Parish of Saint-André du Mesnil-Durand: Some Pictures from Google Maps

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I am quite a regular user of Google Maps and Street View but I didn’t know that Street View would allow me to virtually visit the inside of my ancestor’s baptismal place!

Mathieu Hubou was baptized in 1626 in Saint-André du Mesnil-Durand, Department of Calvados, in the region of Normandy, France. This Church dates back to the 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th century and is a classified historical monument in France since July 19, 1926.

To visit the church, click here and then on the image to get inside. Please note that access is possible only from a computer.

Enjoy!

Photo: P. Florentin, source Wikipedia This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

Église St-André du Mesnil-Durand. Photo: P. Florentin, source Wikipedia. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

#52Ancestors in 52 Weeks: #19 Josephte Cantin (1799-1857)

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The burial register of Montréal’s Notre-Dame Church contains very laconic entries. However, sometimes, we are in for a surprise, such as the reading of the one of July 3, 1857 regarding Josephte Cantin. Continue reading →

From the Archives: Maps? I Love Maps!

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These are two maps of Île Jésus from 1911 (nowadays, the island is home to Ville de Laval which results from the amalgamation of all municipalities previously established thereon). On the far right of the first map, we may locate Saint-François-de-Sales Parish, and on the second one, we can see where the Tourvilles lived. You can bet for sure that the large lot occupied by Desale Tourville was Michel Tourville’s land (husband of Catherine Marié), at the time of his death in 1810.

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#52Ancestors in 52 Weeks: #18 Octave Tourville (1826-1902)

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Spending so many years investigating about Mathieu Hubou’s descendents, I certainly came across some people who clearly stand out from the others. Octave Tourville is one of them. Continue reading →

From the Archives: Tourvilles as Middlemen Voyageurs

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The very preliminary steps of the first acknowledged trip in which Toussaint Tourville and his older brother Pierre were involved as voyageurs started on April 3, 1790 at the office of Notary Public Louis Chaboillez (in office 1787-1813), where they each sign a one-year contract with the merchant company Todd McGill & Co. The destination was unknown as they were accepting to travel wherever they were required to (North excluded). Even if the agreement entered into was for a one-year term only, they were contracted as “hyvernants” which meant they would spend the winter and make the return trip the next year. Continue reading →

#52Ancestors in 52 Weeks: #17 Jean-Baptiste Hubou dit Deslongchamps (1654-1697)

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Ever since I have started working on my Hubou-Tourville family tree, I have always read that Jean-Baptiste Hubou dit Deslongchamps, son of Mathieu Hubou, died on a military expedition between 1696 and 1699. You may have guessed how frustrating this was for me. Continue reading →

#52Ancestors in 52 Weeks: #16 Tourville Dance Pavilion (1929-?)

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There are still some loose ends regarding the life of Peter Tourville (1809-1891) that I will look more closely at while at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City later this fall. But let’s put aside the man for now and rather write about the tract of land that he owned in Jersey County, Illinois. Continue reading →

From the Archives: Petit Manuel des associés de l’Union de prières et de La Bonne Mort (1873)

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Was one of your ancestors a member of the Union de prières et de La Bonne Mort [Union of prayers and of the “good death”]?

Founded in 1851 in Montreal, this association’s objective was to prepare their members for the after-life and help them save their soul. In 1873, it has no less than 50,000 members. Continue reading →

My American Cousins: #52Ancestors in 52 Weeks: #15 Delima Lanoville Betournay (1877-1956)

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As far as I can remember, while looking at our family’s old photo albums with my mother, I remember asking:

“Who are these people?”

“My American cousins, from Cohoes, New York”, would reply my mother. “During the summer, we would travel down there by car to pay them a visit. In the early days, my grandparents would come along as well.” Continue reading →

#52Ancestors in 52 Weeks: #14 Anonymous Tourville (1822-1822)

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Since Thomas MacEntee announced his Genealogy Do-Over earlier this year, I’ve been glancing through his articles and told myself it could indeed be a good idea to start all over again. Continue reading →