This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Downs Downes Vadnais Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wIB.2ACI/46.72.1 Message Board Post: I am interested in any info you can pass on the Vadnais family. My great-grandmother was Mary Eloise Vadnais who was the daughter of Jean Baptiste Vadnais and Sylvia Foster. She had married my great-grandfather Martin Downes, had many children, but died in an unfortunate accident at about 43 years old. Thank You, Daniel J. Downs [email protected]