Individual Details
Gregoire Joseph MILQUET
(6 Mar 1826 - 30 Jun 1892)
Events
| Birth | 6 Mar 1826 | Thisnes, Liège, Belgium |  | ||
| Marriage | 11 Jan 1848 | Thisnes, Liège, Belgium - | | ||
| Census | 1 Jun 1860 | Brown County Jail, Rockland, Brown, Wisconsin, United States |  | | |
| Military | 1861 - 1865 | Private, Wisconsin 14th Infantry, Civil War | | | |
| Census | 1875 | De Pere, Brown, Wisconsin, United States | | | |
| Residence | 1885 | Soldiers Home, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States | | | |
| Death | 30 Jun 1892 | De Pere, Brown, Wisconsin, United States | | | |
| Burial | Wood National Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States | |
Families
| Father | Jean François Joseph MILQUET (1798 - 1838) |
| Mother | Marie Joseph LIBOTTE (1798 - 1875) |
| Sibling | MILQUET ( - ) |
| Sibling | Marie Catherine MILQUET (1821 - ) |
| Sibling | Mary Josephine MILQUET (1824 - 1909) |
| Sibling | Jean François Joseph MILQUET (1829 - 1908) |
| Sibling | Rosalie Josephine MILQUET (1833 - 1914) |
| Sibling | Marie Philippine MILQUET (1837 - 1922) |
Notes
Census
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.Military
Wounded in Action (shot in left shoulder)Enlisted in Company F, Wisconsin 14th Infantry Regiment on 22 Oct 1861. He was wounded in the left shoulder and later mustered out at Shiloh on 15 Aug 1862. Drafted to Company F, Wisconsin 14th Infantry Regiment on 28 Dec 1864. Mustered out on 09 Oct 1865 at Mobile, AL.
Census
Gregory Milquet was listed as the head of the family and the only member of the family. He was listed immediately after the household of his brother, Francis Milquet.Residence
Admitted in 1885Death
According to the record of the Northwestern Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Gregoire Milquet died in De Pere, while on furlough (from the Soldiers Home in Milwaukee). He was a widower at the time.Endnotes
1. , Find A Grave, photographs and extracted information (findagrave.com : accessed 9 January 2017), Gregoire Milquet; memorial #124900647.
2. "United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938," digital images online, FamilySearch ( : accessed 17 January 2017), Gregoire Milquet; National Archives and Records Administration; digital folder 4832656, image 384.
3. "Belgium, Liège, Civil Registration, 1621-1914," digital images, FamilySearch ( : accessed 27 January 2017), birth of Grégoire Joseph Milquet; België Nationaal Archief, Brussels (Belgium National Archives, Brussels); Thisnes; Naissances, mariages, décès 1821-1840; image 126, record 13.
4. "Belgium, Liège, Civil Registration, 1621-1914," digital images, FamilySearch ( : accessed 27 January 2017), marriage of Gregoire Joseph Milquet and Victoire Joseph Mehagnouille; België Nationaal Archief, Brussels (Belgium National Archives, Brussels); Thisnes; Naissances, mariages, décès 1841-1854; image 219, record 2.
5. 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.
6. Dorothy Beno Lutomski and Mary Ann Lurquin Defnet, Reunion: A Beno-Champeau Genealogy (Green Bay, Wisconsin: n.p., 1978), page 59-60.
7. "United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938," digital images online, FamilySearch ( : accessed 17 January 2017), Gregoire Milquet; National Archives and Records Administration; digital folder 4832656, image 384.
8. Gregory Milquet, 1875 Wisconsin State Census, , population, , film 4245040, image 680, page 13; FamilySearch.org, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin.
9. "United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938," digital images online, FamilySearch ( : accessed 17 January 2017), Gregoire Milquet; National Archives and Records Administration; digital folder 4832656, image 384.
10. , Find A Grave, photographs and extracted information (findagrave.com : accessed 9 January 2017), Gregoire Milquet; memorial #124900647.
11. "United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938," digital images online, FamilySearch ( : accessed 17 January 2017), Gregoire Milquet; National Archives and Records Administration; digital folder 4832656, image 384.
12. , Find A Grave, photographs and extracted information (findagrave.com : accessed 9 January 2017), Gregoire Milquet; memorial #124900647.