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Subject: Re: Note #6 of posting dated 26 Sep 2001: Lucia Darling, bp. 11/27/1844.
Date: 14 May 2003 14:02:28 -0600

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Surnames: Achum, Bourbonnais, Chevalier, Darling, Dorvaux, JeVeaux, Johns, LaFranche, Martel, Miller, Parks, Peltier, Trombley
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NOTE # 6: "When Father Hoecken baptized Lucia, infant daughter of Darling at The Council Bluffs on 11/27/1844, her mother was listed as "Lisette Wilmet".

By returning to the orginal source--The Sugar Creek Registers-- the researcher can take note of the time line for Father Hoecken's baptisms at The Council Bluffs, where it will be found that the first baptism took place on Nov. 19, 1844. (Before that, the last date on which we find Hoecken is Oct. 24, 1844 when he was at Sugar Creek, Kansas.) No entry was made after Nov. 19th until Nov. 27, but after then we find dates of Nov. 28, 29, and 30. On his return to Sugar Creek, he stopped at "Nijanbotna" where he, on Dec. 1, baptized a daughter of William Ridgeway English--who we know lived at Hunsakers Ferry on the Nishnabatna river, several miles north of present Hamburg.

By analyzing these dates, we can tell that the baptisms on Nov. 30 were performed at a place which was less than a one-day travel distance from Hunsucker's Ferry. And then, there is no indication that he traveled at all between the baptisms he performed Nov. 27 - 30. SO, again, we may zero in on the neighborhood in which they took place by focusing on the parental names of those who were baptized:

Antoine Achkum: No information.

Claude LaFromboise: In the fall of 1836, he was at the Pottawatomie camp opposite Fort Leavenworth, where Nankwas Kennekuk, a native Potawatomi, was named as his wife. In 1838, 1840, 1841 he was the interpreter for the Council Bluffs sub-agency. He was dismissed in 1841by Sub-agent John B. Luce, who said he wished to hire Louis Oilmette instead. Claude LaFromboise received an annuity payment in 1842 as a member of Waubonsie's band of Potawatomi. NOTE: This puts him in the Bartlett area.--W.F.

Pierre Bourbonnais and Craka: Magdalene, their 13-year old daughter, was baptized on Jan. 19, 1839. On Nov. 30, 1844, their son Antoine, at his baptism, was said to have been born on March 7, 1843.

Copa and Marie Chevalier: When a daughter who had been born on the Kansas river, was baptized on Oct. 15, 1848, their names were given as Jean Copa and Marie Namanhki.

(Lucius R. Darling and Lisette Wilmet.)

Louis Dorvaux and Osite Bourbonnais: His name seems to have been written variously as "Derroin", "Dorway", "Darveux". Hoecken married Louis Derroin and Miss Ozite Bourbonnais on Jan. 28, 1841 at the Council Bluffs.

Charles JeVeaux and Samoninkwe: At the 1842 annuity payments under sub-agent Luce, Waubonsie's band included Charles Vieux. When their daughter Annabelia was baptized on Feb, 2, 1840, her sponsors were Annabel Olivier and Lucinda Johns.

Louis LaFranche: (I have no notes on this man.--W.F.)

William Martel and Sophia Wilmet: He is said to have been born in Canada. This baptism on Nov. 19, 1844 is the earliest record I have for him. In 1846, he was nominated as assistant smith for the Otto Indians in Nebraska; his resignation is dated Apr. 7, 1848. On May 13, 1848, William Martel, a son, was baptized on the Kansas River, with Catherine Bourbonnais as a godparent......(It is tempting to find a reason why Hoecken did not baptize again in this neighborhood around present day Bartlett, until Nov. 27!)

Paschel Miller and Victoria Mauchtei: When Paschel Miller was baptized on June 12, 1838, at the age of 18 years, his parents were given as __?__ Miller and Catherine__?__. His name is often found as a sponsor, godparent, in the various registers of these Jesuit missionary priests traveling along the Missouri river.

Edward H. Parks and Elisabeth Chevalier: Parks had been the miller for Holcomb at Holcomb's mill on Mosquito Creek east of of the Council Bluffs sub-agency buildings. However, the new sub-agent (Richard Elliott) appointed Reuben Hildreth in his place on Mar. 28, 1843.

Alexander Peltier and wife Josette LaFranche: At a son's baptism on Jan. 29, 1840, his wife was named as Josette Frame; on Sept. 13, 1843, she was named as Josette la Franche; on Apr. 8, 1849, at Kansas River, she was named as Josette C. Franche. In Sept. 1847, the Council Bluffs sub-agency granted Peltier & Co., conducting a small but well selected lot of goods, a traders license; Alexander Peltier was recommended for future licensing because "..he is very familiar with the Indians and speaks their language..."

__?__ Smith and Zoe Trimble: Regarding "Trimble", one note I have reads "Louis Trombley came aboard the MARTHA on July 30, 1847 at Point aux Poules with liquor to sell to Indians, but Captain LaBarge put him off at Francis Bourbonnais some 15 miles below the sub-agency".

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