MORROW

A New Beginning

1. archaic : morning
2. the next day
3. the time immediately after a specified event

View of St. Anne’s Church Mackinac Island

This site contains many images and snippets from the St. Anne’s early church records where many of our ancestors were baptized and married.

Databases Now Online

Agatha Biddle’s Band of Mackinac Indians

1870 Chippewa and Ottawa chiefs (Durant Roll)

1870 Census Roll.

• Mackinac
• Sault Ste. Marie
• Traverse
• Grand River

1908 Durant Roll.

• Mackinac
• Sault Ste. Marie
• Traverse
• Grand River

Morrow Relatives on the Rolls NEW 

Morrow Pedigree

Mary Ann Kelegekwanebe

Andre Morin

Mary Corron

Oliver Morrow

Elizabeth Clark

John Boston married Elizabeth Clark in 1920.

Oct 7th,1932 Ironwood Daily Globe

Widow is held for husband’s murder

Read full article on Elizabeth Clark when she was first held for murder charges back in 1932.

Oct 8th,1932 Ironwood Daily Globe

Murder is charged

Feb 24th,1961 Oakland Tribune

At 85 She Wants Freedom

May 5th,1961 Anderson Herald

New Life after 27 years

Agatha Biddle

Chief of the Mackinac Tribe of Chippewa Indians on Mackinac Island in the Mid to late 1800’s.  Agatha Biddle is  the daughter of famous fur trader Joseph Bailey and wife of another famous fur trader, Edward Biddle.   The Biddle house still stands today on Mackinac Island and can be seen on a visit to Mackinac Island.

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Meet Sarah Poole Roe

The daughter of Thomas Poole, a Wesleyan Methodist and school master.

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Eliza Poole Roe Obituary

The daughter of Thomas Poole, a Wesleyan Methodist and school master.

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King of Hearts

It was the 1970′s and the CB, short for Citiz

en Band Radio was a social tool used by many hobbyist and truckers…for some, like Fred, it was a way of life.

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Olive Giroux and Mary Vallee?

Can anyone positively identify these ladies?
Picture belonged to Joseph (Giroux) aka Vallee of Cedarville.

Possibly Olive is a relative.

Cindy Leutz.

Joe (Giroux) Vallee and Agnes Boucher of Cedarville

. Both were born in Penetanguishene, Ontario but moved to Cedarville about 1902.
Agnes’ 2nd great grandparents were Jacques Vasseur Jr. and Madeleine Ouiouiskoin who married at Mackinac /aug. 5, 1799. Joseph Giroux (who took his mother’s maiden name of Vallee) was the great grandson of Pierre Giroux and “possibly” Charlotte Spenard who married at Drummond Island in 1825. Charlotte was the daughter of Charles Spenard
and Geneieve Dufoe. Charles Spenard worked for the British Army at Mackinac prior to the War of 1812. Owner of picture:

Cindy Leutz.

1911 Vallee/Giroux Photo

Joseph Vallee standing near doorway, Mary Vallee to the right of Josephine,
Edmund Vallee in cap, Lavina Vallee between Mary and Edmund, Ernestine Vallee in white dress,
and Josephine is holding onto Elizabeth Vallee on chair.
Sorry, we don’t know the dog’s name.
Owner of photo:Cindy Leutz. Taken in Cedarville about 1911.

Prominent people with the MORIN surname include: (source: Wikipedia.org)

In Canada:

• Blain Morin, Canadian politician and labour union organizer
• Claude Morin (ADQ politician) (born 1953), Canadian politician
• Claude Morin (PQ politician) (born 1929), Canadian politician
• Gilles Morin (born 1931), retired Canadian politician in Ontario, Canada
• Guy Paul Morin, Canadian who was wrongfully convicted of a 1984 murder
• Jacques-Yvan Morin (born 1931), former politician in Quebec, Canada
• Jean-Baptiste Morin (politician) (1840–1911), Canadian politician
• Karl Morin-Strom (also Karl Strom) (born 1952), former politician in Ontario, Canada
• Louis-Simon-René Morin (1883–1955), head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation during World War II

Places:

• Morin-Heights, Quebec, a town in the Laurentian Mountains region of Quebec, Canada
• Morin Lake, a small lake northwest of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Morinville, Alberta, a town in Sturgeon Country, in Alberta, Canada
• Grand Morin, a 118 km long river in France, left tributary of the Marne
• Petit Morin, a 86 km long river in France, left tributary of the Marne
• Quartier-Morin, a municipality in the Cap-Haïtien Arrondissement, in the Nord Department of Haiti
• Val-Morin, Quebec, a municipality in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada

In other places:

• Arthur Morin (1795-1880), french physicist
• Augustin-Norbert Morin (1803–1865), lawyer, judge and politician
• Bernard Morin (1931-), French mathematician, especially a topologist
• Charles Morin, a nom de plume used by Winston Churchill
• Edgar Morin (also Edgar Nahoum) (born 1921), French philosopher and sociobiologist
• Hervé Morin (born 1961), Minister of Defence of France
• Jean Morin (theologian) (also Joannes Morinus) (1591–1659), French theologian and biblical scholar
• Jean-Baptiste Morin (mathematician) (also Morinus) (1583–1656), French mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer
• Jean-Baptiste Morin (composer) (1677–1745), French composer
• John M. Morin (1868–1942), US Congressman from Pennsylvania
• Lee M.E. Morin (born 1952), NASA astronaut
• Simon Morin, burnt at the stake in 1663 for claiming to be Jesus
• Randy Charles Morin (born 1969), author and blogger
• William H. Morin, American Medal of Honor recipient

In Literature:

• That Pig Of A Morin in a short story by Guy de Maupassant