Discussion Forum of the Upper St.John River Valley website / Forum de discussion du site web de la Vallée Supérieure de la Rivière St-Jean

Sheila, Your Janie might be the Jane that I list above as 5 years old in the 1851 census. The age fits: she was born in 1846, and so in 1872 was 26 years old. Given the "Blackmore" it seems highly likely. You may want to check the 1861 and 1871 censuses of Chatham and see if they are still...

I've gone through the Ste.Luce parish register and abstracted all the marriages in the period from 1843 through January 1860, and they're now online.

The Ste.Luce marriages page gives information and links to a simple or advanced search engine.

Check it out!

Nessa, John died at the age of three, you can see his burial info at this page: http://upperstjohn.com/steluce/burialdetail.php?id=617 This is from the forthcoming Ste Luce burial records database, which I'm in the process of proofreading now. You can see he died in Sept 1858, which is why he was no...

I've found a clue as to Amable's ancestry. His daughter Marie married Louis Castonguay (son of Pierre Castonguay and Louise Bois) at Ste Luce. In the marriage record Father Dionne notes that the couple were third cousins. This means that one of Louis's great grandparents was a sibling of one of Amab...

Thanks to Larry Glatz, a visitor to this website, who transcribed the Mortality Schedules of the 1850 US census of Aroostook County, and has given me permission to post them at this website. You can now see that transcription, at the 1850 Mortality Schedule page . I've also put up an alphabetical na...

Over the past few months I've added a few new things: New guestbook! I've put up a new guestbook, hosted on my own server so I have full control over it. Email addresses are now automatically hidden from spammers. I've also imported all of the old messages from my old guestbooks at Rootsweb. Please ...

Hi John,
Yes you are right. I forgot to add Macfason as McPherson to the page on English names in the Ste Luce parish register, I've just done so.
Thanks!

I've abstracted info from the Ste Luce baptisms up through Jan 1860, and they are now online. You can use the Baptisms search form to search by names of baptized person, of parents or of godparents; by baptism date (exact, month or year), by place of residence, by sex, and other pieces of informatio...

In the process of trying to trace the ancestry of Philomene Marquis ( go here for the discussion and research ) I'm looking at Cyrille Marquis who married Adelaide Gauvin, and who in the 1871 New Brunswick census is living in St Leonard. Here's death/burial info I've found on him, from Assumption Ch...

There is a discussion about Philomène Marquis, wife of Paul Caron, in the "C" forum. If you're interested in finding out more about her, who her parents were, where she came from you can get there by clicking here: http://www.upperstjohn.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=93

Searching for information on Philomene Marquis, I've looked through the church records of Ste Luce, St François, and St Hilaire, between Jan 1871 -- Philomene appears in the 1871 NB census -- and Jan 1880 -- when Paul Caron remarries to Domithilde Bélanger. There is no trace of Philomene: apart from...

A visitor asked me about this family. In particular two questions, which I answer below: 1. Is the Paul Caron who married Modeste Ouellette on 2 Jan 1838 at St Basile the same Paul Caron who married Philomene Marquis on 16 Nov 1862 at Ste Luce? 2. In the DGM, Philomene Marquis who married Paul Caron...

thanks Gary for the info, I'll make that correction.

I'd gotten those names from Mariages de Frenchville, Maine (Sainte-Luce), 1843-1970, compiled by Léon Guimond (Sillery, Québec: B. Pontbriand, 1987). Apparently Guimond was wrong about them.

Paul, here's info I found on your grandparents: ALBERT, VICTORI fils de Joseph et Alice Michaud - 1880 BOURGUOIN, FLAVIE fille de Gilbert et Philomene Dumais - 1886 maries a Ste Luce Frenchville, ME - 1917-02-05 From the SteLuce church records, here are Victori's parents: Joseph Albert, son of Victo...

James, I'm glad the website has been helpful in your family research.

Could I suggest that you do a separate post under "families" for the Smiths where you could put that info? That would be helpful to other researchers.

Thanks.