For those who are interested I am forwarding a message I received last year from a lady who was an officer in the de la Montagne Family Assoc. > >From: LoISTEWART >Subject: Re: de Ia Montagne ~ ~ >Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 11:31:25 -0500 (EST) >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: de la Montagne >Dear Nancy, >The Joseph who married Margrietje ROLL is one of our mysteries, too, I am >afraid. He was the son of Jan/John de Lamontagne and Annetie Waidron. >We can find no trace of either hIm or Margrietje after 1728 when they were >married. Riker confused him in adulthood with Joseph, the son of >Abram/Abraham Delamontagnie and Rebecca Van Huyse, who has many >descendants. >Since Rachel Smith1 sister of the Joseph who married Margrietje >ROLL1named all of her living brothers and sisters and all of the living >children >of her brothers and sisters in 1757, we are pretty sure that Joseph had died >by that time without any heirs. I am also afraid that I don't know which >Margrietje ROLL he married nor what happened to her. It seems to me >possible that Joseph died quite soon after the marriage, and the same >Margrietje married Johannes Waidron the next year. I suspect that Johanne >Waldron was the cousin of Joseph---and that kind of second marriage was >common but I would need to look at the marriage records and the baptisms for >Johannes and Margrietje to be sure. >Please keep me informed if you find out any more about our Joseph as >you work on the ROLL families. >Sorry I can1t be of more help. Lois Stewart >Printed on 03/08/97 at 10:48 Prodigy (R) Mail Page:01 > >