I wonder how many of the Catholic Citizens of Illinois are descendants of the French Catholic settlers, particularly if they are from the southwest part of the state. We may be distant cousins. Agnes Renoudiere, daughter of a lead mine owner in Kaskaskia, Illinois marrried my paternal ancestor Guillaume Bergereau, a soldier who was assig…
I wonder how many of the Catholic Citizens of Illinois are descendants of the French Catholic settlers, particularly if they are from the southwest part of the state. We may be distant cousins. Agnes Renoudiere, daughter of a lead mine owner in Kaskaskia, Illinois marrried my paternal ancestor Guillaume Bergereau, a soldier who was assigned to Fort St. Jean Baptiste in Natchitoches, Louisiana. His sons served under the command of Bernardo de Galvez in the Pointe Coupee Militia during the War for American Independence. They were likely provisioned with cattle donated by my maternal ancestor Gil Antonio Y'barbo, founder of Nacogdoches, Texas. Indeed, the US Founding Fathers owed a lot to the Catholic monarchs of Europe.
I wonder how many of the Catholic Citizens of Illinois are descendants of the French Catholic settlers, particularly if they are from the southwest part of the state. We may be distant cousins. Agnes Renoudiere, daughter of a lead mine owner in Kaskaskia, Illinois marrried my paternal ancestor Guillaume Bergereau, a soldier who was assigned to Fort St. Jean Baptiste in Natchitoches, Louisiana. His sons served under the command of Bernardo de Galvez in the Pointe Coupee Militia during the War for American Independence. They were likely provisioned with cattle donated by my maternal ancestor Gil Antonio Y'barbo, founder of Nacogdoches, Texas. Indeed, the US Founding Fathers owed a lot to the Catholic monarchs of Europe.
Indeed, these threads are woven all through our great American republic.