My great great grandmother was Maire Payet. I'm trying to find out who her parents (and the rest of her family) were. According to family history, Marie married my great great grandfather, Jean-Baptiste Ledoux on Feb 27, 1859 in Kankakee County. Her daughters Agnes (my great grandmother) and Josephine were born in 1864 and 1862, but Marie died sometime between Agnes birth and the 1870 census which shows Jean had remarried widow Martha Esther Lamphere Chartier and was still living in St. Anne. Martha had a daughter by her previous marriage, and she and Jean went on to have 8 more daughters. Jean's parents, Michel Ledoux and Catherine Sigault/Sigo were part of the believers who followed Father Chiniquy from Montreal to Bourbannaise and St. Anne in In 1855 Federal Census Michel is listed 62 years old and living on Claim in Range 13, Bourbonnais Township. Michel died in St. Anne in 1873 and his wife Catherine Sigo died in St. Anne in 1901. Also in Federal Census is mentioned Michael's sister and brother-in-law Mathilda Sigo-Neveau and Louis Sigo. Louis had a wife, 3 sons and 2 daughters at that time. I cannot find Marie and Jean-Baptiste Ledoux in the 1860 census (anywhere) and have looked under all kinds of variations of spelliing. Does anyone have access to any records that would show the marriage of Marie and Jean? Or who her family was? Or the birth of Agnes and Josephine or baby Caroline who died in infancy? Frances Powell bob.powell2@comcast.net