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From: Suzanne Sommerville <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Buried With Her Pew???????
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:00:36 -0700 (PDT)


To be buried under one's pew or bench was another custom that was not that unusual. I have seen it several times. A recent example at Ste. Anne de Detroit:
 
Daniel Jonquaire, Equié sieur de Chabert, lieutenant in the infantry in the service of the king of France,  son of the deceased nobleman Thomas de Joncaire,  lieutenant in the infantry of the detachment  of the marine, interpreter, and commander for the King to the Five Nations, and Marie  Magdelainne LeGay; husband of Marie Margueritte Robert [Rocbert] de la Morandiere; about 57  years, 5 July 1771, buried in church under his bench in the Chapel of the Holy Virgin
 
 The above is only one of the transcriptions done for those buried from Ste. Anne de Detroit by Gail Morea-DesHarnais in Michigan's Habitant Heritage over several issues of the journal.
 
Suzanne
 
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Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:08:02 -0400
From: Mona Andr?e Rainville <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Buried With Her Pew???????
To: Dolly Petrishin <>
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She was buried UNDER her pew, as per her request.

Still... This is rather unusual. She must have liked the view from that
pew...

Cheers,

Mona


Dolly Petrishin wrote:
> St. Germain, Rimouski, 1701-1795, image 81 of 281.....the last part of the
> sentence states
> "sous son ban, selon la demande quelle an avait faite de son vivant."
>
> Please translate the whole sentence for me. Why would a person be buried
> with their pew?
> Was this a common practice? Was it a valuable item? Wouldn't a pew require
> quite
> a large grave? Why not leave it for another family member?
>
> This is quite the mystery for me. any help is greatly appreciated and
> thanking you in advance!
>
> Dolly Petrishin


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