help with french-language marriage registration 1841 barachois, acadia

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This is the marriage record of Laurent Mills (Mils) and Charlotte Petitpas on 10 Janvier 1841 in Barachois (i think).

First problem: the document is on Ancestry:

https://www.ancestry.ca/interactive/1110/d13p_31250896/300807232

So if anyone knows a non-Ancestry location, that would be wonderful!

Second problem, the ink was very thick that day, and there was not much room left on the page, so it was written in tiny handwriting, both making it very difficult for my schoolgirl French to make any sense of. I think i see that his parents were Joseph Mils and Marie something Brun, but there seems to be more there than i can make out.

I am very interested in how this young man came to have the surname Mills in this Acadien community.  He is an ancestor of a DNA match, and if it turns out that he comes from the line of Deborah Lewis who married Reuben Mills, that could explain the match and the shared matches.  But the dates don't line up very well. 

Or is the surname actually Mils; is that an Acadien family?

Thanks in advance!

Shirlea

in Genealogy Help by Shirlea Smith G2G6 Pilot (288k points)
edited by Shirlea Smith

There is another source for Drouin records, https://www.genealogiequebec.com/en/, which is also behind a paywall. 

The quality of the image is very poor, so its difficult to transcribe.  I do see Joseph Mils and Marie Brun on the 4th line down, wrapping to the 5th.  On the line below I can make out Celestin Pettipas and Gertrude Surette.  Those are the names of parents noted consistently in the secondary records for Laurent and Charlotte

The date of the marriage is 10 February 1841 in Barachois parish, which is now in Westmorland County, New Brunswick (https://archives.gnb.ca/Exhibits/Communities/Details.aspx?culture=en-CA&community=157). So there is also an NB record, which doesn't record parents names: > "New Brunswick Provincial Marriages 1789-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVBF-V2FX : 13 March 2018), Lawrence Mils and Charlotte Petitpas, 10 Feb 1841; citing , , New Brunswick, Canada, p. 139, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, Fredericton; FHL microfilm 846,409.

The New Brunswick Genealogical Society shows Joseph Mills born circa 1765, son of Joseph Dupuis Mills and Marie Boudrot.  He married Marie J. Brun born 1766.  They settled at Memramcook in Westmorland County and had a child Pierre Mills, born 1795 who married Pelagie LeBlanc.  

The source (Daniel F. Johnson’s New Brunswick lineages, pg. 167-8) does not mention other children.  

2 Answers

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According to this family tree, his parents are Joseph MILLS and Marie Justine BRUN

Same thing here

by D Q G2G6 Mach 7 (79.1k points)
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I can't see a record behind the pay wall. If someone can send me a screenshot, I will try to decipher it.
by D Q G2G6 Mach 7 (79.1k points)
edited by D Q
I'd love to send you a screenshot, but how can i get it to you?  If you don't mind me knowing your email, write me at shirlea.smith@gmail.com and I will send you the screenshot
i'm assuming i won't be breaking my agreement with Ancestry if i email a screenshot for help reading it, but that i would be breaking my agreement and breaking copyright if i posted a copy of said screenshot on WikiTree.  Any thoughts?

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