From a Bailly point of view
Subtitle: an introduction to the first pioneer family of Northwestern Indiana
By: by Olga Mae Schiemann
Series: Duneland Historical Society. Publications -- v. 1, no. 5
Publisher: Duneland Historical Society
Published: 1955
Place of publication: [s.l.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 82
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life; French-Canadians; History; Genealogy
Description: Honoré Gratien Joseph Bailly de Messein, known as Joseph Bailly, was born in 1774 at St. Anne de Varennes, across the river from Montreal, Canada, the son of Michel Bailly de Messein (1747-1795) and his wife, Geneviève Aubert de Gaspé (1749-1834). He started a fur trading career at Mackinac in 1792. He married 1) Angelique McGulpin, daughter of Patrick McGulpin of Mackinac. They had five children, ca. 1798-1807. He married 2) Marie Lafevre ca. 1810. They had five children, 1811-1823. He served with Canadian forces during the War of 1812. He moved his home to what is now Baileytown, Indiana, in 1822. He died in 1835.
Notes: Issued with Bailly, Edward Cashman. The Baillys of today.

Contains bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: From a Bailly point of view; title: Sketch map, Baillytown, Indiana; title: The Church; title: Bailly cemetery; title: Publications; title: Ancestors; title: Family line of descent; title: Activity locations of Joseph Bailly and his relatives; title: Fiefs and seignories; title: But who were the Howes?; title: Family line of descent, Francis Howe; title: Families of the first marriage of Honoré Gratien Joseph Bailly de Messein and of Mari LeFevre and of their marriage in about the year 1810; title: The Baillys of today; title: Line of descent, Edward Cashman Bailly; title: Biography, Edward Cashman Bailly (b. 1886).