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| Although the names of the parents of non-Hénault spouses are listed (when they appeared in the source consulted), this is done to provide a starting point for their descendents to trace the spouse's ancestry themselves. I have made no effort to trace the spouse's ancestry back in time, unless he or she is also an Hénault descendent. For the most part, I have no additional information in my data base on the ancestry of spouses who are not themselves Hénault descendents. For members of the Hénault family, the name is spelled Énaud for the first several generations because this is how it appears in Jetté's dictionary. Thereafter, it is consistently spelled Hénault because the name was actually written in one of more of 40 different spellings in actual records and Hénault is the most common form today. With the rise in literacy in the late 1800s, individuals began to write their names themselves in a consistent manner and this form is used from that point. Other family names are generally spelled as they appear in the source. The custom of inherited dit names, or family sobriquets, appended to the family name is a unique French-Canadian custom and such dit names often provide valuable guidance to research. As such, I have included dit names when I have been able to confirm that the individual is a rightful inheritor of that dit name. Generally, these appear in the form "original family name" "hyphen" "dit name", for example, Pierre Hénault-Fresnière. However, since dit names are inherited from a specific individual, the first bearer of a dit name is listed as with the word "dit" replacing the hyphen, for example, Pierre Énaud dit Fresnière. This makes it easier to find the founder of a specific dit name and branch. In cases in which an individual and his descendents abandoned the use of the original Hénault name entirely and used only the dit name, for example, the Delorme families of the Manitoba region, the dit name is used as the family name but the original family name is given in square brackets, for example, Delorme [Hénault]. This is done to distinguish these Delormes from other Delormes whose original family name was different, for example, Delorme [Fafard]. These notation is also used in other cases where the current name was originally a dit name, as in Deschamps [Hénault], or where the current name is significantly different from the original name, for example, Cadeau [Hénault-Fresnière] (where Cadeau is a corruption of Canada) or King [Roi] (where the original French name has been translated into English). Legend > <: these angle brackets designate individuals in my direct line to Jacques Enaud, that is, following these individuals downward will eventually lead you to me. mar.: date and place of marriage bir.: date and place of birth (the notation "ca. Month Year" appears when a specific date of baptism is given but the baptismal record did not give a date of birth) bpt.: date and place of baptism gdp.: names of godparents (when known) and their relationship to the infant (when specied in the record) dea.: date and place of death (the notation "ca. Month Year" appears when a specific date of burial is given but the burial record did not give a date of death) bur.: date and place of burial edu. education level (primarily, whether the parish record indicated that the individual was able sign his or her name) occ. occupation(s) (when known; not necessarily complete) [stillborn] the child was stillborn. In some cases, this is assumed when the child is unnamed and the baptism and burial are on the same day or when the child is unnamed and there is only a burial record which also contains a mention of birth on the same day. [died as infant] died before the age of 1 year. [died as child] died between the ages of 1 and 8 years (i.e., ages 1-7). [twin] one of two twins. [twin, died young] twin who died before the age of 8 years. [twin, stillborn] self-explanatory. [triplet] one of three triplets. [illegitimate] born to unmarried parents or before the parents were married. [illegitimate, died young] self-explanatory. [born posthumously] born within nine months of the death of the biological father. [proposed child] this parentage for the child has not been proven conclusively at this time. |
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