Hi Chantal
James Y Jennex and Clarisse Benoit were my great-great grand parents. Your ggg grandmother Jane was my gg grandfather (William Walter)'s sister. Howdy, cousin.
Here's what I have on Clarisse Benoit: I have one photo. Send me your email address (mine is
steve_jennex@yahoo.ca) and I will send you the photo. My records indicate that Clarisse msy have been born in France and traveled to Cape Breton before moving to Newfoundland where she met and married James Y Jennex who was a general goods merchant and lobster packer in Bay of Islands, Newfoundland. I had heard some stories that said she was native Indian and there are some documents that say her parents were Nicholas Jean Sebastien Benoit and Theotiste Jesseau (native surname?).
Steve