On the subject of Father Charles Paschal Telesphore CHINIQUY, o.s.p. Growing up in Beaverville, IL, all of my life I heard stories of the infamous priest of Ste-Anne from the old time Catholics in town, including my family. All the stories portrayed him as the Devil, the anti-Christ. In their minds, he was the one who started the Protestant movement, not Martin Luther in Germany nor John Calvin in France. A funny story comes to mind that reminded me of my childhood days. When I had finally nailed down my mother's ancestry, I called her in Beaverville to tell her who she was and where they came from and where they had gone. She asked me where I had dug up all of this information. When I told her that I had found most of it at the local Mormon Church facilities, she said, "Is that one of Father Chiniquy's religions?" It was at that moment that I knew nothing had changed in the minds of the old time Beavervillians. Les ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 8:10 PM Subject: Re: [ILSTANNE] How do you pronounce CHINIQUY? > In a message dated 6/26/2003 5:00:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > << I recently gave a talk about St. Anne at my company's Genealogy Club and it > dawned on me that I don't know how to pronounce CHINIQUY, or what > nationality it is. > > Ken Bonvallet > > >> > > Hi, Ken! CHINIQUY is apparently the Quebec version of the Basque name > ETXENIKE. > > You can see from the French and Spanish attempts to pronounce that Basque > name (ETXENIKE into E'CHENNIQUE and CHENNEQUI and the like) that the ET basically > fell off, as vowel sound syllables at the beginning of words often do - the > XE was pronounced like the English SH in "shin" - the INI stayed INI or INA - > and the KE became KEY or QUI. (There are ETXENIKEs here in California today > who prounounce their names as ET-ZE-NIH-KEY, with the E fading.) > > The CHINIQUY spelling may not exist in Europe at all - but the first one in > Quebec seemed to have begun with CHENNIQUE and segued into CHINIQUY pretty > quickly. Then the whole family used CHINIQUY thereafter, except for a line that > called itself CHINIC for reasons not fully clear. > > I think Carol Anne said that her family used SHIN-A-KEY and I recall that my > family said SHIN-IH-KEY. The accent at my house was about even on all > syllables, with maybe some slight emphasis on the first. > > Carol Anne and I share a great, great, great grandfather, Charles Chenniquy > the notary - born 1781 and married to Marie-Reine Perreault in 1807. These > two were the parents of Louis Phillipe Chiniquy and Achille Chiniquy, Carol > Anne's and my respective great, great grandfathers, AND of Fr. Charles P.T. > Chiniquy - great great grand-uncle to us both. > > WHEW! Ain't genealogy fun???? > > I'm loving the migration stories! Deadwood, here we come. . . > > Ginny > > > ==== ILSTANNE Mailing List ==== > Courtesy is the key to list relationships. Please send thanks ON the list to those who have helped you. Our listers are so smart and generous - it's nice to see them thanked publicly. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >