This is the Bronner family. The youngest girl in the middle is Pop-pop's mother, Jeanne. We knew her as Mémère (French for Grandma) or Grandma Lestage. She was born in 1886 in St Etienne, France and lived to be 96 years old. Notice those dresses! Mémère had this picture hanging in her room in Florida and its still in the frame. We don't know much about Mémère's sisters.
*Update since post!
* Denise Stuart: "Madeleine was my Grandmother...She died in March of 1958, a month before I was born. She was married to Felix Dansereau. They had 9 children. 5 girls and 4 boys."
* Sherrie Haber: "I was thrilled to find the pictures of Felicite (aka Felicie) and Charles. Her Maiden name was Brunet. I am a descendant of their daughter Felicity. She was my great-great grandmother. There was a 13 year age difference from Felicity to Jeanne. Felicity had a daughter named Armande who was born in 1904 and still living in California. Here is a picture of the building where Charles and Felicie lived in France. It was taken by my grandmothers cousin Phyillis."
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This the providence in France where St. Ettienne (where Memere was born).
Alsace-Lorraine (German: Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen, generally Elsass-Lothringen) was a territorial entity created by the German Empire in 1871 after the annexation of most of Alsace and the Moselle region of Lorraine in the Franco-Prussian War. The Alsatian part lay in the Rhine Valley on the west bank of the Rhine River and on the east of the Vosges Mountains. The Lorraine section was in the upper Moselle valley to the north of the Vosges Mountains.
These territories had become part of Eastern Francia in 921 during the reign of King Louis the German, and later became part of the Holy Roman Empire. They gradually became part of France between 1552, when Metz ceded to the Kingdom of France and 1798, when the Republic of Mulhouse joined the French Republic. After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, the area was annexed by the newly-created German Empire in 1871 by the Treaty of Frankfurt and became a Reichsland.
French troops entered Alsace-Lorraine in November 1918 at the end of the World War I and the territory reverted to France at the Treaty of Versailles of 1919.
The area was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1940, but reverted to France in 1945 at the end of World War II and has remained a part of France since.
In 1871 the region was made up of 93% of Alsace (7% remained French) and 26% of Lorraine (74% remained French). For historical reasons, specific legal dispositions are still applied in the territory.[1].
Madeleine was my Grandmother...She died in March of 1958, a month before I was born. She was married to Felix Dansereau. They had 9 children. 5 girls and 4 boys.
Felicity was my great-great grandmother. I have done alot of research and I'd be happy to share what I have if someone will contact me. My e-mail is mouse_va@hotmail.com I would LOVE to have a copy of these pictures.
Thank you
Sherrie
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