Individual Details
Jean François Joseph MILQUET
(9 Mar 1829 - 21 Jan 1908)
Events
| Birth | 9 Mar 1829 | Thisnes, Liège, Belgium |  | ||
| Marriage | 14 Jan 1854 | Lens-Saint-Remy, Liège, Belgium - Marie Elizabeth BOUSMANNE | | ||
| Census | 1 Jun 1860 | Brown County Jail, Rockland, Brown, Wisconsin, United States |  | | |
| Census | 1875 | De Pere, Brown, Wisconsin, United States | | | |
| Census | 1880 | De Pere, Brown, Wisconsin, United States | | | |
| Census | 1 Jun 1900 | De Pere, Brown, Wisconsin, United States | | | |
| Emigration | 1907 | Belgium | | | |
| Death | 21 Jan 1908 | Lens-Saint-Remy, Liège, Belgium | | ||
| Divorce | Marie Elizabeth BOUSMANNE | | |||
| Alt name | Francis "Frank" MILQUET |
Families
| Spouse | Marie Elizabeth BOUSMANNE (1817 - ) |
| Child | Pierre Joseph MILQUET ( - ) |
| 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 | Gregoire Joseph MILQUET (1826 - 1892) |
| 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.Census
Francis Milquet was listed as the head of household. There was one other male living in the household.Census
Frank Milquet, age 51, divorced, a farmer, lived in the household of Denis Binon.Census
John Melquett, age 75, widowed, born in Belgium in March 1825.Emigration
Returned to his home country in 1907.Endnotes
1. Dorothy Beno Lutomski and Mary Ann Lurquin Defnet, Reunion: A Beno-Champeau Genealogy (Green Bay, Wisconsin: n.p., 1978), page 59.
2. "Belgium, Liège, Civil Registration, 1621-1914," digital images, FamilySearch ( : accessed 27 January 2017), birth of Jean François Joseph Milquet; België Nationaal Archief, Brussels (Belgium National Archives, Brussels); Thisnes; Naissances, mariages, décès 1821-1840; image 212, record 9.
3. "Belgium, Liège, Civil Registration, 1621-1914," digital images, FamilySearch ( : accessed 20 February 2017), marriage of Jean François Joseph Milquet and Marie Elisabeth Bousmanne; België Nationaal Archief, Brussels (Belgium National Archives, Brussels); Lens-Saint-Remy, Naissances, publications de mariage, mariages, décès 1821-1860, image 1181, 1854 record 3.
4. Dorothy Beno Lutomski and Mary Ann Lurquin Defnet, Reunion: A Beno-Champeau Genealogy (Green Bay, Wisconsin: n.p., 1978), page 59.
5. "Belgium, Liège, Civil Registration, 1621-1914," digital images, FamilySearch ( : downloaded 20 February 2017), marriage of Jean François Joseph Milquet and Marie Elisabeth Bousmanne; België Nationaal Archief, Brussels (Belgium National Archives, Brussels); Lens-Saint-Remy, Naissances, publications de mariage, mariages, décès 1821-1860, image 1181, 1854 record 3.
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. Dorothy Beno Lutomski and Mary Ann Lurquin Defnet, Reunion: A Beno-Champeau Genealogy (Green Bay, Wisconsin: n.p., 1978), pages 59-60.
8. Francis Milquet, 1875 Wisconsin State Census, , population, , film 4245040, image 680, page 13; FamilySearch.org, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin.
9. 1880 U.S. Federal Census, , population, Wisconsin, Brown, De Pere, enumeration district (ED) 3, image 17, dwelling 120, family 120, line 35, Frank Milquet, in household of Denis Milquet; digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1880usfedcen/ : accessed 17 January 2017); National Archives and Records Administration.
10. 1900 U.S. Federal Census, , population, Wisconsin, Brown, De Pere, enumeration district (ED) 5, sheet 3B, image 6, dwelling 45, family 45, line 88, John Melquett; digital images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1325221 : accessed 6 February 2017); National Archives and Records Administration.
11. Dorothy Beno Lutomski and Mary Ann Lurquin Defnet, Reunion: A Beno-Champeau Genealogy (Green Bay, Wisconsin: n.p., 1978), page 59.
12. Dorothy Beno Lutomski and Mary Ann Lurquin Defnet, Reunion: A Beno-Champeau Genealogy (Green Bay, Wisconsin: n.p., 1978), page 59.
13. "Belgium, Liège, Lens-Saint-Remy, Registres de l'état civil, 1901-1920," digital images, FamilySearch ( : downloaded 20 February 2017), death of Jean François Joseph Milquet; Naissances, mariages, décès, publications de mariages, 1048, 1901-1910 (film 102366634), image 524, record 2.
14. Dorothy Beno Lutomski and Mary Ann Lurquin Defnet, Reunion: A Beno-Champeau Genealogy (Green Bay, Wisconsin: n.p., 1978), page 59.