Hi Andy, You are correct and that's why there are so many various spellings of names - many of the Acadians did not know how to read or write so they couldn't spell their names. Writing names by sound is how we got the Soundex Sytem for the U.S. Census Records. Of course I don't know how this worked with the Spanish priests - they likely had a better command of the language but who knows. Lucie LeBlanc Consentino Acadian Ancestral Home www.acadian-home.org ACGS Drouin Primary Records www.acgs.org -----Original Message----- From: Andy [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 9:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ACADIAN-CAJUN] Spouses of Abraham POIRIER Good Morning Stanley, Paul and Everyone, Thanks Stanley, I am not real good at interpreting spelling of names. What I think I see, another person sees something else. I think many of the names were entered based on phonetic spellings by the priests at the time. It is a real challenge. Thanks for the help and the insight. Andy PS - This is an interesting question Paul. Again I think names were spelled "on what they heard" by the priests of the time. :-) We are all right here I think. AS -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 6:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ACADIAN-CAJUN] Spouses of Abraham POIRIER Stanley Do you think it was Spanish priest not understanging what "we" said or trying to use spanish surnaming conventions? Paul -----Original Message----- From: Stanley LeBlanc <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:33:16 -0600 Subject: RE: [ACADIAN-CAJUN] Spouses of Abraham POIRIER Andy, According to Stephen White, Abraham Poirier married Agnes Belliveau, widow of Honore Lanoue. SWLR shows that Pierre who married Scholastique Babineaux was the son of Abraham and Ana Benibo. Bebibo is shown only twice in the SWLR - for the marriage entries of Pierre and Scholastique. It is apparently a misspelling of Belliveau. The entries for the baptismal records of the children of Pierre and Scholastique apparently picked up the widowed surname of Ana [Agnes] which was Lanoue [Lanoux]. Stanley LeBlanc http://www.thecajuns.com -----Original Message----- From: Andy [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 6:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ACADIAN-CAJUN] Spouses of Abraham POIRIER Hi >From entries found in the Southwest Louisiana Church & Civil Records [Hebert] it appears that Abraham POIRIER [parents not identified] must have remarried. At the time of the marriage of his first child, [(SM Ch.: v.4, #6), Pierre POIRIER (Abraham & dec. Ana BENIBO)] m 1 Sept. 1787 BABINEAUX, Scholastique - of Canada (dec. Charles BABINO & Ana GUILBEAU), his spouse is shown to be Anna BABINEAU. 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