Pierre Couc dit LaFleur born ca 1627, Cognac France, Died ca 1690 New France, married 16 Apr 1657, Trois-Rivières, New France,
Marie MITE8AMEG8K8E, Algonkin native woman B. ca 1630 New France, D. 1699 pr. Trois-Rivières
Child: Marguerite COUC, Métis, b. 1664 m Trois-Rivières New France D. unknown
(Src: Tanguay, LDS, PRDH)
Jean FAFARD dit MACONSEM, Bap: 18 Sep 1657 Trois-Rivières (Tanguay)
D: Unknown
Married Marguerite COUC abt 1682 (Léveillée) Some say they married ca 1690
Child:
Marguerite FAFARD, B: ca 1686 (Tanguay) New France D: Uninown
Jean Baptiste TURPIN dit Sandrille Bap: 23 Nov 1685 (Tanguay) Fort Detroit, New France, D: Unknown s/o Pierre Alexandre Turpin and M. Charlotte Beauvais
Married Marguerite FAFARD, 5 May 1710 (Tanguay) Fort Detroit, New France
Child:
Jean Baptiste TURPIN, Bap: 14 Dec 1710 (IGI, & Pedigree Resource LDS) Fort Detroit, New France D: Unknown
Jean Baptiste TURPIN Married Marie Louise MAGDELAINE dit Ladouceur
B: ca 1717, New France, D/o Etienne Magdelaine & Jeanne Catherine Boursier
D: unknown
Married, 26 Feb 1732 St. Eustache, Deux Montagnes, Québec
(Tanguay, IGI, Institute Drouin)
Child:
Marie Eugénie TURPIN
Marie Eugénie TURPIN B: ca 1732, Québec, D: Unknown,
Married, 17 Jan 1757 Ste-Geneviève, Montréal, Québec (Tanguay)
Sebastien LEGAULT dit Deslauriers, S/o Jean Bpt. Legault and Marie Anne CHOLET
B: ca 1750 (Tanguay) D: Unknown
Child:
Sebastien LEGAULT dit Deslauriers
Sebastien LEGAULT dit Deslauriers, s/o Sebastien and M. Eugenie TURPIN,
B: ca 1765/70 (LDS Pedigree Resouce shows 1770) D: Unknown
Married, 2 Jul 1792 Pointe Claire, Québec. (PRDH shows their marriage as 1792 at Ste_Geneviève (Pierrefonds) they call her Catherine THEORET (LARIVIÈRE) and show him as Legault (Deslauriers)
Child:
Joseph LEGAULT dit Deslaurier
Joseph LEGAULT dit Deslauriers, B: Unknown, Québec, D: Unknown
Married: 29 Jan 1822 St. Eustache, Deux Montagnes, Québec (Institure Drouin)
Marie Anne VANDE (Vandet, Vandette) B: Unknown, D: Unknown
D/o Augustin Vande and Geneviève Carriere
Child:
Angeline (Angile) LEGAULT
Angeline (Angile) LEGAULT, B: 27 Mar 1829, St. Clet, Soulanges Co, Québec
(birth reg. Québec Archives, Montréal)
D: 3 Apr 1901, Belleville, Ontario (Death Reg. Ontrio Archives)
Buried, 5 Apr 1901, St James RC cemetery, Belleville, Ontario
Married: 12 Aug 1857 Montréal, Québec (Notre Dame) Mar. Reg. Archives at Motreal)
Ferdinand Joseph DUMESNIL, B: 9 & Bap’d. 10 Mar 1834, St Ignace RC church at Coteau du Lac, Soulanges Co, Québec (S/o Francois Dumesnil & M. Louise Morineau)
D: 4 Aug 1916, Belleville, Ontario, Buried 6 Aug 1916, St James RC cemetery, Belleville, Ontario (St Michaels RC church records, Belleville, Ontario)
Child:
William Ferdinand DUMESNIL (DUMINIE name change)
William Ferdinand DUMESNIL B: ca 1868 (census) D: 20 Oct 1950
Belleville, Ontario (Belleville Cemetery Records office)
Married (?)
Sara SMITH, B: ca 1868, Sophiasburg, Prince Edward Co, Ontario
(d/o William S. Smith & Emma Cronk) D: 8 Apr 1955 Belleville Ontario
NOTE: William is my Granfather; he and his two brothers changed their surname spelling to DUMINIE...sounds the same, to make it easier for Anglo’s to say or remember it...it didn’t help. Also...I can find NO record of his and my Grandmother’s marriage...I knew them both. It’s a puzzle that may never be solved.
Child: William Frederick DUMINIE (My Dad)
William Frederick DUMINIE (DIMINIE, name change) was born, 23 Nov 1912
Belleville, Ontario (birth certificate) D: 9 Jan 1985, Belleville, Ontario (funeral directors statement)
NOTE: Dad arbitrarily changed the U to an I...in his early years, he had a cousin by the same first and last names...mail would get mixed up so Dad made the change. We are all now spelled with an I.
He Married: Elsie May SAGER (d/0 Frederick Walter SAGER & Myrtle PEARSON of Napanee, Ontario)
Child: C’est Moi
Donald William DIMINIE, U.E.
Born: About the time the battle of Britain started in WW2
Married 45 years, 4 sons, 1 daughter, 15 Grandchildren, 3 (maybe its 4) of whom are bi-lingual French and English..
(1)The above data was compiled by Don Diminie and sent to this author via an email on 16 March 2004.
(2) Links to verified documents in this website were added by this author. (NAL)