In a message dated 12/30/00, jkerttula@snet.net writes: > Can someone help me straighten out some of the Etienne Fontaines? I was > following the line of Etienne Fontaines when I came upon two Etienne > Fontaines who are married to the same woman. Ancestry.com has Etienne > Fontaine, son of Marie Conile and Etienne Fontaine married to Marie > Marthe Dagneau as well as Madeleine Fournier and Anne Marie Mineaux. > Ancestry.com also has Etienne Fontaine, son of Etienne Fontaine and > Marie Madeleine Fournier married to Marie Marthe Dagneau. Can anyone > tell me which Etienne Fontaine was married to Marie Marthe Dagneau and > did they have a son, Etienne? Maybe this Etienne had more than one > wife, too. I can't believe how confusing this all is!! Judith : ) Looking at the various records and my attempt to make sense of them, this is what I came up with: Etienne Fontaine m. 8-Feb-1683 St-Laurent, Ile d'Orleans, Montmorency, Nouvelle-France Marie Conille Their son: Etienne Fontaine m. 16-Nov-1706 St-Laurent, Ile d'Orleans, Montmorency, Nouvelle-France Anne-Francoise (Marie) Mineau m. 8-Sep-1715 St-Thomas, Montmagny, Montmagny, Nouvelle-France Marie-Madeleine Fournier m. 13-Aug-1737 St-Francois-de-Riviere-Sud, Montmagny, Nouvelle-France Marthe (Marie-Genevieve) Dagneau dit Laprise 2nd marriage son: Etienne Fontaine mc. 6-Jan-1739 Notaire C. Michon Catherine Gaudin So my answer is that Etienne (son of Etienne and Marie Conille) married Marthe Dagneau, not Etienne (son of Etienne and Marie-Madeleine Fournier). This is based on the children's births. If Etienne (sone of Etienne and Marie-Madeleine Fournier) married in 1737 and 1739, he would have had children by two wives at the same time! I don't think so. FWIW (For what it's worth)! Tony Fontaine in MD

Thanks, Tony, I apoligize , I believe I asked this question before. I thought I was straight on it. I'll keep plugging away. judith : ) CanFGA@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 12/30/00, jkerttula@snet.net writes: > > Can someone help me straighten out some of the Etienne Fontaines? I was > > following the line of Etienne Fontaines when I came upon two Etienne > > Fontaines who are married to the same woman. Ancestry.com has Etienne > > Fontaine, son of Marie Conile and Etienne Fontaine married to Marie > > Marthe Dagneau as well as Madeleine Fournier and Anne Marie Mineaux. > > Ancestry.com also has Etienne Fontaine, son of Etienne Fontaine and > > Marie Madeleine Fournier married to Marie Marthe Dagneau. Can anyone > > tell me which Etienne Fontaine was married to Marie Marthe Dagneau and > > did they have a son, Etienne? Maybe this Etienne had more than one > > wife, too. I can't believe how confusing this all is!! Judith : ) > > Looking at the various records and my attempt to make sense of them, this is > what I came up with: > > Etienne Fontaine > m. 8-Feb-1683 St-Laurent, Ile d'Orleans, Montmorency, Nouvelle-France > Marie Conille > > Their son: > > Etienne Fontaine > m. 16-Nov-1706 St-Laurent, Ile d'Orleans, Montmorency, Nouvelle-France > Anne-Francoise (Marie) Mineau > m. 8-Sep-1715 St-Thomas, Montmagny, Montmagny, Nouvelle-France > Marie-Madeleine Fournier > m. 13-Aug-1737 St-Francois-de-Riviere-Sud, Montmagny, Nouvelle-France > Marthe (Marie-Genevieve) Dagneau dit Laprise > > 2nd marriage son: > > Etienne Fontaine > mc. 6-Jan-1739 Notaire C. Michon > Catherine Gaudin > > So my answer is that Etienne (son of Etienne and Marie Conille) married > Marthe Dagneau, not Etienne (son of Etienne and Marie-Madeleine Fournier). > This is based on the children's births. If Etienne (sone of Etienne and > Marie-Madeleine Fournier) married in 1737 and 1739, he would have had > children by two wives at the same time! I don't think so. > > FWIW (For what it's worth)! > > Tony Fontaine in MD > > ==== FONTAINE Mailing List ==== > You will find past postings by clicking on > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=Fontaine > and entering the appropriate key word. > > ============================== > Search more than 150 million free records at RootsWeb! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/