In 1771 Marie Rose Martin dit Pellant married Joseph Vanasse dit Vertefeuille and a number of children were born of this union . When Joseph died , she remarried in 1777 and her new husband was Joseph Vanasse dit Bastien  . She had a number of children from her second marriage .

 

Here you had a family where some of the chidren were Vanasses dit Vertefeuille and some were Vanasses dit Bastien . Well what do you think happened - well some of the children referred to themselves as Vanasse dit Bastien Vertefeuille and subsequent lines of the family which were really Vanasses dit Bastien referred to themselves as simply Vertefeuille alone .

 

This has caused havoc with genealogists . There is roughly 8 different Bastien families of which Vanasse is one . Then there are the Vanasses dit Vertefeuilles and a Bachand dit Vertefeuille family and some of this last family go simply by Vertefeuille . All the Vertefeuilles live in the same area of Quebec .

 

Thank God that there are only a few Vertefeuille lines . To add to the confusion one line of this Vertefeuille ( Vanasse dit Bastien Vertefeuille ) family immigrated to Ste Croix County in Wisconsin and reverted back to the original Vanasse surname . Who said genealogy was boring !