Legris Family History
Index of all sites relating to this family and related families.
The Legris family is from the Normandie area of France.  Jaques Bourdon, son of Jean and Marguerite (Legris) Bourdon, immigrated to Quebec in the mid-1600s where he married Marie Menard.  Four generations later, Rosalie Bourdon married Charles Vary, and their son Moyse/Moise Vary immigrated to the US with his family just before the 1870 census of ND.  They were among the first families of a settlement named Oakwood, about 1 mile east of Grafton, ND.  It still exists today, though it is a very small town, and the church (still in use) can be seen from the highway on the right hand side as you are traveling west towards Grafton from I-29.  The settlement was mostly French Catholic, with a few Irish Catholic families attending church there in the first few years. 

Decendents of Jean Bourdon and Marguerite (Magloire) Legris
                   m. St. Gerard, Rouen, Normandie, France
Jaques Bourdon m. Marie Menard
                   Feb 8, 1671 or 1672 in Bourcherville, Chambly Cty, Quebec
Joseph Francois Bourdon m. Marie Catherine Bleau
                   Nov 28, 1719 in Montreal, Quebec
Joseph Francois Bourdon m. Marie Pelagie Charron
                    Feb 19, 1747 or 1748
Francois Bourdon m. Charlotte Ste-Marie
                    Feb 15, 1790 in Longueuil, Quebec
Rosalie Bourdon m. Charles Vary
                    in St. Remi?, Quebec
Moyse/Moise Vary m. Phebee Esther Laroche
                    Feb 2, 1858 in Ste. Isidore, Laprairie, Quebec
Joseph Philias Vary m. Mary Poole
                    April 23, 1883 in Oakwood, Walsh Cty, ND
Mary Lily (Lillian Josephine) Vary m. Arthur Nicolai Nelson
                    Nov 25, 1919 in Stephen Catholic Church, Marshall Cty, MN
Marian Thelma Nelson m. George John Gryskiewicz
                    Oct 29, 1946 in Stephen Catholic Church, Marshall Cty, MN
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