{"id":1634,"date":"2007-08-19T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T07:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/19\/1634\/"},"modified":"2016-05-25T15:38:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T22:38:52","slug":"1634","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/1634","title":{"rendered":"The Baptism of Nicolas Gamache – 1780"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 31 Dec 1780, Nicolas Gamache was baptized. Nicolas was the older brother of Margueritte Soulange, Marie Th\u00e9r\u00ed\u00a8se, Louis, and Abraham Fran\u00ed\u00a7ois Gamache.<\/p>\n

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The Birth and Baptismal Record of Nicolas Gamache – 1780<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

SOURCE: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection<\/em>. Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec, Canada: Institut G\u00e9n\u00e9alogique Drouin. Parish of Cap St. Ignace, Montmagny County, Lower Canada, 1780. Birth and Baptismal Record of Nicolas Gamache, Front of Folio 36, B.<\/p>\n

Click on the link for a PDF<\/a> copy of the Birth and Baptismal Record of Nicolas Gamache – 1780. Translated from the French, the record states:<\/p>\n

Bap[tism] of
\nNicolas
\nGamache<\/p>\n

On the thirty first of December, one thousand seven hundred eighty, by us, the undersigned pastor of Cap St. Ignace and the neighboring isles, was baptized Nicolas, son of Obein Gamache and Th\u00e9r\u00ed\u00a8se Sylvestre. The Godfather was Nicolas Sylvestre and the Godmother was Bale Gamache, who have declared that they do not know how to sign. The father was absent.<\/p>\n

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This record can be found as image 538\/948 in the Qu\u00e9bec Vital Records (Drouin Collection<\/em>), 1621-1967 on Ancestry.com in the records for Parish of Cap St. Ignace, Montmagny County, Lower Canada, 1780. The record appears on the front of folio 36.<\/p>\n

Unlike most other baptismal records from Lower Canada,\u00a0Nicolas’ baptismal record does not specify the date of birth. In this time period, baptisms\u00c2\u00a0in the Roman Catholic Church were usually performed within two days after a birth.<\/p>\n

Note that, in this record, the father’s name is spelled phonetically as Obein<\/em>, rather than the proper spelling Aubin<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2007 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 31 Dec 1780, Nicolas Gamache was baptized. Nicolas was the older brother of Margueritte Soulange, Marie Th\u00e9r\u00ed\u00a8se, Louis, and Abraham Fran\u00ed\u00a7ois Gamache. The Birth and Baptismal Record of Nicolas Gamache – 1780 SOURCE: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montr\u00e9al, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","category-gamache"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/syBfX-1634","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20112,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions\/20112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}