Drouin Collection, Baptismal Register for Marie Joseph Herman Couvrette, 22 December 1872
I knew my great grandfather’s baptism had to have been recorded, but I couldn’t find the record. I tried everything I could think of, including searching by the names Marie and Joseph, singly and together, as those two names were part of the naming convention for that family (the third or sometimes even fourth name would be the name the child went by).
I decided the transcription used for the index page must be so mangled that I wasn’t going to be able to use it to find what I was looking for. Instead, I found the names of the two churches where his next youngest and next oldest siblings were baptized. I knew Armand’s birth year (and could be certain it was correct, because of how closely together all his siblings were born), so I could then search the register page by page, looking for him.
And I hit pay dirt. There he was, very clearly listed as Marie Joseph Herman Couvrette, son of Louis Charles Couvrette and Philomene Chauvin. I’d been searching for Armand, because that’s the name he went by his entire life. Herman is a reasonable variation of that. However, when I finally was able to locate the index entry for this page, I saw that someone had transcribed his name as M Joseph Norman Courrette. No wonder I couldn’t find him!
There were a total of 16 children. There are too many to all show on the family group screen, so the last one is on the next page. Her name is Marie Josephine Flore, the same name given to a younger sister who died as an infant. That’s a lot of kids.
I still have a few to try to track down baptismal records for. Hopefully my luck will hold.
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