The Forgotten Branches of My Nicolle & Morenier Family Tree
Shadows of My French & Belgian Ancestors
In the beginning....I started my ancestral research on my grandmother, Mathilda Audrienne Hootman née Nicolle in 1998. My father rarely mentioned her, the same with his twin brother. When I would ask for some details, it was few and slim info facts. All he would share was the names of her parents, the names of some of her siblings and that her father Jules Nicolle’s was from France, and that her mother, Justine Morenier’s family came from Belgium.
I was not sure what the true spelling of Morenier was, as documents, from my father and my great aunt Bernadette spelled Justine’s surname several different ways.
And frustrating enough as it was, there were no written records that I could find of the towns they were born in (or came from) here in the US. Except of the names of a few of my grandmother's brothers, there were no other additional information on other potential family members....
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My grandmother's brothers loved their country and fought in the heavy-fighting in the Somme, France during World War I. They loved the life of the outdoors working as timbermen and coalminers, while their half-sisters homesteaded in Canada. Sisters Mathilda (Tillie) and Bernadette(Bern) left to graduate from the same college .
It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are.
So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before.
by Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell Jo Ann McGinnis Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943.
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