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Hello Cousin,
As you Surmised this is one fascinating area.
I spent the whole day yesterday reading passages from the
http://www.canadiana.org/ web site. And with each flip of the page
became more fascinated. Although this is all in French, I cannot wait
to read your site and add to my history, this info. I thank you.
Here is my lineage line and dates and births that I have recorded
for you to add if you wish to your extensive research.
I will start with Jean - Baptiste Chenay as this is where you have
mentioned we cross.
Jean Baptiste Chenay(e)
B.
BP.
M. July 8, 1703
Spouse: Elizabeth Boucher
MP. St. Anne de Beaupre
D
DP
Offspring
Charles Chenay(e)
B.
BP.
M. June 26, 1736 San Antoine de Tilly
Spouse: Genevieve Dumats
D.
DP.
Offspring
Charles Chenay
B.
BP.
M. Feb. 2, 1761 San Antoine de Tilly
Spouse: Loiuse Croteau
D
DP
Offspring
Joseph Chenay
B.
BP.
M. Jan 28, 1805 St. Benoit
Spouse: Marue-Louise Groux
offspring
Joseph Chenay
B.
BP.
M. Jan 31, 1848 St. Hermas
Spouse. Victoire Legauet
D
DP
offspring
Evangelist Chenier (Chenay)
B.
BP.
M. Nov. 21, 1865
Spouse: Marcelline Lalande < have info on her
D. Aug. 7, 1912
DP St. Hermas, Quebec
offspring
Odilon (Odile) Del Chenier
B. July 28, 1872
BP. St. Hermas, Quebec
M. Feb. 16, 1903
Spouse: Elise Augustine Germain<-- have that info too
D. Nov. 9, 1957
DP. Tacoma, WA
offspring
Roy J. Chenier (My Grandfather)
B. Dec 5, 1906
BP. Shelton, WA
M. Nov 8, 1933
Spouse: Anina Nelson
D. Feb. 16, 1994
DP. Colma, CA cemetery
offspring
Rene Del Chenier (Father Living)
Pacifica CA.
offspring
ME ;)
B in Pacifica CA. currently residing in WA.
This list was handed down to me from my Great Uncle Robert Chenier
(Grandfathers Brother) who is still alive
but I have lost contact with him. His last known res. was in Lombard Ill.
And I have heard that he has done more research that goes further back into
France with this line. I am attempting to locate him now.
I am too excited to see your page to speak further as you can tell :)
Any info you need further I will help you with Gladly. 14 years of research,
is allot longer
then my 2 and my great uncles research helped me allot.
Very Truly Yours
Christine Chenier
* And we thought we were alone, HA! *
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Chenier <ronchenier(a)home.com>
To: Christy <christy(a)creative.net>; CHENEY-L(a)rootsweb.com
<CHENEY-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: Friday, January 14, 2000 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: Chenay
>Hello Christy,
>Guess you found a very popular ancestor.
>I have worked on the descendants of Bertrand Chesnay dit Lagarenne, Sieur
de
>Lothainvile for about 14 years now. And the more I work on his descendants
and
>the more the internet becomes a medium for internet genealogy the more I
find
>new lines of descendants. Just recently I've been in contact with a CHENE
line,
>descendants of Bertrand Chesnay, all the way to many "relatives" in early
New
>Mexico (1860's), and now in California. Many had never known their lineage
went
>up to Bertrand Chesnay.
>The Chesnay surname has many, many variations, one being the subject of
this
>message board: CHENEY (though it is not the same lineage as most of what
the
>message board was set up for, this is mainly a lineage going back to Great
>Britain).
>Here are the most common ones alphabetically:
>Chaigne, Chainay, Chaine, Chainey, Cheeney, Chenay, Chene, Cheney, Chenez,
>Chenier, Chesnay, Chesne, Chesnay and Chesnier. There are others but these
are
>the main ones. The original surnames had a pronounciation with the french
accent
>aigue (é) and that is why many have changed in spelling but mainly remained
with
>the same phonetical pronounciation
>You can view Bertrand Chesnay's descendants at my website below. There too,
you
>can read a partial history of Bertrand Chesnay while he live in and around
>Quebec City. And also an explanation as to why this line is so "popular".
>It is amazing the number of descendants he has to this day. As you
mentioned,
>they all had large families. Though Bertrand had 15 children, not too many
have
>perpetuated his name down through the centuries. It is believed only one of
his
>children carried on the lineage, Jean Baptiste, born 25 Nov 1682. The
others
>mostly perish in a shipwreck in the St. Lawrence River, near Sept Iles in
the
>fall of 1693 on board the ship "Le Corossol".
>Anne Chesnay, born 7 Oct 1664 married Pierre Lemaitre and this line
continued.
>Marie Chesnay, born 20 Aug 1658 married Joseph Petit dit Bruneau and this
line
>continued.
>It has recently been discovered that Louis Chesnay, born 26 Aug 1678 moved
to
>Acadia and this line was perpetuated for a while but due to the dispersal
of
>Acadians by the English in 1755 his line is extremely difficult to follow
and
>"may" be connected to the CHENET/CHENETTE line in the USA and elsewhere.
All we
>need to do is find the parents of Alexis Chenet.
>
>I would be most glad to help you if you need any, but in the meantime
please
>enjoy what I so far have of the Descendants of Bertrand Chesnay dit
Lagarenne.
>
>And before I go, could you please tell me where you are connected to the
>Bertrand Chesnay, we may be cousins :-).
>
>Yours kindly,
>
>Ron Chenier,
>ronchenier(a)home.com
>
>Ron Chénier
>Researching Chesnay and Chenier lines
>http://www.homestead.com/chesnay/Index.html
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Christy <christy(a)creative.net>
>To: <CHENEY-L(a)rootsweb.com>
>Sent: January 13, 2000 2:22 PM
>Subject: Chenay
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was just adding my own personal History to Ancestry.com (Gathered by my
>> Great Uncle and passed down to me) when it occurred to me to do a search
on
>> the last of the line:
>>
>> Nicolas Chenay
>> B: Abt 1590
>> M. Catherine De Laringue
>> B. Abt 1590
>>
>> Low and behold there are over 4,900 instances of his name in the
>> directory's.
>>
>> His son Bertrand "Sieur de La Garenne" Chenay
>> Is also just as popular.
>>
>> However there is no History in any of the files that tell me why this
line
>> is so popular,
>> minus the fact that almost all the lines had at least 10 children :)
>>
>> They all seem to stop at this same name
>>
>> Is there anyone that has any Historical information that I might be able
to
>> use
>> to sum up the importance of these persons in my family line?
>>
>> Thanks for any info in advance
>>
>> Christine Chenier
>> Researching: Chenay, Chenier, Germain, Benton, Benson, Carlassara &
Delasio
>>
>
Hello Christy,
Guess you found a very popular ancestor.
I have worked on the descendants of Bertrand Chesnay dit Lagarenne, Sieur de
Lothainvile for about 14 years now. And the more I work on his descendants and
the more the internet becomes a medium for internet genealogy the more I find
new lines of descendants. Just recently I've been in contact with a CHENE line,
descendants of Bertrand Chesnay, all the way to many "relatives" in early New
Mexico (1860's), and now in California. Many had never known their lineage went
up to Bertrand Chesnay.
The Chesnay surname has many, many variations, one being the subject of this
message board: CHENEY (though it is not the same lineage as most of what the
message board was set up for, this is mainly a lineage going back to Great
Britain).
Here are the most common ones alphabetically:
Chaigne, Chainay, Chaine, Chainey, Cheeney, Chenay, Chene, Cheney, Chenez,
Chenier, Chesnay, Chesne, Chesnay and Chesnier. There are others but these are
the main ones. The original surnames had a pronounciation with the french accent
aigue (é) and that is why many have changed in spelling but mainly remained with
the same phonetical pronounciation
You can view Bertrand Chesnay's descendants at my website below. There too, you
can read a partial history of Bertrand Chesnay while he live in and around
Quebec City. And also an explanation as to why this line is so "popular".
It is amazing the number of descendants he has to this day. As you mentioned,
they all had large families. Though Bertrand had 15 children, not too many have
perpetuated his name down through the centuries. It is believed only one of his
children carried on the lineage, Jean Baptiste, born 25 Nov 1682. The others
mostly perish in a shipwreck in the St. Lawrence River, near Sept Iles in the
fall of 1693 on board the ship "Le Corossol".
Anne Chesnay, born 7 Oct 1664 married Pierre Lemaitre and this line continued.
Marie Chesnay, born 20 Aug 1658 married Joseph Petit dit Bruneau and this line
continued.
It has recently been discovered that Louis Chesnay, born 26 Aug 1678 moved to
Acadia and this line was perpetuated for a while but due to the dispersal of
Acadians by the English in 1755 his line is extremely difficult to follow and
"may" be connected to the CHENET/CHENETTE line in the USA and elsewhere. All we
need to do is find the parents of Alexis Chenet.
I would be most glad to help you if you need any, but in the meantime please
enjoy what I so far have of the Descendants of Bertrand Chesnay dit Lagarenne.
And before I go, could you please tell me where you are connected to the
Bertrand Chesnay, we may be cousins :-).
Yours kindly,
Ron Chenier,
ronchenier(a)home.com
Ron Chénier
Researching Chesnay and Chenier lines
http://www.homestead.com/chesnay/Index.html
----- Original Message -----
From: Christy <christy(a)creative.net>
To: <CHENEY-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: January 13, 2000 2:22 PM
Subject: Chenay
> Hello,
>
> I was just adding my own personal History to Ancestry.com (Gathered by my
> Great Uncle and passed down to me) when it occurred to me to do a search on
> the last of the line:
>
> Nicolas Chenay
> B: Abt 1590
> M. Catherine De Laringue
> B. Abt 1590
>
> Low and behold there are over 4,900 instances of his name in the
> directory's.
>
> His son Bertrand "Sieur de La Garenne" Chenay
> Is also just as popular.
>
> However there is no History in any of the files that tell me why this line
> is so popular,
> minus the fact that almost all the lines had at least 10 children :)
>
> They all seem to stop at this same name
>
> Is there anyone that has any Historical information that I might be able to
> use
> to sum up the importance of these persons in my family line?
>
> Thanks for any info in advance
>
> Christine Chenier
> Researching: Chenay, Chenier, Germain, Benton, Benson, Carlassara & Delasio
>
Hello,
I was just adding my own personal History to Ancestry.com (Gathered by my
Great Uncle and passed down to me) when it occurred to me to do a search on
the last of the line:
Nicolas Chenay
B: Abt 1590
M. Catherine De Laringue
B. Abt 1590
Low and behold there are over 4,900 instances of his name in the
directory's.
His son Bertrand "Sieur de La Garenne" Chenay
Is also just as popular.
However there is no History in any of the files that tell me why this line
is so popular,
minus the fact that almost all the lines had at least 10 children :)
They all seem to stop at this same name
Is there anyone that has any Historical information that I might be able to
use
to sum up the importance of these persons in my family line?
Thanks for any info in advance
Christine Chenier
Researching: Chenay, Chenier, Germain, Benton, Benson, Carlassara & Delasio