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My grandmother, Mathilda Audrienne NICOLLE , was the daughter of Jules Alexandre Nicolle of Vieux-Bourg, Calvados, France and Justine Françoise Morenier of Dampicourt, Luxembourg, Belgium.
I wanted to find out more about Mathilda, her family and to dig into my French and Belgian ancestry as I knew next to nothing about her. My father and his twin brother were raised by Mathilda’s youngest sister, Bernadette and her husband Chris J Lindeman. My dad was very secretative about his mother and what had happened to her. My brothers and I were told she had died when he and his brother were about 12, but when I asked him how she died, he gave me a different story every time. I knew something was very
So, in 1998, I started my research on my grandmother’s side of the family tree, all I knew were a few facts from my father; the names of her parents, the names of some of her siblings and that her father Jules Nicolle’s side was from France, and that her mother Justine Morenier’s family came from Belgium. I was not sure what the true spelling of Morenier was as my great aunt Bernadette spelled her mother’s surname several different ways.