Joseph was born in 1815, the son and oldest child of Godefroy Girard and his first wife, Constance Dallaire. He married at age 24 to Suzanne Laberge. passed away sometime before the 1881 Census of Canada, which lists Suzanne as a widow.[1]
Timeline
1815 Jun 4 - Birth - La Malbaie, Charlevoix-Est, Bas-Canada[2]
1840 May 22 - Marriage to Suzanne Laberge - St-Étienne, La Malbaie, Charlevoix-Est, Bas-Canada[3]
Nos Origines [3] - Note: Nos Origines mistakenly gives the birthdate 1841 of Leocade's older sister Marie, to Leocade, when she was actually born in 1845.
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DNA Connections
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 or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Joseph: