Mary Josephine Resolved - Sorta

A while ago I wrote about Josiah Rosekrans and his wife Josephine and how I couldn’t figure out her last name. Since that time, I have found out her last name!

It all came about via the baptism of their daughter Gertrude Josephine - or should I say Josephine Gertrude Rosekrance.  

On Ancestry are the Quebec Vital and Chruch Records (Drouin Collection 1621-1957) which not only provided Josephine's last name, but also a clue to her parents.

To the best of my ability, the bottom half of the above translates to:

The first mass one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, gave us the name Josephine Rosekrance, born on the fourteenth of December last, from the union of Josiah Rosekrance, painter, and Josephine Vansandford of the parish of St Jean Baptiste of Roxton. Godfather David McEvilla, merchant, of this parish, godmother Marguerita Tersia McEvilla, of Roxton. Undersigned. The father absent.

The clue to the parents of Josephine are the godparents - David McEvila is the father of Margaret Evila who married Cornelius VanSanford!  

If correct, this would mean that Josephine married her cousin Josiah Rosekrans as he was the son of Mary Van Santvoord - Cornelius's sister.

There is a confusing entry which suggests that Cornelius may have married 2 Margarets or they married after the fact.

It is widely recorded & proven that Cornelius' wife was Margaret Theresa McEvila per the marriage entry of 1857 at Roxton, Quebec but that contradicts the date of birth for Josephine in 1849?

Quebec Vital and Chruch Records (Drouin Collection 1621-1957) - Ancestry

Here is the evidence before the marriage - the 1850 census from Syracuse, NY (includes a brother James).  

Josephine's birth location was found on the 1875 census in Halfmoon.

Then there's a Quebec baptism entry for 1858 for a Marie Josephine VanSanford but I can not make out if the year of birth is the same...that is, is this a new child born in 1858 or was it Mary Josephine being baptized after the family relocated to Quebec (Drouin Collection)

I can make out that the father was not present at the end, that the year was 1858, the names but that is about it - I think it starts This quarter mass, 1858 maybe August?....ug, Google Translate works when you can make out the letters lol - should have taken French in school when I had the chance !?!

....and lastly...

There's a possibility that Margaret T McEvila was the daughter of James McEvila & Bridget Hart from Ireland and taken in by her Uncle David who was married to a Bridget Buchanan (or was that Bridget Hart remarried?). This ran the 25th of Apr 1857 in the Boston Pilot..

So while I have the last name figured out, I am still in a bit of a quandary with the lineage....ugg