Hello Fellow French Canadian Descendants

My paternal grandfather, Telesphore (aka Philip) was from the Douville (Morand dit Douville) clan that came out of LaPerade to contribute greatly to the population of St. Casimir, Portneuf in the latter half of the 19the century. He married Emilie Lachance in Bridgeport, CT circa 1893. He and his older brother and a brother-in-law were all employed then at Bridgeport Copper. That company was run by a European immigrant Frenchman. I have an idea that by word of mouth a number of young Quebec men found work at the copper smelter in Bridgeport. He and Emilie went back to St. Casimir circa 1897; her father's birthplace as well, although she was born in Webster Massachusetts and her parernts were married in Woonsocket, R.I. At the fin de siecle Telesphore found work in Iron County, Wisconsin where his older brother lived and worked for the Montreal Iron Mine. Later, after a couple of moves he and Emilie (aka Amelia Chase) settled in New Richmond, Wisconsin. My father married a Wisconsin woman after they met at the VA Hospital in Ft. Snelling, St. Paul, Minnesota. Her mother was an Ayotte (married a Norwegian!) whose father, Jean Baptiste, was born in Quebec circa 1824. But prior to emigrating to Wisconsin he was one of a small group of Quebecois who settled in Kincardine, Bruce County, Ontario. Jean Baptiste (aka John) married an Elizabeth Prince whose father, John Enoch was from Maine but moved to Canada. John and Elizabeth immigrated to the U.S. and settled in the Cooks Valley (aka Auburn, Eagle Point) area of Wisconsin, north of Chippewa Falls. Ellizabeth's mother was a Trottier (Batiscan). John Enoch and Marie-Angelique Trottier were married first in a civil ceremony and several years later khe was baptized and they were immeidately thereafter marrried in the Catholic church. Although they were married in Quebec they later lived in Mara, Ontario County, Ontario before immigrating to tCooks Valley. John Ayotte's second wife (Marie Eliz. Prince died circa 1873) was Mary Chartrand (Chartraw) yet another Quebecois family that had some members who settled in Bruce County, Ontario. In their old age they lived in Turtle Lake, Wisconsin. I look forward to sharing information with you and making the aquaintance of others with roots in Quebec.

Tags: Ayotte, Bridgeport, Bruce, CT, Casimir, Chartrand, Chippewa, Cooks, County, Douville, More…

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Permalink Reply by John Hamelin on February 20, 2011 at 8:21am

I have Trottiers from Batiscan in my family tree too. I am descended from Jeam Baptiste trottier who was born aboard the ship "Cardinal" while his family was emigrating from France to Canada in 1646. I haven't come across Marie-Angelique Trottier yet in my research, but I will eventually. nice to meet another probable limb on the old family tree

Permalink Reply by Jay'me Helen Boughner on March 10, 2011 at 9:51pm

Thank-you for sharing...great info...look forward to more.

Permalink Reply by Jeannine Sills on March 17, 2011 at 2:17pm

Hi Robert, I still have relatives in Ste-Anne-de-la-Pérade, St-Casimir, Trois-Rivières. We French-Canadians are so connected. Many of your names are also in my tree...Morand dit Douville, Ayotte,I imagine you've visited some of Quebec and driven down the Chemin du Roi? You find yourself imagining the lives of our first settlers. God bless them.

Permalink Reply by Robert T. Douville on May 1, 2011 at 10:29am

Sorry about not acknowledging your March 17th reply. If I can do it correctly I am uploading an English language monograph about my Grandfather (Telesphore aka Phillip) and his brother Joseph Adelmar, both of whom came to the U.S. at the end of the 19th Century from St. Casimir, Portneuf, Quebec, to settle in Wisconsin. A different edited version of this piece is published in the French language newsletter of the St. Casimir Historical and Genealogy Society If anything in it strikes a chord with a reader, please let me hear from you. Robert Douville

Attachments:

Two Sons of St. Casimir.doc, 70 KB

Permalink Reply by Jeannine Sills on May 1, 2011 at 5:25pm

No problem. I figured you'd see the message eventually.I just read G. Robert Tessier's French version of your story in my St. Casimir newsletter yesterday. Very interesting. Great photos as well. My parents were born in St. Casimir in 1902 and left for northern Quebec in 1925.When one lives in that small town, one knows everyone.Bet some of my people bumped into some of yours...Thanks for sharing your story.

Permalink Reply by Robert T. Douville on May 2, 2011 at 7:27am

What was your father's name and your mother's maiden name? We are probably distant cousins. I have G.. Robert Tessier's genealogy compilations. Robert

Permalink Reply by Jeannine Sills on May 2, 2011 at 7:18pm

Robert, I left a message for you on your Douville-H-Ayotte tree. I could answer your questions there if you like.J.Sills

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