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

Hi Ginny, I have Jean Lambert Perreault, married to Anne Bois and daughter Anastasia Perreault (born abt 1804). Anastasia married Francois Hubert (m 1/20/1823). Several children born to Anastasia and Francois, one of which was Winceslas (sin) Hubert (my 2nd great grandfather. Eventually the line comes down to Eugenia Hubert (my granmere) who went to Kansas and returned with the family (J B Hubert) allegedly selling their dog for $7.00. Any links? Alan Boudreau >>>+ snippity snippity for brevity =<<< > 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. > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com