Les trouvailles de Monique - Association des Ouellet

The arrival of certain Ouellet-te
famillies in the Acadie des terres et
fôrtets
Some historical facts on Acadie
Some historical facts on the Acadie
• 1755-Acadian deportation from Grand-Pré (Nova
Sciotia) and the attack of Fort Beauséjour by
Monkton. Some of them join the Canadians in
Quebec by the Saint-John river. Others stopped
and formed a cummunity called Sainte-Anne des
Pays-Bas (Fredericton).
• 1759-Québec becomes an english territory 200
acadians are coming back from Quebec and stop
at St-Basile: first try to establish a community.
• Madawaska area includes the Aroostook valley
(Maine)up to the Temiscouata Lake (Quebec).
• Pierre Lizotte stays all winter in the Madawaska
area.
• 1782-1786-The land of the Acadians that were
established at Kennebecassis (near Sussex) were
chased by the Loyalists.
Territory of Acadie des terres et forêts
called at that time Madawaska
• 1785-Petition from Louis Mercure to obtain
the lands of Madawaska, arrival in june of
the Acadians that also were chased from
Sainte-Anne des Pays-Bas (Fredericton) :first
permanent community establishment in
Madawaska area.
• 1790-52 lands were given to colonisers in
Madawaska.
• 1792-catholic parrish is opened and is
named Saint-Basile.
Arrival of the Ouellet-te familly
• 1792-Louis Ouellette marry GenevièveMarguerite Cyr june 1792 in Saint-Basile. He
seems to be the first to settle in the area. That
union gives life to at least 7 childrens that also
were married in Saint-Basile from 1819 to 1830.
• 1821-Pierre, brother of Louis arrived with his wife
Marie-Félicité Paradis and their 14 childrens and
settled in Frenchville. Two of their daughters are
already married and they followed their parents.
Louis et Genevieve
Marguerite en
1792
Louis et Geneviève Marguerite Cyr
(Mathurin-René)
• Marguerite is tante Blanche’s daughter (mid-wife
that is a hero in the area)
• They had 12 childrens and 7 of them had
childrens also.
• They had a land granted in the southern part of
Madawaska (near Rivière-Verte) than moved
southern on what is now Van Buren Maine.
• Their grand-children are baptised in Saint-Bruno
of Van Buren, than we lose the sign of their
presence (birth of a daughter of Jean-Marie and
Rosalie Cyr in 1837).
Pierre and Felicite Paradis
between 1821 and 1825 (13
children) on the south shore
of the river (Madawaska
Maine)
Louis et Genevieve
Marguerite en
1792
1848: Jean-Baptiste and
Marguetrite Nadeau sell the
land in Maine settle on the
other side of the border on lot
11 (20 children).
Pierre and Felicite Paradis
between 1821 and 1825 (13
children) on the south shore
of the river (Madawaska
Maine)
Louis et Genevieve
Marguerite en
1792
First lot granted to Pierre Ouellette
Jean-Baptiste son of Pierre
• Jean-Baptiste (son of Pierre, nephew of Louis) is
the ancester of the larger family of Ouellet-te to
settle in l’Acadie des terres et forêts). He married
Marguerite Nadeau in 1841 and Henriette
Nadeau in 1867 and had 20 children.
• Pierre and Félicité Paradis had other son but
there descendants were mostly girls that
enriched the area with other familly names such
as: Pelletier, Vaillancourt, Beaulieu, Dumont,
Moreau, Roy, Lacombe, Thériault, Berneche,
Sirois-Duplessis.
Some information on J-Baptiste familly
• Salomon/Anselme/Paul/Real Ouellette is still
living on lot 11 in Edmundston (Verret Office).
• Belonie and Vitaline Paradis stayed in Maine et
had 7 children: Olive married Policarpe Pelletier,
Joseph married Scolastique Picard and had 7
children (5 boys).
• This big familly settled on both side of Saint-John
river and is a good example of the relationshhip
between the residents living in Maine USA and
their cousins in Madawaska county (NewBrunswick) and Témiscouata county (Quebec).
Salomon
Some descendants on Salomon and
Adèle Lajoie
Family of Joseph and Scholastique
Picard (s/o Beloni and Vitaline Paradis)
Olive, d/o Belonie and Vitaline Paradis
Descendants of Pierre-Ferdinand
(Grégoire)
• Pierre-Ferdinand, son of Pierre-Ferdinand and
Reine Moreau, married, Madeleine Landry (an
acadian native) at Saint-Louis de Kamouraska
in 1805. The last marriage of that familly in
Kamouraska is in 1831 and the first in Acadie
is in 1832. they settled in Frenchville (Me),
and had 12 children. They became one of the
bigger familly in the area.
• Jean-J-C/Magloire/Henri/Patrick/Paul (Fort-Kent)
• Bruno/Hormidas/Joseph/Edna/Therese et Luc (Fenchville)
• Jean-J-C/Ferdinand/Edmond/Benoit (Lac Baker)
Familly ot Joseph and Glorieuse Lachance
s/o Hormidas and Nathalie Martin
Alexis et Flavie Moreau
Rang des Ouellette
Andre lot 20 et Paul
lot 21 en 1848
Germain et Helene Gagnon
Eagle Lake
André and Marie-Rose Moreau
(Mathurin-René)
• They married in Kamouraska in 1812. They
had 12 children and their son André married
Anne Albert (an acadian native) in Saint-Basile
in 1838.
• André and Marie-Rose settled on 20 and their
son Paul-Hypolite maried Priscille Michaud
from Riviere-du-Loup and was granted lot 21
both november 28, 1848.
Descendants of that root
• Edward-Godefroi et Bethleem Baron settled in
Caribou, Me and then Godefroi (Bebette), (son of
Paul-Hypolite steeled at Old Town Me.
• Lina (Delima), d/o Alexis and Flavie Moreau
became the mid-wife on the Rang des Ouellette
and became the Aunt Lina of all the kids.
• Many descendants played a big role in the
development of the communities of Saint-Hilaire
and Baker-Brook.
Edouard and Michel (s/o PaulHypolite)
Familly of Timothée and Odile Lainey
(s/o Edouard and Osithé Bélanger)
Familly of Élias and Eulalie Daigle (s/o
Michel and Élize Bernatchez)