> Hi Listers! > I have decided to join this list because on my interest in finding = > whether some of the HUBERT families that moved to Illinois in the past = > are connected to my ancestor, Ren=E9 HUBERT (who first married in Quebec = > City in 1669). In my search for his descendants, I have gathered data on = > around 3000 HUBERT marriages, mostly in Quebec, but also in Ontario and = > parts of the USA. Will be glad to assist. > I will eventually come to the list with some specific questions, besides = > the ones below. For the time being, let us say that my most immediate = > interest lies with Pierre (Peter) HUBERT (sometimes H=C9BERT, but I am = > convinced he as indeed a HUBERT) who was married to Marie KIROUAC on = > 17Feb1862 at maternity BVM Church, Bourbonnais, Kankakee. They later = > moved to L'=C9rable. > I have yet to find out for sure who the parents of Pierre and Marie were = > (their mariage entry at BMV is silent on that), and therefore to = > "connect" them with one or other of the 3-4 distinct HUBERT lines in = > Quebec. > I have a lot of data on the baptism./burials of their children in the = > Kankakee area, with many other HUBERTs showing as godparents, etc, and = > who I presume would be related to Pierre. I am in the (slow) process of = > putting some order in all that info, so as to facilitate my research, = > and at some point I may come to the list with that. > One unconfirmed, and week, hypothesis I have is that Pierre HUBERT's = > parents might/might be Joseph HUBERT and Ang=E8le BEAUGRAND-CHAMPAGNE, = > married in Joliette, Quebec in 1836, and seven children of whom married = > in Ontario between 1862-1884. > Another, definitely more promising one, would be that Pierre HUBERT's = > parents were Fran=E7ois HUBERT and M.-Anastasia PERREAULT, married in = > L'Acadie, Qu=E9bec in 1823. One of that couple's sons, Fran=E7ois, and = > his wife Julie DUCHARME, are god-parents to a child born to Pierre and = > Marie KIROUAC in 1877. Another son of Fran=E7ois/Anasthasia, Wenceslau, = > is a witness at the burial in 1870, of a daugther born to Pierre/Marie. = > A daugther of Fran=E7ois and Anastasia, Rosalie, and her husband David = > LAGESSE, are god-parents to another child of Pierre/Marie in 1868 (in = > Clifton, Illinois). And Olive, a sister of Rosalie, togetrher with her = > husband J.-B. Simoneau, are also god-parents to another offsring of = > Pierre/Marie (1864). The Pierre HUBERT/Marie KIROUAC couple are in turn = > god-parents of a child born to Florence HUBERT (another daugther of = > Fran=E7ois HUBERT/Anastasia PERREAULT) and Joseph SIMONEAU in 1862. > I stronly suspect that had to be a relationship between all those = > sons/daugthers of Fran=E7ois HUBERT/Anathsasia PERREAULT appearing as = > godparents or witnesses in relation to children of Pierre HUBERT/Marie = > KIROUAC, and Pierre HUBERT himself. Maybe he was a brother of = > theirs...., or a cousin.... > Then there is a "John Baptist" HUBERT and a Marguerite "TIROY" (probably = > a misspell for KIROUAC; there are othet such instances) are god-parents = > of a child born to Pierre/Marie KIROUAC in 1862. Was Jean-Batiste HUBERT = > relayed to Pierre HUBERT (brother, cousin)? And was Marguerite KIROUAC = > related to Marie KIROUAC? > Regards to all.=20 > =20 > Jean-Paul HUBERT (A Canadian temporarily living in Atrgentina) > <jphubert@fibertel.com.ar>