Lucille Marie Antoinette RENO

  General Notes:

Russ McKinstry said that the original was Renaud. They consistently reported on the census that they were French Canadian. Even though the entire clan appeared in Southbridge and Sturbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts by 1870, most members of each generation through 1930 said they had been born in Canada, and so had their wives. They said they were French Canadian.

The line seems to have:

John Reno age 69 b abt 1811 (1880 census)
Angella 61 b abt 1819 both born Canada
Peter 33 b 1847 (1880) b abt 1850 - 1910 census, both age 60 in 1910
Aremia 32 wife (b abt 1848) both born Canada
Frank 8 b abt 1872
Almeda 6 b abt 1874
Salvine 8 b abt 1872
Armena 1 b abt 1879 All born in Canada

This is not the same family, unless my notes are very screwed up. It has the rough look of same family in 1870 and 1880.
Reno, John 68 b 1812
Angella 61
Israel 12 in school
Mary 20
Frank 18
Delia 16


Alcidus Reno age 25 b abt 1855
Rosata wife 25


Reno, John, 35, b Canada abt 1845
Susan 36 b Connecticut
John 15 b 1865
Joseph 12 b 1868
Dolphs 7 b 1873
Corinne 9 b 1871
Paul 4 b 1876
Mary? 2 b 1878

John Reno b 1840
Celina b 1840
Mary b 1863 Canada
Rosa 1865 CA
Meulda b 1869 CA
Fred b 1877 Connecticut

1880 Edward b 1852 MA
1910 - Edward b 1851. 1920 - Edward b 1851.

Fred b 1855 MA

John B b 1873 MA

Israel b 1867 MA (Prob son of John and Angella above. Joseph b 1870 MA
John Reno b 1840
Celina b 1840
Mary b 1863 Canada
Rosa 1865 CA
Meulda b 1869 CA
Fred b 1877 Connecticut


Joseph Reno b 1846 (My brother in law's direct line) Canada
Eliza b 1850 Canada - all parents b Canada as well
Joseph b 1874 MA
Eliza b 1872 MA
John b 1876 MA
Mary b 1878 MA
Peter b 1879 MA - my brother in law's great grandfather

Joseph and family cannot be found in Massachusetts in 1900 nor in 1910; neither can Peter.

Peter married Diana Dastian, spelling approximate, supposedly locally in Southbridge, though she was born in Canada and said on 1920 census she was French Canadian (as did Peter though he reported he was born in Massachusetts.) He said both his paretns were French Canadian. They must have married around 1910, to judge from the subsequent births of their children. One daughter was born around 1911 in Ohio, according to the 1920 census. Two daughters were born around 1912 and 1913 back in Massachusetts, according to hte 1920 census. Three daughters were born in Canada between 1914 and about 1918, according to the 1920 census. The child born in 1914 was born in Calgary, Alberta according to family records. she is my brother in law's grandmother. According to Russ McKinstry, he needed to travel all the way to Calgary, Alberta, to find work as an optician. In 1920 they were back in Southbridge.

Lucille married Philip Harrison McKINSTRY, son of Harrison Bond McKINSTRY and Davida (Vida) Bennett MAXWELL, in 1938 in Southbridge, Massachusetts. (Philip Harrison McKINSTRY was born in 1915 in Southbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts and died in Jul 2000 in Soutbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts.)