Watier dit Lanoie family

Another brickwall that took some time to work my way through was the Lanoie family who were living near Sturgeon Falls ON in Calvin near Bonfield in Nippissing County from the 1880s on into the 1900s. Mary Dora Lanoie was born 22 Feb 1891 on Lot 11, Concession 1 Calvin, Bonville, Nippissing, Ontario and baptized 15 Mar 1891 at Mattawa Ontario. Dora was the daughter of Félix Lanoie and Céline Rhéaume.

B 29 Mary Dora Lanoie
Le quinze Mars mil huit cent quatre vingt
onze nous pretre soussigné avons baptisé Mary
Dora née le vingt deux fevrier du légitime
mariage de Félix Lanoie et de Céline
Réaume Parrain Gervias Doyle marrain
Lidea Emard qui n'ont pu signer
L Guimet OMJ

In the margin at a later date and in a different hand is written: a épousé Téléspore Lauzon le 23 Mai 1910 a Sturgeon Falls. O François Payette OMJ.

What a simply wonderful clarification. Working my way back, I did find the marriage of Félix Lanoie and Céline Rhéaume 24 Jul 1878 at Cyrville (near Ottawa), Ontario.

M4
Le vingt quatre juillet mil huit cent soixante
dixhuit, dispense les trois Bans de mariage
ayant été ______ par Sr ______ Joseph
Thomas Duhamel, éveque d'Ottawa a
Félix Lanoie domicilié en cette paroisse
fils majeur de défunt Jacques Lanoie in
son vivant cultivateur et d'Emélie Boileau
de la paroisse de St André Avellin d'un part
et a Célina Rhéaume fille majeur d'Isi
dore Rhéaume journalier et d'Adèle
St Amour du cette paroisse d'autre part,
ni s'étant découvert au _____
________ mariage, nous
pretre soussigné  ____ de cette paroisse
avons reçe leur mutuel consentement
et lui avons donné la bénédiction
nuptiale en présence d'Isidore Rhéaume
_____ l'épouse, les quels _______
__ savoir signer. L'épouse _____
Célina Rhéaume (signed)
L Lévesque P[re]tre

The marriage registration takes us back to the parents of Félix Lanoie; namely Jacques Lanoie and Emélie Boileau. Finding this marriage proved to be a real challenge. I simply never found a Jacques Lanoie so I started searching online to see if anyone else was researching this family. I discovered that the name had been used as Wathier dit Lanoie and that one side of the family used Lanoie and the other Wathier. With that knowledge I began searching once again and found the marriage of Jacques Wathier and Emélie Boileau 9 Jan 1832 at St Michel, Vaudreuil. Jacques Wathier was born 31 Oct 1808 at Vaudreuil and he was buried 3 August 1866 at St André Avellin. Certainly the right location for Félix Lanoie who was said to be of St André Avellin on the marriage registration with Céline Rhéaume.

Le neuf javier, mil huit cent trente deux
après la publication de trois Bans de mariage fai
te au prone de la messe paroissiale par deux di
manches et une faite ________, entre Jacques
Wathier, cultivateur en cette paroisse, fils
majeur Antoine Wathier, donat___ et de Josephte
Dubois ses père et mère aussi de cette paroisse d'un
part et Emélie Boileau, fille mineure de Pierre
Boileau, bordoleur en cette paroisse et de défunte
Catherine Bénard, ses père et mère, d'autre part.
ni l'étant découvert aucun empechement au
mariage avec ______des parents, nous pre
tre soussigné Cure, nous reçu le mutuel consente
ment des partis, et leur avons donné la bénédic
tion nuptiale en présence d'Antoine Wathier,
père de l'époux, d'Antoine Wathier, de Gré
goire Wathier, ses frères de Josephte Wathier,
de Marguerite Wathier de Reine Wathier
de Sophie Wathier de Marcelle Wathier,
ses Soeurs, d'Ignace Ti___aud, de Jean Baptiste
Gavant, de François Ten___, et de Jerome
Goulet, ses beau ___, d'André Dubois, son
oncle, et de Michel Pilon son te____, de
Pierre Boileau, père de l'épouse de Pierre Boileau, de
Louis Boileau, et de Hyacinthe Boileau ses frères,
de _ed__ Décair son beau frère de Joseph Pigeon
d'Hyacinthe Ménard et de Jean Bénard ses oncles,
de Felicite Pigeon, Angelique Ménard de Jean
Baptiste Ranger et de Mathias Normand, ses
_______qui _____ ont déclare n l'avons signer

P _ Archambeaut __

Wonderful information (and I will work on the transcription) to help place these two young people in their correct families.

The marriage of Antoine Wathier and Marie Josephte Dubois took place 17 Oct 1796 at Vaudreuil. Their marriages lines will take longer to transcribe as the page is somewhat blurry but I am able to extract the names of Antoine's parents Thomas Watier and Marie Josephte Lalonde. Searching for their marriage in Tanguay it was 17 Feb 1749 at Bout de l'ile (Montréal). Thomas was born in France and was a Royal Notary the son of Thomas Watier and Jeanne Agnier.

Thomas Watier is the emigrant and thus Generation 1.
Antoine Watier married to Marie Josephte Dubois is Generation 2.
Jacques Wathier dit Lanoie married to Emélie Boileau is Generation 3.
Félix Lanoie married to Céline Rhéaume is Generation 4.
Mary Dora Lanoie is Generation 5 (married to Joseph Télésphore Augustin Lauzon)

I would like to know about Thomas Watier to include in this family history so will pursue that information on the next research day.

Jacques Watier family

I made an interesting discovery as I worked my way back through the Lanoie family. They are located at Sturgeon Falls on the census. I had been looking for the marriage of the parents of Dora Lanoie and did know from her marriage to Telesphore Lauzon that their names were Félix Lanoie and Céline Rhéaume. I found their marriage 24 Jul 1878 at Cyrville and discovered that Félix Lanoie's parents were: Jacques Lanoie and Émélie Boileau. I then searched online and discovered that Jacques name was listed as Jacques Watier dit Lanoie but I could not find the marriage of Jacques and Émélie. By luck I did find the burial for Émélie Boileau and discovered that she was listed as the widow of Jacques Lanoie tying the names together. The date in a personal family tree that I found listed the marriage as 9 Feb 1832. I searched on Watier and Boileau and found the marriage of Hyacinthe Boileau and Sophie Watier (same parents!). I moved back in the register to check out 9 Feb 1832 and discovered that the marriage of Jacques and Émélie was actually 9 Jan 1832 and the name of the groom was Jacques Watier son of Antoine Watier (deceased) and his wife Marie Josephte Dubois. One of the webpages (personal family) that I looked at gave the possible reason for the name Lanoie as:

There's a site on the city of Laon in French.

http://damien-peiffer.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html

Scroll down to the photo of the train & medieval church. It says, "Laon is a French commune situated in the dept. of Aisne, region of Picardy. Its name is pronounced "lan". Its inhabitants are called Laonnais, pronounced "lanoi." Perhaps that is the reason for this "dit" name: Thomas Watier dit Laonnois.

This Thomas was a royal notary in Montréal and he married Marie Josephte Lalonde. What I now need to prove with records is that the Antoine Watier married to Marie Josephte Dubois is their son. The personal trees I found online do make this connection but I would like some paperwork if I can find it.

I continue working on this tree as I promised to give a copy to my son-in-law's paternal grandmother and I wanted to add a few generations to it before doing so.

I have a couple of other projects that I will start to concentrate on as well now that those long cold winter days are here once again. Our temperature has been somewhat moderated by the Atlantic current this last week but the deep freeze will eventually reach us I suspect :)