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Zoe Vignau fonds
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Fonds
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1763-1990 (Creation)
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- Vignau, Zoe
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0.06 m of textual records
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Biographical history
Zoe Vignau was born in Boucherville, Quebec in 1800. She married David Carnegie Low about May, 1820. They had four children - James Alexander, Zoe Elmira Manners, George Jacobs and a daughter who appears to have died at childbirth (or in infancy). Her husband died in Calcutta in 1850. No details about her later life are known.
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Scope and content
The fonds consists of correspondence from Zoe Vignau and her husband, David C. Low, to Madame Vignau in Boucherville, Quebec. It contains many important descriptions of political and social life in India in the 1820s. It also includes a family tree of the Wattsford-Low families and a copy of Une ville seigneurie Bouchervilles: Chroniques portraits et souvenirs (Montreal, 1890).
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Donated by Brigadier-General George Wattsford - 1998
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- English
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2353.3
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Open
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