Nils Tobias Omdal was born in 1879 in the hamlet of Omdal in Norway
Nils Tobias Omdal was born in 1879 in the hamlet of Omdal in Norway. He married Sina Marie Nesvåg who was born in 1881 in the hamlet of Nesvåg in Norway. These are ancestral villages by the look of it since they have the family names attached to them. They immigrated with their three young children in 1911 on the Empress of Ireland from Liverpool to Montreal. They soon moved to the Seattle area. Their son Sigve Magnus Omdal was only nine months old at the time. They would have three more children. Most of the family remains in the greater Seattle area still.
Ole Johnsen was born in Norway in 1842. He immigrated to Iowa in his youth and fought in the American Civil War in the 18th Regiment of the Iowa Infantry Company A. Soon after the war he married and moved to Freeman of Freeborn County, Minnesota. There he would have 9 children and work the farm. One of his sons Andrew Johnson would eventually move to Washington State. Unfortunately, Andrew’s wife would die while giving birth to his only daughter Florence Mariam Johnson. His wife was Florence Knoell and she had a grandmother Philippine Bena Zimmermann that was born in Bavaria in 1832. Philippine moved to Wisconsin and had 8 children with her husband Valentin Johann Knoell. I have been able to find many pictures of this large family plus many images of their gravestones.
Melchior Jossi was born in 1879 in the Germanic portion of Switzerland. In 1907, he immigrated to Oregon and soon after married fellow Swiss compatriot Marguerite Brugger. They had a son Henry who would marry a second-generation Norwegian immigrant Evelyn Johanna Elde. Her family moved to Chinook, Washington during the Great Depression. She worked for the Kaiser Shipyards in Portland, Oregon during World War II.
Her father Sivert Elde and her mother Elida Solhein had immigrated sometime in the 1890s to farmland in Montana. Their story is quite abbreviated since the connections to Norway are not known. They moved a lot within Montana but by 1940 were in Washington State with their daughter.
Patrick Henley and Caroline Fournier descendancy from 1880 forwards
When Patrick Henley and Caroline Fournier came to Fall River in 1889, they already had all the children that they would have. Patrick was 55 and Caroline 45 by that time and their oldest son Joseph did not even bother coming with them. That left Elzear as the de facto eldest of the siblings. The Henley family knew the Deschênes family very well in the Gaspe and they seemed to have returned often or wrote letters back a lot. Well at least Elzear must have since he convinced Marie Philomène Pétronille Miville dit Deschênes to move to Fall River and marry him. Besides having a marvellous name, she also had two younger sisters that would move a decade later to Fall River too. But it is the Henley clan that is most interesting.
Elzear and Marie would have 11 children in mill towns around Massachusetts. Eight of the first nine were born in Fall River from 1899 to 1913 but Louis Phillip Henley and his sister Marie Évangéline Lorretta Henley were born in North Adams. It seems that during the 1913 to 1920 period, the entire Elzear Henley family moved to North Adams. By 1920, they are now in New Bedford for a short while and then to Edgartown. It must have been during that short stay in New Bedford that our grandmother Henley met our grandfather Laurent Comeau.
Marie Jeanne Léda Henley, our grandmother, was the first born but she would have 5 younger sisters and 5 younger brothers. Her brother Oran Télesphore Henley would marry Annie Coulie and then two days later they would serve as best man and maid-of-honor at the same church. Oran Henley and Annie Coulie married on Saturday September 12 1925 and then Arthur Barriault and Anna Monnelly married on Monday September 14 1925. Both couples were married at the same church by the same priest but two days apart. Marriages happened on any day of the week and not just the weekends as now. Each couple had stood at the altar for the other couple. An article from the September 18 1925 Martha’s Vineyard newspaper gracefully reports about those two marriages that had happened within the past seven days.
What they did not mention, but what is now known is that the men were related and we Comeau are doubly related to this Barriault.
Arthur Barriault is the step-cousin of Oran Henley. They grew up as teenagers on a farm on Taft Street in North Adams during that 1913 to 1920 period that I mentioned before. Arthur Barriault’s father was Jean Baptiste Barriault who married twice first to a Lalonde woman who died young and then to Leda Henley our common great grand aunt. This is not the Leda that is my grandmother – but rather a daughter of Patrick Henley and Caroline Fournier. Interestingly, my grandfather Laurent Comeau had a cousin that married Marie Alice Barriault in about 1925. This Alice is the sister of Arthur Barriault. So my family is doubly related to Arthur – once as a Henley and once as a Comeau.
The children of Elzear and Marie Henley are the siblings of our Memere Leda, the grandchildren of Elzear Henley are the cousins of our Comeau fathers – among them are children of Oran and Annie Henley – William, Corrinne, Marie, Dorothy, Richard, and Anne. The children of these siblings are our second cousins and I have invited two of them to this group. Since our great grandfather Elzear came with his parents and siblings to Massachusetts, then third cousins are also possible. Patrick Henley brought daughter Élisabeth who married Joseph Duval, son Télesphore who married Marie Posé, daughter Rosanna who married Arthur Duchesne, daughter Leda who married Jean-Baptiste Barriault, Patrick Frank who married Alphonsine McGee, and daughter Léopoldine who married Joseph Deroy. I have only been able to contact one third cousin from this research although there are many more.
Of this group, the saddest story is that of Télesphore Henley and Marie Posé who married in 1898 in Fall River. Their children are Larence, Annorio, Omer, Candia, Edmond, Leona, Leo, and Alice. Eight births but only two of them made it pass the age of 1 year. Fall River experienced incredible population growth in the late 19th century. Its population expanded from 11 thousand to 110 thousand within 60 years. Such growth does not lead to good sanitation and public health officials were very busy trying to detect the location of an outbreak of an epidemic. Influenza, pneumonia, and diphtheria would kill many children each year. The average life-expectancy a hundred years ago was 30 in the USA, but if one could make it past 10 years old, then they could expect to live to 60. The Télesphore Henley family was no exception and actually other immigrant families fared far worse.
Joseph Achim dit Saint-André was born in 1810 in Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. The family name was originally Achim in France in the 1600s but in order to distinguish it from others of the same last name Saint-Andre was added. This is a very typical process and is especially common with members of the armed forces. The word “dit” will mean co-called. 250 years later when they entered America the Achim was dropped. Joseph would immigrate in 1863 with their 6 children and then would have 5 more. They at first went to the French enclave of Chateaugay of New York but after a few years moved to Sutton Massachusetts. Chateaugay was the name of the county that the Saint Andre family had lived for many decades and the town in New York must have been swamped with Quebec immigrants and named by them. Joseph’s first son Joseph Saint-Andre stayed in Sutton as a butcher for many decades. His grandson Ernest Saint-André was the one that initiated the move to Chicopee with the entire family in 1922. Ernest had many sons and thus many grandchildren with the name of St Andre. His son Oliver was near the end of that large family. The family profession had improved from farmer to butcher to mill worker to engineer – normal progression to follow in the developing USA.
Herménégilde Mercier and Philomène Lacoursiere lived in the village Saint-Guillaume in far southwestern Quebec. Their 8th and last child Victoria would immigrate with her mother to North Brookfield Massachusetts where she would meet Ernest Saint-Andre. Victoria’s ancestors for over 150 years had lived in the same village but the mills of New England proved a great economic attraction.
Pierre Firmin Asselin and Marie Blais lived in Saint Charles of Bellechasse County. Their son Joseph Pierre Asselin immigrated at a young age in 1905 to Chicopee. He would marry Exilda Mathieu in 1909 and have five children. They would work many jobs in Chicopee and were part of the rise of that city.
Exilda Mathieu had parents Stanislas Mathieu and Rosanna Bernard from the village Saint-Jude in Sainte-Hyacinthe County. All the above families came from small villages of southwestern Quebec. This is testament to the need to marry someone with the same mentality. Stanislas and his wife brought all 13 of their children from Quebec with them to first Hardwick and then to Chicopee.
LINK to a GazetteNet story about the year 2022 removal of the dam. In 2016 a part of the dam was taken out and the Lyman Mill Pond drained. The Manhan River in the portion is now returning to its natural state.
The Lyman Mill on the former dam is from 1854 and is a grist mill. The current dam that was just removed is from 1938. The first dam in this area was in the 1732 and powered a sawmill. The dam was about 8 feet high and 40 feet wide.
The mill is now in the Lockville Historic District.
Sobon and Gaudrault family history from 1860 to 1960
Andrzej Wincenty Soboń had five children that immigrated to the Holyoke – Chicopee area in the 1890s. They left behind their homeland due to political and religious repression and a poor economy. Andrzej and his children were born in the Galicia area of Poland that was occupied by the Austro-Hungarian Empire. They were among the first of Polish ethnicity to come to the region and thus they started churches and schools to suit their needs. There were a limited number of other Polish families so two of the Sobon clan married two of the Mikolajczyk clan that settled in Granby and two others of the Sobon clan married two of the Frodyma clan that settled in Chicopee.
Jan Soboń the youngest of the family operated a grocery store on Lyman Street in Holyoke for many decades. His son Leo worked many industrial jobs within the city. He married Mary Adams a second-generation woman with Slovak parents. Her parents Mihály Ádám and Mária Bednár both came from the tiny village of Nižný Hrušov of the mountainous Michalovce region of Slovakia. They were the last of many generations from that town where mining was the biggest industry. Michael as he would be called in America shuttled back and forth from Slovakia to Lisbon Falls in Maine for many years. He eventually settled there and then moved onto Holyoke. At one point his parents Juraj Ádám and Anna Karkos visited him for a summer. They returned but his grandmother Terézia Zlatnicky did settle with the family in Lisbon Falls. Amazing that enclaves of ethnic groups form in such ways around this country.
The Gaudrault family had lived for about a century in L’Islet County of the upper Saint Lawrence River area. This is where the Appalachian Mountains finally end and as may be guessed is farm country. Lucien Gaudrault was born in Saint Aubert of this county but due to crop failures he moved with his family to Concord New Hampshire by 1911. All eight of his children were born in Saint Aubert but moved to Concord with him. They settled quickly into the American culture taking industrial jobs more than mill work. His son Joseph Arthur Gaudrault did as almost all first generation Quebec immigrants did and married another first generation Quebec immigrant. His new wife Bernadette Lamontagne was from Bellechasse County of Quebec and her family had settled into the mill city of Concord also. The Great Depression of the 1930s changed the lives of all Americans profoundly. It surely changed the lives of the Gaudrault couple. Like all families, they had to search around for jobs in a poor economy. By 1935, with their son Raymond Gaudrault in tow, they moved to Holyoke.
John Reynolds of County King Ireland and Johannah Donoghue of County Kerry Ireland had immigrated to America in 1912 and 1910 respectively. They would meet and married by 1916 in Holyoke. Their daughter Rose Reynolds would marry Raymond Gaudrault by the early 1940s. In turn their daughter Joan would marry into the Sobon family in the 1960s. Four distinct ethnic groups into one household – surely the American way.
The Snow family Mormon roots go back to the origin of that religion and to the settlers to Utah. Most Mormons come from either New England, New York, Ireland, or the British Isles. Most of Mormon history has been written about by many others. Thus specifics on this case are all that are needed.
The eight lines of his great grandparents are Snow – Forsyth – Turner – Sanford – Eagar – Lee – Webb – Berry. Erastus Snow was one of the leaders of the Mormon movement. He and his family came from Vermont to Utah in the 1840s. His son Edward Hunter Snow raised his family in the new town of Saint George of Washington County of Utah. He and his wife Sarah Hannah Nelson were active in forming new schools and civic groups. The entire state needed to be made from scratch and they proved worthy pioneers. Their son Edward Vernon Snow married Lucille Forsyth, granddaughter of Scottish and English Mormon settlers.
The Turner family came from England in 1842 to join the initial Mormon movement. They persecution that the Mormons suffered caused them to move from state to state. The Turners faithfully moved with it. Lorenzo Turner and Lydia Hall had the typical large Mormon family of 12 children. They lived in many ranch and farming communities. Their son Reuben Turner married Cordelia Sanford in 1909 and had 12 children like his parents. If the Snow line is the civic leader line, then the Turner family is the farming line.
Joel Eagar and his wives had 14 children. They lived in many ranching communities of Utah, Arizona, and Mexico. With his wife Emily Jane Lee, they had Walter Eagar, the grandfather of Mark Snow. Walter married Jesse Webb in Saint George Utah. The Mormons are strong on the family unit and love their history. It is easy to obtain pictures of Mormon ancestors.
Moses Jarres Badcock married Mary Webb in about 1840 in England. After having two children with him, Mary was so chagrined at his drinking and troubling behavior that she change back to her maiden name of Mary Webb and did the same name change for the children. She too needed a religious change and join the Mormon movement to the USA. Her son William Webb married Amelia Jarvis of England in Salt Lake City in 1869. Like all immigrant groups there was a strong tendency to marry in ones original ethnicity. But as per usual it only lasted a generation. William had a son Ephriam Jarvis Webb that married a woman that had grandparents from the backwoods of Kentucky and Tennessee.
There are many interesting Woodbury characters but most of them are pre-1860 so we will write about them at length another time. Levi Woodbury born in 1789 in Francestown New Hampshire served as Governor of the state and then served in the federal government for many years. He was a US Senator, served in a cabinet for the president, and was on the US Supreme Court. His father Peter Woodbury would have a son named Peter and that line would lead to my relatives.
Charles Perkins Woodbury was a farmer in the Bedford, New Hampshire area for many decades. He married Laura Riddle Gardner in Bedford. Their son Maclean Woodbury only lived to 25 years old but still had two sons. Sadly he died of tuberculosis in Bedford in 1904. Her son Charles Perkins Woodbury would marry into the Stickney family as shown below.
Walter Brooks Stickney was born in Townsend of Massachusetts. He moved with his family to Hollis New Hampshire by the late 1860s. His son Walter Atvan Stickney stayed in the area for his life and was a farmer. His son Earl Hammond Stickney was a farmer and storeowner in Hollis too. Earl had a daughter Elsie Rowena Stickney who had three wives. The first of them Charles Perkins Woodbury would give her her only child Charles the younger.
The Cortes family of Moca in Puerto Rico is mostly a mystery. Obviously, the records of Puerto Rico are not being placed onto the internet so only federal census records are being used. When more is learned about this family more will be reported.
The Caban family comes from the villages of Moca and Marias within Moca County of Puerto Rico. Moca is located within the northwestern corner of the island. They were principally agricultural workers. Tomas Caban was born in 1865 and had nine children with Agueda Acevedo y Mendez. Their son Anicacio Cabán y Acevedo was born in 1885. Children in Puerto Rico receive one last name from their father and one last name from their mother. Hence Cabán y Acevedo was applied to all their children. Anicacio married Mauricia Soto y Vargas and their 10 children had the last name Cabán y Soto. Their daughter Andrea Cabán y Soto married Domingo Cortés y Acevedo and had one child. In Puerto Rico, a woman’s last name changed at marriage to a combination of her maiden name and her husband’s name. She would keep the first of her last names and take the first of her husband’s with a “de” placed in the middle. Andrea thus became Andrea Cabán de Cortes.
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
The Spoor detour to Farnham only lasted about 50 years. By the early 1890s, they were already coming back to the USA. Orange and his son Edwin had moved to Farnham in about the early 1840s. He had 11 children with Hedwige Adélaïde Gagnon in that city. Several of his children would moved to the New Bedford Massachusetts area in the 1890s.
Hedwige Spoor (1857 to 1922) would die in New Bedford but be brought back to Farnham for burial. Not much is known about her yet.
Marie Delima Spoor (1858 to 1864) would die in Farnham at a young age.
François Xavier Édouard Spoor (1860 to 1860) would die in Farnham less than a month old.
Marie Jeanne Spoor (1861 to 1872) would die in Farnham at a young age.
Marie Lucie Anne Spoor (1863 to ?) would marry Flavien Gamache and immigrate with him in 1892 to New Bedford. They had 3 daughters in Canada and 6 sons in Massachusetts. Most would stay in the area but still it is hard to find out much about them. Their daughters are Amanda, Anna, and Sylvia. Their sons are William, Joseph, Arthur, Archibald, Aline, and Armand. These are the first cousins of our Pepere Spoor and his siblings and thus their grandchildren are our third cousins.
Édouard Spoor (1865 to ?) would marry Scholastique Desautels and stay in Farnham.
Guillaume Spoor (1869 to 1930) would marry Marie Rosalié Gauthier and then they moved to New Bedford in February 1891. Their first daughter Marie Rose Delima Spoor (nicknamed Eva) was born in Farnham. Their next three children would all be born in Massachusetts but die within months of birth. Then Henry, Blanche, Archibald, and Florida were all born in New Bedford. Archie would lead to our many first cousins – Southworth, Antonsen, Casemiro, Grime, and Fernandes. Eva would marry Ernest Dupont and have 3 sons and 1 daughter. These would lead to our Dupont second cousins. Henry would marry Roséanne Leclair and have one son Wilfred Spoor. He in turn would marry Vivian Chenel and that would lead to our Spoor second cousins.
Leyail Spoor (1872 to ?) lived in Farnham.
Louise Spoor (1876 to ?) married Emilien Surprenant. They would reside in New Bedford by the early 1910s and have two children Rosario and Dorace.
Charles Spoor (1877 to 1949) married Alphonsine Cloutier in 1925 as a second marriage. He emigrated from Quebec in 1910 and lived with his sister for a whole in New Bedford. His two sons were Norman and Alphonse – first cousins to Archie Spoor Sr. Norman and his brother would have 12 children between them and they would all stay in the New Bedford area. They are second cousins to the Spoor sisters and Archie Spoor Jr.
Nellie Spoor (1880 to 1900) would die young in Farnham as her husband did also. But they would have a daughter Elisé L’Heureux who would go to live with her Aunt Louise Suprenant in New Bedford.
Thus it was not just William Spoor that came to New Bedford. Three of his sisters and one of his brothers would come also. His mother-in-law Rosalié Hebert would come as an elderly woman and be buried with her daughter. His wife Rosalié Gauthier would have her brother Francois move to Brattleboro Vermont. Rosalié’s nephew Oscar would visit New Bedford every summer with his family. Outings on Long Pond were frequent with the Spoor sisters and both Archies. Thus the Spoor family kept together as a unit for a long while.
Louis Touchette and Marguerite Regnier had two sons that set out to the USA. Jean Louis went to Thompson Connecticut in 1861 and Joseph went to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin in 1855. Joseph would marry Charlotte Onésime Élise Viens and have 11 children. The extended family would live in the Fond du Lac region for a century. Their daughter Joséphine would marry Peter Sheff and their children in turn would be farmers. I have one group family photo and many portraits.
Jean Louis Touchette on his part would marry Onésime Morier in 1844 in Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu, Quebec. After most of their children were born they left for Thompson, Connecticut and the extended family set down firm roots in the area. Many of the Touchette clan are still in Windham County. The daughters in the family are shown in a group photo.
Children of Touchette and Morier:
Alfred (1845 to 1923) married Céline Marcoux and had many children that stayed in the region. One of my third cousins has given me pictures of this family.
Célina (1847 to ?) came to Connecticut with the family but returned permanently to Quebec later.
Joseph (1848 to 1928) married Léocadie Grenier and had 7 sons and 2 daughters.
Frédéric (1849 to 1909) married Octavie Goyette and had 5 children. The family would relocate to New Bedford and beyond.
Marie (1851 to ?) was a dressmaker.
Norbert (1853 to ?) is a mystery to me.
Delphine (1854 to 1922) married Israël Trudeau and had 12 children. I tried to trace the whereabouts of their relatives through the decades since they have a distinctive name. There are many Trudeau family members still in Windham County and many gravestones in the cemeteries there. However, Connecticut data records are not as good as those of Massachusetts. It has led to not being able to get a good grip on the family’s history.
Emma (1856 to 1928) married Honoré Comeau and they ended up going to New Bedford. This was the second marriage of a Comeau to a Touchette in Windham County. Our great grandparents were first.
Mathildé (1858 to 1934) married Joseph Treflé Comeau and as all know moved to New Bedford in 1897. Leads to Laurent, Dorothée, Juliette, and Joseph Romeo. From there clearly, it leads to our first cousins and second cousins.
Cordélia (1861 to ?) married Pierre Vandal but nothing more is known.
Rose Anne (1862 to 1910) married Jean-Baptiste Loiselle and they moved to New Bedford also.
Edmond (1865 to 1868) died young.
Eugene (1867 to 1923) married Mary Gervais and they moved to New Bedford.
If anyone can identify more of the people in the photo, please comment. At back second from right is Mathilde Touchette. Seated older woman is Onesime Morier. Perhaps at right in front is Emma.
