I am looking for info about the marriage of Michael LAMONT to Balbine Florence PROULX in Bourbonnaise on Sept 24, 1854. I have heard that Michael's full name was Michael "Marine" LAMONT dit NORMANDIN, that he was the son of Louis NORMANDIN and Judith MONTMARQUET of Quebec, that he was Catholic, that he was born in Vermont in 1827, and that he was a descendent of the Scottish clan LAMONT who spoke with a strong brogue!! I am trying to reconcile these various facts. In 1860 they appear in the census in Arcola, Douglas County. His children (all with surname LAMONT) were Belle Sophia, born Nov 1855; Maximillian, born Sept, 1857; Agnes, born 1859; Felix Albert, born Aug, 1861; Mallick, born Feb, 1864; Gideon, born March, 1866; and Julius, born 1868. I have info that Belle and Max were born in Kankakee, but am not sure of the others. I would be interested in birth/baptismal info for Max, who is my ggrandfather. I am also interested in confirming that Balbine's parents, Louis and Francis PROULX, died in Kankakee, she on May 30, 1885, and he sometime thereafter. Could you suggest a source for obituaries for them?