The Family of Antione Pierre LeGault

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I'm trying to find information on the family of Antione Pierre Legault. All I have to go on is his parents, Jacques Legault and Delphine Gourgon St. Maurice. The strange thing is that I found their marriage, Jacques dob (8/11/1821) and Delphine's death around 1880. Nothing else.

Can someone help me fill it in? FamilySearch gave me some info on the Legault side. Some people have no sources to confirm this. Can someone help me find the the dods and dob and locations for Delphine Gourgon St Maurice and Jacques?

Thanks!

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Blanche Georgiana Legault

 in the Massachusetts, Birth Records, 1840-1915

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Name:	Blanche Georgiana Legault
Gender:	Female
Birth Date:	25 Mar 1899
Birth Place:	Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA
Father:	Anthony Legault
Mother:	Lucy Cadran

Source Information

Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Birth Records, 1840-1915 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.

Original data: Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840–1911. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.

Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911–1915. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.

 

 

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Oliver David Legault

 in the Massachusetts, Birth Records, 1840-1915

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Name:	Oliver David Legault
Gender:	Male
Birth Date:	8 Aug 1901
Birth Place:	Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA
Father:	Anthony Legault
Mother:	Lucie Cadran

Source Information

Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Birth Records, 1840-1915 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.

Original data: Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840–1911. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.

Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911–1915. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.

 

 

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Anthony Legault

 in the 1900 United States Federal Census

Name:	Anthony Legault
Age:	47
Birth Date:	1853
Birthplace:	Canada
Home in 1900:	Haverhill Ward 4, Essex, Massachusetts
Ward of City:	4
Street:	Water St
House Number:	203
Sheet Number:	1A
Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation:	5
Family Number:	6
Race:	White
Gender:	Male
Immigration Year:	1877
Relation to Head of House:	Head
Marital Status:	Married
Spouse's Name:	Lucy Legault
Marriage Year:	1874
Years Married:	26
Father's Birthplace:	France, Canada
Mother's Birthplace:	Canada, France
Years in US:	23
Naturalization:	Na
Occupation:	Shoe Maker
Months not employed:	6
Can Read:	Yes
Can Write:	Yes
Can Speak English:	Yes
House Owned or Rented:	R
Farm or House:	H
Neighbors:	View others on page
Household Members:	Name Age Anthony Legault 47 Lucy Legault 43 Mary Legault 13 Rose Legault 9 Hattie Legault 7 Clara Legault 5 Matilda Legault 4 Blanche Legault 1

Source Citation

Year: 1900; Census Place: Haverhill Ward 4, Essex, Massachusetts; Roll: 641; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 0298; FHL microfilm: 1240641

Source Information

Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.

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Leave Delphine's last name at birth as it is

Sammorette is probably the court clerk's version of the spelling.

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Right. It's the same as it is on FamilySearch. That site and I have serious trust issues.

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I have not been able to find anything on Jacques or Delphine's parents, yet. Thanks for the help so far!

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Name spelling variations were common in America in the early days. People weren't self-educated and the civil servants who did the records were political appointees, generally pals and relatives of the judge or mayor etc.

You have to learn to do what I call sideways finessing on names LOL

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Ah. Kinda like nowadays? *rimshot*

Sideways finessing, huh? The weird thing is her name is Delphine Samorette in the book my grandmother put together.  I look on FamilySearch and find something entirely different.

And I have Italian American friends whose ancestors had to change their last name to the region the family was from. Makes things complicated. It's probably why there's so many Smiths and Jones.

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Note: when you get back to Quebec that LeGAULT could be a "dit" name, most common for DesLauriers.

Some sources to check out for possible leads:

DESLAURIERS - BASSET, BONIN, CAVELIER, CORDEAU, COTINEAU, DAUPLES, DeLAIR, DELORME, DESLORIERS, DION, DUCHERON, ESCHAPPE, FAFARD, FAURE, FAUREAU, GUYON, JACQUES, JACQUET, LAFRANCE, LEGAU(L)T, LEMAY, MALARD, NORMANDEAU, PAPINEAU, RENARD, RENAUD, RIEL, SIMON, SOREAU, TINON

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/d/e/s/Laurence-W-Deslauriers/index.html

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/d/e/s/Laurence-W-Deslauriers-1/index.html

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/d/e/s/Laurence-W-Deslauriers-SK/index.html

http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/genealogielistfirstname.aspx?Famille=Deslauriers_402&lng=fr

 

LEGAULT - DESLAURIERS, BASTIEN, LEGAUD, LEGAU, LEGAUT, LEGO

http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/genealogielistfirstname.aspx?Famille=Legault_735&lng=fr

http://www.freewebs.com/lrdups/

http://www.ville.pointe-claire.qc.ca/en_1078_index.php

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/l/e/g/Alexandre-Legault/index.html

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/l/e/g/Bruno-B-Legault/index.html

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/l/e/g/Grard-J-Legault/index.html

http://www.legault-deslauriers.ca/genealogy/

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~larocque/histoire_legault.htm

http://famillelegault.tripod.com/

Legault dit Deslauriers: transcriptions d'actes notariés, (Denise Legault)

Legault dit Deslauriers, 2 vls, (Claude Legault)

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Yep. I just found that out as I added in the names on Ancestry. I never really understood the "dit" part. I have that on other Quebecois ancestors.

Answer 1

1871 Census,Hochelaga,Quebec,Pierre Cardran age 6 abt 1865,Father Pierre Cardran,mother Marie,There names are shortened Father Pierre

abt 38,abt 1833 Quebec Canada.

Answer 2

I have done a search at IGD/PRDH. I can find no Antoine Legault b. 1852 in Chateauguay. I did find the parents, Jacques Legault and Delphine Gourgon dite St-Maurice.

The parish register entries for that family are:

Jacques and Delphine married 1842, St-Eustache. 

Jacques remarried Marguerite Provencal 25 Jul 1881 Montréal (Notre-Dame-de-Montréal)

Children (Jacques and Delphine):

Delphine Legoth, b 31 Mar 1843, St-Eustache; m Pierre Sauriol Sansouci 29 Jul 1861, Montréal (Notre-Dame-de-Montréal)

Edesse  Legaut dit Deslaurier, b 18 Feb 1845, St-Benoit; m Elie Adam 29 Jul 1861, Montréal (Notre-Dame-de-Montréal)

Marie Legaut dit Deslaurier, b 13 Mar 1847, St-Benoit; m Philippe Parys 3 Nov 1863, Montréal (Notre-Dame-de-Montréal)

Jacques Legault, b 26 May 1849, St-Benoit; m Georgiana Therrien 30 Oct 1871 Montréal (St-Enfant-Jésus-du-Mile-End)

Eloise Legault m Damase Ouimet 28 Apr 1879 Montréal (St-Jean-Baptiste)

Aime Legault m Rose Amanda Lacoste 1 Sep 1890 Montréal (St-Enfant-Jésus-du-Mile-End)

I manually looked through 1852 Chateauguay and did not find any Legaults. 

Then I searched for Antoine Pierre Legault with 1840-1860, no location and found an Antoine Legault b 1845 St-Benoit with father Jacques and mother Marguerite Trottier. 

Are you positive about the parents names, and birth date/location?

 

edit....

Found another child:

Felix, m Mathilda Therien 26 Jan 1874 Montréal (St-Joseph)

 

 

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I think you won't find someone born in 1852 in PRDH. Above the search form it says "Search for an individual in the repertory of vital events (baptisms, marriages, burials)
1621–1849 Quebec and French Canada"

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I got excited for a brief moment when I found Antoine Alphonse Legault baptized 30 Aug 1851 in Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, but he was the son of Antoine Legault and Marthe (?) Seguin. :(

"Québec, registres paroissiaux catholiques, 1621-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L99Q-M37J?cc=1321742&wc=9RLF-3TL%3A16144001%2C17487201%2C18608901 : 16 July 2014), Mirabel > Saint-Benoît > Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1836-1859 > image 579 of 780; nos paroisses de Église Catholique, Quebec (Catholic Church parishes, Quebec).

I've been paging through the Saint-Benoît index around here;

"Québec, registres paroissiaux catholiques, 1621-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G993-X9DV?cc=1321742&wc=9RL6-FMQ%3A16144001%2C17487201%2C19845801 : 16 July 2014), Mirabel > Saint-Benoît > Index 1799-1876 Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1799-1805 > image 432 of 707; nos paroisses de Église Catholique, Quebec (Catholic Church parishes, Quebec).

 

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Maybe Châteauguay is the better place to look. I reviewed the indexed baptisms and burials for Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, from 1849 (baptism of Jacques) through 1853 and I feel like if they didn't move to Châteauguay or elsewhere I should have found either another baptism or the mother's death.

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Yes, IGD is indexed to 1861. What they don't have is the links to the family groups in PRDH for the more recent entries.

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They are not in Châteauguay but in St-Eustache then St-Benoît, and by 1861 in Montréal (at least according to first marriage of their children).  

The problem in finding baptisms in this time period is that there are rules on how old a record must be before it is made generally accessible and indexed, both from a privacy viewpoint and from the various churches themselves not wanting these records made available.  So it gets rather odd, to say the least.

Answer 3

Jacques Legos b 11 august 1821, St-Benoit, baptised the same day. Parents: Jacques Legos and Eugenie Clements. I have connected Jacques to the tree. :o)

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Thanks! =D Sent a PM. I was going by dates I found online. Hence why I was confused. All I had in my grandmother's book were the names Jacques Legault, Delphine Samorette and their son, Anthony Legault. The rest fell into place.

There's also a million spellings for Cadron it seems. I got that tree well taken care of:
http://www.mncig.org/tng/getperson.php?personID=I2097&tree=cghsm

Thanks for your help, everyone!

This info isn't on the tree on Familysearch. This is why that site and I have trust issues.

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It is on familysearch, just hard to find, which is why I pay for genealogiequebec and PRDH. Glad I could help. There are still a few I would like to connect up with earlier generations I am sure will already be on wikitree.

...and I will add the kids...

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Weird thing is this info wasn't even on http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/genealogie.aspx?lng=en

I got tons of info on my Hamel and Lefebvre ancestors. Sooner or later I will have to do LaPlante/Ross. THAT is gonna be hard.

Ross is like looking up Smith.

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Nos origines is only a repository, not actually a valid source in my view, useful for giving you clues as to where to look, but when they don't cite what their source is, I take it with a large grain of salt.  It is basically contributed to by all sorts of people, like Wikitree, but doesn't have the requirement of citing sources that I can tell.

Answer 4

For Châteauguay, try starting here and paging through the index cards - there typewritten so pretty easy to follow!

Québec, registres paroissiaux catholiques, 1621-1979," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9MB-XDHH?cc=1321742&wc=9RL3-82S%3A13629501%2C13629502%2C1290517302 : 16 July 2014), Châteauguay > Saint-Joachim-de-Châteauguay > Index, baptêmes 1736-1978 (Leblanc-Primaut) > image 792 of 4096; nos paroisses de Église Catholique, Quebec (Catholic Church parishes, Quebec).

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Thanks, Karen! =D

Answer 5

lOOK AT 1861 Census census sheet,use magnifieng glass,also shows
8 children

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Thanks. Got it covered.

Answer 6

I have filled in some extra data on Jacques, he had a 3rd marriage after Marguerite, in 1891, so we are getting into dates where you need to know the actual date to find the record, they are not in open databases.

Also filled in some dates on Michel Gourgon and his wife, and gave some data as to what I think Marie Pépin dite Lachance was actually called at birth.

Found Antoine's marriage, but no baptism for him, certainly not in Châteauguay, other baptisms found for the family up to 1849 are in St-Benoît, with the first one being in St-Eustache.

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Thanks for your help! =D This does get confusing. How does Legault become Deslauriers?

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Chris, Deslauriers is a ''dit'' name, if you go on quebecois project page you will see a short write up of where these may come from and how to apply them.

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I'll check it out. =) Thanks!

Answer 7

Antoine Legault, son of Jacques Legault and Adelphine Gourgon, was born 1851-07-28 and baptized 1851-07-31 Ste-Madeleine-de-Rigaud

"Québec, registres paroissiaux catholiques, 1621-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8993-WRW4?cc=1321742&wc=9RLZ-168%3A24354201%2C24354202%2C25095101 : 16 July 2014), Sainte-Madeleine-de-Rigaud > Sainte-Madeleine-de-Rigaud > Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1841-1856 > image 321 of 504; nos paroisses de Église Catholique, Quebec (Catholic Church parishes, Quebec).

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You sure that's the right Anthony/Antione? Someone who commented before you posted the census report and said he was born in 1852. Unless the census was off by a couple months.

Just confusing is all. Thanks!

Here's the source: http://search.ancestrylibrary.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7602

Info added. I also cleaned up a bit on his profile.

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Hi

Yes, I am sure for the birth date and location.

Yes, I am sure for the censuses: Canada 1852 and 1881, US 1880 and 1900, 

But I don't know why the family was at the same time, 1880 and 1881, in US and Canada ??? (Immigration year: 1877)

(I can't see the ancestry library) 

Thanks!

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Neither can I. I got my info from Familysearch. Thanks for the edit on his page, by the way.

Perhaps the family was visiting Canada during the time of the census. Not sure.