{"id":9446,"date":"2019-02-07T21:24:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T21:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jmhartley.com\/HBlog\/?p=9446"},"modified":"2019-02-07T21:31:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T21:31:02","slug":"genealogy-for-heather-and-jj-part-9-200-years-of-canadian-ancestry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jmhartley.com\/HBlog\/2019\/02\/07\/genealogy-for-heather-and-jj-part-9-200-years-of-canadian-ancestry\/","title":{"rendered":"Genealogy for Heather and JJ: Part 9 – 200 Years of Canadian Ancestry"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my previous Blog<\/a> I had some breakthroughs on Heather and JJ’s Boudria (also spelled Boudrias) Line. In this Blog, I’d like to look at the Barbary side (mother of Joseph Tessier aka Tacy) and more into Phoebe, the wife of Joseph Tessier. I have been using the Genealogy of Canada Website, so I’ll continue with that.<\/p>\n

First Phoebe<\/h2>\n

I have had trouble finding out Phoebe’s last name. I had Sawyer then took it out. Then I noticed a Tessier tree had Phoebe as Phoebe Sawyer. At the Genealogy of Canada Website, I see Joseph’s father Salomon, but not Joseph:<\/p>\n

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Here is Ste-Therese where Salomon Tessier was born:<\/p>\n

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So I am still stuck figuring out who Phoebe is<\/p>\n

Barbary and Barbary<\/h2>\n

Next, I’ll move on the the double Barbary line:<\/p>\n

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Joseph and Marie Barbary<\/h3>\n

I’m curious to see if the parents of Marguerite Amable Barbary are related to each other. Chances are they should be. They are both dit Grandmaison. Dit is a nickname. Pehaps this line lived in a large house.\u00a0 Marguerite’s father, Joseph was born in Pointe-Claire on the Island of Montreal in 1776 and died in Ste-Placide to the West of Montreal:<\/p>\n

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Marie Barbary is more difficult to find. Her estimated birth year is 1783. Here are the couple in 1851 in Ste-Placide:<\/p>\n

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Joseph is listed as 76 ans and Marie shows as 64 ans. Based on this Census, she could have been born in 1787. Ancestry guesses at 1788, so I’ll use that. Here is Ste-Placide by the\u00a0 St Lawrence River.<\/p>\n

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Barbary in the 1750’s<\/h3>\n

Joseph and Andre were both born in the 1750’s when the United States was still a British Colony:<\/p>\n

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Joseph was born in Point-Claire and Andre was born not far away:<\/p>\n

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Agathe Robidoux was from Deux-Montagnes:<\/p>\n

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Three Generations From Marguerite Amable Barbary<\/h3>\n

I have all of Maruerite’s four grandparents. The next step takes us to Marguerite’s eight great-grandparents.<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately Marguerite’s maternal grandmother Agathe Labrosse died when she was 24. With my translator on I see that Labrosse could mean “the brush”.\u00a0 Most of Marguerite’s great-grandparents were from Point-Claire. Most of this generation also lived through the year 1760. That was the year that Montreal was surrendered to the British following the Battle at the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City. Montreal did not become a City until 1832. It was not long after this time that Heather and JJ’s 3rd and 4th great grandparents Joseph and Solomon Tessier aka Tacy made their move South over the border into Upstate New York.<\/p>\n

Marguerite Amable’s 2nd Great-Grandparents<\/h3>\n

The next logical step is to look for Marguerite’s 16 2nd great-grandparents. The first of this generation of Marguerite’s ancestors that I looked at was Raymond Labrosse. He was born in France in 1695:<\/p>\n

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This town was about 60 miles north of Lyon. So this is the generation where some of the ancestors were born in France. Other things I want to look for:<\/p>\n