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From: "John DeCoste" <>
Subject: Re: Petitpas - Coste
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 09:12:13 -0500


Hi Anabel, Your e-mail regarding Claude Petitpas, Jr, and his wife Marie
Therese was very enlightning. I also had the same seven (7) children listed.
For his sceond wife, Francise Lavergne, I have four children: Jean, Jacques,
Louis & Joseph (b. abt. 1731). I have Jacques & Francoise having only one
(1) male son: Claude Coste. Claude married Margurite Vigneau and had ten
(10) children which included the four (4) brohers that you list: Jean,
Jean-Baptist, Jacques and Felician. I am a decendent of Jean. How did they
make out at the reunion? From your notations it appears you are of the
Jean-Baptist line. I appreciate all the good info.Thanks. John H. DeCoste

-----Original Message-----
From: Annabel A. Bixby <>
To: <>
Date: Sunday, January 10, 1999 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: Petitpas - Coste

>Hi-
>The names and ages of Claude Petitpas Jr. and Marie Therese and their 7
>children are listed in the 1708 census of the Micmac at Musquodoboit- I
>am uncertain of the location of Musquodoboit except that on the maps it
>appears to be north of Halifax. The census was printed in a book called
>" The Old Man Calls-Excerpts from Micmac History 1500-1950 by Ruth
>Whitehead- a "renowned Micmac specialist" and staff ethnologist and asst
>curator in history of the Nova Scotia Museum in Halifax. The census
>excerpts in her book are from "General Census Made in the Month of
>November 1708, of the Indians of Acadia who reside on the East Coast..."
>by Pere LaChasse, Edward E. Ayer Collection, Ayer MS 751, Newberry
>Library, Chicago. Translated for this publication by R.H. Whitehead and
>Bernie Francis.
>I thought that anyone who is interested might like to have the source of
>the info- if they don't have it already. My daughter who is a school
>librarian in Maine found this in the school library ( in the above book)
>and bought me a copy of the book.
>Following is exactly how this couple and their children were listed in
>the census.
>
>Claude petit pas, 45 ( a Frenchman)
>Marie Thereze, 40
>Berthelemy, 21
>Paul, 13
>Joseph, 9
>Isidor, 5
>Judie, 15
>Marie Louise, 7
>Francoise, 2.
>
>When I checked their names and ages, they matched almost exactly with
>the info I had already. As you all know, Francoise who was the youngest
>of the children at the time, married Jacques Coste, who is our common
>ancestor and father of the 4 brothers; Jean, Jean-Baptiste, Jacques and
>Felecian who was most common ancestor at the reunion - the yellow group!
>I felt better when Fr. Jean-Baptiste noted at the mass that we of the
>"blue group"- descendants of Jean Sr.- were decidedly in the minority.
>
>I am also descended from Claude and Marie Therese's older daughter,
>Judith Petitpas ( listed as Judie on the census) who married Bernard
>Marres dit La Sonde and their daughter, Marie Anne Marres dit La Sonde
>m. Honore Boucher- According to my records, Honore Boucher was at Isle
>Royale in abt. 1722 and apparently settled at some point on Isle Madame
>where he died. Perhaps some of the rest of you have this line also.
>
>I also have Bartholemy marrying Madeleine Coste; she and her brother
>Jacques married siblings- Bartholemy and Francoise Petitpas.
>
>I do not have the names of any of the children from Claude Petitpas' 2nd
>marriage to Francoise Lavernge- only a date of marriage in 1721 which
>means that Marie Therese must have died prior to 1721- I don't have any
>more info on her; I have tried to find some but probably nothing more
>exists, except perhaps her place of death which I have not found to
>date. Perhaps someone else has that info?
>Hope this is helpful.
>Annabel B.
>
>

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