Forwarded by List Administrator Please respond to the List ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom White" <tcwhite@sover.net> To: <ACGSTalk@yahoogroups.com>; <QUEBEC-L@rootsweb.com> Cc: "John Fisher" <jrfisher@adelphia.net>; "Michael Sevigny" <SevignyM@BioTek.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 7:20 PM Subject: {not a subscriber} Re: [TalkACGS] A "Messalliance" Marriage > One obvious reason to characterize the match between PREVOST and QUESSEY as a "messalliance", was probably that the latter Acadian family descended from Roger Casey (Caissey, Kuessey, etc.), an Irish, not French immigrant to Acadia. The main branch of the family had settled in the area of Beaubassin before "Le Grand Derangement". At least one branch of the family, (through Roger's son Jean) was in Quebec City before the exile; between 1742 and 1754 when one of Jean's daughters married Gabriel Messaguay there. I suspect Marie-Luce is part of this family, with a well-known Irish grandfather. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jerry Lesperance > To: ACGS ; QUEBEC-L@rootsweb.com > Cc: John Fisher ; Michael Sevigny > Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 12:21 AM > Subject: [TalkACGS] A "Messalliance" Marriage > > > Thought some of you might want to hear of a weird event that I ran across in preparing my paper relating to the French soldiers who were in the Seven Years War (French and Indian War). > Jean-Baptiste Guillaume PREVOST (or PERROT), Sieur of Basserodes, Chevalier of the St-Louis Cross, and Captain in the Languedoc Regiment, was married to Marie-Luce QUESSY , an Acadian and widow of Jean-Baptiste CIRE (or CYR), on 20 Sept 1760 at Deschambault, with pastor MENAGE officiating. In a letter to Fr. Menage dated 1 Dec 1760, the diocesan Vicar-General, Fr. Briand found it surprising that an experienced, respectable and reputable pastor of the diocese celebrated the marriage of M. de BASSERODES with negligence in employing the prescribed procedures. M. Levis, then Commander of all French soldiers in North America, did not grant any grace (favors) to BASSERODES when he returned to France because the marriage was a "mesalliance" (mismatch) for a Chevalier of St-Louis. > > I couldn't find much on Marie-Luce except PRDH tells us that she and BASSERODES attended the baptism of Jean-Baptiste Archange GIDE (son of a soldier in BASSERODES' Company) on 26 Sept 1760 at Batiscan. She was shown as the widow of CIRE (CYR) and not as the wife of BASSERODES. > > Go figure. > > Jerry > > > Community email addresses: > Post message: ACGSTalk@Yahoogroups.com > Subscribe: ACGSTalk-subscribe@Yahoogroups.com > Unsubscribe: ACGSTalk-unsubscribe@Yahoogroups.com > List owner: ACGSTalk-owner@Yahoogroups.com > > Shortcut URL to this page: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ACGSTalk > > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > ADVERTISEMENT > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Yahoo! Groups Links > > a.. To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ACGSTalk/ > > b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > ACGSTalk-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. > > >