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Enter the Family Tree through the Surnames index or the Persons index.
The Chauvin Family Tree Website is back. I am using my own Macintosh as a server, so the Family Tree database will be unavailable when the computer is offline. For more information, feel free to contact me.
Pictured at left are great-grandparents Laurent Chauvin and Sophie Séguin dit Ladéroute.
Three large documents have been merged to create this file. The original Chauvin Family Tree consists mostly of my mother’s ancestors. Information on my father’s side is much sparser mainly due to the fact that women in the British tradition do not possess names of their own and documents do not usually include the full names of the parents. (unless they were aristocrats - another story)
The d'Aigneaux line are ancestors of my grandmother, Nadia Marion. The information on the core of this line is quite accurate, being thoroughly researched by others. (Notes refer to these people.) I have added much information to this section which comes from the Internet and is therefore not as reliable and must be treated with skepticism. It is only there for interest. There are attached notes to that effect.
The Dagneau line of my grandmother, Nadia Marion, has been extended beyond an ancestor, Charles d'Aigneaux de l'Île, through a person recorded in an earlier seach Blanche de Dreux, previously thought to be an ancestor in another line which has not yet been verified.
Canada’s French inhabitants, having been in the New World for up to four hundred years, tend to be interrelated in a complex manner. For instance, I am descended from Jacques Archambault and Françoise Tourault through nine different lines. In fact, I am probably more of an Archambault than someone bearing that name. My mother was a Chauvin. She had Chauvins of a very different line on her mother’s side as well. Yet another Chauvin line from Marin Chauvin dit Lafortune is on my mother's paternal grandmother's side.
"Dit" names are mostly particular to the New World French inhabitants. Many are military designations (e.g. Picanier, Fontenay, Le Grand Pierre), having arrived in New France in a certain unit or having distinguished themselves in the military. Many, as well, are descriptors, designating a certain line having a common surname with a new name (e.g. Malboeuf dit Beausoleil). Yet others had names given to them by the King (e.g. Pépin dit Tranchemontagne). Still others took the names of the territory over which they ruled(e.g. d'Aigneaux, du Trembley, Tessier dit Lavigne). Even others were sobriquets related to a physical characteristic, the mother’s family name, father’s first name, and so on. Some go back to the ancestor, while others are introduced by descendants; some are transmitted, others not; some belong to an entire family line, while others concern only a single branch.
Attempting to find the origins of Walter R. Richards, my great-great-grandfather, I found the same name and birthdate in Cornwall UK. The father’s name was given as William, of Lanlivery. I located the name William Richards with a wife Kezia, born about 1819. I chose this couple because of the wife's name. Walter R. Richards named his daughter Kasia or Kezia. William's father was named John. I need proof of this line.
Previous searching led to Waast de Marle, as my 10-times great-grandfather. Louise de Merlle, mother of Charlotte Maugis, both verified in my data, was thought to be the daughter of Waast. This may be a case of mistaken identity. His granddaughter, also Louise de Marle, married into the Miville family – my ancestors. I have severed the first Louise from the putative parents for the time being.
However, the new line through Blanche de Dreux is the link to Charlemagne. There are numerous lines from Blanche to Charlemagne as well as to many other notables as Mohammed (the Prophet) and Alexander III (the Great).
Where references are not given to baptismal, birth, marriage, death records, et cetera, attach a lesser credibility. Noble lineage has some claim to credibility except at the tops of the lines, where fantasy may have crept in, in order to give the lineage a cachet of legend. One portion was deliberately included by myself, entirely out of whimsy, that being the fictitious children of the Christ, perpetrated by the so-called Priory of Sion. I make no claim to have descended from this person. Joseph's paternal line is, however, documented.
Another possible abberation is Makhir Theodoric, who is thought by some to be a fictional link to join his "offspring" to earlier notables. When I removed his family from the database, it was discovered that four of his mother's sisters (Adèle, Plectrude, Regentrude, and Bertrade) were already my ancestors. His paternal grandfather as well as the siblings of his paternal grandmother were also ancestors. As a result of removing Makhir Théodoric, only three other people above him were removed from my line. In any event, I feel that as some members of the jewish exile community (known as Exilarchs) were merovingean and carolingean nobility and held in high regard, Makhir Theodoric was an actual Exilarch who changed his name to suit the court. Attempts to discredit him are possibly racist in origin.
well... saints, anyway. A quick global search of the database yielded 108 saints (so far) and 2 beatuses (beati?) with at least one muslim saint. Read on about this topic. I've Included one person who is not a saint. Can you pick her out?
This page created December 20, 2002; tree updated May 12, 2009.
Gravissima calamitas umquam supra Occidentem erat religio Christiana.