Maseure, sounds like monsieur? Pretty good French for Mr. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: <larcinmar@cox.net> To: <MIMACKIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 6:28 PM Subject: [MIMac] Re: Antoine Martin > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Martin > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HGB.2ACI/471.1 > > Message Board Post: > > I have been researching this line for some time now and still have yet to find where it is said that Antoine Martin was a major at fort Mackinac. He was married to Susanne Kinik8e in 1823 at St. Annes church as per there records. She was baptized around the same period and listed with this name on daughter Catherine's marriage record. She was listed as Kinicona (assuming it was the same person) on son Louis's baptism at St. Annes. On other childrens batism's she was listed as Sauteux woman or Savage. Antoine was listed as Antoine Martin on all records except for children Antoine and Marie Magdeline baptism he was listed as Antoine Soud, a Candian. The godfather of Antoine was Phillipe Soud dit Martin. > > My take on the 'major' comes from daughter Catherine's marriage to Francois Trottier in 1823. Her parents are listed as 'maseure' (with the s looking like a j) Antoine Martin & Susanne Kinik8e, this 'maseure' appears in other marriages/baptism's also. i beleive somewhere along the line someone mistook this for 'major'. as these records were written in latin it's anyone's guess. Howerver i believe 'maseure' in latin is 'mister'. > > I welcome any and all other perspective's on this. I also have a lot of my research on a family tree maker web site for all to see. > http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/a/r/Larry-Lee-Martin/?Welcome=1087597527 > > >