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From: "Gary Boivin" <>
Subject: [MONTREAL] Re: [QUEBEC] Re: Boucher connection
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 00:59:15 -0700
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Translation within French texte...

----- Original Message -----
In a message dated 2/28/2001 5:04:07 AM Eastern Standard Time,

> Have any of you come up with a definitive answer as to whether or not
Marin
> (m. Perrine MALLET, 1629) and Gaspard BOUCHER (m. Nicole LEMAIRE, 1619)
> were
> brothers?
>

As I don't read French very well and would hesitate to translate this I will
just type the first paragraph from the book Nos Grandes Families. Maybe
someone would translate it for you.

LES BOUCHER
Gaspard Boucher, un menuisier, et Marin Boucher, un maçon, nés à fin du XVIe
Gaspard Boucher, a carpenter, and Marin Boucher, a mason, born at the end of
the the 16th

siècle à Mortagne, au Perche, figurent parmi ceux qui, les premiers, ont été
century at Mortagne, in Perche, figured amongst the first

recrutés par Robert Giffard. Ils sont à l'origine de deux souches portant
ce
recruited by Robert Giffard. They originate from two clans having the same

patronyme. On les a crus frères ou père et fils. Malherueusement, aucun
name. We believed them to be brothers or father and son. Unfortunately, no

document ne permet d'affirer qu'ils étaient aussi près l'un de l'autre. Une
document exists confirming that they were closely related. One

chose est certaine: ils sont apparentés, mais à un degré indéterminé. Pour
thing is certain: they are related, but how cannot be determined. For

les Québécois, ils sont reliés par leur patronyme et par un même désir
Quebecois, they were connected by their family name and by a similar desire

d'adopter une terre inconnue, et cet élanqui les pousse à traverser
to adopt a foreign land, and this thirst for adventure promted them to cross

l'Atlantique, au même moment, alors que leurs familles sont <<faites>>, dit
the Atlantic, at the same time, so seeing as families are made, when

bien qu'au fond, ils étient frères.
you get down to it, they were brothers.


>From this... I understand that the two BOUCHERs were brothers in spirit --
just as
soldiers become brothers.

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