The Deveaus | Pioneer Families of Caraquet

Index: Pioneer Families of Caraquet

These micro posts present the first generation of each of the families that established different surnames found in Caraquet, New Brunswick. Most of the information is drawn from Fidele Theriault’s genealogical dictionary “Les Familles de Caraquet”. His book is in French and offers a lot more information including family trees of the first generations (with precise dates)  and in many cases explanations of how the first pioneers arrived in Caraquet and other fascinating anecdotes. For additional information including precise dates and following generations, please leave your questions in a comment box below.

 

 

The Caraquet Deveaus descend from the carpenter Firmin Deveau (son of Joseph Deveau and Rose Michaud), most likely from Kamouraska, Quebec) and Marie-Joseph Beaulieu (daughter of Mathurin Beaulieu and Marie Guerette). The couple were married about 1800, and arrived in Caraquest in 1816. In the following years they moved first to Restigouche (1819) and then St. Basile, Madawaska (1826).

The Gauvins | Pioneers of Caraquet

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Index: Pioneer Families of Caraquet

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These micro posts present the first generation of each of the families that established different surnames found in Caraquet, New Brunswick. Most of the information is drawn from Fidele Theriault’s genealogical dictionary “Les Familles de Caraquet”. His book is in French and offers a lot more information including family trees of the first generations (with precise dates)  and in many cases explanations of how the first pioneers arrived in Caraquet and other fascinating anecdotes. If you don’t have access to the book you can contact me for extra information by leaving a comment underneath this post.

 

 

The Caraquet Gauvins originally came from the parish of Ancient-Lorette (Quebec City outskirts). The Quebec ancestor of this family was Jean Gauvin (son of Louis Gauvin and Anne Delepine of La Rochelle, France) and he married Anne Magnon in Quebec in 1665.

French Canadian Pioneers: The Michons of Quebec

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Abel Michon | Marie Thibodeau

January 24th, 1699 St. Laurent (Ile-d’Orleans)

French Canadian Pioneers: The Lesperances of Quebec

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Andre Lesperance / Remy  | Louise Boucher

May 1st, 1730 Quebec (Notre-Dame)

French Canadian Pioneers: The Daigles of Quebec

Index: Early French Canadian Pioneers of Quebec

 

 

Casimir-Theodore Daigle | Angelique-Francoise Henry

November 22nd, 1790 Carleton

[Occ. settler]

The Parises | Pioneers of Caraquet

Index: Pioneer Families of Caraquet

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These micro posts present the first generations of each of the families that established different surnames found in Caraquet, New Brunswick. Most of the information is drawn from Fidele Theriault’s genealogical dictionary “Les Familles de Caraquet”. His book is in French and offers a lot more information including family trees of the first generations (with precise dates)  and in many cases explanations of how the first pioneers arrived in Caraquet and other fascinating anecdotes. If you don’t have access to the book you can contact me for extra information by leaving a comment underneath this post.

 

The Parise pioneering couple descended from Quebeckers from St-Louis-de-Kamouraska. Michel-Ignace Parise was the son of Gilles Parise and Julienne Chevrier of Paris, France. He married  Angelique Michaud, daughter of Pierre Michaud and Madeleine Lalime Thibodeau. Their children included: Genevieve, Michel (m. Marie Albert, daughter of Gabriel Albert and Genevieve Bouthillier), Angelique, Marie, Rosalie, Louis, Remi and finally Agathe. Michel-Ignace’s son Michel Parise married Marie Albert (daughter of Gabriel Albert and Genevieve Bouthillier).

 

The Caraquet children of Michel Parise and Marie Albert were:

• Genevieve (m. Pierre-Leon Roussi, son of Leon Roussi and Anne Chapadeau),
• Michel (m. Rosalie Roussi, daughter of Leon Roussi and Anne Chapadeau, and then Louise Grenier),
• Angelique (m. Louis Roussi, son of Leon Roussi and Anne Chapadeau and then
• Francois Duguay, son of Francois Duguay and Madeleine Chapadeau),
• Marie (m. Jean Lanteigne, son of Louis Lanteigne and Marguerite Chapadeau),
• Rosalie (m. Pierre Paulin, son of Jean-Baptiste Paulin and Isabelle Gasse),
• Louis (m. Madeleine Roussi, daughter of Leon Roussi and Anne Chapadeau),
• Remi (m. Archange Duguay, daughter of Pierre Duguay and Josette LeBrasseur),
• Agathe (m. Edouard Bouthillier, son of Rene Bouthillier and Genevieve Chiasson).

 

 

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Index: New Brunswick Pioneers

Main Index: New Brunswick Genealogy and History

Core Index: Acadian & French-Canadian Genealogy and History

 

External Links

Parises in the 1901 Census – Gloucester 

NB Vital Records- Gloucester

 

 

The Landrys | Pioneers of Caraquet

Index: Pioneer Families of Caraquet

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These micro posts present the first generation of each of the families that established different surnames found in Caraquet, New Brunswick. Most of the information is drawn from Fidele Theriault’s genealogical dictionary “Les Familles de Caraquet”. His book is in French and offers a lot more information including family trees of the first generations (with precise dates)  and in many cases explanations of how the first pioneers arrived in Caraquet and other fascinating anecdotes. If you don’t have access to the book you can contact me for extra information by leaving a comment underneath this post.

 

Alexis Landry (son of Jean Landry and Claire LeBlanc of Grand-pre, Acadia) and his wife Marie Theriault (daughter of Jean Theriault and Madeleine Bourg, also Acadians) are one of the foremost early pioneer couples of Caraquet. They had been married in 1744.

This couple had many children:

• Anselme (m. Marie-Therese Brideau, daughter of Louis Brideau and Marie-Therese Thomas)
  • Ursule (m. 1828, Tracadie, Joseph Benoit, son of Antoine Benoit and Marie Savoie of Tracadie. *Ursule was the earliest known Tracadie case of leprosy)
  • Simon (m. 1804, Genevieve Hache, daughter of Joseph Hache and Madeleine Doucet)
  • Isaac 
  • Marie Elisabeth Isabelle (m. about 1800, Firmin Benoit, son of Antoine Benoit and Marie Savoie of Tracadie)
  • Helene
  • Victoire (m. 1810, Dominique Pinet, son of Dominique Pinet and Rose Boudreau of Grande-Anse)
  • Germain (m. 1812, Madeleine Hache, son of Joseph Hache and Madeleine Doucet)
  • Anselme (d. 1789, by drowning, Cap-aux-Moules (Stonehaven)
  • Mathurin (m. 1822, Claire-Felicite, formerly married to Jean-Baptiste Legere)
  • Marie-Claire (m. 1814, Hilarion Albert, son of Pierre Albert and Genevieve Denis)
  • Marie Venerande (m. 1820, Bonaventure (QC), Louis Lepage, son of Jean-Baptiste-Michel Lepage and Rose Arsenault)
  • Genevieve (m.1824, Jean-Baptiste Blanchard, son of Isidore Blanchard and Isabelle Legere)
  • Alexis (d. 1814 in Cap-aux-Meules (Stonehaven) at the age of 16)
  • Joseph (d. 1814 in Cap-aux-Meules (Stonehaven) at the age of 14)
  • Francoise (m. 1821, Victor Savoie, son of Joseph Savoie and Marguerite Bujold)
  • Luce (m. 1824, Sidefroy Theriault, son of Jean-Baptiste Theriault and Genevieve Pinet of Grande-Anse)
• Anne (m. Pierre Thibodeau), Agathe (m. Joseph Dugas, son of Charles Dugas and Anne Leblanc),
• Pierre (m. Marguerite Allain, daughter of Louis Allain and Anne Legere),
• Francois (m. Adelaide Bourg, daughter of Joseph Bourg and Catherine Comeau),
• Thadee (m. Madeleine Legere, daughter of Olivier Legere and Marie Joseph Hebert and then Marie Cormier, widow of Alexandre Godin)),
• Joseph (m. Marie Legere, daughter of Olivier Legere and Marie-Joseph Hebert and then Marguerite Pinet, widow of Pierre Theriault),
• Rosalie
• Remi (m. Charlotte Doiron).

 

 

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Note: Les Familles de Caraquet has the following Landry family pictures: Daniel Landry (1849-1926), son of Daniel Landry, pg. 273],   [Bruno Landry, son of Lazare Landry and his wife Luce Cormier, daughter of Paul Cormier, pg. 273],   Emma Landry, daughter of Adolphe Landry anther husband Col. Louis-Cyriac Daigle, pg. 273],   [Jean-Louis Landry, son of Elie Landry, and his wife Adeline Paulin, pg. 279],   [Johnnie Landry (b.1867), Victorian Landry (born 1861), both children of Jean-Louis Landry],   [Pascal Landry (1816-1894), son of Michel Landry, pg. 283],   Marguerite Landry (1841-1910, daughter of Michel Landry, wife of Philias Blanchard, pg.263],  [Auguste Landry (b.1815, son of Augustin Landry, pg.283], Elisabeth Landry (1849-1911, daughter of Ephrem Landry, wife of Michel Cormier, pg. 283], [Hughes Landry, pg. 255].

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Index: New Brunswick Pioneers

Main Index: New Brunswick Genealogy and History

Core Index: Acadian & French-Canadian Genealogy and History

 

External Links

Landrys in the 1881 Census – Croquette 

Landrys in the 1901 Census – Gloucester

Landries in the 1901 Census – Gloucester 

NB Vital Records – Landrys in Gloucester

 

 

The Doirons | Pioneers of Caraquet

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Zacharie Doiron was the son of Charles Doiron and Madeleine Thibodeau of Port Royal, Acadia. He married Anne LeVicaire (daughter of Pierre LeVicaire and Francoise Rousseau) about 1770  and together they had a very large family.

The Beaulieus | Pioneers of Caraquet

Index: Pioneer Families of Caraquet

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These micro posts present the first generation of each of the families that established different surnames found in Caraquet, New Brunswick. Most of the information is drawn from Fidele Theriault’s genealogical dictionary “Les Familles de Caraquet”. His book is in French and offers a lot more information including family trees of the first generations (with precise dates)  and in many cases explanations of how the first pioneers arrived in Caraquet and other fascinating anecdotes. If you don’t have access to the book you can contact me for extra information by leaving a comment underneath this post.

 

Olivier Beaulieu was probably from Kamouraska (Quebec) and is believed to have been  A fisherman. These Beaulieus descend from three marriages: Olivier Beaulieu and his first wife Marguerite Laviolette, and second wife Scholastique Mallet, daughter of Jean Mallet and Anne Gionet) and his third wife Henriette Martin (previously married to Pierre Allaire).

Gagnon m. Caisse | Evelyn in Montreal

Marilyn Reece asked:

These are all pretty old postings but I’m just getting to our Gagnon line of descendents and thought I’d give it a shot.I’m trying to figure out my lineage (if there is one) to Barnabe Gagnon.Barnabe Gagnon married Francoise Creste and had a son named Pierre born about 1572.Pierre married Renee Rogers in 1597 in Tourouvre, France.One of their sons was Jean Baptiste?This is where I’m fuzzy.Then Jean Baptiste married Marie Anne