Hi Vickie, I would very much like it if you looked up some names for me. My french-Canandians definitely went to that part of IA from IL. My great-grandfather was Thomas RENAUD/RENO. One of his sons was named Andrew, which may be the one you mentioned. Thomas' mother was a MAILLOUX/MAYHEW. I would appreciate any information you or anyone else has on either of these surnames and the related name of CHAUVIN. I will have to look it up, but I think the LECLAIR family also ties in. have more information about them in Kankakee and Iroquois Cos. I'll be happy to pay copying and mailing costs. Thanks ever so much. Regards, Cynthia Stanford -----Original Message----- From: Vickie Buettner <buetvsia@netins.net> To: ILSTANNE-L@rootsweb.com <ILSTANNE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, June 10, 2000 10:52 PM Subject: [ILSTANNE] French-Canadian family histories from Iowa >Wanted to let everyone know that Royal, Iowa is having their Centennial >June 30, July 1, July 2, 2000. Bought the Centennial book and it >states: (quote) To the west of Royal there was a settlement of French >Canadian people who migrated here from Illinois. Some of those settlers >were ANTOINE GOYETTE, FRANCIS LeCLAIR, ALEXANDER MORROW, ELI & RAMIE >FRANKER (FRANCOEUR) RAMIE MAYHEW, and JOSEPH GROSS. (unquote) > >Later in the book (History of St. Louis Catholic Church) it states: > > 'The history of Catholicism in the Royal area dates back to the latter >part of the 19th century when priests from Sutherland (a near by town) >came up to celebrate Mass in an area southwest of Royal known as the >"French Settlement." The majority of people in this area were American >of French Canadian descent. They had left Canada accompanied by a >priest, settled in Illinois, and then migrated to the recently settled >area of western Clay County. Mass was celebrated first in homes, >including that of Joe Gross. > Some of the early French Canadian parishioners were: >RAMIE MAILLOUX (MAYOU/MAYHEW) >ELI, AMADEE, and ADELARD FRANCOEUR >PERLYN and EDGAR MOREAU (MORROW) >ART GILINEAU (GELINO) >TADDEE RICHARD >SAM DEMERS >HENRY LeCLAIR >ANDREW RENAUD >ANTIONE GOYETTE and sons ANTONE, LOU, FRED, AND HARVEY >JOE GROSS >FRANK HUSS >AUGUST GRENDLER >JOHN AUCHTER >PETER ASMUSSEN >VALENTINE HAMMES >NICHOLAS HAMMES >JOHN DUMKREIGER >JAMES PHILLIPS >JOHN, JAMES, and TONY GILLESPIE >JAMES 0'BRIEN >********************************* > >If any of these names mean anything to anyone I will gladly look in the >Centennial book to see if there are any 'family histories' about these >families. Maybe one of these people is a 'long lost' family member no >one knew where they ended up at. > >In the ALEXANDER MORROW family history it talks about Alex being the son >of M. and Abigail (YEW) MORROW. It said that he was born in Greenland, >Canada. When Alex was nine years old he and his family came to the U.S. >- part way by ship. Some of the relatives were told that on the way >Alex's parents and all of his relatives died of diphtheria. Others say >that they died of typhoid and some say that the father survived. Alex >was taken in by a family and lived in Kankakee, IL. In 1866 he married >Odella Buckrow/Dealia Ducrow who was born in Saint Anne, IL in 1851. >Dealia choked on a piece of boiling meat and died in 1880. Alex then >married ROSALIE (TREMBLEY) SANTAGE in 1882 in Saint Anne, IL. She was >born in 1856 to Jacob and Marie (Bissonet) Trembley. Rosalie had two >sons from a previous marriage; Zeb and Arthur Santage. >********************************************** > >It seems that some on this list had the last name of TREMBLEY they were >interested in, but I don't' remember for sure. I know there was someone >looking for the GOYETTE family on the list. One of the Goyette girls >married one of the Morrow boys and has a family history with a wedding >picture. > >...Funny how I have been wondering how to spell the last name of GELINO >and you have all been so helpful and up the road a couple of hours were >old church records with the french spelling -- GILINEAU -- Right under >my own nose!! > >Now it is my turn to help if I can. > >Vickie Buettner > >Looking for family names of: FRANCOEUR, MARION, DELIBAC, GELINO, >PARADIS, BRODEAU (BODRIC?) > > >============================== >Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. >RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi > >