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From: "from S-J" <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] A "Puzzlement"
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:11:39 -0400
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I have a direct ancestor supposedly named Benjamin - birth date (probably in
the first half of the 1800's) and location unknown. I searched and searched
and SEARCHED and couldn't find his birth/baptism. Nor did the other 100
plus family trees in cyberspace. I searched archives and mssge boards to no
avail and posted requests for help on a lot of groups and message boards.
All I got back were guesses for the year. Even PRDH & BMS didn't have my
Benjamin.
I got the idea that I should check out each of the 13 children born to the
parents in the Drouins on ancestry which hadn't been indexed yet at that
time in case the Priest wrote a given name incorrectly.
I found the first five children - both baptism and some death records too.
Then I found a J-B (Jean Baptiste) born and died later that year. Then I
found two more children born.
Then I found a second J-B (Jean Baptiste) male child but couldn't find a
death record for him. After that there were a few more children.
Then, in the margin of a Drouin church record I found a third J-B. However
the hard to read body of the record stated "Jean-Benjamin". It seems others
only read the name in the margin and assumed it was a third Jean-Baptiste.
in very smudged writing who was my ancestor !!! What an adrenaline rush !
That is when I learned that it really pays to take the time to do my own
research and make sure the names in the margins match the names in the body
of the records. It was a lesson well learned.
Shirley-Jean



----- Original Message -----
From: "Betty" <>
To: "Desjardins Bertrand" <>; "Diane Szabo"
<>; "Quebec Research" <>
Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 8:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Q-R] A "Puzzlement"


Hello,

In my researching, I've found the same thing. The first name is only
repeated if the first child with the name had died. And, sometimes it
happens within a short time, and I know of a family in 1700's whose oldest
son died at sea as a young man and another son was born to the couple and
was given his name. *

However, even at the present time, there are sometimes children born to a
man - from different wives - given the same name; e.g., Michael from first
wife and Michael with 2nd wife, etc.

Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA)


* The DITSON name is well-known in regard to the history of Billerica, MA,
but no one has ever found out where Hugh DITSON came from ~1700. And no
one else with the name was in New England. Someone suggested his name
might have been DIXON instead.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Desjardins Bertrand" <>
To: "Diane Szabo" <>; "Quebec Research"
<>
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Q-R] A "Puzzlement"


> In general, a given name is repeated within a family because the first one
> died.
>
> Here, Mathurin married a third time in 1835 and died in 1844 at the age of
> 86 according to the record. 1844 - 86 = 1758, which confirms the general
> rule...
>
> Bertrand Desjardins
>
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De :
> [mailto:] De la part de Diane Szabo
> Envoyé : 23 avril 2010 11:09
> À : Quebec Research
> Objet : [Q-R] A "Puzzlement"
>
> Hoping someone can help me.
>
>
>
> PRDH shows (among other children) two sons, both named Mathurin. One born
> 1751-02-22; the other born 1758-09-10.
>
>
>
> One of them married Marie Marthe Nadeau on 1793-04-22 and then Marie Anne
> Fournier on 08-13-1799 in Beaumont. Can someone tell me which of the two
> married these two ladies, please?
>
>
>
> Would appreciate your help.
>
> Diane
>
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