Trotochaud was born Jean Baptiste Trotochaud; April 1, 1801 in Maskinonge, Quebec, Canada. His father was Louis, his mother was Marguerite. The first Trotochaud family (Louis) had arrived in New France i 1737. It was a St. Lawrence River town between Montreal and Quebec City. It's very likely that Troutochaud became a French-Canadian Voyageur which then brought him to Mackinac Island, the center of the fur trade in the 1820s-1830s. His name appears on the 1820 and 1830 Michilimackinac County census. He married a Native American woman named Angelique Jans on the island in St. Anne's Catholic Church, August 4, 1833. Angelique bore him a daughter named Catherine Julia on May 30, 1834. Soon after Anaque passed away. A second daughter, Therese, was born to him and another Native woman named Sopie Anaquet on August 11, 1840.
The couple had married in St. Anne's Church on June 9, 1836.
Jean Baptiste and Sophie Trotochaud had a son named John Baptiste, born in 1843, and another daughter Angeline, born Sept. 9, 1853. A second son sass born in January 1847. Daughter Lucy was born in June 1858. The 1850 U.S. Federal Census for Michilimackinac County lists John R. Trotochaund as a fisherman, 46 years of age, and unable to read or write English.
The Selected U. S. Federal Census for June 1, 1860, lists John Baptist Trotochaud as owning 12 acres of cultivated land, and 120 acres of uncultivated land in Bear Creek Township County of Emmet, post-office at Mackinac. He owned one horse, four pigs, and had harvested 60 bushels of Indian Corn. The regular 1860 federal census list John Trotochaud, age 60 (white), Sophia, age 55 (Indian), Theressa 20, John Bapist 16, Louis 10, Angelica 6, and Lucy 5. Both John Sr. and Sophia were listed as illiterate All of the children, other than 20 year-old Theressa, were listed as attending school. John Sr; was listed as a farmer. His farm was along what later became West Lake Street.
Father Lawrence Lauthishar, had requested and received permission to build a Catholic Mission Church (school) up the hill from the Porter Mission. But it was torn down by Protestants who claimed this area was for Protestants only. Only after a compromise was reached between Father Baraga and the Indian Agent Andrew Fitch, was the St. Solanus Structure allowed to be built. It was Trotochaud one acre of land donation that contained the new mission church. It was 30 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 12 feet high. On July 23, 1860, Baraga celebrated the church's first mass.
Before the 1858-1859 construction of St. Solanus Chruch, it is believed that a birch bark church has been build in the same vicinity near the mouth of Bear River during the Indian missionary work of Father Baraga. According to his diary, he blessed the church on August 1, 1833. Baraga, a native of Vienna, Austria, had come to the United States to help spread the Catholic faith in May of 1831. He was supported in his effort to build missions and schools to be used by Native Americans in the Upper Great Lakes region by wealthy friends and others back home in Austria. John Baptist Trotochaud died at the age of 72, April 9, 1873. Both the "Ignorant Frenchman" Trotochaud (the first white settler of Bear Creek), and his wife Sophia, are somewhere on the grounds of the church. The stones that marked the various graves at that site were, unfortunately, removed in 1960.
SOURCE:
Note: This excerpt is used with permission for the Find-a-Grave Memorial for Jean Baptiste Trotochaud. The excerpt seen here is from a featured article in the Mackinac Journal; by author Richard Wiles, who is a noted Northern Michigan Researcher and Historian. The article was published June 2016 in the Mackinac Journal.
The couple had married in St. Anne's Church on June 9, 1836.
Jean Baptiste and Sophie Trotochaud had a son named John Baptiste, born in 1843, and another daughter Angeline, born Sept. 9, 1853. A second son sass born in January 1847. Daughter Lucy was born in June 1858. The 1850 U.S. Federal Census for Michilimackinac County lists John R. Trotochaund as a fisherman, 46 years of age, and unable to read or write English.
The Selected U. S. Federal Census for June 1, 1860, lists John Baptist Trotochaud as owning 12 acres of cultivated land, and 120 acres of uncultivated land in Bear Creek Township County of Emmet, post-office at Mackinac. He owned one horse, four pigs, and had harvested 60 bushels of Indian Corn. The regular 1860 federal census list John Trotochaud, age 60 (white), Sophia, age 55 (Indian), Theressa 20, John Bapist 16, Louis 10, Angelica 6, and Lucy 5. Both John Sr. and Sophia were listed as illiterate All of the children, other than 20 year-old Theressa, were listed as attending school. John Sr; was listed as a farmer. His farm was along what later became West Lake Street.
Father Lawrence Lauthishar, had requested and received permission to build a Catholic Mission Church (school) up the hill from the Porter Mission. But it was torn down by Protestants who claimed this area was for Protestants only. Only after a compromise was reached between Father Baraga and the Indian Agent Andrew Fitch, was the St. Solanus Structure allowed to be built. It was Trotochaud one acre of land donation that contained the new mission church. It was 30 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 12 feet high. On July 23, 1860, Baraga celebrated the church's first mass.
Before the 1858-1859 construction of St. Solanus Chruch, it is believed that a birch bark church has been build in the same vicinity near the mouth of Bear River during the Indian missionary work of Father Baraga. According to his diary, he blessed the church on August 1, 1833. Baraga, a native of Vienna, Austria, had come to the United States to help spread the Catholic faith in May of 1831. He was supported in his effort to build missions and schools to be used by Native Americans in the Upper Great Lakes region by wealthy friends and others back home in Austria. John Baptist Trotochaud died at the age of 72, April 9, 1873. Both the "Ignorant Frenchman" Trotochaud (the first white settler of Bear Creek), and his wife Sophia, are somewhere on the grounds of the church. The stones that marked the various graves at that site were, unfortunately, removed in 1960.
SOURCE:
Note: This excerpt is used with permission for the Find-a-Grave Memorial for Jean Baptiste Trotochaud. The excerpt seen here is from a featured article in the Mackinac Journal; by author Richard Wiles, who is a noted Northern Michigan Researcher and Historian. The article was published June 2016 in the Mackinac Journal.
Trotochaud was born Jean Baptiste Trotochaud; April 1, 1801 in Maskinonge, Quebec, Canada. His father was Louis, his mother was Marguerite. The first Trotochaud family (Louis) had arrived in New France i 1737. It was a St. Lawrence River town between Montreal and Quebec City. It's very likely that Troutochaud became a French-Canadian Voyageur which then brought him to Mackinac Island, the center of the fur trade in the 1820s-1830s. His name appears on the 1820 and 1830 Michilimackinac County census. He married a Native American woman named Angelique Jans on the island in St. Anne's Catholic Church, August 4, 1833. Angelique bore him a daughter named Catherine Julia on May 30, 1834. Soon after Anaque passed away. A second daughter, Therese, was born to him and another Native woman named Sopie Anaquet on August 11, 1840.
The couple had married in St. Anne's Church on June 9, 1836.
Jean Baptiste and Sophie Trotochaud had a son named John Baptiste, born in 1843, and another daughter Angeline, born Sept. 9, 1853. A second son sass born in January 1847. Daughter Lucy was born in June 1858. The 1850 U.S. Federal Census for Michilimackinac County lists John R. Trotochaund as a fisherman, 46 years of age, and unable to read or write English.
The Selected U. S. Federal Census for June 1, 1860, lists John Baptist Trotochaud as owning 12 acres of cultivated land, and 120 acres of uncultivated land in Bear Creek Township County of Emmet, post-office at Mackinac. He owned one horse, four pigs, and had harvested 60 bushels of Indian Corn. The regular 1860 federal census list John Trotochaud, age 60 (white), Sophia, age 55 (Indian), Theressa 20, John Bapist 16, Louis 10, Angelica 6, and Lucy 5. Both John Sr. and Sophia were listed as illiterate All of the children, other than 20 year-old Theressa, were listed as attending school. John Sr; was listed as a farmer. His farm was along what later became West Lake Street.
Father Lawrence Lauthishar, had requested and received permission to build a Catholic Mission Church (school) up the hill from the Porter Mission. But it was torn down by Protestants who claimed this area was for Protestants only. Only after a compromise was reached between Father Baraga and the Indian Agent Andrew Fitch, was the St. Solanus Structure allowed to be built. It was Trotochaud one acre of land donation that contained the new mission church. It was 30 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 12 feet high. On July 23, 1860, Baraga celebrated the church's first mass.
Before the 1858-1859 construction of St. Solanus Chruch, it is believed that a birch bark church has been build in the same vicinity near the mouth of Bear River during the Indian missionary work of Father Baraga. According to his diary, he blessed the church on August 1, 1833. Baraga, a native of Vienna, Austria, had come to the United States to help spread the Catholic faith in May of 1831. He was supported in his effort to build missions and schools to be used by Native Americans in the Upper Great Lakes region by wealthy friends and others back home in Austria. John Baptist Trotochaud died at the age of 72, April 9, 1873. Both the "Ignorant Frenchman" Trotochaud (the first white settler of Bear Creek), and his wife Sophia, are somewhere on the grounds of the church. The stones that marked the various graves at that site were, unfortunately, removed in 1960.
SOURCE:
Note: This excerpt is used with permission for the Find-a-Grave Memorial for Jean Baptiste Trotochaud. The excerpt seen here is from a featured article in the Mackinac Journal; by author Richard Wiles, who is a noted Northern Michigan Researcher and Historian. The article was published June 2016 in the Mackinac Journal.
The couple had married in St. Anne's Church on June 9, 1836.
Jean Baptiste and Sophie Trotochaud had a son named John Baptiste, born in 1843, and another daughter Angeline, born Sept. 9, 1853. A second son sass born in January 1847. Daughter Lucy was born in June 1858. The 1850 U.S. Federal Census for Michilimackinac County lists John R. Trotochaund as a fisherman, 46 years of age, and unable to read or write English.
The Selected U. S. Federal Census for June 1, 1860, lists John Baptist Trotochaud as owning 12 acres of cultivated land, and 120 acres of uncultivated land in Bear Creek Township County of Emmet, post-office at Mackinac. He owned one horse, four pigs, and had harvested 60 bushels of Indian Corn. The regular 1860 federal census list John Trotochaud, age 60 (white), Sophia, age 55 (Indian), Theressa 20, John Bapist 16, Louis 10, Angelica 6, and Lucy 5. Both John Sr. and Sophia were listed as illiterate All of the children, other than 20 year-old Theressa, were listed as attending school. John Sr; was listed as a farmer. His farm was along what later became West Lake Street.
Father Lawrence Lauthishar, had requested and received permission to build a Catholic Mission Church (school) up the hill from the Porter Mission. But it was torn down by Protestants who claimed this area was for Protestants only. Only after a compromise was reached between Father Baraga and the Indian Agent Andrew Fitch, was the St. Solanus Structure allowed to be built. It was Trotochaud one acre of land donation that contained the new mission church. It was 30 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 12 feet high. On July 23, 1860, Baraga celebrated the church's first mass.
Before the 1858-1859 construction of St. Solanus Chruch, it is believed that a birch bark church has been build in the same vicinity near the mouth of Bear River during the Indian missionary work of Father Baraga. According to his diary, he blessed the church on August 1, 1833. Baraga, a native of Vienna, Austria, had come to the United States to help spread the Catholic faith in May of 1831. He was supported in his effort to build missions and schools to be used by Native Americans in the Upper Great Lakes region by wealthy friends and others back home in Austria. John Baptist Trotochaud died at the age of 72, April 9, 1873. Both the "Ignorant Frenchman" Trotochaud (the first white settler of Bear Creek), and his wife Sophia, are somewhere on the grounds of the church. The stones that marked the various graves at that site were, unfortunately, removed in 1960.
SOURCE:
Note: This excerpt is used with permission for the Find-a-Grave Memorial for Jean Baptiste Trotochaud. The excerpt seen here is from a featured article in the Mackinac Journal; by author Richard Wiles, who is a noted Northern Michigan Researcher and Historian. The article was published June 2016 in the Mackinac Journal.
