Comments for Laberee Blog http://www.laberee.net/wordpress Genealogy Information for Laberee and Labaree Families Sat, 29 Oct 2011 06:40:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Welcome! by Jennifer Shelton http://www.laberee.net/wordpress/2009/08/22/welcome/comment-page-1/#comment-953 Jennifer Shelton Sat, 29 Oct 2011 06:40:09 +0000 http://www.laberee.net/wordpress/?p=1#comment-953 Hi Todd, Lucky for me, I have taken French (mandatory in Canada), but part of the mystery is how English speakers contemporary to the original Labarees might have (mis)pronouced the name. We all know how immigrants at Ellis Island had their names on documentation altered by officials who could not make sense of the surnames in the original language. It is entirely possible that the same thing happened here -- especially if the original Labarees were not particularly literate or punctilious about spelling. It might be useful to use the above site to map promising candidates against locations known to be Huguenot centres, areas corresponding to modern Aquitaine and Poitou-Charentes. Peter Labaree was Huguenot, yes? Otherwise his family would have settled in New France (Quebec) I presume. Louis XIV did not want non-Catholics in Quebec, and there were plenty of French Calvinist refugees in New England at the time... Hi Todd,

Lucky for me, I have taken French (mandatory in Canada), but part of the mystery is how English speakers contemporary to the original Labarees might have (mis)pronouced the name. We all know how immigrants at Ellis Island had their names on documentation altered by officials who could not make sense of the surnames in the original language. It is entirely possible that the same thing happened here — especially if the original Labarees were not particularly literate or punctilious about spelling.

It might be useful to use the above site to map promising candidates against locations known to be Huguenot centres, areas corresponding to modern Aquitaine and Poitou-Charentes. Peter Labaree was Huguenot, yes? Otherwise his family would have settled in New France (Quebec) I presume. Louis XIV did not want non-Catholics in Quebec, and there were plenty of French Calvinist refugees in New England at the time…

]]> Comment on Welcome! by Todd Laberee http://www.laberee.net/wordpress/2009/08/22/welcome/comment-page-1/#comment-951 Todd Laberee Tue, 04 Oct 2011 01:25:55 +0000 http://www.laberee.net/wordpress/?p=1#comment-951 Thank you Jenifer. What a great page. It will be fun to look for other French names that “sound like” Laberee. I wish I would have taken French instead of Spanish so I had some sense of the language. Thank you Jenifer. What a great page. It will be fun to look for other French names that “sound like” Laberee. I wish I would have taken French instead of Spanish so I had some sense of the language.

]]> Comment on Welcome! by Jennifer Shelton http://www.laberee.net/wordpress/2009/08/22/welcome/comment-page-1/#comment-950 Jennifer Shelton Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:13:13 +0000 http://www.laberee.net/wordpress/?p=1#comment-950 This French website offers a number of interesting candidates as alternate spellings of Labaree, as well as a map indicating where bearers of the name in question are most frequently found. "Labaree" could very well be a corruption of one of these names under "L" http://www.nom-famille.com/commencant-par-l/tous.html This French website offers a number of interesting candidates as alternate spellings of Labaree, as well as a map indicating where bearers of the name in question are most frequently found. “Labaree” could very well be a corruption of one of these names under “L” http://www.nom-famille.com/commencant-par-l/tous.html

]]> Comment on Welcome! by Trudy Sharman http://www.laberee.net/wordpress/2009/08/22/welcome/comment-page-1/#comment-933 Trudy Sharman Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:05:01 +0000 http://www.laberee.net/wordpress/?p=1#comment-933 I use to swim in Waymer Laberee's pond when I was a little girl in Birchton,Quebec while visiting my Grandparents. His cottage and pond are still there as of 2010. I'm 76 now, so it was many many years ago. See if the Compton County Museum in Eaton Corner, Quebec has the book you both are loooking for. The Director there is a walking encylopedia and so gracious and accomoding. I use to swim in Waymer Laberee’s pond when I was a little girl in Birchton,Quebec while visiting my Grandparents. His cottage and pond are still there as of 2010.
I’m 76 now, so it was many many years ago.
See if the Compton County Museum in Eaton Corner, Quebec has the book you both are loooking for. The Director there is a walking encylopedia and so gracious and accomoding.

]]> Comment on Jane Labaree Genealogy by dianne ratcliffe sprinthall http://www.laberee.net/wordpress/2009/08/23/jane-labaree-genealogy/comment-page-1/#comment-926 dianne ratcliffe sprinthall Sat, 21 May 2011 18:16:10 +0000 http://www.laberee.net/wordpress/?p=40#comment-926 If you are looking for information on the hyslops Send me an email If you are looking for information on the hyslops
Send me an email

]]> Comment on Welcome! by Todd Laberee http://www.laberee.net/wordpress/2009/08/22/welcome/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Todd Laberee Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:54:55 +0000 http://www.laberee.net/wordpress/?p=1#comment-16 Karen, I don't have a copy. Until now the only Laberee family history book I was aware of was Jane Labaree's from 1912. I'd love to get a copy. I'll send you a personal message with my address. Thanks! Karen,
I don’t have a copy. Until now the only Laberee family history book I was aware of was Jane Labaree’s from 1912. I’d love to get a copy. I’ll send you a personal message with my address.

Thanks!

]]> Comment on Welcome! by Karen Laberee http://www.laberee.net/wordpress/2009/08/22/welcome/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Karen Laberee Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:19:48 +0000 http://www.laberee.net/wordpress/?p=1#comment-15 Hi Todd, Neat site. My grandfather, Waymer Laberee of Bulwer, Quebec, spent a good deal of his life researching the Laberee family tree, culminating in a book. Do you have a copy of it? Best, Karen Laberee Victoria, BC Hi Todd,

Neat site. My grandfather, Waymer Laberee of Bulwer, Quebec, spent a good deal of his life researching the Laberee family tree, culminating in a book. Do you have a copy of it?

Best,
Karen Laberee
Victoria, BC

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