St. John the Baptist Marriages

St. John the Baptist Marriages

St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
Howard (Duck Creek), Brown County, Wisconsin

Marriages: 1864 – 1874

The first St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Duck Creek was built in 1849. It was first attended by the priests serving at St. John the Evangelist in Green Bay. About 1853, the parish received its first resident pastor, Father Turcotte. At that time, up until the founding of St. Peter’s Church in Oconto, the priest from Duck Creek served an area that included all the area north to the state line of Michigan, as well as Menominee, Michigan. Unfortunately the records for St. John the Baptist from their start until mid-1881 went missing before 1895. Why they went missing is unknown.

This is a huge loss for all of the genealogically minded descendents of the settlers of that area. These included many French-Canadians, Metis, and Belgian pioneers.

The Marriages

In December of 1874, some of the marriages from St. Johns were registered with the Brown County Register of Deeds. The particular group of records which follow, date from January 1864 to 1874. Certainly more marriages than those listed below were performed at St. John’s between 1849 and 1881, but these are all that were recorded in this one particular, continuous run. It is also quite possible (likely even) that there are more runs of births (taken from the baptismal register) and deaths (taken from the funeral register) to be found in the many volumes of original vital record certificates housed at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay Area Research Center.

It should be remembered that the spellings of the names were as they were written in the sacramental register and copied from that source years later.

The below marriages were performed at St. John’s Catholic Church between 1864 and 1874 and recorded in the civil marriage records of the Brown County Register of Deeds. They are now stored at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay Archives & Area Research Center.


VolumePageDateGroom SurnameBride Surname
7991863 12 13KeefeBellen
71131864 01 22BaronWacker
71121864 01 24CormierLangdo
71181864 04 24CallewaersTilly
71131864 04 24MorrisLariviere
71191864 10 15ScallenGurry
71161865 06 20FournierLaprairie
71171865 08 01LawrenceMacmann
71181865 12 26CapentikesLanglois
71171865 12 31KenewonaKenesa
71161866 09 06PrinceBadeau
71151866 09 09LecombeFontainie
71151866 09 11BelleauHussin
71141866 10 15LariviereLamirande
71131866 10 28DumasRabida
71261866 11 24GauthierFrenan
71191866 12 16DetervilleHussin
71201867 01 07LouisJosmo
71201867 04 20BrunetWalker
71211867 04 25LemireFauk
71211867 05 12DonleveyWalcker
71221867 06 02LepageBrunet
71221867 07 27BibeauFrenan
71231867 08 06BonnevilleBouchard
71231867 08 15O’NeilDoran
71241867 08 18FournierChampeau
71241867 09 17SkillingMorris
71251867 10 16GrenierBouchard
71261867 11 03LawrenceMorois
71251867 11 09StAngeLamirande
71021869 02 08MussinLemyre
71041869 03 08BrunetteLemeye
71021869 03 08MussinLemyre
71031869 04 12FilleyApril
71031869 04 12FillyApril
71041869 05 07FredenbourgMenaret
71051869 08 18CumpsDeDecker
71051869 09 29DuchateauHeursin
71061869 10 08DancasterMahes
71011870 02 27ChartrazMontfert
71001870 02 27VeanepoiChaunard
71011870 05 06LebellePatro
71021870 10 01BarlementBecker
71031870 10 05VanHurkLemons
7901870 10 15GrignonHamilton
7891870 10 27SkillingBorden
7901870 11 06CrikclairVan Ixe
71121870 11 22WaardSplan
71111871 12 02BrooksLabelle
71101871 12 11St ClairHussin
71301872 00 00LagroisCaffry
7971872 00 00LeconteFontaine
7981872 00 00VradenburgWauprouse
71101872 04 04FletcherMurphy
7891872 05 13LonneardMarteau
71311872 07 08VanFrachenTilly
7981872 08 05KarshBlaser
71091872 10 00CathearselDuchateau
71091872 10 30DonahoeFinaghan
7911872 11 03TobinO’Connor
71081872 11 08LouisCormeau
71311872 12 22LymesLawler
71301873 00 00GagnonPaien
7931873 02 00GoodwinBrown
7951873 02 19ClarkNollen
7951873 02 25SkillingBrunette
7971873 04 09CookPoitras
7961873 04 09TrudeauPoitras
71061873 04 21PlouffPlooff
7931873 05 00CumpsBeaupre
71271873 06 01DelormeLando
7921873 06 14CrepeauFontaine
7921873 06 14GrisFellon
7961873 07 09CharteuxPoirer
71071873 07 27SchamonFegerson
71071873 08 03WoletteChapron
7991873 09 02DanksWauters
71281873 09 03WescotDemes
71271873 10 12DumasRabido
71081873 10 13GauthierLedger
71291873 11 00PatenotesHull
71001873 11 17ColhusDoran
71291873 11 24LabelleMorin
71281873 12 07BasoCarbano
7911873 12 31FournierBrunette
7941874 00 00GervaisDian
7941874 00 00LemayPloudt
71201874 04 20BrunetWalcker