Ontario French Catholic Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1747-1967 > L > L`Orignal > 1835-1840
St. Jean-Baptiste Paroisse, 1843
B. 62 Moise Bertrand
On the fourteenth of May one thousand eight hundred and forty three, I the undersigned priest have baptized Moise, born on the twenty-second of April of the marriage of Gedeon Bertrand and of Denyse Rochon. Sponsors, Philip McNolty and Emilie Descardonets.
P. Lefaivre (priest)

Catholic Church Records of the Pacific Northwest St. Louis Vols. 1 & 2 Gervais Brooks. Compiled by Harriet Duncan Munnick.
St. Louis Vol. 2, p. 51
M-10, Moses Bertrand and Felicite McKay
November 9, 1874, we the undersigned pastor of St. Louis, after the proclamation of three bans, have received the mutual consent of marriage of Moses Bertrand, son of Gedeon Bertrand and Denise Risson on one part; and Felicite McKay, daughter of John McKay and Josephine Boucher on the other part, and have given them the nuptial benediction in the presence of Eugene Pierrard and Josephine McKay, witnesses.
Rev. G. A. Vermeersch, Pr. M.

Many of the family members who remained in the U. S. adopted the Anglicized spelling "Bartrow" in place of the original French "Bertrand", but some records will use either spelling or some other variation.


Good, Rachel Applegate.
History of Klamath County, Oregon : its resources and its people, illustrated
Klamath Falls, Or.: unknown, 1941, 735 pgs.
p. 278
. . . Mary Ellen Bartrow, born in Woodburn, Oregon, where she attended school and, later travelled extensively throughout the Northwest before her marriage. . . . Moses Bartrow, of Canadian descent, a farmer by occupation, first came to Klamath Falls in 1899 and resided here four years. Later in life Mr. Bartrow moved to the western part of the State where he died at Woodburn in 1914. His wife, Felicitate McKay, was a native of Woodburn, daughter of John McKay of Scotch descent.

From a personal letter from the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon dated August 5, 1980:
"Moses Bertrand's death is recorded in the St. Louis Parish records. The entry is in Latin and one of the priests at the Chancery Office has translated the entry as follows:
"'On July 11, 1914, I buried in the cemetery of St. Louis, Oregon the mortal remains of Moses Bertrand, age 79 years who died on July 9, 1914 fortified by the Sacraments.' Priest: Francis Mayeur."

Timeline (some periods unknown):
1843-1849 -- L'Orignal, Prescott, Ontario
1849-1862 -- Ft. Covington, Franklin Co., NY
1862-1874 -- Unknown; possibly Essex, Ont.
1874-1875 -- Marion County
1877 -- Clackamas County
1879-1882 -- Oak Grove, Wasco County
1884-1892 -- Woodburn, Marion County
1893 -- Jackson County
1898 -- Harney County
1899-1905 -- Klamath Falls, Klamath County
1906-1907 -- Wallowa County
1909-1912 -- Bay City, Tillamook County
1914 -- Marion County