“DISTRICT OF MONTRÉAL }
30 January 1789
Jacob Schmith, Plaintiff
Jean Bengles
Thomas Isbustes, Defendants
Category Archives: The Bangle Files
The Bangle Files: #12 | Marie Davis, Widow of Adam Bangle
Ever since I found the contract for the Terrebonne house purchased by Adam and Marie in 1792, I always wondered what happened to it. Was it sold by the person who inherited it? Was the sale contract lost? Well, here is a good example why you should not overlook revisiting an old brickwall from time to time. Continue reading
The Bangle Files: #11 | A House for Adam and Marie
The extraordinary journey we embarked on since the beginning of this series comes to an end for Adam Bangle. No doubt I will revisit in future posts his military life during the American War of Independence and his emigration to Canada, but for now let’s go back to Terrebonne where he spent, more or less, the last fifteen years of his life. Continue reading
The Bangle Files: #10 | From Palatine to Terrebonne
I must admit I am quite ambivalent about this post. You see, I like to write about documents which I have found and read myself. As for the Ontario Loyalists, I didn’t. Or more precisely, I couldn’t do it yet.
I have this big project coming up. Next September, I plan to spend some time at the Ontario Archives, in Toronto, and at Library and Archives Canada, in Ottawa. I even aim to visit both locations before September so that my fall trip may be as successful as it can be. Continue reading
The Bangle Files: #9 | Citizen Bangle
Citizen Bangle… Wrong title, right? I was desperately trying to find naturalization records for Adam Bangle since I knew he had been naturalized, but I was looking at the wrong era for answers, as New York was not a State then but a Province, of course. Therefore, Adam Bangle didn’t become an American citizen but rather a subject of His Majesty the King of Great Britain. Continue reading
The Bangle Files: #8 | Stone Arabia
I wish I could have been able to retrieve the email I had received more than a decade ago from Judy Bangle Persin in which she was writing me that she had found baptismal records for three of the children of Adam Bangle and Marie Davis!
I wouldn’t have had a clue where to look having, of course, no idea about the exact location where the Germans had been settling in New York along the Mohawk River. But Judy knew! And she ordered microfilms from her Family History Center for various churches in the area. Continue reading
The Bangle Files: #7 | The “Jeneffer”
Two weeks ago, relying upon the results obtained further to our latest research, we were led to believe that Adam Bangle arrived in America in 1765. My good friend Judith Bangle Persin had found his name on a passengers’ list.
Well, not exactly. Continue reading
The Bangle Files: #6 | The Loyalist
Collaboration, that is the key word. I don’t remember exactly when I “met” Judith Bangle Persin online for the first time. However, I do recall the days when I was searching through the notarial records of Terrebonne at Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec while, at the other end of the continent, she was looking through microfilms she ordered from her Family History Center. Continue reading
The Bangle Files: #5 | The Children of Josephte Allaire and John Bangle
I am certainly not the one who can brag about discovering John Bangle’s family! The only clue I had about John was that he was cited in his father’s will. Continue reading
The Bangle Files: #4 | The Children of Catherine Bangle and Jacob Schmidt
This week, let’s turn our attention to the daughter of Adam Bangle and Marie Davis, Catherine (she’s also the sister of William whom I wrote about in this series’ previous article). We know from her father’s will that she was married to Jacob Smith (or Schmidt). Once again, the church records of Saint-Louis-de-France Parish of Terrebonne will allow us to know who were the couple’s children. Continue reading