BIRTH: Presumably Jane was born a Mius, but adopted the Doucette surname while still a minor after her mother remarried.
BIRTH: Presumably William was born a Mius, but adopted the Doucette surname while still a minor after her mother remarried.
It was around the mid 1800s that, for reasons unknown, all of the Nova Scotia "Dulains" began instead to call themselves "Dulongs."
The transition took some time and seems to have gone back and forth for awhile; The 1871 census has all Dulongs and no Dulains, but in the 1881 census, they're all Dulains again with no Dulongs. By the 1900s, however, the switch to Dulong was permanent.
Possibly listed in the 1881 census as "Elene," age 8.
The 1881 census lists an "Alexandre Dulain," son of Forman and Elizabeth, but he is only age 6.