A Canadian Family

Genealogy, Family History & Vintage Postcards

Extracts: Native American Marriages of Quebec & Ontario (Grooms – D/E/F/G)

Main Index: Native American Names of Quebec and Ontario (Marriage Documents)

* Updated February 25th, 2012 *

D’Ailleboust/Diabo, Alphonse | Jocks, Gertrude

Married: July 11th, 1932 Kahnawa:ke | Caughnawaga | St-Francois-Xavier Parish

D’Ailleboust/Diabo, John | Barnes, Charlotte

Married: October 27th, 1941 Kahnawa:ke | Caughnawaga | St-Francois-Xavier Parish

D’ailleboust/Diabo, John | Delisle, Alice

Married: July 19th, 1932 Kahnawa:ke | Caughnawaga | St-Francois-Xavier Parish

D’Ailleboust/Diabo, Mathieu | Peterson, Cecile

Married: February 7th, 1931 Kahnawa:ke | Caughnawaga | St-Francois-Xavier Parish

D’Ailleboust/Diabo, Paul | Cross, Alice

Married: October 8th, 1934 Kahnawa:ke | Caughnawaga | St-Francois-Xavier Parish

D’Ailleboust/Diabo, Peter | Lahache, Ida

Married: October 5th, 1941 Kahnawa:ke | Caughnawaga | St-Francois-Xavier Parish

D’Ailleboust/Diabo, Peter | Leborgne, Maggie

Married: February 9th, 1932 Kahnawa:ke | Caughnawaga | St-Francois-Xavier Parish

D’Ailleboust/Diabo, Raymond | Philippe, Marguerite

Married: May 31st, 1941 Kahnawa:ke | Caughnawaga | St-Francois-Xavier Parish

D’ailleboust/Diabo Ariwakeron, Ignace  | Marquis Perth Konwatiense, Anne 

Married: Before 1900

D’ailleboust/Diabo Katsienhaker, Ignace | Jacobs Ononsahawi, Marie Blanche 

Married: 28 Jan 1918 Kahnawa:ke | Caughnawaga | St-Francois-Xavier Parish

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Lost And Found: Adelard Favreau of Caughnawaga | Sepia Saturday

vintage police uniform | MontrealAh – the power of the internet!

Last August Linda Groombridge contacted me because she was looking for information about her husband’s  Irish grandmother Margaret Rainey.

Margaret Rainey was Scottish – and her descendants now live in the UK – but she spent some years in Quebec and (according to family lore) she had married  a Quebec Mountie named Joseph Favreau and  then lived with her husband in the Mohawk territory of Caughnawaga (now Kahnawake). I was able to corroborate much of this family’s story including  some (Favreau) genealogical details and the fact that Joseph Adelard Favreau and Margaret Rainey did in fact  live in Kahnawake at one point, but some questions still remained.

Was Adelard Favreau a Mountie?

How did Favreau (who was a French-Canadian) and his Scottish wife Marguerite Rainey  come to be living in  the Mohawk territory of Kahnawake?

Well before the year was out, the UK family had its answers because Roland Favreau (a Quebec descendant  through Telesphore Favreau) – saw the query on Canadian Family and the two branches were soon sharing family information, anecdotes and photographs.

I’ve spoken with Roland’s wife Gilberte Favreau several times. She tells me that her husband’s uncle Adelard Favreau was not a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police  but rather a Read more »

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