Damase Brault family from Quebec
The Damase Brault family from Quebec is a large one. As seen in the image, there are 6 boys and 6 girls born to Damase Brault and Olympe Gendreau that lived past 10 years old. When their mother Olympe died in 1900, the younger children of Damase Brault went to live in an orphanage and the older children continued to live with Damase Brault. This was traditional in Quebec society and is no reflection on Damase at all. He died in St Johnsbury Vermont in 1906 while living with a granddaughter of the Drolet family. Damase was an orphan at age eight himself and he lived with the nuns in Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan, Quebec. Four Brault brothers all left Quebec to live in Alberta along with one of their sisters. They started homesteads there and seemed to have succeeded.
Any information about Alphonse Brault is both from family stories and from written documents. Some may not end up to be true. The documents such as vital records, censuses, land records, and immigration records lead to this information being close to the truth. Records have been found for all relatives near him – parents, siblings, and children – to validate where he was and what he was doing.
Rodrique – was a kindly man who lived with his sister Emma Brault in Alberta most of his life on a homestead
Olympe Exilda – died young
Dorila – had 11 children with Thomas Drolet and all lived long lives – moved from Weedon Quebec to Saint Johnsbury Vermont USA to Worcester Massachusetts to Saint Petersburg Florida. Two group family photos are known to exist both of which have been posted to the group. Her children are Louis – Blanche – Noel – Thomas – Josephine – Juliette – Clara – Deneige – Dora – Beatrice – Germaine
Alphonsine – married Guillaume Vincent and had then a daughter named Alberta. Then widowed and married Fred Currier. She was a medical nurse in Lowell Massachusetts for many years and retired to Concord New Hampshire.
Clara – was Sister Superior called Sister Brault in Sorel Quebec. Worked perhaps at an orphanage.
Alphonse – He had 12 children with Eliza Hade but only 6 lived past age 10. Lived in Bromptonville Quebec Canada from 1900 to 1909 owning a hotel that ran illegal activities. Fled Bromptonville with his daughter Dorila in 1909 for unknown reasons. Lived in New Bedford from 1910 to 1917 living off gambling. Built a house in Clyde Alberta in October 1917 near his youngest sister Emma on homestead land that he developed. Buried in Clyde Alberta cemetery after slipping on steps that were iced over at his home in.
Aimé – unknown whereabouts and relations since she might have died young
Rosa – unknown whereabouts and relations since she might have died young
Joseph – died of a horse-related accident at a young age.
Josephine – was Sister Gendreau a nun working in an orphanage in Quebec Province.
Arthur – was a blacksmith by trade and lived 25 miles from the Brault farm in Tawatinaw, Alberta, Canada. He was a kind-hearted man and who had 12 children. He also built a tennis court near our town and his children were quite well known for their skill in the sport. He and then his wife Béatrice Marie Migneault were postmasters for 20 years in the Indian village of Tawatinaw.
Edmond – was a barber and had a barber chair in the bus depot in Edmonton and was very well known. He was a barber for one year in New Bedford Massachusetts in 1910. Lived and worked in the same rooms at 41 Beetle Street as his brother Al. Coincidentally, 45 Beetle Street was the Comeau home and they might have met. Leocadia Girard was his wife and he had at least one daughter. Resided in Morinville Alberta.
Annonciade – Her sister Emma Brault had her twin daughter’s at the hospital across the street from where Annonciade lived in Manchester, New Hampshire in 1923. Annonciade married Joseph Orosillas Perry and had at least five children in New Hampshire.
Emma – was married to Sam LeBeau and had five daughters.
Eugene – lived in Morinville, Alberta near Edmonton on a homestead.
Dalia – died very young
Damase Brault and Olympe Gendreau family technical data (m 20 October 1863 in Valcourt)
1) Pierre Rodrique Brault – b. 5 October 1864 in Valcourt – d. 1946
2) Olympe Exilda Brault – b. 4 April 1866 in Valcourt – d. 24 August 1868 in Valcourt
3) Marie Emma Dorila Brault – b. 30 June 1868 in Valcourt – d. 3 January 1947 in Saint Petersburg, Florida
4) Marie Alice Alphonsine Brault – b. 11 August 1870 in Valcourt – d. 22 March 1951 in Manchester, New Hampshire
5) Marie Arezelia Clara Brault – b. 17 December 1873 in La Patrie – d. 1963
6) Alexandre Alphonse Brault – b. 2 June 1875 in La Patrie – d. 13 August 1933 in Westlock of Alberta Canada
7) Marie Emma Georgina Brault – b. 11 July 1877 in Weedon – d. (unknown but lived at least 5 years)
8) Marie Rosa Rosana Brault – b. 9 July 1879 in Weedon – d. (unknown but lived at least 3 years)
9) Marie Elmina Dalia Brault – b. 21 April 1881 in Weedon – d. (unknown)
10) Joseph Jean-Baptiste Brault – b. 24 November 1882 in Weedon – d. 1896
11) Marie Valerie Joséphine Brault – b. 27 June 1884 in Weedon – d. (unknown)
12) Joseph Damase Arthur Brault – b. 1 May 1886 in Weedon – d. 1973 in Tawatinaw of Alberta
13) Joseph Philippe Edmond Brault – b. 25 May 1888 in Weedon – d. October 1966
14) Marie Mathildé Annonciade Brault – b. 22 April 1890 in Weedon – d. 22 April 1956
15) Marie Emma Celanire Brault – b. 11 July 1892 in Weedon – d. 25 March 1986 in Calgary of Alberta
16) Joseph Eugene Adolphe Brault – b. 9 September 1894 in Weedon – d. February 1965 in Morinville of Alberta
17) (unknown names) Brault – unknown dates and unknown whereabouts