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Denomme Mysteries
Art's definition of a Denomme mystery is when
he has information on an individual, or branch of our family, but
does not
know where they fit into the tree.
The book, unfortunately, still has quite a few pages
of "mysteries"
In the Ottawa river, between Ottawa and Hull is an island named Lumpy Denommee's Island. In June 2017 I was contacted by two individuals from the Ottawa area wondering if I had any clues to who "Lumpy" was. I was unable to help them. Denomme(e)'s were in the Hull area as early as the 1820's and in Ottawa in the early 1900's. If anyone has any information that can shed light on "Lumpy", please contact me.
SOLVED ...... No story moved me more than this one during the years that I was writing the book. I would put a mystery on this web page and for the most part, many of them were solved rather quickly. Denise's mystery was on this page for years. When Marie-Louise's son contacted me from Hamilton and told me that the information sounded an awful lot like his mother, we spent time to confirm the information. I then had the pleasure of contacting Denise to let her know that the mystery had been solved. It resulted in the uniting of two families that did not know the other existed. The families from the two marriages met in 2004 in Hamilton.
Marie-Louise
moved to Hamilton, Ontario in 1941-42 and married/partnered with Moïse
Danis, who changed his name to Moise Davis. Marie-Louise and Moise
had two
children. A
mystery from Denise Darlow ... My family has been searching for my
grandmother,
Marie-Louise Denommé,
ever since she disappeared from Blue Sea Lake, Quebec in 1941. She
left
with a
man by the name of
Moïse Danis.
She was born on December 11, 1902, the daughter of Antoine Denommé and
Marguerite Denommé.
SOLVED ...... Jayson
is the son of Daniel Denommee and Carole Desmarais. Thank you to his
CuZin Nicole, for helping us locate Jayson in our family tree .... Jayson
Denommee (the figure skater).
SOLVED .. we think?? ...... After
considerable research, we believe Jean-Baptiste Denomme, born on December
31, 1806 in St. Cuthbert, Berthier, Quebec and the son of
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Denomme and Marie-Madeleine Allard to be our mystery
man. He was recorded in the US census of 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880.
The
1860
census,
recorded his place of birth as “Southern Canada” sic Lower
Canada, which is today the province of Quebec, and his age (while inconsistent
from one census to the other) averaged his year of birth as being 1808.
His occupation was initially recorded as “voyageur” and later
as labourer. .
Jean Baptiste Denomie was born in 1808 in LaPointe, Madeline Island,
Lake Superior. Married on December 25, 1835 to JOSETTE WA-BI-ZHE-SHI-KWE
(Josette
was also known as Joseth). Jean Baptiste died on June 19, 1881
at about 72 years of age. Art does not have any information on Jean
Baptiste's
parents ... and so again, we do not know where to fit him and his
children into the Denomme tree.
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