Monument for Robert Levesque & Jeanne Chevalier of Quebec

While not a tombstone, this monument remembers ancestors 

 Robert & Jeanne (Chevalier) Levesque

(our 7th G-Grandparents).

 The granite monument is about six feet tall and is located in the section of the Rivière-Ouelle cemetery reserved for ancestral families.

 (Photo: Studio Photo Guy Duguay, La Pocatière, QC)

1864 Burial Record for Michel Tetreau dit Ducharme

St. Pie, Quebec, burial record of ancestor, Michel Tetreau Ducharme, spouse of Marie Louise Letarte:

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Translated by a wonderful genealogy friend, Pierre:
"to-day 11 July 1844, we undersigned priest have buried in the parish cemetery the body of Michel Tétreault dit Ducharme, died 2 days before, at the age of 63 years old. Were present Pierre Jubinville and François, Guillaume and Michel Tétreau his sons that were not able to sign"

The 1833 Marriage of Jean Baptiste Brouillet & Marie Josephte (Louise) Denis Laporte

On May 13, 1833, after 3 bans made during the "prones' of the parrish mass, between Jean-Baptiste Brouillette, living in this parrish, son of age of Jean-Baptiste Brouillette, farmer, and of Françoise Larrivée, his father and mother from this parrish, on one side, and Marie-Josephte Denys, daughter under age of Jean-Baptiste Denys, also farmer, and of Marie-Josephte Bachand, her father and mother, from this parrish, on the other side, no impediment being found, with the agreement of the parents, I undersigned priest received their mutual marriage consent and gave them the nuptial blessing, in front of Sieur Joseph Porlier, undersigned, Moyse Blanchet, friend of the spouse, of Jacques Daigle and Élie Smith, friends of the bride, and many others who could not sign.

Hôtel Dieu of Quebec

     

Hôtel-Dieu de Québec

Hotel Dieu & Cemetery

L'Hôtel Dieu, founded by three Augustinian nuns in 1639, was the first hospital in Canada and is the oldest hospital in North America outside of Mexico.    It continued to be administered by the Augustinian order until 1962.

L'Hôtel Dieu 1877

      

Today the Hotel-Dieu of Québec continues to operate as part of a network of three teaching hospitals and several specialized institutions.

(Photo credits:  Hôtel-Dieu de Québec & Library and Archives Canada)

Death Record of Catherine Brouillet Ducharme d.1884

1884 Death record of our 4th G-Grandmother Catherine Brouillet

 born c. 1816 daughter of Jean-Baptist Brouillet & Louise Denis Laporte

Married Francois Tetreau Ducharme 19 Oct 1830 in Quebec

Buried in Sainte-Cécile de Milton cemetery, Quebec.

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The 1684 Baptism Record of Nicolas Robillard

   

From the Quebec Vital and Church Records 

 Drouin Collection

is the 1864 baptism record for our 7th Great-Grandfather,

Institut Généalogique Drouin

Nicolas Robillard,

son of Claude Robillard & Marie Grandin.

 

 

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Paroisse La-Visitation

Champlain, Quebec

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1830 Quebec Marriage Record of Lambert Robillard & M. Amable Salais

 

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(Margin): M. Lambert Robillard + Marie-Amable Salais.

(Act): on February 22, 1830, after publishing 3 marriage "bans" at the sermons of our parish masses and also at the masses of the parish of Ste-Anne, as it appears by the certificate of messire Fortin, curé of that place, dated from the 21 of the current (month), between Lambert Robillard, living in the parish of Ste-Anne, son of age of Joseph Robillard and of Josephte Minville of the parish of Ste-Anne, on one side, and Marie-Amable Salais from this parish, daughter under age of deceased François Salais, farmer in his lifetime, and of Rosalie Lafleur from this parish, as no objections was found, we undersigned priest of Ste-Geneviève have received their mutual consent and gave them the nuptial blessing in the presence of (?), brother-in-law, of Jean-Baptiste (?), friend of the bride, of Joseph Robillard, father of the groom, of Joachim Robillard, his brother, who, as the spouses and the witnesses declared they were not able to sign.

(Transcription by genealogy friend, Pierre, who very generously assists me with French-Canadian records - Thank you!)

The other half of the brick wall puzzle: Ancestors of Philanese Ducharme of Quebec

   
With the wonderful assistance of Pierre Ducharme & Muriel of the American-Canadian Genealogical Society, I was finally able to get a copy of the marriage record of Philanese Ducharme and from that identify her parents and establish her ancestry.

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Stoneham - Finding Their Origin

   
One of the benefits of using Rootsweb WorldConnect is the little green leaf icon that appears when a possible match can be made to a person on Ancestry.com

When I just have a few moments to spare, I like to go the my tree which is uploaded to the WorldConnect project and click on various names to see if the little leaf can point me to something new that I hadn't yet searched.

Today was my lucky search day as I decided to randomly pick Stoneham from my surname index.

Julia Stoneham who married Narcisse Lambert on 22 Apr 1845 in St-David-D'Yamaska, Quebec, is our ancestor.
I clicked on her father, Patrick Stoneham, and got the following display of my uploaded tree information:

You can see the shaded area with the happy green leaf above.
By clicking on that link I am taken directly to the record transcription in Ancestry.com:

Great!  I now have a place of birth:  Ireland
And on Ancestry I can view the original record to confirm the transcription plus glean other information from the census including occupation of cultivateur (farmer) :

Another blank filled-in and our second ancestral connection to Ireland was discovered!

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The 1637 Marriage Record of Antoine Brassard & Francoise Méry

Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967

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Although I was able to gleen out the names and date of this record, it was, overall, very difficult for me to read.  With the help of a fellow French-Canadian researcher the following is a general tanslation:

January 14 1637. Banns (?) made as usual......

we legitimate... F(ather) Gabriel (?) Lallemant, jesuit
acting as curé in Québec.....formally married (?).......that marriage Antoine Brassard mason and Françoise Méry

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Towns of our Ancestors: Fribourg, Suisse

Freiburg, Switzerland    (Fribourg, Suisse)

Founded in 1157, Freiburg is located on the river Sarine on the Swiss plateau.

Its Old City with its medieval architecture, sits on a small rocky hill above the valley of the Sarine.

This was the hometown of our ancestor, Pierre Miville, born c.1602.  

Pierre married Charlotte Mauger (Maugis) and together with their 6 children settled in Quebec, New France abt 1649.

Occupation: ANCIEN MARGUILLIER

  I  recently located the death record of our ancestor Gervais Lambert Champagne (shown below) on PRDH.  It was here we found note of his occupation.

Occupation:  ANCIEN MARGUILLIER      Translation: Former Warden

The warden (Latin matricularis, which keeps a record) was in each parish, whose burden was to keep record of who received the alms of the Church. He serves as Assistant Sacristan, appoints and dismisses the singers, the attendants, etc....
Un marguillier:  A churchwarden is person in charge of administering the property of the parish (land, renting land, schools, pensions and taxes), to ensure maintenance of premises, to keep the Parish register and prepare cases to be brought to the board.

Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada

Gare, Hôtel Grand Union, bureau de poste et Edifice Tourigny en 1892

Today I thought I'd try Randy Seaver's Easter Egg Hunt idea ... http://www.geneamusings.com/2009/04/my-genealogy-easter-egg-hunt.html

The town I chose was Victoriaville, Canada; the birthplace of Marie Anne Turgeon shown in http://tangledtrees.blogspot.com/2009/04/nearly-wordless-wednesday-lovely-couple.html

I have not looked into this place at all so this would be new...

Okay - what I quickly learned is that Victoriaville is located in Quebec & I had better brush up on my French because the local genealogy society website for that area is in French: Société d'histoire et de généalogiede Victoriaville. It will take a little slow & persistant work to eke out some family information from there but for now I am enjoying the 'album photos' on their website. Here are just a few:

Les débuts de l'éducation à Ste-Victoire.


Moulin à scie et usine électrique d’Achille Gagnon 1897.

L’Union des Cantons de l’Est au début du siècledernier.

Procession de la Saint-Jean-Baptiste de 1897. Au piedde l’hôtel Prince of Wales.

King's Daughters - Settler's of New France

One of our ancestors, our lovely Catherine, was a "fille du roi". These young women, the King's Daughters, known in French as the "fille du roi", agreed to travel to the new settlements in North America (Nouvelle-France) and marry a settler there in exchange for a dowry of 50 livres from the French King, Louis XIV. The program was instituted because there was a severe imbalance between single men and women at the new French outpost. Most female immigrants had to pay their own passage, and there were few single women who voluntarily came to settle in the harsh climate and conditions of New France.

The title "King's Daughters" was meant to imply state patronage (not royal or noble birth). Most of these women were commoners of humble birth. In addition to the monetary support from the King they also had the costs of their transportation covered. Many Daughters were poor and were considered "orphans" by virtue of having lost at least one parent, though not necessarily both. Some still had both parents living. In the new settlement the girls were expected to marry and start families in an attempt to further populate New France.

Our ancestor, Catherine Ducharme of Ile-de-France, arrived in New France in 1671 and married Pierre Roy dit St-Lambert, who had arrived in Quebec in 1666 with the Regiment du Carignan.
Married on 12 JAN 1672 in Montreal, Ile-De-Montreal, Quebec, they raised their family at Laprairie on the south shore of Montreal.