Hi again, I'm trying to find out the parents of my ancestor, Bernard Morvant, who shows up in Louisiana records in the mid-1700s. I believe that Bernard Morvant is very likely the grandson of Francois Morvan (Jean Morvan/Anne Lecors), b. 1671 in Mesle, Brittany, who married February 4, 1694 to Marie Madeleine Delaunay of Quebec (Nicolas DeLaunay/Anne-Antoinette Durand). Francois and Madeleine (Delaunay) Morvan had recorded children Jeanne-Charlotte (1695), Jean (1697), Francois (1699), and Marie-Angelique (1701); only Jean and Jeanne-Charlotte survived to adulthood. Jean was "engage ouest" in 1719 -- contracted to participate in the fur trade -- and probably left Quebec for what is now Michigan or Illinois at that time. He is called "Jean Morvan dit Labonté," and signed a contract with Paul Guillet on 3 May 1719 to make a trip to the "high country" (les pays d'en haut). No further records for Jean have been found, but many settlers in Louisiana from eastern Canada passed through the upper midwest, especially Fort Kaskaskia, Illinois. Circumstantial evidence connecting Bernard Morvant to this family is that Bernard named three of his children Francois, Jeannette, and Charlotte -- if I am correct, after his father's siblings. Does anyone have any record of Jean Morvan (Morvent, Morvant) after 1719? I've looked a bit in Illinois and Michigan records, but the records there in the early 18th century are pretty thin. I have a suspicion he may have married a Native woman -- my maternal grandmother (whose own mother was a Morvant) always claimed we had Native ancestry somewhere on that side of the family. Any help would be great -- and I'm happy to share what I have on this family. Cheers, Gordon Bonnet Trumansburg NY USA