In 2025 I'm taking the SLIG Spring course coordinated by David Ouimette on "Tracing French-Canadian Ancestry and Telling their Stories." The French-Canadian lines I'm working on belong to my sons. About 25 years ago I did a lot of research which is scattered all over the place. So I thought perhaps I should revisit what I have and get it into shape before the course.
One of the first things I noticed was Joseph Brosseau. He was born in Quebec in 1801 and died in Kankakee County, Illinois in 1856. So he lived a relatively short life of 54 years. He is my son's 4th great-grandfather.
Joseph married Marguerite Moreau who was born in 1814 and died in 1880. Amazingly she lived longer than her husband. I say amazingly because, as near as I can tell from my old notes, she gave birth to 21 children. At least six of these children died very young - within a year or two of birth. Several need further research to determine what happened to them. One appears to have lived to 102, others lived pretty long lives.
When Joseph died in 1856, he had at least six children under 10. Marguerite was left a widow with a number of children. She does not appear to have remarried.
So when I was thinking about last week's #52 Ancestors topic of Full House, this family came to mind and I wondered about the kind of house they had and how crowded it must have been. I've got a lot of review of my old research to do - and tons of new research to do but I think this is going to turn out to be quite an interesting story and I'm looking forward to telling it!!
I can't wait to read what you find out.
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