Individual Details
Marie Theotiste LAPLANTE
(4 Jul 1835 - )
Two girls, both similarly named (Mary Theotiste and Theotiste Marie) were born to this couple in 1835 and 1836, and only one of them was listed on the 1850 Census (as Mary Laplante). The Mary on the 1850 Census was listed as 15 years old, which, if correct, would put her birth year in 1835. On the other hand, it seems likely that the first girl died before the second was born, considering the similar names. In fact, considering that the second girl was born only eleven months after the first, it seems likely that the first one survived only a very short time. Another alternative is that both girls were alive in 1850, but one had married. This would have been a very young marriage, but not unheard of in this period. In any case, I matched what I thought to be the most likely birth information with the girl on the 1850 Census, but this is a tentative conclusion.
Events
| Birth | 4 Jul 1835 | Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, United States |  |  |
Families
| Father | Jean Baptiste LAPLANTE ( - 1850) |
| Mother | Marie Théotiste "Catherine" BEAUDOIN ( - 1869) |
| Sibling | Mary Theotiste LAPLANTE (1836 - 1876) |
| Sibling | Narcisse "Nelson" LAPLANT ( - 1917) |
| Sibling | Oliver LAPLANTE (1840 - 1923) |
| Sibling | Francis "Frank" LAPLANTE (1842 - 1928) |
| Sibling | Louis LAPLANT (1844 - 1928) |
| Sibling | Matilda Jeanne LAPLANTE (1846 - 1909) |
| Sibling | Alexander LAPLANTE (1848 - 1883) |
| Sibling | LAPLANTE ( - ) |
Notes
Birth
Birth records (two of them) both list her as "half-breed." Probably, Jean Baptiste Laplante was Metis. There has been speculation that Catherine Govreau Baudoin, this child`s maternal grandmother was either half or full blooded Native American, but this is strongly disputed. Also the birth record of Jean Baptiste Baudoin, son of Catherine Govreau, describes that child as white.Endnotes
1. Brown County, Wisconsin, FHL film 1306423, item 3: Births, Vol. 1: pp. 38 and 44, # 1717 and 1752, Mary Theotiste Laplante, 1835.