This is the oldest necrology bookmark (aka funerary card, signet funéraire, nécrologique) I have. Mathilde Lefebvre is an ancestor of mine. She died at the venerable age of 92 years old! That would put her birthyear as 1838! She lived a totally different lifestyle than the one we know today. Perhaps Micheline would like to post who she is, from a family tree POV. She was my grandmother's grandmother. So that would make her my great-great-grandmother. I may correct this text if contradictory info comes to me.
There was one Mathilde Lefebvre on the Titanic, but she was 12 when the ship went down, so that cannot be her.
One woman, Diane Kapp, at http://genforum.genealogy.com/lefebvre/messages/33.html is looking for info about one of ML's children, one called Georgiana. As stated on the bookmark, ML had a second husband by the name of Joseph Legault dit Deslauriers. DK says that ML married one Damase Joseph LEGAULT Oct. 10, 1863 in Montreal (Notre-Dame). So I'd say that the same ML she's talking about.
BUT... according to http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=charlebois47&id=I046218&ti=4317 (dead link), ML married Joseph Legault-Deslauriers on the 5th of October 1863, had as parents Germain Lefebvre and Sophie Gougeon, and was born about 1842. That birthyear is probably wrong in light of the above image. Her first husband was Theophile Dubrule (Dubreuil) with who it looks like she had no children. With Joseph Legault she had 2 : Georgiana Legault-Deslauriers and in 1875 my great-grandmother Anna Legault-Deslauriers. Anna married my great-grandfather Victor Emmanuel Valiquette 13 JUL 1896 in Basilique Notre-Dame, Montreal and later Jean Baptiste Charlebois 10 APR 1917 in Ste-Helene, Montreal.
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