jacques PEPIN and Marie-Joseph POUDRET.

Says the entry in Tome 6 on page 297:

1739

IV.--PEPIN, Jacques,                               [Jacques III
        b 1718
     POUDRET, Marie-Joseph                 [Jean-André II
        b 1713
   Marie-Madeleine, b 13 déc. 1740, à la Longue-Pointe.-- Catherine, b . m 1er février 1762, à Emmanuel VIDEGUER.--> Marie-Joseph, b . m 7 février 1763, à Jean-Baptiste JANOT.<-- Jacques, b 1745; m 2 mars 1778, à Madeleine MARTIN, à Montréal.

So then we move along to Tome 7, p 129, which says:

1750, (21 sept.) Longue-Pointe

II--SAUVAGE, Pierre                                   [Gilles I.
     b 1726
  1.  PEPIN, Marie-Joseph                           [Jacques III
     b 1729; s 2 août 1762
   Pierre, b 1751; m 11 août 1772, à Félicité VIGER, à
Montréal.-- Jean-Baptiste, b 29 juin 1754.-- Joseph, b 31 juillet 1755.

And in Tome 4, on page 584.

1763, (19 janvier), à la Longue-Pointe

IV.--JANOT, Jean-Bte                              [Nicolas III
        b 1736. 
   PEPIN, Marie-Joseph.                              [Jacques III
b 1729; veuve de Pierre Sauvage
   Marie-Joseph, b 14 février 1764.-- Jean-Baptiste, b 15 avril et s 5 juillet 1765.-- Jean-Baptiste, b 21 avril 1766.

All the Pépins listed above descend from Guillaume PEPIN and Jeanne MÉCHIN

Will the REAL Mrs. Jean-Baptiste JANOT please stand up -- though I'm leaning heavily towards Jacques and Elisabeth's daughter.
 

RAMBLINGS FROM THE EDITOR

This has been A Year.  I have done more, seen more, had more fun, and been to more places for the first time this year, than I have in several previous years combined.  And it hasn't even been a whole year -- just since February.

Don't get me wrong, it's not been all milk and honey.  There's been some vinegar and onions as well, but this happens.  What's kinda got me walking in little circles is that fact that it's already September -- the summer has flow by!

The weekend of August 14 & 15 I was at Fort Nisqually.  It was a bitter sweet weekend. We took the time to give Final Farewells to three of our number.  The 1st was a dear man, nickname of Pappy.  He'd been volunteering at Fort Nisqually for years, and one night earlier this year, he went to bed and never woke up.  He was in his 70s.  The other two, well, they were a little harder.  Both were in their 50s.  The death of both was sudden and unexpected.  However, their widows came to Brigade this year.  Tina and Mary Anne camped next to each other and showed visitors how to dye cloth using indigo.  I learned how to make a cook stove using hard packed ground, a pick ax, and a shovel.  My pleasant surprise of the weekend was--

Well, there I was in serious Mary Huston mode, and I turn around that there's my kid bro with a very special visitor.  I had a grand time showing the two of them around the fort.  At one point, the kid bro asks, "Do you know everybody here?"  I grinned and said, "Not by name, but they all know me."  (So, Don, where were *YOU*?)

The weekend of August 28th, for me, started on Thursday the 26th.  We left here at about 12:30 and headed for San Juan Island --via north Seattle-- for a re-enactment of the joint occupation of San Juan Island that came about after an American squatter shot a Hudson's Bay Company pig, which resulted in the Pig War.  The only casualty of the Pig War was a prize Berkshire boar with a taste for American potatoes.  More on that in a bit.

Along the shore of the Puget Sound there's a winding little two-lane road called Chuckanut Drive (aka State Route 11), west of Interstate 5.  When the road isn't closed due to bits of it sliding down to the rocky Puget Sound beaches, it's one of The Nicest Drives in Washington state.  You can find it between exits #250 and #231 off Interstate 5, and its best when you have no particular schedule to keep.

Years ago, in the days before seat-belts and road rage, when gasoline (regular or ethyl) was less than 50 cents a gallon, most Sundays started out with Mom and Dad loading the kids in the car -sometimes with, sometimes without, the big green ice chest filled with pop and chicken that Mom had baked the night before.  North, south, west, or east, the final destination was invariably outside of major population areas.  The usual destination was just about anywhere in the Cascade mountain range, places with names like Taenum Creek and Wanapum Dam, a lake outside of Tacoma where we'd meet Daddy's sister, brother, niece, and their families, the Pacific ocean beaches, usually Copalis Beach.  Places with no names, sometimes prefaced with "used to come here as a kid".  But every so often, we'd Drive Chuckanut.

Even now, Chuckanut Drive is a little slice of Yesterday.  There have been some changes.  The Oyster Bar, for instance.  It was built originally in 1927, tucked up in the Sound-side of a particularly tight hairpin turn.  Used to be you'd pull off Chuckanut, walk up to the dutch door, and tell the person on the other side of the door how many oysters you wanted.  After money changed hands, there was a few minute wait, and then your oysters -fresh that morning from Samish Bay- were handed out to you.  Of course, now, this was all before I was.  Every time we'd drive past the Oyster Bar, Dad would say, "Great Oysters", Mom would smile That Smile and say, "Yes, they do", us kids would, in unison, say, "BLEH!", and Daddy would keep on driving.

Now, it is very much different.  It's got a fancy stained glass double-door for the guests, and another separate door for deliveries.  There's an upper dining area for the general public and, if you call ahead and have deep enough pockets, there's a separate dining area down stairs - with a 180 degree view of the San Juan Islands and a private deck-for private dining.  Mind you I was a bit shocked, and had I been on my own, I'd have quietly and politely left, recognizing a place that was beyond my modest Social Security Disability income, but my friend didn't bat an eyelash.  He had a gi-normous platter of Oysters on the Half Shell, I had gi-normous tiger prawns battered in coconut and sliced almond.  And water -- in crystal goblets.  The view was wonderful; we could look out and down at a happy rush of water, chasing itself down the steep hillside, over boulders and between great green plumes of sword fern rising from velvet cushions of emerald moss, and shaggy great column of cedar, and fir . or were they hemlocks . . . ?  Anyway, great view, great food, and of the price range where there are no prices on the menu.  If it sounds good to you, check out their web site at http://www.theoysterbaronchuckanutdrive.com/

The next day found us at English Camp on San Juan Island.  English Camp is north of Friday Harbor, on the west side of the island.  Every year we do this.  Been doing it since 1998.  But this year, it was the biggest turnout yet.  And, as usual, "Battery D", a group of the hardest working volunteers *I've* ever seen, provided --as in paid for, cooked, and served-- food for all 100+ of us, all on wood-fired stoves.  Until I get the pics I took up, there are some that can be seen at
http://sanjuanislander.com//federal/national-parks/encampment-2004.shtml

We were three lines of canvas tents: the Royal Marine Light Infantry, a couple British "Tars" (sailors), American soldiers, employees of the Hudson's Bay Company, assorted US citizens and crafts people, assorted British citizens from the Crown Colonies of Vancouver's Island and British Columbia, a pipe and drum corp. (all teenagers, but my O my are they good), and a fife and drum corp. (dressed all 1860, playing the 1860 top 40; they weren't too bad . . . even at 5:45 am).

The coolest thing that happened that entire weekend was seeing cousin Karryl Hubbard (okay, cousin-in-law; her hubby Jerry is the cousin [Hi, Jerry!  Missed ya!]).  Karryl took some pics too, and you can see them down at the bottom of this article.

The trip home Monday the 30th was a lovely ride - and once I was unloaded, I went in and fell face first on the bed and slept for a couple days.

See, if you've been keeping track, I've been to Derby Reach, British Columbia (February, 2 days, one night); Fort Rodd Hill, Vancouver Island (May, 4 days, 3 nights); Fort Vancouver, Washington (June, 4 days, 3 nights); Manning Park, British Columbia (July, 3 days, 2 nights); Fort Langley Brigade, (July/August, 3 days 2 nights); Fort Nisqually Brigade (August 4 days, 3 nights), and British Camp (August, 5 days, 4 nights). Got a couple three more events to go yet this year, but, y'know, in the long run, it's worth it. Pictures for these events can be found at http://www.royalengineers.ca/REScrap.html

With but a couple exceptions, the west coast re-enactment community is a whole bunch of fun! Milk and honey . . . vinegar and onions . . . why with some fruits, nuts, flakes, and a few vegetables, it's a salad.

But for now, O Gentle Readers, it's bedtime for Lisa.  I'll put the online version up tomorrow.  And we'll deal with the Pig War next month.

Happy Birthday, Amberlee.

Mary Huston shows visitors fox furs.  Darlene Wahl, Mrs. Eldridge, and Mrs. Innes, backed by Garrison Bay.

Mary Huston taking a quick lunch break.

At the Cannon Ball Toss, Mary points to her moccasin on the line, insisting that was exactly what Blacksmith Ron had said, that at least one of her shoes must be on the line.

With the misunderstanding cleared up, Mary steps up to the line...

... and gives it her best try, while Blacksmith Ron looks on.

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