We always hear stories about how our Ancestors came to a new world, very different from theirs. We heard that they came as farmers, or tradesmen, but we hardly ever hear or read about their private lives. For example we know that many of the villagers married with neighbours or someone in their village. But there had to be something else to that. Were the teens seeing each other before? Did they take strolls together? Did they meet secretly? Or perhaps they met at church or a gatherings. Did someone who happened to be helping build a house or a barn eye the pretty girl and just go ask the father for her hand? For instance Thomas Cormier son of Robert Cormier and Marie Peraud was born around 1636 he married around 1668 making him around 32 years ,now his bride Marie Madeleine Girouard was born around 1654 making her around 14 years old. How did it come to be that Thomas at the age of 32 married a 14 year old girl. Would there not have been girls more his age living nearby? Did he marry her because he wanted many children? Then it sure worked because they had a total of ten children. Michel Boudrot is another one he was born around 1600 got married around 1641 his bride to be was Michele Aucoin born around 1621, making her twenty one and him forty one years when they got married. Michel Forest born 1637 married around 1666 making him to be 29 his bride Marie Hebert said to be born around 1651 making her 15 years when they married. Can you imagine your daughter marrying so young? Well I can ,because my Mom got married at fourteen, but I would not like to see my children marrying at fourteen. Those girls must have been terrified, leaving their nice comfortable family atmosphere to live with a stranger. If you are not into genealogy perhaps you really never thought of this, I think of it and I wonder what else we don’t know about our ancestors. Were the men good to their women? Were the children brought up strict? Imagine all the work that had to be done and imagine when a child was sick and wonder how our ancestors dealt with everything. Now this blog is not only for the Acadians but for our Ancestors in general. The Mayflower folks, how did they cope when they came to a new land? Did they meet each other during the crossing? The German ,Polish, Italian ,Hungarians ,Africans, how did they cope? How did they adapt to their new homes? Did they all bring their traditions from the old country with them? I sure would like to hear answers to these questions, but alas, our ancestors have gone and so have their memories. Such a shame huh? I read my blog over again and I have come to the conclusion that not to avoid others asking these same questions, we should create diaries, stories, books, about our lives, our parents and our grandparents in order that someday someone somewhere will benefit from our research and stories. Now I would like to change the subject, I would like to add a few of my product which you can find in either of my stores
Until Next time Chow.
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