This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bourassa, arnwaiskey bertrand martineau Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HGB.2ACI/362.2.1.2.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Dear Jim, my my my, what a mess this all is! I have spent the past month researching these people. There are so many different views and so many tangled lineages it is like a skein of wool that has been in a junkyard full of cats and has been the sole object of play . But that is okay, it is very boring up here in the Straits this time of year, and it has kept me going.....:) the more i look the less i think it is likely that topenebe and bourassa is the same person. There was Topenebe the Younger on the 1833 chicago treaty with his mark and in the listing for payments were Daniel Bourassa's children. Topenenbe the Younger also made the trek on the trail of death, listed along side of Louis Burnette however, i cannot find his burial record. There is a burial record for Daniel Bourassa in Linn County for 1840...but this Daniel is only 20 years old. There is a burial record for Theotis Pisange, 1840, Linn County Sugar Creek also reference to her being wife of the deceased Daniel Bourassa and her age is 70 This places her birth about 1870. I suppose she could be a young wife of Daniel I and Daniel I could be married to two women at the same time I tend to think this is Daniel II's wife, Theotis Pisange but who knows. Margret (bertrand) Bourassa would still be alive at this time, having died some 6 years later. I am thinking this is the wife of Daniel II. I have not looked at these records myself and in 3 different places online and through email i have found conflict of what the records(Sugar Creek Burial) say. As far as i know, there is only one Daniel listed I found that Daniel I was here in St. Ignace, two blocks away from me and was given land because he had acquired it before 1812. In 1828, the map of the town lists his son, Daniel Jr. as owner of this land. I must go down to the library and see if i can find what happened to the land after that. When they left. Margaret Smith, genealogists records show that they moved to Detroit but does not say when. As for the name Arnwaisky I have been all over the territory searching that out and that is a whole story in itself. The only name that i can find that comes close is the reference to the Ojibwa from Lapointe Waishkey/Leboeuf(Ojibwa Chiefs) I have been following that lineage I find them in Saulte ste. Marie and Mount pleasant(Indian School) listed ....Waisky wasske anawaisky arnwaisky waishkey etc etc etc. John Waishkey, Chief was eldest brother to the famous Susan Johnson of the Soo. I must go to work now. Sorry it took so long for this reply i was hoping to havae something concrete to say LOL but wow as i said what a mess. have a good day, sincerely, Judi Engle