Canadian French Surnames NEED HELP!!!

[skyl...@online.dct.com]

I'm relatively new at this genealogy game. A lot of my descendants
are listed as being French Canadian and at least one has a listed
"France" birthplace, while I suspect that in actuality there are more.
The names I am searching for are:

Lemerond (Lamerand)
Morsette (Morisette or derivations of it)
Church
Eylse
Suelflohn (Sueflohn)

These people settled around the Green Bay, WI area, but I have links
to Ashland WI and Upper Michigan. Anybody have any info?

Thanks!

Wendy Wimmer

[Alysse Rasmussen]

Are any of your Lemerands LEMERY? That's a surname I'm searching and there
are quite a few in Menominee Falls. They're supposed to have descended from
a Louis Lemire or Lemery from the Green Bay area.

[skyl...@online.dct.com]

Alysse Rasmussen <Aly...@AOL.COM> wrote:

I don't think so, but that's a new option for me to pursue. I don't
remember seeing that name in any of the registers here in Green Bay,
but it may be earlier than they record (they are terrible here.) The
oldest Lemerand that I have found died in 1890 (prob, born around 1810
in Canada). I know that the name has gone through a lot of changes,
too.

Thanks!

[Michel Robert]

Hi,
There might also be a connection to LAMOUREUX. A number of persons in
New England have various anglicized phonetic versions, including
Lemery I believed.
Put a posting with LAMOUREUX - LEMERY and you will get some good contacts.
Good Luck Michel Robert

[Peter R Barry]

There are lemirandes and lamirandes in the Milwaukee phone
directory.About five of each family.

I remember a few years ago meeting one who was in the Navy Reserve
and whose family originated in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, in the
18th Century when the land was under French rule. His ancestors had come to
Wieconsin very early from French Canada.

Hope that this may be of some help.

Peter R Barry bar...@uwwvax.uww.edu[.US]
Professor Emeritus, History Department
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Whitewater, WI 53190

[Harry W. Duckworth]

There is also a Quebec surname LAMIRANDE, which occurs in the fur trade
and could have produced members of the Green Bay community.

Harry Duckworth
hdc...@cc.umanitoba.ca

[Julien Burns]

>Harry Duckworth
>hdc...@cc.umanitoba.ca

Perhaps there is a link of some kind between LAMOUREUX, LEMERY and
LAMIRANDE. Who knows?

However.....
Looking in JETTE, "Dictionnaire genealogique des familles du Quebec",
we find what follows:

LAMOUREUX was the surname of Louis Lamoureux, unknown origin, married
in Longeuil around 1668 with Francoise Boivin. 10 chhildren.

LAMOUREUX was also the surname of Pierre Lamoureux dit Saint-Germain,
from Confolens, Poitou, married around 1671 with Marie Pigarouche
(amerindian). He lived mostly in Montreal area and died there. 3
children. A second marriage with Barbe Celle in 1684 yield 1 child.

LAMIRANDE is also a french surname but it is linked with DULIGNON
DULIGNON was the surname of Jean Dulignon, sieur de La Mirande from
LaRochefoucault, Angoumois. He marraied Marie Testard on October 9th,
1684, in Montreal. 2 childen.

LEMERY is coming from EMERY dit CODERRE
EMERY is the surname of Antoine Emery dit Coderre from Sarrazac,
Limousin. He married with Marie Devault on April 13th, 1674 in
Contrecoeur (near Montreal). 11 children.
______________________________________
Julien Burns
jbu...@accent.net
Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Can.