QUERIES

Leo Fleury, #8

We encourage our members to submit free queries for publication as space permits. Queries should be brief and concise, typed or printed clearly. Queries from non-members should include a $3.00 check for each query. Queries should be sent to VERMONT FRENCH-CANADIAN GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, Attn.: Query Editor, P.O. Box 65128, Burlington, VT 05406-5128. Please send a copy of all replies to our society for its archives-library and publication.

anc. ancestors dau. daughter par. parents

b. born desc. descendant poss. possibly

bp. baptized d.s.p. died without issue ref. reference

bro. brother d.y. died young rel. related, relative

bur. buried div. divorced rem. removed

ca. circa fam. family res. resided, lived at

ch. child, children fl. lived, flourished sis. sister

c.r. church record g.s. gravestone twp. township

co. county info information w. wife

d. died, death marr. married wid. widow, widowed

Query #329 STEBBINS/DUROCHER/ROCHEFORT

seek birthplace prob. QUE 28 Nov 1808 Louis STEBENNE (son of Charles & Marie-Therese SENE/SENEZ/SENET. Marr. 18 Oct 1841 at Vergennes, VT Pauline Durocher/Durusher. He died when? at St Johns, QUE.. Their son, Louis, b. 1842 prob. QUE. He marr. 22 Oct 1866 at Biddeford, ME to Odile Rochefort.

(Barry Veillette; 15 Burnt Hill Rd. , Hebron, CT 06248 Barnmar2@aol.com

Query #330 DAOUST/SEGUIN

seek marr. Alexandre DAOUST to Felicite SEGUIN circa 1850 prob. VT or NY since they resided US 1850s-1875; Bapt. record found for a daug., Philomene at St Michel, Vaudreuil, QUE..

(Madeleine Klein; 6476 S. Niagara Court; Centennial, CO 80111-4614)

Query #331 WARD/GUERIN ST HILAIRE/VIENS

seek birthplace in VT on 19 Mar 1856 of John Ezia WARD whose par. were b. Canada; Lewis Ward aka Louis GUERIN dit ST HILAIRE & Mary M. Cummings aka Mary Magdeleine VIENS.

(Marilyn Lekvold; 3508 Decatur Court North; New Hope, MN 55427)

Query #332 BALLARD/BALARD dit LATOUR

some descendency charts have been received for Louis BALARD dit LATOUR b. 1654 France who marr. Marguerite MIGNERON dit MEUNIER 14 Apr 1676 Neuville, QUE.

Contact Mona Ballard; PO Box 54; Bondville, VT 05340 email monamail@vermontel.net if you have an interest in this line.

Query #333 BOUCHER/BEAUVAIS

see info. & contact with desc. of Joseph BOUCHER dit BELLEVILLE from LaPrairie, QUE to NY late 1830s. Joseph marr. 12 Sep 1825 LaPrairie to Julienne STE GEMME dit BEAUVAIS. Joseph b. 1803 St Foy, QUE. seek place of death 12 Jan 1845 at “Four Corners” Is this a place in Que, Vt, NY? He was bur. 16 Jan 1845 at LaPrairie, QUE. Seek birth rec. of son, Isaie Boucher 3 Aug 1843/44 prob. VT. Isaie’s obit reports that his father, Joseph, died when the son was 6 mos. old & Isaie moved to Montreal with his mother & subsequently learned the cobbler’s trade.

(Dixie Johnston; PO Box 123; Delton, MI 49046 or email dw@voyager.net

Query #334 GABORIAULT/FONTAINE/DESMARAIS

seek QUE marr. of following: Napoleon Louis GABORIAULT to Virginia BESSETTE 14 Jan 1904 poss. St Alexandre d’Iberville or St Sebastien; Stanilas J. Gaboriault & Rosina C. 30 May 1916 St Sabine, QUE; Napoloen Fontaine & Malvina Desmarais 11 Jul 1876 St Cecile de Milton, QUE; Barthelemi J. Fontaine & Alice Gaboriault 8 Sep 1914 St Alexandre,QUE; Seek to confirm & document marriages & seek death info. for all.

(Janet M. Fontaine; 88 Second St. Apt 209; Newport, VT 05855)

Query #335 BALL

seek QUE birthplace of Orestus Joseph BALL son of Almon Ball & Sarah ___; Orestus was veteran of Civil War having enlisted from Almond, NY.

(Anna W. Ball; 9101 Stellacoom Rd. S.E.; Unit #155; ;Olympia, WA 98513)

Query #336 PELTIER/DUBE

seek par. Andrew PELTIER b. Apr 1852 CAN who prob. came US 1866-68; marr. c1873 poss. Worchester, MA area to Ann Maxwell (b. 14 Aug 1853 IRE). Also seek confirm birth & par. of Catherine DUBE 8 Jun 1744 St Roch des Aulnaies, QUE daug. of Joseph Dube & Angelique-Rosalie Morin; seek to confirm family myth that Catherine was Micmac & missionary ward.

(Tom McMahon; 321 Laurel Place; San Rafael, CA 94901 or email kingmahon@earthlink.net

Query #337 BRIEN dit DESROCHERS/DUROCHER

Building data base on descendancy of this line which started in Montreal in 1681; looking for contact with descendants in US esp. VT & NY. Some may have changed to BREAN.

(Jean Desrochers Brien; (Montreal); email jesroch@videontron.

Query #338 LAVIOLETTE/LOVELETTE

building data base & descendency of this line & its variations esp. into VT.

(Andrea Routledge by email Arouti@cfl.rr.)