Posted 9 years ago
aghcollect
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This is a photograph taken in 1916 of my paternal great grandparents on their 20th wedding anniversary with nine of their twelve children present.
Seated in front from left to right is son Arthur (age 12), my great grandfather (age 40) holding baby Irma (age 1), Lucien (age 3 or 4), standing behind Lucien is Felix (age 6), great grandmother (age 38), and standing to right is Imelda (age 8). Standing in the back row from left to right is Leola (my grandmother age 14), Bertha (age 16), Rheo (age 17), and Beatrice (age 19). Two of the sons are not pictured, Wilfred had died at the age of one year in 1907, and Gerard died in 1917 of pneumonia at the age of 3. One of the daughters (Claire) is not shown as she was not born until 1920.
Great family photo!
Wonderful. All beautifully dressed in their best.
Super cool... Very elegant family.
this photo reminds me of one of my grandmemere and her brother and sisters which we have on our wall back home. a couple of the girls are wearing those same big, floppy bows. and then i saw the names which are also very similar to the names in my family - Lucien, Arthur, Bertha, and Wilfred. are you French Canadian? from where?
Yes, ho2cultcha - this is the French Canadian side (my great grandparents, paternal mothers side - came from St. Anicet, Quebec) - I have just updated a little in the description as I found reference to the one boy I was missing information for (he died in 1917 during the pneumonia epidemic) - I have found where my great-aunt Imelda's daughter had traced the family all the way back to 1646 Normandie, France and two of the original sons emigrated to New France (Canada) around 1660-1670 period. -- It got very complicated for me to trace because many of the families back then were quite large. My grandmother was one of twelve children, my grt-grandfather was one of 12 children, my grt-grt grandfather was one of 15 children, and going back from there it was 12 children, 13 children, 9 children, 11 children - so just with 8 generations is 84 children and all of those children had huge families too, averaging from 5 to 17 children each. Much of my grt-grandmother's side had emigrated to Massachusetts in 1891 and ironically she married in 1896 another Canadian emigrant from her same hometown. - Genealogy is so hard to compile - this is my fathers mothers side but I am having difficulty tracing my fathers fathers side, mainly because the surname is so common that there are towns, cities, and even a country with the same name. My mothers side is even harder because she is from Germany. - I could only trace back to grt-grandparents on mothers side so far. I have found distant relatives in nineteen different countries so far and just yesterday located a distant cousin that lives in Australia just from the relatives shown in this photo.
Rich history, great story!
I have been working on my family history for four years now.
thank you for the info aghcollect. my paternal family emigrated to the usa from the Sherbrook/Beauceville area in the 1890s too. my maternal side also emigrated in the 1890s and my great great grandpepere owned a fishing lodge w/ cottages on a lake, but i forget exactly where. my mom did quite a bit of research and traced her side of the family back to Champlain's voyage in 1616 [or sometime around then]. we are descended from the apothecarist from the voyage. apparently, he settled into Quebec City and we even saw his little shop there many years ago. we have some ancestors from L'isle d'Orleans up on the St Lawrence as well. Both sides of my family eventually settled in Claremont, NH - which is near where i grew up.