Joseph Louis Gauthier de Varennes was the son of Joseph Gauthier de Varennes and Brigitte Rhodes. He was born 9 December 1791 and baptized the same day in L'Ancienne-Lorette, in modern-day Québec. His godparents were Jean Baptiste Legaré and Charlotte Sarrazin, widow de Varennes.[1]
On 3 February 1817, at the age of twenty-five, Joseph married Marie Alain in L'Ancienne-Lorette. Joseph's witnesses were his father Joseph, his uncle Etienne, and Jean Baptiste Dufresne.[2]
Joseph and Marie had the following known children:
Joseph's family was among the first to move from L'Ancienne-Lorette to the nearby settlement of Bourg-Louis, which came to be called Saint-Raymond after the official founding of the parish in 1844. Joseph was enumerated there on the 1842 Census as the head of a household of eight people. At the time the census was taken, the family had 204 acres of land and they grew rye, oats, peas, buckwheat, potatoes, and maple sugar. They also had one cow, one horse, and three hogs.[3]
Joseph's wife Marie passed away 8 October 1845, and Joseph himself died 14 November 1847, at the age of fifty-five. He was buried the next day in St-Raymond.[4]
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.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Joseph by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA test-takers in his direct paternal line.
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