Nicolas Marois Beaupré (1789 - 1848)

Born 25 Apr 1789 in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Province de Québec

Ancestors

Husband of Marie Anne Julien — married 2 Aug 1814 in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Bas-Canada

Descendants

Died 11 Apr 1848 at age 58 in Saint-Raymond, Bas-Canada

Biography

Nicolas was the son of Noël Beaupré and Louise Poitras. He was born 25 April 1789 and baptized the next day in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, in modern-day Québec. His godparents were Nicolas Cantin(?) and Marianne Jobin.^[1]

On 2 August 1814, the twenty-five-year-old Nicolas married the twenty-one-year-old Marie Anne Julien in St-Augustin. In attendance as witnesses were Nicolas' brothers Jean Baptiste, François and Augustin.^[2]

Nicolas and Marie Anne had the following children:

1. Nicolas, born 5 July 1815
2. Maxime, born 13 April 1817; died young on 16 April 1817
3. Casimire, born 26 February 1818
4. Magdeleine, born 13 September 1819; married Mathias Cantin in 1838
5. Hubert, born 26 March 1821; married Marie Louise Langevin in 1844
6. Dosithée, born ca. 1823; married Pierre Auger in 1847
7. Ignace, born 30 January 1825
8. Louis, born 19 August 1827; married Cécile Martel in 1849
9. Pierre, born 30 March 1829; died young on 21 July 1830
10. Léon, born 27 June 1830; married Elizabeth Langevin in 1854
11. Félicité, born 31 March 1832; died young on 17 October 1832
12. Pierre, born 15 February 1834; married Rose Délima Langevin in 1854
13. Hilarion, born 19 October 1835
14. Henri, born ca. 1836; married Marguerite Moisan in 1862
15. Marie Philomène, born 9 October 1837; married Louis Langevin in 1855

Nicolas and Marie Anne were relatively early settlers in the area that came to be called Saint-Raymond after the official founding of the parish in 1844. They moved to the area sometime after the birth of their final child, Marie Philomène, in October 1837, and their household appears on the 1842 Census for St-Raymond. The large family of ten had one cow and one pig, and lived on a farm that produced barley, rye, oats, and potatoes.^[3]

Nicolas continued to live in St-Raymond until his death on 11 April 1848, at the age of fifty-eight. He was buried in St-Raymond two days later.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Parish baptism record in Drouin Collection, St-Augustin-de-Desmaures, 1789
2. ↑ Parish marriage record in St-Augustin-de-Desmaures, 1814
3. ↑ 1842 Census of Canada East, Portneuf, Saint-Raymond; indexed here
4. ↑ Parish burial record in Drouin Collection, St-Raymond, 1848; indexed here

• Ancestry.com. Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2008. Original data: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin.
• Ancestry.com. 1842 Census of Canada East [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Canada, Lower Canada Census, 1842. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.