SAURETTE & OLIGNY · NAMES & PLACES
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Alard, GenevièveNamed with Michel Racicot on their son's 1715 Québec marriage act; of St-Jean, Château-Gontier, in Anjou.Gideon Joseph Rock
Alexander, A.T.Justice of the Peace at Laprairie who took the sworn depositions naming Isaac Oligny, January 1839.Isaac Oligny
Allaire, MarieFirst wife of Pierre Bissonnet, still living in Poitou when he remarried — the bigamy that ended Mathurine Desbordes's second marriage.Mathurine Desbordes
Ameau, SéverinNotary at Trois-Rivières; drew the 1684 marriage contract naming both Marguerite Ardion and Marie-Louise Lecoutre.Marie-Louise Lecoutre · Marguerite Ardion
Archambault, Apollined. 1837First wife of Guillaume Saurette Sr., married 1827. Died twenty-one days after bearing twins.Guillaume Saurette Sr. · The convergence
Ardion, Margueritec. 1638–1678Huguenot, La Rochelle. Married three times; her grandson's own marriage splits into two daughters, one reaching Joseph Philorum Oligny, one reaching Marie-Anna Saurette.Marguerite Ardion · Shared Ancestors
Ardion, Pierre1594–1641Master mason and stonecutter, La Rochelle; father of Marguerite Ardion.Marguerite Ardion
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Balle, JeannetteNamed as Jean-Baptiste Oligny's mother in his 1759 marriage contract — the only record of her anywhere in this project.Jean Oligny · The Oligny line
Banlier dit Laperle, Françoisec. 1787–1830/35Married Antoine Jourdain dit Lafrance in 1814 and, after his death, Jean-Baptiste Soret dit Larose on 21 September 1830 — the two grandfathers of Elmire Jourdain-Lafrance, seven weeks before their children married each other. Stepmother to both; an ancestress of nobody here. Not connected to the Banliers of Contrecœur on the Fourrier line, a century earlier.Guillaume Saurette Jr.
Banlier dit Laperle, Mathurinc. 1641–1720Born in the diocese of Poitiers, buried at Contrecœur. No connection is claimed to Françoise Banlier dit Laperle, who married into the Jourdain line a century later. Marie Banlier's father on a sighted act, which is Proven; his identification with the Carignan-Salières soldier of the same name is graded Probable–Strong, resting on a répertoire naming his wife. No sighted act calls him a soldier, and none gives him the dit-name. His Saint-Ours company is graded the same, on the single La Perle entry in the 1668 settlers' roll.Catherine Fourrier
Banlier, Mariec. 1679–1759Married Pierre Bousquet at Varennes in 1702, the act naming her father Mathurin and her mother as already dead. Not to be confused with her younger sister Marie-Anne, born 1684, who married a Martin — a compiled tree had merged the two.Catherine Fourrier
Banlier, Marie-Anne1684–1758Baptised at Contrecœur, married Jean Martin dit St-Martin in 1709, died at Lanoraie. Not the Marie Banlier who married Pierre Bousquet — her elder sister. Listed here because a compiled tree had merged them.Catherine Fourrier
Baril, MargueriteNamed as the immigrant Jacques Saurette's mother on his 1741 marriage act. Rendered “Marguerite Bary” on the act itself.Jacques Saurette & Marguerite Baril · The Saurette line
Basset, BénigneNotary who drew Élisabeth Gobinet and Paul Benoit's 1658 marriage contract at Ville-Marie.Élisabeth Gobinet
Baudet, Laurent (the son)Marguerite Ardion's son by her first marriage; carries her line forward, not any of the children from her second marriage.Marguerite Ardion
Baudet, Margueriteb. 1687Daughter of Laurent Bodet and Marguerite-Louise Crevier; married Noël Paquet at Chambly, 1709. Her line runs to Joseph Philorum Oligny.Marie-Louise Lecoutre
Baudet, MarieMarried Jean Massé at La Prairie, 1703–04; her own two daughters split the line to Joseph and Marie-Anna.Marguerite Ardion
Baudin, GuillaumeSon of Michel Baudin and Josette Robidoux; married Marguerite Beauvais, St-Constant, 10 February 1823. Father of Théophile and of Guillaume Beaudin, Ernestine's father.Julien Oligny · Isaac Oligny · The shrinking marriage pool
Baudin, JulienSon of Toussaint Baudin and Apolline Payan; married Marie Roy, Félicité Roy's aunt, St-Constant, 19 November 1821. Any kinship to Marguerite Beauvais's Beaudins is unproven.Julien Oligny
Beauchamp, JeanneWife of Germain Gauthier dit St-Germain and mother of Jacques, who married into the Saurette line.Jean-Baptiste Saurette
Beaudin, ErnestineJulien Oligny's second wife, married 24 December 1881 — thirteen days before he was widowed again. Daughter of Guillaume Beaudin and Julienne Gagné, and granddaughter of Julien's aunt Marguerite Beauvais: first cousins once removed, the second-to-third degree the dispensation names.Julien Oligny · Philorum Oligny · The shrinking marriage pool
Beaudin, ThéophileSon of Guillaume Baudin and Marguerite Beauvais; married Hazilda Oligny, his first cousin once removed, 17 January 1870, St-Rémi, with a second-to-third degree dispensation. Not Théophile Oligny.Julien Oligny · The shrinking marriage pool
Beaudry, JosephMarried Rose-Anne Saurette at St-Jean-Baptiste-de-Rouville, 24 September 1877, and signed the act.Guillaume Saurette Jr. · Guillaume Saurette Sr.
Beauvais dit St-Gemme, ClotildeMarried Isaac Oligny at St-Constant, 1821, with a guardian appointed by the Court of King's Bench that February. Neither she nor her husband could sign the act.Isaac Oligny · Julien Oligny · Jeanne Denot
Beauvais St-Gemme, MargueriteMarried Jacques Tétu; mother of Anne-Marie Larivière Tétu, and stood at the 1713 Surprenant baptism as the child's maternal grandmother. Not the Marguerite Beauvais who was godmother at Julien Oligny's 1824 baptism — two women, a century apart.Philorum Oligny · Jeanne Denot
Beauvais, JacquesMarried Jeanne Soldé; the route from this couple would make Philorum Oligny and Marie-Azilda Bessette sixth cousins, but it is graded lower because the sibling link it rests on has never been sighted.Philorum Oligny
Beauvais, Jean-BaptisteSon of Joseph Beauvais and his second wife Marguerite Lemieux; married Marie-Anne Lanctot, 1767, La Prairie. Father of Charles Beauvais.Jeanne Denot
Beauvais, JosephMarried twice — Jeanne Dumais, 1729, then, as a widower, Marguerite Lemieux, 1734. The Oligny descent runs through the second marriage, not the first.Jeanne Denot
Beauvais, MargueriteClotilde's sister, daughter of Charles Beauvais and Rose Bétourné. Married Guillaume Baudin at St-Constant, 10 February 1823, with Isaac Oligny a witness who could not sign. Godmother at Julien Oligny's 1824 baptism; mother of Théophile Beaudin and grandmother of Ernestine — the link behind both Beaudin dispensations. Not Marguerite Beauvais St-Gemme, Anne-Marie Larivière Tétu's mother, who belongs to a different century.Julien Oligny · Isaac Oligny · The shrinking marriage pool
Bédard, JacquesMarried Isabelle Doucinet; the couple settled at Charlesbourg beside Isabelle's sister Marguerite.Marguerite Doucinet
Bédard, Marc-AndréScholar whose recension of 477 Protestant immigrants confirmed Marguerite Doucinet's Huguenot origin by name.Marguerite Doucinet
Benoit dit Lajeunesse, Étienned. bef. 1698Carignan-Salières soldier from Fontaine-Chalendray in the Saintonge; married Nicole Chandoiseau at Notre-Dame de Montréal in 1670. An ancestor of Marie-Anna Saurette, held on the family tree file rather than on a worked descent. Not the Étienne Benoit who married Jeanne Campois in 1699 — a different province, a different wife, a different generation.The Étienne Benoits
Benoit Livernois, Étienne1662–1746Son of Paul Benoit dit Livernois and Élisabeth Gobinet; born at Montréal, died at Longueuil at eighty-three. Married Jeanne Campois — also written Marie-Jeanne-Marguerite Campeau, one woman, two spellings — at Montréal in 1699, and stood at his mother's graveside in 1715. The middle generation in the descent that carried the Livernois name from a misspelt province to a surname in its own right. Not the Étienne Benoit dit Lajeunesse who married in 1670: that man wed when this one was about seven.Élisabeth Gobinet · Dit names · The convergence · The Étienne Benoits
Benoit Livernois, Marie-Josèphe1715–1771Baptised at Longueuil, granddaughter of Élisabeth Gobinet. Married Louis Quenneville in 1730 and, widowed, Jacques Gauthier in 1743. By her daughter's 1763 marriage act she is recorded as simply “Marie Joseph Livernois” — the Benoit gone. Her daughter married into the Saurette line.Élisabeth Gobinet · Jean-Baptiste Saurette · Dit names · The convergence · The Étienne Benoits
Benoit, Élisabethd. 1685Daughter of Paul Benoit and Élisabeth Gobinet, named for her mother; died at twenty-six.Élisabeth Gobinet
Benoit, Étienne (the younger)1702–?Born 13 February 1702 and baptised two days later at St-Antoine-de-Padoue de Longueuil, son of Étienne Benoit Livernois and Jeanne Campois; brother of the ancestress Marie-Josèphe. Married Marie-Charlotte Charles at Terrebonne in 1726 — his stepmother's niece. A third man of the name, and the reason a Lajeunesse association proves nothing on this line.The Étienne Benoits
Benoit, Genevièved. 1689Daughter of Paul Benoit and Élisabeth Gobinet; died at seventeen, ten months after her wedding.Élisabeth Gobinet
Benoit, Hélèned. 1693Daughter of Paul Benoit and Élisabeth Gobinet; died at twenty-five.Élisabeth Gobinet
Benoit, JacquesSon of Paul Benoit and Élisabeth Gobinet; disappears from the record after his own baptism.Élisabeth Gobinet
Benoit, Laurentd. at 67Son of Paul Benoit and Élisabeth Gobinet; stood at his mother's graveside in 1715.Élisabeth Gobinet
Benoit, Marie-Anned. 1697Daughter of Paul Benoit and Élisabeth Gobinet. Married Jean Bourbon in 1680, then — over his own father's public objection — Jean Besset the younger in 1695.Élisabeth Gobinet · Anne Seigneur & Jean Besset · The convergence
Benoit, Pauld. 1686Master carpenter of Châtillon-en-Bazois, recruited by Maisonneuve for the Grande Recrue of 1653. Married Élisabeth Gobinet, 1658.Élisabeth Gobinet · The convergence · The Étienne Benoits
Benoit, YvesSon of Paul Benoit and Élisabeth Gobinet; disappears from the record after his own baptism.Élisabeth Gobinet
Besset dit Brisetout, Jeanc. 1642–1707Soldier of the Carignan-Salières Regiment from Cahors; married Anne Seigneur at Chambly, 1668. Captured by the Iroquois c. 1690, released or escaped by 1695.Anne Seigneur & Jean Besset · Corrections
Besset, Jean (the younger)d. 1751Son of Jean Besset and Anne Seigneur. Scalped at Saint-Lambert in 1691 and survived; married Marie-Anne Benoit in 1695 against his father's public objection.Anne Seigneur & Jean Besset · Corrections
Besset, Marie-JosèpheGranddaughter of Anne Seigneur; stood godmother at Catherine Laporte's 1721 baptism — the earliest documented contact between these families.Anne Seigneur & Jean Besset
Besset, Pierred. 1687Son of Jean Besset and Anne Seigneur; buried at five. Carried as Probable, from a compiled source.Anne Seigneur & Jean Besset
Bessette, Jean-BaptisteOrphaned at six in 1772 and raised under a maternal uncle standing as tuteur.Anne Seigneur & Jean Besset
Bessette, Jérôme (the elder)b. 1786Born at l'Acadie, the same parish and era as Isaac Oligny; a godparent check between the two families' baptisms found no overlap. Father of Jérôme Bessette the younger, and so Marie-Azilda's own grandfather.Isaac Oligny · Open Questions · Jeanne Denot
Bessette, Jérôme (the younger)b. 1822Married Hedwige Laforce in 1869, three years after she was widowed by Philorum Oligny's uncle. Father of Marie-Azilda, and son of Jérôme Bessette the elder — not to be confused with him.Anne Seigneur & Jean Besset · Isaac Oligny · Jeanne Denot
Bessette, Marie-Azildab. 1870Married Philorum Oligny, 1887. Daughter of Jérôme Bessette the younger and Hedwige Laforce — whose first husband had been an Oligny.Philorum Oligny · Anne Seigneur & Jean Besset · The convergence · Jeanne Denot
Bétourné, RoseMother of Clotilde Beauvais; recorded in 1821 as residing “au Détroit,” in the Franco-Catholic settlements of the Detroit River.Isaac Oligny · Jeanne Denot
Billy, JacquelineMarried Jean Pepin (son of Jacques Pepin and Marie-Jeanne Caillé), 1705, Champlain — the joint a compiled family tree had merged with a different marriage before it was corrected against the full sighted family.Jeanne Mechin · Joseph Philorum Oligny
Bissonnet, JacquesSon of Mathurine Desbordes's annulled second marriage; carries none of this project's lines.Mathurine Desbordes
Bissonnet, PierreMiller from Poitou; Mathurine Desbordes's second husband, whose bigamy voided the marriage in 1663.Mathurine Desbordes
Boucher, Faith RockRoland Rock's daughter; supplied the packet of his own WWII service records — his enlistment, separation papers, and a second photograph of him with his mother — new to this project.Roland Rock
Bourbon, JeanFirst husband of Marie-Anne Benoit, married 1680.Élisabeth Gobinet · Anne Seigneur & Jean Besset · The convergence
Bourgeoys, MargueriteCrossed to Montréal aboard the Saint-Nicolas in 1653, the same ship as Paul Benoit.Élisabeth Gobinet
Bousquet, CharlesSon of Pierre Bousquet and Marie Banlier; married Marie-Judith Lebrodeur, 1731, Varennes. His line runs to Marie-Anna Saurette.Catherine Fourrier
Bousquet, Jean (the elder)Master gunsmith of Tonneins in the Agenais; married Catherine Fourrier, 1672, Notre-Dame de Montréal. Dead by 1702.Catherine Fourrier
Bousquet, Jean-Baptisteb. 1702Son of Pierre Bousquet and Marie Banlier; married Marguerite Prevost, 1726, Repentigny, eight days after his grandmother Catherine Fourrier's burial. His line runs to Joseph Philorum Oligny.Catherine Fourrier
Bousquet, Marie-Margueriteb. 1729Baptized at Varennes, her grandfather Pierre Bousquet standing godfather; married Claude Phanef, 1743, and died at twenty-seven in 1756.Catherine Fourrier
Bousquet, PierreSon of Jean Bousquet and Catherine Fourrier; married Marie Banlier, 1702, Varennes, his mother present as a witness. Two of his sons split the line to Joseph and Marie-Anna.Catherine Fourrier
Bouvier, JeanSon of Michel Bouvier and Mathurine Desbordes. A second son of the same name died within a week of baptism.Mathurine Desbordes
Bouvier, Michel dit Mathieud. 1703Master mason from Anjou; Mathurine Desbordes's third husband. Died at Lachine in a fall from scaffolding.Mathurine Desbordes
Bouvier, Suzannebapt. 1665Daughter of Michel Bouvier and Mathurine Desbordes; married Louis Brien dit Desroches, 1681. Her two sons carry the Saurette and Rock lines separately.Mathurine Desbordes
Brien Desroches, Marie-LouiseMarried Jean-Baptiste Gaboury, St-Ours, 1761, her father Séraphin standing witness.Mathurine Desbordes
Brien dit Desrochers, ChristineMarried Octave Thouin dit Roch, Mascouche, 1840.Gideon Joseph Rock · Mathurine Desbordes
Brien dit Desrochers, Jean-BaptisteMarried Charlotte Chalifoux, Rivière-des-Prairies, 1801.Mathurine Desbordes
Brien dit Desroches, LouisMarried Suzanne Bouvier at Notre-Dame de Montréal, 1681 — the couple from whom the Saurette and Rock lines diverge.Mathurine Desbordes
Brien, PierreTwo generations of the name: married Elizabeth Des Roches, 1711; his son married Marie Magdeleine Lozon, 1739. The Rock-line branch.Mathurine Desbordes
Brien, SéraphinMarried Marie Ursule Regas, Repentigny, 1727. The Saurette-line branch.Mathurine Desbordes
Burke, EstherMarried Hyppolite Laforce the younger, 1817, Notre-Dame de Montréal — the marriage whose own filiation clause settled that there were two Hyppolite Laforces, not one; see Corrections.Jeanne Mechin · Corrections
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Cabazier, PierreHuissier royal of the Montréal jurisdiction; married Jeanne Guiberge, 1669. Son of a notary royal at Toulouse.Mathurine Desbordes
Caillé, Marie-JeanneA fille du roi; married Jacques Pepin, eldest son of Guillaume Pepin and Jeanne Mechin.Jeanne Mechin
Campois, JeanneThe name on the sighted marriage act, c. 1697/98 at Longueuil; PRDH's Marie-Jeanne-Marguerite Campeau, married at Montréal in 1699, is the same woman under the other spelling — one row here, not two. Daughter of Étienne Campeau and Catherine Paulo. Married Étienne Benoit Livernois; mother of Marie-Josèphe. Died 21 June 1721.Élisabeth Gobinet · The convergence · The Étienne Benoits
Cantau, FlorenceMother of Marguerite Doucinet; married Pierre Doucinet in the Huguenot temple at La Rochelle, 1640.Marguerite Doucinet
Cardinal, François DanielMarried Marie-Archange Surprenant, 1772 — the act's own “Prégénaud” being the clerk's mangling of her name; see Corrections.Marguerite Doucinet · The convergence · Philorum Oligny
Cardinal, PierreMarried Marie Matou, 1685; stood witness at his mother-in-law's burial in 1698, unable to sign his name.Marguerite Doucinet · The convergence
Casavant, Marie-JosephteMarried Jean-Baptiste Soret dit Larose, 5 February 1810, Beloeil — the join between the Mechin descent and the Saurette line.Jeanne Mechin
Chambly, Captain Jacques deSeigneur of Chambly; granted Jean Besset his land in 1673 and stood godfather to one of the Besset children.Anne Seigneur & Jean Besset
Chandoiseau, NicoleMarried Étienne Benoit dit Lajeunesse at Notre-Dame de Montréal in 1670 and, widowed, Pierre Gour dit Lavigne in 1698 — the remarriage that brackets Étienne's death. Confirmed an ancestor of Marie-Anna Saurette; the descent has not been worked act by act.The Étienne Benoits
Charles dit Lajeunesse, Étiennem. 1667Married Madeleine Niel at Trois-Rivières in 1667. Father of Hélène and of Clément, and so grandfather of Marie-Charlotte — the two women who married Étienne Benoit Livernois and his son. Stood at his son-in-law Michel Viau's graveside at Longueuil in 1720, named in the act as beau-père.The Étienne Benoits
Charles, Clémentb. 1671Born 28 October 1671 and baptised the next day at Boucherville, son of Étienne Charles and Madeleine Niel. Brother of Hélène and father of Marie-Charlotte — the joint that makes the two Benoit brides aunt and niece. Present and named as father at his daughter's 1726 wedding.The Étienne Benoits
Charles, Hélènem. 1698, 1722Daughter of Étienne Charles dit Lajeunesse and Madeleine Niel. Married Michel Viau dit Lespérance at Boucherville in 1698, standing godmother to his half-sister eight days before her own wedding; widowed in 1720 and married Étienne Benoit Livernois at Longueuil in 1722. Aunt of her stepson's wife. Not an ancestress.The Étienne Benoits
Charles, Marie-Charlottem. 1726Daughter of Clément Charles and Marie Dupré; married Étienne Benoit the younger at Terrebonne in 1726, with both fathers present. Niece of Hélène Charles, her husband's stepmother. Not an ancestress.The Étienne Benoits
Chomedey de Maisonneuve, Paul deGovernor of Ville-Marie; recruited Paul Benoit for the Grande Recrue and witnessed his 1658 marriage contract.Élisabeth Gobinet
Collins, Bruceb. c. 1935Irene's son; enumerated as Marie-Anna's grandson in the Rock household in 1940.Roland Rock
Coulon Courraud, FrançoisMarried Marie-Anne Burel, 10 Jan 1724, Varennes; son of Louis Courault and Marguerite Martel, the surname already drifted from Courault to Coulon.Françoise Duval
Coulon, AnneMarried François Jourdain, 1748, Varennes; daughter of François Coulon Courraud and Marie-Anne Burel.Françoise Duval
Coulon, MarieDaughter of Pierre Courault and Françoise Duval; married Jean Maillot dit La Roche, 1699, Notre-Dame de Montréal. Her line runs to Joseph Philorum Oligny.Françoise Duval
Courault, LouisMarried Marguerite Martel, 1695; son of Pierre Courault and Françoise Duval. His line runs to Marie-Anna Saurette.Françoise Duval
Courault, PierreMarried Françoise Duval, 16 Nov 1671, Notre-Dame de Québec. An habitant of the Rivière St-Charles, from Poitiers.Françoise Duval
Crevier Bellerive, Marguerite-LouiseDaughter of Nicolas Crevier and Marie-Louise Lecoutre; married Laurent Bodet, 16 May 1684, before notary Séverin Ameau. Widowed by 1688.Marie-Louise Lecoutre · Marguerite Ardion
Crevier, Christophe, Sieur de La Mêléeb. 1611Baptized at Rouen; baker at Trois-Rivières, then merchant at La Rochelle 1647–51. Father of Nicolas Crevier.Marie-Louise Lecoutre
Crevier, HuguesA baker of Rouen, married about 1560, living in a house bearing the sign of La Tête Noire — the oldest concrete detail in this project.Marie-Louise Lecoutre
Crevier, Nicolas, Sieur de BelleriveMarried Marie-Louise Lecoutre at Cap-de-la-Madeleine about 1665; his own family is documented five generations back in Rouen.Marie-Louise Lecoutre
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Dame, JosephteMarried the third Joseph Saurette, 1831 — the only one of three sons of that name to live to adulthood.Joseph Saurette
Davignon, FrançoisMarried Marie-Françoise Massé, 1746, Pointe Olivier. His own father — also François Davignon — married Marie-Madeleine Maillot Laroche in 1719, carrying Françoise Duval's line down to him.Françoise Duval
Davignon, François (the elder)Married Marie-Madeleine Maillot Laroche, 1719, Chambly.Françoise Duval
Davignon, Marie-AgatheDaughter of François Davignon and Françoise Massé; carries Françoise Duval's line through her father and Marguerite Ardion's through her mother — two ancestresses meeting in one person a century after both crossed.Françoise Duval · Marguerite Ardion
Degré dite Prieur, Sophiec. 1808–1835Désiré Morier's second wife, married July 1834 and dead nine months and one day later, on 23 April 1835, at about twenty-seven. Her burial act is the only document naming her; it gives no cause of death.Alméric Saurette
Degres, HélèneMarried Jacques Jourdain, 1778, having already been widowed once, from Michel Plamodon.Françoise Duval
Dejadon, Marie-Catherined. 1782Second wife of Jean-Baptiste Saurette, married at Chambly, 1775.Jean-Baptiste Saurette
Denison, Judge John A.Judge of the Hampden County Probate Court who allowed Roland's change of name in April 1937.Roland Rock · Joseph Philorum Oligny
Denot, JeanneMarried André Robidou dit Lespagnol in 1667 and Jacques Surprenant dit Sanssoucy in 1678 — one marriage reaching each of Philorum Oligny and Marie-Azilda Bessette, who are fifth cousins once removed by this route.Philorum Oligny · Jeanne Denot
Depéret, Père AntoineRécollet chaplain at Fort Saint-Frédéric, 1758–59 — almost certainly the “Dipeut, Récollet” a compiled family sheet mistook for a place name.Jean-Baptiste Oligny
Derome, GastonCompiler of the 1954 Bulletin des recherches historiques list of surviving militiamen that confirmed Isaac Oligny's War of 1812 service.Isaac Oligny · Corrections
Des Roches, ElizabethMarried Pierre Brien, Rivière-des-Prairies, 1711 — her surname unrelated to the Brien dit Desroches dit-name.Mathurine Desbordes · Dit names
Desbordes, Mathurinec. 1633–1698Fille à marier; crossed on the Saint-André, 1659. Three marriages, and the common ancestress of all three of this project's family lines.Mathurine Desbordes · Shared Ancestors
Dollier de CassonVicar general who overruled Jean Besset's public objection to his son's 1695 marriage.Anne Seigneur & Jean Besset
Doucinet, IsabelleYounger sister of Marguerite; crossed four years later as a fille du roi, with a 200-livre crown dowry her sister never had. Settled beside her at Charlesbourg.Marguerite Doucinet · Filles du roi & filles à marier
Doucinet, Marguerite1641–1698Baptized in the Huguenot temple at La Rochelle; married as an ordinary Catholic bride in 1662 with no record of conversion. Nine generations above Joseph Philorum Oligny, eight above Marie-Anna Saurette.Marguerite Doucinet · The convergence · Shared Ancestors
Doucinet, PierreFather of Marguerite and Isabelle; married Florence Cantau at La Rochelle, 1640.Marguerite Doucinet
Dufaux, Marie-MadeleineMother of Marguerite Marotte; already dead by her daughter's 1794 marriage.Joseph Saurette
Dupré, MarieMarried Clément Charles; mother of Marie-Charlotte, named with her husband in their daughter's 1726 marriage act at Terrebonne.The Étienne Benoits
Dupuis, StorophileMarried Joseph Roy, St-Constant, 1826 — the marriage where the Doucinet and Gobinet lines meet, a generation before either reaches an Oligny.The convergence · Mathurine Desbordes
Duval, Françoisec. 1651–1725Married three times; widowed once suddenly, at a Jesuit residence. Her son and daughter, from her first marriage, each carry a separate line into this family.Françoise Duval · Shared Ancestors
Duval, JeanFather of Françoise Duval, of St-Séverin, Paris; already dead by her 1671 marriage.Françoise Duval
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Fanet, Mariem. 1765, aged 18Daughter of Claude Phanef and Marie-Marguerite Bousquet; married Guillaume Laberge, St-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, 1765, already motherless.Catherine Fourrier
Forcier, MargueriteMarried Augustin Racicot at Troy, New York, in 1854 — a declared and dispensed cousin marriage. Aurélie Racicot's mother. Rendered Fortier in some sources; the variance is not settled.Gideon Joseph Rock
Fourrier, Catherinec. 1638 or c. 1651–1726A widow when she remarried in 1672; her origin in France is not established by any sighted act. Stood witness at her own son's wedding in 1702 and was buried at Repentigny — her age at death, an open conflict; see her page.Catherine Fourrier · Shared Ancestors
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Gaboriau dit Lapalme, Marie-Thérèsed. 1856Married Joseph Oligny dit Lauvergnat at Chambly, 1792; mother of Isaac Oligny. Died 21 February 1856 at eighty-six and was buried at St-Rémi, a widow. Carries Marguerite Ardion's line down to this marriage.Joseph Oligny dit Lauvergnat · Isaac Oligny · Dit names · Marguerite Ardion · Corrections
Gabouriault, IsaacGodfather and namesake of Isaac Oligny, and his mother's brother.Isaac Oligny · Joseph Oligny dit Lauvergnat
Gaboury, FrançoisTwo generations of the name: married Magdelaine Tétreau at Beloeil, 1794; his son married Hélène Desprez dit Lorange, 1818.Mathurine Desbordes
Gaboury, Marie-Azilda (Marie-Ezilda)Married Isaac Morier, St-Hyacinthe, 1861; mother of Alida Morier. Her name was transposed onto Alméric Saurette's death certificate in place of his own mother's.Mathurine Desbordes · Alméric Saurette · The convergence
Gaboury, NarcisseMarried Justine Ayet dit Malo, St-Damase, 1843; witness at his daughter's wedding in 1861, unable to sign. Godfather to Marie-Anna Saurette in 1890 — his own great-granddaughter.Mathurine Desbordes · Alméric Saurette
Garceau, HonoréGodfather at Gideon Joseph Rock's 1890 baptism at Holyoke, and the source of Gideon's own middle name.Gideon Joseph Rock
Gaucher, Marie-Genevièved. 1834×Désiré Morier's first wife, married 1813 — the only one of his three marriages whose act names his parents, and so the act that let this line be climbed.Alméric Saurette
Gauthier dit St-Germain, Germainc. 1643–1719Named on the Carignan-Salières regimental roll, and father of Jacques. The identification is graded Probable–Strong: five different Gauthiers appear on that roll, and what separates this one is a répertoire naming his wife as Jeanne Beauchamp, the name his son's sighted baptism gives. No sighted act calls him a soldier, and no company is asserted for him.Jean-Baptiste Saurette
Gauthier dit St-Germain, Jacques1696–1760Baptised at Boucherville, buried at Chambly. Married twice: Marie-Louise Tessier Lavigne in 1721, and, widowed with ten children — four of whom died within eighteen months — Marie-Josèphe Benoit Livernois in 1743. Son of Germain Gauthier dit St-Germain.Jean-Baptiste Saurette
Gauthier dite Saint-Germain, Marie-Catherine1744–1774Born at St-Joseph de Chambly, married Jean-Baptiste Saurette there in 1763, died before thirty. Great-grandmother to Guillaume Saurette Jr. and great-great-grandmother to Elmire Jourdain-Lafrance, whose 1854 marriage needed a dispensation. Half-sister to the ten children of her father's first marriage.Jean-Baptiste Saurette · The shrinking marriage pool
Gayeur, MarianneA two-year-old girl Élisabeth Gobinet contracted in 1693 to raise for twelve years, in exchange for the child's father dropping his claim on Paul Benoit's estate.Élisabeth Gobinet
Gobinet, Élisabethc. 1641–1715Fille à marier from Gonesse; married Paul Benoit at Montréal in 1658, the same day as six other couples. Twenty-nine years a widow, and the best-documented woman in these registers.Élisabeth Gobinet · The convergence · Shared Ancestors
Gobinet, NicolasFather of Élisabeth; already dead by the time she crossed to New France in 1658.Élisabeth Gobinet
Godbout, Père ArchangeResearcher whose work on Protestant immigrants underlies the identification of Marguerite Doucinet's Huguenot origin.Marguerite Doucinet
Gordon, CharlesLieutenant of St-Rémi; corroborated John Robinson's deposition naming Isaac Oligny, January 1839.Isaac Oligny
Grégoire, Palmyre1871–1908Married Joseph-Arsène Perreault, 1890, Biddeford; mother of Marie-Léonida Perreault, Joseph Philorum Oligny's second wife.Joseph Philorum Oligny
Grisé (notary)Drew the marriage contract of Joseph Saurette and Marguerite Marotte, 20 January 1794.Joseph Saurette · The Saurette line
Grisel, JacquelineMother of Françoise Duval, of St-Séverin, Paris; already dead by her 1671 marriage.Françoise Duval
Guiberge, JeanneDaughter of Mathurine Desbordes's first marriage; crossed with her mother in 1659 and married Pierre Cabazier in 1669. Carried in older versions of this tree as “Jeanne Thibierge.”Mathurine Desbordes · Dit names
Guiberge, MarieYounger daughter of Pierre Guiberge and Mathurine Desbordes; did not survive the 1659 crossing.Mathurine Desbordes
Guiberge, PierreMathurine Desbordes's first husband, married at Aumalles, Aunis, c. 1655. Died before or during the crossing to Canada.Mathurine Desbordes
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Halde, Zoéd. 1839Second wife of Guillaume Saurette Sr., married 1838. Died fifteen days after bearing their daughter Vitaline.Guillaume Saurette Sr.
Hileret, IsabelleMother of Jean Bousquet the elder, named on his 1672 marriage act.Catherine Fourrier
Houde, GenevièveMarried Laurent Pepin, 1815. Their daughter Cécile Pepin carries this line toward Marie-Léonida Perreault.Jeanne Mechin · Joseph Philorum Oligny
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Jourdain, AntoineMarried Marie Renaud dit Blanchard dit Rainaud, 1804, St-Jean-Baptiste-de-Rouville; father of Jean-Baptiste Jourdain-Lafrance. Widowed, he married Françoise Banlier dit Laperle at St-Charles in 1814, aged thirty-two; dead by September 1830.Françoise Duval
Jourdain, JacquesMarried Hélène Degres, 1778, St-Charles-sur-Richelieu; son of François Jourdain and Anne Coulon.Françoise Duval
Jourdain-Lafrance, Elmired. 1909Married Guillaume Saurette Jr., 1854 — a marriage needing a bishop's dispensation for consanguinity. Twelve children; mother of Alméric. Signed her aunt Julienne's marriage act in 1847, as a child — the earliest sample of her hand the project holds.Guillaume Saurette Jr. · Alméric Saurette · The convergence
Jourdain-Lafrance, Jean-BaptisteMarried Céleste Saurette dite Larose Lapierre, 9 November 1830; Elmire's father, and a witness at his granddaughter Rose-Anne's wedding in 1877.Guillaume Saurette Jr. · Françoise Duval
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Laberge, GuillaumeMarried Marie Fanet, 1765, St-Antoine-sur-Richelieu; himself the son of a Guillaume Laberge already deceased.Catherine Fourrier
Laberge, Marie-JosèpheDaughter of Guillaume Laberge and Marie Fanet; married Joseph Léon Suprenant, 1787, St-Philippe. Catherine Fourrier's line reaches this wedding through her; Jeanne Denot's reaches it through the groom.Jeanne Denot · Catherine Fourrier
Lacombe, MélinaMarried Samuel Oligny, probable son of Julien Oligny and Félicité Roy, by 1873; five children documented 1873–1881.Julien Oligny
Lafleur, Marie-AngéliqueMarried Hyppolite Laforce the elder; their son married Esther Burke in 1817, a marriage whose filiation clause closed a long-standing generation ambiguity on this site.Jeanne Mechin · Corrections
Laforce, HedwigeMarried Hubert Oligny, was widowed in 1866, and remarried Jérôme Bessette the younger in 1869. Her daughter Marie-Azilda married back into the Oligny family in 1887.Anne Seigneur & Jean Besset · Jeanne Denot
Lafousse (notary)Recorded Paul Benoit's 1653 enlistment at La Flèche for the Grande Recrue.Élisabeth Gobinet
Lanctot, Marie-AnneMarried Jean-Baptiste Beauvais, 1767, La Prairie; granddaughter of François Lanctot and Marie-Claire Badayac, the couple behind Charles Beauvais's own 1804 cousin-marriage dispensation.Jeanne Denot
Lanouay dit La Débauche, Jean-BaptisteMarried Magdeleine Pepin, 1718, Contrecœur. Recorded as Cazarant on a later act — a complete surname substitution, not a spelling variant.Jeanne Mechin
Laporte, Catherinebapt. 1721, d. 1774Married the immigrant Jacques Saurette at Chambly, 1741. Marie-Josèphe Besset stood godmother at her baptism — the earliest documented contact between these families.Jacques Saurette · Anne Seigneur & Jean Besset
Laporte, Marie-AngéliqueMarried Jean-Baptiste Robert dit Lafontaine, 1 Oct 1753, Chambly.Marguerite Doucinet · Marguerite Ardion · The convergence
Laporte, PaulMarried Marguerite Mattou, 1695. Named on a separate page as Catherine Laporte's father by Catherine Savary — the same man remarried, or a second of the name; not yet resolved here.Marguerite Doucinet · Jacques Saurette · The convergence
Le Mire, Louiseb. c. 1666Married Pierre Pepin, 1681, Notre-Dame de Québec, aged fifteen and a half.Jeanne Mechin
Le Royer de La Dauversière, JérômeCo-signatory of Paul Benoit's 1653 enlistment for the Grande Recrue.Élisabeth Gobinet
Le Vasseur, Frère MichelRécollet chaplain who buried Anne Seigneur, 4 July 1733, Chambly; signed himself “aumônier pour le Roy.”Anne Seigneur & Jean Besset
LeBer, Jacques, Sieur de SennevilleMichel Bouvier died in 1703 building a house for him at Lachine.Mathurine Desbordes
Leclerc, VictorWitness, with the bride's father, at the marriage of Joseph Philorum Oligny and Marie-Anna Saurette at Notre-Dame du Perpétuel-Secours, Holyoke, 30 May 1912. Nothing else about him is known to this project.Marie-Anna Saurette · Joseph Philorum Oligny
Lecoutre, Marie-Louisec. 1648–aft. 1689Arrived in Canada in 1665 at about seventeen; her origins in France are unknown. Signed her own name to a 1684 act arranging her daughter's board.Marie-Louise Lecoutre · Shared Ancestors
Lefebvre, ClaireMarried Théophile Oligny, probable son of Julien Oligny and Félicité Roy, by 1871; seven children documented 1871–1881, two dying young. Signed her own name.Julien Oligny
Lemieux, GabrielMarried Marie-Jeanne Robidoux, 1690; twelve years later stood as first witness at his own half-brother-in-law Pierre Surprenant's wedding, a relationship the project didn't know existed until both acts were read together.Jeanne Denot
Lemieux, MargueriteDaughter of Gabriel Lemieux and Marie-Jeanne Robidoux; married Joseph Beauvais as his second wife, 1734, La Prairie.Jeanne Denot
Lenoir, JacquesSon-in-law of Marguerite Doucinet; stood witness at her 1698 burial, unable to sign his name.Marguerite Doucinet
Leroux Cardinal, Marie-AnneMother of Marie-Josèphe Pellerin, the immigrant Jacques Saurette's second wife.Jacques Saurette
Leroux, WilbrodeMarried Hédwige Oligny, 1 February 1870, St-Rémi, two weeks after her sister Hazilda's own wedding. She signed her own name.Julien Oligny
Longtin, Marie-MargueriteMarried Michel Surprenant; named with him on their daughter Marie-Archange's 1751 baptism, the act that recovered the family's real surname.Philorum Oligny
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Magnon, GidéonGodfather at Gédéon Noël Thouin dit Roch's 1852 baptism, and the man the child was named for. Whether the name was already the family's — an infant Gédéon Thouin had died in the household in 1825 — is an open question.Gideon Joseph Rock
Maillot Laroche, Marie-MadeleineDaughter of Jean Maillot dit La Roche and Marie Coulon; married François Davignon, 1719, Chambly.Françoise Duval
Mance, JeanneMathurine Desbordes's family owed her 225 livres for their 1659 passage. She had crossed on the Saint-Nicolas in 1653 alongside Paul Benoit.Mathurine Desbordes · Élisabeth Gobinet
Marcadier, MathurinCatherine Fourrier's first husband, already dead by her 1672 remarriage; named on that act as the reference point for her identity.Catherine Fourrier
Marchand, Rev. JosephOfficiated the marriage of Joseph Philorum Oligny and Marie-Anna Saurette at Holyoke, 30 May 1912.Joseph Philorum Oligny
Marcil, ArzélieMarried Amédée Saurette, 19 January 1869 — a date the family broadsheet had wrong by a year and three days.Corrections · The shrinking marriage pool
Marcil, JosephMarried Julienne Saurette, 9 November 1847 — the act Elmire Jourdain-Lafrance signed as a child.Guillaume Saurette Jr.
Marotte dit Labonté, FrançoisFather of Marguerite; authorized her 1794 marriage contract, her mother being already dead.Joseph Saurette
Marotte dite Labonté, Marguerited. 1827×1830Married Joseph Saurette, 1794. Ran the farm as a widow and was elected tutrice of four minor children — then buried under no name but her husband's.Joseph Saurette · Corrections
Martin dit St-Martin, JeanMarried Marie-Anne Banlier at Contrecœur in 1709 — the sister of the Marie Banlier who married into this family.Catherine Fourrier
Massé, FrançoiseMarried François Davignon, 1746, Pointe Olivier — the act names her “fille de Jean Massé et de Marie Baudet,” so she is Marguerite Ardion's great-granddaughter and Marie-Thérèse Massé's sister. Her daughter Marie-Agathe carries Ardion by this route and Françoise Duval by the Davignon side, one generation longer than Ardion's Paquet–Bessette route. This index once called the Ardion link withdrawn; see Corrections.Françoise Duval · Marguerite Ardion · Corrections
Massé, JeanMarried Marie Baudet at La Prairie, 1703–04 — the marriage two of Marguerite Ardion's great-granddaughters carry in two directions.Marguerite Ardion
Massé, Marie-ThérèseMarried Denys Laporte, 1728. Daughter of Marie Baudet and Jean Massé; carries both the Doucinet and Ardion lines to Marie-Anna Saurette.Marguerite Doucinet · The convergence · Marguerite Ardion
Mathieu dit la Barie, PhilippeMarried Marguerite Doucinet at Québec, 1662. Older sources collapse his two-part name into a garbled “Matou.”Marguerite Doucinet · The convergence · Dit names
Matou, JacquesFather of Philippe Mathieu dit la Barie, of the parish of Grigny in the Brie.Marguerite Doucinet
Matou, MarieDaughter of Marguerite Doucinet; married Pierre Cardinal, 1685. Her line runs to the Oligny side.Marguerite Doucinet · The convergence
Mattou, MargueriteDaughter of Marguerite Doucinet; married Paul Laporte, 1695. Her line runs to the Saurette side.Marguerite Doucinet · The convergence
Maugue, ClaudeNotary in whose greffe Élisabeth Gobinet's 1692 and 1693 acts survive.Élisabeth Gobinet
Méchin, Jeand. 1646A workman and sailor of La Rochelle who drowned off the Cap à l'Arbre en route to Trois-Rivières and was buried at Québec City. Possibly Jeanne Mechin's father — the identification is uncertain in the source itself.Jeanne Mechin
Mechin, Jeannec. 1631–1680/81Married Guillaume Pepin dit Tranchemontagne at Trois-Rivières about 1645; thirteen children, two sets of twins. Her line splits through three of her sons.Jeanne Mechin · Shared Ancestors
Migou (or Mignou), IgnaceGodfather at Julien Oligny's 1824 baptism; a man of the same name stood as Clotilde Beauvais's guardian at her 1821 marriage.Julien Oligny · Isaac Oligny
Moitié dit Lafonderie, Marie-Françoise1742–1828Born inside Fort Saint-Frédéric; bound into unpaid domestic service at thirteen in 1755 — not, as long believed, betrothed. Married Jean-Baptiste Oligny in 1759.Jean-Baptiste Oligny · Corrections · The Oligny line
Morier, Alida1862–1933Baptized Marie-Justine-Alida at St-Damase, 25 November 1862, the day after her birth — her godmother, and namesake, was her own grandmother Justine Ayet dit Malo. Married Alméric Saurette, St-Damase, 1887; mother of Marie-Anna. Widowed in 1927. Three of the eight shared ancestresses reach Marie-Anna through her rather than through her husband.Alméric Saurette · The convergence
Morier, DésiréMarried three times — Marie-Geneviève Gaucher 1813, Sophie Degré 1834, Zoé Blanchard 1835 — and two of the three acts enter him as a widower, which is why his own parents took four acts to reach. Baptized at Beloeil, 9 May 1790.Marguerite Doucinet · The convergence · Alméric Saurette
Morier, IsaacCultivateur; married Marie-Azilda Gaboury at the cathedral of St-Hyacinthe, 1861, where the bride signed and he could not. By 1888 he was signing as godfather to their granddaughter.Mathurine Desbordes · Alméric Saurette · The convergence
Morier, JosephMarried Marie-Charlotte Robert, 1784; of St-Joseph de Chambly, and named on his son Désiré's acts of 1790 and 1813.Marguerite Doucinet · The convergence · Alméric Saurette
Moutier, PasquetteMother of Philippe Mathieu dit la Barie, of Grigny in the Brie.Marguerite Doucinet
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Niel, Madeleinem. 1667Married Étienne Charles dit Lajeunesse at Trois-Rivières in 1667. Her name is rare enough that its recurrence is what ties the Boucherville and Longueuil acts to one couple — the single inference this identification rests on.The Étienne Benoits
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Oligny, Bénonib. 1811Isaac's younger brother; examined under oath 31 December 1838, naming Isaac as the one who delivered Robert Nelson's order to him. Said he marched unwillingly.Isaac Oligny
Oligny, ClothildeSigned her own name at her 1844 marriage to Adolphe Dugas — one of four Oligny hands on that page, her father and her brother Julien among them.Corrections · Isaac Oligny · Julien Oligny
Oligny, Delphined. 1860Daughter of Julien Oligny and Félicité Roy, previously unknown to this project; died at six, at a hospice in Montréal.Julien Oligny
Oligny, Évangéline1895–1931Daughter of Philorum Oligny and Marie-Azilda Bessette. Committed to the State Industrial School for Girls at Lancaster, Massachusetts, 10 September 1908, at thirteen, on the statutory ground of stubbornness — a status offence, which names the section of the statute and not her conduct; what she did is in no record this project holds. Married a man named Wilkes c. 1917 and was mother of Mitchell Wilkes; buried in her father's plot at East Chelmsford.Philorum Oligny · Corrections
Oligny, Marie-HazildaDaughter of Julien Oligny and Félicité Roy; married Théophile Beaudin, 17 January 1870, St-Rémi, with a second-to-third degree dispensation. She signed the act, and so did her grandfather Isaac.Julien Oligny · Isaac Oligny · The shrinking marriage pool
Oligny, HédwigeDaughter of Julien Oligny and Félicité Roy; married Wilbrode Leroux, 1 February 1870, St-Rémi, two weeks after her sister Hazilda. Not to be confused with a second, unrelated Hédwige Oligny who married in 1880 — daughter of the late Hubert Oligny and the late Hedwige Laforce.Julien Oligny
Oligny, Hubertd. 1866Philorum Oligny's paternal uncle, and Hedwige Laforce's first husband — which made the 1887 Bessette marriage an in-network match rather than a chance meeting.Anne Seigneur & Jean Besset
Oligny, Ireneb. 1913Eldest child of Joseph and Marie-Anna, baptized Marie Anne Alida — her mother and her grandmother — with her Saurette grandparents as sponsors; Irene is a footnote in the parish register, not a baptismal name. Named at three in the 1916 separate-support petition and again in the 1921 divorce libel; still under her birth surname in 1930. By 1940 she was Irene Collins, a furniture-store cashier back in her mother's household with a five-year-old son; Mrs. Irene Tetreault of South Hadley Falls by 1961.Joseph Philorum Oligny · Marie-Anna Saurette · Roland Rock
Oligny, Isaac1797–1884Married Clotilde Beauvais dit St-Gemme, 1821. Served in the War of 1812 as a teenager; died at 87, not 89 as his burial record gave it. Declared he could not sign at his own wedding, nor at his sister-in-law's in 1823, and signed his daughter's act in 1844 — the earliest literate Oligny on this line. Signed again at his granddaughter Hazilda's wedding in 1870.Isaac Oligny · Corrections · The Oligny line · Jeanne Denot
Oligny, JeanLaboureur of Saint-Mathurin-Léobazel in the Corrèze; named with Jeannette Balle in their son's 1759 marriage contract, and nowhere else. The French wall on this line.Jean Oligny · The Oligny line
Oligny, Jean (1871 census)Not to be confused with the French-wall Jean, above. Son of Julien Oligny and Félicité Roy, first named in the 1871 census household alongside Philorum; graded Probable pending his own baptismal act.Julien Oligny
Oligny, Jean-Baptiste1723–1810The immigrant, from the Corrèze. Married Marie-Françoise Moitié at Fort Saint-Frédéric, 1759. His dit-name Lauvergnat names the wrong province.Jean-Baptiste Oligny · The Oligny line · Dit names
Oligny, Jessé (dit Livernois)Bailed from the Montreal prison two weeks after Isaac, February 1839; not yet placed among Isaac's known siblings.Isaac Oligny
Oligny, Joseph dit Lauvergnatb. 1766Married Marie-Thérèse Gaboriau dit Lapalme at Chambly, 1792. Both fathers stood in the room; only one could sign. Witnessed his son Isaac's wedding in 1821 and could not sign it — alive that February, dead by 1856.Joseph Oligny dit Lauvergnat · Isaac Oligny
Oligny, Joseph NapoléonSon of Julien Oligny and Félicité Roy, first named in the 1871 census household; graded Probable pending his own baptismal act.Julien Oligny
Oligny, Joseph Philorum1889–1966The groom of the 1912 Holyoke marriage. Millwright and machinist; fifty years in the mills of Holyoke and Lowell.Joseph Philorum Oligny
Oligny, Julien1824–1891Married Félicité Roy, 1848, and Ernestine Beaudin, 1881. Signed his own marriage act, at which no Oligny was a witness — but his earliest surviving signature is his sister Clothilde's act of 1844.Julien Oligny · The Oligny line · Jeanne Denot · Corrections
Oligny, LouiseSister of Joseph Oligny dit Lauvergnat; stood godmother at her nephew Isaac's 1797 baptism.Joseph Oligny dit Lauvergnat · Isaac Oligny
Oligny, Marie Lucile Doris1919Third child of Joseph and Marie-Anna; died at fourteen days of broncho-pneumonia. Buried at Notre-Dame Cemetery, South Hadley Falls. Alone among the three children she is absent from the Perpetual Help register — a change of parish, not a gap.Joseph Philorum Oligny · Marie-Anna Saurette · Roland Rock
Oligny, Noéb. 1835Son of Joseph Oligny and Marie-Anne Riel, Isaac Oligny's nephew; baptized St-Rémi, 1835; married Marguerite Raymond, 1856. Probably the Noah Oligny of Jackson County, Wisconsin, 1880–1910, who died in 1926. No document calls him Olena.Open Questions · Jean-Baptiste Oligny
Oligny, Philorum1868–1954Married Marie-Azilda Bessette, 1887, with a dispensation of two banns. Father of the 1912 groom.Philorum Oligny · The Oligny line · Jeanne Denot
Oligny, SamuelProbable son of Julien Oligny and Félicité Roy; married Mélina Lacombe by 1873. Proven the brother of Théophile when his own daughter's baptism names Théophile outright as “oncle de l'enfant.” Five children documented 1873–1881.Julien Oligny
Oligny, SiméonSon of Julien Oligny and Félicité Roy, first named in the 1871 census household; graded Probable pending his own baptismal act.Julien Oligny
Oligny, ThéophileProbable son of Julien Oligny and Félicité Roy; married Claire Lefebvre by 1871, seven children. Very likely the same Théophile Oligny who stood godfather at Marie-Azilda Bessette's own 1870 baptism — his future daughter-in-law's mother, seventeen years before the marriage. Not to be confused with Théophile Beaudin, Hazilda's husband.Julien Oligny · Philorum Oligny
Oligny, WilbrodInfant son of Julien Oligny and Félicité Roy, first named in the 1871 census household; graded Probable pending his own baptismal act.Julien Oligny
Oligny, ZoïdeDaughter of Julien Oligny and Félicité Roy, first named in the 1871 census household; graded Probable pending her own baptismal act.Julien Oligny
Orion, ThéotisteMarried Joseph Laforce, 1761, Nicolet. Her parents are recorded on that act as acadiens.Jeanne Mechin
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Pellerin dit Chrétien, Marie-Josèphed. 1784Second wife of the immigrant Jacques Saurette, married 1782 when he was about seventy-seven. No children.Jacques Saurette
Pepin dit Laforce, JosephMarried Marguerite Séguin, 1738, Chambly — the act that documents where the dit-name Laforce attaches to this family.Jeanne Mechin
Pepin dit Tranchemontagne, Guillaumec. 1610–1697At Trois-Rivières since 1634, on ground that became the Ursuline convent. Syndic of the town 1651–52, later judge for the seigneurie of Champlain. Husband of Jeanne Mechin.Jeanne Mechin
Pepin, Alexisbapt. 1745Son of Charles Pepin and Laure-Catherine Rivard; part of the ladder from Jacques Pepin down to Marie-Léonida Perreault.Jeanne Mechin · Joseph Philorum Oligny
Pepin, CharlesMarried Laure-Catherine Rivard, 1735, St-Pierre-les-Becquets. Son of Jean Pepin and Jacqueline Billy.Jeanne Mechin · Joseph Philorum Oligny
Pepin, Jacquesbapt. 1646Eldest child of Guillaume Pepin and Jeanne Mechin; the governor of Trois-Rivières stood as his godfather. Married the fille du roi Marie-Jeanne Caillé, 1671. His line runs, through his son Jean, to Marie-Léonida Perreault — Joseph Philorum Oligny's second wife, and Jeanne Mechin's third convergence on him.Jeanne Mechin · Joseph Philorum Oligny
Pepin, Jean (Guillaume's son)b. c. 1647Son of Guillaume Pepin and Jeanne Mechin; witnessed his brother Pierre's wedding in 1681 and married Magdelaine Loyseau at Boucherville in 1685. His line runs to Marie-Anna Saurette.Jeanne Mechin
Pepin, Jean (Jacques's son)b. 1675Not to be confused with his uncle of the same name, above. Married Jacqueline Billy, 1705, Champlain. A compiled family tree had merged him with his own brother, also named Jacques, into a single invented person before the full sighted family separated them.Jeanne Mechin · Joseph Philorum Oligny
Pepin, LaurentMarried Geneviève Houde, 1815; son of Alexis Pepin.Jeanne Mechin · Joseph Philorum Oligny
Pepin, MagdeleineDaughter of Jean Pepin and Magdelaine Loyseau; married Jean-Baptiste Lanouay dit La Débauche, 1718, Contrecœur, as a widow of François Javel.Jeanne Mechin
Pepin, Pierrebapt. 1652Son of Guillaume Pepin and Jeanne Mechin; married Louise Le Mire, 1681, Notre-Dame de Québec. His line runs to Joseph Philorum Oligny.Jeanne Mechin
Perreault, Joseph-Arsènebapt. 1871Son of Zéphirin Perreault and Marie-Caroline Tousignant, St-Pierre-les-Becquets; married Palmyre Grégoire, 1890, Biddeford. Father of Marie-Léonida Perreault.Joseph Philorum Oligny
Perreault, Marie-Léonida1894–1968Joseph Philorum Oligny's second wife, born Biddeford, Maine; widow of Wilfrid Talbot before this marriage. Descends from Jeanne Mechin through a third son, Jacques — making Joseph the one person on this site whom Mechin's line reaches three times.Joseph Philorum Oligny · Jeanne Mechin
Perreault, Zéphirinb. 1848Married Marie-Caroline Tousignant, 1869, St-Pierre-les-Becquets; grandfather of Marie-Léonida Perreault.Joseph Philorum Oligny
Phanef, ClaudeMarried Marie-Marguerite Bousquet, 5 Nov 1743, St-Denis-sur-Richelieu — closing what was, until recently, the last open joint in Catherine Fourrier's own descent.Catherine Fourrier · Corrections
Pinsonneau, SimonThe only one of eighteen St-Rémi men who'd promised to surrender in the winter of 1839 who actually did, voluntarily; Isaac Oligny fled instead.Isaac Oligny
Plamondon dit Lafleur, MadeleineMarried Jean Besset the younger; mother of the Marie-Josèphe Besset who stood godmother in 1721.Anne Seigneur & Jean Besset
Poirier, Julied. 1860Third wife of Guillaume Saurette Sr., married 1839. The marriage lasted twenty years.Guillaume Saurette Sr.
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Quenneville, LouisFirst husband of Marie-Josèphe Benoit Livernois, married at Longueuil in 1730. His sons stood at the 1763 Saurette wedding as the bride's beaux-frères — half-brothers, in the act's usage.Jean-Baptiste Saurette
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Rabouin, JeanMarguerite Ardion's second husband; a plowman from La Rochelle. Eight children together, none carrying this project's lines.Marguerite Ardion
Racicot, AdelineGodmother at Gideon Joseph Rock's baptism, Holyoke, 23 December 1890; a Racicot relative not otherwise traced.Gideon Joseph Rock
Racicot, Augustinb. 1831Baptized at St-Pie, Bagot, 1831; married Marguerite Forcier at St-Jean-Baptiste, Troy NY, 22 June 1854, under a dispensation for consanguinity. Aurélie's father.Gideon Joseph Rock
Racicot, Aurélie1858–1921Married Gédéon Noël Thouin dit Roch at St-Jean-Baptiste, Troy NY, 1885; widowed in 1896 with two young sons. Born in New York rather than Canada, on two independent records (Probable–Strong); born at Troy itself is only Possible.Gideon Joseph Rock
Racicot, Jacques (the immigrant)m. 1715Married Marie Labbé at Notre-Dame de Québec, 6 May 1715, and signed his own name; son of Michel Racicot and Geneviève Alard of the parish of St-Jean, Château-Gontier, in the duchy of Anjou. Aurélie Racicot's ancestor, five sighted acts above her.Gideon Joseph Rock
Racicot, MichelNamed with Geneviève Alard on their son Jacques's 1715 marriage act at Québec as being of St-Jean, Château-Gontier, Anjou — the first French parish named on any line in this project.Gideon Joseph Rock
Rainville, Pierre JosephMarried Marie-Angélique Betourné, La Prairie, 1749, as a widower of Françoise Roy.Mathurine Desbordes
Raymond, Margueriteb. 1834Raimond on her 1856 act. Married Noé Oligny at St-Louis-de-Gonzague; probably the Margaret of the Wisconsin censuses.Open Questions
Renaud dit Blanchard dit Rainaud, Marie1780–1809Married Antoine Jourdain, 1804. Recorded as "Charlotte Blanchard" on her own son's 1830 marriage act — same woman, a triple-compound surname split across two documents.Françoise Duval
Renaud dit Rainaud, Marie-ArchangeThird wife of Jean-Baptiste Saurette, married at Beloeil, 1783.Jean-Baptiste Saurette
Rivard, Laure-CatherineMarried Charles Pepin, 1735, St-Pierre-les-Becquets.Jeanne Mechin · Joseph Philorum Oligny
Robert dit Lafontaine, Jean-BaptisteMarried Marie-Angélique Laporte, 1 Oct 1753, Chambly.Marguerite Doucinet · Marguerite Ardion · The convergence
Robert, Marie-CharlotteMarried Joseph Morier, 1784; named with him on their son Désiré's 1790 baptism and 1813 marriage.Marguerite Doucinet · The convergence · Alméric Saurette
Robidou dit Lespagnol, AndréMarried Jeanne Denot, 1667; the line through their daughter runs to Philorum Oligny.Philorum Oligny · Jeanne Denot
Robidoux, Marie-Jeanneb. 1673Daughter of Jeanne Denot's first marriage; married Gabriel Lemieux, 1690, carrying her mother's line toward Philorum Oligny through the Beauvais family.Jeanne Denot
Robineau, Lieutenant PierreOf Bécancour. Marie-Françoise Moitié was bound to him as a servant in 1755 — not, as long believed, betrothed to him.Jean-Baptiste Oligny · Corrections
Robinson, JohnEsquire of St-Rémi; Isaac Oligny's own neighbour, whose sworn deposition is this project's primary source for the events of November 1838.Isaac Oligny
Rock, DonaldSon of Gideon Joseph Rock and Marie-Anna Saurette; half-brother to Roland.Gideon Joseph Rock · Roland Rock · Marie-Anna Saurette
Rock, Gideon Joseph1890–1961Baptized Gédéon Honoré Rock at Notre-Dame du Perpétuel-Secours, Holyoke, the day he was born, and named for his godfather. Barber; married Marie-Anna at the Municipal Building, Manhattan, 27 Apr 1922, before a deputy city clerk (Proven); his own seventh cousin once removed. Raised Roland as his own.Gideon Joseph Rock · Roland Rock
Rock, RichardSon of Gideon Joseph Rock and Marie-Anna Saurette; half-brother to Roland.Gideon Joseph Rock · Roland Rock · Marie-Anna Saurette
Rock, Roland1915–1998Baptized Joseph Roland, footnoted Alberic, at Notre-Dame du Perpétuel-Secours the day after his birth, and named for his godfather — his uncle Joseph-Albéric Saurette. Entered on the Holyoke civil register as Roland Lawrence Oligny, the only time that name is written out in his life. Applied for Social Security in 1936 as Roland Alberic Rock over a surname field reading OLIGNY (ROCK), and signed his draft card Roland Albert Rock. Trucker, machine operator, elevator operator, press operator. The one person in whom both family lines meet.Roland Rock · Joseph Philorum Oligny · Marie-Anna Saurette
Roy dit Lapensée, FélicitéMarried Julien Oligny, 1848. Died between 1871 and 1881.Julien Oligny · The Oligny line · The convergence · Jeanne Denot
Roy, JosephMarried Storophile Dupuis, St-Constant, 1826 — the marriage carrying both Doucinet and Gobinet descents at once.The convergence · Mathurine Desbordes
Roy, MarieFélicité Roy's aunt, daughter of Joseph-François Roy and Susanne Boire; married Julien Baudin, St-Constant, 19 November 1821. Not her niece of the same name, Félicité's sister, who married Joseph Bourel at St-Rémi in 1855.Julien Oligny
Roy, Pierre-GeorgesHistorian whose 1946 full text on Fort Saint-Frédéric overturned the “betrothal at thirteen” story.Jean-Baptiste Oligny · Corrections
Roy, SophieFourth wife of Guillaume Saurette Sr., married 1861, both past forty. No children; she outlived him by fourteen years.Guillaume Saurette Sr.
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Saurette, Alexandre1837Twin of Virginie; died in infancy the August after their mother's death.Guillaume Saurette Sr.
Saurette, Alfredd. 1882Son of Guillaume Saurette Sr.; died at twenty-four, eight weeks before his father.Guillaume Saurette Sr.
Saurette, Alinebapt. 1896Daughter of Alméric and Alida; baptized 29 December 1896, and married Ernest Turgeon at Holyoke, 4 May 1920, her father standing witness.Alméric Saurette
Saurette, Alméric1864–1927Baptized Josué-Armorique. Married Alida Morier, 1887; crossed at Swanton, Vermont, in 1907. Father of Marie-Anna.Alméric Saurette · The Saurette line
Saurette, AmandaDaughter of Guillaume Saurette Jr. and Elmire Jourdain, entered on the 1881 census as Marie-Delima Amanda; signed her sister Rose-Anne's marriage act in 1877.Guillaume Saurette Jr.
Saurette, AntoineSon of the immigrant Jacques Saurette; renounced his claim on the estate in 1774.Jacques Saurette
Saurette, Aurorebapt. 1895Daughter of Alméric and Alida; baptized at St-Jean-Baptiste-de-Rouville, November 1895, and married Onil Leduc at Holyoke, 2 June 1919, her father standing witness.Alméric Saurette
Saurette dite Larose Lapierre, Céleste1813–1891Elmire Jourdain-Lafrance's mother and Marie-Anna's great-grandmother — already a Saurette before she married, which is why her daughter's 1854 marriage needed a dispensation. Signed four acts across fifty years, the earliest in 1827 at fourteen, always as sorette, never the parish's Saurette.Guillaume Saurette Jr. · The shrinking marriage pool
Saurette, CharlesSon of Joseph Saurette; of age at his father's 1825 estate settlement.Joseph Saurette
Saurette, DorilaDaughter of Guillaume Saurette Jr. and Elmire Jourdain, entered on the 1881 census as Marie-Dorila; signed her sister Rose-Anne's marriage act in 1877.Guillaume Saurette Jr.
Saurette, Évelina1876Daughter of Guillaume Saurette Jr.; died at eleven weeks.Guillaume Saurette Jr.
Saurette, Guillaume, Jr.1827–1921Married Elmire Jourdain-Lafrance, 1854, under a bishop's dispensation for consanguinity. Twelve children; the longest-lived man in this line. Could not write his name — two acts say so in terms — while his wife, his daughters and his half-siblings all signed.Guillaume Saurette Jr. · The Saurette line
Saurette, Guillaume, Sr.1806–1882Married four times, widowed by childbirth twice in twenty-six months, father of sixteen children. Could not sign his own name; a baptismal act of 1833 records him among those who did not know how.Guillaume Saurette Sr. · The Saurette line
Saurette, Jacques (the immigrant)c. 1704–1790Family tradition holds he was a soldier from the diocese of Le Mans; married Catherine Laporte at Chambly, 1741. No service record sighted — graded Possible. His nom de guerre, Larose, outlived every spelling of his actual surname.Jacques Saurette · The Saurette line
Saurette, Jacques (the elder)Named with Marguerite Baril on their son's 1741 marriage act, and nowhere else. The French wall on this line.Jacques Saurette & Marguerite Baril · The Saurette line
Saurette, Jean-Baptiste1741–1785Eldest son of the immigrant. Married three times; fourteen children. Carried the Larose name into its second Quebec generation.Jean-Baptiste Saurette · The Saurette line
Saurette, Jean-Baptiste (son of Joseph)Of age at his father Joseph's 1825 estate settlement.Joseph Saurette
Saurette, Jean-Baptiste Amédéed. 1859Son of Guillaume Saurette Jr.; died at two.Guillaume Saurette Jr.
Saurette, Joseph1771–1825Orphaned by both parents before he married Marguerite Marotte in 1794. Father of three sons all named Joseph, only one of whom grew up.Joseph Saurette · The Saurette line
Saurette, Joseph (three sons of the name)The first died in 1798 before turning three; the second in 1808 at fourteen; the third, born 1809, lived, married Josephte Dame, and had twelve children.Joseph Saurette
Saurette, Joseph-Adolphe (Frère Philippe)d. 1949Alméric's first cousin. Entered the Congrégation de Sainte-Croix in 1893, served as superior of the Scholasticat Saint-Joseph, and advocated Frère André's beatification cause.Alméric Saurette
Saurette, Joseph-AlbéricSecond child of Alméric — a third form of his father's own name, after Josué-Armorique and Alméric.Alméric Saurette
Saurette, Julied. 1882Daughter of Guillaume Saurette Sr.; died at thirty, four weeks after her father.Guillaume Saurette Sr.
Saurette, JulienneCéleste's sister and Elmire's aunt; married Joseph Marcil, 9 November 1847. Mother of Arzélie Marcil — briefly and wrongly read as Catherine Saurette by this project's own research.Corrections · Guillaume Saurette Jr.
Saurette, Marie-Anna1890–1979The bride of 1912; a mill operative at twenty-one. Married twice, and both husbands were her cousins.Marie-Anna Saurette · The Saurette line
Saurette, Marie-Antoinetted. 1876Daughter of Guillaume Saurette Jr.; died at ten.Guillaume Saurette Jr.
Saurette, MichelSon of the immigrant Jacques Saurette; signed the 1774 estate inventory with a mark.Jacques Saurette
Saurette, PhilippeBrother of Alméric, named on the 1907 Swanton manifest as the relative left behind at St-Jean-Baptiste.Alméric Saurette · Guillaume Saurette Jr.
Saurette, PierreSon of Joseph Saurette; of age at his father's 1825 estate settlement.Joseph Saurette
Saurette, Rose-AnneDaughter of Guillaume Saurette Jr. and Elmire Jourdain; married Joseph Beaudry, 24 September 1877, with both her grandfathers standing witness. Signed as Rozana.Guillaume Saurette Jr. · Guillaume Saurette Sr.
Saurette, Virginie1837–1926Twin of Alexandre; her birth cost her mother's life, and she outlived nearly everyone in this account.Guillaume Saurette Sr.
Saurette, Vitaline1839–1929Only child of Guillaume Saurette Sr. and Zoé Halde; her birth cost her mother's life fifteen days later. Married Joseph Robert at eighteen in 1857 and left for L'Ange-Gardien, where her children were baptized.Guillaume Saurette Sr.
Sauvé, MadeleineMother of Anne Seigneur, of Saint-Maclou parish in Rouen.Anne Seigneur & Jean Besset
Savary, CatherineNamed as Catherine Laporte's mother on the 1741 Saurette marriage act.Jacques Saurette
Seigneur, Anne1649–1733Baptized at Saint-Maclou, Rouen; crossed at nineteen and married Jean Besset at Chambly, 1668. Outlived him by twenty-six years.Anne Seigneur & Jean Besset · Filles du roi & filles à marier
Seigneur, GuillaumeFather of Anne; what became of him is unrecorded, but he was gone before she emigrated.Anne Seigneur & Jean Besset
Soldé, JeanneMarried Jacques Beauvais; the couple behind the least secure of the three routes joining Philorum Oligny and Marie-Azilda Bessette.Philorum Oligny
Soret dit Larose, Jean-BaptisteCéleste's father and Elmire Jourdain-Lafrance's maternal grandfather. Married Josephte Casavant, 1810; then Françoise Banlier — the widow of Elmire's other grandfather — on 21 September 1830; then Josephte Lemonde in 1835.Guillaume Saurette Jr. · Jeanne Mechin
Soret, Suzannec. 1607–1650Daughter of a Protestant merchant of La Rochelle; mother of Marguerite Ardion.Marguerite Ardion
Souart, Father GabrielBishop Laval's delegate at Montréal, who heard Mathurine Desbordes's 1663 annulment petition.Mathurine Desbordes
Stapleton & StapletonThe Holyoke firm that represented Marie-Anna in both the 1916 separate-support petition and the 1921 divorce, five years apart.Marie-Anna Saurette · Joseph Philorum Oligny
Surprenant dit Sanssoucy, JacquesMarried Jeanne Denot, 1678; father of Pierre Surprenant.Philorum Oligny · Jeanne Denot
Surprenant, JosephSon of Pierre Surprenant and Anne-Marie Larivière Tétu; married Geneviève Lamarre, 1749, and carries the line down to Marie-Azilda Bessette.Philorum Oligny · Jeanne Denot
Surprenant, Joseph LéonSon of Joseph Surprenant and Marie-Geneviève Lamarre; married Marie-Josèphe Laberge, 1787, St-Philippe — the same wedding at which Catherine Fourrier's own line arrives, through the bride.Jeanne Denot · Catherine Fourrier
Surprenant, Marie-ArchangeMarried François Daniel Cardinal, 1772. The marriage act renders her name Michel-Archange Prégénaud — the clerk mangling Surprenant. Her marriage is how Surprenant descent enters the Oligny line.Marguerite Doucinet · The convergence · Philorum Oligny · Corrections
Surprenant, Marie-JosephteMarried Jérôme Bessette at l'Acadie, 1807; Marie-Azilda Bessette's grandmother.Philorum Oligny · Catherine Fourrier · Jeanne Denot
Surprenant, MichelSon of Pierre Surprenant and Anne-Marie Larivière Tétu; married Marie-Marguerite Longtin and carries the line down to Philorum Oligny. His 1713 baptism survives only as a later clerk's copy, which is what holds the fourth-cousin finding at Probable.Philorum Oligny · Jeanne Denot
Surprenant, PierreMarried Anne-Marie Larivière Tétu at La Prairie, 1702; with her the nearest common ancestor of Philorum Oligny and Marie-Azilda Bessette, who were fourth cousins once removed.Philorum Oligny · Jeanne Denot
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Tailhandier, MarienNotary in whose greffe Élisabeth Gobinet's 1714 care arrangement survives.Élisabeth Gobinet
Talbot, Jean RaymondSon of Marie-Léonida Perreault and her first husband, Wilfrid Talbot; stepson to Joseph Philorum Oligny, appearing as such in the 1940 census.Joseph Philorum Oligny
Talbot, Marie-Rose ValeriaDaughter of Marie-Léonida Perreault and her first husband, Wilfrid Talbot.Joseph Philorum Oligny
Talbot, WilfridMarried Marie-Léonida Perreault, 17 August 1916, Biddeford; died 2 November 1918. Her first husband, before Joseph Philorum Oligny.Joseph Philorum Oligny
Tamblyn, Rev. Ronald J.Officiated the marriage of Roland Rock and Helena Williams at the Skinner Memorial Chapel, Holyoke, 1938.Roland Rock
Tessier Lavigne, Marie-LouiseFirst wife of Jacques Gauthier dit St-Germain, married at Montréal in 1721. Ten children; four died within eighteen months in 1742–43, and she did not long outlive them.Jean-Baptiste Saurette
Tétu, Anne-Marie LarivièreDaughter of Jacques Tétu and Marguerite Beauvais St-Gemme; married Pierre Surprenant, 1702, and with him stands as the nearest common ancestor of the 1912 groom's own parents.Philorum Oligny · Jeanne Denot
Thouin dit Roch, Gédéon Noël1852–1896Known in Massachusetts as Gideon Rock Sr. A barber; died of tuberculosis at forty-three.Gideon Joseph Rock · Mathurine Desbordes
Thouin dit Roch, OctaveMarried Christine Brien dit Desrochers, Mascouche, 1840.Gideon Joseph Rock · Mathurine Desbordes
Thouin, Gédéon1825Buried at Mascouche on 27 August 1825, aged three months, son of Jean-Baptiste Thouin, cultivateur, and Marie Allard — the parents Octave Thouin dit Roch's 1840 marriage act names. That he was Octave's brother is Probable; no act yet joins the two.Gideon Joseph Rock
Tousignant, ÉlieMarried Cécile Pepin, 1848, St-Pierre-les-Becquets.Jeanne Mechin · Joseph Philorum Oligny
Tousignant, Marie-CarolineDaughter of Élie Tousignant and Cécile Pepin; married Zéphirin Perreault, 1869, St-Pierre-les-Becquets. Mother of Joseph-Arsène Perreault.Jeanne Mechin · Joseph Philorum Oligny
Trudeau, FlorenceGodmother at Roland's 1915 baptism at Holyoke, alongside Joseph-Albéric Saurette, whom she later married.Roland Rock · Alméric Saurette
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Vernin, Françoised. before 1702Wife of Mathurin Banlier dit Laperle and mother of Marie. Her death is bracketed by her daughter's 1702 marriage act, which calls her feue.Catherine Fourrier
Viau dit Lespérance, Michelc. 1676–1720Son of Jacques Viau dit Lespérance; married Hélène Charles at Boucherville in 1698, aged twenty-two, and died at Longueuil at forty-four in February 1720, his father-in-law at the graveside. Godfather to Étienne Benoit the younger in 1702 — so the man who stood at that child's baptism was the first husband of the woman who became his stepmother twenty years later.The Étienne Benoits
Vincelette, AzildaMarried Jean-Baptiste Saurette, Alméric's uncle; mother of Frère Philippe.Alméric Saurette
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Wilkes, Mitchellb. 1919Born at Medford, son of Évangéline Oligny and a fisherman from Lyons, Georgia. The first child documented to Évangéline's own life rather than her mother's; about twelve when she died.Philorum Oligny
Williams, Helenab. c. 1917Married Roland Rock at the Skinner Memorial Chapel, Holyoke, 22 February 1938. Daughter of Benjamin Williams and Helen Castree.Roland Rock
This index covers people named on the pages of this site, not every individual in the underlying research files — those run to many thousands. Names are indexed as they appear in the records, which means spellings vary a great deal: Sorette, Soret, Sorel, Chorel and Sauret all become Saurette eventually, and a woman may appear under a dit name on one act and her father's surname on the next. If a name doesn't turn up, try a shorter fragment of it.