This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BELLAN, FRECHETTE, DAPRON, MALLETT Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lEC.2ACE/64.2 Message Board Post: Just a brief message. I too am searching the families in Grant county Wisconsin and the same location as you in the Potosi area. Some of my ancestors were lead miners also. The names are Bellan, Frechette, Mallette, and Dapron. Not sure if all these names are spelt exactly like I have them or if they would be spelt the way you have them. Moses Frechette would be my great great grand father. He is buried in the New St. Thomas Cemetery in Potosi. Moses Frechette married my great great grandmother, Eulalie Theresa Dapron ?. This would have been her second marriage Her first marriage was to Lawrence Bellan also a miner in the Potosi area. Not sure where Lawrence Bellan is buried. Not sure how the Mallette name fits in but in the Old St. Thomas Cemetery in Potosi a Ursula Mallette and Pascal Mallette is buried in our family plot. If you think there is a connection please e-mail me at bjhom@chibardun.net