"Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children...our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life." - Albert Einstein

"Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter." - Yoda

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Father's side:

English: Gaines, Hairsine, Imeson, Shipley

German: Dorr, Goetz, Grohmann, Hoerner, Kratz (Scratch), Weigele (Wigle)

Mother's side:

Irish: Cox, Hudson, O'Grady, O'Keefe, Reardon, White

French: Desrosiers dit Dargis, Houle, LaJoie, Pelletier and many more

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For a number of reasons, the memorials I have created for my French-Canadian female ancestors and others DO NOT have their husbands' surnames unless their death/burial records have it. This also applies to any I manage. Therefore, edit requests to change the surname will be declined.

Also, I am using the name on the burial record, if it exists. I know most females were baptized with the first name "Marie" but, many of them did not use that name and it may or may not be listed on their burial record.

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Cemetery Information:

Michigan:

St. Patrick in Bay City: Old est. 1863; New est. 1935 Records at office start in 1897.

St. Joseph in Bay City (defunct) - used in mid-1850s until ~1925; was not maintained and headstones destroyed by time and weather; burial records lost and some reinterred at Calvary Kawkawlin in Oct. 1952

Calvary Kawkawlin est. 1900

Calvary Cemetery in Saginaw est. 1868

Mount Olivet in Saginaw est. 1910

Ontario, Canada:

St. Michael in Belleville (defunct):

~1821-1856 - original cemetery - churchyard on Church Street (first recorded burial was on Oct. 17, 1829)

1856-1914 - Mount St. Patrick on Stanley/Russell Streets (AKA St. Michael or RC Cemetery) (defunct) - last burial was on January 20, 1914

Some remains were reintered at Saint James Cemetery.

Saint James Cemetery in Belleville - est. 1904 (first burial on Nov. 16, 1904) - headstones transcribed and list published in 2009.

Belleville Cemetery est. 1872

Saint Edmund's RC in Stoco est. 1851 (fire on April 22, 1907 - vital records destroyed)

Saint Carthagh in Tweed est. 1887

Saint James Minor in Trevelyan - church built in 1861; cemetery consecrated in 1869 but used earlier; became an independent parish in 1884; online records: 1884-1910

Saint Francis Xavier in Brockville est. 1826; online records: 1828-1910

Saint Mark's in Prescott, Grenville - online records 1829-1910; first burial recorded is from Dec. 1829

Lakeview in Leamington est. 1861 - many burial records destroyed by fire in 1945; headstones transcribed in 1982 and list published in March 1990.

Greenhill Cemetery in Kingsville est. 1911 - many burial records destroyed by fire in the 1950s; headstones transcribed and list published in May 1996.

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May all who have gone before us and made us who we are rest in eternal peace.

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Canadian Census Start Dates:

1851 - January 12, 1852 - age NEXT birthday

1861 - April 7, 1861 - age NEXT birthday

1871 - April 2, 1871

1881 - April 4, 1881

1891 - April 6, 1891

1901 - March 31, 1901

1911 - June 1, 1911

1921 - June 1, 1921

1931 - June 1, 1931 - available June 2023

U. S. census Start Dates:

1870, 1880, 1890, 1900 - June 1

1910 - April 15, 1910

1920 - January 1, 1920

1930 - 2020 - April 1