Hi Mike & List - Your message reminds me to ask how many of our listers' French-Canadian ancestors fought in the Civil War. In my last message, I forgot to mention that Etienne Regnier [Stephen Regne] enlisted in the civil war 18 November 1861 - at the age of 68! as a private in E Company of the 53th Regiment of the Illinois Infantry. He was discharged due to disability on 08 June 1862. At that time he said he was from Kankakee. Also enlisted the same day was Louis Regne; and Joseph Regne, who enlisted 26 January 1862. It's not clear how they are related as there are many Louis and Joseph in this family. I have to send for the records to see exactly who they are, but if they are the brothers, then they would also have been aged 70 and 64. According to the Regniers in North America, by Fr. Hopkins, people left this area for the same reason they came - Land. Some going to South Dakota like Mike & Carol Anne's families, and others going to Minnesota, Kansas and Iowa. A branch of the Regnier family bought railroad company land in Ghent Minnesota in 1883. Lisa [email protected] On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 12:54:49 -0500 "Mike Girou" <[email protected]> writes: > Hi Carol Anne, > > Your Chiniquy seems to have been in the same places at the same time > as my > Julien Giroux, who came to St. Anne in 1851/2 and fought in the > Civil War as > Joe Gero in Company F of the 76th Regiment of the Illinois Infantry, > who was > in Dakota County NE in the 1880 census, but was in Douglas Country > (Armour) > SD by 1900 and Pennington County SD (Rockerville, just outside Rapid > City) > from 1911 until his death in 1917. The similarities are quite > striking and > leads to the reasonable speculation that they knew each other. > > Btw, Deadwood was the major city in that part of South Dakota at the > time. > Rapid City didn't amount to much until quite later. > > Also, I found quite a bit of good information on my Civil War > relatives from > the War Department. They apparently didn't know how to fill out the > paperwork to get Civil War pensions earlier (as their lawyer > explained, they > "were Frenchmen", apparently an acceptable explanation for > ignorance), but > filed under the Act of May 11, 1912 and gave quite a bit of > historical > information as to their travels and activities since 1865. > > Mike > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 11:51 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ILSTANNE] Migration Tales > > > Bonjour Everyone, > > The migration stories have been terrific. I've enjoyed everyone of > them. > One of my CHINIQUY's must have joined them in their travels. > Charles-Louis > Chiniquy, the son of Louis-Philippe and Emilie L'Ecuyer and brother > to my gr > grandfather, Emile Chiniquy, ended up in South Dakota working for > the > Pioneer > Newspaper in Deadwood after his tour of duty in the Civil War. I > have just > started > to gather information on him. He is listed in the 1880 census under > the > surname of CHINEQUY so I know that he was first living in Nebraska > where his > two > daughters were born. Both girls were married in Deadwood and his > wife, > Permelia, is buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery where Wild Bill Hickock > is > buried. I > never would have guessed that my relatives would have been mixed up > with the > wild west. It's so much fun tracing them and finding out all this > interesting > stuff. > > Now, if I could just figure out who that other Charles Chiniquy is > that is > listed in the 1880 census with a wife and three children in Lincoln, > Nebraska. > > Oh, what fun.........Carol Anne > > > ==== ILSTANNE Mailing List ==== > To scan a remarkable collection of lists and webpages related to > genealogy, > go to: http://www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/internet.html > Once there, click on "mailing lists", then select the category you > want, > then the location or surname. Voila! > > ============================== > 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 > > > ==== ILSTANNE Mailing List ==== > Please tell your fellow St. Anne area researchers about this list. > To join, an interested person should send an eMail to > [email protected] with the word SUBSCRIBE in the > subject line or message box. > > ============================== > 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 > > ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!