Thérèse Gauvin (1824 - 1850)

Born 3 Dec 1824 in L'Ancienne-Lorette, Bas-Canada

Ancestors

Wife of Charles Moisan — married 31 Mar 1845 in L'Ancienne-Lorette, Bas-Canada

Died 24 Oct 1850 at age 25 in Saint-Raymond, Bas-Canada

Biography

Thérèse was the daughter of Ignace Gauvin and Marguerite Alain. She was born 3 December 1824 and baptized the same day in L'Ancienne-Lorette, in modern-day Québec. Her godparents were Pierre Robitaille and Marie Angélique Alain.^[1]

On 31 March 1845, Thérèse married Charles Moisan in L'Ancienne-Lorette. Thérèse's witnesses were her father Ignace and her brothers Michel and Pierre.^[2]

Thérèse and Charles had the following children:

1. Charles, born 27 July 1846
2. Joseph, born 12 November 1847
3. Pierre Eugène, born 29 June 1849; died 21 July 1849
4. Jean Baptiste, born 25 June 1850

Thérèse and Charles moved to the parish of Saint-Raymond before the birth of their second child in November 1847. On 24 October 1850, four months after the birth of her last child, Thérèse died at the age of 25. She was buried two days later in Saint-Raymond.^[3]

Notes

Note that the page with Charles and Thérèse's marriage is missing on Ancestry.com's Drouin database. It can be viewed on FamilySearch's unindexed database here.

Sources

1. ↑ Parish baptism record in Drouin Colletion, L'Ancienne-Lorette, Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation, 1824
2. ↑ Parish marriage record in Drouin Collection, L'Ancienne-Lorette, Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation, 1845
3. ↑ Parish burial record in Drouin Collection, St-Raymond, 1850; 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.
• "Québec, registres paroissiaux catholiques, 1621-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-899Q-S9MW-L?cc=1321742&wc=HCFF-K68%3A13625301%2C13625302%2C15872001 : 16 July 2014), Ancienne-Lorette > Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation > Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1831-1858 > image 307 of 596; Archives Nationales du Quebec (National Archives of Quebec), Montreal.