Le vingt huit Avril mil huit cent quarante trois par nous prêtre soussigné a été baptisé Charles né le jour précédent du légitime marriage de Michel Thuot cultivateur de cette paroise et de Marie Anne Lefebvre. Le parrain Charles Bargevin et la marraine Emelie Primeau ainsi que le père n’ont sû signer.   E. Blyth

The twenty-eighth of April one thousand eight hundred forty three by us the undersigned priest has been baptized Charles born the preceding day of the legitimate marriage of Michel Thuot farmer of this parish and Marie Anne Lefebvre. The godfather Charles Bargevin and the godmother Emelie Primeau as well as the father cannot sign.   E. Blyth

Charles Duval’s 1843 Baptism Record
Parish book of Ste-Martine, Québec

Le dix huit Juin mil huit cent quarante sept par nous prêtre soussigné a été baptisée Marie Célanire née le jour précédent du légitime marriage de Michel St. Aubin journalier de St-Malachie et de Marie Bourdon. Le parrain Alexandre Sampson et la marraine Célanire Bourdon ainsi que le père n’ont sû signer.   E. Blyth, Prêtre

The eighteenth of June one thousand eight hundred forty seven by us the undersigned priest has been baptized Marie Célanire born the preceding day of the legitimate marriage of Michel St. Aubin laborer of St-Malachie and Marie Bourdon. The godfather Alexandre Sampson and the godmother Célanire Bourdon as well as the father cannot sign.   E. Blyth, Priest

Célanire St. Aubin’s 1847 Baptism Record
Parish book of Ste-Martine, Québec

Father Etienne Blyth, who baptized both Charles and Célanire, was pastor of Ste-Martine Parish from 1841 to 1889. He was born in 1810 in Boucherville, near Montréal, son of an Irish physician who had immigrated to Canada a few years earlier. He died in 1894 and was interred in the parish church crypt, which today is named after him.