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DESMARAIS, Madelaine
(About 1800-)

 

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1. GRANT, Cuthbert younger, Fur Trader and Canadian Pioneer

DESMARAIS, Madelaine 1

  • Born: About 1800
  • Marriage (1): GRANT, Cuthbert younger, Fur Trader and Canadian Pioneer in 1818 1

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Madelaine married Cuthbert GRANT younger, Fur Trader and Canadian Pioneer, son of Cuthbert GRANT elder, merchant, partner of Northwest Fur Company and Unnamed WIFE 'of French-Cree descent', in 1818.1 (Cuthbert GRANT younger, Fur Trader and Canadian Pioneer was born about 1793 in Fort Tremblante, Saskatchewn, Canada 2 3, baptised on 12 October 1801 in St Gabriel Street Presbyterian Church, Montreal, Canada,1 died on 15 July 1854 in Canada 3 and was buried in St Francis Xavier's, White Horse Plains, Manitoba, Canada 1.)


  Marriage Notes:

"He (Cuthbert Grant, younger) had three wives, Elizabeth McKay, 1815; Madelaine Desmarais, 1818 and in 1823, he married Marie, oldest daughter of Angus McGillis."

from MHS Archives

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Sources

1 Internet Site, http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/grant_cj.shtml Manitoba Historical Society Archives Cuthbert James Grant (1793-1854).

2 Internet Site, http://williamgrantofcarron.wordpress.com/.

3 Internet Site, http://www.grantsoldmill.ca/who-was-cuthbert-grant.

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