To add to this, All you people with a
Boutilier in the past-family, you can be sure that they all can be tracked back to Lunneberg.. They were brought over by the British to settle Canada. And like one of letters, they were were busy. There are many, many desendants., both here and in the United States. I have recently spoke with a "cousin" Judy
Addison who tied my family together for me., We are looking for the Father of Benjamin Boutler/Boutilier born in 1835 in Canada, and died in
Bay County,
Michigan. One of her
Uncles lives near me, and surprize, his names is Benjamin too.. He calls himself "Bill". It was really nice to have a person who was raised with a French-speaking old relative say the name. And Jan
Nearing it sounds like boo-te-a, long a. I think Boutilet would sound like that. Remember these people couldn't write. Someone wrote the name as they heard it. Anotherthing I noticed as I read thru these messages was that these people were secretive about the old people and who they are. And they probably had a reason. Carol Giammo said they did not want to be 'French' because they were discriminated against. My Aunt
Cora, when she finally told me just a little bit about the family just mentioned her siblings and not another word about her father and mother or her grand-parents. And they were still alive. I would so have like to meet them. Instead I was raised by stranger and though of myself as a orphan. A pity.
It was nice talking to all of you through this message board. Mary Jane, whose Mother was Elizabeth Butler/Boutilier.
