Hello I’m trying to trace the ancestry of a man commonly known as Stephen Lafricain his father was Charles Etienne Stephen TRIBOT DIT LAFRICAIN who was married to a metis woman named Anne Nancy JOURDAIN her father was a Jean-Baptiste JOURDAIN a metis with Innu or Inuit ancestry, I do not know which and his wife was Marie Sarah BROOMFIELD and she could also have Innu or Inuit ancestry and her father was John BROOMFIELD an Englishman whose wife may have been Innu or Inuit.
Stephen Lafricain was born 09 Jun 1843 at Rigolet and his father worked for the Hudson Bay Company as a cooper. Later when he retired from HBC he worked the fishery netting salmon for the HBC to be barreled and salted for shipment to Europe. I have records from HBC from 1838 to 1850 for Charles Etienne Stephen and in 1850 he left with his family to bring son Stephen to Montreal on the HBC ship Marten from Rigolet to take his son to school in Montreal, they were ship wrecked along the way there and subsequently continued via Newfoundland to Montreal.
I would like to learn more about Jean-Baptiste Jourdain, I have little to offer in term of the above information other than I suspect he might have been the Post Master at Esquimaux Bay but I am uncertain of this fact.
As for Sarah Broomfield all I can offer is that the spelling of her name could have been Brummfield and that on her father’s retirement he returned to London, England.
So I’m asking if anyone has any information on Jourdain which could have been anglicized to Jordan and on Broomfield or Brummfield if any of your research involved Rigolet or Esquimaux Bay. Your assistance would be appreciated.
Robert Campbell