O, Canada! Take the Canada 150 Genealogy Challenge and list your ancestors who were living in Canada in 1867, the dates they arrived (can be approximate), and where they first settled.
The Challenge was created by Patricia Greber, who launched it with a list of her ancestors on her blog, My Genealogy Life.
These are my 1867 ancestors.
Name Date Place
Henrietta Alexander 1850 Montreal, Quebec
Maria Terrett 1850 Montreal, Quebec
Robert Young 1855 Montreal, Quebec
Mary Fyvie 1855 Montreal, Quebec
James Young 1855 Montreal, Quebec
George Gooderham 1861 Brampton, Ontario
Emily Burrows 1861 Brampton, Ontario
Alfred Burrows 1861 Brampton, Ontario
Harriet Fellingham 1862 Brampton, Ontario
James Dever 1862 Picton, Ontario
Sarah Cheatley 1862 Picton, Ontario
Samuel Dever 1862 Picton, Ontario
The in-laws
My husband wins the first-in-Canada prize in our family with his ancestors.
Marin Boucher 1634 Quebec City, Quebec
Perrine Mallet 1635 Quebec City, Quebec
Louis Houde 1647 Île d’Orléans, Quebec
Madeleine Boucher 1641 Quebec City, Quebec
Louis Houde 1647 Ile D’Orleans Qc. wife Madelaine Boucher 1641 qc. City
Willim Henri Leavoy/Lavoie1855 Pontiac Qc
George Kelly 1854 Buckingham Ont.
Charles Price 1851 Bathrurst Ont. wife Mary Ann Cowan 1863 Ont
William N. Hynes 1858 Ont.
Edward Ryan 1853 Mont St-Patrick Ont
Good list, Cindy. I recognize some of those names. 🙂
Thank you Gail 😉
Abraham Ramer 1824 Mount Joy, ON wife Mary Williams (Irish) m 1849
Elizabeth Ramer 1850 Mount Joy, ON m David Meyer (Swiss) 1867
James A. Moore b. 1851 Norfolk Cty, ON wife Luella Mattice b.1861, Norfolk Cty, ON
James Moore b.1803, Wilmot Twsp, NS wife Anne Terhune 1836 Norfolk Cty, ON
Joseph Mattice b.1829 Norfolk Cty, ON wife Catharine Kniffen b 1837, Port Dover, ON
Elizabeth Smith 1783 Wilmot Twsp NS
Maria Roome 1836 Norfolk Cty, ON
Wm. Mattice b.1790 Cornwall, ON wife Margaret Salmon b.1801 Norfolk Cty, ON
Edward J. Kniffen 1824 Norfolk Cty, ON wife Margaret Lemon b.1811 Norfolk Cty, ON
Elizabeth Jones b.1783, Norfolk Cty.
Archibald Dickson 1833
Elizabeth Rutherford Turnbull Dickson 1834
John Turnbull Dickson 1834
Thomas Sloan 1831
Margaret Williamson 1831
Mary Sloan 1837
Alexander McKerchar before 1836
Janet McGregor McKerchar before 1836
James McKerchar before 1836
Mary Gilchrist about 1825
Mary McKerchar Lyon 1854
Every one of my ancestors was in Quebec by 1867. My list would be over 2,000 people. The last to arrive was around 1717, and by 1867, I already had 2-3 ancestors moving to the U.S.
Not ancestors but from my one-place study area – Walls, Orkney, Scotland
John Oman (early 1860s?) and his wife Elizabeth Smith. He returned to Orkney from Stratford, Ontario, and married in April 1863. Settled in Stratford, Ontario. Her sister Emily, a nephew Nathaniel Smith and others followed in the 1860s.
Just learned of this challenge. A quick response: Maternal Grandparents:
Édouard DUPUIS, Age 73, Born 12 Feb 1855 in St-Guillaume, Québec,
Died 14 Jan 1929 in St-Guillaume, Québec at age 73;
7 in 1861 Census, St-Guillaume d’Upton; not there in 1881.
At St-Germain working his uncle’s farm while that family is temporarily in the United States.
SP Marie-Rose JARRET DE BEAUREGARD, Age 49,
Born 20 Jan 1859 in St-Charles, Québec, Married 20 Feb 1882 in St-Hugues, Québec for 25 years,
Died 5 Feb 1908 in St-Guillaume, Québec at age 49; 2 in 1861 Census; 21 in 1881.
Marie-Rose Jarret de Beauregard’s parents: My Beauregard great-grandparents, Louis Jarret de Beauregard and Zoë Meunier dite Lapierre had married 30 August 1842 in Saint-Charles. She was 16 and he was 20, and they were beginning a life that would span thirty-nine years and produce at least seventeen children (for whom I have records). From the age of 16 to the age of 52, Great-grandmother Zoë (whose name means life) brought into the world ten girls and seven boys, only three of whom, two boys and a girl, died in infancy. Two of the girls never married, one expiring at 17 and the other at 39. All the others married and had children.
Édouard Dupuis’s father, Joseph Dupuis, was born in 1823 in Maskinongé, son of Joseph Dupuis and Théotiste Vanasse. Joseph Dupuis married Eloise Bibeau, daughter of Pierre Bibeau and Christine Labonne, on 21 February 1843, in Saint-Guillaume.
Paternal Grandparents:
Joseph BOIVIN, Born 14 Jul 1858 in St-Jérôme, Québec, Died 2 Jan 1936 in Montréal, Québec at age 77; Baptized at St-Jérôme Cathédral. Godparents: Jérémie Boivin and Louise Plouffe. Established in Doncaster, later called Belisle’s Mills and Val David, by 1879.
SP Polexine (Marie Alexine) BENOÎT, Born 12 Oct 1859 in St-Janvier, Québec, Married 9 Sep 1878 in St-Sauveur, Québec for 57 years, Died 6 Mar 1939 in Montréal, Québec at age 79.
Polexine’s father: Philibert BENOÎT, was born 17 May, baptized 19 May 1833 as Hubert; godparents were Pierre Guenet and Celeste Moral, Died 16 Jan 1913 in Saint-Jérôme at age 82 [sic]; Buried at Saint-Jérôme 18 Jan 1913. Possibly living near Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts or Morin Heights. I visited his farm home occupied by his daughter Florida in 1950-52. Age at death given as 82. Tradition gives birthdate as October 1, 1834 in Saint-Janvier, but record not found there because he was baptized under the name Hubert. 18 years old and a “journalier,” in 1851 St-Janvier as Gilbert. This is most probably Philibert, who is recorded as “julbert” in the 1861 census. No son named Gilbert located.
SP Marie Caroline LEDUC, , Born ??? 1837?, Married 1 Oct 1855 in St-Janvier, Québec for 30 years, Died 20 May 1886 in St-Sauveur-des-Monts at age 49; 1851 census at St-Janvier, living with parents, married sister, brother-in-law, brother, niece, one farm over from the Benoît place, home of her future husband.
Joseph Boivin’s parents were Joseph-Isaïe Boivin and Lucie Bigras: My great-grandparents Joseph-Isaïe Boivin and Lucie Bigras had most of their children baptized at Saint-Jérôme, at that time the largest city north of Montréal. They themselves had been married at Saint-Jérôme 16 April 1855, when Joseph-Isaïe (born 28 March 1834, according to 1901 Census) was 21 and Lucie Bigras (born 14 December 1837, according to 1901 Census) was 17 years old. They were settled in the Saint-Hippolyte region by the 1861 Census but still frequented Saint-Jerome, where they are recorded in 1868 as farmers from Saint-Hippolyte. The religious foundation of this parish dates to 1869. Before that, the people in the area were served by the priest from Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson (established 7 Oct 1864).
Suzanne Boivin Sommerville
Like Craig, who posted on 30 June, all of my maternal ancestors were in Canada–Quebec, specifically–by 1867. My maternal grandparents (Lavallée and Boucher surnames) came to the US in the 1920s.
I also have Louis Houde and Madeleine Boucher, so I have Marin Boucher and Perrine Malet on my Lavallée line…and on my Boucher line, I have Marin and his first wife Julienne Baril, who died in France. So, my maternal grandparents were 8th or 9th half-cousins!
I recognize those names!!