{"id":758,"date":"2017-07-06T23:11:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T23:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyhistory.bluenotegarden.com\/?p=758"},"modified":"2019-07-18T17:35:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T17:35:13","slug":"papinpepin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/papinpepin\/","title":{"rendered":"Papin\/Pepin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-ph38u-b12bf278c309d6ce44cc9375bc28db2c\">\n.avia-section.av-ph38u-b12bf278c309d6ce44cc9375bc28db2c{\nbackground-repeat:no-repeat;\nbackground-image:url(https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-David_History_1900-1500x630.jpg);\nbackground-position:0% 0%;\nbackground-attachment:scroll;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-ph38u-b12bf278c309d6ce44cc9375bc28db2c main_color avia-section-no-padding avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first  avia-full-stretch avia-bg-style-scroll av-minimum-height av-minimum-height-30 av-height-percent  container_wrap sidebar_right'  data-section-bg-repeat='stretch' data-av_minimum_height_pc='30' data-av_min_height_opt='percent'><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-758'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'><\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><div id='after_section_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap sidebar_right'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-758'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-jjp5a-33b57a957d2a0654ddd89244f356be88\">\n.flex_column.av-jjp5a-33b57a957d2a0654ddd89244f356be88{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-jjp5a-33b57a957d2a0654ddd89244f356be88 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_section  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-91f3a-187a5eda4dd58b8027cf93335820ff5c\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-91f3a-187a5eda4dd58b8027cf93335820ff5c{\npadding-bottom:10px;\nfont-size:34px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-91f3a-187a5eda4dd58b8027cf93335820ff5c .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n#top #wrap_all .av-special-heading.av-91f3a-187a5eda4dd58b8027cf93335820ff5c .av-special-heading-tag{\nfont-size:34px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-91f3a-187a5eda4dd58b8027cf93335820ff5c .av-subheading{\nfont-size:14px;\n}\n\n@media only screen and (min-width: 480px) and (max-width: 767px){ \n#top #wrap_all .av-special-heading.av-91f3a-187a5eda4dd58b8027cf93335820ff5c .av-special-heading-tag{\nfont-size:0.8em;\n}\n}\n\n@media only screen and (max-width: 479px){ \n#top #wrap_all .av-special-heading.av-91f3a-187a5eda4dd58b8027cf93335820ff5c .av-special-heading-tag{\nfont-size:0.8em;\n}\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-91f3a-187a5eda4dd58b8027cf93335820ff5c av-special-heading-h3 blockquote classic-quote  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  av-inherit-size'><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Papin\/Pepin &#8211; 6th through 8th Generations<\/h3><div class='av-subheading av-subheading_below'><p>7 February 2017<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-8k23a-9af7a5ffc730ec4e9202620b3974d685 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div id=\"attachment_760\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1913.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-760\" class=\"wp-image-760 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1913-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1913-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1913-768x1095.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1913-241x343.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1913-1052x1500.jpg 1052w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1913-494x705.jpg 494w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1913-450x642.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1913.jpg 1122w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A beautiful studio photo of the young family of Albert and Blanche Labelle Pepin, with Paul Emile to the left and Lucien to the right in what might be a christening dress although babies at that time were almost always baptized on the same day or very soon after birth and Lucienne looks several months older.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_770\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Paul_1911.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-770\" class=\"wp-image-770 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Paul_1911-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Paul_1911-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Paul_1911-768x1077.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Paul_1911-245x343.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Paul_1911-1070x1500.jpg 1070w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Paul_1911-503x705.jpg 503w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Paul_1911-450x631.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Paul_1911.jpg 1141w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The baby picture of our father, Paul Emile Pepin.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our father never knew his paternal grandparents David Papin and Victoria Goyer Papin. Victoria died in 1893 when she was 29, leaving three small children: Albert 6, Edouard 4, and Marie-Anne Elizabeth 2. David, Albert\u2019s father, married a brave and sturdy woman 8 months later, Elodie Valois, who would live to age 77 in 1936.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>From her marriage to David, Elodie gave birth in 1894 to a cousin our family heard a lot about over the years, Marie Anastasie Aline Papin, also known as \u201cAlice\u201d who died in 1986 at the age of 91. To her seems to have fallen a lot of the supplemental child-care in all of the Papin\/Pepin families\u2014she shows up in a number of families\u2019 photos and never married. Elodie also bore a son, Louis Joseph Emile Papin, in 1898, who died at age 3 and is the first buried in the family grave that David purchased at the Cemetery of St Laurent.<\/p>\n<p>Aline, or Alice, was a longtime companion of another cousin who was close to her in age, Angeline, the daughter of David\u2019s brother, Joseph Zenon, whom we also heard about from time to time. Angeline married her cousin Emile Meloche later in life and we have a photo of him from when our parents visited them in Canada. (Lucienne says of Emile\u2019s mother, Marie-Louise Papin, who was a sister to David, that \u201cshe was very pretty.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_763\" style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_Chicken_Aline_1920_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-763\" class=\"wp-image-763 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_Chicken_Aline_1920_2-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_Chicken_Aline_1920_2-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_Chicken_Aline_1920_2-768x1183.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_Chicken_Aline_1920_2-223x343.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_Chicken_Aline_1920_2-974x1500.jpg 974w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_Chicken_Aline_1920_2-458x705.jpg 458w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_Chicken_Aline_1920_2-450x693.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_Chicken_Aline_1920_2.jpg 1039w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-763\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alice is likely in the middle between Lucienne and Paul Emile, with Albert, Ernest, and unnamed chicken in front.<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_759\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Angeline_Estelle_1960.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-759\" class=\"wp-image-759 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Angeline_Estelle_1960-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Angeline_Estelle_1960-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Angeline_Estelle_1960-768x587.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Angeline_Estelle_1960-449x343.jpg 449w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Angeline_Estelle_1960-1500x1146.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Angeline_Estelle_1960-705x538.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Angeline_Estelle_1960-450x344.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Angeline_Estelle_1960.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angeline and her sister Estelle sent us a collection of French Canadian music in 1956 that I still have and use in my music library.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>There was also, I believe, a \u201cTante Adele\u201d\u2014fascination with variations on names beginning with the letter A, some might say\u2014but so far I cannot determine exactly which part of the family Adele derived from.<\/p>\n<p>Our Aunt Lucienne notes in the family genealogy that Victoria Goyer had been known as a \u201cfine woman\u201d and she briefly depicts the short life of Marie-Anne (1891-1916), whom the family said Lucienne resembled:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>She was a young Sister of the Holy Cross\u2014as I am\u2014who was sent to New Bedford, USA. She was ill and sleeping in the convent dormitory when a fire broke out. A fireman was able to take her on his shoulder and get her out, but she suffocated from damage to her lungs by the next day.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Only 18 years old, our grandfather Albert signed his father\u2019s death certificate when David also died relatively young in 1905 at age 47, having packed a lot of life into those few years. David was not only a businessman but also a councilman for Cote-des-Neiges.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Together with his father, Ovide Papin-Baronet\u2014also known as Louis and David\u2014and his father\u2019s brother L\u00e9on, David and his sons Albert and Edouard were all forgerons.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The French word covers the various skills of carriage-making, iron forging, foundry and metal working, and blacksmithing\u2014all highly valued skills, later modified when the automobile made its appearance. We do not yet know the exact location of their business, but it was reputed to do a substantial business in the main marketplace of Jacques Cartier Square, as shown below at the beginning of the 20th century:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-David_History_1900.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-769 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-David_History_1900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-David_History_1900.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-David_History_1900-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-David_History_1900-768x605.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-David_History_1900-435x343.jpg 435w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-David_History_1900-1500x1182.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-David_History_1900-705x556.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-David_History_1900-450x355.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PepinCollage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-771 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PepinCollage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PepinCollage.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PepinCollage-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PepinCollage-768x525.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PepinCollage-502x343.jpg 502w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PepinCollage-1500x1025.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PepinCollage-705x482.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PepinCollage-450x307.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_765\" style=\"width: 187px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Albert_1930.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-765\" class=\"wp-image-765 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Albert_1930-177x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Albert_1930-177x300.jpg 177w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Albert_1930-768x1304.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Albert_1930-202x343.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Albert_1930-883x1500.jpg 883w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Albert_1930-415x705.jpg 415w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Albert_1930-450x764.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Albert_1930.jpg 942w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edouard, probably dating to some time in the 1930s.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>David purchased a family plot in the St. Laurent Cemetery at the time of the death of his 3-year-old son Emile in 1901. Many of the Pepin family are buried there, including Paul Emile in 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Louis-Ovide Papin-Baronet or David-Ovide Pepin-Baronet, as the great grandfather was variously known, lived to the age of 74. The mother of his 5 children, Ursule, married him at 29 and died at 54. She missed getting to see her first grandchild, Albert, by two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Edouard, Louis-Ovide\u2019s second son and Albert\u2019s brother, died in 1937 at age 48. He left six children in the care of his widow, Ida Bigras; she may have partly raised the children in Ferme\u00a0 Neuve, where she had family and Paul Emile would later locate his first business, a sign shop.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_762\" style=\"width: 189px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1935.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-762\" class=\"wp-image-762 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1935-179x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1935-179x300.jpg 179w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1935-768x1291.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1935-204x343.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1935-893x1500.jpg 893w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1935-419x705.jpg 419w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1935-450x756.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1935.jpg 952w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-762\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo is exceptional because it likely includes, left to right in back: Aline, Elodie, Lucienne, Blanche; and in front: Marguerite and Therese.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is noteworthy how often in our family grandparents and grandchildren did not live long enough to know each other. Conversely, some long-lived grandparents stood in for parents who were away at work or who died young and, alternatively, step-children were often called on to be godparents to a first, or even second, set of children in a single family.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_793\" style=\"width: 186px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Labelle-Ferrier_1932-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-793\" class=\"wp-image-793 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Labelle-Ferrier_1932-1-176x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Labelle-Ferrier_1932-1-176x300.jpg 176w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Labelle-Ferrier_1932-1-768x1307.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Labelle-Ferrier_1932-1-202x343.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Labelle-Ferrier_1932-1-881x1500.jpg 881w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Labelle-Ferrier_1932-1-414x705.jpg 414w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Labelle-Ferrier_1932-1-450x766.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Labelle-Ferrier_1932-1.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The only known photo of Ferrier Labelle.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Especially in the 19th century, the lack of connection between grandparents and grandchildren may well mean that there was a limited amount of knowledge of the family line conveyed between generations. In the genealogy that Aunt Lucienne traced for our mother, Marian, in the late 1980s, she provides an enormous amount of \u201chorizontal\u201d information across both male and female lines beginning with David and his first and second wives\u2014and with Ferrier Labelle and Octavie Filion, parents of Albert\u2019s wife Blanche\u2014but goes no further back than their mid-19th century births.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It was a harsh world where the lives of individual family members depended on the reasonably good graces and generosity of brothers and sisters, nephews and nieces.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At the same time, even in the\u00a0 earliest years of the French colony, before there were enough relatives to go around, young mothers so often died young that a guardian and tutor for underage children was legally contracted for to ensure that a working parent could continue to work to support the family. We could use more of that sense of social responsibility today!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_761\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1917_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-761\" class=\"wp-image-761 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1917_2-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1917_2-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1917_2-768x1051.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1917_2-251x343.jpg 251w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1917_2-1096x1500.jpg 1096w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1917_2-515x705.jpg 515w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1917_2-450x616.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1917_2.jpg 1169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another studio photo of the young family\u2014Paul Emile, Lucienne, and Ernest in the center between them\u2014possibly in 1917.<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Given all of the moving our father did over the years, it is impressive that he has so many photos of his family, both immediate and extended, and of his friends.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, names, places and dates are scarce and so the best we can do now is to try to triangulate to date(s) on the basis of ages.<\/p>\n<p>There are only a couple of photos of our father\u2019s mother, Blanche, by herself. She is most often pictured with other family members, or hard at work with animals and children. In the slideshow at the\u00a0 end of this chapter I have made an effort to include any and all photos where she is in the frame, regardless of the fact that sometimes we do not know all of the people involved.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_766\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Blanche_nd_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-766\" class=\"wp-image-766 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Blanche_nd_2-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Blanche_nd_2-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Blanche_nd_2-768x1071.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Blanche_nd_2-246x343.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Blanche_nd_2-1075x1500.jpg 1075w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Blanche_nd_2-505x705.jpg 505w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Blanche_nd_2-450x628.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Blanche_nd_2.jpg 1147w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blanche<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We don\u2019t know the years for these photos but they show Blanche in the same dress. After all their years of caring for children in the families, one hopes that they both got some time to rest in their later years\u2014the porch behind them looks like a nice one for that.<\/p>\n<p>There is also an interesting wrinkle about her name. It is sometimes given as Marie-Blanche Julia, but Lucienne asserts that her \u201cright name\u201d was Z\u00e9lia. There are no direct derivations for the name although one can find mention of Greek and even Hebrew roots\u2014meaning \u201czealous\u201d\u2014and possibly also some association with the saints Cecilia and Solenne.<\/p>\n<p>Z\u00e9lia is a very uncommon name generally but it did enjoy some popularity in the middle-to-late 19th century, partially due to the renowned French opera singer Zelia Trebelli-Bettini (1838-1892). We don\u2019t know whether our Labelle grandparents made this connection, or another.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_767\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Blanche_nd_Aline_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-767\" class=\"wp-image-767 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Blanche_nd_Aline_2-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Blanche_nd_Aline_2-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Blanche_nd_Aline_2-768x1126.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Blanche_nd_Aline_2-234x343.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Blanche_nd_Aline_2-1023x1500.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Blanche_nd_Aline_2-481x705.jpg 481w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Blanche_nd_Aline_2-450x660.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Blanche_nd_Aline_2.jpg 1091w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blanche is pictured to the right with Aline.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Appended to this chapter are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familyhistory.bluenotegarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Lucienne\u2019s-genealogical-notes.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lucienne\u2019s genealogical notes<\/a> [pdf] in her own hand. We believe she prepared these in response to a request from our mother, who was trying to gather together information for us, her children.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As wonderful as our Papin\/Pepin published genealogy is, it does not include all the many branches related by marriage. Lucienne\u2019s effort gives us an exceptional view into the very large number of cousins in the families of her generation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We know that our father very much enjoyed visiting family in Canada but it must also have been liberating to move to a place that had none. On the other hand, it meant that we grew up without knowing any of the Pepin family except by letters and photos.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pepin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1719,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/1719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}