Ancienne église Saint-Sulpice (début XVIIe siècle). Par Mathys Schoevaerdts — Saint-Sulpice (booklet), Paroisse Saint-Sulpice, 2004, Domaine public, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8756048
The Wow factor in my tree is that I have identified ancestors up to the 15th generation! Continue reading
L’église Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs — Par Velvet — Travail personnel, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34169831
Another ancestor, another King’s daughter: meet Agnès Olivier, from my Laneuville’s maternal line. Born around 1651, she was from Paris, more precisely from the parish of Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs.
Rouen- Par Herbert Frank from Wien (Vienna), CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=69892669
King’s Daughter Madeleine Niel came to New France in 1667 where she married, on October 24 of the very same year, Étienne Charles dit Lajeunesse, a private from the Carignan-Salières Regiment, Company of Contrecoeur. Madeleine is from the maternal line of my great-grand-mother Esther Laurendeau.
Les tours du Vieux-Port de La Rochelle. Par Jebulon — Travail personnel, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46279660
If I were to cite a personal example of how the Fichier Origine—which I praised more than once throughout this Challenge—may prove helpful for identifying new ancestors, Barbe Ménard would be the one. Barbe is my 8th great-grandmother on the maternal side of my great-grandmother Esther Laurendeau, wife of Louis Tourville.
Vue de Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais, France) : le quartier de Brecquerecque, le beffroi, le phare et la mer. Par Matthieu Debailleul — Transféré de fr.wikipedia à Commons par BokicaK utilisant CommonsHelper., CC BY-SA 1.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10125173
It is now the turn of Jacqueline Lagrange, my 7th great-grandmother from the paternal side of Marguerite Fortin, wife of Joseph Hubou. Baptized on July 1, 1641, at the parish of Saint-Nicolas in Boulogne-sur-Mer, department of Pas-de-Calais, she married secondly my ancestor Laurent Glori on July 23, 1664, in Montréal.
Les tours du Vieux-Port de La Rochelle. Par Jebulon — Travail personnel, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46279660
There you go, I give up! I have looked for a surname or even a first name starting with the letter K, alas… Continue reading
L’église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul. Bosc-Guérard-Saint-Adrien. Par Nortmannus — Travail personnel, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18702049
My ancestor Nicolas Joly, from my maternal grandmother Charbonneau’s side, was born about 1651 in Bosc-Guérard-Saint-Adrien, in the department of Seine-Maritime, son of Jean Joly and Marguerite Duquesne.
Centre de Poitiers. Vue du centre historique prise depuis le quartier des Dunes : église Sainte-Radegonde, cathédrale Saint-Pierre, palais de Justice. Par Luca Aless — Travail personnel, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=95459402
I told you that I was cleaning up my tree, right? Here’s an example of a cold case that was rather simple to classify. But let’s get to the point. The fact that I (off the record) nicknamed Duchesneau or Chesneau “Inconnu”—that’s how I call my ancestors with unknown first names until I know better—only proves that I didn’t search very hard for new clues about this 8th-great-grandfather on the paternal side of my grandmother Charbonneau. Continue reading
Église Saint-André du Mesnil-Durand, Calvados. Par P Florentin — Travail personnel, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21697029
You didn’t seriously think that I was going to stay silent on Mathieu Hubou, my direct paternal ancestor, did you? Especially since I keep on gathering details about his family. Continue reading
Les quais de Marans sur la Sèvre niortaise. Par rosier — Travail personnel, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6665912
Pierre Goguet (or Joguet or Goyet) is my ancestor through two of his children, Jean and Marie-Anne, born from his marriage to Louise Garnier. Still, interestingly enough, each of them will actually be behind two different branches. Indeed, Jean is my ancestor on my paternal side through Marguerite Fortin, married to Joseph Hubou, and Marie-Anne is my ancestor on my maternal side through my grandmother Charbonneau.