Most of the early church records I have from St Anne's & St Mary's show the mother listed under her maiden name. The baptism records also show the maiden name of the Godmother. At first, this was very confusing to me...but then it became an excellent source to verify the maiden names of the wives. It must be noted that some of the spellings are very bad. St Mary's Church Records - Beaverville Page 58 #25 Henrietta Goyette b Sept. 12, 1860 Parents Jean Bte. Goyette & Sophranie St. Pierre of St. Anne. (husband & wife) Godparents: Alexandre Cambell & Angele Goyette. (husband & wife) Wisconsin church records were also recorded in the same fashion. St Luke, Two Rivers, WI Baptism: August 28, 1851 Edwarda Emilia Alli b: August 18 1851 Parents: Baptiste Alli & Adaline Lami (husband & wife) Priest: Jos. Brunner Godparents: Adolph Alli & Julia Marcheau (sic) s/b Manseau (husband & wife) A note regarding our old list & Welcome letter: Ginny Crawford- listowner, ILSTANNE family history list wrote, " - it would be great if you could modify it to suit our new circumstances and then continue to send it out as we have new people sign up." I don't know what type of modifications can be made. It is pretty simple and straight forward. It MAY be impossible to continue with our group list of e-mail addresses, names, locations, and surnames now that we are a Roots List. We will have to see how many new members we get. Many of the Roots Lists generate a large volume of mail...and people subscribe and unsubscribe at an amazing rate. The questions asked often become repetitious. I have unsubscribed from these lists because they were filling my mailbox and offering very little information. I am also concerned how this change will affect Lee Ann's St Anne section on the KKK GenWeb site. Ginny will have to write to each new member individually and ask them to submit their surnames to Lee Ann and me. Anyone having a website will understand how time consuming it is to add or delete information on a site. Lee Ann has spent a considerable amount of time just setting up a page for us. It will be difficult for her to keep changing and uploading the information to the GenWeb server. Ardis Boone asked that we NOT send her any messages until after April 1st when she returns home...to avoid overloading her e-mailbox and old computer. Now that we are a Roots list, members will have to "unsubscribe", then "subscribe" when they return. Sorry to say Ardis, but you will come home to a mailbox full of these new ILSTANNE-L@rootsweb.com messages. St Anne is a small place, so we may not have any problems. We will have to take a wait and see attitude to see if we experience any growing pains. Audrey

Patricia: I have Boudreau, what do you need? karen

Hello Marsha! I have been told that my GGGGrandmother was a Gervais ~ I found this info on a website: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/lwjones/bouchacl.htm --Augustin Bouchard, n ca 1792 | | | | +Marie-Marguerite Gervais dit Talbot, n ca 1797, m 11 Nov 1817 St-Francois-du-Sud Do you have any dit Talbots or dit Gervais? I have a hard time reading the website but it looks like her grandmother was a Talbot dit Gervais! --Pierre-Basile Bouchard, bap 15 Sep 1740 St-Thomas | | | | +Marie Talbot dit Gervais, n ca 1741, m 24 Aug 1761 St-Pierre-Riviere-du-Sud I also have Boudreau and Boucher, but not since Acadia, I don't have any in Illinois. Patricia MARO2ME@aol.com wrote: > >>>> Please send us some introductory paragraphs about yourself and your > connections to or interest in St. Anne. Be sure to include the surnames you > are interested in (first use of each surname in a message should be in caps). > <<<<< > > My name is Marsha Marie (Deschand) Ott. I was born in Kankakee, Il. and > lived there to age of 13. My father, Virgil H. DESCHAND, was French/Canadian > and his ggrandparents were one of the first familles to settle in Kankakee. > My grandfather Ezra DESCHAND/DESCHAMPS married > Odille JARVIS/GERVAIS. Her parents, Solomon Gervais and Emerance DESLAURIERS, > moved from Henryville, Quebec about 1857. > My mother, Bertha Nelson, was the daughter of Chris Niels Nelson and Eva > Pearl Henniger. > My mother gave birth, in 1939, to the first (only) set of quads born in > Kankakee County. > > <A HREF="http://members.tripod.com/~MarshaD">Marsha's Page</A> > > Names I am researching: > DESCHAND/DESCHAMPS, JERVAIS/GERVAIS, BOUDREAU, DESLAURIERS, ISABELLE, > BOUCHER, CHARBONNEAU, ROY, CHARCOTT/CHAREST, BOURASSA > I have most of my familles back to the 16th century in France, (thanks to > the wonderful people on the Internet) but not everything is documented. > > Love Ya, Me > Marsha > > ============================== > Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > Brought to you by RootsWeb.com.

Thanks to Ginny and congratulations to us all for this event! It will shore make it easier to work with our list! Patricia VCrawf@aol.com wrote: > Bon jour, St. Anners. Here is an excerpt from a note about our new list > sent to me by John Fuller of Genealogy Resources: > > <<< > > Once we agree > on an entry for your list, I will send it to Steven Schlossman > (rootsweb), Cyndi Howells, and Vicki Lindsay so they can add the > information to their web pages. This way you get access to > the four sites that really count ... and they are all consistent. > It also saves you the time and trouble of writing to them. I will > also post the entry to the NEW-GENLIST mailing list to provide > additional exposure. >>>> > > I send this information so you can see that the RootsWeb association may > hugely benefit our researches by exposing us to many others who are working > in this same area. At the same time, I can't believe that the list > membership will ever be large, since the area of our focus is relatively > small. > > Here is the entry information that will be used: <<< > << ILSTANNE: A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information > about the French families that settled in St. Anne Illinois and vicinity > (L'Erable, Beaverville/St. Marie, et al) in the 1850s. >>> > > Cheers! > > Ginny > > Ginny Crawford > listowner, ILSTANNE family history list > VCrawf@aol.com > > ============================== > Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. > RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: > http://pml.rootsweb.com/

Bonjour Patricia, I have tons of TALBOT dit Gervais. That's my line. How can I help you? Carol Anne In a message dated 2/17/00 8:39:52 AM Pacific Standard Time, patooch@earthlink.net writes: << Do you have any dit Talbots or dit Gervais? I have a hard time reading the website but it looks like her grandmother was a Talbot dit Gervais! --Pierre-Basile Bouchard, bap 15 Sep 1740 St-Thomas | | | | +Marie Talbot dit Gervais, n ca 1741, m 24 Aug 1761 St-Pierre-Riviere-du-Sud >>

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This may not even be up for discussion, but I was wondering if there's some way that Kankakee County could be mentioned in the description below that was included in Ginny's message. Example: St. Anne, Illinois and other nearby towns that are located in Kankakee County. To be honest, I'm not sure where this description is going to be used, so I may be premature in making this comment. Is this what will be on Rootsweb? Holly - ------------------------------------------------------- << Here is the entry information that will be used:   <<< << ILSTANNE: A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information about the French families that settled in St. Anne Illinois and vicinity (L'Erable, Beaverville/St. Marie, et al) in the 1850s. >>>

>>>> Please send us some introductory paragraphs about yourself and your connections to or interest in St. Anne. Be sure to include the surnames you are interested in (first use of each surname in a message should be in caps). <<<<< My name is Marsha Marie (Deschand) Ott. I was born in Kankakee, Il. and lived there to age of 13. My father, Virgil H. DESCHAND, was French/Canadian and his ggrandparents were one of the first familles to settle in Kankakee. My grandfather Ezra DESCHAND/DESCHAMPS married Odille JARVIS/GERVAIS. Her parents, Solomon Gervais and Emerance DESLAURIERS, moved from Henryville, Quebec about 1857. My mother, Bertha Nelson, was the daughter of Chris Niels Nelson and Eva Pearl Henniger. My mother gave birth, in 1939, to the first (only) set of quads born in Kankakee County. <A HREF="http://members.tripod.com/~MarshaD">Marsha's Page</A> Names I am researching: DESCHAND/DESCHAMPS, JERVAIS/GERVAIS, BOUDREAU, DESLAURIERS, ISABELLE, BOUCHER, CHARBONNEAU, ROY, CHARCOTT/CHAREST, BOURASSA I have most of my familles back to the 16th century in France, (thanks to the wonderful people on the Internet) but not everything is documented. Love Ya, Me Marsha

Bonjour Thanks for all the responses.It is apprceciated. Jack Langlois ************************************************************* Jack & Doryl Langlois P.O. Box 63 Harbor Spring, MI 49740-0063 ************************************************************* -----Original Message----- From: DJKboysrus@aol.com <DJKboysrus@aol.com> To: ILSTANNE-L@rootsweb.com <ILSTANNE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 7:37 AM Subject: Re: [ILSTANNE] Beebeetown ?? >Beebetown was a little settlement in between Aroma Park (waldron) and >Momence. It was over run with the Beebe family! :) There is a little >cemetery still in the area, but the "town" is seldom referenced to these >days. I have a map showing the place on my web site. Hope it helps. > >http://hometown.aol.com/djkboysrus/story.html Just click on "Kankakee County" > >Happy Hunting, > >Dave King > > >============================== >Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. >RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: >http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > >

In a message dated 02/16/2000 8:56:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, Forgue@webtv.net writes: << Example: St. Anne, Illinois and other nearby towns that are located in Kankakee County. >> But if you change it to just Kankakee County you are leaving out Beaverville, L'Erable, and the Clifton / Chebanse area which are all in Iroquois county .

Hi folks French Canadian young women always lost their names at marriage, this rule and tradition would have been retained in Illinois. However very old women 1)sometimes died and no one knew her maiden name, only knew her husband's name.2) Perhaps he married a distant "cousine", she lost her name and took a name identical. 3) I would gather from watching the religious situation down there (I live in Quebec) at that time, that the priest may have been Irish Catholic, hence not governed by well defined church rules. Some of the Irish priests followed accepted parctices of the British Isles, naming witnesses and no mention of the parents. In the case of burials, these acts tend to be shortened when compared to a priest who studied under north American influence.4) Worse even, no one had ever seen the written maiden name as they were unable to write. These are some of the items to consider in establishing a woman's real name. Marcel Benoit bunker.books@videotron.ca or marcel.benoit@videotron.ca ---------- > From: VCrawf@aol.com > To: ILSTANNE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ILSTANNE] surnames of married women > Date: February 16, 2000 4:02 PM > > > Here is a message that just came to our list from D. Walters - who joined on > just before our big change in status. > > Subj: When the French married ... question regarding names > Date: 2/16/2000 12:46:20 PM Pacific Standard Time > From: dwdwone@direct.ca (DW) > > Hi all, > > I have what is probably a simple question for all of you to answer, however > I'm new at researching my French ancestors and need some clarification. > > I have been told that when a French (Canadian) couple married in the late > 1800's that the bride maintained her maiden name and the children were given > the husbands name at birth. Was this generally true in the Kankakee area > too? > > I was searching through the death and burial records for the area online and > located someone who may be my Joseph Martin and also the name of a Lulie > Martin? I'm wondering if this is a typo and should be Julie Martin (nee > Landry). > > Any insight would be helpful. > > Sincerely > D. Walters (snip)

D. Walters wrote: > I have been told that when a French (Canadian) couple married in the late > > 1800's that the bride maintained her maiden name and the children were > given the husbands name at birth. Listers, you have been asked to comment on the above. Was our lister D. Walters given the right info ??? What do you think ? Ginny Ginny Crawford listowner, ILSTANNE family history rootsweb list VCrawf@aol.com

Our member Bishop Theriault of the Christian Catholic Church has kindly sent some most interesting information. It is to be found on a University of Wisconsin web-site that focuses on Wisconsin French connections. The URL is: http://www.uwgb.edu/wisfrench/library/history/oldcatholic.htm Many of the Wisconsin French came there from the St. Anne area of Illinois, so Wisconsin is a good place to look for our surnames. Here's what the site tells us: <<<<The stories of French-Canadian priest, Charles Chiniquy, and French-born priest J. René Vilatte, are an interesting and important part of Wisconsin francophone history. Associated with the Christian (Old) Catholic and Gallican Catholic religious movement, Chiniquy and Vilatte came to Wisconsin and Illinois to minister to the French-Canadian, Swiss and Belgian residents of these states. Vilatte, who had lived in Namur, Belgium and who spoke wallon, the French dialect of the Belgian settlers in Northeast Wisconsin, arrived in Green Bay in 1884. Churches of the Christian Catholic tradition in the area today include the Church of the Precious Blood, Bruxelles-Gardner,(established by Vilatte in 1886) and the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Green Bay (established by Father J.B. Gauthier in 1909), both now part of the Episcopal Diocese of Fond du Lac, and the Robinsonville Presbyterian Church, Robinsonville, Wisconsin. The Current Bishop of the Christian Catholic Church, Mgr. Serge A. Thériault (Ottawa, Canada) graciously contributed the following introduction to the history of the Christian Catholic church in the states of Wisconsin and Illinois. Our translation of his French text follows along with further links to Fathers Vilatte and Chiniquy. Entre 1858 et 1860, 6,200 Canadiens-français (parmi lesquels se trouvaient des Français et des Belges) ont formé l'Église catholique-chrétienne (E.C.C.) en Illinois, sous le leadership du Révérend Charles Chiniquy: 375 familles à Sainte-Anne, 40 à Bourbonnais, 100 à Kankakee, 125 à Chicago, 30 à Petites-Îles, 50 à Momence, 35 à Middleport, 20 à Sainte-Marie, 15 à l'Érable, 16 à Barren, 50 à Ava et 30 à Châteauville. Réf. Rev. Baird, The French Canadian Mission in Illinois, AFCU, 1860, p. 3. L'É.C.C. fut rattachée, en 1860, à la Communion Presbytérienne, Consistoire de Chicago, puis Synode du Canada. Les entrées de baptême, mariage et sépulture de ces premiers catholiques-chrétiens ont été compilées par Mrs. Ardis M. Boone de Sainte-Anne (Illinois) et publiées par elle, dans un document intitulé Father Charles Chiniquy's Ledger. En 1883, 1,200 familles associées à l'Église en Illinois avaient émigré au Kansas et au Wisconsin. Réf. Bristol, Atlas of Kankakee, 1883, p. 21. Deux ans plus tard, au Wisconsin, certains d'entre eux se sont approché des catholiques-chrétiens francophones de Suisse et de France (appelés "vieux-catholiques" et "gallicans"), et ont constitué une juridiction épiscopale et synodale, sous le leadership du Révérend J. René Vilatte. Il avait été nommé à Green Bay, sur la recommandation du Père Chiniquy, qui l'appuya par une fructueuse tournée de prédications en octobre 1884. Une assemblée tenue à Duval (Kewaunee) en 1889 l'élit évêque et le fit consacrer (1892) par l'Église indienne de Malabar, rattachée au Patriarcat d'Antioche et de l'Est. Il eut pour successeurs: Mgr Casimir F. Durand du Minnesota, consacré en 1926, Mgr O'Neill Côté de Longueuil, Québec (1939-1986), et Mgr Serge A. Thériault, consacré par lui (+1982). Le siège est dans la région de la capitale du Canada (Ottawa-Hull), où l'oeuvre de l'Église catholique-chrétienne se poursuit. -------------------- Between 1885 and 1860, 6,200 French-Canadians, French and Belgians formed the Christian Catholic Church (CCC) in Illinois, under the leadership of the Reverend Charles Chiniquy. This included 375 families in Sainte-Anne, 40 in Bourbonnais, 100 in Kankakee, 125 in Chicago, 30 in Petites-Îles, 50 in Momence, 35 in Middleport, 20 in Sainte-Marie, 15 in Érable, 16 in Barren, 50 in Ava, and 30 in Châteauville. (Reference: Rev. Baird, The French Canadian Mission in Illinois, AFCU, 1860, p.3.) In 1860, the CCC joined the Presbyterian Church of Chicago, and later the Canadian Presbyterian Synod. Baptismal, marriage and death records were compiled by Mrs. Ardis M. Boone [an ILSTANNE list member] of Sainte-Anne, Illinois, and were published in a document entitled, Father Chiniquy's Ledger In 1883, 1,200 families that had been members of the Christian Catholic Church in Illinois, emigrated to Kansas and Wisconsin. (Reference Bristol Atlas of Kankakee, 1883, p.21). Two years later, some of these had joined French-speaking Christian Catholics (called "old Catholics" or "gallicans") from Switzerland and France, in founding an Episcopalian Synod under the leadership of Reverend J. René Vilatte. Fr. Vilatte had been sent to Green Bay on the recommendation of Father Chiniquy, who supported him by offering a series of well-received sermons in the Green Bay area in October, 1884. Fr. Vilatte was elected Bishop at an assembly in Duval (Kewaunee County, WI) in 1889. He was consecrated Bishop in 1892 in Malabar, India, in a church attached to the Eastern Patriarchate of Antioch. His successors have been: Monsignors Casimir F. Durand of Minnesota, consecrated in 1926, O'Neill Côté of Longueuil, Québec (1939-1986), and Serge A. Thériault, consecrated by Bishop Côté in 1982. The See which continues the work of the Catholic Christian Church is in the Ottawa-Hull region of Canada. Trans. K. Fleurant Leaving the Wisconsin's French Connections site, you can also consult the following on the web site of the Christian Catholic Rite of Community Churches: a biography of Charles Chiniquy a biography of J. René Vilatte the Christian Catholic Rite Web site where further information can be found. [http://cciccc.ca] In Duval (Red River Township, Kewaunee County)on the corner of routes X and A, is the Duvall Christian (Old) Catholic Cemetery. L'Eglise de Sainte-Marie no longer stands and the cemetery is in poor condition, but names of Belgian settlers can still be read on the stones. A list of those names is available on the Kewaunee County genealogy page. This Page added January 4, 2000 >>>>> Thank you, Bishop Theriault - much appreciated. Ginny Crawford Listowner, ILSTANNE family history list VCrawf@aol.com

Here is a message that just came to our list from D. Walters - who joined on just before our big change in status. Subj: When the French married ... question regarding names Date: 2/16/2000 12:46:20 PM Pacific Standard Time From: dwdwone@direct.ca (DW) Hi all, I have what is probably a simple question for all of you to answer, however I'm new at researching my French ancestors and need some clarification. I have been told that when a French (Canadian) couple married in the late 1800's that the bride maintained her maiden name and the children were given the husbands name at birth. Was this generally true in the Kankakee area too? I was searching through the death and burial records for the area online and located someone who may be my Joseph Martin and also the name of a Lulie Martin? I'm wondering if this is a typo and should be Julie Martin (nee Landry). Any insight would be helpful. Sincerely D. Walters SEARCHING: TROMBLEY or TREMBLAY, Montana; Alberta; Oregon; Washington; California; BC; Saskatchewan, Quebec, Canada MARTIN, Quebec, Kankakee, Petit Canada, IL.; BC, Canada CREPEAU, Quebec, Canada; Washington LANDRY, Quebec, Canada; Illinois; Kansas Need more info see my web page at: http://www.angelfire.com/me2/familypix/sales.html

Bon jour, St. Anners. Here is an excerpt from a note about our new list sent to me by John Fuller of Genealogy Resources: <<< Once we agree on an entry for your list, I will send it to Steven Schlossman (rootsweb), Cyndi Howells, and Vicki Lindsay so they can add the information to their web pages. This way you get access to the four sites that really count ... and they are all consistent. It also saves you the time and trouble of writing to them. I will also post the entry to the NEW-GENLIST mailing list to provide additional exposure. >>>> I send this information so you can see that the RootsWeb association may hugely benefit our researches by exposing us to many others who are working in this same area. At the same time, I can't believe that the list membership will ever be large, since the area of our focus is relatively small. Here is the entry information that will be used: <<< << ILSTANNE: A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information about the French families that settled in St. Anne Illinois and vicinity (L'Erable, Beaverville/St. Marie, et al) in the 1850s. >>> Cheers! Ginny Ginny Crawford listowner, ILSTANNE family history list VCrawf@aol.com

Beebetown was a little settlement in between Aroma Park (waldron) and Momence. It was over run with the Beebe family! :) There is a little cemetery still in the area, but the "town" is seldom referenced to these days. I have a map showing the place on my web site. Hope it helps. http://hometown.aol.com/djkboysrus/story.html Just click on "Kankakee County" Happy Hunting, Dave King

Actually just a bit NE up the Kankakee River from Aroma Park. ----- Original Message ----- From: <VCrawf@aol.com> To: <ILSTANNE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 5:41 PM Subject: Re: [ILSTANNE] Beebeetown ?? > In a message dated 2/15/2000 11:18:43 AM Pacific Standard Time, > Doryl@freeway.net writes: > > > buried 1893 at Beebeetown,Kankakee,Co. > > > I'm gonna guess that "Beebeetown" is "Beaverville" - what think? > > Ginny > > > ============================== > Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. > RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi >

L'ECUYER: FRANCE>QUEBEC>ILLINOIS>KANSAS I have just finished adding almost 400 new L'Ecuyer family names to my database, thanks to a relative who also belongs to the Vermont French-Canadian Genealogical Society. My Illinois ancestors were: Narcisse L'Ecuyer (b. 1815, L'Acadie, Quebec; d. 1905, St. George, IL), married 1839 to Marguerite Le Claire (? - ?), with 10 or 11 children. I would appreciate any information or clues on the siblings and their spouses, as follows: John married Domtild Raimond; Napoleon married Mary Gadboid, he was wounded in the Civil War; Hermind married Edward Granger; Phelomene married Narcisse Granger in Kankakee, IL; Delima married Celestine Fortin; Florence; Ida married (1)Francis Graveline, also married (2) Napoleon Boudreau; Celia, a nun in the Sisters of St. Frances de Salle; Ferial (1847)--my ancestor-- married Mathilda Drolette 1866 at Manteno, IL; Auerlie (1852) died in childhood; Mary (1864) married Pierre Betournay. Rick Long Peoria, Illinois homepages: http://www3.mtco.com/rlongmsw/ http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/l/o/n/Rick-J-Long/index.html

Fellow St. Anne Groupies, I have added my gedcom ( 1362 names) to the rootsweb world connect roject( see below link).Of course, like any genealogy project it is in a constant state of "editing". If by chance you are perusing the file and notice any errors, please let me know. Dick LeSage Researching LeSage, Guenette, Boudreau, Berard and many more! http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=rjlesage

In a message dated 02/15/2000 6:43:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, VCrawf@aol.com writes: << m gonna guess that "Beebeetown" is "Beaverville" - what think? >> No, I don't think so. Beebbee is a name of a family, I think. Seems like there was a family in Watseka anyway. It is probably an area near Kankakee where the Beebee family lived.