Posted By:	Julie Mofle
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	Subject:	Re: Mathilde Bouchard Lavoie
	Post Date:	June 16, 2008 at 08:33:01
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/bouchard/messages/1118.html
	Forum:	Bouchard Family Genealogy Forum
	Forum URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/bouchard/

Thanks, Carroll, for the reply and posted information! Your generous help is appreciated! It appears that I have in my ancestry a married couple who are actually first half-cousins, once removed. ANTHYME BOUCHARD m. GENEVIEVE LAVOIE 27 May 1867 in St. Patrice. Anthyme is the great-grandson of Jean-Francois (aka Jean Baptiste) Bouchard. Genevieve is the granddaughter of Jean-Francois! I thought I read that the Catholic Church's laws of consanguinity (sp?) forbid any close cousins from marrying, up to the fourth generation removed. Hmmm... Also, it appears that Anthyme must have travelled BACK to Quebec to get married to his cousin, because he immigrated in 1854 to Flintville, Brown County, Wisconsin to farm. This seems improbable to me, but I can't find any marriage record for them in Brown County. Hmmm....again. So, what do YOU think? Would you mind posting your sources? (Where can I get a copy of the marriage record?) Finally, I would be thrilled to receive Mathilde Bouchard Lavoie's ascendency to the Bouchard progenitor!!! Thanks for reading! Julie