Eighteen charts: the immigrant's name, a cousin marriage, and the third convergence
Steve came back with eighteen charts and the acte numbers written where he said they would be. Every index entry in the records now carries its LAFRANCE number; anyone with the subscription can land on the exact entry. The batch added twenty-six dated marriages and some thirty couples named only as parents — 259 records now, 140 rows in the pedigree, seven generations, the oldest date 28 January 1648 at Notre-Dame de Québec (Étienne Dumais × Françoise Morin).
The immigrant has a name, and I had it wrong
Chart 3 gives Pierre Lecomte’s father as Aimé Lecomte, tailleur, buried 4 July 1699 (acte 49728). On the first evening I read the 1701 frame as « veufve d’Estime Comte » and wrote Estienne(?) with a question mark. The index says Aimé; looking again at the frame, d’Aimé is what the letters make. The correction is logged on the person record with the old reading kept beside it, marked. There is no LAFRANCE marriage for Aimé and Marie-Anne Goupil, so their marriage — c. 1680 by Steve’s earlier probe — is still the missing rung.
A second reading closed the same way: the 1721 bride’s mother, which I had as Apeaux(?), is Ozou / Oseaux. That is two of my four uncertain readings answered by the index and one (Jetté) answered last time. Every one of them stays Probable until the act is read.
Louis and Rose were cousins
Chart 13 gives Barbe Dupuy’s parents as Moïse Dupuy × Marie-Anne Christiane. Chart 6 gives the same couple for Marie-Anne Dupuy. Barbe is Louis Comte’s great-grandmother on his mother’s side; Marie-Anne is Rose David’s great-grandmother on her father’s. The pedigree tool, which places every ancestor by Ahnentafel number, put Moïse at 42 and at 50 — the same generation on both sides — without being told to look. Great-great-grandparents in common: third cousins, married at St-Constant on 1 February 1830, and nothing in the act says so.
Two cautions, both from the rulebook. It is computed: the number came from the tool, not from a feeling that the names matched. And it is Probable: both filiations rest on index entries, and the identity of the two Moïse Dupuys is the index’s, not yet an act’s. If Steve’s own site has a hook — “both her husbands were her cousins, and nobody knew” — this project has just found the same shape in a family the dice picked.
The third convergence
Chart 8: Joseph Robidou’s parents are André Robidou and Jeanne Denot. Jeanne Denot has a page on ondits.com. That is Roy (PK-0002), Bessette–Seigneur (PK-0003) and now Denot — three points where Rose’s side touches Steve’s tree, all at generation six or seven, all on the David–Aguenier–Robidou lines, none on Louis’s side yet. Each is a prior, marked known elsewhere, and none is climbed here except from documents read here.
A question the indexes cannot answer
Chart 18, in Steve’s hand: « ★ Mystery here ». For Catherine Bordeau’s 1751 marriage, LAFRANCE
gives her mother as Marguerite Gervais; PRDH, indexing the same act, gives Marguerite Guérin
dit Lafontaine. Two indexes, one act, two mothers. It is Q-0003, and only the act closes
it. The family record grades the marriage Possible until then — the honest word for “two
compiled sources disagree”.
What the tool did
check caught two of my own mistakes in the batch before they were committed: a duplicate
family for Louis Aguenier × Marie-Anne Bessette (E013 — a person may be a child of one family
only), and a placeholder ID that did not exist. Both are the errors a spreadsheet lets through.