Vaillancourt

Mother - Louise Rosina Vaillancourt 1899

Louise Weinbauer Vaillancourt

The Vaillancourt family may have attended the Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church of Proviso Chicago IL

We have not found any pictures of Sam. The church where Sam married Louise may have been the above.

By the way have you noticed I have found on the internet more Vaillancourt History that dates back to 1650 - into France then to Canada. There are gaps but clearly the lineage is linked to you all.

I found the Church in Canada that married your family and a possible church in Maywood where possibly Vaillancourt, Weinbauer and Mackway met and attended. We think Harold Mackway was a Lutheran Minister and teacher in this very church. Since the French and German languages were both spoken it was logical for them to attend.

Ralph 03/25/2008

Louise would leave this Vaillancourt family

Louise left to marry Harold Mackway Sr who also had a family, and then move to a small town in Pa. The wedding license says both were never married. We will never know the circumstances but we do know the results. We document these facts here.

There is a family story that Louise left Sam because Harold promised that they would travel to
Europe and "save" the Crowned Heads. But then they only
made it as far as the East Coast. - so sad! - Jeanne (Repenning) Forsberg

Sam and Louise Vaillancourt 1899 Family Group

Husband

Samuel Henry Vaillancourt

  Born: 9 FEB 1871 - Merrimac, Essex Co., MA
  Marr: ABT 1899 -
  Died: -
Father: Pierre Celestin Pentaleon Vaillancourt
Mother: Katherine Kroff
Other Spouses:

Wife

Louise Rosina Weinbauer

Born: 26 MAR 1877 - Maywood Village, Cook Co., IL
Died: 3 FEB 1947 - Norristown, Montgomery Co., PA
Father: Philip Weinbauer
Mother: Johanna Kline
Other Spouses: Harold Jessup Mackway

Children

1. Mabel E Vaillancourt

  Born: 8 SEP 1899 - Maywood Village, Cook Co., IL
  Marr: - William Sniff
  Died: -

2. Estelle Vaillancourt

  Born: 2 NOV 1901 - Maywood Village, Cook Co., IL
  Marr: 1922 - Albert E Repenning
  Died: ABT 1972 -

3. Eunice Elizabeth Vaillancourt

  Born: 14 JUN 1903 - Maywood Village, Cook Co., IL
  Marr: - John Mairs (other spouses)
  Died: 5 AUG 1993 -

Mabel left home before the 1920 Chicago US Census.
She was registered in Jan 17, 1920 as a Hospital Nurse in training in Pueblo, Colorado.
She made a trip to Pennsylvania to visit with Eunie Vaillancourt and Louise Mackway.

Here are two pictures from we think was that visit in 1919 she was 20 twenty at that time.

Her Jan 17, 1920 Colorado US Census list is attached.

Could she have a little dog on her shoulder? The other girls were Louise, Naomi, Phoebe Mackway

Mabel holds flowers in her hand. Could it have been her 20th birthday Sept 8 ?
Eunie was 16 at that time. Louise was 43.

Mabel or Estelle Vaillancourt

Eunie Vaillancourt

Mabel Vaillancourt Sniff

12/07/02

Dear Ralph,

Eunie said that her mother called each of her first three daughters by their SECOND name (Eunie was Eunice Elizabeth, called Elizabeth until she changed her name when she married Jack Mairs, who had daughters Betty and Jane. I think she did that so there wouldn’t be two Elizabeth Mairs in the household.).

So Mabel wasn’t her first, but her second name. I don’t have her first name just now. If I find it, I’ll let you know. Mabel and Estelle were raised by their father and his sister in Chicago. Their father’s sister was involved with an heir to a fortune in produce. That’s why the older two sisters always dressed well and had such things as shoe roller skates. Eunie got boxes of outgrown clothing from her sisters in her childhood. Estelle married an (not true but he was a salesman) heir of the Orange Crush family. Bill Repenning is the youngest of her four sons. He lived in Haddonfield and came to Eunie’s 88th and 90th birthday parties. Mabel married Bill Sniff, who had a cattle ranch in Colorado; they had extensive water rights which were very important in making the land usable and valuable. Bill had several brothers. Bill and Mabel never had any children. Mabel had a “female cancer” and couldn’t carry a child. She (not true it was Estelle) was a Chrisitian Scientist, and I don’t know but think that despite the religion’s preference, had a hysterectomy. Mabel died in her sixties, I think. Bill Sniff lived for some time after Mabel died. He visited us in New Jersey after Mabel’s death, and gave me Mabel’s Singer sewing machine. It’s an electric portable, with a wood case. I made my wedding dress with it.

Eunie had no children. Her first husband was the brother of one of her nursing school buddies. He divorced her after she was raped. Jack Mairs’ parents didn’t want their granddaughters (Betty and Jane) given ‘stepchild” treatment by Eunie, so they and he didn’t want Eunie to have a child by Jack Mairs. She didn’t. Eunie was in her fifties by the time she married Jack Crombie, and his children were grown. Thus Eunie never got to have a child.

More as I remember or you ask. AnnMarie Mackway-girardi

Graves Eunie and Louise Mackway in St Michaels Church Cemetery Sellersville Pa