Louis Malo and Sarah (Harriett) Vandale Family Revisited

Tom Brummett sent me the information below on the Louis Malo and Sarah/Harriett/Henriette Vandal family. Thanks Tom! 

Elmira (Lafond) Malo, spouse of Louis Napoleon Malo, date of death 26 February 1949, burial Notre Dame Cemetery, Worcester, MA. Source Worcester, MA death records 1949, #466

Louis Napoleon Malo marriage to Marie Elmire Lafond - 10 September 1886 - Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut. He list his age as 22, she as 21. She misstated her age to avoid parental consent. No license exist, just index entry as CT did not require certificates to be filed until 1888.

Louis Malo - circa 1838

1872 naturalization record is for a different Louis Malo.  I researched the Voluntown vitals and a Louis with a different named wife had children there. (Kim’s Note:  the Louis Malo in Voluntown moved to Massachusetts, he married Marie Alexandrine Herbert)

He and Henriette were in Brimfield, MA in March 1867 as she gave birth to daughter Ellen who died in Putnam in April 1868.

Still at a wall for Louis Malo’s parents names - death certificate list names as "unknown", His marriage took place 3 Sept. 1859 in Putnam, Ct, recorded as general index entries only (no parent info) as CT did not require certificates to be filed until 1888.  St. Mary’s Curch, Putnam, published records start in 1866.  Still some hope there as I found out the church had a mission known as the "Quinnebaug Hall" where they held services, need to find out from the diocese if those records exist and will they share them. 

I suspect Louis came from the St. Ours/Sorel, Richelieu area of Quebec.  Many of the town and church records list that as where various community members came from.  This is common for the mill villages, as the textile mills advertised for workers from Quebec and they seemed to avoid areas where other mills were advertising (honor among thieves I suppose).

Harriet/Henriette Vandale - born 24 May 1850 in St. Ours as Hermine to Pierre Vandal (no 'e', that is a U.S. name variation) and Angeline Poncy dit Dauphine.  I have no idea where Sarah came from in the 1860 Census.

Louis Napoleon Malo - I have birth, children and many residences and occupations, no death yet.  I think it will be in Otsego county NY, because he and Annie Mary are there in 1940 and searches on her indicate she was from there as a young girl/woman.

Elmire Lafond - as she is not a direct descendent, my work has centered on her relationship with Louis N. Malo I have searched in several northeast CT towns and as yet have not located a marriage, theirs may turn out to be a common law marriage.  I have no death date/location yet, but I am convinced it will be Worcester, MA as two of her daughters lived their later years there (Elmire Malo Boivin is buried there).

Elmire Malo Boivin (Aug 1890, Ipswich, MA) - if some researchers have trouble locating her, that's because she was placed with Herod & Adeline Vandal Talbot (her great aunt & uncle) early in life to be raised as their own (see 1890 Census, Thompson, CT. she is 9 years old and listed as their daughter).  I have her vitals from birth to grave and all confirm her identity

Kim's Note:  I have attached some hard to find items, Louis Malo's naturalization record, Harriett (Sarah) Vandale's baptism record, and a copy of the 1860 census with Harriett (Sarah) Vandale.

        

                                                           

Malo Name Varients

Cousins de Malo de Salutations !

Have you hit a brick wall with your Malo genealogy? I would not be surprised if you have because I have been stuck many times searching for Malos in New England and Canada. I discuss my most recent state of "stuckness" below.  If you are stuck. try spelling out Malo phonetically several different ways and use those variants to search with. Another quick way to identify variants is to use a soundex. WeRelate offers an open-source database of name variants. Once you locate one variant in the records, try searching using that variant because it may have been used more than once. The links below will help you with your search.

Malo Name Varients

Here are the name variants I came across when searching for Malos:

Mollo, Moleau, Malh, Mello, Milo, Melo, Malow, Maylo, Maylow, Mallow, Melloh, Miilu, Milly, Miles, Mehl, Mahle, Mal, Mals, Male, Mall, Matos, Nalow, and Calo

Where I Continue to be Stuck

I am still trying to break through the brick wall I mentioned in a previous post and I hope someone can help me! I am searching for the parents of Louis Mao married to Sarah Vandal (also given as Harriett Vandale). I am not sure why on some census she is listed as Sarah, and Harriett on others, as they appear to be the same person. Though there are some discrepancies in the documents, I think this is the same family, please tell me what you think. Here are their details:

Louis Malo
Name:

Louis Malo (1863 in his Civil War record)

Lewis Milo (1880 Census)
Louis Malo (1900 Census)

Birth Year:

1838 (Civil War record)

1844 Canada (1880 Census)
Jun 1838 Canada (1900 Census)

Immigration Year:

1841 (1900 Census)

Home:  
1863 Brimfield MA, (from what appears to be a Civil War record. He is listed as an alien and married)
1880 Putnam, Windham, CT.
1900: Ward 2, Worcester, MA

Naturalized:

1872 (in what appears to be his naturalization record)

Death: July 7, 1908 Worcester, MA and buried in Putnum, CT

Sarah/Harriet

Name:
Sarah (1880 & 1920 census, and death record)
Harriet (1900 census)
Ardiet Malo (1910 census) (looks like the ‘H” was omitted from her first name)

Birth:
1846 Canada (1880 and 1900 census and death record)
1842 Canada (1920 census)
Feb. 1850 Canada (1900 census)

Marriage Year:
1861 (1900 Census)

Immigration Year:
1852 (1900 Census)
1864 (1910 Census)
1849 (1920 Census)

Home:  

1880 Putnam, Windham, CT.

1900: Ward 2, Worcester, MA
1910: Ward 2, Worcester, MA
1920: Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts

Death: Oxford 12 May, 1926

Links
WeRelate - Home Page
http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Main_Page

WeRelate -  Name Variant Page
http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Special:Names?type=s&name

RootsWeb's Soundex Converter
http://resources.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/soundexconverter

Au revoir mes cousins!

Malo Brick Walls

Greetings Malo Cousins and Researchers!

As you know from my previous post that my interest in Malo family history is the Malos that emigrated from Quebec to New England in the 1800’s. I have been trying to tie this New England Malo line all together and taking each family line back up the family tree to Jean Hayet dit St Malo and Catherine Galbrun.

Currently I have 1,230 people in the Malo New England tree. The most recent branch I have added is that of Adelard Ayette Malo married to Euphrosine Marcaurele. They originated in Quebec and immigrated to Connecticut.

What are your Malo research interests and what brick walls have you run into? Let us know so that we can help each other break through the walls. My current brick wall is: who were the parents of Louis Malo b. abt. 1838 in Quebec and passed on 1908 in Worcester, MA. He was buried in Putnum, CT. His wife was Harriett/Sarah Vandal.

Please send me a blog on your interests that I can post.  Feel free to add your Malo knowledge, make comments and let us know your questions.  I am looking forward to building one giant Malo tree with you all!

Au revoir mes cousins!