Sara
(Soeur Marguerite-Marie)
Riel
Born in Saint-Boniface, Red River Colony, Rupert's Land
Ancestors 
Daughter of Louis Riel Sr.
and Julie (Lagimodiere) Riel
Sister of
Marguerite Marie (Riel) Zastre [half], Louis Riel, Elsie Riel, Philomene Riel, Marie Riel, Octavie Riel, Eulalie (Riel) Gladu, Charles Riel, Joseph Jean Riel, Henriette Riel and Alexandre Riel
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 35
in Île-à-la-Crosse, North-West Territories
Profile last modified
| Created 24 Feb 2015
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Biography
Sara was born in Saint-Boniface Parish in the Red River Colony on 11 October 1848. She was the daughter of Louis Riel and Julie Lagimodiere.
She joined the Grey Nuns and became the first Métis Grey Nun from Red River Colony.
Sara died of tuberculosis in Île-à-la-Crosse, North-West Territories, on 27 December 1883.
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Sources
- 1870 Census of Manitoba, page 79, St. Boniface Parish.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Soeur Marguerite-Marie by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Soeur Marguerite-Marie by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
- David Blouin
:
Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup H3s, FTDNA kit #B343463, MitoYDNA ID T14189 [compare]
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~1.56%
Bruce Florence :
AncestryDNA
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~1.56%
Dale Roy :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member ddroys
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~0.78%
Tracy (Wolfe) Conradson :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A329708 [compare], Ancestry member hali_mcl
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~0.78%
Jackie (Lariviere) Rodricks :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member jrodricks
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Morgan Mulligan
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Morgan Mulligan
Riel-16 and Riel-127 do not represent the same person because: Merge rejected. Different people.
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by Morgan Mulligan
Morgan Mulligan
Riel-16 and Riel-127 appear to represent the same person because: Please help to merge these 2 profiles. I can clean up the biography section if you want.
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by Morgan Mulligan
Rejected matches › Marguerite Marie (Riel) Zastre (1840-1874)
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