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Joshua Gibbs Family, Immigrant Years in Lower Canada

Introduction

The UP TO RAWDON website was created to feature material that had been removed from the original publication due to the page limits of the print books. This allowed me to bring forward articles pertaining to the people of the old township, such as the story of the men who had served the Union side in the American Civil War 1 and others.

Part One of Joshua Gibbs Family, Immigrant Years in Lower Canada was published in QFHS Connections June 2020 and Part Two in Spring 2021.

Finding the Gibbs Family

The profile of Orimill Gibbs that appeared in From Union Jack to Union Blue benefited from access to information, that was not available to me in 2013, when I was writing about the Gibbs family. In summary, Orimill Gibbs, aged four, and an infant sister, named Dorothy Gibbs, were baptized Catholics, in the absence of Protestant clergy in 1818 and 1819, near the d’Ailleboust Seigneury where they were born. I had known the parents were American because when the sister of their father (also Dorothy), married an Irish-Catholic at Saint-Jacques in 1817, her parents and their places of origin were named by the priest in the registration. This intrigued and challenged me to find more about the mysterious Protestant Americans who lived surrounded by Catholic Canadiens and so began my attempt to unravel the story of Joshua Gibbs, 2 the grandfather of Orimill.

  1. Magloire Guibbs (sic), né & baptisé 12 janvier 1817 Ste-Élisabeth, seigneurie d'Autray, fils d'Henry (Horry ?) Guibbs et d'Anne Housse[1]
  2. Dorothée Caroline Gibbs, née 7 août 1818 bapt. 8 St-Jacques-de-l'Achigan, fille d'Orimils Gibbs et d'Anna Housse (parents sont protestants, de la seigneurie d'Ailleboust)[2]
  3. Télesphore Orimils Gibbs, né ~ 9 janvier 1815, baptisé 5 janvier 1819 à 4 ans moins 5 jours St-Jacques-de-l'Achigan, fils d'Orimils Gibbs et d'Anna Housse, de la seigneurie d'Aileboust, les parents présents, le curé fut parrain, la marraine Marie Sophanie Richard et le père signent.[3]

Dorothée Gibbs, fille de Josué Gibbs et de Anna Clark, originaire de Sallsburg aux États-Unis, épouse Patrice Malville (Molloy) fils de Thimothée Thaddée Malville et de défunte Marguerite McBernodd, de la province de Carnanotte en Irlande, le 18 novembre 1817 à St-Jacques-de-l'Achigan[4] Dorothée avait été baptisée le 17 novembre 1817 au même lieu, changeant de religion, ayant été anabaptiste selon l'acte. Elle a 21 ans selon l'acte. (précède son mariage dans le registre). Ils reconnaissent 3 enfants comme les leurs et les légitiment par ce mariage, les 3 baptisés le 9 précédent sous la rubrique de parents inconnus (page précédente du mariage). Liste d'actes subséquents Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)

All Saints de Ramsay, anglican church, and other protestant denominations, list of acts found by this author, Rawdon area. Earliest date is 1828. https://uptorawdon.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/24-St-Felix-and-area-Catalogue-of-Protestant-Families.pdf

St James Anglican of Berthier-en-Haut only opens registers in 1823 St. James' Anglican Church 1823-1919 Cote : CE605,S41 Fonds Cour supérieure. District judiciaire de Joliette. État civil - Archives nationales à Montréal Id 478111 (acts linked onsite)


23 March 1811: The first evidence of the Gibbs living at d’Ailleboust was the marriage of Orimill Gibbs of Taillebout [sic],” farmer, 23 years and Hannah Vanhoosen “spinster of Terrebonne, aged 17 years” recorded at St. Gabriel Street Presbyterian Church, Montreal and signed by Orrimill [sic] Gibbs, John Van Husson and Horris Gibbs. And, in 1817, the previously mentioned marriage of Dorothy Gibbs.[5]

The 1811 declaration made by Joshua from David C. Gibbs states: ”in the year 1813, in the month of January we made calculations to leave the province of Canada and the boys set out and was defeated being taken for soldiers in Montreal by the British and Horris Gibbs and Hirum Gibbs left the British Army in the year 1814. Before ‘reaping of wheat’ and about the same time I left my place of abode in Canada in order to come to the States on the account of the war and I brought out [my son] Myron Gibbs and then brought of the rest of my family in the year 1814.”

When Joshua left in 1814, it has been reported he went to Dunn’s Patent, where he had relatives, spent time at locations in Vermont and New York, before he settled the family in Clarion County, Pennsylvania. Horris [sic] and Orimill and their children remained and were recorded as residents of d’Ailleboust in 1825. Hiram was still somewhere in Lower Canada as well.

Manoir Panet, Sainte-Mélanie, one of the oldest buildings in Lanaudière was built in 1811. The Gibbs and Van Hussen families lived beside Madame, the Widow Panet in 1825. See census report below.

  • Notary F. X. Cadet, Joliette, Item #726

http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/notaires/affichage.html?serie=06M_CN605S12&a=a_c

  • Notary Rolland-Daiminault # 1798, # 1799

http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/notaires/affichage.html?serie=06M_CN605S39&a=p_r

June – September 1825 de Ramsay, St-Felix and d’Ailleboust Census: 13 These households are side by side on same page:

https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1825&op=pdf&id=004569588_00309 (bottom left) (Also a Charles Hewson listed separately https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1825&op=pdf&id=004569588_00308 in same location)

  • Mad. V. l’Hon’ble P. L. Panet, 6 in household, single woman over 45 (veuve) (This is Madame Panet née Marie-Anne Cerré, a widow; born 1764 Kaskaskias (Illinois), and died 1828, Ste-Elisabeth.)
  • John Hewson [sic Van Hussen] a man over 60, not married and head of household of 6
  • Orrimill [sic] Gibbs, family of 7 including spouse
  • Horris [sic Horace] Gibbs, family of 8 including spouse

1827 two marriages, by banns, at Christ Church, Rawdon witnessed by Horace Gibbs, a “friend to the contracted parties”; possibly, he was the father of the two brides. Previous address for Horace was Lot 7 of Second Range (footnote 10).

  • Sarah Gibbs of Lot 7, Eighth Range, Kildare married William Clondillon [sic Clandinning] of Lot 9 Kildare on 9 March. William Clandinning had witnessed the 21 September 1830 marriage of Samuel Smiley of Rawdon and Catherine Dixon of Kildare, recorded at St. James, Berthier.
  • Esther Gibbs of Lot 7 Eighth Range, Kildare married John Sullivan of the Seigneury of Denbibeau [sic d’Ailleboust?] on 28 October 1827.14

12 LAC C-2528, Volume: 92, Pages 45670 and 45671.

13 Identified in the database as Ste-Elizabeth [sic Elisabeth] de Warwick. There are about twenty English settlers’ names on pages 1533 – 1542 and all are identifiable as residents at de Ramsay, St-Felix and d’Ailleboust. The designation perhaps should include Ste-Mélanie where Panet built a house in 1811.

Warwick Census District, north of the St. Lawrence, included Berthier, Brandon, Lac Maskinongé, Lavaltrie, Lanoraie, St-Cuthbert, St-Paul, Ste-Elisabeth and other places. Ste-Elizabeth de Warwick is a town in Arthabaska County, then known as Buckinghamshire District (south of the St. Lawrence) that did not exist in 1825. (Ste-Élisabeth, seigneurie d'Autray, is more correct terminology for the location near d'Ailleboust seigneurie, not to be confused with Arthabaska area)

15 Events for St. James Episcopal congregations of Rivière du Loup are recorded both as Louiseville and Berthier. Berthier: http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/ecivil/affichage.html?serie=06M_CE605S41&a=st

1831 Census – Horace Gibbs was reported at Township of Kildare Village (part of Ste-Elisabeth Census) and head of a family of four); his address was Kildare, Lot 7 of Eighth Range in March and October 1827; when he signed Christ Church register at marriages of his presumed daughters (above).

- Joshua Gibbs who received a village grant at Kildare in 1824 is not accounted for on the 1831 Census.

- Orimill Gibbs single man, headed a family of five, one of two Anglican families enumerated in the Seigneury d’Ailleboust part of Ste-Elisabeth Census. 16

John Van Hussen and family

John Van Hussen had been a witness at the marriage of Orimill Gibbs to Hannah Van Hoosen [sic] 23 March 1811, at Saint Gabriel Street Presbyterian Church, Montreal and I believe is his daughter, about 17 years. The men were literate and signed the register. In a miscellaneous undated file, marked trouvé à Terrebonne (I estimate it was created 1811 / 1812) John and his family are enumerated

  • – John Van Housen 64, Elenor 47 and children – Elizabeth 15, Joshua 14, Henry & Dotty 12, Peggy 11, Dolly 7, John 5, James 2. Trouvé à Terrebonne (BAC-LAC) Microfilm C2554 p. 77974-5 semblerait être une énumération de censive peut-être?.
    • (The document included the David Manchester family whose ages are confirmed by baptismal registrations and accurately date the document; see page 511 of UP TO RAWDON.) *** Marie Esther Menchester (sic) listed as 5 on this document, baptism 7 Nov 1807 Terrebonne (b 28 Oct) daughter of David and of Marie Murray.[6]; Marie Angélique Menchester, b & bapt. 18 Dec 1808 Terrebonne[7], listed Mary, 4; Joseph David Manchester, b 30 Aug 1810 bapt 1 Sept Terrebonne[8], listed David, aged 2. Probable marriage for the parents: David Manchester, 27 yo widower, millwright, and Mary Norris, 36 yo widow, 16 Aug 1807 Montréal Presbyterian, Saint Gabriel, both residents of Terrebonne. [9] listed as David, 33 and Marie M. 39 on this census. The document has to be done before August 1812, as they have a daughter born to them then in Terrebonne, Marguerite Anne, bapt 31 Aug 1812.[10]

Another daughter, Catherine Van Hussen, was wife of Charles Boileau, baker of Terrebonne. Their son, Pierre Nicolas Boileau (aka Peter Boileau) was born 5 December 1814 and baptized at Église St-Louis-de-France, Terrebonne[11]. He was a witness to marriage of David Gibbs 1833.

  • Pierre Nicolas Boileau présent au mariage de son cousin David Gibbs avec Aurélia Smith le 15 décembre 1833 à Berthier-en-Haut (église protestante), et signe Peter Boileau.[12]
    • Daughters baptized at Terrebonne: Elisabeth c. 1808, (married Henry Michaud at Ste-Elisabeth, 1826, witnessed by H [illegible] Gibbs), Marie Charlotte 1810 and Adelaide 1812.

Burial recorded at Christ Church, Montreal for Ellenor wife of John Vanhussen [sic], a private in the Royal Artillery 23 March 1814 (died 20th).[13] John has no wife on the 1825 census. I believe this couple is John and Ellenor of Terrebonne. (pas certaine que ce soit la bonne personne, il aurait été un soldat d'artillerie en 1814?)

20 November 1827, John Vanhussen [sic] by notarial démission d'une terre [sic] ceded a lot to Horris Gibbs.[14]; 26 July 1825 he had bought it from same[15]. John may have died on or about this date and by the age recorded for him in 1811, he was about eighty.

        • Au contrat de mariage de Henry Micheau avec Élizabeth Boileau, stipulant pour Élizabeth sont Oremill Gibbs et Hanah Vanhoussen ses oncle et tante.[16]

29 January 1833: Orrimill [sic] Gibbs “of the Seigneury of d’Ailleboust widower and Sarah Boileau of the same place spinster were married by banns” by the Rev. Amos Ausley, missionary (register of St. James Anglican at Berthier). In the presence of “Horace [sic] Gibbs, brother of the bridegroom” and “James Read, a friend to the parties”, a merchant and farmer at St-Felix. Signatures by Hiram E. Gibbs, Horris Gibbs and James Read.[17] Orimill was active in the church community and was a sponsor at baptism of James Read’s son 17 March 1832. I am unable to determine if Sarah was connected to his first wife, * enfant du mariage Gibbs - Boileau: Marie Louise Valérie Gibs, née 17 mars 1836 bapt. 20 Sainte-Mélanie-d'Ailleboust (le père nommé Henry Gibs, la mère Sara Boileau; [18]

Hannah Van Hussen’s sister, Catherine Van Hussen Boileau.

15 December 1833 marriages by the Rev. Amos Ausley, missionary in the register of St. James Anglican Church at Berthier, this corrects report on page 264 of UP TO RAWDON.

  • Horace [sic] Gibbs and Sarah Smith of Kildare were married in the presence of Orrimill [sic] Gibbs junior and Dorothea Caroline Gibbs identified as “nephews” of the bridegroom. [19]In 1836, the principals here were in Upper Canada.
  • Hiram Ebenezer Gibbs, yeoman of Kildare and Ann Smith 22, of the Seigneury of d’Ailleboust, were married in the presence of Orrimill Gibbs “brother of the bridegroom” and Harriet Turner[20]
  • David Gibbs, yeoman, of the Seigneury of d’Ailleboust and Amelia Smith, of the same place were married by banns in the presence of Peter Boileau “cousin” of the bridegroom and Elizabeth Hooker a friend of the parties.[21] 23


21 Is Hiram or Horace really the Henry Gibbs who had village lot 4, of 5 th range in the 1826 report of Crown Agent Thomas Griffith: LAC Microfilm C2547, Vol. 140 p. 68830. The agents were careless about names. This is the only record of Henry Gibbs, perhaps it is an error for Horace in the earlier documents and later for one of the grandsons of Joshua.

23 David cannot be the younger son of Joshua, to be a cousin of Peter infers his mother was a Van Houssen; he must be a previously unknown son of Orimill Gibbs and Hannah Van Houssen. Elizabeth Hooker married John Smith of de Ramsay, 20 December 1836. I have not identified this family, other than these four siblings. Ann and Amelia named birthplace as England, 1850 census, Sterling, Macomb Co., MI. 1850 Sterling, Macomb Co., MI, Amelia Gibbs and 10-year-old son Henry lived with a carpenter, Justin Harvey.

On December 12, 1836 Orrwill [sic] and Horace [sic] Gibbs witnessed the marriage of Orimill’s daughter Caroline Gibbs of Yarmouth Township, Elgin County Ontario to Nathan Choate of Dorchester, North Dorchester Township, Middlesex County by C. Vanderdon, minister of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, by banns.24 This was a stop on their journey to Michigan but when had they gone to Upper Canada? The group may have included many of those who are at Sterling, Michigan in 1840.

1840 Census: Oremel [sic] Gibbs (senior) and his wife (presumably Sarah Boileau) farmed at Sterling, Macomb County (Michigan Census) with three children under 10 and a teenaged boy.

Also, living at Sterling was Hiram Gibbs (footnote 22) and David Gibbs, under 30, married with a child and teenager in the household. Horace, it appears, took a different route to the USA and was at Wethersfield, Genesee County, New York that year.

Oramel [sic] Gibbs, Jr., lived at Colchester, Chittenden County, Vermont and was married with a son and daughter under 5 years. By this, we determine that he went the USA around 1835 or before.

1850 Oren [sic] Gibbs was recorded with his wife Azubah still at Colchester, Chittenden County, with seven Vermont born children aged 1 – 14; they moved to Oakland County, Michigan early in the 1850s.

1860 Avon, Oakland County, Michigan census:

Orimill Gibbs, junior, a farmer is recorded here; eight of their nine children, the youngest 4 years born in Michigan c. 1856. He died 4 December 1865 and is buried at Old Stoney Creek Cemetery, near Rochester, Oakland County Michigan. In 1870, his wife Azubah lived with a family in Webster County, Iowa.

Oramiel [sic] Vanhousen [sic], 35, a married inn keeper, and Joshua Vanhousen [sic], 30, a farmer, both born in Canada. There was a strong connection between the families; see 1825 census, above. Joshua Van Hoosen [sic] died 27 June 1894 aged 64 at Avon, his father born in New York and his mother in Vermont. It is possible his parents were Joshua and Belinda (footnote 18).

24 History of the County of Middlesex, Canada, W. A. & C. L. Goodspeed Publishers, 1889. London, ON or see the registration at https://tinyurl.com/sa4acug; she was baptized Dorothy Caroline Gibbs at St-Jacques in 1818, as mentioned above.

Children of Joshua Gibbs and Anne Clark

1786 13 October Orimill Gibbs at Hebron, Washington Co., NY.

1788 19 January Horris Gibbs born Hebron, NY, a widower with children under 14 at Kildare in 1831, aka Horace.

1790 20 April Dorothy Gibbs married Patrick Molloy in 1811; she died, aged 32, at Montreal, 23 November 1822.

1792 08 January Suzannah Gibbs claimed birth at Hebron, NY more likely St. Albans, VT. married Abraham Turner and moved to Bedford, Cuyahoga County, Ohio in 1828.

1794 09 November Jemima Gibbs born at “Dunn’s Patent”, Lower Canada. She married Stephen Peck, from Grafton, NH 18 March 1818, in Toby Township, Clarion County, PA. They settled in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.

1796 30 April Hiram Ebenezer Gibbs 25 “Dunn’s Patent”, Lower Canada (claims of Vermont and New York birthplace are doubtful).

1798 20 February Miron Gibbs “Dunn’s Patent”, Lower Canada, claims to be born in Vermont, on census 1850 and in 1870 when he farmed at Webster County, Iowa.

1800 26 January Milton Gibbs “Dunn’s Patent”, L. Canada, claims born in Vermont, 1850 Census.

1802 24 April Joshiea Gibbs “Dunn’s Patent”, Lower Canada identity not clear, not to be confused with Lavinia.

1805 20 October Maryon Gibbs [Marion Blake,1860 Michigan Census] “Dunn’s Patent”, L. Canada

1809 25 May David Gibbs – presumed born at Ste-Mélanie, d’Ailleboust Seigneury.

1810 Lavinia Gibbs – presumed born at Ste-Mélanie, d’Ailleboust Seigneury; she was 11 in Joshua’s 1821 pension application and died 5 September 1890. She is buried Concord Cemetery in Pennsylvania.

1812 24 July Solomon Gibbs – was born at Ste-Mélanie, d’Ailleboust Seigneury. In 1870, he was at Perry, Clarion County., PA. By 1880, he farmed with his wife and four young sons at Benton, Wayne County, Iowa. He married, 31 August 1848, Rebecca Gibson, born at Butler, PA on 11 July 1824. He died 21 June 1900 and Rebecca on 18 August 1900 at Allerton, Wayne County, Iowa. He is the great great grandfather of David C. Gibbs (footnote 4). 25 See footnote 10 regarding his second name on his marriage registration. Also see footnote 22.

Solomon Gibbs & Rebecca Gibson Gibbs

Sources

  1. ↑ Baptême Magloire Guibbs Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)
  2. ↑ Baptême Dorothée Caroline Gibbs Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)
  3. ↑ Baptême Télesphore Orimils Gibbs Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)
  4. ↑ Mariage Dorothée Gibbs - Patrice Malville Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)
  5. ↑ Mariage Orimill Gibbs - Hannah Vanhoosen Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)
  6. ↑ Baptême Marie Esther Menchester Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)
  7. ↑ Baptême Marie Angélique Menchester Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)
  8. ↑ Baptême Joseph David Manchester Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)
  9. ↑ Mariage David Manchester - Mary Norris Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)
  10. ↑ Baptême Marguerite Anne Manchester Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)
  11. ↑ Baptême Pierre Nicolas Boileau Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)
  12. ↑ Mariage David Gibbs - Aurélia Smith Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)
  13. ↑ Sépulture-Funeral image Ellenor Vanhussen Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)
  14. ↑ BAnQ: François-Xavier Cadet 1823-1832, Cote : CN605,S12 Fonds Cour supérieure. District judiciaire de Joliette. Greffes de notaires - Archives nationales à Montréal Id 489612, Actes 31 mai 1826 - 6 décembre 1828 (2856 fichiers), Item #726, pgs 1643-1646/2856 démission 1827 Van Hussen
  15. ↑ BAnQ: François-Xavier Cadet 1823-1832, Cote : CN605,S12 Fonds Cour supérieure. District judiciaire de Joliette. Greffes de notaires - Archives nationales à Montréal Id 489612, Actes 25 novembre 1823 - 30 mai 1826 (1861 fichiers), Item #259, pgs 1233-1237/1861 achat 1825 Van Houssen
  16. ↑ BAnQ: François-Xavier Cadet 1823-1832, Cote : CN605,S12 Fonds Cour supérieure. District judiciaire de Joliette. Greffes de notaires - Archives nationales à Montréal Id 489612, Actes 25 novembre 1823 - 30 mai 1826 (1861 fichiers), Item #331, pgs 1631-1637/1861 contrat de mariage Micheau-Boileau
  17. ↑ Mariage Orrimil Gibbs - Sarah Boileau Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)
  18. ↑ Baptême Marie Louise Valérie Gibs Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)
  19. ↑ Mariage Horace Gibbs - Sarah Smith Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)
  20. ↑ Mariage Hiram Ebenezer Gibbs - Ann Smith Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)
  21. ↑ Mariage David Gibbs - Amelia Smith Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)




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