Children of Susanne Takanan Tawaka Tawakon and Amable Petit (Sr.-II)

Louise Petit
Flavie Petit
Henri Petit b. May, 1837
Francois Petit b. 4 Oct 1850
Louisa Philomine Petit b. 6 Feb 1855

Citations

1. [S5] M. Leona Nichols, The Mantle of Elias, The Story of Fathers Blanchet and Demers in Early Oregon, Catholic Church records of the Pacific Northwest, Vancouver, Volumes I and II, and Stellamaris Mission, 1972, French Prairie Press, St. Paul, Oregon, 97137, Translated by Mikell De Lores Wormell Warner.
   
   Annotations: Page A-64:
   
   Petit, Amable (I) 1797 - 1857
   
   An employee of the Hudson's Bay company, the elder Petit appears to have heft two half-grown sons in eastern Canada when he came West. His marriage on March 27, 1837, at Fort Vancouver, to Susanne Tawakon is entered on page One of the register kept by the Anglican chaplain, Herbert Beaver. Petit and Susanne were remarried by the Catholic priest in December of the following year. His recorded children by Susanne are Charles, Henri, Celeste, Marie, Pierre, Francois, Louis, Louise Philomene and Flavie, dating from 1837 to 1857. He died at the age of seventy at St. Paul and was buried in the old cemetery there.
   
   Page 262, M. 17 (Marriage) - Amable Petit and Susanne Tawaka, December 27, 1838. Amable Petit, engage at Fort Vancouver, and Susanne Tawaka natural daughter of Tomas Tawaka and a native woman. Legitimatizing Henri, aged 7 months. Witnesses J. B. Roy and J. B. Montreuil. F.N.B.