registers the parish of St. Thomas de Montmagny for the month of September 1759 show the following information:
" records from twenty-one of eight from January 1754 until September of this year? seven hundred and fifty nine were swept away by the English? took in the woods.
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This register is sometimes difficult to read and decipher due in part to the deterioration of some leaves by water or moisture.
An estimate of the number of missing documents for this period can be made. On the site of PRDH , consult Statistics annual number of acts by parish. For the parish of St. Thomas de Montmagny, numbers of baptisms (B), marriages (M) and Graves (S) are:
1758: 49 B, 6 M, 26 S for a total of 81
1759: 18 B, 1 M, 17 S for a total of 36
1760: 50 B, 9 M, 44 S for a total of 103.
figures of 1759 compared with those detonate the years 1758 and 1760. It is estimated that between 50 and 60 missing documents in the register by taking the average of total years 1758 and 1760 [or 92] is, and subtracting the number of acts kept [36] for the year 1759.
Other parishes of Quebec have seen their records damaged or destroyed in whole or in part at that time or since the start of the Colony. In some cases, special efforts were made to try to overcome these situations. For example, refer to the parish of St. Eustache that we discussed in a note published on 1 December 2008 and entitled Recovery records of St. Eustache for the year 1837 .
In this context, one can only regret and wonder why the parish priest of St. Thomas de Montmagny had not done so by imitating his colleague.
[Summary:
About Some church records lost in Montmagny, Quebec.]
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