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Marriage: Children:
  1. Emelia ROBERT: Birth: Jan 1857 in Clinton County, NY, USA?.

  2. Mary ROBERT: Birth: Jul 1860 in Black Brook, Clinton, NY, USA?. Death: 1860-1870 in Black Brook, Clinton, NY, USA?

  3. Elie ROBERT: Birth: Abt 1861 in Black Brook, Clinton, NY, USA?. Death: 7 Jan 1880 in Cheboygan, Cheboygan, MI, USA

  4. Hormisdas (Medos) ROBERT: Birth: 13 May 1864 in Saint-Edouard-de-Napierville, Qu�ebec, Canada. Death: 11 Sep 1897 in Cheboygan, Cheboygan, MI, USA

  5. Marie-Rose ROBERT: Birth: 8 Apr 1866 in Black Brook, Clinton, NY, USA?. Death: Bet 1866 and 1870 in Clinton County, NY, USA?

  6. Leon (Leo) ROBERT: Birth: 11 Jun 1868 in Black Brook, Clinton, NY, USA?.

  7. Paul ROBERT: Birth: 8 Jun 1869 in Black Brook, Clinton, NY, USA?. Death: 29 May 1950 in Detroit, Wayne, MI, USA

  8. Louis ROBERT: Birth: 10 Dec 1869 in Black Brook, Clinton, NY, USA?. Death: 6 Jun 1926 in Beaugrand Township, Cheboygan, MI, USA

  9. Marie-Anne ROBERT: Birth: Abt 1875 in Black Brook, Clinton, NY, USA?.


Sources
1. Title:   US Census Records
Author:   Bureau of the Census
2. Title:   Parish Register, Saint-Edouard-de-Saint-Georges, 1831-1899, Napierville, Qu�ebec, Canada
Author:   Eglise Catholique
3. Title:   Mariages Comt�e de Clinton, NY (1830-1880), No. 106
Page:   p.227, 242
Author:   Pontbriand, B.
Publication:   B. Pontbriand, 2390 Marie-Victorin, Sillery, Quebec, Canada, 1984
4. Title:   Church Records, 1848-1915, Immaculate Conception, Keeseville, Clinton, NY, US
Author:   Catholic Church

Notes
a. Note:   Illegitimate child. At her baptism, the Godparents were Francois PLANTIER and Felicite BISAILLON. Marie Aubeline was apparently taken in and raised as their own by Francois and Felicite (see details below). Marie appeared in the 1850 census of Black Brook, NY living with Francois PLANTIER and his second spouse, her "stepmother", Salome LEMIEUX. She appeared on the 1860 census with husband, Elie ROBERT, and again on the 1870 census with Elie in Black Brook, NY. She was not on the 1880 census with husband Elie and some of the children in Cheboygan, MI. A child, Mary Anne, died in Cheboygan in October 1879 at age 4 years, so Marie Aubeline apparently died between 1875 and 1880, probably in NY or MI. She is possibly buried in the Black Brook, NY cemetery or the Calvary Cemetery in Cheboygan, MI. A visit to the Black Brook cemetery in July 2000 failed to turn up a grave stone, although there was a headstone for her "sister", Obeline. Cemetery transcriptions taken earlier in the 20th century also did not show a grave stone for Marie Aubeline. Neither was a grave stone for her found in the Roberts burial plot in Cheboygan.
  In order to help other researchers, I have decided to maintain the connection in my database of Francois PLANTIER and Felicite BISAILLON to Marie Aubeline, even though there is no apparent blood connection. --------------------------------------------------------------- Marie Plantier: My "Illegitime" Ancestor:
  Working back in time through my ancestral lines I was unable to find a birth or baptism record for my Great-Grandmother, Marie Plantier, who married my Great-Grandfather, Elie Robert in Clinton County, NY in 1856. I put that aside at the time and continued filling in the blanks for her line, as well as many other lines, of my ancestry. After several years and many hundreds of hours in the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, in local Family History Centers, and elsewhere fleshing out my various French-Canadian lines, I was ready to tackle the question of my Great-Grandmothers birthplace.
  According to the 1850 US census records of Clinton County, NY, Marie was living in the household of Francois Plantier (aka, Plankey) and Salome Lemieux along with her many siblings. Additional research revealed the Salome was the second wife of Francois and that Marie had been born prior to Francois' marriage to Salome in November 1843. So based on Maries approximate birth year-around the mid 1830s-I assumed she was the product of Francois' first marriage to Felicite Bisaillon, who died in March 1843.
  The baptism records of many of Maries siblings were found in the Catholic parishes of the Laprairie and Napierville Counties of Qu�ebec, south of Montr�eal. Three of her siblings, born around the time of her presumed birth year, were baptized in the parish of St-Edouard-de-Napierville in 1834, 1837 and 1839. In the census records, Marie is listed in among those siblings, so it was logical to assume that she would have been baptized in the same church around the same time. A careful review of the St-Edouard parish register, however, failed to turn up a baptism record of a Marie to Francois Plantier and Felicite Bisaillon around that time frame.
  The next logical step was to alter my assumptions to include the possibility that she was baptized in a nearby Catholic church around that time period. Unfortunately, an exhaustive search of the church parish registers in Napierville and Laprairie Counties failed to locate her baptism record. Likewise, the records of Clinton County, NY, albeit somewhat meager for that time period, failed to turn up a record of her birth either. So where was I to go from here?
  After much thought, the idea occurred to me that perhaps Marie was an illegitimate child who had been perhaps taken in by Francois and Felicite to raise as their own. Back to the St-Edouard parish register to have a look at all the baptisms of the "illegitime" and "parens inconnue" children around the time frame of interest. Not sure what I was hoping to find that would connect Marie to this family, I read each entry with great care.
  And BINGO there it was! Baptism #155 for the year 1837, Marie Aub�eline Illegitime, baptized 18 September, born two days earlier of "parens inconnue". Sponsors at her baptism were Francois Plantier and Felicite Bisaillon.
  Of course, this is not positive proof that this is the same Marie who showed up on the 1850 US census of Black Brook, Clinton County, NY, living in the household of Francois Plantier and Salome Lemieux. But the fact that the godfather in her baptism was the same person "my" Marie was living with later on, is strong circumstantial evidence that she is, indeed, one and the same person. Admittedly this is an analytical judgment born out of necessity due to the lack of primary source information on the birth of my Great-Grandmother Marie Plantier. But I expect that this is probably the best I can expect to do under the circumstances.
  This discovery was both exciting and disappointing at the same time. Exciting because I felt as though I had finally solved the mystery of Maries birth. Disappointing because I had compiled great detail of information on her ancestry to no avail during the years I had put off dealing with the question of her birth. So my approach to her linkage to Francois and Felicite is to leave the connection as is with an explanation that spells out the situation and my judgment on her origin. That way, the large volume of accurate and detailed data I assembled over time regarding her ancestry will be potentially useful for others working in the Plantier lines.
  Postscript: Based on my research and input of other researcher on the Plantier lines, it can be said that the surname has "morphed" into other surnames on several descendent lines. Of course, as we all know, this is not particularly unusual. The surname in the records of Qu�ebec is seen as Plantier or Planquier with a dit name of Lagrenade cropping up in several lines. In the US, it is commonly recorded as Plankey and not surprising, several lines have adopted the name Legnard, a variation on the Lagrenade dit name.
  For more information on this line and others in my ancestry, visit my web sites: https://gw.geneanet.org/lmroberts36_w?lang=en&n=roberts&oc=0&p=lawrence+michael&type=tree https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rbrtslm


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