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May 2005 -- Vol 6, No. 5
In this month's COUSINS:
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WHAT'S NEW
Maybe,
just maybe—
But on
second thought, never mind.
In going
through my email, I decided to take a closer look at an ongoing
conversation and discovered an explanation of naming practices in early
French Canada. As I read through this treatise, I realized two things:
1. It
was definitely Of Interest to just about anybody reading this
and
2. It
was too long to even consider asking permission to reproduce here in the
newsletter. It’s long enough that it might make *MY* mail server choke.
The page
Title is The People Who Own Themselves, and it can be found at
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~hdevine/naming.htm
Some of
you will see family names in this article. For the few of you with no
known Aboriginal ancestry, the article provides some serious food for
thought. I say no know Aboriginal ancestry because, well, ya just don’t
know. When I was 12 years old, I had no known Aboriginal Ancestry. This
changed upon arriving home from seeing the movie Little Big Man
(when it was first released). In many cases, you just don’t know.
THIS MONTH'S FEATURE:
Last month we looked at Marie-Marguerite PEPIN, her
husband Mathieu HIANVEU dit Lafrance, and their 7 children.
This month we look at Marie-Joseph PEPIN, the 7th
daughter, and the 16th and last child of II--Jean PÉPIN and wife
Marguerite MOREAU. She was born in St Joseph (according to René Jetté), and
baptized 13 Oct 1721 in Charlesbourg, Québec.
On 24 October 1746, in Charlesbourg, she married
Charles LOISEL, son of Louis LOISEL and wife Marie-Anne
MICHEL. Charles was baptized 4 Sept 1720.
According to Tanguay, they had 4 children.
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Marie-Joseph LOISEL,
baptized 15 Nov 1748 |
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2. |
Marie-Barbe LOISEL, baptized
3 Oct 1750 |
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Charles LOISEL, baptized 1 Aug 1752; buried 6
Sept 1755 |
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4. |
Marie-Madeleine LOISEL,
baptized 14 Aug 1754; buried 15 April 1756 |
Marie-Joseph PEPIN was buried 30 Aug 1756, in Québec.
This was Charles’ first marriage. His second was to
Marie Marguerite BOURÉ, daughter of François BOURÉ and Marie-Marguerite
BERGEVIN dit TESSIER, on 16 Aug 1757. Marie-Marguerite BOURÉ was baptized 7
Oct 1729, in Charlesbourg. Charles and Marie-Marguerite had 3 children:
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Charles LOISEL, baptized 14
Sept 1758 |
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2. |
Louis LOISEL, baptized 5 Jan
1762; buried 16 Sept 1762 |
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3. |
Marie-Marguerite LOISEL, 19 Feb 1763 |
If you can
add/subtract/change any of this, send it on via email.
MAILBAG
I’m on
an email list devoted to the craft of writing, and last week one of the
other list members posted the following, curious about the implications.
I asked if he minded me posted his query in the newsletter and he said,
and I quote, “Sure, especially if it brings information I can add to
what little I already have. I'm sure they would like to know that there's
at least one Michigan connection for the family. –Mike.”
“Just
came across the variant as I'm going over a copy of My Ancestors: The
Shattucks by Howard W. Holmes. He's one of my own distant cousins and
one of his Shattuck relations married a woman who in a previous marriage
had married somebody who later married a Peppen.”
When
another member of the list asked him if he had any San Francisco Shattucks,
he said he was just getting started and didn’t know – though, he added, “I
could ask Alberta, my 2nd cousin.”
His
source: page 29, My Ancestors: The Shattucks by Howard W. Holmes.
(William Harrison Grant Horace Greely Shattuck) was married February 1,
1890, to Minnie (Harringer) Mellinger. She was born February 19, 1865,
the daughter of Henry and Maggie(Gates) Harringer, and died October 10,
1939. She was also buried in Clam Lake Cemetery. She had a son by her
first marriage, Frank Melllinger, born November 21, 1886, also buried at
Clam Lake Cemetery. He was married to Hazel Peppen and had a son Harold
Mellinger. Their son's wife's name was Margaret and they had one child,
Hazel May Mellinger. end relevant text.
If this
line sounds familiar to any of you, let me know, and I shall pass it along
to Mike.
RAMBLINGS FROM THE EDITOR
Some of
you will see family names in The People Who Own Themselves article (from
above). For the few of you with no known Aboriginal ancestry, the article
provides some serious food for thought. I say no know Aboriginal ancestry
because, well, ya just don’t know.
Early on
in researching the descendants of the men from eastern Canada who worked at
Fort Langley in British Columbia between 1827 and 1894, I was contacted by a
descendant of a fellow named Basile Brosseau dit Lafleur, baptized 12 July
1808, at Verchères, Québec.
Now on 19
Aug 1828, in Varennes, Québec, Basile Brousseau married Marie Jodon. They
might have had children, they might not have, we don’t know, but on 19 Aug
1834, Marie died of the Spanish Flue. Basile signed on with the HBC. So,
now, Basil after came west in 1833, he had three more wives.
The first
is an unknown Cowichan woman, whom Basile married after the fashion of the
country. Their only known child (as of this writing) is Basile Brousseau,
Jr. (1839).
The second
was Rose Kwantlen, also a country marriage, with whom he had at least 3
children: Mary (1842), Louis (1853), and Rose (1856). At this point in
history, many Aboriginal women were recorded with their band/nation of
origin as their surname, Rose being no exception. Rose died shortly after
the birth of her daughter Rose.
With a
baby and a toddler to look after, Basile married again, after the fashion of
the Church, to Marianne Nanaimok. The marriage record his marriage to
Marinanne says, and I quote:
« Fort
Langley, l'an mille huit cent cinquante-six de vingt et un juillet, après
la proclamation des bans de mariage entre Basile Brousseau dit Lafleur
veuf de Rose femme Quytlan, né à Pontigny diocèse de Montréal d'une part
et entre Marianne femme Nanaimok d'autre part et les parties ayant obtentu
dispense du troisième degré de d’affinité, nous soussigné prêtre
missionnaire avons reçu leur consentement, mutuel et leur avons donné la
bénédiction nuptiale en présence d'Augustin Willing et de N. Fallardeau
lesquels se déclare ne savoir signer. »
“dispense
du troisième degré d'affinité” = “release of the third degree of
relationship**” this means Basile, of Pontigny, Varennes and Marianne of
what would become British Columbia, were like second or third cousins. At
first glance, I wondered how, because Basile was born in eastern Canada and
Marianne was born in western Canada. After a bit more research it turns out
that a relative of Basile’s had been on the coast earlier and helped create
one of Marianne’s parents. Basile and Marianne had at least one child,
Marie Madtilda Brousseau (1867).
Anyway,
the descendant of Basile Brosseau and his second wife Unknown Cowichan,
mentioned up there near the top of this, descend through Basile and
Unknown’s son, Basile Brousseau and his wife Sarah Pierre of the Katzie*,
was just so very surprised to discover her ancestry. It was nothing even
close to what she expected to find.
When I met
her face to face, I understood her surprise. She is a slender, finely-built
red-head, with green eyes, and a porcelain complexion prone to freckles.
My own
youngest brother is member of this club as well, him being the tall one in
the family, with his dark blond hair blue/green/[fill in the blank depending
on his mood] eyes, and a RED beard. And one of our first cousins is blond.
For those
of us whose families have been in North America for 300+ years, I think it’s
very possible that those of you who have no known Aboriginal Ancestry may
very well have some -- somewhere, hidden or forgotten.
*Another
thing that was done Back In The Day: at some point fairly soon after the
arrival of the Europeans, is that the Aboriginal folks were given European
names. These children of these Aboriginal folks with Europeans names were
most often given Dad’s European name as a surname. Quite probably;
Sarah’s Dad – or Granddad-- was given the name Pierre.
**
The degree of relationship by consanguinity between a
person and his or her descendant is determined by the number of
generations that separate them. An individual's relatives within the third
degree by consanguinity are the individual's:
Parent or child (first degree);
Brother, sister, grandparent, or grandchild (second
degree); and
Great-grandparent, great-grandchild, aunt or uncle (who
is a sibling of a parent of the person), nephew or niece (who is a child
of a brother or sister of the person) (third degree).
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