Name:		Meltine Marie Bourdon
Born:	        Date March 25, 1817     Place  Lavaltrie, Quebec, Canada
		
Father:		Marc Bourdon          b.  Jan. 19, 1778   d.  Sept. 24, 1841
Mother:		Therese Delorme       b.  Jan. 19, 1781   d.  unknown

	        NAME			BORN			DIED
Brothers	Marc Antoine Bourdon  Mar. 29, 1801         Feb.  4, 1875
                Francois Bourdon      Nov.  9, 1802         Mar. 12, 1877
                Ignace Bourdon        Jan. 15, 1804
                Pierre Bourdon        Jun. 30, 1807
                Charles Bourdon       Nov. 11, 1811         Jan. 27, 1878
                Joseph Bourdon        Nov.  1, 1819
                Prosper Bourdon       Sep. 27, 1820
                Benoni Bourdon        Aug. 11, 1824

Sisters:	Therese Bourdon       Mar. 31, 1800
                Sophie Bourdon        Oct.  1, 1805
                Louise Bourdon        Nov.  7, 1809
                Genevieve Bourdon              1818
                Euphrosine Bourdon             1821

School:

Married:	Jean-Baptiste Desrosiers
		Date:  September 28, 1845
		Place: Henryville, Quebec, Canada

                ***this 1845 marriage is a renewal of vows by Jean-Baptiste and Marie
                Bourdon because questions about the proper or legal publications of
                their marriage.  The orginal marriage is estimated to have been around
                1838 in Quebec.
				
	        NAME				BORN			 DIED
Children:	Fabea Desrosiers                     1839
                Josephine Desrosiers       June  5,  1841
                Solomie Desrosiers                   1842
                Marie Ismael Desrosiers    June      1844
                
                    ****these four births were before the 1845 marriage.  Fabea could be 
                Fabain who fought and died in the Civil War.  He listed his residence as
                Burlington, Vt.  Josephine married Nicholas Lahue in 1864 in Swanton, Vt.
                Solomie is Sally in the 1851 Canadian Census and could be the wife of a
                Napolean Bourdreau.  The godparents for Marie were Charles Bourdon, brother
                to Marie and his wife Merente Goyette.  All four of these children were 
                baptized at Saint Georges-de-Henryville Catholic Church in Henryvill, Que.
                The parents Jean-Baptiste Desrosiers and Marie Bourdon listed their
                residence as Missisquoi Bay (Philipsburg), Quebec.

                Alfred Desrosiers          March     16, 1846
                Edouard Desrosiers         January    5, 1848    August    14, 1848
                Damas Desrosiers           September 20, 1849    September 26, 1904
                Nazaire Desrosiers         February  27, 1851     
                Gaspars Desrosiers         November  29, 1852
                Ursula Desrosiers          December  19, 1854
                Alphonse Desrosiers        June      21, 1856
                Marie Felaneize Desrosiers March     21, 1858
                Joseph Desrosiers          February  10, 1860    September  8, 1862
                Cleophas Desrosiers        March      4, 1862

                    ***All 10 of these children were baptized in the Parish of
                Notre Dame-de-L'Assomption Catholic Church in the Villiage of
                Notre Dame-de-Stanbridge, Quebc.  The residence listed on each of the
                Baptisams is Missisquoi Bay (Philipsburg), Quebec.  The name Damas in
                English is Thomas.   
                            
Lived:	        According to the 1851 Canadian Census She lived with her husband 
                Jean-Baptiste Desrosiers in Missisquoi Bay (Philipsburg). Quebec, Canada
                
Worked:         

Died:           Unknown
Buried:         Unknown 	

Birth Certificate:	Need
Baptism Certificate:	Need
Marriage Certificate:	Need
Death Certificate:	Need

 ****Meltine Bourdon was known as Amelia, Emelie, Emelda, Domithilde, and Marie. She was
 documented on the birth and Marriage records of her children by all five of these names
 over the years.