GOM married
Joseph Sabrevior Decarie. All this time I have heard the story of GOM and Sabrevior and on Tuesday August 17th I learned that his given name was Joseph. How amazing. It was around 3pm and I was thumbing through the Gale Papers in the Archive Room of the Wisconsin Historical Society when I discovered that Spoon told Gale that his father's name was Joseph. I read it again and again. Could this be so? On Friday August 19th around 10am I was talking to Dr. Jan Vansina and he explained that Sabrevior was a nick name and not Decarie's real name. He asked, "What was his real name?" I was in awe. I relayed the story of how I just learned on Tuesday that Sabrevior's real name was Joseph. Dr. Vansina said, "Of course." Not that he knew the name, but that he knew that he must have had another name.
Last week I was on the Internet looking for Joseph Decarie and came upon a website about French military battles in Canada. I found information about the Battle of St. Foye or the Battle for Quebec. I wrote to the webmaster and asked if he had any information about the men who fought in this battle. A few days later he responded and said that he was familiar with the surname Decarie and sent me a link to a book; les familes Descarie, Decarie and Decarrie! Amazing. Now if I just read French.
