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February 2005 -- Vol 6, No. 2
In this month's COUSINS:
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WHAT'S NEW
Well, I've finished - mostly.
Yes, the Monster Database has been completed, with the exception of one
last look to be sure all the baptism and burial dates are actually listed
as baptism and burial dates, as well as putting "né/née" or "mort" in
front of the few birth and death dates. There may yet be a few
duplicates, but the
standing count right now is 25,824 individuals. The next step will
be putting the Monster Database Online, which in itself will take a bit of
time.
I will be putting descendant trees for the oldest generation I have for
each family line. Thus, some family lines will start with the
parents of the folks who came to New France, and some will start with the
first North American Generation. I don't know yet exactly how many
families are involves yet. When I use the PAF filters designed to
determine such things, they tell me that the parents of the colonists
number 4448 and that there are 2836 First Generation families. We'll
see how these numbers change once the MDB is online.
And had this been a normal-sized month, this newsletter would have been
out on time <insert cheeky grin HERE>
THIS MONTH'S FEATURE:
Last month we
looked at Louis-Joseph PEPIN and wife Louise-Marguerite BERGEVIN and their
10 children.
This month we look at Marie-Françoise PEPIN and her two husbands, Augustin
GRENIER and Jacques-Guillaume BOETARD dit St. Sévère
Marie-Françoise is the 11th child of II-Jean PÉPIN and wife Marguerite
MOREAU. She was baptised 28 Feb in Charlesbourg, Québec. The
René Jetté says she was born 27 Feb 1712 in St. Joseph.
On 15 September 1732, in Charlesbourg, she married
Augustin GRENIER, son of I--Nicolas GRENIER dit Métivier and wife Marie-Anne
CHRÉTIEN. He was baptized 30 Jan 1704.
According to Tanguay, they had 5 children.
| 1. |
Marie-Geneviève
GRENIER, baptised 5 Jan 1734; married Charles-René VASSOR dit
Lafraicheur 13 Jan 1750 |
| 2. |
Joseph-Augustin
GRENIER, baptised 31 May 1736; buried 2 July 1737 |
| 3. |
François GRENIER,
baptised 18 October 1737 |
| 4. |
George-François
GRENIER baptised 9 July 1739; buried 28 July 1739 |
| 5. |
Marguerite GRENIER
baptised 13 Jan 1742; married Jean-Baptiste FREMOT dit Latendresse 4
July 1757, in Montréal |
On 2 May 1743,
Augustin GRENIER was buried.
So, then, on 20 April 1744, Marie-Thérèse married Jacques-Guillaume BOETARD
dit St. Sévère. Jacques-Guillaume is the first North American
generation of his line, the son of Jacques BOETARD and Marie HERVIER.
Marie-Thérèse and Jacques-Guillaume had 4 children.
| 1. |
Jean-Jacques BOETARD,
baptised 7 Jan 1745, buried 8 Sept 1745 |
| 2. |
Denis BOETARD,
baptised 17 July 1746; buried 20 Aug 1746 |
| 3. |
Marie-Louise BOETARD,
baptised 10 Sept 1747; buried 22 Feb 1748 |
| 4. |
Marie-Joseph BOETARD,
baptised 24 April 1750 |
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add/subtract/change any of this, send it on via email.
RAMBLINGS
FROM THE EDITOR
I was really trying this month to get this out earlier but.
If you've been reading these long enough you know I'm easily distracted.
First, it was that I was so very close to the end of the Monster Data Base.
Then it was the First Event of the re-enactment season.
What...?
Camping in This Kind of weather is nuts...?
Well, yeah, but then so are we. However, it wasn't too bad. We
had clear, blue skies both days, even if it did get a bit chilly in the
evening. And the chilly wasn't even a problem, as there was a wood
stove in the tent.
This first event of the year is held where the first Fort Langley was built
in 1827. Across the road was where the Royal Engineers built their
first barracks in 1858/59. A couple years ago, the Greater Vancouver
Regional District asked us if we could come out for their Heritage Week
event. That first year, we went out on the Sunday, set up, played 1859
for 4 hours, packed down and left. The first year went so well, they
asked us to come out again -- last year. We talked a bit about the
previous year and how it was *almost* not worth setting the whole thing up
for "just four hours" and eventually came round to asking the GVRD if
perhaps we could spend the night before the event on site.
Why...?
I've done living history long enough that about mid-winter I start missing
the smell of water-proofed canvas, oil lamps, candles, and campfire smoke.
This last winter found me occasionally shutting myself in my room, lighting
a beeswax candle or one of my smaller lanterns, and digging out a blanket
that still held a whiff of campfire in it. Wrapped in my blanket,
bedroom widow thrown wide, I'd load my pipe with kinnikinnik, and either
read for a while or wander the realms of imagination. I never
mentioned it to anyone 'cause, well, I felt sorta silly, but <shrug> I think
perhaps we've all had Feel Good Moments that we like to hold close and
savour. Living history has become my Feel Good Moment.
So, this year, the GVRD asks us once again to come join them for Heritage
Week, saying if we wanted to spend the night before on site it was cool with
them -- how many would they be this year? (So they could round up all
the appropriate paperwork and parking permits, etc.) "Oh, and by the
way," they say, "would it be possible to have your people who do Royal
Engineers to camp over the barracks and the HBC people to camp on the old
fort site? We'd really like that."
We agreed, figuring there was enough interest within the group to give them
what they had requested. A few of us were already working on ... oh, I
guess you'd call them "themes", to facilitate interaction between the two
camps on either side of the narrow, country-type two lane road between the
two sites.
After getting all our ducks (and geese) in a row, it's Saturday morning.
On the way to the site, I discovered that my mid-winter "silliness" is not
unique to myself, and as we came around the last turn to the site, I was
feeling really good -- high spirited even. It was not long lived.
Some of the group had already arrived and set up; it was just past noon.
A gently-worded inquiry revealed that those who had arrived before us were
operating under faulty information and rather than insist upon sticking to
what we had promised the GVRD, we took a gentler path and had everyone set
up on the barracks side of the road.
Thus, though the event organizer started the weekend mightily annoyed (and
had to go deep into character to keep the annoyance from leaking out), it
was a good event and it appears that the division that plagued the group
last season has been left in the past. Almost makes the burnt finger
worth it.
See, the night before the event, the friend whose tent I shared was waxing
eloquent on the efficiency of the perlite in the bottom of the wood stove in
the tent. And the perlite *was* efficient. The heat-resistant
cement-board the stove was set upon was cool to the touch.
It is at this point we must back up a few years. Okay, a few decades.
As a small child, I had this deep seated curiosity about those funny little
holes that Mom and Dad "plugged" things into. Butter knife in hand, I
delved into the mysteries of those funny little holes in the wall.
Shocked my little fingers blue a couple times.
Now, many years later, I recognize how very brave my parents were to have
two more children. I mean they could have gotten another one that
liked sticking butter knives into electric outlets (they didn't). And,
one would think that this many years later that the portion of my brain
devoted to "how DOES that work?" would have known better.
It didn't.
Upon feeling how cool the heat resistant cement board under the stove was, I
ever so nonchalantly reached up and touched the bottom of the stove.
This dandy little sheet metal wood stove had been burning since late
afternoon; it was just a bit after midnight.
Let me tell you, Family, perlite is wonderful stuff for protecting the
bottom of sheet metal wood stoves as well as reducing the amount of heat the
bottoms of sheet metal wood stoves produce. However, it is not enough
to prevent burning the back of a too-curious finger.
You can dress me up, but there are days you just can't take me anywhere...
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