This is a long shot, but I am doing some of Josephine French Dostalliere's decendents (I am one.) All I know beside the name is that the family were from England, Roman Catholic (possibly part Irish) and well educated. Many were doctors. One of these was a woman (name unknown to me) who was amoung the first woman doctors, and who cared for animals because she was not allowed to treat humans. She is supposed to have patened a medicine of some sort. There was money comming from her until 1946 when Canada ceased sending money out of the country. So she was died in Canada. Her cousin, also a woman, was the first public health inspector in either New Hampshire or Vermont. She died horiffically in an accident where a vat of boiling maple sugar fell on her. This is all I have been told about her family. It is family history which I got from a cousin, now deceased.

Josephine's husband was reportly born in either France, or the Dakotas, of French parents, but died in Canada. I believe that the late Rhoda Sullivan from Maine (off hand I cannot think of the town but it gets its mail delivered through Canada and is on a big lake) was a cousin on the French family tree. She was in her nineties back in the 1950's!!! Another Canadian cousin was an Abbotess in Canada. Her secular name was Lenora, and my mother was once brought to visit her at the Abbey, and was blessed by her because she was named after her. Other names that got passed on seem to be Kenneth and Edward. Does any of this sound familar? I can give you Josephine's decendents, if it sounds like someone you are searching. Would like any verification I can find, as all of this is un documented family history.

Moira
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