Who would I like
to meet? My greatest brick wall, Barbara Magdeleine McDonald.
I don't know where she was born, or who her parents were. She married my
4th great grandfather, Pierre Tessier dit Santure at Ste Anne Church, Detroit
MI on October 31, 1790. He was from Riviere des Raison, later to be called St
Antoine, then Monroe, MI) She didn't have a place of residence. One
un-verified record says she was born in 1748 in Assumption Sandwich. She
and Pierre had several children before he died on October 14, 1801, at St
Antoine aux Riviere de Raison. Apparently, she married again in
1803 to Jean Marie St Ours dit Graveline. Her death record shows her as
Elizabeth Durrusseau, age 103, dying June 8, 1851, in Monroe MI. (Citations
St Anne Marriage Book, Dennison, Souls of St Antoine). She died in the
home of Francois Santure, one of her grandsons. My mother would have been
her 3rd great granddaughter.
I joke with my fellow
genealogist/sister that the family must have acquired the tendency for red hair
from Barbara, who we assume was Scots My grandmother's siblings included
several red headed children, and my grandmother had 9 children, most of them redheaded.
We just want to know where the only (presumably) non-French person in a long,
long line of French marrying French came from. She was the first with a non-French
surname until my grandmother married a German in 1915.
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