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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Very interesting, so any relations or how did you come by this great photo card? Quite the gathering in the photo!
I actually came across it on ebay when I was buying some other Quebec cards. It was reasonably priced and identified so I decided to buy it and hope that someone from the family notices it!
Evelyn
I am just amazed when I see so many people posing and cooperating with the photographer, I seem to have to have a hard time getting 2 or more family members to stand still and pose.
How fun! I would think that the detective work would be most rewarding and half the fun!
Nice detective work. It’s perseverance that brings these unsolved mysteries to life.
I am intrigued by the little girl on the far right!
The children in this photo are of special interest. My own grandchildren would not be still for a second. Didn’t people have to stand perfectly still for a couple of moments for this type of photography?
Laflamme is such a great name. It’s also interesting that Monfette seemed to change over to Moffet. A little easier, I suppose. It’s a great photo; it would be wonderful if someone recognized them as family members.
I’m confident that someone from the family will eventually find the photo – also since I’ve meta-tagged it and Google Images will pick it up – one of these days!
I love this kind of detective work. When I got my grandfather’s album, I sat down with my father and asked him to identify everyone he could. Then I sat down with his sisters and did the same. And because I had done extensive research, I was able to figure out who some of the others were (e.g. names of children in a photo with known parents).
This is an amazing photo. And what a handsome couple they make! Happy hunting!
The picture is so amazing with so many people. I really like the brackets on the posts. They are so Victorian.
Wow, what a group! Researching these kinds of photos is frustrating and fun at the same time.
Excellent detective work. And what a wonderful photo.
Yes, the detective work is very impressive and the original photograph is one of those which makes you want to view it close and look at every one of the guests. So many people – so many stories.
Hi Evelyn,
I have Monfet cousins. Their mother was my great aunt, my grandmother’s sister.
Lucie
That’s amazing because Monfet(tte) seems to be a rather rare name.
Evelyn
je trouve cette photo tres interessante car je recherche mon arbre présentement et un de mes ancetre serais alponse moffette dans le coin de québec et les années pourais corespondre si quelqu un peux m aider je serais content.
merci
claude moffette
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En Peru tengo una familia de apellido Laflamme, tal ustedes sean familiares de Gerard Laflamme Boulay… un abrazo
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