Chouinard In The Eastern District Naturalization Index

Michigan, Eastern Distric...lization Index, 1907-1995  C-552 (Albert) to C-610 (Giacinta):

Chouinard (563)

Jean Baptiste BRICAULT dit LaMarche

Jean Baptiste BRICAULT dit LaMarche and Marie CHENIER, Parents Of MARIE BRICAU DITE LAMARCHE

Some historical background here.

...a soldier known by the name "LaMarche". At that time, each new recruit in the Army was given a "war name" and could never use his actual name. This practice was to be replaced eventually by the "roll number".  After three years, Iroquois called for peace and signed a treaty with the Governor.  ... 400 officers and soldiers decided to stay...including soldier LaMarche of the Dugue' Company.  His name was Jean Bricault. 

His FindAGrave entry here. 

Choinard Quebec Judicial District

Year 1745

Pierre Chouinard

Year 1762
Eustache Choinard

Year 1779?
Image 613
Jos. Chouinard

Germain Chouinard

Quebec Guardianships...

Image 741
30 July 1811
Tutelle des
...Joseph Chouinard

10 Jan 1825
Germain Chouinard (there's a Germain who's the child of Joseph)

Pierre Chouinard

Quebec Guardianships...

10620

Image 748

Pierre Chouinard

Mentioned: Marie Anne Belanger

29 June 1811

St. Jean Port Joly

Choiniere And Chouinard, Les Canadiens-Francais

Source

De Cognieres commune du dep de la Haute-Saone, arr. de Vesoul

The town [Cognieres is part of the district of Vesoul in the department of Haute-Saone, in the Burgundy-Franche-Comté region. As part of the cantonal redistribution of 2014 in France, the town is attached to the canton of Rioz. (Wikipedia)

De Chonas, commune du dep. de l'Isere, arr. de Vienne.  Vient du vieux francais choine, blanc, en parlant du pain.

Swinyer is the Anglicized version of one (or both) of the French names featured above.  Can't rule out Sweeney, Swinger, Swainard, etc.

There are DNA matches with Choiniere descendants, including one estimated to be my 2nd to 4th cousin and others who may be 3rd to 5th cousins.

Joseph Chouinard's 1811 Tutelle

Quebec...Guardianships...[Image 741]

Also see file for May 1811

Chouinard

Swinyer, Swinyard, Swinier, are a few of the variations of the French version, Chouinard:

Source (Click For More Chouinards)

Chouinards In Quebec Records

Quebec Judicial D... Guardianships...Index 1826-1856 (Benjamin and Charles Chouinard in the index):

Source [Image 38]

17 July 1827

Benjamin Chouinard

File #14224

Chouinards in this document

Quebec...Judicial D... Guardianships,  Files 1827...no. 14088-14256

[Image 873]  July 1827

Check this book for this family (Swinyer in English)

David C. Swinyer Of The 118th

Three Years with the Adirondack Regiment: 118th New York Volunteers Infantry, By John Lovell Cunningham:

Source

David C. Swinyer

Chouinards

Quebec, Quebec Judicial D... Guardianships, 1639-1930...:

30 July 1811

Joseph Chouinard [Image 741]

Pierre Chouinard [Image 748]

Palmer Swinyer In Ware, Massachussetts

Civil War Company H, 96th Regiment, New York Volunteers (called Swiner instead of Swinyer):

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United States Census, 1860

Town of Peru, Clinton, New York

Mitchel Swinier M 44 Vermont

Martha Swinier F 41 Vermont

Palmer Swinier M 21 New York

Adaline Swinier F 19 New York

Emaline Swinier F 17 New York

Hollish Swinier M 15 New York

Harriet Swinier F 13 New York

Evaline Swinier F 9 New York

Wallace Swinier M 5 New York

Aletta Swinier F 1 New York

Source: FamilySearch

Palmer Swinyer (Swinier in census), 1st cousin 4x removed (son of Mitchel Swinyer); grandson of Mitchel Swinyer and Mary Staves, who were also my ancestors.

Palmer was listed as a Sweeney (not Swinyer) in the Directory...Ware, Massachusetts:

Source

1900 Census

Ware Town...Hampshire, Massachusetts

Palmer Sweeney Head M 60 New York

Delia Sweeney Wife F 55 New York

Emma Sweeney Daughter F 34 New York

Orilla Sweeney Daughter F 29 New York

Peter Sweeney Son M 27 New York

Albert Sweeney Son M 25 New York

Katie Sweeney Daughter F 22 New York

Henry Sweeney Son M 16 New York

Source: FamilySearch

Chouinard File #10619 In Quebec Tutelle

The documents are in French:

Quebec...Guardianships...

[Image 741]

File# 10619

9 August 1813

...Maria Magdelaine LeClerc...Joseph Chouinard habitant...St. Jean Port Joly conte de Devon....

...Joseph; Marie Marguerite; Germain; Marie Marceline?...18 May 1811

Another document of the Province of Quebec...Marie Magdelaine LeClerc dite Francoeur...Jean LeClerc dit Francoeur...Pierre Chouinard and Julien Chouinard, paternal uncles...Jean Ste LeClerc fils et Anselme LeClerc dit Francoeur oncles maternal....

Also this from this Chouinard file:...Marie Anne Belanger; Marie Celeste; Pierre; Marie Olive

[Image 752] Louis Francois Belanger, grandpere; Louis Marie Belanger and Andre Belanger, maternal uncles and Etienne LeClerc dit Francoeur ___ uncle; 

Wikitree entry  for Joseph Chouinard

Note:  My Swinyer family may have been Chouinard in Quebec and France

Julien Chouinard

Quebec, Quebec Judicial D... Guardianships, 1639-1930  Index

5 Mar 1806  [image 724]

Julien Chouinard

Also mentioned: Angelique Asselin

Note: The French Chouinard surname may have been changed to Swinyer in English

Mary Staves And Her Family

*How do we know Mary was a Staves?  Can documentation (a will, deed, church record, etc.) be found?

John Staves and Abram Staves (presumably Mary Staves' brothers) were naturalized in Clinton County, New York.  John Staves stated that he was from Chambly, Quebec, and Abram Staves indicated that he was from the Province of Lower Canada (Quebec).  The 1840 document also stated that Abram was brought to the United States when he was a minor of either one or two years old.

An earlier blog post, A French-Canadian DNA Match, included my Staves ancestor, Joseph Jacquex Staves.  The name Bricault dit Lamarche may have been changed to Staves. There is a link to information about Jean Bricault dit Lamarche (in French) with a roughly translated version here.

*A link to Ancestry.com has Mary Staves (1787-1876) married to Mitchel Swinyer.
Also see Mitchel Swinyer's memorial at FindAGrave.

1850 Census
Saranac, Clinton, New York, United States
Mitchel Swinger M 67 Canada
Mary Swinger F 63 Canada
Abram Swinger M 32 New York
Archibald Swinger M 21 New York

Census 1860

Saranac, Clinton, New York, United States

Michael Sweena M 77 Canada

Mary Sweena F 75 Canada

Edward Sweena M 35 New York

Update About A DNA Match

Corrections and an update to this blog post:

13 JANUARY 2015

A DNA Match

This is a match on my maternal line.  Curiously, there is also a mutual match* on my paternal [Cameron] line.

                          Peter Snay m. Sophia Swinyer                                 

William H. Daniels m. Louisa Maria Snay

Fred Knapp m. Mary Daniels

Beulah Lenore Knapp m. Morrison Agnew

*Daughter [With Whom I  (my brother) Matched]

Peter Snay m. Sophia Swinyer

Mary Jane Snay m. David Swinyer

Sophia Jeannette Swinyer m. John Joseph Garrett

James Herschel Garrett m. Katherine I. Johnson

(Living Garrett) m. Richard N. Powers

Me (my brother)

Peter and Sophia Snay lived in upstate New York.

Because I was managing my brother's profile, his DNA was a proxy for me (mine had not been tested in January of 2015).  There was a DNA match on our maternal line (with two sisters) that confirmed the relationship found through traditional research methods.

Update and Correction: There was a DNA match, but it wasn't with my DNA.  Neither sister was on my list of matches at FTDNA!  Thank goodness my brother donated his DNA to the cause.

Potential X-DNA Ancestor Matches

See X Marks the Spot on the DNA Explained blog.

My brother's X potential matches below.  The male X chromosome is derived solely from the maternal side.

J. Joanne Garrett (mother)

James Garrett and Katie I. Johnson
James Garrett's mother, Sophia Swinyer
David Swinyer and Mary Jane Snay [Sophia Swinyer's parents]
David Swinyer's unknown parents
Peter Snay and Sophia Swinyer [Mary Jane Snay's parents]
Mary R. [unknown last name] Peter Snay's mother
Mitchell Swinyer and Mary Staves [Sophia Swinyer's parents]
Other unidentified matches

James D. Johnson and Katie Rice (maternal grandparents)
Nancy Graves [James D. Johnson's mother]
Nancy Graves' parents [identities unknown]
James Rice and Nancy Patillo [Katie Rice's parents]
Ann Hinds [James Rice's mother]
William Hinds and Elizabeth Acklin [Ann Hinds' parents]
William Hinds' mother [identity unknown]
Christopher Acklin and Christian Black [Elizabeth Acklin's parents]
Other unidentified matches

I'm an X match with my brother, but our paternal aunt is not.  Our DNA results at FTDNA confirmed this.

My maternal matches sync up with my brother's.  In addition, I have the potential paternal X matches listed below:

Richard N. Powers [father]
Beatrice Cameron [grandmother]
Donald Cameron and Anna Cameron [same surname]
Donald Cameron's mother, Nancy Cameron [Cameron was her surname]
Anna's parents, Duncan Cameron and Ellen Cameron [same surname]
Nancy Cameron's parents, Allen Cameron and Mary McMillan
Duncan Cameron's mother, Mary McMillan
Ellen Cameron's parents, Ewen Cameron and Bridget Higgins
Other unidentified matches

The Widow Swinyer 1890 Census

United States Census of U...ws of the Civil War, 1890, Missouri, Texas:

Source

Mary J. Swinyer, widow of 

Swinyer, David C., dec.

Private

Company C

118 NY Infantry

Famille Chouinard

Our ancestral name, Swinyer, may have been Chouinard before it was anglicized.  See the history and genealogy of the Chouinard family here and here.  The books are written in French.

Janette (Swinyer) Garrett's Obituary

An Arkansas Setting

Jonesboro (Ark.) Sun
Thursday, Jan. 18, 1951

TRUMANN MATRON CLAIMED BY DEATH

Mrs. Janet Garrett of Trumann died at her home Wednesday.  She was 81 years old.

She is survived by three sons, Hobart of Trumann, Herschell and Joe of Michigan; one sister, Mrs. Nettie Conley of Brookland; and eight grandchildren a d one great-grandchild.

Funeral services will be arranged by the Farmers Union Funeral Home.

Note:  [Sophia] Jeannette (Swinyer) Garrett was married to Dr. J. J. Garrett.