Category Archives: Genealogy

ChallengeAZ 2017—A Bangle Dictionary | G for Generations

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Are you confused with the various names mentioned in the Bangle Files’ posts? Since the beginning, I have mainly written about the people of the first three generations. Who are they?

Generation 1

• Adam Bangle (Marie Davis)

Generation 2

• John (Josephte Allaire/Louise Couvillon)
• William (Marie Tourville)
• Henry
• Catherine (Jacob Schmidt)
• Peter

Generation 3

John’s Children

• John*
• Josephte (Joseph Fontaine)
• Catherine
• Mary (William Hogan)

William’s Children

• William (Thérèse Lippé)
• Andrew (Mary Ann Bullock)
• Marie-Madeleine (Benjamin Cormier)
• Pierre
• Charles (Mary Ann Bullock)
• Joseph (Theodate Yeaton)*
• Elizabeth (François-Xavier Zace)
• Reine (André Perreault)
• Félix (Philip/Polly Ann Loing)*
• Catherine (John B Miner/Francis Gomo)
• Angèle (Louis Brien-Desrochers)

Catherine’s Children

• Catherine Smith
• Jacob Smith (Françoise Aucoin/Zoé Desfosses)
• Mary Smith
• Elizabeth Smith
• Ann Smith
• Christine Smith
• Magdelen Smith
• George Smith

* Relationships yet to be confirmed; still under investigation. Deceased infants have not been listed.

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ChallengeAZ 2017—A Bangle Dictionary | F for Fontaine

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Joseph Fontaine, whose occupation was master blacksmith, was the husband of Josephte Bangle, daughter of John Bangle and Josephte Allaire. His parents, Joseph Fontaine and Marie-Louise Royer, were married on February 12, 1787, in Saint-Pierre Church, in Sorel in the presence of their four children, all born out of wedlock. It was a second marriage for both spouses who were from Saint-Jean (île d’Orléans). Joseph was the youngest child of the couple, born around 1780. From Joseph Fontaine and Josephte Bangle’s marriage, eighteen children were born. Joseph died on January 18, 1830, in the town of Sorel.

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ChallengeAZ 2017—A Bangle Dictionary | E for Engagement

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Engagement contracts involving the Bangles intervened between a fur company and a voyageur and were signed before a notary public. We know that William—as well as his nephew John Davis (Bangle) Jr.—made it to Upper Canada. There were two types of voyageurs: those who made the trip up to Grand Portage and came back to Montréal in the fall; and the others, the hivernants, who spent the winter and made the return trip almost 18 months later. These journeys were no piece of cake. The money earned was probably worth it and, hopefully, relieved some of the hardship.

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ChallengeAZ 2017—A Bangle Dictionary | D for Davis

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Marie Davis was born about 1731, in Germany. We know that she was married to Adam Bangle when she arrived with him in America in November 1764 as she gave birth to William in September 1765 and that their son John, born in Germany, was most likely their eldest. Marie died on October 28, 1805, in Sorel. We can thank the Québec notaries and the Catholic Church because without them we would have never ascertained Marie’s maiden name.

Davis is also the other surname that John Bangle went by—his mother’s maiden name—like “dit names” used by French Canadians.

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ChallengeAZ 2017—A Bangle Dictionary | C for Catherine

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Catherine Bangle is the only daughter (as far as we know) of Adam Bangle, the patriarch, and Marie Davis. Born on October 23, 1770, near Palatine, in today’s Montgomery County, NY, she was baptized nearby at the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, in the village of Stone Arabia. As the daughter of a Loyalist family, she left with her parents who first went to Ontario and later settled in Terrebonne, Québec. At age 16, she married Jacob Schmidt on June 22, 1787, at Christ Church Cathedral, in Montréal—they had 8 children. Catherine died after 1844, probably in Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec.

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ChallengeAZ 2017—A Bangle Dictionary | B for Bangle

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Bangle is the spelling I have come to adopt for the standardization of our featured family’s surname. The signature of Adam Bangle makes me wonder if he was literate, because his name seems to be Bingel or Bengil, depending on the document. In the United States, Bangle was largely used. In Québec, the priest would first write Pingle or other variations as the B is pronounced as a P in German. Afterwards, Bengle and Bingle were mostly used. Adam’s grandsons Andrew and Charles used Bangle, but—interesting fact—they were both married to women of English heritage.

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ChallengeAZ 2017—A Bangle Dictionary | A for Adam

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Meet Adam, the patriarch of the Bangle family. He came from Germany in 1764 aboard the Jennefer, arriving in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Less than a year later, he settled in New York State, along the Mohawk River, in the current county of Montgomery. A loyalist during the War of Independence, he will reappear around 1786 in Terrebonne, Québec, along with his wife, Marie Davis, his sons John, William, and Peter, and his daughter Catherine as well. The fate of his son Henry is unfortunately unknown. Adam died on May 9, 1800, and will be buried the next day in Montréal.

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French Canadians Living in Ferrisburgh, VT in 1850: #15 Abraham Sorrell

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Abraham Sorrell is listed in the 1850 US Census for Ferrisburgh. He is referred to as Abram Sorell on Page 198 (left-stamped), Line 23, Household 58, with the following persons listed, respectively, on lines 19 to 22:

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ChallengeAZ 2017: Who will be following me on this journey?

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For the third year in a row, starting June 1, I will be participating with my French and Quebec fellow geneabloggers in the ChallengeAZ at the invitation of Sophie Boudarel from La Gazette des ancêtres.

For those of you who have been following the Bangle Family saga on my blog, don’t you feel that something is missing?

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The Bangle Files: #26 | William Bangle, the Voyageur

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According to various baptismal records or notary acts, William identified himself either as a miller, master miller, ploughman, farmer, daily labourer or habitant (term designing someone who owned a concession in current Québec Province territory). Still, there is a further aspect of William’s occupations that I wanted to write about—for in spite of what things look like he might have got his share of thrills.

William was also a voyageur.

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