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Subject: Helena Fanyou or Fanyon
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 12:32:19 -0400


Received a couple of months ago some great information on my maternal
side of my French branch of my family tree, I can now trace at least two
lines back to France. What I'm trying to find is where my GGGrandmother
Helena Fanyou was born, in Berthierville, QC or Albany, NY. Her mother
was Catherine Martin-Pelland Fagnant born 10/18/1807 and her father was
Joseph Fagnant born 1807 and they were married in Berthierville, QC on
1/10/1826. It is unclear whether they left immediately after getting
married for Albany, NY or whether they lingered on until the early
1830s. There is a gap of several years between the time that Helena and
at least one other sibling was born and the bulk of their children in
Albany, NY.

One of Helena's GGrandfathers was Francois Martin-Pelland, who was a 1st
Lt who fought in a French-Canadian Regiment on the Rebel side in the
American Revolutionary War and was killed in battle in Fishkill, NY in
1778. The French-Canadian Regiment was made up of French soldiers who
had joined forces with Montgomery when the Rebels invaded Quebec to
remove the British and gain additional French support for their cause.
Unfortunately Montgomery was defeated and after being excommunicated by
Bishop Briand at least the French officers and their families were
exiled out of Quebec to New York. Her maternal Grandparents were Joseph
Francois Martin-Pelland born in 1771 in Berthierville, QC. He married
Archange Boucher in 1791 in Berthierville, QC.

Ed Hagerty
Monroe, CT USA

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