Maria Louisa (Renaud) Bernard (1792 - 1812)

Born 26 Jun 1792 in Assumption Parish, Essex, Ontario, Canada

Ancestors

Wife of Jean Baptiste Bernard — married 7 Jan 1812 in Essex, Essex, Ontario, Canada

Died 22 Sep 1812 at age 20 in Amherstburg, Essex, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

Maria was born in 1792, one of many children of Jean Charles Renaud and Marie Madeleine Bertrand. In January 1812, at age 21, she married Jean Baptiste Bernard. Tragedy hit the following September. She gave birth to their only child, who was stillborn, and died 8 days later.

Death Record Translation

Provided by reddit user u/Burnt_Ernie [1]:

(On) the second of December eighteen-hundred and twelve in the cemetery of this church were made the prayers of the Church for the sepultures of Marie Louise Reneau, wife of Jean Baptiste Bernard -- (she being) deceased on the twenty-second of September last, aged twenty-two years -- and of her child born and ONDOYÉ by myself and dying on the fourteenth and interred by the undersigned Louis Gendron on the fifteenth of the same month September last. Present were the above-named Louis Gendron, and Jean Baptiste Bernard her husband, and Jean Baptiste Bernard her father-in-law -- who do not know how to sign -- and many others.

(signed)

Louis Gendron

Marchand, priest (on the right)

Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Genealogy/comments/u0o90l/french_canadian_death_record_translation_request/

Sources

• "Ontario, Canada, Roman Catholic Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1760-1923" Ancestry.com. Ontario, Canada, Roman Catholic Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1760-1923 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2017. Original Data: Diocese of London (Ontario); London, Ontario Marriage for Jean Baptiste Bernard and Marie Louise Reneau 7 Jan 1812
• Ancestry.com. Ontario, Canada, Catholic Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1802-1967 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007. Original data: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin. Enfant Marie-Louise Reneau Bernard Event Type: BuriaBurial Year: 1802-1829