trying to identify a possible cousin who made land claim in Oregon

Question

a cousin sent me the following item:  http://genealogy.state.or.us/detail.php?id=62123  which is a land claim made by a F.X. (François Xavier) Liard in Oregon in 1847.  Only I haven't got a clue who he may be from just this.  Anybody who can help find this out, thank you in advance.

Answer 1

I'm not too sure about this particular Liard, but I did find a Liard family that settled in St. Paul, Oregon around that time.  You'll find several Liards listed at Old Saint Paul Roman Catholic Mission Cemetery at FindAGrave (link here).

Among them, there's a Thomas Stanislaus Liard that seems to correspond fairly closely to the Stanislas Guyard profile you manage.  Compare the info from Oregon's Secretary of State office here to the Drouin record in LAFRANCE and the parents are a match (though his mother's name seems mistranscribed in Oregon).  There's also record of him having a child named François Xavier on 5 May 1847 (link here).

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brilliant!  And he has a brother named Xavier born in 1815 who I couldn't find further trace of.  That era is around the time the family name got morphed from Guyard to Liard.