Joseph La Fournaise and Marie Therese Mc Gillis

I would like to point out a glaring error in the information you put on the internet regarding the above individuals.

1. You have Joseph La Fournaise married to Marie Therese Mc Gillis 6 years before you show him being born.

2. His father, Joseph La Fournaise was only married once, to Marie Madeleine Poitras.

3. His father, Joseph La Fournaise was born about 1837 and died about 1870 (killed when thrown from a horse. Marie Madeleine Poitras was born January 6, 1840 at St. Francois Xavier, Manitoba.

4. Joseph Napoleon La Fournaise (#3 information's son), was born December 31, 1861 in Pembina, North Dakota, and died September 2, 1943 in Havre, Montana. He married Marie Therese Mc Gillis on June 21, 1881 in St. Boniface, Manitoba, Canada. (I have a copy of their marriage licence).

5. Joseph Napoleon La Fournaise had one sister, Emerise Marie La Fournaise born June 8, 1867 at St. Boniface, Manitoba, and he had two brothers, Jean Baptiste La Fournaise born abt January 1861 at Belly River, Northwest Territories and Francois La Fournaise born January 15, 1866 on the prairies.

6. His mother, Marie Madeleine Poitras, after being widowed by Joseph La Fournaise, married Guillaume Klyne in 1871 at St. Boniface, Manitoba, Canada. With Mr. Klyne, she had 11 more children. I have the names etc on these children if you are interested.

Joseph Napoleon La Fournaise went by the name Napoleon. His wife, Marie Therese Mc Gillis, was his childhood sweetheart. She was the daughter of Angus Mc Gillis and Isabelle Fagnant.

Joseph Napoleon La Fournaise and Marie Therese Mc Gillis were my great grandparents.

The Joseph La Fournaise you show as second married to Margaret (last name unknown) was actually married to Marguerite Bercier. The children you show as my Joseph La Fournaise's second wife and children, belong to this Joseph, who is not the same person.

The second Joseph La Fournaise b April 26, 1857 and the first Joseph La Fournaise b 1837 were first cousin.

Jean Baptiste Joseph La Fournaise dit Laboucane born 1813 and Joseph La Fournaise b 1826

were brothers, their parents were Joseph B La Fournaise born June 18, 1775 at St. Eustache, Montreal and Suzanne Leclerc Dit Allard b 1790. They were married first according to "the custom of the counry", then were formally married in the church February 8, 1830 at St. Boniface, Manitoba, well after all their children were born.

Joseph B La Fournaise born June 18, 1775, was the son of Mathurin Auban La Fournaise dit Laboucane and Archange Lalonde.

Mathurin Auban La Fournaise dit Laboucane was the son of Francois La Fournaise dit Toulouse or dit Languedoc and Angelique Serre.

Hope this helps.

ojibwe.info wrote:

Thank you very much for taking the time to write and make the corrections. Because of the technical problems in making extensive changes to interlinked HTML files [Ojibwe.info includes more than sixteen-thousand web-pages], and because work on the original databases stopped with the death of Wub-e-ke-niew in 1997 and there are legal considerations to retaining that information, I've removed his (obviously) incorrect birth-date, and added a link with your corrections.

The information we originally had on Joseph LaFournaise -- I don't know if you checked the "notes" -- came from genealogist Virginia Rogers' "Ah Dick Songaib Genealogy," which she loaned me, years ago, and which I transcribed into the databases we were using at that time. I no longer have a copy of that document, and Virginia died quite a few years ago, so I don't know whether the -- oh, oops! -- error was hers or mine.

The link to your corrections is at:
http://www.ojibwe.info/Ojibwe/HTML/people/p00001gu.htm#I32313

And, thank you again!