Marguerite Annie Johnson was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4, 1928, the second child of Bailey Johnson, a doorman and navy dietitian, and Vivian (Baxter) Johnson, a nurse and card dealer. Angelou's older brother, Bailey Jr., nicknamed Marguerite "Maya", derived from "My" or "Mya Sister". When Angelou was three and her brother four, their parents' "calamitous marriage" ended, and their father sent them to Stamps, Arkansas, alone by train, to live with their paternal grandmother, Annie Henderson. In "an astonishing exception" to the harsh economics of African Americans of the time, Angelou's grandmother prospered financially during the Great Depression and World War II because the general store she owned sold needed basic commodities and because "she made wise and honest investments".
Early life
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou | Early life
No, she was the second child. No, she had an older brother, Bailey Jr. No, she was the second child No, the second child of Bailey Johnson
i know why the caged bird sings poem explanation
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It is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature can help overcome racism and trauma.
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who is the author of this poem?
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Maya Angelou.
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where was she born?
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St. Louis, Missouri.
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was she the only child?
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Moore was born on June 11, 1989, in Jefferson City, Missouri. She is the daughter of Kathryn Moore.
Maya Moore | Early life
Marguerite Annie Johnson was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4, 1928, the second child of Bailey Johnson, a doorman and navy dietitian, and Vivian (Baxter) Johnson, a nurse and card dealer. Angelou's older brother, Bailey Jr., nicknamed Marguerite "Maya", derived from "My" or "Mya Sister". When Angelou was three and her brother four, their parents' "calamitous marriage" ended, and their father sent them to Stamps, Arkansas, alone by train, to live with their paternal grandmother, Annie Henderson. In "an astonishing exception" to the harsh economics of African Americans of the time, Angelou's grandmother prospered financially during the Great Depression and World War II because the general store she owned sold needed basic commodities and because "she made wise and honest investments".
Maya Angelou | Early life
Hayes was born in New York City to Irene Smith and Derek Hayes. She has four siblings. Hayes attended Newark Academy, a private school located in Livingston, New Jersey. She grew up in West Orange, New Jersey.
Maya Hayes | Early life
Four years later, when Angelou was seven and her brother eight, the children's father "came to Stamps without warning" and returned them to their mother's care in St. Louis. At the age of eight, while living with her mother, Angelou was sexually abused and raped by her mother's boyfriend, a man named Freeman. She told her brother, who told the rest of their family. Freeman was found guilty but was jailed for only one day. Four days after his release, he was murdered, probably by Angelou's uncles. Angelou became mute for almost five years, believing, as she stated, "I thought, my voice killed him; I killed that man, because I told his name.
Maya Angelou | Early life
And then I thought I would never speak again, because my voice would kill anyone." According to Marcia Ann Gillespie and her colleagues, who wrote a biography about Angelou, it was during this period of silence when Angelou developed her extraordinary memory, her love for books and literature, and her ability to listen and observe the world around her.
Maya Angelou | Early life
Angelo was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1924. She was educated at Woman's College of the University of North Carolina. Her husband, Harold Levy, died in 1998. They had one child, a son, Christopher Levy.
Bonnie Angelo | Early life
At 17, she gave birth to her only child, Meena Harris. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. That year, she enrolled in Stanford Law School. While at Stanford, she was active with the East Palo Alto Community Law Project, serving as Co-Coordinator of the Domestic Violence Clinic and Co-Chair of the Student Steering Committee.
Maya Harris | Early life and education
Eshet was born in Jerusalem, Israel, to a family of Jewish descent. She has two younger sisters. She grew up in moshav Mesilat Zion.
Maya Eshet | Early life
She started high school at the notable Thelma Yellin High School for the Arts majoring in theatre, but a year later she moved to Ironi He, a regular municipal high school. She was not enlisted to the Israel Defense Forces, because she was underweight.
Maya Maron | Early life
Angelou held many jobs, including some in the sex trade, working as a prostitute and madam for lesbians, as she described in her second autobiography, "Gather Together in My Name". In a 1995 interview, Angelou said, Angelou had one son, Guy, whose birth she described in her first autobiography; one grandson, two great-grandchildren, and, according to Gillespie, a large group of friends and extended family. Angelou's mother Vivian Baxter died in 1991 and her brother Bailey Johnson Jr., died in 2000 after a series of strokes; both were important figures in her life and her books. In 1981, the mother of her grandson disappeared with him; finding him took four years.
Maya Angelou | Personal life
Born in Sydney, Nova Scotia and raised in Whitney Pier, she is the daughter of Archpriest George A. Francis and Thelma D. Francis, and is a graduate of Saint Mary's University and completed graduate studies at New York University.
Mayann Francis | Early life and education
Katrina C. Willis was born in Kettering, Ohio, the youngest of four children.
Katrina C. Willis | Early life
Myat Thu Thu was born on 14 June 1990 in Yangon. She is the eldest child among four siblings, having two younger sisters and an younger brother. She attended high school at Basic Education High School No. 4 Mayangone and graduated from Dagon University with a degree in Maths.
Myat Thu Thu | Early life and education
She had seven children between 1951 and 1963. The last child had a severe intellectual disability, which prompted her to study psychology at the University of Melbourne.
Maureen Molloy | Early life
Mona Sulaiman was born in a barrio in Cotabato on 9 June 1942 to Kudelat and Aminan Sulaiman.
Mona Sulaiman | Early life
Chloe Marie Helene Sauvourel was born on June 18, 2000, in the Central African Republic.
Chloe Sauvourel | Early life
Maya Horgan Famodu is from a Nigerian father and an American mother. She spent most of her youth in Minnesota, United States. She attended Pomona College and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in environmental sciences and completed a Prelaw Program at Cornell University.
Maya Horgan Famodu | Early life and education
Anne Jacqueline Lohoues was born in Dabou in 1950, one of eleven children. She has a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Abidjan-Cocody (1975), a master's degree in Private Law from the University of Paris II (1977) and a PhD from Jean Moulin University (1982).
Jacqueline Oble | Early life and education
Augustine. They would have five children, only one of which would survive childhood.
Arthur Tracy Lee | Early life and career
Lewis was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States on May 22, 1922, the youngest of three children. Her father, Leon, was a pianist, musical director for CBS, and composer while her mother, Jessica, was a singer with the Chicago Opera Company, with Lewis studying voice with her mother. At the age of 11, Lewis' family moved to New York City due to The Great Depression.
Monica Lewis | Early life
Gilliss-Chapman was born in the Kandal Province of Cambodia. She was brought to the capital city of Phnom Penh, Cambodia as an orphan. The circumstances around her transport from Kandal to Phnom Penh remain unknown. She was brought to the United States of America in 1991 and resided in the city of Oakland, California.
Maya Gilliss-Chapman | Early life
Louis, Missouri. They had one daughter named Joleen Hokuloa McKinzie, and four step-children from Clayton's earlier life.
Edith Kawelohea McKinzie | Early life
She is the middle child of five sisters; her parents moved the family from the Philippines to Canada in 1990.
Ma-Anne Dionisio | Early life
Sewell was born on October 27th, 1898 in Oklahoma. However, she grew up in Idaho, and later moved to Los Angeles. Sewell was one of, technically, seven children. She had four older brothers, one younger brother, and two younger sisters. Although, one of her younger sisters that was born in 1907 died that same year in infancy. Her mother died in 1910 after giving birth to her youngest sister, Ida Grace.
Blanche Sewell | Early life
Kelly-Rosales was born in Honduras, but grew up in Ottumwa, Iowa in the United States.
Angelo Kelly-Rosales | Early life
Evidence suggests that Angelou was partially descended from the Mende people of West Africa. In 2008, a DNA test revealed that among all of her African ancestors, 45 percent were from the Congo-Angola region and 55 percent were from West Africa. A 2008 PBS documentary found that Angelou's maternal great-grandmother Mary Lee, who had been emancipated after the Civil War, became pregnant by her white former owner, John Savin. Savin forced Lee to sign a false statement accusing another man of being the father of her child. After Savin was indicted for forcing Lee to commit perjury, and despite the discovery that Savin was the father, a jury found him not guilty.
Maya Angelou | Personal life
She has a son and a daughter.
Nancy Dubuc | Early life and education
Jama was born and raised in Bristol, where she attended Cotham School. She is of Somali descent on her father's side and Swedish descent on her mother's side. She was named after Maya Angelou. Jama moved to London at the age of 16 to pursue a career as an actress.
Maya Jama | Early life
Louis-Marie de Castelbajac was born in Paris, France, the son of Jean Charles de Castelbajac and Catherine de Castelbajac.
Louis-Marie de Castelbajac | Early life
She has a daughter, June.
Judy Taguiwalo | Early life and education
Finishing school in Switzerland as an interpreter of English and Russian, in 1962, she received a scholarship to study in the United States and settled in Chicago. Participating in many events of the American civil rights movement, she attended the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963 and then left for Cuba by way of Mexico.
Maya Surduts | Early life
Clara Faisst was born in Karlsruhe, Baden to August and Emma Faisst. Her father died when she was one year old. She was the youngest of six children. Those close to her considered her to be quiet and dreamy as a child. Faisst suffered poor health throughout most of her childhood.
Clara Mathilda Faisst | Early life
Morrison, born in Castlepark, Utah in 1960, was the youngest of six daughters. In her formative years, she lived in the Philippines and traveled extensively through the Middle East, Asia, and Europe.
Margaret Morrison | Early life
Their only child, Jacques Majorelle, who himself would become an artist, was born 7 March 1886.
Louis Majorelle | Early life
The daughter of Pauline Charles Davis and William Lionel Davis, she was born on 12 March 1918 in Dominica. She attended the Convent High School in Pointe Michel.
Marie Davis Pierre | Early life and education
An only child, Patrice Beverly Munsil (she later changed the spelling of her surname) was born and raised until age 15 in Spokane, Washington. Her father, Audley J. Munsil, was a local dentist. She attended Lewis and Clark High School before leaving at age fifteen, accompanied by her mother, to study in New York City, coached by Giacomo Spadoni (1884–1960).
Patrice Munsel | Early years
Zulu Clements born in Chicago, Illinois, on August 1, 1876, the daughter of Charles R. Clements and Anna M. Cadow.
Zulu Clements | Early life
Louis was the seventh child (of eleven) born to Adam Granville Partlow (1857-1928) and Amanda Isabell Muirhead (1864-1947). His siblings: Clara, George, William Jesse, Gussie, Mary, Frank, Vernie (she died in early childhood), Madge, Violet and Dorothy.
Lou Partlow | Early life
She has five children.
Idowu Philips | Early life and career
Born into a family of architects, design was prevalent in Maya's life from the start to the extent that she never even thought about going in any other direction besides art. At age 15, she submitted to the Niko Nikoladze College and later the Tbilisi State Academy of the Arts. In the 1990s she lived in the Netherlands for a year and studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy.
Maya Sumbadze | Early life and education
Dalya was born August 3, 1918 in New York City.
Jacqueline Dalya | Early life
The youngest of eight children, Righetti was born on April 4, 1983, in St. George, Utah, and raised in Nevada, outside Las Vegas.
Amanda Righetti | Early life
May was born in Sanborn, Iowa. May's parents are Daryle and Marian Getting. May is the youngest of six children.
Maureen May | Early life
They had three children, all daughters: Caroline, Penelope and Mary (Avinashi), and a foster daughter, Marion Chesher.
Kenneth Le Couteur | Early life
She attended the performing arts school Juilliard for one year before being forced to drop out after accepting her role in "Little Women".
Maya Hawke | Early life and education
Jasanoff grew up in Ithaca, New York and comes from a family of academics. Her parents, Sheila and Jay Jasanoff, are both Harvard professors, and her brother Alan is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was educated at Harvard College before studying for a master's degree at Cambridge, where she worked with Christopher Bayly. She earned her Ph.D. at Yale with Linda Colley, completing the thesis "French and British imperial collecting in Egypt and India, 1780-1820" (Yale, 2002).
Maya Jasanoff | Early life
Maya Zankoul grew up in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and in 2005 moved to her home country, Lebanon, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design in 2007 from Notre Dame University – Louaize.
Maya Zankoul | Early life
At the time of graduation she had 3 sons who were under the age of 5. Her oldest son was born during her senior year at Georgetown, her second in between law school, and the third son during her second year of law school.
Stacey Plaskett | Early life
They had five children:-
William Le Lacheur | Early life
McCollough was born on December 30, 1905 in White Rock, Michigan to parents H. William and Stella Hanna McCollough.
Lucille H. McCollough | Early life
McAuliffe, a 1970 graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, and they moved closer to Washington, D.C., so that he could attend the Georgetown University Law Center. They had two children, Scott and Caroline, who were nine and six, respectively, when she died.
Christa McAuliffe | Early life
Croze was born in Montreal, Quebec and grew up, adopted, in Longueuil, with four other children. She studied fine arts at the Cégep du Vieux Montréal from 1986 to 1987.
Marie-Josée Croze | Early life
The couple had two children.
Molly Morgan | Early life
In 1909, she gave birth to her only child, a daughter Ona.
Ona Mašiotienė | Early life
She was born and raised in Harlem, New York City.
Maxine Lewis | Early life
Born 30 June 1953 in Taipei, Taiwan, Lin was the second child out of five children. She dropped out of school at the age of 12 due to her family's poverty.
Joan Lin | Early life
Lee was sent to the Clinton County poorhouse in Missouri with her daughter, Marguerite Baxter, who became Angelou's grandmother. Angelou described Lee as "that poor little Black girl, physically and mentally bruised". The details of Angelou's life described in her seven autobiographies and in numerous interviews, speeches, and articles tended to be inconsistent. Critic Mary Jane Lupton has explained that when Angelou spoke about her life, she did so eloquently but informally and "with no time chart in front of her". For example, she was married at least twice, but never clarified the number of times she had been married, "for fear of sounding frivolous"; according to her autobiographies and to Gillespie, she married Tosh Angelos in 1951 and Paul du Feu in 1974, and began her relationship with Vusumzi Make in 1961, but never formally married him.
Maya Angelou | Personal life
Genevieve Gael Chappell was born in Anaheim, California, to Bob and Lesley Chappell. Genevieve is the eldest of five children.
Genevieve Chappell | Early life
Soetoro-Ng was born Maya Kasandra Soetoro in Saint Carolus Hospital, a Catholic hospital, in Jakarta, Indonesia, the daughter of American cultural anthropologist Ann Dunham, an American of English, Irish and German descent, and Indonesian businessman Lolo Soetoro. Her elder half-brother is the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama. She has said she was named after American poet Maya Angelou. Soetoro-Ng and Obama spent several years together in Indonesia and in Hawaii before her mother decided to return to Indonesia with her. After her parents divorced in 1980, her father remarried. From this marriage, Soetoro-Ng has another half-brother, Yusuf Aji Soetoro (b.
Maya Soetoro-Ng | Early life and education
She was born 17 November 1966 in Paris, the second child of Simone (née Morisset), a shop assistant (d. 2016), and Benoît Maupu, a truck driver. Her parents divorced when she was nine years old.
Sophie Marceau | Early life
Jacqueline Bouvier was born on 6 October 1920. She grew up tending her aunt's goats in Camargue. She studied drama.
Jacqueline Pagnol | Early life
born in 1859 and Grace I. born in 1862.
Martha Louise Rayne | Early life
They had seven children, five of whom survived to adulthood.
Guillem d'Areny-Plandolit | Early life
Miriam Dessau was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1841, the daughter of Abraham Dessau and Fanny Zechariah Dessau. She was raised in Columbus, Georgia, but attended Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, New York, as a young woman.
Minnie Dessau Louis | Early life and education
The couple's twin daughters were born in 1932.
Hilary Page | Early life
Smith was the youngest of three children and grew up in a loving and sheltered environment. Her mother was African-American and her father was of mixed ethnicity. Her family was very religious and attended church services on a regular basis.
Ida Van Smith | Early life
Born around 1875 in Pittsburg Hill, Illinois, she was the daughter of Michael Marion of Ireland and Marie Helene Brugiere. She was the only graduate of East St. Louis High School in 1890 and then took teacher-training courses at the University of Illinois, Washington University, Bloomington Normal School and Chicago Normal School.
Rose Marion Boylan | Early life and education
Joan Cowick was born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, to John Connick and Elizabeth Kate Webber. She had five siblings.
Joan Cowick | Early life
Saidie Orr was born in Granger, Missouri, on June 23, 1880, the daughter of Robert Perry Orr and Catherine Lindsay.
Saidie Orr Dunbar | Early life
She and her husband had one daughter, Hélène, born in 1936 and mainly brought up by Mounette's mother in the years that followed.
Mounette Dutilleul | Early life
The youngest of three children, Doody was born in Dublin, Ireland. Her mother, Joan, was a beauty therapist, and her father Patrick, worked in the property business and farmed. Doody attended Mount Anville Secondary School.
Alison Doody | Early life
Lanphier was born in El Dorado, California, the eldest child of six born to Percival Caspar Lanphier and Emily Elenora Olson. She graduated from Oakland High School in 1924.
Fay Lanphier | Early life
Penney was the third child of four, born in Clifton, Maine. She attended Cambridge Latin School at the request of an aunt before enrolling and graduating from Simmons College in 1912. Penney would return to Clifton in the summertime at her childhood home, gardening, landscaping, and tending for birds. She died in 1970 after a fall left her unable to return to work, and her heart failed after a
Clara Louisa Penney | Early life
Juanita Hamel was born in DeSoto, Missouri, the daughter of Frederick G. Hamel and Lucile McCormack Hamel (later Lucile Hamel Craven). She studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts, part of Washington University of St. Louis.
Juanita Hamel | Early life
Caruso was born on July 11, 2001 to parents Steve and Deena Caruso in Spokane, Washington. She is the youngest of three children.
Sophia Anne Caruso | Early life
Piutau was born and grew up in Tonga. He is the youngest of 10 children.
Charles Piutau | Early life
Marguerite Eymery was born in February 1860 to Joseph and Gabrielle (Feytaud) Eymery. Marguerite was born with one leg shorter than the other, giving her a lifelong limp that set her apart from others from the very start. She grew up on the estate of le Cros as an only child. She was unwanted by her parents and received less affection from them than did the family's pet monkey, who was even granted such social graces as a seat at the table. She received some affection from her maternal grandmother, but Gabrielle taught the child to dismiss her grandmother as frivolous and simple.
Rachilde | Early life
They had no children.
Anne LaBastille | Early life and marriage
Renfroe was born in Amarillo, Texas.
M. K. Wren | Early life
Morgan was one of nine children, the daughter of Chaptle Morgan, a former sharecropper turned businessman, and Winnie Robinson, a homemaker. She was born in Mississippi and was raised in Chicago.
Rose Morgan | Early life
Born in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, Harris grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and Montreal, Quebec. She is the daughter of Shyamala Gopalan Harris (1938–2009), a breast cancer researcher who emigrated from Chennai (aka Madras), India in 1960; and Donald Harris, a Jamaican-born Stanford University economics professor, now emeritus. Her maternal grandfather, P.V. Gopalan was a career civil servant with federal Government of India. She and her older sister, Kamala, were raised with beliefs from Baptist and Hindu faiths. At the age of 8, with her sister, she persuaded the management of their apartment building to open an unused courtyard as a place for children to play.
Maya Harris | Early life and education
Margo Hoff was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1912—the second oldest of eight children. Her parents were carpenter Clarence W. Hoff and Ada A. Hayes. In 1923, she fell ill with typhoid fever and was bedridden for the summer. She spent this time drawing and making paper cutouts.
Margo Hoff | Early life
Castro was born to a Cebuano mother and an American father. She studied at St. Paul College, where she was mentored by James B. Reuter. She married broadcaster Angelo Castro, Jr. in 1973 and the couple had three children: Diego, an actor and anchor of UNTV, Gabriella, and Angelica.
June Keithley | Early life
Irene M. Giblin was born to Richard T. Giblin, a printer, and Nora Reardon Giblin in 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri. She was the eldest of six children.
Irene M. Giblin | Early life
Ruby Jackson was born in 1909 to Gertrude and William Jackson in Zuber, Florida. She was the second child and first daughter among her six siblings. They attended local segregated schools. Ruby's parents recognized her intelligence and sent her to a private school, Fessenden Academy, where she excelled in bookkeeping.
Ruby McCollum | Early life
Andreu was born on April 25, 1801 to parents Bartholomew Mestre and Marianna Lorenzo Mestre, and baptized on April 30 of the same year. She married Joseph Juan Andreu on May 6, 1822; Joseph Andreu served as keeper of the St. Augustine Lighthouse from 1854–1859. The couple had eight children.
Maria Andreu | Early life
After graduating from Spelman in 1992, Ezeilo went on to receive her Juris Doctorate in Law from the University of Florida College of Law. At the College of Law, she met fellow law student James Ezeilo, whom she married in 1995.
Angelou Ezeilo | Early life
Tina Chandler was born in 1974 in Shreveport, Louisiana, the second of three children. She grew up in Conroe and Willis, Texas. She attended Sam Houston State University.
Tina Chandler | Early life and education
Ames was born in Fort Worth, Texas, one of six children of Samuel Hugh McClure and Flora Parthenia (née Potter) McClure,
Adrienne Ames | Early years
Born Mary Barboza in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, she was the daughter of a nurse and a railroad construction worker. She was the eldest of three children. The family lived in the Berkshires, where some of their cousins, including Lynda Jean Gunn, occasionally modeled for illustrations by Norman Rockwell. Mary graduated from Williams High School and Springfield College.
Mary Roman | Early life
Josephine Domingue was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Josephine Sabel | Early life
Jamila Mayanja was born in 1988 in Konge, Buziga in a family of 14 children. She studied from Kitante Primary school, sat for her O-level and A-level in 2004 and 2006 respectively from Nabisunsa Girls school. Jamila holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration/Marketing from Makerere University.
Jamila Mayanja | Early life
Salomon-Ali was born to a Haitian mother and an Iraqi father.
Donya Salomon-Ali | Early life
Born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, she and her family moved to New York City as a child. They lived in public housing after living in shelters. She received an associate degree in Human Services from Bronx Community College.
Diana Ayala | Early life and education
He was born on August 16, 1896 in Boonsville, Texas, the only child of William Anderson Kincannon and Mary Bettie Barksdale.
Theodore &quot;Ted&quot; Nieman Kincannon | Early life
Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in 1970, Kidman is the younger daughter of Antony Kidman, a clinical psychologist. She attended Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College in North Sydney.
Antonia Kidman | Early life and family
Fay M. Jackson was born in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of Charles T. Jackson and Lulu Beatrice Hyson Jackson. Her father was a tradesman, a concrete mason, and her mother was a seamstress. She moved to Los Angeles with her family when she was 16, and graduated from Los Angeles Polytechnic High School. She studied journalism and philosophy at the University of Southern California.
Fay M. Jackson | Early life
Tabor was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L.G. Tabor. She graduated from Washington High School in Sioux Falls in 1950.
Joan Tabor | Early life
They had two children, Davida, born in 1918, and Bernard (Bud) born in 1923.
Rose Naftalin | Early life
Marie-Josephte Corriveau was born in 1733, most probably in January or February, and baptised on May 14, 1733, in the rural parish of Saint-Vallier in New France. She was the only surviving offspring of Joseph Corriveau, a farmer, and Françoise Bolduc. Her ten brothers and sisters all died in childhood.
Marie-Josephte Corriveau | Early life