Tales of A Mad Genealogist: 2017

Thursday, 2 February 2017

Two French Marriage Records for 5th-Great-Grandparents' Nicholas & Angelique: What Do They Say?

Over the course of the past few months, I decided to put my Swedish research on hold and spend more time focusing on my other lines. One line in specific is my Benoit line, which hails from Quebec in Canada. The Benoits are of French-Canadian descent. As I continue my research with this line, one problem I have is that a large majority of documents I find are in French, which I know very little of.

Recently, I have found two separate marriage records for my 5th-great-grandparents Nicholas Magny and Angelique Gervais. Both are in French. The marriage took place in 1785. I am hoping to take away as much information as I can from both of them, on the chance that one contains information that the other doesn't, and was hoping to find someone who would be able to translate both of these.

Below are the two marriage records, divided into two images each. Any help in translating both of these would be greatly appreciated.

1st Marriage Record

2nd Marriage Record

Monday, 2 January 2017

On This Day In Family History (January 2):

1843: 1st cousin 5x removed Katrina Andersdotter was born in Löfås, Östad församling, Älvsborgs län, Västergötland, Sweden.

1848: 4th-great-granduncle Olaus Olsson was buried.

1848: 1st cousin 5x removed Aron Ryberg passed away by cause of kikhosta in Angered Storegården, Angered församling, Älvsborgs län, Västergötland, Sweden, aged 2.

1885: 4th cousin 4x removed Anna Larsdotter was baptized in Söbyn, Grinstad församling, Älvsborgs län, Dalsland, Sweden.

1935: 5th cousin 3x removed Ingrid Ulrika Hede was Nor församling, Värmlands län, Värmland, Sweden.

1981: 3rd cousin David George DeRoche was born in Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA.

1987: 5th cousin 3x removed Bengt Anders Ingemar Malmsköld passed away in Sweden.

Sunday, 1 January 2017

On This Day In Family History (January 1):

1773: 5th-great-grandfather Börje Andersson was born in Sweden.

1788: 6th-great-grandaunt Lisbet Andersdotter married Halfvard Bengtsson in Järn församling, Älvsborgs län, Dalsland, Sweden.

1805: 5th-great-grandaunt Britta Jonsdotter married 1st cousin 7x removed (Britta’s 1st cousin) Anders Börjesson in Östad församling, Älvsborgs län, Västergötland, Sweden.

1822: 5th-great-grandfather Petter Eriksson married Kjerstin Larsdotter in Grinstad församling, Älvsborgs län, Dalsland, Sweden.

1825: 1st cousin 6x removed Sven Pettersson was baptized in Järn församling, Älvsborgs län, Dalsland, Sweden.

1826: 1st cousin 7x removed Märta Lisa Ingevaldsdotter married Johannes Pärsson in Järn församling, Älvsborgs län, Dalsland, Sweden.

1848: 3rd cousin 5x removed Lars Magnus Svensson was born in Sävarebol, Grinstad församling, Älvsborgs län, Dalsland, Sweden.

1865: 3rd cousin 5x removed Wilhelmina Johansson was born in Gullesbyn, Ör församling, Älvsborgs län, Dalsland, Sweden.

1875: 4th cousin 4x removed Sven August Jonasson was baptized in Hede, Grinstad församling, Älvsborgs län, Dalsland, Sweden.

1909: 5th cousin 3x removed John Lars Magnus Waller was born in Önum församling, Skaraborgs län, Västergötland, Sweden.