Individual Details
Marie Joseph LIBOTTE
(16 Oct 1798 - 17 Jan 1875)
Events
| Birth | 16 Oct 1798 | Crehen, Liège, Belgium |  |  | |
| Marriage | 16 Apr 1821 | Crehen, Liège, Belgium - Jean François Joseph MILQUET | | ||
| Census | 1 Jun 1860 | Brown County Jail, Rockland, Brown, Wisconsin, United States | | | |
| Death | 17 Jan 1875 | De Pere, Brown, Wisconsin, United States | | ||
| Alt name | Mary Joseph LIEBOTH |
Families
| Spouse | Jean François Joseph MILQUET (1798 - 1838) |
| Child | MILQUET ( - ) |
| Child | Marie Catherine MILQUET (1821 - ) |
| Child | Mary Josephine MILQUET (1824 - 1909) |
| Child | Gregoire Joseph MILQUET (1826 - 1892) |
| Child | Jean François Joseph MILQUET (1829 - 1908) |
| Child | Rosalie Josephine MILQUET (1833 - 1914) |
| Child | Marie Philippine MILQUET (1837 - 1922) |
| Father | Martin Joseph LIBOTTE (1774 - 1840) |
| Mother | Marie Catherine WILMET (1767 - 1833) |
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Notes
Birth
Age 23 at time of marriageCensus
The presence of Mary Joseph Milquet and three of her adult children (Gregory, Francis, and Philipine) as residents of the Brown County Jail is puzzling. Mary Ann Defnet's research shows that they had been arrested on a charge of petty larceny. They were convicted in April of 1860, and sentenced to imprisonment in the Brown County Jail for six months. "A check of the legal records shows that a mortgage on property purchased in 1857 was being foreclosed. Perhaps non-payment of the mortgage was the basis for the arrest." On June 4, 1860, Governor Alexander W. Randall pardoned Mary Joseph Libot Milquet, and ordered her release. I don't know if this pardon also extended to her three adult children.Creation of delayed birth record for Marie Joseph Libotte
This was found in the "pièces de marriage" of Crehen for this period (FHL film 2376746). Marie Joseph's parents, at the time of her birth, were ignorant of the requirement that she be presented at the city hall and a birth record recorded. Therefore, when the adult Marie Joseph wanted to marry Jean François Milquet, the required birth certificate was impossible to find. Several witnesses testified as to her birth in Crehen on 16 Oct 1798, and the birth was belatedly certified. There was a fee of one florin and forty cents, but because the parents were destitute, this fee was waived.Endnotes
1. "Belgium, Liège, Civil Registration, 1621-1914," digital images, FamilySearch ( : accessed 27 January 2017), marriage of Jean François Milquet and Marie Joseph Libotte; België Nationaal Archief, Brussels (Belgium National Archives, Brussels); Crehen; Naissances, publications de mariage, mariages, décès 1801-1860; image 338, marriage 11.
2. "Belgium, Liège, Civil Registration, 1621-1914," digital images, FamilySearch ( : accessed 27 January 2017), birth of Marie Josephe Milquet; België Nationaal Archief, Brussels (Belgium National Archives, Brussels); Thisnes; Naissances, mariages, décès 1821-1840; image 65, record 21.
3. "Registres de l'état civil de Crehen (Liège), 1801-1900," digital images, FamilySearch ( : accessed 6 February 2017), creation of delayed birth certificate for Marie Joseph Libotte; Pièces de mariage 1810-1866 (film #005594672), images 246-247.
4. "Belgium, Liège, Civil Registration, 1621-1914," digital images, FamilySearch ( : accessed 27 January 2017), marriage of Jean François Milquet and Marie Joseph Libotte; België Nationaal Archief, Brussels (Belgium National Archives, Brussels); Crehen; Naissances, publications de mariage, mariages, décès 1801-1860; image 338, marriage 11.
5. Dorothy Beno Lutomski and Mary Ann Lurquin Defnet, Reunion: A Beno-Champeau Genealogy (Green Bay, Wisconsin: n.p., 1978), page 59-60.
6. 1860 U.S. Federal Census, , population, Wisconsin, Brown, Rockland, page 150, image 1, line 7, Gregory Milquet; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 9 January 2017); National Archives and Records Administration.
7. Brown County Court, Probate record.