I been working hard on writing biographies for the Crevier family. This week, I've been working particularly on Christophe Crevier, Sieur de La Meslé and his wife Jeanne Évard. Their daughter married another founder Pierre Boucher, at one time governor of Trois-Rivieres and later founder of Boucherville. And their descendants married into a great many of the founding families of Québec, so they are important to a lot of us. Biographies are always a work in progress, and I have more to add to both Christophe and Jeanne, but what is needed for this collaboration is in their biographies now.
Thanks to the research of Gilles Parenteau and the many images of original documents in his web pages along with the availability of many old French records online at the departmental archives and old New France church records on familysearch.org, I've been able to reexamine many of the original records. There are a lot of them. I've tried to link as many of them as I can to the biographies and cite and compare as many sources for the others as I could.
Christophe and Jeanne are known to have eight children which are well documented: Christophe, Jeanne, François, Jean, Marguerite, Nicolas, Marie, and Jean-Baptiste. All are linked to both Christophe's and Jeanne's profiles.
I'm seeking collaboration from other members of the Quebecois project (and anyone else interested) on three other purported children which appear in a number of genealogies, histories and secondary sources: Antoine, Jerome and Joseph. Each has a profile linked to Christophe and Jeanne as parents. I have researched them each thoroughly and I believe I have traced all the references back to one, and only one, original source document for each. Right now, all my research and opinions on them are in a research note on Christophe's profile.
In my opinion, the single source document for each of these purported children is particularly weak and does not support the existence of additional children for Christophe and Jeanne. But opinions differ. I'd like to reach some sort of a consensus on whether these three profiles should be linked as children of Christophe and Jeanne.
Once a consensus is reached, I would like to see the consensus and the research added to the three profiles for Antoine, Joseph and Jerome and have those profiles either connected to or disconnected from Christophe and Jeanne (and marked as dubious people if appropriate) according to the consensus and then have those profiles project protected to avoid the problem being recreated.
I'd also like to see the profiles, many of which I created, for Christophe and Jeanne's ancestors and family in France project protected. I don't know if it is appropriate to protect them through the Quebecois project since the French part of the family never came to New France, but I don't see an appropriate French project to put them under.
Finally, in my dreams, I'd love to see the biographies of Christophe and Jeanne in both French and English, but my genealogical French is woefully insufficient to write biographies in French or translate what I've written to French. Jeanne's biography was already started in French, so there are a few paragraphs in French with the basic information followed by a paragraph in English with the same information citing to the same sources. It would be wonderful if someone fluent in both languages would volunteer to translate the English parts I've written into French. Any volunteers?
