Welcome Don to the List from another Cheffer researcher...I am the other Audrey (Florentine). Haven't been very active due to a move from our home of 33 years to a condo in the same area. My husband's great grandmother was Emilie Henriette Cheffre born 28 May 1856 in St. Anne to Charles Cheffre and Emilie Chausse. Charles died in 1863 and Emilie married her brother-in-law, Joseph Cheffre who was a widower, on 9 February 1865. Their oldest child was the Josephine Cheffer who married Antoine Goyette and moved to Royal, Clay County, Iowa. Josephine remained a Catholic while her parents and most of her siblings were followers of Fr. Chiniquy. I too have extensive Cheffer files and a tin type of the family patriarch, Joseph Cheffre who was born in Montreal/10 February 1798 and married Henriette Tessier dit Lavigne 23 October 1820 at Notre Dam/Montreal. Henrietta's ancestry goes back to Urbain Tessier who received the 8th grant made to an individual in the island of Montreal. There is a plaque on the bank across from Notre Dame in old Montreal commemorating this. It would be interesting to know how many of our listers trace their ancestry to Urbain. My husband and our adopted son both share Urbain as a 9th great grandfather! We would never have know if I hadn't been hooked on genealogy. Happy to help any way I can. There is a Cheffer buried in our Town of Maine Cemetery/Park Ridge, Illinois but I have not been able to identify him. Audrey Florentine

Thank you. Just got back from a week of vacation and have not been able to respond. Can you send me the lineage of Henriette Tessier dit Lavigne going back to Urbain. Both Henriett and Joseph are my wife's ancestors. I don't know if you have a digital picture of the tintype but that would be cool if you could send that also. Thank you Don Ladolcetta. Ladolcetta CPA PA 12000 NW 20th St Pembroke Pines, Fl 33026 954-436-8733 Fax: 954-450-6599 email: cpadon@bellsouth.net website: WWW.LADCPA.COM ----- Original Message ----- From: "audrey" <audjoe1@comcast.net> To: <ILSTANNE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 3:52 PM Subject: [ILSTANNE] Cheffer/Cheffre Family > Welcome Don to the List from another Cheffer researcher...I am the other > Audrey (Florentine). Haven't been very active due to a move from our home > of 33 years to a condo in the same area. My husband's great grandmother > was Emilie Henriette Cheffre born 28 May 1856 in St. Anne to Charles > Cheffre and Emilie Chausse. Charles died in 1863 and Emilie married her > brother-in-law, Joseph Cheffre who was a widower, on 9 February 1865. > Their oldest child was the Josephine Cheffer who married Antoine Goyette > and moved to Royal, Clay County, Iowa. Josephine remained a Catholic > while her parents and most of her siblings were followers of Fr. Chiniquy. > > I too have extensive Cheffer files and a tin type of the family patriarch, > Joseph Cheffre who was born in Montreal/10 February 1798 and married > Henriette Tessier dit Lavigne 23 October 1820 at Notre Dam/Montreal. > Henrietta's ancestry goes back to Urbain Tessier who received the 8th > grant made to an individual in the island of Montreal. There is a plaque > on the bank across from Notre Dame in old Montreal commemorating this. > It would be interesting to know how many of our listers trace their > ancestry to Urbain. My husband and our adopted son both share Urbain as a > 9th great grandfather! We would never have know if I hadn't been hooked > on genealogy. Happy to help any way I can. There is a Cheffer buried in > our Town of Maine Cemetery/Park Ridge, Illinois but I have not been able > to identify him. Audrey Florentine > > > ==== ILSTANNE Mailing List ==== > You can search or browse the ARCHIVES of any RootsWeb list at: > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > >