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From: Dessaulles Beaudry <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] 2 Questions about Quebec Parish registers please
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 09:50:27 -0400
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Hello,
Most probably the same priest performed the religious acts at both parishes
which are distant of only 4 km (2and one half miles)
St-Roch-des-Aulnaies, L'Islet county parish established 1735
Ste-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, Co Kamouraska, est. 1715`

Dessaulles

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From: "from S-J" <>
To: "Joan" <>; <>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Q-R] 2 Questions about Quebec Parish registers please


> Again I'm just guessing but I think you are probably right.
> I think (?) the priest could have been a travelling missionary whose home
> base was La Pocatiere and perhaps he performed baptisms in St Roch (in
> their homes maybe?) and burials in St Roch but recorded these events in
> the La Pocatiere record book.
> Or, in the case of baptisms, the parents of the infant could have lived in
> St Roch but the pregnant Mom could have come to be with her parents in La
> Pocatiere for the birth of her child.
> My Quebec geography is the pits so I don't know where the St Roch in the
> 1700's was in comparison to La Pocatiere. I tried google maps but there
> are a few modern day St Roch so I gave up.
> Hopefully Mona and a few others familiar with those particular early
> parish records may see and reply to your post. They might have a
> different or a better explanation too. Mona and a some others are walking
> encyclopaedias on this sort of thing.
> That certainly is the case in many northern Ontario towns/villages in the
> 1700's where they didn't have a church of their own. Hence, a lot of
> Algoma District North Shore Catholic events are recorded nearly 300 miles
> away in S.S.Marie in the very early days.
> Yep - I agree abt the penmanship -- especially considering these records
> are approx 300 years old !!! and most priests at that time were not good
> at handwriting or they were good but used too many flourishes .... smile.
> One of the things I love abt the LDS Drouins is that I can invert them and
> zoom in if I'm not sure about a word or a name. Of course, the price is
> right too huh - can't beat 'free' !!! Genealogy research can be a most
> expensive "hobby" sometimes can't it.
> Shirley-Jean
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joan
> To: from S-J ;
> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 6:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [Q-R] 2 Questions about Quebec Parish registers please
>
>
> Thanks Shirley-Jean.
>
>
> I don't need the records which are cut off (thank goodness!). I was just
> curious about them. Fortunately my records are in the middle of the pages
> and isn't the penmanship great?
>
>
> I'll be curious what others think of the St. Roch in the margin. I
> wondered if St. Ann was one of those missionary parishes - is that the
> term? Seems like a lot of the people being born/married etc are from St.
> Roch or other parishes.
>
>
> Joan
>
> Researching BOND, MEAGHER, and PELLERIN in Port Felix, Nova Scotia.
> Researching LAFORET and SAAM in Williamsburg NY and Frankenthal Germany
> Researching CONNOLLY and McLAUGHLIN in Cty Tyrone Ireland and Ontario
> Canada
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> From: from S-J <>
> To: ; Joan <>
> Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2012 6:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [Q-R] 2 Questions about Quebec Parish registers please
>
>
>
> Hi Joan
> Tnx for the url's - it really made it quick and easy to find the page(s).
> For yr first question. I've never seen it quite like this before. I
> think it was sloppy photography work.
> If you invert the page (ie white ink on black paper), you can mostly read
> the last portion of the event fairly clearly - but unfortunately it is not
> the complete record.
> Perhaps someone who has ancestry can find the same record there where,
> hopefully, the whole page is visible if the first records on the page are
> required..
> For yr second question. I believe the words "St Roch" in the margin
> means the people who participated in the event were from St Roch.
> This was just a guess on my part so I tried to verify it.
> I found several entries in earlier years with 'de St Roch' in the margin.
> I also found several entries in earlier years with just "St Roch" in the
> margin but the words "de St Roch in the body of the record right after the
> participants names.
> Hope this helps
> Shirley-Jean
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joan
> To: from S-J ;
> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 5:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [Q-R] 2 Questions about Quebec Parish registers please
>
>
> Here's a link to another page in the same book. Same issue, same
> questions. Thanks!
>
>
>
> https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11122-103776-16?cc=1321742&wc=6434689
>
>
>
> Joan
>
> Researching BOND, MEAGHER, and PELLERIN in Port Felix, Nova Scotia.
> Researching LAFORET and SAAM in Williamsburg NY and Frankenthal Germany
> Researching CONNOLLY and McLAUGHLIN in Cty Tyrone Ireland and Ontario
> Canada
>
>
>
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> From: from S-J <>
> To: ; y***cousinJoan
> <>
> Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2012 5:18 PM
> Subject: [Q-R] 2 Questions about Quebec Parish registers please
>
>
>
> Hi Joan
> I this record in the LDS records?
> Do you have the url for the page the image is on?
>
> Shirley-Jean
>
>
>
>
> From: Joan < >
> Subject: [Q-R] 2 Questions about Quebec Parish registers please
> Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 13:55:12 -0700 (PDT)
> Both questions are for this book.
>
> La Pocatiere
> Sainte Anne de la Pocatiere
> 1727-1780
> Image 109
>
> 1. Is the top of the page cut off or is it me? The surrounding pages
> are the same.
>
> 2. St. Roch is written under the margin name in many records. What does
> it mean?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Joan
>
>
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