Je Me Souviens - American-French Genealogical Society

Je Me
Souviens
A Publication of the
American-French Genealogical Society
Vol
No
VII
1
Spring
1984
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Leon Asselin
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g a b Q e - 4 Contents
EDITORIAL
1
by Rev. Dennis M. Boudreau
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
by Lucille Fournier Rock
3
LE COIN DE NOS ANCETRES: FRANCOIS GAULIN
by Rev. Dennis M. Boudreau
7
EARLY MARRIAGES IN CANADA
by Lucille Fournier Rock
14
FRENCH CANADIAN EXILES IN BERMUDA
by Armand R. Letourneau
18
A STORY WORTH RETELLING
by Patricia A. (deMund) Griffore
28
ADVERTISING POLICY
39
THE HABITANT
by William Henry Drummond M.D. 40
TWO CANADIAN HEROES
48
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE TWICE (SO CAN LOVE)
49
by Rev. Dennis M. Boudreau
AN EVALUATION O F THE TANGUAY DICTIONNARY
by Lucille Fournier Rock
63
GENEALOGY O F MGR. CYPRIEN TANGUAY
by A1 Berube
65
BOOK REVIEW: WILLA CATHER'S QUEBEC
by Irene A. Peloquin
66
FRENCH AND INDIAN MARRIAGES
69
by Lucille Fournier Rock
71
A SPECIAL BREAKFAST (RECIPE)
REPERTOIRE NEWS
75
CARTOON
77
PERPETUAL CALENDAR
78
MEMBERSHIP REPORT
79
RESEARCH COMMITTEE REPORT
86
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
89
95
STRAIGHT LINE CHARTS
ANCESTOR CHARTS
101
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a t a h t t o puk t h e d u n t coven on t h e t y p e w h i t e h , put away yauh papeh, penb and booka,
cap t h e g l u e n t i c k , and ahut-064 t h e XehOX
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mahe. Happy New Yeah! and Happy Sphing
'64!!!
Needlens t o n a y , J E M E SOUVIENS i b ceht a i n l y e n j o y i n g have keviewn i n many geneaCagical c i h c l e b . People @tom evehywhehe
have w h i t t e n t o un t o l e t ua know k h a t t h e y
l i k e what t h e y nee happening t o each new
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Committee ane i n d e e d Vehy pkoud t o n e e auch
a d i n e henuRt each nphing and autumn, b u t
we alno know k h a t jauhnala 0 6 nuch q u a l i t y
d o n ' t j u n t happen 0 6 themnelveb .
Behind t h e acenen, t h e h e ahe many
people d i L i g e n t l y heneahching, w h i t i n g ,
.typing, e d i t i n g , and phaad-heading
tedi 0 u b w a h k , yen, b u t alwayn done j o y d u l l y
and w i t h d e d i c a t i o n 6 0 4 auh membehnhip.
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tawahd new healmn. Likewine, we want t o
heach a wideh a u d i e n c e , and i n ohdeh f a do
k h a i nucceaa AuLLy, need t y p e n 0 6 m a t e h i a t
k h a t apeah .t.o evenyone, that t o u c h many
peapLe ' a pant, pnen e n t , and u l t i m a t e l y ,
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t h e i n dutuke. We have aeached t h e moment
i n which we cannot depend on j u s t a dew
exceLLent w n i t e h s , who ane on Ahe bhink 0 6
" b ~ n n - o u A ' ~ko, Cahhy us boawand Au whene
we ~ i a hAo go. 16 we expeck t o c o n t i n u e
Xu kead comments such as t h e s e :
I am writing t o you because I am a
m r of the A.F.G.S. and have just
reread your excellent journal...
on
F i r s t , I must t e l l you how much I
enjoy JE ME SOUVIENS. It has been
a help t o me i n research several
t h s and I thank you and your
staff for a l l your work in putting
it together.
Ecently you sent a packet of brochures and several copies of JE: ME
SOWIENS t o be distributed a t our
Genie+Rama.
P k want t o tell you
how much w appreciate them, and
haw much I have enjoyed reading
them. Although I have no FrenchCanadian ancestry, I was much impressed w i t h the interesting and
informative material which you have
published.
Ahen we d e b i n i X e l y need you& wni.t.ten cont k i b u t i o n t o J E M E SOUVIENS. Haw about
shaking w i t h aLL ud us t h e hesuLt6 0 6 youh
time-consuming heseahch? You may even d i s COVeh new c o u s i n s i n h e t u h n . R . S . V . P .
Rev. Dwtnin M. ;Bou&m, Edikuh
The fiscal year f o r t h e American French
Genealogical Society begins t h e f i r s t of October. Since
then, w e have seen many changes.
The year began on a sad note. Mrs. J e a n n e t t e
Menard and Mr. Alfred Gaboury found i t necessary t o
withdraw their names from nomination for personal
reasons. Both had served on t h e steering c o m m i t t e e
and had been members of t h e board of directors from
t h e inception of t h e society. Although they will no
longer b e on t h e board of directors, they have pledged
their support and will continue t o work f o r t h e society.
Mr. Gaboury has, for a long time, catalogued obituaries
from local newspapers a s well a s from those t h a t a r e
mailed t o us from o t h e r states.
This is a t i m e
consuming e f f o r t t h a t will prove of tremendous value
for generations t o come. Mr. Gaboury will continue
this work and I would like t o t a k e this opportunity t o
say thank you.
The t w o vacant s e a t s w e r e filled by Mr. Leon
Asselin and Mr. Roger Beaudry who a r e both dedicated
t o t h e society. Mr. Beaudry has undertaken t h e bulk
mailings f o r t h e society and Mr. Asselin is on t h e
research committee. Welcome aboard!
Due t o extenuating circumstances, Mrs. Pauline
Lemire resigned
a s chairman of t h e research
committee. Her dedication and interest in this aspect
of genealogy is genuine. She spent many hours each
week at t h e microfilm reader trying t o find all t h e
elusive marriages t h a t f r u s t r a t e s o many of us. She has
helped
countless people,
many of whom have
acknowledged their appreciation in letters. For all of
you, as well a s for myself, a sincere thank you
.
To fill this position, I have appointed Mrs.
Therese Poliquin.
Mrs. Poliquin,
a well organized
person a n d meticulous in her work, will b e a valuable
asset.
To help her in this research, t h e following
members have volunteered t o assist her:
Mrs. L e a
Berard, F a t h e r Dennis Boudreau, Mrs. Rachel Gaudet,
Mr. Leon Asselin, Mr. Roger Beaudry, Mr. William
Thibault, Mr. Gill Rock, Mrs. Vivian Greer, and last
but certainly not least, our e x p e r t researcher, Mrs.
Cecile Martens.
It had become tremendously difficult t o handle t h e
influx of mail received by t h e society. In a n e f f o r t t o
expedite t h e mail, I have appointed Mrs. Vivian Greer
corresponding secretary. Mrs. Greer is a n avid member
of t h e society as well as a member of t h e board of
directors.
Since s h e has a c c e p t e d and taken this
position, replies t o your l e t t e r s a r e now more
expeditious.
There a r e many members of t h e society who a r e
truly dedicated. It is impossible t o name them all, but
I would like t o mention a few. Mrs. Janice Burkhart
and Mr. Armand Letourneau have spent many hours
repairing and recopying library books. Mr. Letourneau
has also audited t h e society's financial records and contributed a r t i c l e s for J E ME SOUVIENS. Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Gaudet open and close t h e library every
Tuesday evening. Moreover, they brew a fine pot of
c o f f e e for those in attendance. Miss Jeanne Theberge
does a n exceptional job a s publicist. Our events a r e
published in several newspapers and this winter Miss
Theberge was able t o find t i m e on television for us.
Mr. Paul Delisle is responsible for memberships and also
for weekly mailings. He gives freely of his t i m e on a
weekly basis for t h e society. It is t h e commitment of
such dedicated members t h a t enable t h e society t o
W e owe them and many others a
function properly.
d e b t of gratitude.
As t o t h e library, I have good news! As you know,
w e have been cramped for space for a number of years
although L e Foyer had given us as much room a s they
could spare. Last year, w e asked if they possibly could
find added storage space for us. They understood our
plight and replied t h a t they certainly would try. A f e w
suggestions w e r e made, but none seemed feasible.
Finally, I suggested t h a t perhaps they would consider
parting with space along a wall. Floor space in a hall
t h a t is rented t o t h e public is valuable space and I fully
realized this when I asked, but t h e r e seemed t o b e no
alternative.
After a f e w meetings and some
deliberation, L e Foyer announced t h a t we could have t h e
west wall of t h e hall. W e have received permission t o
build a n enclosed bookcase which will b e 24 f e e t long by
10 f e e t high. This will allow us t o bring all t h e books
and periodicals t h a t w e own t o L e Foyer. Centralizing
our resources will b e beneficial t o all members who use
t h e library. However, t h e r e is o n e drawback. L e Foyer
has reserved t h e right t o use t h e hall on r a r e occasions
for unusually important functions t h a t may occur on a
Tuesday evening. They have guaranteed us t w o weeks
notice and use of t h e library on another evening as
compensation. For those of you who a t t e n d regularly,
such a n interruption in our Tuesday schedule will b e
posted. For those of you who t r a v e l from a considerable
distance, please call any member of t h e board of
directors.
The names and numbers a r e listed on t h e
first page of this publication.
Having enough storage
space is a dream t h a t is in t h e process of becoming a
reality. T o t h e members of L e Foyer, in t h e name of
all t h e members of A.F.G.S., I wish t o acknowledge our
gratitude and appreciation. In t h e next issue of JE ME
SOUVIENS, w e will show you pictures of our library. I
guarantee t h a t you will b e pleased.
The Rivest Index which w e expected t o arrive at
t h e end of September was not received until t h e end of
December. The wait was such a disappointment. From
week t o week, Mrs. Lemire saved research requests
t h a t s h e could not find in t h e Loiselle Index in t h e hope
of finding t h e m in t h e Rivest Index.
The weeks
s t r e t c h e d into months.
We had based t h e t i m e of
arrival on t h e t i m e i t had taken for t h e Loiselle Index
t o b e received. This proved t o b e a gross error on our
part. To all of you who patiently waited for replies,
w e apologize.
The f l e a m a r k e t was held on March 11 at L e
Foyer. Mr. Robert Quintin and Mrs. Therese Poliquin
gave many hours of their t i m e t o make i t a success.
Last year, Mrs. Cecile Martens amassed a c a r full of
objects by asking friends and neighbors for donations.
She did t h e s a m e this year.
Mrs. Poliquin found a
friend who emptied a cellar t o help us. In spite of
these efforts, w e could have used many many more
articles. Please s t a r t t o save now in a corner of your
garage or cellar for our f l e a m a r k e t next year. If this
is n o t feasible, w e will s t o r e t h e articles f o r you. This
year, w e realized a profit of about t w o hundred dollars,
but i t could have been more t h a n t h a t if w e had had
more t o sell.
We must continue t o work together. A successful
organization is not t h e product of one person nor of a
selected few, r a t h e r i t is t h e sum t o t a l of i t s members
who contribute in one f o r m o r another t o i t s progress.
W e a r e successful and I thank you for your support.
FRANGOIS GAULIN
Amidst the damp shadows and the splintered sunlight, flickering through fragments
of stained glass, in the small parish church
of st- arti in-de-~ieux-~ellgrne in Perche, a
commemorative plaque attests that here was
the place of origin of the Canadian GAULIN
family. In consulting the parish registers
of this ancient church, pages now worn with
age, ~ Z r eArchange Godbout, OFM, found reference to the following children, born and
baptized at St-Martin, to Vincent Gaulin
(or Gollins) and his wife, Marie ~onnemer':
7. Vincent, bp. Tuaday, 7 Januahy 7620.
2. Mattie, bp. Thumday, 7 7 Mag 7623.
3. Mat~guaL-te, bp. 74 May 7627.
4 . f m n g o i h , bp. Sunday, 25 AugunA 7630.
To this list we add another brother, whose
existence is assured us through census records :
5. P i m e , s a i d Aa be bokn beAween 7627 and
7 6 3 0 , o k possibly l a ; t m .
At present, there is no evidence to say
what became of the first two Gaulin child-
ren. We do not know if they died young or
whether or not they grew and married, and
remained in France. Yet, the last three
children, towards 1650, left their village
and made their way to the New World, stepping ashore in the city of Quebec.
Of the three Gaulins, Marguerite was
the first to marry. On the 13th of September 1654, she and Jean Creste (or ~rGte),
the son of Antoine and Jeanne (LeGrand)
Creste of Tourouvre, excha7ged vows in the
church of Notre-Dame-de-Quebec. Her name
was mistakenly recorded as Gosselin. Of
their union were born2 :
7. L o h , 6. 20/5/1656-~ugbec.He evidentR y d e a rtu2.i.m M p back ;ta Fhance,
dot ~ g h .Tanguay norta ;that on ;the day
;the b o d ad Sm Nid docked back in
Canada, he w a dound d u d bdow. ffe
wan bunied d Sk-Lamed, 1.0. on 25/8/1685.
2. Mahie, b. 10/10/1657-Qu!ukbec;1st mg.
Wj1670-N.P. Quzbec Xu Rob&
PEPIN;
2nd mg. 21/4/1687-N.V. Quebec Xo J a n
BRTDEAULT; 3hd mg. 911/ I 706-N.D. 2u6bec
;ta Pienhe JOURDAIN; nhe &ied 1 0/1 1 / 1 722.
3. MattguuLte, 6. 20/4/7659-2u;bec; nhs died
16/5//663-~uzbec,
aged 4 y a m .
4. Fhan o h e , 6. 1/b/l660-2u66ec;nhe m.
&-Beaupoht,
P2 Xo
DELAUNAY.
5. MahguuLte, 6. 1/4/1663-2uCbe.c;nhe m.
Pienhe GAILLOU; she died 12/10/1734Bcr;tincan, P2.
6. Jean, b. 23/4/1664-2u66ec; d. 511 717684B e a u p o ~ ,PQ.
7. Joneph, b. 2/51 1666-Quuhbec; d. 2011 116b9Beaupotr;t, P2.
8 . M h e , b. 78/2/7668-~ucbec; ahe m.
-1
16b5- Beaupou, P2 Xo Jean LEFEBVRE.
7 0 . P i m e , b. 21/6/7677-Quebec; lax mg.
- m 6 9 3 - B e a u p a t r / t , P 2 Xu M m h e MARCOUX;
2nd mg. 2911 011 709-~h&ea.u-Richm, PQ Xo
M d e DROUlN; he d. 1617 711719-Beaupotr;t,P2.
Jean Creste died at Beauport on the 5th of
March 1717, his wife, Marguerite, having
preceded him in death on the 15th of January 1703, by fourteen years.
Of the GAULIN brothers, Fran~oiswas
the next to marry on the 25th of September
to Marie
1657, also at ~otre-~ame-de-~ue/bec
Rocheron, the daughter of Julien and Martine
(Lemoine) Rocheron of St-Cosme-le-Vair,
Maine, France. The only one to leave any
male descendants in Canada to carry on the
GAULIN name was Fransois. The following
children were born of his marriage to Marie
ocher on^ :
1 . L o h , b. 30/7/165b-~uibec; d. 12/10//677S;te-famieee, 1.0. aged 79 y m .
2.
he-~~ciee,
b. 25/7/1659-Qdbec; d.
Ib/9/7662-CE%teau-Richetr, PQ, aged 3 ym.
3 . Simon, b. 311 2/1667-~hit;t~au-Richeh;mg.
~ 7 6 8 5 - S e . - F a m i e e e , T.O. Xo fkan$ahe
LETOURNEAU.
4. P i m e , 6. 23/4/1663-~h2ikea~-aichen;d.
m 7 6 8 7 - ~ a m & , PQ, aged 24 yeahh.
5. Mde-Maddeine, b. 20/2/1665-~~ea.uRicha; mg. ,21/1/1667-Ste-Famieee,1.0.
;to 1gnuc.e PEPIN.
6. faan o h , 6. 51517666-Ste-fwe, 7.0.;
&/1687-Ste-FamLUe,
1.0. aged 21.
7. R a b M , 6. 2 7 / 9 / 7 6 6 8 - S e - F M e , 1.0.;
7a;t.5/7/,76db-SZe-FambYe,7.0. to
Efizabdh LETOURNEAU; 2nd mg. 75/4/1716Ste-famieee, 1.0. Ro M&e-Anne
SOUCY.
8. ~&e-~h&he,
6. 281911 670-Ste-Fnmieee7
1.0.; nhe died young.
9. ~ d e - ~ h & & e , 6. 26/3/1672-SRe-Famieee,
1.0.; 1nt mg. 20,/11/t686-SRe-f~e,
7.0.
Xo M d n BAUCHE; 2nd mg. lb/6/1703-StFrran~od,1.0. tu NicoRan MARTIN.
10. Antoine, b. 17/4/1674-Ste-Famteee,1.0.;
he.uandained
a Ca;thuRic pmku;t on
21/12/1697 at N.V. de ~ucbec,a.nd haved
as a m,iAb,ionaJLy in Acadia, w k i ~ hwab
then panA: 06 the Viac~ne06 Quebec; he
died 61311740-2ugbec.
Fransois' brother, Pierre GAULIN, married Jacqueline Lauvergnat, a native of
the city of ~ r l g a n s ,France, on the 21st of
April 1664 at ch3teau-~icher, PQ. To them
was born one son, Pierre on the 19th of May
1675, who died one week later on the 26th
of that same month. Pierre and Jacqueline's
marriage was short-lived, as he too died on
the 17th yf November 1677 at Ste-Famille,
Ile dlOrleans. No other children were born
of their marriage. After two years as a
on a - 3 0 t h of-widow,
January 1679 at Ste-Famille to Marc ~ a r e z .
After their marriage at ~ue/bec,and a
brief span of about five or six years living at ~hgteau-~icher,
Frangois and Marie
(Rocheron) Gaulin moved to Ile dV0rl6ans
as well, settling likewise in the parish
boundaries of Ste-Famille. It is here
that he bought a farm and raised his family
until his untimely death on the 9th of December 1675. Marie died much later on the
20th of December 1687. Unfortunately,
neither of them were alive to witness the
joy of the ordination celebration of their
son, Antoine, to the priesthood in 1697,
nor were they to witness the marriage of
the only son who would carry on the GAULIN
name in North America, Robert, in 1688.
It has long been a tradition among the
Gaulin descendants chat during her first
winter in Canada, Mere Marguerite Bourgeois,
the foundress of the Sisters of the Congregation de Notre-Dame, stayed with another
of her sisters in the home of a Gaulin descendant on Ile dt0r16ans.
Likewise, the family is able to boast
of its second gift,of a priest to the Church,
in t h person
~
of Remi Gaulin, born in 1787
at Quebec of the marriage of Frangois Gaulin
and Fransoise Arniot. After studying at the
Seminaries of ~ugbecand Nicolet, he was
ordained in 1811. His career encompassed
a pastorate at Kingston, Ontario until 1815,
where upon he became a missionary in Acadia
from 1815 to 1822, and then pastor of various parishes in Quebec until 1833. In 1840,
he was named second Bishop of the newlycreated Diocese of Kingston, Ontario, a post
he administered until 1849, having been
crippled with a paralysis. He died in May
1857, and is buried in the Cathedral there.
Another descendant of the GAULIN family,
Alphonse, born in 1874 in Woonsocket, Rhode
Island of the marriage of Alphonse Gaulin
and Elmire Marcoux, graduated from Harvard
University with a degree in Law. As the
city's coroner, he was later elected mayor
of Woonsocket from 1897 to 1905, during the
height of the Canadian emigration to New
England. He was later named Consul for the
United States at Le Havre, France, a post
he held until 1909, when he was named
Consul General for our country at Marseilles.
During World War I, he was also named commercial counsellor to the United States
ambassador at Paris. It is said that he
possessed remarkable knowledge and talents
in the fields of literature, philosophy and
oratorian art. He likewise collaborated in
the foundation of the Union St-Jean-Baptiste
of America, one of the largest FrancoAmerican mutual organizations on our continent, as well as, being a founding member of
the 1'Alliance Frangaise in Boston, Massachusetts.
On the 2nd of August 1980, three hundred
and twenty-three years after the arrival of
their ancestor, Fransois, the GAULIN family
held a reunion at Ile d10r16ans. In closing,
one can only repeat the words of Louis-Marie
Gaulin, the President of their Family Association, when he addressed them4 :
16 onty ;they wme hme Xoday ;to &nun
Xhe ~ahmidabtep k o g a u ~ accompRinhed i n
;thee ceuttukies; i d Xhey codd med ;the
membm 06 t k i n muRtikude who have become -the,& descendance, ;they would nuheXy
have been pnoud Xo have h c h e d the&
desZiny. On ouh p m , we &o, khe
descendan& 06 fkangoi~and M d e , m u n i
&o be pmud o2j ;th& ex.ahaortdinahy
couhage and ;the,& dimce independence.
Tanguay, Cyphien. D l CTIONNAIRE G&&LOGI~UE DES
FAMZLLES CANAVTENNES. V a l . 2 , p. 749.
Ibid., p. 257.
F W y Reunion Booked. ~ " m
VES FAM7LLES
GAULIN. 1Re d~uke6ct~n,
2 ao& 79b0., p. 7 .
EARLY MARRIAGES IN CANADA
by Lucille Fournier Rock
We o f t e n wonder why t h e r e w e r e s o many early
marriages in t h e seventeenth century. The explanation
is found in many documents in t h e Canadian archives.
The answer as you will s e e is t h a t although our
ancestors w e r e not required by law t o marry very
young, they were certainly encouraged.
In 1668, t h e king of F r a n c e w r o t e t o Mgr. d e Lava1
t o ask him t o persuade t h e boys t o g e t married at
eighteen a n d t h e girls at sixteen.
T h e following year, t h e king granted a n annual sum
of 3000 "livres" t o help t h e young colonists e n t e r into
matrimony.
On April 12, 1679, a ruling by t h e Conseil d f E t a t
du Roi awarded twenty "livres" t o all boys and girls
who married at t h e a g e of twenty or younger. This was
called "the king's gift". The s a m e ruling directed t h a t
a fine payable t o hospitals would b e imposed on f a t h e r s
who did not see t o i t t h a t their sons married by t h e a g e
of t w e n t y and their daughters by t h e a g e of sixteen.
When t h e Sovereign Council ordered t h e recording
of this ruling on October 20, 1670, i t directed t h a t a l l
those t h a t would not g e t married within f i f t e e n days
a f t e r t h e arrival of t h e ships t h e following year would
be forbidden from hunting, fishing and trading with t h e
Indians.
Exactly o n e
Talon reaffirmed
added "forbidden
reason or p r e t e x t
year later, on t h e s a m e day, Intendant
t h e ruling of t h e preceeding year and
even from e n t e r i n g t h e woods for any
whatsoever".
In 1700, t h e king granted another 3,000 "livres" t o
s e r v e a s dowery t o sixty girls who would t a k e
advantage of this gift. They e a c h received 50 "livrestt.
The names of these girls and who they married are:
Guillaume Raimbault and Marie Madeleine Charlot
J e a n R a f f e t and Jeanne Chapeau
Jacques Riviere and Catherine Mesnard
Nicolas Varin and Marie Anne Ronceray
Antoine P a g e and Magdelaine Colin
Jean Miel and Marie Garan
J e a n Georget and Louise Lajeunesse
Michel Perrin and Marie Pothier
Francois Guerdra and Louise Lecieur
Noel Rouillard and Catherine Couilseau
Leonard Girault and Marie Couilleau
J e a n Levesque and Marguerite Lair
Gaspard Magann and Madeleine Marsil
Francois Coura and Madeleine Joubert
J e a n Guichard and Marie Gerbault
Mar in Surprenant and Marguerite Cartier
Jacques Briche and Marie Geof f r ion
Louis Aube and Magdelaine Lavergne
Isaac Crif f in and Suzanne Char t r a n
Francois Regnier and Magdelaine Renault
Francois Bequet and Marie J e a n n e d e Poitiers
J e a n Grenet and Marie Helene L a Vergne
P i e r r e Boutillet and J a q u e t t e Vendendaigue
Joseph Ferland and Magdelaine Bally
P i e r r e C o t a n c e and Jeanne Cochard
J e a n Beaupoil and Catherine Gladus
Jean Baptiste Pison and Francoise Frilleton
Nicolas Lehoux and Marguerite Dardenne
Jullien Aubert and Jeanne Lava1
Claude Dumest and Cecile Dugenest
Pierre Buban and Marguerite L a Place
Maurice Noel and Catherine Glory
Denis Jourdain and Marie Madelaine Fagot
Thomas Letendre and Marie Morin
Guillaume P a r t r e and Barbe Hachin
P i e r r e Burel and Marie Anne Feutes
Leonard Lahaude and Gabriel Bosue
P i e r r e Meviau and Genevieve Huot
P i e r r e Cardinal and Marie Anne Thuillier
Rene Chaule and Catherine Marcadier
J e a n d e la Salle and Louise Pouffet
Antoine Dubois and Louise Plumeveau
Bernard Kadeville and Marie Magdelaine Dumouchel
P i e r r e Paillefer and Jeanne Huneau
J e a n Poujet and Marthe Brassard
Geoffroy Vincelet and Catherine Bresse
Jacques Poissan and Marguerite Bessey
Leonard Blenier and Jeanne Charlot
P i e r r e Marcheteau and Marie Dufveau
Georges Estien and Francoise Cuvet
Antoine Rougier and Catherine Roy
P i e r r e Roulier and Elizabeth Dronet
Pierre Benoist and Babe Belet
Bertrand d e Bluche and Catherine Edeline
Pierre Maisonneuve and Anne Grenier
Francois Chabot and Marguerite Noel
J e a n L a Rue and Catherine Garnier
These names w e r e e x t r a c t e d exactly a s they
appeared on t h e document. Because names w e r e spelled
as t h e y w e r e heard, they w e r e most o f t e n spelled
differently by everyone who w r o t e them.
In most
reference books t h e names have been standardized t o
help t h e researcher.
LE BULLETIN DES RECHERCHES HISTORIQUES. Vol.
XXX. No. 7. Juillet 1924. pp. 193-194.
LE BULLETIN DES RECHERCHES
Vo1.8. No. 2. Fevrier 1902. DD. 48-49.
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FRENCH-CANADIAN EXILES
IN BERMUDA
by Armand R. Letourneau
In 1837, t h e r e erupted in Canada, a n insurrection
known a s t h e Rebellion of 1837, t h e e f f e c t s of which
in t h e minds of many, lingered for decades in
continued resentment. The causes of t h e insurrection
w e r e deeply rooted and of long standing given t h e
strongly entrenched British military c a s t e system and
t h e titled and privileged aristocracy t h a t ruled t h e
country. Also, in s o m e areas, undercurrent animosities
stemming from religious and ethnic considerations
had been simmering for a long time. The populace,
nurturing ill feelings toward their government, could
only vent i t s resentment and grievances through t h e
Elective Assembly whose voice was t o o often taken
lightly by t h e ruling councils.
Members of these
councils and many of t h e e l e c t e d legislators had for
years carried on c e r t a i n activities for t h e purpose of
broadening their own power base.
This conflict of
minds could only result in a boiling situation. The
clash was further precipitated by t h e strong dissenting
voices t h a t extended in both Lower Canada (Quebec),
which was under t h e leadership of Louis Joseph
Papineau and in Upper Canada (Ontario), which was
under t h e leadership of William Lyon Mackensie.
A t t h e t i m e of t h e uprising, Sir John Colborne
commanded t h e military forces of Canada and a c t e d a s
t h e Governor "pro tem" pending t h e arrival from
England of Lord Durham, t h e newly appointed
Governor General of Canada.
It was during this
interim period t h a t a n a c t u a l armed confrontation
materialized. Sir John quelled t h e rebellion quickly.
His forces w e r e ruthless, especially along t h e Richelieu
River where t h e soldiers pillaged and burned several
s e t t l e m e n t s and indiscrimately arrested many of t h e
inhabitants of this region.
Fortunately, prompt
screening
by t h e regimental officers brought about
t h e release of almost a l l t h e prisoners thus taken.
By t h e end of 1837, t h e r e w e r e 487 prisoners in
detention.
This number was f u r t h e r reduced t o 161
during t h e early months of 1838 and a s of June 20 of
t h a t year, t h e s e s a m e 161 prisoners w e r e still being
held in t h e New Montreal Prison. Since they w e r e
accused of High Treason, t h e disposition of their f a t e
rested with t h e highest authority. This authority was
vested in Lord Durham, t h e newly appointed Governor
General of Canada.
What t o do with t h e prisoners
became t h e f i r s t preoccupation of t h e new governor.
In a n exchange of correspondence with Lord
Glenelg, t h e British Colonial Secretary in England, a
recommendation was made t h a t those accused of High
Treason should b e tried by "ordinary tribunals" or t r i a l
by jury.
T o this method of procedure, Sir John
Colborne and others objected strongly under t h e
supposition t h a t such trials would inevitably end in
sure acquittals, since t h e juries would most likely be
panelled by Canadians of French descent whose
sympathies w e r e known t o favor t h e accused.
An alternative plan was then considered which
suggested t h e use of a "pack" jury t o which t h e legal
council of Durham objected on t h e grounds t h a t such
a n approach would c r e a t e a dangerous precedent. A
third plan which called for trial by court martial was
also quickly dismissed for f e a r t h a t such trials would
mean c e r t a i n conviction.
Lord Durham was now in a dilemma. The m a t t e r
on hand required careful and delicate consideration in
light of t h e instructions received from t h e Melbourne
Government which directed him t o t r e a t t h e prisoners
compatible with public
with Itthe utmost lenity
safety",
H e had been given t h e authority t o grant
pardons for treason and t o exercise this power
"largely but n o t entirely without exceptiontt. H e had
been further instructed t o avoid capital punishment
except in cases of murder. In t h e communications from
London, t h e r e also c a m e t h e suggestion of considering
possible banishment or deportation from t h e Province
for "a c e r t a i n period" for s o m e of t h e prisoners who
would b e selected by t h e Governor himself.
...
...
In mulling over t h e situation, Durham sought t h e
advice of Buller and Turton, his legal counselors. The
advisors w e r e of t h e opinion t h a t t h e leaders of t h e
insurrection should b e punished but lightly by invoking
a n "ex post facto" (made afterward) law, a law not
strictly legal but perhaps applicable in this one case
only. Durham subscribed t o this suggestion only if t h e
prisoners themselves would a g r e e t o it. In presenting
this solution t o t h e Governor, Buller knew t h a t t h e
leaders expected t h e government t o avail itself of t h e
power t o "pack" a jury and moreover, t h a t t h e leaders
w e r e willing t o have their c a s e disposed of without t r i a l
by jury a f t e r having been apprised t h a t a guilty plea on
their p a r t would result in exile for them and above all,
freedom for their fellow prisoners, except those t h a t
w e r e accused of t h e murder of Lieutenant George Weir
and Joseph Charland.
John Simpson, a customs officer at Coteau du Lac,
undertook t h e task of negotiating between t h e Canadian
Government which w a s represented by a council of five
people who had been appointed by t h e Governor
following t h e dissolution of t h e Elective Assembly at
t h e beginning of hostilities and between t h e eight
prisoners selected for exile. After a while, t h e eight
signed a n acceptable s t a t e m e n t of guilt, thus paving t h e
way f o r t h e release of their compatriots and exile for
themselves.
On J u n e 28, 1838, Lord Durham issued a
proclamation which provided f o r t h e deportation t o
Bermuda of t h e eight leaders of t h e rebellion, for t h e
release of those prisoners accused of High Treason and
t h e denial t o t h e rebel leaders, who had fled t o t h e
United States, t o return t o Canada under t h e penalty
of death.
In carrying o u t t h e mandates of t h e proclamation
of J u n e 28, Vice Admiral Paget, Commander in Chief
of t h e British Naval Forces in North America and t h e
West Indies, ordered Captain Thomas Wren Curtis of
H.M.S. Vestal t o communicate with Governor Chapman
of Bermuda t o arrange with him a t i m e and place for
t h e landing of t h e deportees.
Deportation t o Bermuda, in itself, was not a
precedent creating incident.
Years earlier, several
Canadian felons had been deported there. These felons
had worked on t h e docks or at other public projects
and t h e hulk of ships had been their prison environ.
T h e eight prisoners now destined f o r transportation t o
Bermuda w e r e t o enjoy almost preferential t r e a t m e n t
when one considers their s t a t u s as condemned
insurrectionists.
A t first i t appeared t h a t t h e eight leaders w e r e
not t o b e t r e a t e d t h a t leniently a s they were escorted
in chains from their New Montreal Prison t o t h e ship
at anchor. The Canadian authorities, i t is presumed,
wanted t o hold t h e m up as a n example t o others while
they w e r e still on Canadian soil. Once aboard ship
however, t h e manacles w e r e removed and t h e men
w e r e allowed t o move about at will. Captain Curtis
refrained from any but official contact with t h e men
but t h e other officers and midshipmen showed friendly
and sympathetic attitude.
During t h e voyage, Dr. Nelson and R.S.M.
Bouchette proceeded t o w r i t e a document about their
grievances and those of their compatriots.
The
document bore t h e long t i t l e of "A Brief Sketch of
Canadian Affairs Hastily Drawn Up on Board HMS
VESTAL by Particular Request of Several Officers on
That Ship".
The most important of these grievances
were:
1. Improvement grants of t h e wild Crown
Lands in t h e Province and their
maladministration.
2. Maladministration of justice because
judges and sheriffs depended upon t h e
Executive Council for their off ices.
3. Plurality of offices whereby as many a s
four positions might b e held by one
person.
Citing examples of maladministration, t h e t w o
authors recounted t h a t before t h e rebellion broke o u t
"warrants of a r r e s t (were) issued wholesale against t h e
most popular and influential men of t h e country" and
"Would i t b e credited t h a t many of t h e warrants w e r e
signed in Blank!" Nelson and Bouchette further wrote:
"...hundreds
were
manacled
cruelly
bothered with ropes--dr agged into dungeons
and languished for upwards of six months
within t h e walls of a prison--private
property was sacrificed, and whole villages
destroyed, pillaged and wantonly burnt t o
t h e ground not in t h e h e a t of action but
deliberately and nefariously when not a
shadow of resistance was offered."
The HMS VESTAL arrived at Hamilton, Bermuda,
on July 24, 1838. A t first, t h e governor, his advisors
and others w e r e not too happy to receive t h e
expatriates in light of t h e seeming affront t o t h e
governor who received t h e official proclamation of June
28, a f t e r it had appeared in print in t h e "Bermuda
Royal Gazette" on July 17, 1838. Added t o this was
t h e f a c t t h a t t h e governor objected t o accepting t h e
exiles since they w e r e not within t h e description of
convicted felons.
This objection was s e t aside however, when t h e
Canadians signed a "Parole of Honor" and a pledge t o
make no a t t e m p t at escape while on t h e Island and t o
confine their t r a v e l in Bermuda between t h e Somerset
Bridge on t h e one side and t h e f e r r y between Coney
Island and St. George on t h e other.
T h e eight m e n who signed t h e pledge were:
Wolf red Nelson, doctor.
Luc Hyacinthe Masson, doctor.
Henri Alphonse Gauvin, medical
student.
Robert Shore Milnes Bouchette,
lawyer.
Toussaint Goddu, f a r m e r
Simeon Marchessault, usher, Superior
Court of Montreal.
Rodolphe des Rivieres, bank clerk at
Banque du Peuple, ( considered as
having been a n agency for t h e
collection of funds f o r t h e rebellion.)
.
One cannot fault t h e t r e a t m e n t given t h e exiles
while in Bermuda judging by t h e l e t t e r s of Simeon
Marchessault t o his wife in which h e states t h a t h e and
his companions had nothing t o complain about except
perhaps t h e f e a r of running o u t of funds as they found
i t very difficult t o live on less than t e n shillings a day
and t h a t their situation would b e "plus triste" if their
compatriots in Canada would f o r g e t them. Unlike his
other companions, Marchessault was t h e only one who
could not speak English. This placed him at a distinct
disadvantage since t h e r e w e r e only t h r e e Bermudians on
t h e Island who could speak French.
The f e a r of being forgotten as expressed by
Marchessault was t o b e of short duration f o r on August
28, R.S.M. Bouchette's f a t h e r visited t h e exiles bringing
with him cheers, money and up-to-date news from
Canada.
By this time, t h e official t e x t of t h e proclamation
of J u n e 28, had reached t h e British Government where
i t b e c a m e t h e subject of strong political debates. The
opposition in Parliament, in a n e f f o r t t o make t h e
Melbourne Government look bad, criticized at length
t h e deportation of t h e Canadian rebel leaders t o
Bermuda. P r i m e Minister Melbourne, for f e a r of losing
coming elections, abandoned his support of Lord
Durham and picked on a technicality t o reprove him.
The Prime Minister while agreeing with Durham on t h e
banishment e d i c t ruled t h a t t h e l a t t e r had exceeded his
authority when h e specified t h e place of exile. Upon
hearing this, Lord Durham immediately revoked his
proclamation of June 28.
The Privy Council of Bermuda m e t on October 25,
1838, t o consider t h e l a t e s t development in England and
Canada as they applied t o t h e exiles. The Council's
decision lifted a l l restrictions imposed on t h e Canadians
thus allowing them t h e right t o leave t h e Island.
Within days, t h e eight deportees petitioned Governor
Chapman for passage back t o Canada aboard a British
Warship, t o which, Admiral P a g e t objected most
indignantly. Failing in this request, t h e leaders sought
and obtained passage aboard t h e PERSEVERE, a n
American merchant vessel bound for Alexandria,
Virginia.
The refusal by Vice-Admiral P a g e t t o allow t h e
exiles t o r e t u r n t o Canada via a British warship had a n
ironic twist of f a t e most favorable t o t h e Canadians.
On November 5, Admiral P a g e t received word from Sir
John Bolborne, t h e interim Governor of Canada once
more, following t h e resignation of Lord Durham, t h a t
a n insurrection had resurfaced in some a r e a s of Lower
Canada and consequently, t h a t t h e deportees should not
b e allowed t o leave Bermuda. By this time, t h e eight
expatriates had already l e f t t h e Island.
None of them could
return
to
Canada
immediately however, as banishment from t h e Province
still applied.
Wolf red Nelson s e t t l e d temporarily in
Plattsburg, New York, where his family joined him and
where h e practiced medicine.
After t h e general
amnesty t h a t granted pardon t o all who had
participated in t h e r e c e n t uprising, Nelson returned t o
his homeland.
Here, h e served in t h e Legislative
Assembly from 1844 t o 1851. During this period, h e
o f t e n clashed with Louis Joseph Papineau who had also
returned t o his native land following t h e amnesty. The
clashes e m a n a t e d from t h e resentment t h a t many f e l t
toward Papineau, because of his flight t o t h e United
S t a t e s before t h e rebellion had become a n open
encounter.
In 1851, Nelson assumed t h e duties of
Inspector of Prisons and eight years later, h e became
Chairman of Prison Inspectors. He died in Montreal in
1863, at t h e a g e of 67.
Robert Shore Milnes Bouchette travelled t o
Detroit, Michigan, where he m e t and married Caroline
Anne Berthelot. This was his second marriage. His
first wife was Mary Anne Gardner, whom he had m e t
and married in England and who had died of cholera but
His
four and a half months a f t e r their marriage.
second marriage would also b e of short duration.
Caroline Anne died t h r e e years a f t e r their marriage.
Bouchette then married Clara Lindsay. She was t h e
only wife who bore him children.
H e returned t o
Canada a f t e r t h e amnesty.
In 1851, h e became
Commissioner of Customs and retained this post for t h e
next twenty-four years.
Four generations of Bouchettes had distinguished
c a r e e r s in Canada. Grandfather J e a n Baptiste, born in
1736, had been Commandant of t h e British Naval
Forces on t h e G r e a t Lakes; f a t h e r Joseph had been
Surveyor General of all Lower Canada; Robert, t h e
patriot, as previously stated, became Commissioner of
Customs; and son, Errol, l a t e r performed t h e duties of
Chief Clerk in t h e Library of Parliament in Ottowa.
Little or nothing is known of t h e post exile
activities of Bonaventure Viger, Luc Hyacinthe Masson,
Toussaint Goddu, Henri Alphonse Gauvin, and Rodolphe
des Rivieres.
Simeon Marchessault, who had s e t t l e d in Swanton,
Vermont, a town just south of t h e Canadian border,
resumed his correspondence with his wife, while
awaiting t h e amnesty t h a t would g r a n t him a pardon
from t h e treason charges.
The injustices of t h e British judicial system at t h e
t i m e of t h e insurrection is evident when one considers
how easy i t was f o r t h e crown t o obtain convictions for
high treason in Upper Canada, compared t o Lower
Canada, despite t h e express wishes of t h e Colonial
Secretary against t h e use of capital punishment. In
Upper Canada, f o r their p a r t in t h e rebellion, J a m e s
Lount and P e t e r Mathews w e r e executed in 1838 and
many rebels were exiled t o Van Dieman's Land.
When trouble broke o u t again in 1838, Sir John
Colborne d e a l t harshly with t h e rebels of Lower Canada
in contrast with t h e mild exile t o Bermuda of t h e
earlier offenders. This time, several public executions
w e r e carried o u t and many insurgents w e r e mercilessly
deported t o t h e penal colony of Van Dieman's Land.
Eleven years a f t e r t h e ending of t h e rebellion, a
general amnesty allowed t h e return t o t h e homeland of
all who had been under t h e weight of t h e penal
consequences of t h e political offenses t h a t had resulted
in t h e insurrection. Following t h e amnesty, all eight
exiles t o Bermuda returned t o Canada at one t i m e or
another.
These men and many others like them a r e
still known a n d honored t o this day as t r u e patriots in
some Canadian circles.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bermuda
THE CANADIAN EXILES IN BERMUDA.
Historical Quarterly.
Vol. XXXVIII. Nos. 3 & 4. pp
42-45; 63-68. Hamilton Bermuda. Nina L. Edwards.
PATRIOTES DE 1837-1838.
Aegidius Fauteus.
Les
Editions d e s Dix. Montreal, Quebec, 1950. pp. 55-61;
80-81; 126-128; 211-212;
319-321; 392-395.
250-252;
256-259;
313-315;
To o u r r e a d e r s :
T h i s i s t o i n f o r m you t h a t t h e American F r e n c h
G e n e a l o g i c a l S o c i e t y i s s e p a r a t e and d i s t i n c t f r o m
and i s i n n o way a s s o c i a t e d w i t h Q u i n t i n Publ i c a t i o n s , w h i c h i s a p r i v a t e o p e r a t i o n o f Mr.
Q u i n t i n s who p r e s e n t l y d o e s s e r v e o n t h e b o a r d o f
d i r e c t o r s and i s p a s t p r e s i d e n t o f t h i s s o c i e t y .
P l e a s e a d d r e s s a l l mail f o r Q u i n t i n P u b l i c a t i o n s
d i r e c t l y t o him.
A STORY WORTH RETELLING
by Patricia A.
(deMund) Griffore
Having been involved in genealogy for
quite some time, I have always heard it said
that family traditions should not be dismissed without first having investigated them,
to see if there is some grain of truth hidden within. Certainly, there are the "descent from royalty" traditions, the lost
Indian or the traditional horsethief, most
of these we would simply readily discard.
But if one takes the time to inspect each
of these elements which have been passed
down by oral-tradition, even if they did not
happen to the person who it was told was
that certain one, one will find others still
farther back who fit the bill.
It has always been a tradition in our
family that my great-grandmother, Marie~rthgmiseCastonguay , descended from a house
of royalty in France, and that, when she
married my great-grandfather, Damase Gaumont,
her family disowned her. After their marriage, she couple removed to the north coast
of Quebec, where Damase supposedly engaged
in the fur trade with the Eskimos of Labrador,
and where his wife accompanied him on a voyage. During that journey, the ship broke
apart in a violent gtorm, and they were separated. Marie-Arthemise was rescued by the
Eskimos and spent the winter with them before being reunited with her husband. Having
lost everything, they decided to emigrate to
the United States, where they settled in
Schoolcraft County, Michigan, and where they
reared four children, two girls and two boys.
1. M A e - P a h a , b. 7/11/1168-N.D. 2ugbec; mg.
18/2/1690-Manin;tique,MI. ;ta John E. HESLOP,
M.D. ; lthey ~ M Umoved
L ;to Gludutin, MI.
2. MAe-Ddvina ttV&a:'
my gmdmolthm, b.
1/11/1870-Quebec; mg. ~1699-Michigan(exact
place unknown aA phC55eK-t) ;to U
U 3 . LYNCH,
a haieLoad man; he died 31/70/1939-lhonwood,
MI.
3. ~ h w r b.
, 2/ll/lb71-Qu~bec;mg. 3/7/1911faye;t;te, MI. ;to A n g h St. Attno; he died
31/3/1941-MczmnviLte, MI.
4. ~obe~h-~ancttkde
"LOULA" b. 5/ 1 2/ 1873~ e h t k i e n - b u n - ~ m , m i16/91
. 1 924-Michigan
lto Nina M. ffamikton; he died 91411945Manin;tique, MI.
In the pursuit of my family history
hobby, I have learned that every word of a
family tradition is important, but certainly,
not all of it may be true. And thus it was
that I began my search of digging-out and
bringing to light the veracity of what had
been passed down to me. The story is less
than complete, but intrigue of such possibilities makes the effort all worth it.
Having traced back my grandmother,
Della's lineage, I finally arrived at my,
ancestor, Robert Gaumond, the son of Rene
Gaumond and Jeanne dlAllaisne of St-Pierrede-Ch?renson, near Paris. Robert emigrated
to Quebec and married there on the 26th of
October 1671 Louise Robin, "une f i l l e du Roiy
t h e d a u g h t e r of E t i e n n e Robin and ~ l g o n o r e
Maucait, of t h e p a r i s h of s t - ~ g b a s t i e n , i n
t h e Diocese o f Coutances, i n Normandie,
F r a n c e . The c o u p l e pronounced t h e i r vows
a f t e r having signed a c i v i l c o n t r a c t before
t h e n o t a r y Becquet f i f t e e n days p r e v i o u s l y .
Le vingt-nixi&e jouh dloc;tobhe, ntie s i x cent
s oixante- et-un, a p x h La pubfication,de d u x
b a a de mamkge, SaLta l e &x-huitieme et l e
vingz-cinquieme de
di;t m o d
d'oc;tobhe, e r n e
6i.b majewt de Ren'e Gaurnond ct
de Jeanne d'keeainne, s a $me et m-me, de l a ,
R a b a t Gcuunond,
pmoAse de S t - Pime-de-Chmemon, mch6v;che
de Pahin, d'une pcmt; et de LoLLine Robin, @Ue
majeuhe de dgdun;t E;tienne Robin eX dlEL<onohe
MaucaLt, s u p h e et m'me, de h pcvwAse de
S~-sgbas;tien, cv Echc de CauAances , d ' d e pcmt.
M o v ~eigneut,tl Evcque de P&&
ay,ant dispem 6
d'un f i o d i m e ban, e.t n'ayant decouv& aucun
empCchemyt, n o u , He& de Behnie~en,p h h e
sounaigne de c m e pattadbe de Nofie-Dame de
~ u c b e c ,avos h e ~ uLeuh mutud coM6entement de
mahiage, et Lewt avovM donnc La bCn~diuXon
nupkiaee, s a o n h Borne ph&&e
pm La
aaiutte E g m e , en phhence de N i c o h d' H a y ,
Sacqua TuteA, Gabhid Samson, W e n n e Ro ym,
q u i ne s o d sunsign&.
f i . de Behniehu
The K i n g ' s dream o f s t a r t i n g i n Canada
a l a r g e r a c e of French men and women, gave
r i s e t o t h e p l a n of s e n d i n g c o l o n i s t s t o
~ u g b e c . Groups of women, promised a s u i t a b l e
dowry from t h e King, m a d e their w a y to t h e
s h o r e s of New France from 1608 t o 1663. Among t h e s e v a l i a n t women was my a n c e s t r e s s ,
Louise Robin. Born in 1641, she likewise
emigrated from her native France to the
city of Quebec, bringing with her, as related by Silvio Dumas in his book, LES
F I L L E S VU R O I , a dowry of goods estimated
at 300 pounds in value, as well as an additional 50 pounds, a personal gift from
the royal tre sury to cover her expenses in
the new world 7
These she brought to her
subsequent marriage to Robert Gaumond in
October of 1671. Perhaps this is the basis
from which the tradition of French royalty
stems, and which was passed down among the
generations of our family. After all, she
was a "fille du Roi", or "daughter of the
King".
.
In tracing our GAUMOND (GAUMONT) line,
the descendence to my great-grandfather runs
as follows:
1 . ~ e n gGAUMON'D E Jeanne dlALLAISNE
06 SX-Pieme-
de-Chmemon, neah PatLin, Fnance.
GAUMONV E L o d e ROBIN
mg, 2 6 / 1 0 / 7 6 7 7 - N.V. de 2ugbec
2 . Rob&
3. G m a i n GAUMONP E Martie BALAW-Latom
mg. 1 6 / 1 1 / 1 7 0 0 - SX-Thoman, MoM;tmagny,PQ
4 . ELLenne GAUMON'D E M d e - Joa m e P ~ P T N lachance
mg. 1811 111736 - SX-Thoman, MoM;tmagny, PQ
5 . Joaeph GAUMONV E MAe-Matcthe BOUTIN
mg. 1 6 / 1 711772 - B a t h i e - a u k - M a , PQ
6 . Pnahpetr GAUMONT E Mahie OUELSE-GaXLLboh
mg. 7 / 1 / 1 6 2 8 - B e & k i e ~ - b w ~ - M u ~PQ
,
Born towards 1839 at Berthier-sur-Mer,
Damase Gaumont was the fifth son of Prosper
Gaumont and Marie Ouelse dit Gallibois. His
brothers and sister were the following:
1 . S a m u d , mg. 1 7 / 4 / f b 5 5 - S t - V a l i U L , PQ
t o Mance&?ine GOSSELIN.
2 . C g p h i e n , mg . 1 1 / 1 / 1 b59-St-fh.an$oh -du-Sud,
W n e BUTEAU.
3. Edouatrd, mg. 29/4/lti59-B&kim-huh-MUL,
Z5TZEd/ee GUT 11EMETTE.
PQ
PQ
4 . Joneph, mg. 1 71911 8 6 1 - B & k i e ~ - s w ~ - M e h , PQ
MERCER.
m
i
?
5 . M d e , mg. 5/9/1671-St-Fnan$o&-du-Sud, PQ
Z 6 7 5 d @ i d BOUL ET.
As a young man, Damase made his way to
the north coast of Quebec, where family
tradition says he was involved in the fur
trade with the Eskimos. However, he was
not a fur trapper. While on the north coast,
he settled at the fishing village of Pointeaux-Esquimaux (today's Havre St-Pierre, PQ)
founded by a group of Acadians from the
Madeleine Islands in the 1850's. Likewise,
it is most probable that he was employed by
a Vital Vigneault from that locality, the
reason for which we will see shortly. Vital
Vigneault was born at Havre-aux-Maisons on
the Madeleine Islands, and married there
to an Elise Boudreau. They were the cousins
of the North Coast's celebrated historian,
Placide Vigneault, whose famous work, U N
PlED D'ANCRE records the nimble beginnings
of this remote Canadian outpost.
Towards 1866 or 1867, on a jour3ey to
the capital city, he met Marie-Arthemise
Castonquay, the daughter of Henri-Marie
Castonquay and Elizabeth Sirois dit Duplessis of St-Roch-des-Aulnaies. Born the 25th
of June 1838 at St-Roch, she was third of
four children, who included:
Th4 reason for ~arie-~rthgmise
being in
Quebec City is unclear, but perhaps it was
to find employment. No doubt, she was living with her sister, ~ d g l e ,who married in
a neighboring parish two years afterwards.
On the 12th of Novembes 1867, in the
church of Fotre-Dame-de-Quebec, Damase and
Marie-Arthemise were married. The following extract of marriage was recorded in the
church's registers.
Le dauze NovembtLe m i l M cent naixan;te-bep;t,
vu la dinpeme de d u x barn de maniage & La
pubfication du h a ~ i ' e m eban ~ d i t eau phane
de,la mahe pahoAhide de Nohe-Dame-deQuebbe~,p&e Damme Gaumont, naviggateun, dom-
i&e
a la Po.in;te-aux- Ehquhaux, c $ ~ edu
Labnadotr, di.&
majeun de Pnahpm Gaumont,
cuUivatewr, et de dhtjunte Mahie Ouehe dit
GaXibod, nen p&e eA m&e de BWa, Dioc b e de ~ugbec,d'une pant; e-t ~ h 6 n b e
Cantonguay, d o n t i F C en cette panodne de
Nohe-Dame de Quebec, &Ue majeuhe de ff ewLi
Cantonguay, c W v a t e u h , et de Efizabekte
S h o d di;t DuplanA, nen p&e eA m&e de
St-Roch d e AuRneA,
~
d 1 ~ parr;t;
e VUA w n i
la dinpeme de ~9~oA,bampow
PoiMJte-auxEA quimaux, n ' a y d d e c o u v m aucun emp~chement
au m d a g e den &en patr;tien, nom P n h e
nomnign5, c w c de ~ u z b e c ,avom n e ~ uLewr
mLLtu$ comeMJteme& de mahiage, eX Leuh avom
donne la b5n<dicLLon nup;ti&e en pn&ence de
V h W V i g n e U , naviga;tm, de La Pointe-auxEnylLimaux, et de Ftran~od Tkibou;tolt, h a g e n t
de pofice de c&e panodne, do& un aeuR
b o m n i g n ~avec ~ e i l6poux. L e a e @iXe.
As one can glean from the register account,
Vital Vigneault witnessed Damase and
~rthgmise'swedding. Other than the presupposition of employment or friendship with
the groom, there can be no explanation for
his being a witness to the ceremony otherwise. Nor were they related in any way.
But what happened to the couple after the
wedding? Did the couple remove to Pointeaux-Esquimaux or remain in ~ugbec? This is
difficult to determine. Or did Damase settle in ~ u k b e cCity, while he himself went
back to the north coast to resume his work?
All we can be certain of is that on the
11th of November of 1868, a year later, the
couple returned to the church of their marriage to have their oldest daughter, MariePalma baptized. Frangois Thiboutot, still
on the city's police force and witness to
their wedding, was once again given the
privilege of being their daughter's godfather.
As for Vital Viqneault, it is learned
through notes compiled by Placide_V - n ~ u t ,
that in 1868; he and his brother, Amedee
Vigneault purchased a schooner, named the
J.C. MILLER, which he continues, was later
shipwrecked. Unfortunately, the when, where,
and who may have been aboard,is not mentioned. Perhaps Damase and Arthemise? On the
5th of December 1871, Vital Vigneault died,
and became the first pioneer at Pointe-auxEsquimaux to be buried beneath the old
church.
To corroborate the story of the shipwreck and ~rthgmise's subsequent winter separation from her husband, Placide Vigneault
relates the following occurances:
In Ocltabm ad 1 6 7 6 , a cydane dnam t h e
aouXhu;t, v m y b k c h at that, nkipwt~ecked
dive Canadian achaanem an t h e 1 a h h
auhnounding Havne S;t- P i m e . Twa y e w
k t m , an t h e 10;th 06 Octabm 7 6 7 6 , ana t h m cydane @om ;the wt hi2 a majon
p a m a n 06 achaanem an tLaLLte t o PaM
S e - M d e , &owning VdeMltin AU ene&
and Edauartd Boudttecu
.
Could it have been one of these two storms
which separated my great-grandparents, during those winter months? In any event, both
of them were saved from the calamity. My
great-grandmother, ~rthgmise
, found herself
among a small tribe of Eskimos. It was said
that she couldn't even communicate with them,
not knowing their language. No doubt, it
must have been quite lonely a time for her.
Eventually, though, Damase found her once
more.
From there, they returned to Berthiersur-Mer for a while. Finally, they gathered
their children, pulled-up their roots and
emigrated to Michigan, where on the 18th of
March 1890, they signed homestead
papersin-schoolcraft-county, settling in the town of
Thompson. After the death of Marie-Arthgmise,
on the 22nd of May 1897, Damase remarried
Sophie COTE-MICHAUD, a widow and daughter of
Raphael cot6 and Julienne Dion. This second
marriage occured on the 9th of October 1899
in Rapid River, MI. After several years
together, Damase died on the 12th of November 1923 in Cooks Township, Michigan.
-
-
-
-
Certainly, our story remains incomplete.
Yet, hopefully, newly-engendered
communica0
tion with the Societe
Historique du Havre
St-Pierre may unearth more evidence to support what has been passed down to us as
simply tradition. Until then, it is a story
worth retelling, again and again and again.
/
ADDENDUM
(The following is Mrs. Griffore's CASTONGUAY
Lineage).
1. GaXon GUAY E Jeanne PROVOSTIPREVOST 04
Ma&&-now
-BOA, P d , Fnance.
2. Ma;tkieu GUAY E M a h g u W e BALAN-Lacombe
3 mg. 17/8/1695-N.D. d e Quebec, PQ
3 . P i m e GASTONGUAY E ~ c c r t i e - ~ n ~ l hMORlN
~ue
mg. 301517 729-Chakeaboung, PQ
4. Jean-Mahie GASTONGUAY E FkansoAe GAGNON
1 mg. 23/10/1756-ConXta;t No;tairte Dianne
e
5. Jean-Augu;tin GASTONGUAY E ~ n g i h ~ uPELLETZER
mg. 20/17/17tiO-S;t-Rach-da-AuRnaien, PQ
6. He&-Mde
GASTONGUAY E W z a b t z t h SlROlS
mg. 26/2/1827-La ~oca;ti&e, PQ
7. Make-A.rz;th&e
GASTONGUAY E P a m a e GAUMONT
rng. 1211 111867-N.D. d e Quzbec, PQ
8. Mahie-Pduina GAUMONT E W i U k m J. LYNCH
mg. c7 d99-Uickigan
R u n & F. DeMUNP
mg. 13/6/1932-Angula, M I .
9. 1ua K. LYNCH 6
10. PaRnicia A. DeNUNV E fiuwahd J. GRIFFORE, Jtr.
mg. 37/1/7957-D&oLt,
Ml.
NOTES
kee dash ;taken @om actual tLecotLa2 06 bap;tinm, martt t i a g e and d e a t h ttecahh datt Xhe a p p t t o p m e pLacen
m W o n e d i n ;thh atttide, e n p e c i a l l y No;ttte-Dame
d e Quebec, SX- Roch-den-AuRnaien, and B a m - ~ m
-
Mm, PQ
Talbot , ~loi-~e'rard. MONTMAGNY, L ' ISLET eA EELLECHASE.
V o h . 1 1 1 k; V T I .
'mas5
Silvio. LES F I L L E S DU ROI EN NOYVELLE-FRANCE.
( Q u e b e c : La ~ o c i 6 t ZHAXotLique d e Q u e b e c , 7 9 7 2 )
pp. 327-328.
NOTES HISTORl2UES DE LA PAROISSE DU HAVRE SAINTPIERRE, 1857-1957 ( 1 0 0 b n e A n n i v m a i n e l , pp.
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THE HABITANT
by William Henry Drummond, M.D.
Venez ici, mon c h e r ami, an' s i t down by
me--so
An' I will tole you story of old t a m long ago-W'en ev'ryt'ing is happy--wlen all d e bird is
sing
An' me!--I'm young an' strong lak moose an'
not afraid no t'ing.
I close my e y e just so, an' see d e place w'ere
I a m born-I close my e a r an' lissen t o musique of d e horn,
Dat's horn ma dear ole moder blow--an only
t'ing she play
Is "viens donc vite Napoleon--peche t o i
pour votre souper."--
An' w'en h e 's hear d a t nice musique--ma
leetle dog "Carleau"
Is place hees t a i l upon hees back--an' den
he's l e t heem go-He's jomp on fence--he's swimmin' crik-he's ronne t w o f o r t y gait,
H e say "dat's somet'ing good for eat--Carleau mus' not be late."
0 dem was pleasure day for sure, dem day of
long a g o
W'en I was olay wit' all d e boy, an' all d e girl
also;
An' many t a m w'en I'm alone an' t'ink of day
gone by
An' pull latire an' spark d e girl, I cry upon my
eye.
Ma fader an' m a moder too, got nice, nice
f a m ilee,
Dat's t e n garcon an' t'orteen girl, was mak' i t
twenty t ' r e e
But fonny t'ing d e Gouvernement don't geev
d e firs' prize den
Lak w'at dey say dey geev i t now, for only
wan douzaine.
D e English peep d a t only g o t wan f a m i l e e
small s i z e
Mus' b e f e e l glad d a t t a m d e r e is no honder
a c r e prize
For f a d e r of t w e l v e chil'ren--dey know d a t
mus' be so,
De Canayens would boss Kebeck--mebbe
Ontario.
But d a t is not d e s t o r y d a t I was gone t o l e
YOU
About d e fun w e use t o h a v e w'en w e leev a
c h e z nous
W e ' r e never lonesome on d a t house, for many
cavalier
C o m e at our place most e v e r y night-especially
Sun-day.
But t a m I 'member bes' is w'en I'm twenty
wan year--me-An' so for mak' some pleasurement--we geev
wan large s o i r e e
D e whole paroisse s h e be invite--de C u r e he's
c o m e too-Wit plaintee peep from 'noder place=-dat's
m o r e I c a n t o l e you.
D e night she's c o l e an' f r e e z e also, chemin
she's fill wit snow
An' on d e chimley lak phantome, d e win' is
mak' i t blow-B u t boy an' girl c o m e a l l d e Sam an' pass on
grande parloir
For warm itself on beeg box stove, was mak'
on Trois Rivieres--
An' w'en Bonhomme Latour commence f o r
t u n e up hees fidelle
It mak' us all f e e l very glad--llenfant! h e play
SO well,
Musique suppose t o be firs' class, I offen hear,
for s u r e
But most besf man, b e a t a l l d e rest, is o l e
Bateese Latour--
An' w'en Bateese play Irish jeeg, he's learn
on Mattawa
D a t t a m he's head boss cook Shaintee--den
l e e t l e J o e Leblanc
Tak' hole d e beeg Marie Juneau an' dance upon
d e floor
Till Marie say "Excuse t o me, I cannot dance
no more."--
An' den d e Cure's mak' d e speech--ole C u r e
Ladouceur !
H e say d e girl was spark d e boy t o o much on
some cornerre-An' so he's t o l e Bateese play up o l e fashion
reel a quatre
An' every body s h e mus' dance, dey c a n ' t g e t
off on dat.
Away she go--hooraw ! hooraw! plus f o r t
Bateese, mon vieux '
Camille Bisson, please watch your girl--datls
bes' t'ing you c a n do.
Pass on d e right an' t a k ' your place Mamzelle
Des Trois Maisons
You're s'pose f o r dance on Paul Laberge, not
Telesphore Gagnon.
Mon oncle Al-fred, he spik lak' dat--'cos h e is
boss d e floor,
An' so we do our possibill an' den commence
encore.
Dem crowd of boy an' girl I;m sure keep up
until nex' day
If ole Bateese don't stop heseff, he c o m e s o
fatigue.
An' affer d a t , we eat some t'ing, t a k ' leetle
drink also
An' d e Cure, he's tole story of many year
ago-W'en Iroquois sauvage she's keel d e Canayens
an' s t e a l deir hair,
An' say d a t ' s only for Bon Dieu, we don't be
here-- he don't b e dere.
But d a t was mak' d e girl f e e l scare--so all d e
cavalier
Was a x hees girl go home right off, an' place
her on d e sleigh,
An' w'en dey s t a r t , d e Cure say, "Bonsoir et
bon voyage
Menagez-vous--takl c a r e for you--Prenezgarde pour les sauvages."
An' den I go meseff also, a n ' t a k ' m a belle
Elmire-She's nicer girl on whole C o m t e , an' jus' got
eighteen year-Black hair--black eye, an' chick rosee d a t ' s lak
wan f a m e u s e on d e f a l l
But don't spik much--not of d a t kin', I c a n ' t
s a y s h e love m e at all.
Ma girl--she's f a d e r beeg farmeur--leev 'noder
side St. Flore
Got five-six honder acre--mebbe a l e e t l e
more-Nice sugar bush--une belle maison--de best I
never see-So w'en I go f o r spark Elmire, I don't be mak'
d e foolish me--
Elmire!--she's pass t ' r e e year on school--Ste.
Anne d e l a P e r a d e
An' w'en she's t a k ' d e firs' class prize, d a t ' s
mak' d e ole man glad;
H e say "Ba gosh--ma girl c a n wash--can keep
d e kitchen c l e a n
Den change her dress--mak' politesse before
God s a v e d e Queen."
Dey's many way for spark de girl, an' you
know d a t of course,
Some way dey might be b e t t e r way, an' some
dey might b e worse
But I lak' s i t s o m e c o l e night wit' my girl on
ole burleau
Wit' l o t of hay keep our f o o t warm--an'
plaintee buffalo--
D a t ' s g e e v good chances g e t acquaint--an' if
burleau upset
An' t'row you o u t upon d e snow--datts b e t t e r
chances yet-An' if you help d e girl g o home, if horse h e
ronne away
D e girl s h e ' s not much use at all--don't geev
you nice baiser!
D a t ' s very well for fun m a frien', but w'en
you spark for k e e p
She's not s a m t'ing a n ' mak' you f e e l s o s c a r e
lak' l e e t l e s h e e p
Some t a m you g e t d e fever--some t a m you're
lak snowball
An' all d e t a m you a c k lak' fou--can't spik no
t'ing at all.
Wall! d a t ' s d e way I f e e l messeff, wit Elmire
on burleau,
Jus' lak' small dog t r y k e t c h hees tail--roun
roun' m a head s h e g o
But bemeby I c o m e m o r e brave--an' t a k ' Elm i r e she's han'
"Laisse-moi tranquille" Elmire s h e say "You
mus' be c r a z y man."
"Yass--yass I say'' mebbe you t'ink I'm wan
beeg loup garou,
D a t ' s f o r t y t'ousand 'noder girl, I l e f ' d e m a l l
for you,
I s'pose you know Polique Gauthier your f r i e n '
on St. C e s a i r e
I a x her m a r r y m e n e x t wick--she t a k ' me--I
d o n ' t care."
Ba gosh; Elmire s h e don;t lak dat--it mak'
her f e e l s o mad-She c o m m e n c e c r y , s a y "Poleon you t r e a t m e
v e r y bad-I don;t lak s e e you t ' r o w you'seff upon Polique
Gauthier;
S o if you s a y you love m e sure--we mak' d e
m a r iee."--
Oh i t was f i n e t a m a f f e r dat--Castor
know,
We're not t o o busy for g e t home--he
n i c e a n ' slow,
He's only upset ttree--four tam--ant
a b o u t daylight
We pass upon d e o l e man's place--an'
t ' i n g ' s a l l right.
I t'ink h e
go so
jus
every
Wall! w e leev happy on d e f a r m f o r nearly
f i f t y year,
Till wan d a y on d e s u m m e r tam--she die--ma
belle Elmire
I f e e l s o lonesome l e f ' behint-- I t'ink 't was
bes' mebbe-D a t w'en le Bon Dieu t a k ' m a famme-- h e
should not f o r g e t me.
But d a t is hees biz-nesse m a frienl--1know
d a t ' s all right d e r e
I'll wait till he call "poleon" den I will be
prepare-An' w'en h e fin' m e ready, for mak' d e longue
voyage
H e guide m e t'roo d e wood hesef upon m a las'
portage.
TWO CANADIAN HEROES
During t h e month of February, in 1641, t w o men
from t h e region of Three Rivers, Thomas Godefroy d e
Normanville and Francois Marguerie, w e r e taken
prisoners by t h e Iroquois while they w e r e hunting.
Realizing t h a t t h e y had captured t w o affluent
Frenchmen, t h e Iroquois decided
t o use them t o
negotiate a t r e a t y t h a t would b e advantageous t o them.
In early June, 350 warriors set up a c a m p o n t h e south
shore, facing Three Rivers.
Holding Codefroy a s
hostage, they s e n t Francois Marguerie t o e n u m e r a t e t h e
conditions of peace. The Iroquois had thirty guns t o
defend themselves and they refused t o allow any tribes
t h a t were allied t o t h e French t o participate in t h e
negotiations.
Marguerie counselled t h e French t o
refuse t o sign a peace t r e a t y t h a t held such conditions.
He returned t o t h e Iroquois and told t h e m t h a t only
Governor Montmagny had t h e power t o sign such a
treaty.
Godefroy and Marguerie w e r e well a w a r e t h a t their
lives w e r e in t h e balance. The governor of Quebec
arrived on J u n e 10 with many men. With t h e help of
J e a n Nicolet and Father Ragueneau, h e was successful
in persuading t h e Iroquois t o f r e e t h e men. H e did not
sign any t r e a t y with them and t h e Indians finally
dispersed.
L I G H T N I N G CAN STRIKE TWICE
(SO CAN LOVE)
by Rev. Dennis M. Boudreau
My mother's adoptive parents, Alcide
and Amanda (Vigneault) Gaudet were married
on the 20th of November 1894 l;n their parish church of St-Pierre at 1'Etang-du-Nord
on the Madeleine Islands. Immediately following the ceremony and the post-nuptial
dinner, the newly-weds returned to the home
of his parents at Cap-aux-Meules, about a
mile or two from the church. They were to
reside there until the following spring,
when Alcide could start building his own
new home.
My grandmother, Amanda, often recounted
her wedding day afternoon impressions of
her new in-laws. As they,arrived home that
day, her father-in-law, Felix Gaudet, a
very stern man turned to the new groom, and
said: "Just because you're married now,
doesn't mean there still isn't work that
has to be done. There are cows to milk,
and pigs to feed!" With that, his son disappeared into the barn. Amanda's mother-inlaw, Eloise (Boudreau), was just as stern
as her husband, and shot her a look that
would scare one half to death. Before
Eloise spoke one word, Amanda started to
darn socks as fast as she could. She said
she must have darned all the socks in the
world that afternoon. From that moment on,
they had decided to leave the Islands as
soon as they had the opportunity.
By way of background, d l i x and Eloise
(Boudreau) Gaudet were married in 1865 at
Havre-aux-Maisons in the parish church of
Ste-Madeleine. At that time, he was a
young fisherman, and she,was a widow with
three small children: Onesime, Louise, and
Joachin, the offspring of her,first marriage
to Placide-Vital Boudreau. Felix and Eloise
were likewise first cousins, as his mother
and her father were sister and brother. In
addition to her three children, the couple
had an additional six more/, four boys and
two girls: OngFiphore Theofred, Alcide,
Marie, ~lbgnieand ~ ~ i i x .
That whole year following Alcide and
Amanda's wedding was one of hard work,
from dawn to dusk. Alcide helped his
father, while Amanda did many of the indoor chores for her mother-in-law. He
never did get to build his new home, and
by that time, Amanda was pregnant for
their first child, a daughter, MarieHenriette, who was born to them the
following 14th of September 1895 at the
Gaudet homestead at Cap-aux-Meules.
The years 1894 and 1895 will always
be remembered at the Islands as the years
in which groups of young men left there
to inspect the newly-opened government
Valley of the
lands in the ~ata~6dj-a
~ a s peninsula.
~ 6
Looking for possible
sites for a new settlement, they decided
to begin one on the shores of a lake, not
far from the nearest town of Amqui. This
settlement was to become the present day
town of Lac-au-Saumon. News of the estab-
lishment quickly reached the ears of the
families which they had left behind. Soon
afterwards, others joined them. Could this
finally be the moment Alcide had awaited?
Could this be his stepping-stone to a
better life for his wife and daughter on
the mainland, or even in the United States,
later on?
After talking it over with his wife,
they made their decision t? leave. He
then went to his father, Felix, to inform
him of his decision and to tell him of all
the opportunities many Islanders ?ad already found on the mainland in Quebec, as
well as in Boston and Fall River. His
father, an in-grained Islander, steeped in
the rich Acadian tradition of his ancestors,
and like all of them, spiteful of change,
responded: "So you're going to America?
You're going to hell if you leave these
Islands! ! ! " What else could a strict old
man say, who down deep did not want to see
his son leave. But they did.
In October of 1896, even though a wave
of Islanders from Havre-aux-Maisons had
preceded them there the winter before,
Alcide and Amanda departed. Alcide's older brother, OngFiphore, married to Elizabeth
Petitpas, with four children of his own:
cle/ophans, Joseph, ~ne/sie,and Louise, also
left the Gaudet home with his family to
join his younger brother in the ~ a t a ~ g d i a .
Among this second group of Madelinot pioneers, they purchased lots # 2 2 and # 2 6 at
Lac-au-Saumon, and built new homes for
themselves.
Those f i r s t y e a r s i n t h e ~ a t a ~ e / d i a
V a l l e y were p r i m i t i v e o n e s , marked w i t h
a predominant s t r u g g l e f o r s u r v i v a l . The
m a j o r i t y o f t h e I s l a n d e r s were v e r y p o o r ,
having s p e n t what l i t t l e t h e y saved t o
p u r c h a s e t h e i r p r o p e r t i e s . With many
a c r e s of t r e e s t o c l e a r , e a c h c o l o n i s t
had a monumental t a s k of g o i n g i t a l o n e .
Having a l r e a d y missed a s p r i n g p l a n t i n g ,
s u r e l y t h e a p p r o a c h i n g w i n t e r would be
a d i f f i c u l t one t o e n d u r e .
A f t e r t h e f r f a m i l i e s were s e t t l e d ,
A l c i d e and O n e ~ i p h o r ewould make r e g u l a r
I t was
t r i p s t o Amqui f o r s u p p l i e s .
there too t h a t t h e i r families attended
Mass a t S t - B e n o i t - L a b r i e c h u r c h , and
where a t l e a s t seven of t h e two b r o t h e r s '
c h i l d r e n had t h e i r b a p t i s m s r e c o r d e d .
I n t h o s e f i r s t few y e a r s , Amanda gave
b i r t h t o two s o n s , A l f r e d and J e a n , b o t h
of whom d i e d a s i n f a n t s .
On t h e 1 2 t h of
J a n u a r y 1 9 0 0 , s h e a g a i n gave b i r t h t o a
l i t t l e g i r l , Rose-Delima.
Alcide s e n t t o
Amqui f o r t h e p a s t o r , who came t o b a p t i z e
h e r a t home.
From h e r e a r l i e s t r e c o l l e c t i o n s , Aunt H a r r i e t ( M a r i e - H e n r i e t t e ) remembered t h a t a t t h e s i g h t of t h e p r i e s t
e n t e r i n g t h e house, s h e began t o c r y ,
t h i n k i n g t h a t h e r new sister would a l s o
d i e . To q u i e t h e r down, t h e p r i e s t gave
h e r a s m a l l p r a y e r c a r d of t h e Christmas
s c e n e , w i t h t h e newborn C h r i s t C h i l d and
h i s p a r e n t s . Somehow, t h e c a r d worked
l i k e a charm, and s h e s t o p p e d sobbing.
A s Lac-au-Saumon
grew l a r g e r , o t h e r
relatives and friends from the Islands came
to join them. Among the new contingent of
people were Amanda's sister, Appoline, who
married on the 30th of May 1904 at Amqui to
~ 6 l g s ~ h o r4aPance.
e
cajgtan and Marie
Lafrance, Telesphore's brother and sister,
also removed from Havre-aux-Maisons to Lacau-?aumon, likewise marrying at Amqui:
Cajetan to Fransoise Arseneault on the 9th
of August 1899, and Marie to Bruno ~hgriault
on the 1st of February 1904. Bruno's family
for the most part settled in Cambridge,
Massachusetts where another large contingent of people from the Islands had made
their home. Accompanying the Gaudet brothers were two other brothers: Marc and
Isaac Arseneault. They too married at
Amqui; Marc on the 9th of January 1900 to
~hebphitaArseneault; and Isaac on the 5th
of August 1902 to Alvina Leblanc. Left a
widower with three children in Rhode Island
some time later, Marc returned to Lac-auSaumon to find a new mother for his son
and daughters. He remarried there on the
27th of October 1908 to Luce Richard.
In 1901, Alcide and Amanda sold their
property to Thomas ~ h g b e r ~ eand
, with their
two daughters, left behind their relatives.
They journeyed south by train to Newport,
Vermont, and then from there, to the Globe
district of Fall River. The triple-decker
block house at the beginning of Peckham
Street was to be their new residence. It
housed no less than eighteen families in
separate apartments. The local parish was
the popular shrine of Ste-Anne. Alcide
found employment in the local textile mills
and went to work there as a carpenter. No
doubt, they had written to Canada to inform
the ?t5ers of the many employment openings,
as Telesphore and ~aje/tanLafrance soon
moved themselves and their families to that
city. By 1906, th? Gaudet's had three more
children: Anita, Heliodore (Eli), and MarieLouise. In addition, they took in five extra boarders from the Islands: Amanda's two
brothers, Gustave and William Vigneault;
AlciGe's nephew, Isaac Boudreault; Alfred
Masse and Pierre Bourque. All this sets
the stage for an unusual love story concerning my great uncle, Gustave Vigneault.
Shortly after his sister, Amanda, had
left the Islands for the Matapedia Valley,
Gustave fell in love and started to date
Suzan;n? Boudreau, $he oldest daughter of
Hermenegilde and Celina (~h&rier) Boudreau
of Havre-Aubert. Suzanne was my paternal
grandfather, Alphonse Boudreau's first
cousin7. After a courtship of a year or
two, the young couple planned to be married.
Because there was little work on the
Islands at that time, Gustave decided to
find employment on the mainland, and return
with enough money to begin their marriage
on a sound financial basis. He found a job
Suzanne'n youngen b n o t h m , A h t h and Pa&
Boudrtecur. t d e ~
moved ;to Cem%edde, R7, whene
AtLthuh mahhied M a n i e - l o d e Gaud&, dla
0n~&Lphuhe;and P a d makrtied Rune Gaudet, d/o
kecide
.
in Pictou, Nova Scotia, and in no time had
amassed some money, which he placed in a
local bank. Encouraged by a letter from
his sisters in Fall River, and joined by
his brother, William, Isaac Boudreault,
Fred Masse and Pierre Bourque, the five of
them headed south for New England, hoping
to find jobs in the expanding textile industry.
After laboring all day at the mill, the
adults would gather each evening around the
small apartment's stove, telling stories
and singing the familiar songs of the Islands well into the night. Gustave had as
much of a good time as did his relatives
and friends, until one day a letter arrived
from Pictou, disclosing the fact that the
bank in which he placed his money had dissolved, and all of its unprotected patrons
had lost their life's savings, Gustave included. Unhappy as he was, he continued
to work overtime as much as he could, to
make up for the loss. To his detriment,
his health suffered to the point of extreme
fatigue.
On the 9th of March 1906, Amanda gave
birth to a baby girl, Marie-Louise, and
had chosen her brother, Gustave, to be the
godfather at the baptism, which was going
to be held the following Sunday afternoon.
Sometime within those few days, news arrived from the Islands that Suzanne, tired
of waiting for Gustave's return, had
changed her mgnd and married an ~ n d r 6
Bourque of llEtang-du-Nord. Thrown into a
deep depression the Sunday of the baptism,
Gustave ran away. The family searched
frantically for him. Where did he go?
It was later learned that he went to
Ste-Anne's rectory, where he pleaded with
the parish priest to take all his money
and say Masses for him, but the priest
wouldn't hear of it. Seeing his distraught
condition, he told him to go home or else
he'd call the police to take him home. Evidently, Gustave's condition made him appear to seem drunk or bordering on hysteria.
Frightened by the priest's threats, he left
the rectory and hid that afternoon in the
parish church. Later that day, his brother,
William and Fred ~ a s s 6 ,both of whom had
searched all over the city, found him and
brought him home. He had suffered a complete breakdown.
Due to his illness and the sequence of
ill-fated events, the weeks following saw
him sink lower into his depression. He
wouldn't eat with the rest of the family,
and so, Amanda would leave his food out in
the hall, where each day, he would sneak
out of his room and eat by himself. She
had hidden all the knives in the house,
fearful he might harm himself, yet Gustave
was not a bit violent or self-destructive.
If anything, he would just sit and cry all
day long. To see a man so broken, must
have been a pitiful sight for his family
and friends.
As his illness progressed, he was convinced that all food and water was poisoned, and would not eat or drink anything,
u n l e s s h i s s i s t e r had p r e p a r e d and cooked
i t . Aunt H a r r i e t r e l a t e d t h a t one t i m e ,
when s h e went t o g e t a g l a s s of w a t e r from
t h e t a p , he grabbed h e r g l a s s and s p i t i n
i t , s o s h e w o u l d n ' t be p o i s o n e d .
In h i s
mind t h e world w a s a g a i n s t him, and o f t e n
he would u t t e r , " T h e y ' r e coming a f t e r u s ,
H i s c o n d i t i o n seemed t o
t o k i l l us!"
worsten.
A f t e r t r y i n g t h e i r b e s t t o c a r e f o r him,
t h e f a m i l y came t o t h e c o n c l u s i o n t h a t he
needed p r o f e s s i o n a l h e l p , s o A l c i d e b r o u g h t
him t o a d o c t o r , who s a i d t h e r e was l i t t l e
e l s e t h a t he c o u l d do f o r him t h a t h i s £ami l y had n o t done. And s o , Gustave s t a y e d
w i t h them a n o t h e r s i x months.
I n t h e meantime, F r e d ~ a s s gand P i e r r e
Bourque went t o s t a y w i t h E l i e and Luce
(Mathurin) Boudreau, i n a n e i g h b o r i n g apartment.
A r r i v i n g i n F a l l R i v e r from
Havre S t - P i e r r e on t h e n o r t h c o a s t o f Quebec,
h i s f a m i l y had o r i g i n a l l y a l s o descended
from t h e I s l a n d s ; h i s p a t e r n a l grandmother
was a Gaudet from Havre-aux-Maisons.
G u s t a v e ' s c o n d i t i o n remained t h e same
f o r q u i t e some t i m e , a l t h o u g h he o f t e n
spoke of d y i n g o r r u n n i n g away.
To p r e v e n t
t h e l a t t e r from happening, A l c i d e n a i l e d
a l l t h e windows of t h e a p a r t m e n t s h u t t h a t
w i n t e r , however, he d i d l e a v e a q u a r t e r of
A t night,
an i n c h exposed t o e a c h n a i l .
William and I s a a c s l e p t on t h e f l o o r a t t h e
t h r e s h o l d of G u s t a v e ' s room a s a n added
p r e c a u t i o n a r y measure t o h i s g e t t i n g away.
He c o u l d n ' t p o s s i b l y jump o v e r t h e two men
without at least waking one of them.
One extremely cold night, however, he
was successful. Somehow, he had managed to
get over both of them. Then, he went to
his neice's room and with his teeth, began
to pull out all the nails in one window.
Aunt Harriet awoke as his shadow disappeared out the open window. He slid down the
drainpipe of the building, and ran away
in his stocking feet into the darkness of
the night. While crossing a field of brambles, he lost his socks. He then came to
a swampy area, where he was going to drown
himself, but after jumping into the frigid
water, he was driven out by the cold, returning to a nearby shore to dry-off. He
just sat there and cried, until a passer-by,
seeing him, came over and threw his coat
on his shoulders to keep him from catching
pneumonia.
The following morning, Alcide sent for
the police to help locate him. While they
were out looking for him, the family gathered together in the kitchen. "Where could
he be this time?" they asked one another.
"There's only one way to find out", Alcide
exclaimed. Across the yard, in another
tenement lived a Mrs. ~e/nard,who used to
tell fortunes with a deck of cards. After
some past fortune-telling incidents, where
misunderstanding and fear had seized a few
of the neighborhood people, the parish
priest had made her promise to stop this
insidious practice, except when it came to
really help someone in need. This was one
of those moments. So the family sent for
her.
As a psychic is often consulted today
in the case of missing persons, she arrived at their apartment, and after learning of the family's frsutration in locating
Gustave, she cut her cards. She told the
family that "Gustave is near some water,
but not to worry, because a man had covered
him with something like a coat or blanket
to keep him warm". Then, she put down the
cards and said, "Within a half-hour, a tall,
dark man will arrive to tell you where he
is". No sooner had she said this and put
her cards away, there was a knock on the
door. As Alcide opened it, to his surprise,
a tall Negro man was standing in the hall
to take them to the place where he had
found Gustave. The men left immediately,
hired a team of horses, and went to the
riverbank, where they found him, still
wrapped in the black man's coat. Once
again, they took him home.
Gustave's depression did not go away.
He kept crying and wouldn't eat at all.
At that point, there was little else that
they could do for him. Hospitalization
seemed the best solution, and so the family
sent for the police, who escorted him to
the Taunton Hospital, where he stayed for
the next six months.
In 1904, Joseph Benn and Company of
Bradford, England contracted with the F.P.
Sheldon Firm, a Providence-based mill engineering firm, to build a new complex in
the Greystone area of North Providence,
RI, adjacent to an earlier building, constructed in 1877. It was in May of 1907
that Alcide was commissioned to come to
Rhode Island with his other relatives and
friends to help in the construction of the
mill's weave shed. Those who arrived with
him and his family were Elie and Isaac
Boudreau; his b5other-in-law, William
Vigneault; Amgdee ~hgriaultfrom Cambridge,
Massachusetts; Vital Doyle and two Raiche
brothers. The family of seven, along with
their seven boarders occupied a small woodframed house on Farnam Pike in Esmond. The
following year, in July 1908, another son,
Alfred, was born to them there.
Back in Taunton, because Gustave was
not an American citizen, he was told that
he would have to seek medical attention in
Canada. The hospital staff wrote to Amanda
in Esmond concerning this, and inquired if
his brother, William, would come and accompany him home. William left his job in
Esmond and went to Taunton, only to arrive
too late. Gustave had already been transferred and his records had been misplaced.
No one knew where he was going or where to
find him. Thinking that they sent him back
to the Islands, William took another train
in an attempt to find his missing brother.
When he arrived at the Islands, there was
no sign of Gustave anywhere.
Over three months later, a letter from
the 1'~atelDieu in Montreal arrived in
Esmond. It was from a nun who was Gustave's
nurse. She had talked to him and learned
that he had relatives in New England, and so,
she wrote to Amanda to say he was doing well,
but that there was no major breakthrough in
his mental condition, and that, if she could,
would she write to him as often as time allowed. Relieved by such news, she wrote to
him each week for the next three years.
Whenever a letter would arrive for him, the
nun would read it to him. All he could do
was cry. At the end of those three years,
Gustave one day just snapped out of his
depression, as easily as he had gone into
it. He began to resume a normal life.
He then got a job at the hospital, where
he worked steadily, and eventually, met and
married a young girl named Antoinette,
Potvin, the daughter of Pierre and Adele
(Thibault) Potvin. They were married at
Notre-Dame-de-Grace Church in ~ontrgalon
the 15th of May 1916. Of that marriage was
born a daughter, Anita. He also kept writing to his sister in Rhode Island to assure
her of his health and happiness.
In the aftermath of World War I, the
flu epidemic took many lives, among them,
that of Gustave's wife, who was pregnant
for their second child. After the funeral,
his brother William took care of Anita,
while her father returned to the Islands.
There, he again met Suzanne Bourque, who
was also now a widow, with four children.
Evidently, a flame rekindled between the
two of them, because he continued to write
to her for almost a year afterwards. On
another return trip to the Islands, he
married his, first love, the 26th of October
1920 at 1'Etang-du-Nord, and brought his
bride and her children to their new home
in the Verdun district of Montreal. Who
says lightning doesn't strike twice? It
certainly can be true of love.
The ohal L t a U o n 06 OWL ~amiey,apeciaeey
;the a;taniu ad my gnandpaneh , and ;the ;taped
a h a t hA;tohy 06 my Auvtt ffahnieA G a u d d .
The doUowLng p&h
heghim:
S;te-Maddeine,, ffavhe-aux- Main a m , 1 L a Mad. ,PQ
SX- Pieme, L ' €;tang-du-Nohd, 1Ra Maddeine, PQ
St-l3enaL-t-Labnie, AmqLLi, PQ
St- Edmond, Lac-au-Sauman, PQ
Ste-Anne, FULL Rivm, MA.
S f - Lcumence, C e m e d d e , R l
N.P.
de Ghace, ~ o n t t ~ & ,P2
AN EVALUATION OF THE TANGUAY DICTIONARY
by Lucille Fournier Rock
F r e q u e n t questions a r e asked about t h e
"Dictionnaire Cenealogique d e s Familles Canadiennes"
by Mgr. Cyprien Tanguay. Because of this interest, i t
is t i m e t o e v a l u a t e t h i s dictionary.
T h e r e is n o doubt t h a t t h e dictionary is a vital a n d
valuable genealogical tool, which reduces research t i m e
t o a fraction. This does n o t imply t h a t i t is without
f a u l t a n d should n o t b e questioned.
Published in seven volumes, t h e dictionary in
reality c a n b e s e p a r a t e d i n t o t w o parts: t h e first,
Volume I, deals mainly with t h e seventeenth century;
t h e second, Volumes I1 t o VII, cover t h e period between
1700 t o 1760.
This enormous work contains errors, omissions, a n d
sometimes even outright fabrications.
The author
o m i t t e d illegitimate births, abjurations, and c a p i t a l
executions.
In s o m e cases, h e invented parents f o r
illegitimate children.
Although our French Canadian
forebears w e r e a magnificent people, t h e y w e r e human.
It is a disservice t o our a n c e s t o r s t o portray t h e m a s
less.
Mgr. Tanguay omitted, in t o t a l o r in part, records
of many parishes, especially in t h e Montreal a r e a , f o r
example: P o i n t e Claire, Riviere d e s Prairies, P o i n t e a u x
Trembles,
Boucherville,
Cap de
la
Madeleine,
Lotbiniere, and St. P i e r r e Riviere du Sud. Sometimes,
h e m a d e choices. In Chambly, f o r example, h e included
t h e Bouchers of Niverville, but o m i t t e d t h e Bessets.
Sometimes, h e included a s married, couples who
had signed a m a r r i a g e c o n t r a c t and subsequently had
t h e c o n t r a c t annulled.
Other times, when h e was
unable t o find a record of marriage or a marriage
contract, h e guessed. These c a s e s a r e obvious as h e
gives only t h e year of marriage without t h e month or
day.
Unfortunately, in these cases, h e was in error
most of t h e time.
In r a r e cases, although t h e
information seems ligitimate, i t is erroneous.
Among t h e errors and omissions a r e t h e following:
sometimes h e gave a s t h e f i r s t generation in Canada,
couples who never immigrated; he o f t e n omitted t h e
professions of t h e immigrants; h e omitted whether o r
not t h e spouses' parents were alive o r deceased at t h e
t i m e of their marriage; in most cases, h e gave as burial
dates, d a t e s of death; in establishing t h e origins of t h e
immigrants, h e deleted t h e word city, which renders t h e
identification of t h e parish impossible; and in giving
d a t e s of birth for which he could not find t h e record,
h e utilized t h e censuses of 1666 and 1681, and never
gave consideration t o t h e census of 1667, which is
considered t o b e t h e most accurate.
In s p i t e of a l l t h e s e errors, omissions and
inexactitudes, Mgr. Tanguay's dictionary remains a
valuable tool of research and c a n b e found in all
respectable genealogical libraries. The work, for t h e
most part, is a c c u r a t e and i t is priceless in i t s wealth
of imformation.
Its g r e a t e s t value is t h a t i t places
desired information at t h e fingertips of t h e researcher
in a m a t t e r of minutes. Verifying t h e validity of t h e
information is f a r less t i m e consuming than searching
for i t in all t h e "repertoires".
If you began t o t r a c e
your genealogy with yourself, in seven complete
generations you have found 63 marriages. Very often,
at this point you a r e back f a r enough t o utilize Mgr.
Tanguay's dictionary. L e t us assume t h a t you a r e able
t o t r a c e your genealogy for 11 complete generations.
This means t h a t you c a n easily l o c a t e 960 marriages in
Tanguay. Remember how difficult i t was t o find t h e
first 63 marriages? What would w e do without Mgr.
Tanguay's dictionary!
GENEALOGY OF
MGR. CYPRIEN TANGUAY
bv A1 Berube
-1-
Nicolas Tanguay - Marguerite Accaral
from Ploudiry, Diocese of Leon,
Brittany, F r a n c e
-11J e a n Tanguay - Marie Brochu
6-2-1692 St. J e a n 1.0.
-111Jacques Tanguay - Catherine Helie
16-9-1737 St. Vallier
-1vJ e a n Marie Tanguay - Gertrude R a t e
26-4-1774 St. Vallier
-v-
P i e r r e Tanguay - Reine Barthel
28-5- 1816 Quebec
-VIMgr. Cyprien Tanguay
Mgr. Tanguay born in Quebec 15 September 1819.
Educated at College of D e L a Pocatiere and t h e
seminary.
Ordained priest 14 May 1843.
Vicar in
Rimouski, 1843-1846; pastor of St. Basile, 1846-1850; of
Rimouski, 1850-1859; of St. Michel d e Bellechasse,
1859-1862; of Ste. Henedine, 1862-1865; archivist for
t h e bureau of s t a t i s t i c s in Ottawa, 1865-1900. Died in
O t t a w a 28 April 1902 and buried in Quebec.
WILLA CATHER'S QUEBEC
A BOOK REVIEW
by Irene A. Peloquin
a book treview 06 W L U a
The 6oReouting
C a k h a ' n novet, SHADOWS ON THE ROCK, publidzed
i n New Yotrk by ke6tred A. Knoph, Znc., 1931.
1Jt w a ~hephinted a a V h h t g e Papaback in 1979.
There can be no doubt about Willa
Cather's strength as a novelist. It is her
ability to capture, with sensual and poetic
words, the quality of light at dusk, the
smell of roasting wood dove, or the sound
of a peeling bell on the edge of a wilderness. In this novel, her touch is delicate,
but her subtle hand enables us to envision
perfectly what we cannot otherwise see, the
color and texture of days nearly three centuries old. This story tells a picture.
For those of us interested in FrenchCanadian genealogy and history, it is a
fascinating picture, making SHADOWS ON THE
R O C K a special pleasure to read. It is a
story about life in Quebec during the years
1697 - 1713, when Count Frontenac and the
venerable Bishop Lava1 were nearing the end
of their lives. Its focus is a young girl,
Cecile Auclaire, daughter of the Count's
apothecary, who comes to embrace Canada as
her true home while her father, moved by
the illness and eventual death of his patron,
mourns the passing of Old France in the New
World. The relationships depicted, especial-
ly that between father and daughter, are
tender, reflecting the tranquility and order which are central themes in the book.
Miss Cather's vision, in terms of landscape as well as people, is of a Quebec
suffused with light, if not actually pure.
Despite her tendency to idealize, she does
give us a fair insight into the ethic and
faith of early Canada, and her narrative
is free of the condescension which American
authors sometimes exhibit for a regime that
"failed". Instead, she portrays a Quebec
in which the hierarchical social structure
functions as an organic community, and the
Catholic Church, whose mysteries she treats
with reverence, is a sustaining force.
She understands the power of individuals
as well as institutions, showing, through
her treatment of the imposing Bishop Laval,
how the steadfast dedication of a single man
of faith can virtually hold together life
so that all may endure. Drawn to this
quality of endurance and informed by her
love for French culture, Cather created her
picturesque Quebec.
The vehicle for this interpretation is
unusual. As one might expect in an historical novel, much space is given to the description of objects and tasks with which
we in the Twentieth Century may be unfamiliar. But because she relies so little upon
action or the close examination of her
characters' inner lives, Cather's novel
lacks intensity and depth. It has the feeling of a children's story, or a memory from
which everything non-essential has slipped
with the passage of time. The style is deliberate and that effect of "...things remembered rather than experienced" is what
the author sought7. Critics differed in
their responses to her effort when the
novel was released in 1931, but the public
was enthusiastic and SHADOWS O N THE ROCK
became a runaway best-seller 2 .
There is much to like in this book, the
enchanting scenery of Quebec, the stability
of family bonds, even the adventurous spirit of a people as embodied in the c o u k e u h h
d e b o i ~ . And though the study of lineages
requires that we abstain from invention,
fiction can stimulate imagination, giving
us a keener feeling for that past which we
can never experience ourselves. We are
enriched and our work is improved if we can
evoke the joy our ancestors must have felt
each summer on the day they glimpsed the
shining white sails of the ships from
France, those fragile threads which bound
them to the Old World, and how, at least
for some, "...Kebec stood gleaming above
the river like an altar with many candles,
or like a holy city in an old legend,
shriven, sinless, washed in gold"3. This
is Willa Cather's Quebec.
'
NOTES
S c h n o e t m , James, ed. WILLA CATHER AND HER CRITICS.
C o n n d L U n i v m L t q P k e ~ 4 , 7967. p.82.
was
c a t h a . SHADOWSON T H E ROCK.
N e w Yonh: Maned A. Knopa, l n c . , 1931, p. 769.
FRENCH AND INDIAN MARRIAGES
IN THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC
by Lucille Fournier Rock
In t h e Province of Quebec, marriages between t h e
French a n d t h e Indians w e r e r a r e in t h e seventeenth
century and, f o r t h a t m a t t e r , never b e c a m e common as
is popularly believed. It was n o t a m a t t e r of prejudice,
because t h e French a n d t h e Indians always enjoyed a
good relationship.
Through 1667, only t h r e e mixed
marriages a r e recorded.
Martin Prevost was t h e son of P i e r r e Prevost and
C h a r l o t t e Vien, from t h e parish of Montreuil sur l e
Bois, Vincennes, France.
On November 3, 1644, h e
married Marie Olivier, daughter of Roch Manithabehich,
a n Indian. The marriage was blessed by F a t h e r
Barthelemy Vimont. Many children w e r e born f r o m this
union, but only f i v e w e r e married. Marie Olivier died
in Q u e b e c on September 10, 1665.
Martin Prevost
was married t w o months l a t e r t o t w i c e widowed Marie
DtAbancour, daughter of Adrien DtAbancour d i t Lacaille
and of Simone DtOrgeville. No children w e r e born f r o m
this union. Martin Prevost died on January 26, 1691, in
Batiscan.
On September 26, 1662, J e a n Durand married
C a t h e r i n e Annennontak, daughter of Nicolas Arendanke
and of J e a n n e Otrihoandet, f r o m S a i n t e Madeleine,
which m a d e p a r t of t h e parish of L a Conception in
Huron country. He was t h e son of Louis Durand and of
Madeleine Malvande, f r o m t h e parish of Deuil, bishopric
of Xaintes in Saintonge, France. Durand was a scout
and m o s t likely died during o n e of his journeys. His
widow married Jacques Couturier, another Frenchman,
around 1672.
On September 19, 1666, Laurent Duboct, son of
Jacques Duboct and of Elisabeth Pruneau, from Saint
Maclou, Rouen, France, married Marie Felix. She was
t h e daughter of Joachim Arontio and of Cecile
Arenhatsi, from t h e parish of L a Conception in Huron
country. They reared a large family. Marie Felix died
on November 1, 1680, in Montreal. The record of death
for Laurent Duboct has not been found.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
LE BULLETIN DES RECHERCHES HISTORIQUES.
1928, Carleton University. Vol. 34, p.634.
Tanguay,
Mgr.
Cyprien.
DICTIONNAIRE
GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES CANADIENNES. 1982.
Pawtucket, R.I. Quintin-Rock Publications.
LEGAL AGE
In ancient times, t h e a g e of minority extended
itself t o 25 years. It c a m e from a n old roman right
acquired by t h e custom of Paris. As all t h e laws and
customs of France w e r e brought t o Canada, this one
was also brought and i t lasted until t h e end of t h e
eighteenth century.
A law passed by t h e British
Parliament in 1782 and made official on January 1,
1783, changed t h e a g e of majority from 25 t o 21. This
new law was immediately adopted in Canada. It was
not changed in France until 1791.
A SPECIAL BREAKFAST
SEASONED
BY MY GRANDMOTHER
My grandmother spoke English q u i t e well. Havcng
been brought up in Boston, Massachusetts, from t h e a g e
of f i v e t o seventeen, i t was n o t surprising t h a t s h e w a s
a s familiar with t h e English language a s with t h e
French language.
However, in Yamachiche, t h e
occasions t o speak English w e r e f e w and f a r between.
She sang a f e w English songs, e v e n "Yankee Doodle'' t o
put t h e children t o sleep, but t h a t was a s much English
as s h e found occasion t o use.
However, my grandmother must have, at o n e t i m e
or another, enjoyed her bilinguistic ability a bit more,
because in t h e family, w e still speak about t h e t i m e s h e
served t w o English o f f i c e r s a h e a r t h y breakfast.
W e w e r e still under military rule and s t e a m
locomotives w e r e not y e t in usage on land nor on sea.
T h e English troops travelled via t h e highway on t h e
north s h o r e between Quebec a n d Montreal.
O n e summer day, around eight o'clock in t h e
morning,
t w o English officers stopped at my
grandfather's house w h e r e t h e y t i e d their horses t o t h e
t r e e s on t h e s t r e e t . Finding my grandmother at home,
o n e of t h e m who didn't speak French very well, asked
her if s h e could give t h e m something t o eat. They
explained t h a t t h e y had not had breakfast because t h e y
had n o t found any hotels e n r o u t e and t h a t t h e y w e r e
tired from such a long journey.
"I only have produce from t h e farm," replied my
grandmother, "milk, eggs, bacon, butter, and bread; also
tea and coffee.
If t h a t is agreeable with you,
monsieurs, I will b e happy
- - - t o make you a bacon
omelette."
"Very well, madame, w e couldn't ask
for better," answered t h e officer.
You will be
"Would you s i t down, monsieurs.
served in a f e w minutes," said my grandmother.
My grandmother was not y e t old and this was a n
easy task f o r her. She s t a r t e d breakfast quickly by
putting a f e w logs in t h e smoking brazier which was
still hot from t h e ashes of t h e previous fire. A f e w
minutes l a t e r s h e had gathered all t h e necessary
ingredients: t h e utensils, eggs, bacon, butter, flour,
bread, etc.
While she was doing this, t h e t w o English officers
pushed a small table and t w o chairs in front of t h e
kitchen on t h e pretext t h a t they wanted t o speak t o
her. They s a t down and s t a r t e d t o compliment their
hostess on how hard she was working for t h e m and on
how kind s h e was.
Between compliments, they
pretended t o read a paper which they had opened and
w e r e both looking at. Their conversation was not about
what they w e r e supposedly reading, but about what they
could s e e in t h e house. The prayer beads, t h e holy
pictures and t h e religious medals hanging on t h e walls
w e r e a l l objects of their ridicule which must have been
agonizing for such a religious woman. Nothing escaped
their observation, not my grandmother nor her clothes,
which weren't, t h e r e is no doubt, t h e l a t e s t in English
fashion. They e v e n wondered if s h e would clean her
frying pan a f t e r cooking and if t h e Canadians were as
n e a t a s t h e y had heard.
When b r e a k f a s t was ready, my grandmother,
impassive t o their conversation, invited t h e t w o officers
t o s i t down on e a c h side of t h e table. She s a t at o n e
end in order t o s e r v e them.
They w e r e famished a n d s e e m e d t o find t h e
o m e l e t t e delicious. This did not s t o p t h e m , however,
from continuing with their small talk a s t h e y ate t h e
food. Among o t h e r things, t h e y discussed t h e papish
clergy and romish superstitions.
They f e l t f r e e t o
speak without e m b a r r a s s m e n t both believing t h a t their
conversation was q u i t e private.
Finally, a s t h e y drank their coffee, t h e officer who
spoke s o m e French turned t o my grandmother and said,
"Madame, I will t r y t o explain t o you w h a t my friend
w a s telling m e a l i t t l e while ago." H e s t a r t e d t o t e l l
her about a whole d i f f e r e n t s t o r y t h a n t h e o n e t h a t h e
had just heard from his friend.
My grandmother
interrupted him by saying, "Monsieur, please d o not
I have
trouble yourself t o r e p e a t t h e conversation.
understood i t perfectly well!"
The shocked and disconcerted officer said,
"Madame, you know English and you did not t e l l us?"
"You didn't ask me." replied my grandmother.
"Then w e must be ashamed of ourselves and
apologize for our disparaging remarks.
Please don't
believe t h a t w e intended t o offend o r hurt your
feelings, when you w e r e s o kind as t o render us such a
large favor," said t h e embarrassed officer.
"All t h a t is n o t necessary, monsieurs. You did not
surprise me.
I already knew of t h e c o n t e m p t t h e
English h a v e f o r t h e Canadians a n d their religion. I a m
not shocked as you c a n see. I have seen t h e proof once
more, t h a t is all. It did not m a t t e r t o m e who you
were. You w e r e hungry and I could not refuse t o f e e d
you," explained my grandmother.
The men w e r e suddenly in q u i t e a hurry! They had
not seemed s o before breakfast, but now t i m e w a s of
t h e essence. They put some money on t h e table, bid
my grandmother good-bye, and rushed through t h e door.
They hastily climbed their horses and left.
This anecdote was signed R. Bellemare and was
e x t r a c t e d from t h e second volume of "Vielles Familles
dfYamachicheffby F. L. Desaulniers.
CANADIAN OMELETTE
(Perhaps like t h e o n e grandmother made.)
3 eggs
cup milk
1 tbsp. flour
6 slices s a l t pork
P l a c e salt pork slices in skillet with just enough
w a t e r t o cover. Cover pan and boil 5 minutes. Drain
t h e w a t e r and f r y t h e pork.
Dissolve t h e flour in cold milk. Combine with
beaten eggs. Pour mixture over pork and f r y slowly or
bake in oven.
ANNOUNCING..
..
A Reprinting Of
LES MARlAGES VES
1LES-de-la-MAVELEZNE, P. 2.
by Rev. V e n d Boudheau
Because of t h e popular demand
f o r t h i s volume i n Canadian
and American c i r c l e s , t h i s
r e p e r t o i r e , f i r s t published i n
1980 enjoyed a s e l l - o u t f i r s t p r i n t i n g . T h i s summer, t h e a u t h o r
hopes t o have a newly-corrected and
augmented e d i t i o n
available for sale thru
our S o c i e t y .
The r e p e r t o i r e i n c l u d e s a
b r i e f overview of t h e I s l a n d s '
h i s t o r y , i t s p r i e s t s and parishes, an extensive reference
bibliography, a s w e l l a s t h e marriages
of i t s i n h a b i t a n t s of Acadian, Canadian,
French, E n g l i s h and I r i s h o r i g i n . Divided i n t o t h e s e
f o u r major s e c t i o n s , a l l t h e m a r r i a g e s of t h e
I s l a n d s from 1794 t o 1900 i n c l u s i v e a r e c o n t a i n e d ,
a s w e l l a s many from o t h e r p l a c e s i n Canada and t h e
United S t a t e s , where t h e Madelinot f a m i l y s e t t l e d ,
extending many l i n e s elsewhere beyond 1900. Also,
a complete l i s t i n g of Madelinot Boudreau's and t h e i r
m a r r i a g e s from 1794 t o 1980 a r e i n c l u d e d .
OTHER REPERTOIRE NEWS:
T h i s summer and f a l l w i l l see t h e p u b l i c a t i o n of s e v e r a l o t h e r new r e p e r t o i r e s of marr i a g e compiled by our members and w i l l be
a v a i l a b l e from o u r S o c i e t y , ( p r i c e s t o be
announced) :
LES MARIAGES d e NOTRE-DAME-de- LOURDES et d e
SAINTE-SACRAMENT, FURL Riveh, Maaaachuaetta
CompiXed by T h a u e Pufiyuin.
Notre-Dame Church, one of t h e o l d e s t i n t h i s text i l e c i t y , and once t h e jewel of t h e Franco-American churches of New England was ravenously dest r o y e d by f i r e a couple of y e a r s ago. T h i s r e p e r t o i r e , although incomplete, i s o f f e r e d t o g i v e
many r e s e a r c h e r s a t l e a s t some s t a r t i n g p o i n t t o
b e g i n t h e i r g e n e a l o g i c a l s e a r c h . It i s a v a l u a b l e
a s s e t t o your Massachusetts l i b r a r y .
LES MARIAGES d e ST-JEAN-BAPTIST€, AhcXic, R. 1.
Campiled by G X u Ruch.
Founded i n 1874, i t i s t h e Franco-American c e n t e r
of t h e Pawtuxet Valley, and t h e p a r i s h of o r i g i n
f o r many of t h e Warwick, West Warwick, and Coventry
An important Rhode I s l a n d addiFranco-Americans.
tion.
T H E FRANCO-AMERICAN MARRIAGES OF ST-LAWRENCE,
Centt~edate, R. I. CompiRed by Rev. D. Boudheau.
Founded i n 1907 by a predominantly Canadian popul a t i o n , i t h a s s i n c e been r e p l a c e d by a heavy
Italo-American grouping. C e n t r e d a l e was t h e
cross-road town of t h e Woonasquatucket Valley and
t h u s important a s a t e x t i l e c e n t e r . Marriages of
French descendants t o 1970 a r e o f f e r e d , a l o n g w i t h
a J E ME SOWIENS r e p r i n t of "The Canadian Presence
i n North Providence" a s a n i n t r o d u c t i o n by t h e a u t h o r .
THE WIZARD OF ID
The long awaited computerization of
our membership records has begun. The
mailing list, which has been computerized
for quite some time, is now in the hands
of a new vendor. Since this person is a
member of the Society, our mailing 1 ist is
complete1 y under our control. This means
that the list can be maintained more
efficiently than has been the case i n the
past. Life membership records are now
contained on a disk and a program is being
developed to accomodate a1 1 of our
membership records.
Please take a close look at your
mailing label. The first line will look
something 1 i ke this:
This is called the "data line" and is
the device used by the program to place
the labels in their proper order. The
first five numbers are your ZIP code,
followed by the first five letters of your
1 ast name. The final group of numbers is
your membership number.
If your label is
incorrect, please send it, along with the
changes, to the Society.
Our membership now stands at close to
600 and could reach that level by the
start of summer. Our renewal rate this
year is close to 90 percent and late
renewals are sti 1 1 being received.
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Dr.,
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1006 R. M a r t i n Guidry, R t . 2, Box 172,
Vinton, LA 70668
1007 Don Guerin, 3501 Lampson Rd.,
Austinburg, OH 44010
1008F Joan Snay, Bertha French, 160 Sutton
,
,
,
Rd., Webster
MA 01570
1009 John R. Deal, Box 81, Cayuga, NY
13034
1010 P a t r i c i a A y o t t e Heuel, 183 Parkview
Rd., R i v e r s i d e , I L 60546
l O l l F Joseph R. & Joseph 0. Lavigne, 55
F u l l e r St., Boston, MA 02124
1012 C e c i l e Doyon, 2 Wade Ave.,
G r e e n v i l l e , R I 02828
1013F John k. Beaudette, 201 S. Parkview
Dr.,
E l d r i d g e , I A 52748
1014 Joseph A. Turgeon, RFD #2, Box 1000,
N e w Vineyard, ME 04956
1015F Hubert E. Mandeville, 15 Warner S t . ,
Blackstone, MA 01504
1016 Paul R. Landry, 260 L a u r e l H i l l Dr.,
S. B u r l i n g t o n , VT 05401
1017 Jocelyne Bedard, 114 Broadway Ave.,
P.O. Box 724, Wawa, Ont. POS 1K0
1018 Joseph A. V i n c e l e t t e , 20 L i b b y Ln.,
Apt. A-8, Warren, R I 02885
1019 E v e r e t t kochon, 17 Blackstone S t . ,
Cumberland, R I 02864
1020 Fred Hickard, 607 T u l i p St., Coulee
Dam, WA 99116
1021 Raymond Beaupre, RFD #I,
Franklin,
NH 03235
1022 Charles E. P o i t r a s , 51 Lowland Rd.,
Bellingham, MA 02019
1023 Robert Y. R u d i c i l 111, P.O. Box
2531, Providence, R I 02906
1024 I v a n C. Trombley, 5614 Antigua D r . ,
Corpus C h r i s t i , TX 78411
1025 A. Maureen DuFour, 64 Cummins S t . ,
RD 2, M o n t o u r s v i l l e , PA 17754
1026 R i t a E l d e r k i n , 54 Ledge S t . ,
Providence, R I 02908
1027 Ronald A. L e C l a i r , MD, 11711 Avon
Way, U n i t 5, Los Angeles, CA 90066
1028 Joan Earone, 62 Harding Ave.,
Newington, CT 06111
1029 Helen N. Powers, 10 Oakdale Hd.,
Canton, MA 02021
1030F Therese A. Jean, 182 S u f f o l k St.,
F a l l River, MA 02720
1031 Gerard Mannig, 10 r u e A l b e r t Thomas,
76120 Le Grand Quevil l y , France
1032 M i c h e l l e Beyer, 2860 L e i t e r s b u r g
Hd., Waynesboro, FA 17268
1033 John L. Leboeuf, 21 Ashburne St.,
Fawtucket, H I 02861
1034 E l t e a r T. Sicard, 11 EdgeclifC Ave.,
A t t l e b o r o , MA 02703
1035 Maxine 0 . Whitney, 78 Sagamore Rd.,
Cranston, R I 02920
1036 Susan Townsend, 8009 W. Rockglen
Ct.,
S p r i n g f i e l d , VA 22152
1037 Bernard J. Beary, 3510 F o r e s t Edge
Dr., S i l v e r Spring, MD 20906
1038 Dora W. Henry, P.O. Box 327,
Chester, CA 96020
1039 Anthony W. Clemente S r . ,
27305
F a i r f i e l d Ave.,
Warren, M I 48093
1040 Rev. Raymond F. Kearney, S t .
Andrew3s Church, 708 10th Ave.,
Rock
F a l l s , I L 61071
1041 Carol M i t c h e l l , 128 Wray-Large Rd.,
C l a i r t o n , PA 15025
1042 Donald C. Theroux, 15 C o i t Ave., W.
Warwick, H I 02893
1043 Marie C. Commette, 216 E u s t i s Ave.,
Newport, R I 02840
1044 Char1o t t e LaPrade-Scozzaf ava, 7
Edwards Rd., Foxboro, MA 02035
1045 June M. Yakoubek, 2100 Madison St.,
Two Rivers, W I 54241
1046 E l i z a b e t h Welch, 2593 Clime Rd.,
Columbus, OH 43223
1047 Zonzetta M. M o r r i s e t t e , 345 D a i l e y ,
C-1, Anchorage, AK 99515
1048 L o r e t t a A. Blouin, 112 Farm S t . ,
Woonsocket, R I 02895
1049 Joan Bouchard Powers, 2 David Dr.,
Blackstone, MA 01504
1050 Rhea Bouchard Powers, 141 k l a c k s t o n e
St., Blackstone, MA 01504
1051 Marie C. Proulx, 45 Federal St.,
Pawtucket, R I 02861
1052 David Lavoie, 136 Harley St.,
Coventry, R I 02816
1053 Norman A. Cote, Duxbury Ct.,
L i n c o l n , R I 02865
1054 Robert b. Raymond, 145 King S t . ,
Fa11 R i v e r , MA 02724
1055 A r t h u r L. Comeau, 46 C a r t e r Dr.,
Framingham, MA 01701
1056 Richard H. Medeiros, 137 17th S t . ,
Fa11 River, MA 02723
1057 Mark S. Heep, 5415 Mossgrey, Spring,
TX 77373
1058 Bernard P e r r i n , 23 Faubourg de
V i t r y - L e Brule, 51300 V i t r y - L e Francois,
France
1059 Ruth M. Black, 726 N. 7 6 t h S t . ,
S e a t t l e , WA 98103
1060 Helen C. F a r r e l l , 88 H i l l t o p Ave.,
Providence, R I 02908
1061 L o u i s F. Fayan, 246 Foley Ave.,
Somerset, Mfi 02726
1062 Kathryn H. Sharp, 8 Don Ave., N.
Providence, H I 02904.
S i n c e o u r l a s t i s s u e o f J E ME SOUVIENS,
t h e AFGS Board of D i r e c t o r s had met and app o i n t e d a new Research Committee, headed by
M r s . Therese P o l i q u i n .
The Committee i n c l u d e s t h e f o l l o w i n g members: C e c i l e Marten,
Lea B e r a r d , Rachel Gaudet, V i v i a n G r e e r ,
Leon A s s e l i n , Armand L e t o u r n e a u , Robert
Q u i n t i n and R e v . Dennis Boudreau. Hopefully
with t h e e x p e r t i s e of t h e s e genealogists,
who t h e m s e l v e s have made g r e a t s t r i d e s i n
r e s e a r c h i n g t h e i r own f a m i l y t r e e s , a s w e l l
a s have h e l p e d c o u n t l e s s o t h e r s i n d i s c o v e r i n g t h e i r Canadian r o o t s , we w i l l be b e t t e r
a b l e t o s e r v e you by t r y i n g t o f i n d answers
t o your many q u e s t i o n s .
G r a n t e d , w e may n o t succeed a l l t h e t i m e ,
f o r a s you a l r e a d y know, many of o u r ancest o r s l e f t some i l l u s i v e t r a i l s t o r e t r a c k ,
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.
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a marriage which took place in Acadia
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Exile, and in the Maritime Provinces,
however, for the latter, our resources
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to the following places or societies, as
they are experts in this field:
Acadian G e n e a l o g i c a l E f f i a h Y h i c a l S o c i e X y
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C o v i n g z a n , Kentucky
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Moncton, New Bnunnwick
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Once again, we remind you not to write
to anyone on our staff personally regarding
your questions, as we are adept in farming
out what you are searching for to those who
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will only double our workload. To follow
this simple procedure will assure you of a
prompt response in answer to your many
questions. In advance, we thank you for
your continued cooperation.
The Research Committee
,
154. Need parents of Marguerite FARIBEAU,
m. 24/7/1821-N.D. ~u6becto Jean HUPPE,
s/o Louis & ~ d & l e~6rard. (Manianna
G o o d , 8 9 7 2 Fhanhlin Ave., G i g ffanbon,
WA. 98335).
155. Ne,ed mg. & parents of Jean-Baptiste
LEGROS & Josephte GOYET-DESROCHERS, m.
1795-1804-St-Jacques, PQ. ( C e c i l i a
Johnaon, 7 4 4 W . Redwing S X . , DuLuZh,
MN. 55803).
156. Nsed mg. & parents of Isaac FORAND &
Felanise-Rachel GAOUET (CAOUETTE); d.
~osgphinem. Meril Tetreau 28/4/1873N.D. Granby, PQ. ( P o n o t h y F. C i h i e L l o ,
7 6 7 Cedan S X . , WaLpale, MA. 0 2 0 8 7 ) .
157. Need mg. & parents of Joseph FORAND &
Louise ST-JACQUES; s. Louis m. ~osgphine Comeau 6/8/1872-~athkdral-st-~ean,
PQ. (DohoZhq F. C i h i e l l o ) .
158. Need mg. & parents of 5ouis FORAND &
M-Domina RACINE; s. Noe m. LucieVictoire Fontaine 10/2/1879-Ste-Prudentienne, PQ (Roxton Pond). (Donothy
F . CihieRlo )
.
159. Need b. & mg. of ~dglaid? PLOUFFE, b.
1847-Canada, m. Joseph LEONARD, b.1843-
VT. Finally settled in E. Providence,
RI. Her b. Simon, settled Central
Falls, RI ( A d e l a i d e M. K e a t i n g , # 6 1 0 ) .
LEONARD
160. Joseph L~ONARD,s/o Isaac
or
LANOUE, b. 7/8/1843 in Northern VT.
What town? ( A d e l a i d e M. K e a t i n g , # 6 1 0 )
161. Seeking parents and bros. of Adolphe
ROBERT (-S), b. 18/2/1849-Canada; m.
10/11/1873- (Where?) to Victoria
BOURDEAU, b. 9/9/1856-Canada.
( M n n . M i L d n e d R o b e n t s , Rt.7, Box 271,
A l b e n t Lea, M N . 5 6 0 0 7 ) .
162. Seeking mg. of Jean BOURDEAU, b.cl830
m. to Octavia MOQUIN/McQUINN, b.cl834
in Canada. ( M i l d n e d R o b e n t n )
163- Need B/M/D of Toussaint ALLARD, m.
c1810 to Charlotte ROY, d/o Charles
Roy dit Poitevin/Lafleur, born at
Sault-au-Recollet,PQ and Fransoise
Charbonneau-Provengal, (mg. 18/2/1765Terrebonne, PQ). ~oussaintdied before
17/10/1837. ( M a h y A . B k o u i l R e t t e ,
1779 S a n c h e z St., S u n F n a n c i n c o , CA.
94/31).
164. Need Birth record of M-Rosalie ALLARD,
d/o Toussaint & Charlotte Roy. She m.
17/10/1837;~athgdral-st-~ean,PQ to
Louis C. SEGAUD, s/o Jean-Bte. & Marie
~arri5re). Rosalie born c.1819-20.
( M a n y A. B n o u i l l e t t e ) .
165. Need mg. of Charles FONTRINE to ~e/rence
BERARD, ~1850-1870; Children included:
J o s e p h , Anne, H e n r i , L o u i s , & W i l f r i d ;
may have m a r r i e d a s Fontaine-Bienvenue.
(GehaLd BLanchahd, 2377 BuchLey C X . ,
AusXeLL, G A . 3 0 0 0 1 ) .
166. Need p a r e n t s o f
~ r c 6 l aMOSHIER,
VT.
Nelson was
was b o r n c1862.
167
Nelson BLANCHARD and
S e p t . 1878-St.Albans,
b o r n c 1858-Que. ~ r c 6 l a
m.
(GehaLd BLanchand).
NeedAmg. o f J o s e p h MILLAIRE and F l o r e n c e
CLOUATRE, btw. 1850-70 i n ~ u g b e c . C h i l d /
0
r e n i n c l u d e d M e d e r i s e , a w i f e of Nelson
B l a n c h a r d . (GehaLd BLanchahd).
\
168. Need mg. & p a r e n t s o f Michel C H O I N I E R E
( S w i n i e r ) b. ~ 1 7 8 : Canada, m. c1810 t o
Mercy ? (Marie? Merance?) ( C o n n i e
WeafhenLy, 5 7 2 East 7 f h S t . , TuLsa,OK.
74712).
169. Need mg. & p a r e n t s of,Moise MOREAU, s / o
P i e r r e , b . T r o i s - R i v i e r e s , PQ, m.
~ o s g ~ h i nJAUDREAU
e
(Gaudreau? Gendreau? )
(Mauheen McGowan, P.O. Box 2 b t i 4 ,
McKinLeyviCLe, C A . 9 5 5 2 1 ) .
170. Need mg; & p a r e n t s o f S u l p i c e BOURBONARD
and Angelique LALANNE, m. ~ 1 8 6 0 ' s - C a n a d a .
( S u s a n S m i t h , 1 1 3 4 P a d g e Ave.,
Wayne, I N . 4 6 8 0 5 1 .
Faht
171. Looking f o r B / M / D o f f a m i l y members o f
Simon LE VALIER ( d e l a F e l e r e , F e e l e r ) .
A f t e r l e a v i n g Canada, t h e f a m i l y s e t t l e d
i n N e w York, where i n 1772, a son Michel
was b o r n , who m. t w i c e i n VA. O t h e r
known b r o t h e r s and s i s t e r s were:
Abraham, Absalom, & Isaac (Revolutionary War veterans in Virginia); and two
sisters married Peiper Brothers, who
were Virginia slave owners. Michel is
the gt-gt-grandfather of ( R u t h W h i t e ,
2 2 1 4 F i d t h S X . , TiLLamaoh, O R . 9 7 1 4 1 ) .
172. Need info on DUPY surname. Information
on John DUPY, b. 1810-Maine. Info on
Nelson-Henry DUPY, b. ~ontrgal,PQ.
(DUPUIS?) ( T i m S. Pupy, 2 f 0 1 Hayea R d . ,
# I 0 1 0 , Houston, T X . 7 7 0 7 7 ) .
173. Need mg. & parents of Jules SAILLANT
and Clarissa TETREAULT; their son,
Joseph Saillant married 12/11/1881St-James, Manville, RI to Rosalis
Boucher, d/o Fran5ois-Xavier & Celina
Audet-Lapointe. Would appreciate info
on Rosalie's parents as well. ( R e v .
Pennia M. Boudneau, S t . C e c i l i a R e c t o n y ,
1253 N e ~ p o n tAve., Pawtuchet, R I 0 2 8 6 1 )
174. Need mg. & parents of Pierre ETHIER and
Catherine BERGERON;,their son Jean-Bte.
m. 12/1/1909-St-~ime,PQ to Edouardina
Rivard. ( R e v . Pennia Baudneau)
175. Need mg. & parents of Abraham PELLETIER
and Marthe AUNCHMAN, prob. @ Champlain,
NY or Lower Quebsc Counties, c1860-70.
Their daughter Delia m. 25/4/1892-N.D.
Central Falls, RI to Delphis Lanoue.
( R e v . Dennis M. Boudneau)
176. Need mg.
&
parents yf Jean-Marie
BOUCHARD and Genevieve LALANCETTE;
their son Jean-Marie m. 6/11/1810-Ste-
.\
Genevieve, Missouri to Julie Thomure
(Saumur?) ( J u d i X h P o L i i X e , R t . I ,
Box 343-A, Bhown H o l R o w , C a d e t , M U .
63630).
.
177. Mg. & parents of Joseph ADAM and
Josette MIRET (-TE); their son Frangois
ADAM m. 10/9/1867-Marieville, PQ to
Marie Valiquette. ( M h a . RoLand B o u l i a n e ,
2 8 0 Lahch S t . , WOonaocket, R l 0 2 8 9 5 ) .
178. Mg. & Parents of Pierre THIBODEAU and
Josette VERMETTE; their daughter,
Josette m. 23/11/1801~Maskinongeto
Alexis Corand-Dauphine. ( c / o Theheae
P a l i g u i n , AFGS Reaeanch C o m m i t t e e )
.
179. Mg. & Parents of Pierre FAFARD and
Rosalie BOMBARDIER: daughter Malvina
m. 9/7/1888-St-Marcel to ~apole'on
Valois. ( P a u l i n e B e n o i t , 6 1 Lowland
R d . , BeLLingham, MA. 0 2 0 7 9 ) .
180. Alphonse BENOIT and ~ d g l i aBLAIS, m.
c1840-50; need mg. & parents. ( A L b e h t
B e n a i t , 6 1 LowLand R d . , BeLLingham, MA.
02019).
181. Need names/parents of Nicolas ?RES and
M-Fransoise BRAY (BRAIS-Labonte), m.
9/10/1797-Longueuil, PQ. ( l h e n e Hague,
3 5 Newbuhq S f . , CnanhXon, R1 0 2 9 2 0 ) .
# ' /
182. Need mg. & parents of Amedee-Basile
GOYETTE and Marguerite BREILLY (BRAIS?)
their child m. 1793-Chambly, PQ.
( r h e n e Hague, ChanaXan, R I )
183.
Need mg. & parents of Thomas McKAIN
and Marguerite SAWE-Laplante. Their
son Edward was b. 1862-Ottawa, ONT.
( D o h a M . W . ffenhy, P.O. 327, C h e a t e ~ ,
CA. 9 6 0 2 0 ) .
184.
Need mg. & parents of Pierre THIMINEUR
and Julie GENDREAU; their son Pierre
m. 26/11/1866-Napierville to Marie
Boudreau. ( M a h i L y n Ahagonu, 2149
FaaXeh A v e . , S c h e n e c k a d y , N Y 7 2 3 0 6 ) .
185.
Mg. & parents of Pascal GREGOIRE and
Josette POIRIER; their daughter ~ 6 l i n a
m. Noel Chaput 10/10/1864-Boucherville.
/
( M a t i R g n Ahagona, S c h e n e c t a d y , N Y )
186.
Need mg. & parents of ~e/on-~Lbert
BOURASSA and Lydia LEBLANC or BARIL,
m. 1830's; their daughter AnastasieLouise m. 12/8/1858-Fond-du-LacJI.
to Fran~ois-XavierGotchy (Gauthier).
(Mha. J u n e Yahaubeh, 2 1 0 0 M a d i s o n S X . ,
Two R i v e h a , W1. 5 4 2 4 1 ) .
/
187.
Need mgs. & parents of Denis LAVALLEE
(Paquet) and Catherine FRANCOEUR, and
Michel RESTOUEL and M-Anne MORIN (or
MONET) ; their /children, FransoisXavier Lavallee m. Elizabeth Restouel
29/7/1856-Simcoe ~ t g . ,Penetanguishine,
ONT. ( A n i X a NeRnan, R.R. 1 , Box 1 0 4 4 ,
Munning, M I . 4 9 8 6 2 ) .
188.
Mg.
/
parents of Joseph LABONTE and
Marie LALANDE. Son Nicolas m. 3/8/1829St-Benoit to Rosalie Berthelet. ( D e n i b e
T h i b a u R X , 30 CanXRewood D h . , PReaaanXon,
&
CA. 9 4 5 6 6 ) .
I. DELPEAU, F r a n s o i s (Parentage Unknown)
HULAINT, Marie-Jeanne ( P a r e n t a g e Unknown)
from France
/
11. DEPOT, Louis ( F r a n ~ o i s& M-Jeanne H u l a i n t )
LEROUX, M- J o s e t t e (Germain & M-Anne ~ e / ~ i n )
mg. 22/11/1751
S t - P i e r r e - S o r e l , PQ
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111. DEPEAU, C h a r l e s (Louis & M-Josette Leroux)
ALLAf(D, M - F r a n ~ o i s e (JB & ~ n ~ g Archambault)
l .
mg. 19/9/1796 - St-Antoine-Richelieu, PQ
I V . DEPEAU, Joseph ( C h a r l e s & M-Frse. A l l a r d )
e
& ~ n & l i q u e Yon)
LUSSIER, ~ n ~ e / l i q u(Michel
2nd mg. 18/7/1825 - St-Damase, PQ
V. DEPEAU, Moyse (Joseph & ~ n ~ g l i q uL eu s s i e r )
DUPONT, O d i l e (Guil. & Mathilde Delage)
mg. 25/11/1867
St-Damase, PQ
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V I . DESPOTS, Arthur (Moyse & O d i l e Dupont)
FRECHETTE, Rose (Louis & J u l i e Beaudry)
mg. 6/5/1902
St-Damase, PQ
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V I I . DESPOTS, George (Arthur & Rose ~ r g c h e t t e )
GUILBAULT, Aurore (~orn& & J u l i e ~ a v a l l g e )
mg. 7/9/1936 - St-Mathieu, C e n t r a l F a l l s , R I
PUBUC
I. DUBUC, Michel (Parentage Unknown) mason
BEAUDIN, Marie (Parenatge Unknown)
mg. c1682 11. DUBUC, Michel (Michel & Marie Beaudin)
BOUGRETy M-Charlotte (Prudent 6 M-Char.
mg. 10/8/1710
-
Etienne)
Boucherville, PQ
111. DUBUCQUE, P r u F n t (Michel & M-Charl. Bougret)
FOURNIER, Angelique (Adrien & Cath. B o u t h i l l i e r )
mg. 3/2/1739 - Longueuil, PQ
I V . DUBUCQUE, Michel (Prudent & Ange/lique Fournier)
STE-MARIE, Madeleine (Jacq. & M-Anne Lamarre?)
mg. 16/7/1764 - Longueuil, PQ
V
. D?BUCQU?,
Michel (Michel & Madeleine Ste-Mar i e )
BETOURNE, Marie (Louis & C h a r l o t t e Dubucque)
mg. 16/2/1801 - Longueuil, PQ
V I . DUBUCQUE, Michel (Michel & Marie ~ g t o u r n g )
MARCIL, Olive (Joseph & Madeleine Laplante)
mg. 8/11/1836 - Longueuil, PQ
V I I . DUBUCQUE, Michel (Michel & Olive Marcil)
ROY, M-Elizabeth (Augustin & H e n r i e t t e Guy)
mg. 7/5/1860 - Longueuil, PQ
V I I I . DUBUC, Emile*(Michel & M-Elizabeth Roy)
MASSE, ~ m g l i e(Jn-Bte. & Mathilde Davignon)
N.D. C e n t r a l F a l l s , R I
mg. 18/4/1910
-
*
Emile Dubuc was t h e Pounder of Le Foyer i n
1935.
GLAVU
I. GLADU, F r a n s o i s (Parentage Unknown)
BEAUDRY,,Marie-Claude
( P a r e n t a g e Unknown)
of St-Leger-de-Cognac,
Angoumois, France
11. GLADU, J e a n ( F r a n ~ o i s& M-Claude Beaudry)
LANGLOIS, Marie ( P i e r r e & M-Jeanne T r i o l e t )
mg. 28/10/1665
C o n t r a t N o t a i r e Latouche
-
111. GLADU, N i c o l a s ( J e a n & Marie L a n g l o i s )
LAPORTE, M-Louise (Paul & Marie L u s s i e r )
mg. 22/9/1706 - B e r t h i e r v i l l e , PQ
I V . GLADU, Joseph ( N i c o l a s & M-Louise Laporte)
BOUCHER, Marguerite (Chas. & Gen. Henault)
mg. towards 1745 - L a n o r a i e , PQ
V. GLADU, Joseph (Joseph & Marguerite Boucher)
RONDEAU , M-Anne ( N i c o l a s & ~ h c r \ se e LeNormand)
mg. 22/2/1773 - B e r t h i e r v i l l e , PQ
V I . GLADU, A u g u s t i ~(Joseph & M-Anne Rondeau)
VALOIS , Genevieve (Louis & ~ e n e v i i v eMart i n )
mg. 3/11/1807 - St-Cuthbert, PQ
VII
. GLADU,
Prosper (August i n & ~ e n e v i > v eV a l o i s )
BOUCHER, J u l i e (Jn-Bte & J u l i e ~ g r a r d )
mg. 17/2/1846 - I l e Dupas, PQ(disp.3-4c.)
.
V I I I . GLADU, Jean-Bte. (Prosper & J u l i e Boucher)
DUBORD-CL~RMONT , Almina (Pre & ~ ~ n \ G
e us i l b a u l t )
mg. 13/2/1882 - B e r t h i e r v i l l e , PQ
.
I X . GLADU, F o r t u n a t (Jn-Bte. & Almina Clermont)
MANAIGRE , C l a r a ( ~ e / s i r e /& D e l i a P i n c i n c e )
mg. 10/1/1910 - St-James, Manville, R I
X. GLADU, F e r F n a n d ( F o r t u n a t & Clara Manaigre)
LEBOEUF, Leona (Hector & Dora D a i g n e a u l t )
mg. 12/11/1932 - St-Joseph, Ashton, R I
LECLERC - LECLATR
I. LECLERC, J e a n - B a p t i s t e (Parentage Unknown)
BATON, Mar;ie-Antoinette (Parentage Unknown)
of S t - F r e j e u , Champagne, Prance
11. LECLERC, P i e r r e (Jn-Bte.
& M-Ant. Baton)
LETENDRE, ~ - ~ e / l \ e n(eP i e r r e & Mad. ~ u & r e m o n t)
3 r d mg. 17/8/1772
St-Michel-dfYamaska, PQ
-
111. LECLERC, Michel ( P i e r r e & ~ - ~ e / l \ e nLetendre)
e
VIENS, M-Louise ( P i e r r e & E l i z a b e t h B o i s e l l e )
mg. 1/5/1797 - N.D. St-Hyacinthe, PQ
I V . LECLERC, Michel (Michel & M-Louise Viens)
DUCHESNEAU, J u d i t h (Pre. & M-Mgte. Dumaine)
mg. 13/1/1818 - N.D. St-Hyacinthe, PQ
V. LECLERC, Samuel (Michel & J u d i t h Duchesneau)
BRUNELLE, Hortense ( P i e r r e & Mgte. ~ h a i l l g )
mg. 3/11/1863 - St-Simon, PQ
V I . LECLAIR, Louis I. (Samuel & Hortense B r u n e l l e )
COURNOYER, ~ ~ n \ e(Jn-Bte
s
& Rosanna Larue)
mg. 6/6/1898 - S t . Stephen, A t t l e b o r o , MA.
.
V I I . LECLAIR, Walter C. (Louis & ~ ~ n \ Cournoyer)
es
MAROT, ~ ~ n \ G.
e s (Armand & A l i c e cote/)
mg. 23/2/1946 - S t . C e c i l i a , Pawtucket, R I
L EGAULT di;t DESLAURl ERS
I. LEGAUD, Roch (Parentage Unknown)
GALION, Marie (Parentage Unknown)
of E r v i l l a c , Bretagne, France
11. LEGAUD, ~ o z (Roch
l
& Marie Galion)
BESNARD, Marie (Mathurin & Mgte. Viard)
mg. 18/11/1698 - N.D. Montreal, PQ
111. LEGAUD, Jn-Bte.
(Noel & Marie Besnard)
CHOLET, M-Anne ( ~ L b a s t i e n& Anne Hard)
Pointe-Claire, Mtl.,PQ
mg. 14/1/1726
-
I V . LEGAUD, Jn-Bte. (Jn-Bte. & M-Anne Cholet)
CHARLEBOIS, M-Josette ( J o s . & Cath. T r i o l e t )
1st mg. 25/11/1748 - Pointe-Claire,Mtl.,PQ
V. LEGAUD, Jn-Bte. (Jn-Bte. & M-Jos. Charlebois)
BRUNET, ~ e n e v i k e( F r a n ~ o i s& Marie Gauthier)
\
mg. 15/2/1773 - Ste-Genevieve, Mtl.,PQ
V I . LEGAUD, Michel (Jn-Bte. & ~ e n e v i k v eBrunet)
NEVEU, Marie (Augustin & Marie Citoleux)
mg. 3/10/1808 - ~ t e - ~ e n e v i s v eM, t l . ,PQ
V I I . LEGAULT, Michel (Michel & Marie Neveu)
ST-AUBIN, M-Louise (Michel & Mgte. Martin)
mg. 22/6/1835 - St-Laurent, M t l . , PQ
V I I I . LEGAULT, S t a n i s l a s (Michel & M-Lse. St-Aubin)
FAVREAU, J u l i e n n e (Michel & J u l i e n n e Patenaude)
mg. 14/11/1865 - Acton Vale, PQ
I X . DESLAURIERS, W i l f r i d (Stan. & , J u l i e . Favreau)
BEAUDOIN, E u l a l i e ( P i e r r e & Delima Laurin)
mg. 7/1/1907 - Ste-Christine-Bagot, PQ
X. DESLAURIERSS y n r a d ( W i l f r i d & E u l a l i e Beaudoin)
POULIN, M-Helena ( P h i l i a s & E u l a l i e Tougas)
mg. 18/5/1946 - N.D. C e n t r a l F a l l s , R I
PAULHUS
/
I. HUS, Leonard (Parenatge Unknown)
LENFANT, Marguerite (Parentage Unknown)
of Montigny, Normandie, Prance
11. HUS, P a u l gona nard & Marguerite L e n f a n t )
BAILLARGEON, Jeanne (Mathur i n & Marie M&aYer)
mg. 16/6/1669
C o n t r a t N o t a i r e Cusson
-
111. HUS-PAUL, Louis (Paul & Jeanne B a i l l a r g e o n )
e
& Fr s e Lemoine)
NIQUET, ~ - ~ s e - A n ~ L l i q u(Pre
mg. 10/6/1699 - St-Fran~ois-du-Lac, PQ
.
.
I V . HUS-PAUL, P i e r r e (Louis & ~ - A n ~ < l i q uNiquet)
e
PETIT-BRUNO , ~ e n e v i k v e(Louis & M-Jeanne B r i s s e t )
1st mg. 12/8/1742 - S t - P i e r r e - S o r e l , PQ
V. HUS-PAP, Jos-Louis ( P i e r r e & Gen. P/etit-Bruno)
LAVALLEE , R o s a l i e ( P i e r r e & Marie Peloquin)
1st mg. 7/1/1771 - S t - P i e r r e - S o r e l , PQ
V I . PAULHUS, Louis (Jos-Ls. & R o s a l i e ~ a v a l l g e )
PETIT, M-Claude ( P i e r r e & M-Claude A r e l )
mg. 12/1/1801 - St-Michel-dlYamaska, PQ
V I I . PAULHUS, Antoine (Louis & M-Claude P e t i t )
PROULX, Marguerite ( B a s i l e & Mad. Cardin)
mg. 18/2/1833 - St-Michel-dlYamaska, PQ
V I I I . PAULHUS, Antoine, (Antoine & M p e . Proulx)
CHAPDELAINE, Zoe (Ant. & Exupere Beaudreau)
1st mg. 10/2/1857 - St-David-dlYamaska,PQ
I X . PAULHUS, ~ i m o t h g e (Antoine & ~ o e Chapdelaine)
/
BEAUCHEMIN, ~ x g l i n e(Henri & J u l i e n n e Proulx)
mg. 30/4/1895 - St-Guillaume-dtUpton, PQ
X. PAULHUS, Gerard I. (Tim. & ~ x e / l i n eBeauchemin)
BAILLARGEOM, Lauret t e ( P h i l . & M-Alma ~ g l i n a s )
mg. 24/11/1931 - Holy Family,Woonsocket,RI
A-h
&ht
Asselin #I98 Person No. 1 on this chart is the same
person as N o . o n chart No.-.
Adaress220
Fisher Street
Name of ~~rnpil~rH-S
city,state mnsocketl
RI 02895
(Fdther of NO. 8,
Cont. on chart NO. )-
m.
Pierre ASSELIN
8
d.
(Father of No. 4)
P
Date
b.
4
Date of Birth
PA place of B ~ r t h
rn. Date of Marnage
d. Date of Death
p.d. Place of Death
b.
Joseph ASSELIN
(Father of No. 2)
b. 17/6/1888
p.b. St-Jean-Matha, PC2
m. 31611912d. 15/3/1955
Wonsocket, RI
17,
18
P.d
9
b.
/I011867
d.
p.d
(Father of No. 1)
d.
22/10/1950
b.
lo
*
(Mother of No. 2)
d. 12/3/1937
Woonsocket, RI
12/3/1866
p.b. Ste-Elizabeth, EQ
d. 20/4/1937
~.d.
Woonsocket, RI
b.
b. 15/10/1858
p.b. Ste-Flavie, PQ
"
0"
1
d.
Joseph TNlJlIF
b.
(Father of
12,
Cont. on chart No. )
m.16/11/1847-Ste-Luce,FQ
(Mother of No. 12,
Cont. on chart No.
b.
271111885-St-Joseph--age24/3/1929
Augustin- 0
/
26 FrwOlS BERUBE
p.d Woonsocket, RI
(Father of No.
)
m.
d.
68
d"
-2
2% d
Forestdale, RI
m. 27/11/19115/6/1961
p.d Woonsocket, R I
22 Ba
p.b.
5E
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d
L-1
--
(Father of No. 6)
,.
I.-,"
24
Auquste TAFDIE
12
3X 8
a
(hlother of No. 11.
Cont. on chart No.
b.
NO.
d.
p.d.
(,
(Father of No. 11.
Cont. on chart NO. -)
(Mother of No. 5)
1
a
NO.
psd
r-
*
1
d.
21 Genevi&e
CHAMPAGNE(Mother of NO. lo.
b. Beaugrand
Cont. on chart
)
d.
A
Narcisse DESCHENES
m.
b. 12/3/1890
~ . bSte-Elizabeth,
.
a
d. 20/11/1968
p.d.Woonsocket, RI
(Father of NO. 10.
Cont. on chart No.
m.2/7/1833-Berthiewille,EQ
Hermine Girard
2
(hlother of No. 9.
Cont. on chart No. )b.
d.
20, EZrmanuel GIRAFUI
1/4/1863
p.b. Berthiewille, PQ
s";.m
d.
19
b.
Marcel ASSELIN
b.
14/2/1945
p.b. Wonsocket, RI
m. 7/9/1964-Woonsocket, RI
(Father of NO. 9,
Cont. on chart No. )-.
m.
Elizabeth GRAVEL
(Mother of No. 4)
p.b.
b. 21/5/1913
~ . bWoonsocket,
.
RI
m.2/9/1933-Woon~ket,
RI
(Mother of No. 8.
Cont. on chart NO. -)
p.b.
b.
/
m. 11/1/1886-St-Felix-Valois ,d.
d.
PQ
Hermas ASSELIN
2
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-
Chart No.
16
g
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S3 2
z," 2 "
b Z
3,
21/2/1869
p.b.St-Joseph,PQ
d. 1/1/1958
p.d. Woonsocket, RI
b.
Claire TARDIE
(Mother of No. 1)
$2 4
!zJzJ$U.
b.
p.b.
d.
p.d.
-b
5%%
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0suz 2
21/3/1914
Woonsocket, RI
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-
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7_
P
Aurore RKHELEAU
(Mother of NO. 3)
25/11/185)1,
p.b. St-Barthel~,
a
d. 31/7/1958
p.d. Sorel, pa bur.Woonsocke6
(Spouse of No. 1)
d.
p.d.
H
Dieudonne RCCHEXEAU
(Father of No. 14.
b.
Cont. on chart No. -m.
(Father of No. 7)
11869
)
d.
29
12m.28/1/1862-St-Barthelemy,PQ
(Mother of
Suzanne PLASSE
b.
p.b.
d.
~l&nore RIVAL-Bellerose
(Mother of No. 14.
Cont. on chart No. -)
p.b.
b.
m. 11/9/1888-~t-Barthe/1&ny,PQd.
/
d- 15/3/1948
30 Pierre C l E V E T E
P . ~St-Chr~, FQ
b.
Cont. onof
(Father
chart
No. N
15.
b.
ian
(Mother of NO. 13,
Cont. on chart No. )
b.
28
14
13,
p.b.
d.
p.d.
NO.
7)
d.
Adglaide SYLVESTRE
(Mother of No. 15,
b.
Cont. on chart No. )d.
N~~~ of Compiler
~
d
d
r
city, state
e
s
HerKEiS ASselin #I98
s
a
F
i
s
Wonsocket, R I
h
e
r
02895
Person No. 1 on this chart is the same
person a s N o . o n chart NO.-.
-
8 ~1 i
27/4/1865
b.
26/11/1889-Manville, RI
m-
17/8/1901
p.b. mnsocket , RI
b. Date of Birth
p . b . ~ ~ ~ e o f ~ l n m.
h
25/8/1920--nsod(etr
m. Date of Marriage
11970
d. Date of Dearh
d.
p.d. Place of Death
p.d Wonsocket, RI
d. 17/11/1932
P . ~
b.
Rig phil&e
(Father of NO. 1)
b.
p.b.
m.
d.
p.d
14/11/1921
Wmnsccket, RI
221211944-Woonso~ketI RI
b.
Wonsocket, RI
d.
17/5/1964
2O
b.
(Father of No. 10.
Cont. on chart NO.---
b.
(hlother of No. 10.
Cont. on chart No. )
21/2/1874
~ .
-Killingly/Putnm?
11921
WOOnsOcket,
d
RI
b.
b.
d.
p.a.
b.
/
12
(Father of No. 6)
~apol/onB&
0
(bather of No. 3)
--
b. 7/7/1881
p.b. Ottawa, ONT-
n-
d. 23/3/1954
~ . dWonsocket,
-2
.t u]
w a :
-
2.2 $
$ 5 ",
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5%
-
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ua:
4%
(Father of No. 12,
Cont. on chart No.
)
d.
25
b.
(Mother of No. 12.
Cont. on chart No. )
d.
5/1/1930
Woonsocket
d
, RI
(Father of No. 13,
Cont. on chart No. -)
p.b.
d.
p.d.
Clarisse BELAND
(Mother of No. 1)
b. 25/5/1924
p.b. Wonsocket,
b.
d.
28 b. Gonzaque
RI
d.
p.d.
(Mother of NO. 13.
Cont. on chart No. 1-
TRUDEL
(Father of No.
con^ on
14
Joseph TRUDEL (Father
(-LIE)of No.
7)
thy
14.
-----)
m-251211842-St-E3arthelemyIFQ
27/3/1854
(Mother of No. 14.
Cont. on chart No. -)
St-Cuthbert, PQ
b.
- m- 26/10/1874-Ile Dupas ,PQ
d.
/
10/4/1934
30 Pierre MASSE-Beauvilliers
b.
(Father of No. 15,
p.d Eellingham, MA.
Cont. on chart NJ. _----)
/
.
.
15 Marie M A S S E - W ~ N ~ ~ ~ I. m.19/2/1855-Ile
Dupas, PQ
P~R
b.
p.b.
-232
n.5
r a3
14/3/1845
RI
~ L J
!-Zw:
,xu o
2 g zK
(Mother of No. 11.
Cont. on chart No. --)
m.
s;%
---
& 32
~ 2 % 3
z
)
m.
Auqustin BELAND
b.
p.b.
m.
d.
0
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(Father of No. 11.
Cont. on chart NO.
24
p.d-
dk
.
i
)
d.
d.
mr
(hlother of NO. 9.
Cont. on chart No.
m.
Suzanne PLASSE
b. 14/8/1946
~ . b Wonsocket
.
, RI
,
. 7/9/1964-Wonsocket, RI
m
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h
V .
lo
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<
Marie BOUCHER
1
3.:
(Father of No. 9.
Cont. on chart No. -)
d.
I
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BEIWm
m.
BERNIER
d.
-
8.
(Mother of No. 8,
Cont. on chart No. -)
b.
7/11/1867
d.
p.d
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p.b.
,, &she
p.b.
2 - A r t h u r J . S R
NO.
GI&
b.
d.
(Mother of No. 4)
b,
PLASSE
(Fdther of
Cont. on chart N)-o..
d
17, Elmire
(F'ather of No. 4)
Date
16b.Guillaurne
-
2 me 41811862-St-Robert,PQ
PTASSE
r'.
Chart NO.
7
P
el
Flora TRUDELLE
(Mother of No. 3)
b. 7/4/1894
p.b. Wonsocket, R I
d. 6/5/1938
ped. Wonsocket , RI
ASSWLZEJ
(Spouse of ho. 1)
(Mother of No. 7)
b.
p.b.
d.
31 Marguerite LJWGEVIN
(Mother of No. 15,
b.
Cont. on chart No. )-
Name of compilerDavid R LaV0ie
Address 136 Har 1 ey St .
city, State Coventry. RI 0 2816
Awh &he
Person No. 1 on this chart is the same
person as N o . o n chart No.-.
/
16 Richard MFSSE
/
b. of
(Father d NO. 8,
Cont. a chart No.
m. Bossilie, Normandie, J?r.
(Father d No. 4)
d.
Fransois MASSE
8
I
-
Chart No.
i7[ Jeanne JORDIN (Mother 01 No. 8.
b.
I
(Father d Na 2)
b.
p.b.
b. Date of Birth
PL PIT. of ~ i h m. 23/1/1775-Rivi&e-Ouella
m. Date of Marrlage
d.
d. Date of Death
PAPlace of math
P.~
/
2 Louis MASSE
(Father d No. I)
I
-.
(Father of No. 9.
Cont. on chart No. )-.
b.
p.b.
d.
p.d
d.
p.d.
/
dccadie MASSE
b.
p.b.
m. 31911827-Rivike-Ouelle,PQ
12 Jean EXHEMBACK
~ean-~ndre'
ESCHEMBACK
(Father d No. 3)
:
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5, .5,
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p.b.
d.
p.d.
b.
(rem.1828-Pascal St- 14 Charles-Rene'DECEW
(Father of No. 7)
Pierre)
m.
d.
b.
p.b.
d.
p.d.
b.
d.
28 me' DENEAU
15 :izabeth
(Mother of No. 7)
Jean OUEL;LF=I:
(Spouse of NO. I)
b.
b.
d.
b.
d.
d.
p.d.
p.d.
(Mother d No. 14.
Cont. on chart No. -)
(Father of No. 15.
Cont on chart N a
m.9/11/1716-Montmagny, W
d.
31 Marthe ~ o m - ~ e m r k s
p.b.
p.b.
(Father of No. 14.
Cont on chart No. --)
d.
pierre B ~ G E R
[
30
B&-
(Mother of NO. 13.
corn. on chart No. )-
m.6/11/1718-Contrat Barbel
d.
29 Marie-Anne MORIN
-
d.
(Father of No. 13,
Cont. on chart NO. -1
27
p.b.
,.~ene-li&e
DENEAU
A m . 1 2 / 1 1 / 1 7 5 3 - M o n t m a g n y , FQ
(Mather of No. 3)
-)
26
b.
"
235
La 3
(Mother of No. 12.
COIU. on chart NO.
d.
p.d
b.
- b ".
Cont. onof
(Father
chart
No. No.
12, )-
d.
Diocese of W u r t z b ~ g ,b.
Germany
d.
m. 281811786-~ntmagny,PQ 13. ~gronicrueVBWEISLER
(Mother of No. 6)
d. 12/6/1821 %10/8/1786b
.
p.d ~ t - m h - ~Contrat
~ l ~ .C.
&ves-e)
p.b.
d.
p.d.
3
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5 0*
q 92
p-b.
m.
)
m.
(Father of No. 6)
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b.
b- of kvuda,
2
d.
20 Gabriel MIVIL;LE
(Father of No. 10.
b.
Cont on chart No. 1
m-14/1/1726-La ~ocatizre,PQ
d.
21 Madeleine SOUCY
24
d.
8
(Mother of No. 9.
Cont. on chart No.)-.
(Mother d No. 10.
p.d.
b.
m
Jeanne HUDON
cont. an chart NO. )p.b.
b.
m. 21/1/1754-~ivikre~elle
d.
22 Jean-Baptiste BEAUDET
(Father of No. 11.
b.
P.“
CON. on chart No.m.
11 Isabelle BEAUDET
(Mother d No. 5)
d.
b.
23 Madeleine MARJXIER
(Mother d No. 11.
p.b.
Cont. a!chart No. -4
b.
d.
d.
b.
p.b.
23
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d.
19
b.
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m-6/6/1701-Rivi&e-0uelle ,PQ
Marthe PAR3LDIS(Mother d No. 4)
b.
p.b.
m.21110/1805-Rivi&e-Ouelle~~10 Jean-Baptiste MIVIUE
(Father d No. 5)
d.
1
Guillam PARADIS
18
P.d
Cont. on chart No. -1
(Mother of No. IS.
Cont. on char4 No. -)
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#963 Person No. 1 on this chart is the same
person as N o . o n chart No.-,
Name of ~om~ilerHai
Address 71 5 Bouchard AVP~ i t y , ~ t a t DTaCUtr
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MA-
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p.b. Nicolet, PQ
m. 1/8/1785-Nicolet, FQ
d.
b.
(Father d No. 2)
b. 20/4/1803
p.b. Nicolet,
h t e of Birth
P.d
P(1
(Mother of No. 4)
p.d
2
b.
p.b.
d.
p.d
Joseph CHAMPAW
(Father of No. 1)
c1820
pSb. Nicolet, FQ
m. 25/5/1841-Nicolet, PQ
d. 13/9/1886
Cont. on chart No. -1
b.
d.
18 Jean-Baptiste U Z E W R E of No. 9.
b' ksdijteaux (Father
cant. on than ~
o-) .
~ M ~ ~ ~ ~ - A ~ ~ ~ D E s c ~ om.4/2/1765-Nicolet,
TEAux
PQ
m.21/9/1818-Nicolet, PQ
d.
/I843
~.a PDate
m
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Blh
d. Date of Death
pd. Place of Death
b.
d.
19 Nathalie RICHARD
(Mother of No. 9.
Cont. on chart No. )-
b.
d.
20 Uuis PARMENTJER
1699
(Father of NO. lo.
con^ on chan NO. -m~10/4/1735-Nicolet,PQ
b.
lo Augustin PARMENTIER
b.
p.b.
d. 1/10/1857
PQ
pad. Nicolet,
Alfred CHAMPAGNE
b.
p.b.
Nicolet, PQ
m. 28/9/1874-Nicolet, PQ
"% d. 30/5/1/923
- 4d:3 ~ . d .mntreal, PQ
)
d.
(Father of No. 5)
21 Mar ie-Louise FU;IAUT
(Mother d No.
b.
p.b.
10.
Cont an c b n N a )-
b.
m.12/2/1776-Nicolet, PQ
d. 22/7/1781 (drowned)
~ . dNicolet, FQ
11 Marie-Louise JUITAS
d.
22 Michel JUTRAS
(Father d NO. 11,
b. 1730
Conf. on cham No. m.8/1/1758-Nicolet, PQ
(Mother of No. 5)
16/8/1758
Nicolet, PQ
22/7/1781
Nicolet, PQ
b.
p.b.
d.
p.d.
d.
Marie-Louise DUMAS
23
(Mother of No. 11.
conf. on chart NO.
b.
d.
--
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24
'b.
(Father of No. 12.
Cont. on chart No. 4
m.
12 Framis BOURBE?iU
a.
(Father d N a 6)
.
(Vf F'ran~oise 25
(Mother of No. 12,
F'RIGON)
Cont. on chart No. )
b.
.
~
g
e Joseph B O U (Father
R R F L :
A!m. 9/11/1767-Tr~is-~ivi&es
of NO. 3)
d.
b.
1785
26 Charles DUPRAT
p.d
-
mu
.
/1762-Nicoletr PQ
(Father of No. 4)
4 Jose-ARTON
3
(Father of No. 8,
Cont. a c h r n No. )-
&Sean-Baptiste O m O N - C h m
Date
b.
Chart NO.isJean-Baptiste ORION/ORII;LON
db
ci;
b.
p.b.
b.
p.b.
/
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(Father d No. 13,
Cont. on c h q No. -)
a
m. 2 1 / 9 / 1 8 1 2 - B a i e - ~ e b v r e , ~ 3 ~m.4/10/1738-Trois-Rive,ires,m
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Motpr of No. 6)
d. 23/9/1842
"~ouise~ratte
27 dc&ence LECLEEC
Nicolet, PQ
b.
(Mother of No. 13,
p.b.
3
Adglaide BOURRF!AU
(Mother of No. 1)
b.
as8
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&:z
p.b.
d.
6;;
p.d.
49.4
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28
-
1760
p.b.
d.
p.d.
(Spouse of No. 1)
d.
p.d.
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d.
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-,-
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J,EMTRF,
(Mother d No. 14,
Cont. on chart No. -)
b.
1
5
s
m. 30/1/1787-Baie-du-FebvrePQ.
/
23/5/1842
30 Franmis COTE
d.
15/8/1766
Philome E!OISWFt'T
(Father of No. 14,
ConL on chart No.
m.7/1/1750-Baie-du-Febvre,PQ
(Father of No. 7)
p.b.
~1izzbet.hROBIDAS-Manseau
(Mother of No. 3)
b. 8/9/1788
Jacques mBIDAS-Manseau
b.
14 Franqois FDBIDAS-Manseau
7
b.
p.b.
d.
p.d.
b.
Cont. on chart No. )-
b.
d.
p.b.
d.
p.d.
(Father of No. 15.
ConL on chart No.
-A
m.10/9/1765-Baie-du-Feb~eIEQ
(Mother of No. 7)
d.
m
b.
d.
e LAFTEN~RE
(Mother of NO. 1s.
Cont. on chart No. -)