Hi Gail,
It's great to meet a 4th cousin! Our Greenwood/Boisvert family has been researching Louis's lineage for over 25 yrs. I met many of my Greenwood 3rd cousins last summer for the very first time. We really enjoyed meeting each other. One came from South Carolina another from Chicago we meet other cousins still living in Wisconsin. I live in the Minneapolis area.
In Louis and (Elisabeth) Isabelle's marriage record it tells that Nicolas Boisvert was a witness to their marriage in 1821.
Nicolas was the son of Francois Boisvert DeNevers and Marie Genevieve Martel. We believe that Louis is the son of one of their children. Their son Francois and Joseph have many descendants in the Manitowoc area of Wisconsin. This the same area that my great great grandfather Louis Boisvert Greenwood settled with his family in 1854.
I have all the Boisvert listings for St. Francois du Lac, I also have a copy of the original marriage document ot Louis and Isabelle.
I did find it very interesting that Angele and David had a son named Isidore. Their was a Louis Isidore born April 17 1801 in Baie du Febvre Yamaska Quebec( about 10 miles from St. Francois du Lac) to a Ambroise Boisvert and Marie Catherine Pinard. This would be the right age for our Louis.
We can however Trace Isabelle (Elisabeth) LaFond's lineage back to the 1600's in France. In fact her brother Joseph's family contacted me this past summer. They are 5th cousins to us and have been looking for our family for many years. It is interesting our LaFond family was very fair in coloring, I was sent pictures of Angele's first cousin Joseph and his family.
Joseph LaFond Isabelle's nephew settled in a town in Northern Minnesonta called Argyle, there are many Boisvert/Greenwood's that settled there at the same time as Joseph. One by the name of Louis Boisvert. It is about a 5 hour drive from Minneapolis to Argyle and I haven't made the trip yet. But I am very curious about this Louis Boisvert. I assume that Louis and Isabelle had other son's even though I have only found one son Louis and three daughters Angele, Marie and Emily.
Do you have any pictures of Angele or her family, I would love to see what they looked like. I have a picture of Angele's brother Louis and a couple pictures of his son's (he had nine sons and only two daughter)
My e-mail address is
roxylou@yahoo.com or
gmikkels@frontiernet.net.
I hope to hear from you!
Roxanne