One of the ways the gift of time was used during the sabbatical was to do some family genealogy. My ancestor Julien Fortin was 29 when he left Normandy for New France in 1650. He spent three months at sea because of heavy winds and arrived in Quebec at summer’s end. His daughter was included in a book (1667) containing miracles attributed to the intercession of Saint Anne of the Little Cape. The account reads: “Barbe Fortin, daughter of Julien Fortin, Belle Bontaine habitant of Beaupre age of twelve years or about, attacked by a pleurisy and in danger of death, having been recommended to Saint Anne by her father and mother who made a vow and novena to her straight away received a perfect cure at the end of the novena.” Julien’s wife Genevieve Gamache, is buried this church graveyard, (Notre-Dame de BonSecours) at L"Isle. This church was started in 1770 after the English had burned the village in 1759 during the French and Indian Wars.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Genealogy
One of the ways the gift of time was used during the sabbatical was to do some family genealogy. My ancestor Julien Fortin was 29 when he left Normandy for New France in 1650. He spent three months at sea because of heavy winds and arrived in Quebec at summer’s end. His daughter was included in a book (1667) containing miracles attributed to the intercession of Saint Anne of the Little Cape. The account reads: “Barbe Fortin, daughter of Julien Fortin, Belle Bontaine habitant of Beaupre age of twelve years or about, attacked by a pleurisy and in danger of death, having been recommended to Saint Anne by her father and mother who made a vow and novena to her straight away received a perfect cure at the end of the novena.” Julien’s wife Genevieve Gamache, is buried this church graveyard, (Notre-Dame de BonSecours) at L"Isle. This church was started in 1770 after the English had burned the village in 1759 during the French and Indian Wars.
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