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Tombstone – Malvina Theriault (m. George Dugas)

Malvina Theriault -  1902 – 1951

George Dugas and Malvina Theriault were married in New Bandon on July 23rd, 1930. (New Brunswick Vital Records: RS141B7, Number 4252, Reference: B4/1930, Microfilm: F19754). Read more »

March 21, 2010 Posted by | . | , , | 1 Comment

Noces de A. Laflamme | Alphonse Laflamme & Julia Monfet(te) /Moffet/Moffette/Moffat ~ Sepia Saturday

I’ve had this image (RPPC)  of  the Wedding of  A. Laflamme for a little while now and I had a very difficult time identifying the couple in the picture. It should have been easy since a notation on the front gives the date of  October 14th, 1913 – but it was not to be!

I first searched through the Centre Genealogique indexes for all the 1913 Laflamme marriages and found quite a few including several for October, but none for the 14th. They were close, but no cigar! Finally I took a look through original church registers and found this one in the St-Flavien registers:

Alphonse Laflamme, son of Joseph Laflamme and Emilie Lemieux

married

Julia Monfette, daughter of Ernest Monfette and Eleonore Hamel

St-Flavien, Lotbiniere County, Quebec

Oct.14th, 1913

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This marriage was listed in the BMS indexes (where I had originally looked), but with the incorrect date of Oct. 4th, 1913.

Of course, I have no proof that the couple in the picture are Alphonse Laflamme & Julia Monfette – it is just the only Quebec Laflamme marriage that I found from that date.

Note Julia’s signature - Moffet!

I have found a family of Moffettes living in St-Flavien at the time of the 1911 census. They are Eleonore Moffette (head of family, but not a widow), and offpspring Alphonse, Marie Anne, Julia, Emile, Wilfrid, Joseph, Rose Anne, Alma. They were born in Quebec and were farmers. Interestingly, I noticed while looking through the Moffets etc., that there were some double listings – Monfet/Moffet – which brings us back to the original BMS spelling.

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March 21, 2010 Posted by | . | , | 19 Comments

Old Catholic Cemetery | Kahnawake Today | A Canadian Family

Ontario reader Don Diminie is looking for confirmation of exactly where the Gervais McComber who died in 1866 in Kahnawake, is buried. To avoid any confusion please note that this would be the Gervais who married three times (wives = Arakwente, Giasson, Vincent) – not his son Gervais.

I wasn’t able to confirm anything for Don, but thought it was a good moment to share this recent photograph of the Old Catholic Cemetery which is located just steps away from St-Francois-Xavier Church.

View of Cemetery

Close-up of Sign

Transcript:

TSI SHAKOTIIA’TATA’ AHSTHANKWE NE TEHATIIAHSONTHA, TSI NA’TETIATERE NE SHA’TE:KON IAWEN’RE TEWEN’NIAWE EKHON SHIIOHSERO’TEN’S TSI NIIO:RE NE TIOHTON IAWEN:RE TEWEN NIA WE’EKHON SHIIOSHSERO:TEN’S

OLD CATHOLIC CEMETARY GROUNDS USED FOR MOHAWK BURIALS FROM THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TO THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY.

View of St-Francois-Xavier from The Old Catholic Cemetery (March 2010) Read more »

March 21, 2010 Posted by | . | , , , | 5 Comments