Rhéaume family

I did a preliminary search of the web on the Rhéaume family and found this excellent website devoted to this early French Canadian family.

http://blog.stickyrice.net/rheaume/

This particular line diverges quickly from the line that I am working on but is an interesting discussion on the early history of the Rhéaume family.

Céline Rhéaume married Félix Lanoie 24 Jul 1878 at Cyrville (now part of Ottawa), ON. Their marriage lines give the parents of Céline as Isidore Rhéaume and Adèle St Amour. The date of birth for Céline of 26 Aug 1856 at Saint André Allevin I have from the census and the death registration. I need to find her baptism.

Isidore Rhéaume and Adèle St Amour were married 1 Jan 1850 at St Eustache, Deux Montagnes according to published accounts. I have yet to find this marriage and I spent some time today going through the St Eustache parish registers in 1849 - 1851. I also looked at St André, St André Avellin in the same time period. Perhaps presumptive of me to think I might find it when others have been unable to do so but more and more material is coming on line at the pay and the free sites.

I decided to look at the collateral lines and the sister of Adèle, Elisabeth, married Félix Boivin 7 Jan 1852 at St André Avellin. Elisabeth was about six years older than Adèle. If Adèle married in 1850 she was only 18 years old. Although this was productive in showing the same parentage, it did not lead to finding the marriage I was seeking.

A baptism of Isidore Rhéaume took place 24 Aug 1826 at St Eustache (Deux Montagnes).

Le vingt quatre Aout mil huitieme vingt six ___ nous
curé sossigné a été  baptisé Isidore née hier, du Légitime mariage
de Charles Réaume journalier et de Marie Amarendgher
de cette paroisse parain Joseph Guilbau, marain Evran
ne Mousel qu'ons deéclaré ni savoir signer

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A second Isidore Rhéaume was baptized  at Ste Scholastique 15 Aug 1825

Isidore Réaume née hier to Charles Réaume
cultivateur de la Paroisse et l'Archange Lapierre
légitimé mariés, présente par son père et ___
les _____Baptismaux par Antoine Pervoyaux et Ursule
Stomalin qui ____ ont déclaré ne savoir signer a été baptisé
par Vous Pretre soussigné ce quize Aout mil huit cent vint cinq

P G de la Mollee Petre

Is one of these the correct Isidore Rhéaume? The census show him to be born consistently earlier in the 1820s - closer to 1822. His burial indicates a birth date in the range of 1822 but neither of these sources can be used to accurately say that he was born in 1822. Which one? Both are descendant of the same emigrant ancestor.

Next step is to look at all the children's baptisms to see if there is any usage of siblings' names.

French Canadian ancestry - Lauzon

I had a very successful day looking at the Lauzon family and discovered a tree online which I shall pursue with the actual records. I tend to do genealogy from the respect of what others have done before me. The Lauzon family has been quite researched I have discovered with at least five distinct trees online tracing back to the founding couple Pierre Lauzon and Anne Boivin. The line I am looking at descends through their son Gilles and Marie Archambault, their son Gilles and Marie-Anne Grolx, their son Gilles and Marie Anne Viau dit Lesperance, their son Joseph and Marie Catherine Fontigney dite St Jean. This marriage I have found on Drouin and was the point that I was at in my research yesterday when I found the earlier information where I now need to locate the records. I have the marriage for Augustin (son of Joseph and Marie Catherine) who married Clemence Chaumont to their son Joseph married to Rosalie Thibaut. Their son Augustin married Hélèna Brunet at Notre Dame de la Salette, Papineau and their eldest son Joseph Telesphore Augustin Lauzon married Dora Lanoie at Sturgeon Falls in 1910. I wondered if this was correct but my good fortune yesterday was to find Augustin and Hélèna at Sturgeon Falls on the 1901 census so this marriage is now working for the tree.

I now have all the information for the tree for the Lauzon family back nine generations (chart is nine generations) once I find all the records before the marriage of Joseph Lauzon and Marie Catherine Fontigney dite St Jean. I would also like to find all the baptisms and burials before I actually give the chart away. I am still lacking information on some of the feeder lines into this family Brunet, Constantineau, Deguire dit LaRose, Brunet dit Lalang, Lanoie, Boileau, Rhéaume, and St Armour. For the first four I need two generations and for the next four I need three generations. So still quite a bit of work.

That still leaves me with three other main lines (Grégoire, Bédard and Mourier). I already know the Mourier line will be more difficult because the furtherest back member that I have traced thus far was born in France in 1845 (although still four generations have been born in Canada!). Amazingly in this entire family that I have researched thus far this is the only individual not born in Canada until we get back into the 1600s (earliest baptism thus far is 1639). An amazing number of French Canadian families (no duplicates thus far) is part of this entire tree. I am putting the emphasis on this research now because of the new baby coming in the spring (our daughter's first niece or nephew, her husband's brother's child). It would be so nice to have a chart all ready for the baby.

Today I shall find the proofs for the Lauzon family and then continue working on the other feeder families for this particular main line.