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Bread & Roses Strike of 1912 - 100 Years Later - Lawrence, Massachusetts

2012-01-10T10:51:00.000-05:00

The above photo was taken as protesters marched

against owners of the mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

My mother sometimes talked about this strike. She was already working in the mills. Immigrant families left Canada in search of work and in hopes of a better life. Agriculture had dried out because our ancestors knew nothing back then about crop rotation but they'd heard there was lots of work in the mills of Fall River, Lawrence and Lowell, Massachusetts as well as Manchester, New Hampshire. Mills sprung up in many cities and towns. It became a way of life until the mills left in the 1950's and headed south where labor was cheaper than in these northern mills where workers had learned to unionize to protect their rights.

On January 12th, 1912 the labor protest that became known as the "Bread and Roses" strike began in Lawrence.

A new state law had reduced the maximum workweek from 56 to 54 hours. Factory owners responded by speeding up production and cutting workers' pay. Polish women were the first to shut down their looms and leave the mill. As they marched through the streets, workers from all the city's ethnic groups joined them. Over the next months, increasingly violent methods were used to suppress the protest, but the strikers maintained their solidarity. After Congress held hearings on the situation, the mill owners were anxious to avoid bad publicity. They settled with the strikers, bringing to an end a watershed event in American labor history.

The Bread and Roses Strike of 1912 changed U.S. labor laws forever.

Background

On January 12, 1912, workers in the American Woolen Company Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, opened their pay envelopes to find that their wages had been cut. They took to the streets in protest, beginning a history-making confrontation between labor and capital. The "Bread and Roses Strike," as it became known, broke new ground in several ways. More than half of the workers in the Lawrence textile mills were women and children, and women played a major role in the strike. Most of the workers were unskilled newcomers from the Middle East, southern and eastern Europe. They spoke more than a dozen different languages and practiced a variety of religions and ethnic customs. What bound them together was the need to improve their living and working conditions.

By the turn of the twentieth century, New England's factory towns were generally miserable places. Wages were low, rents were high, and living conditions were crowded and unhealthy. The factory floors were brutally hot in summer and painfully cold in winter. The machinery was dangerous; pressure to speed up production increased the risk of accident and injury.

The photo below is that of a "spinner" girl. Girls and boys worked as young as ten years of age in the mills. It was the same for bobbin girls or lap boys, bobbin girls kept the spinners supplied with bobbins as needed. I really don't know what my mother started as in the mills but I do know that as far back as I can remember she was a weaver in the weave room. I remember my brother being a bobbin boy when he started working in the mills. Later he worked in the "Mule Room". Actually, it was really the Spinning Room but it was called the "Mule Room" simply because the spinning machine was called a "spinning mule". My grandfather, aunts and uncles were all weavers. During World War II the Lawrence Mills wove material for army uniforms as well as blankets.

Under Massachusetts law, schooling was compulsory for children under age 14, but poverty forced many parents to lie about their sons' and daughters' ages and send them to work in the mills. One boy, asked if he'd like to go to school, said that he would love to, but he wanted to eat. My mother was eleven years old in January of 1912 and had left school in sixth grade to work in the mills.

In response to reports on the deplorable conditions at the mills, the Massachusetts legislature voted to reduce the maximum workweek from 56 to 54 hours. The law took effect on January 1, 1912. Although the legislation was intended to help the workers, many of them feared, correctly, that the mill owners would simply speed up production and cut their pay by two hours a week.

When workers opened their first paychecks in January and discovered that what they feared had in fact come to pass, a near-riot broke out. Polish women were the first to shut down their looms and leave the factory; they marched through the streets of Lawrence shouting "short pay!" They were soon joined by other workers drawn from the city's many different ethnic groups.

Because the country's most established labor organization, the American Federation of Labor, drew its membership from mostly white, English-speaking skilled craftsmen, it had no interest in a strike that involved women and unskilled, foreign-born workers. The AFL denounced the Lawrence protest as "revolutionary" and "anarchistic."

The owners were initially unconcerned. Without the assistance of the AFL, the Lawrence workers would never be able to sustain a strike. But the more radical Industrial Workers of the World, (I.W.W.) stepped in and sent organizers to Lawrence. Relief committees were formed to provide food, medical care, and clothing to strikers and their families. One magazine reported, "At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to mold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, comparatively few [broke the strike and] went back to the mills...."

The strikers employed some new tactics. Large groups went in and out of stores, not buying anything but effectively disrupting business. Huge marches were organized, with strikers singing songs, chanting, and carrying banners. One reporter wrote, "It was the spirit of the workers that was dangerous. They are always marching and singing."

One group of women carried a banner proclaiming, "We want bread and roses too." Roses signified the respect due to them as women, rather than just as cheap labor. The slogan caught on and provided the refrain for a popular new song—and the name of one of the most important events in American labor history. Once it was clear that the strikers had solidarity and leadership, management and city officials responded with force. The state militia broke up meetings and marches; soldiers sprayed protesters with fire hoses in frigid winter weather.

Bread and Roses by James Oppenheim

As we come marching in the beauty of the day,
A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray,
Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses,
For the people hear us singing "Bread and roses, bread and roses."

As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,
For they are women's children and we mother them again,
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread but give us roses!

As we come marching, marching, unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our singing their ancient cry for bread.
Small art and love and beauty their drudging spirits knew.
Yes it is bread we fight for but we fight for roses too!

As we come marching, marching, we bring the greater days.
The rising of the woman means the rising of the race.
No more the drudge and idler - ten that toil where one reposes,
But a sharing of life's glories: Bread and roses, bread and roses!

In February, children of strikers were sent to live with sympathetic families in other cities, a tactic that had been used successfully in Europe. The exodus of the children was a public relations disaster for the Lawrence authorities, and they forbade children to leave the city. On February 24th, a group of defiant mothers accompanied their children to the railroad station. Police surrounded and brutally clubbed women and children alike, then threw them into patrol wagons; 30 women were detained in jail.

Newspapers reported this ugly scene, and people all around the country were outraged. A congressional investigation began. As witnesses described working conditions in the mills and the events of the strike, President William Howard Taft ordered an investigation into industrial conditions in Lawrence and throughout the nation.

By March, the hearings had caused so much negative publicity that the American Woolen Company decided to settle. On March 12, 1912, management agreed to the strikers' demands for a 15% pay raise, double pay for overtime, and amnesty for strikers. The striking workers had demonstrated a powerful lesson: even traditionally powerless groups such as women and recent immigrants could prevail if they worked together.

Bread and Roses Mural

Here is what the Massachusetts AFL-CIO Labor Union said about it:

"One of the most prolific strikes in United States history was the Bread and Roses strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912. On the heals of a labor victory in legislation, reducing the work week from fifty-six to fifty-four hours, employers in Lawrence’s mills reacted by slashing wages to compensate for lost work. The mill owners expected their workers to be unhappy about the slash in pay, but did not expect the full scale retaliation that followed.

Lawrence at the turn of the century was a city of immigrants from many different backgrounds. These immigrants worked in Lawrence’s mills, and because of their different ethnic backgrounds, mill owners believe that the workers would not be able to organize because of ethnic differences. The owners proved to be wrong. In the first week of the strike, angry workers walked from mill to mill hurling bricks and stones through mill windows encouraging workers in those mills to walk off the job as well as a result of the pay cut. During the first week 14,000 workers walked off the job in Lawrence and were followed by 9,000 more in the coming weeks.

The Industrial Workers of the World, the IWW or “Wobblies,” took a major role in orchestrating and leading the strike. They successfully organized the different ethnic groups who lived and worked together and raised the money necessary to feed and provide for the strikers and their families. Many children were sent away to other cities in order to maintain the resources for the striking workers. This move gained tremendous sympathy from the public, and therefore the factory owners attempted to make sure this practice was stopped immediately. On February 24, 1912, they sent police officers to prevent some mothers and children from leaving Lawrence on a train to Philadelphia. The officers beat up the women and children and caused a public relations nightmare that led to a Congressional investigation of the strike. The owners realized that they had been beaten and finally came to terms with the IWW.

The true heroes of this strike were the women of the city of Lawrence. Women’s neighborhood associations were focused more the womanhood than ethnic identity, and thus became more inclusive and unifying which significantly helped the IWW to organize the striking workers and their families. Women also were prolific forces on the picket lines. They were better than the men at finding scabs who were attempting to cross picket lines, and were often more militant than their male counterparts."

Sources

Mass Moments

Commonwealth of Toil: Chapters in the History of Massachusetts Workers and Their Unions, by Tom Juravich, William F. Hartford, James R. Green (University of Massachusetts Press, 1996). Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology, by Joyce Kornbluh (Charles H. Kerr Publishing, 1988). Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream by Bruce Watson (Viking, 2005).

Massachusetts AFL-CIO at http://www.massaflcio.org/1912-bread-and-roses-strike

Labor Notes http://labornotes.org/node/679

Lucie's Legacy

Lucie LeBlanc Consentino
2012 - Present

Childhood Memories - My First Christmas Present

2011-12-14T09:54:00.000-05:00

In my last post I spoke about how, as a family, we did not exchange Christmas presents. Being together meant more than any gifts we might exchange.

By the time I was either 7 or 8 years old, I received my very first Christmas present. My sister Claudia was ten years older. She had left high school to go work in the mills as did many children at that time.

The first Christmas she was working she bought me my first doll and carriage that she gave me for Christmas. As a child I thought it was the prettiest dolly ever. She even had "hair"! The carriage was grey with some kind of design on the sides and a canopy that went up and down over the doll's head. I spent countless hours playing with this doll. After that Christmas I really don't remember any Christmas presents until I was in high school but again, it didn't matter to us as long as we could all be together. Whenever I think about it, I find it is amazing that the thought of a present never entered our minds. In fact, one Christmas I remember my uncle Albert giving my brother Albert a fountain pen for Christmas. Uncle Al was my brother's godfather. I remember wondering why he was giving him a present! Of course, my brother was five years older than I was so there were many things I didn't understand yet.

Christmas was so simple then and we were focused on the true meaning of Christmas: the birth of the Christ Child, sharing love with family, wanting to be nowhere but with family. Now that was Christmas!

My wish for all is that we will once again embrace the true meaning of Christmas.

Love,

Your cousin Lucie

Lucie's Legacy

Lucie LeBlanc Consentino

Childhood Memories - My First Christmas Present

2011-12-14T06:41:00.000-05:00

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1. Acadians, People of the Maritimes by Henri-Dominique Paratte (Revised and Expanded Edition), Nimbus Publishing (1998 Second Edition). Condition: Excellent - New - PRICE: $25

Content: Henri-Dominique Parattetraces the origins of the Acadians in France, their settlement andcultural patterns throughout the Maritime (New Brunswick and NovaScotia) region and their expulsion in 1755. The return to the Maritimesand their Acadiancontributions to the region up to time this book was published.Contained are photos of well known Acadians as well as biographies. The author of this very interesting book has been actively involved in Acadian and Canadian cultural renaissance for many years. A professor at Acadia University he has taught Acadian studies. 225 pages.

2. Acadians (The) A People's Story of Exile and Triumph by Dean Jobb, John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., Publishing (2005). Condition: Excellent - New - PRICE: $25

From the author: This is the story of one of the great crimes of history, a brutal act of genocide committed two and a half centuries ago.More than 10,000 men, women and children were removed from their homeland at gunpoint and sent into exile. They were stripped of the farms that ad nurtured and sustained their families for four generations. Their homes and most of their possessions were destroyed. Five thousand of these unfortunate people, maybe more, died of disease and deprivation or perished in shipwrecks...

The deportation was a deliberate attempt to destroy a people and wipe out a distinct culture. It failed. The Acadians were too tough and too resilient. Today, there are an estimated 3 million Acadian descendants worldwide... Thousands of deportees made their way to Louisiana, where "Acadian" was transmuted to "Cajun," and the new surroundings forged a distinct culture although true to its northern roots. More than half-a-million Americans, most of them in Louisiana and eastern Texas, are descendants of those refugees...
The people survived against incredible odds. They preserved a vibrant culture, a zest for life, and a deep respect for their heritage. This is a story ofthe triumph of the human spirit in the face of cruelty and unimaginablehardship. 296 pages.

3. An Unsettled Conquest The British Campaign Against The Peoples of Acadia by Geoffrey Plank, University of Pennsylvania Press (2001). Condition: Excellent - PRICE: $25

Content: The former French colony of Acadia—permanently renamed Nova Scotia by the British when they began an ambitious occupation of the territory in 1710—witnessed one of the bitterest struggles in the British empire. Whereas in its other North American colonies Britain assumed it could garner the sympathies of fellow Europeans against the native peoples, in Nova Scotia nothing was further from the truth. The Mi'kmaq, the native local population, and the Acadians, descendants of the original French settlers, had coexisted for more than a hundred years prior to the British conquest, and their friendships, family ties, common Catholic religion, and commercial relationships proved resistant to British-enforced change. Unable to seize satisfactory political control over the region, despite numerous efforts at separating the Acadians and Mi'kmaq, the authorities took drastic steps in the 1750s, forcibly deporting the Acadians to other British colonies and systematically decimating the remaining native population.
The story of the removal of the Acadians, some of whose descendants are the Cajuns of Louisiana, and the subsequent oppression of the Mi'kmaq has never been completely told. In this first comprehensive history of the events leading up to the ultimate break-up of Nova Scotian society, Geoffrey Plank skillfully unravels the complex relationships of all of the groups involved, establishing the strong bonds between the Mi'kmaq and Acadians as well as the frustration of the British administrators that led to the Acadian removal, culminating in one of the most infamous events in North American history. Hard cover: 239 pages.

4. Canadian Saga The Incredible Journey by Joseph A. Maillet, Canuck Publishing - Hammonton, New Jersey (2001). Condition: Excellent - PRICE: $25

Content: Eager to get away from his oppressive orphanage in Paris, thirteen year old Jacques enlists in the French Army for duty in Port Royal, Canada. Follow this true-to-life saga as he meets the beautiful Magdelaine and then is forced to leave his beloved French Canada when exiled with other Acadian French neutrals to a life of servitude in the American colonies.160 pages.

5. Cheticamp History and Acadian Traditions by Anselme Chiasson, Breton Books, Wreck Cove, Nova Scotia (1998). Condition: Excellent - New - PRICE $25

Here is the story of an extraordinary people -- the Acadians of Cape Breton Island. Witten with clarity and love, and hailed as a rare local history with wide appeal, Cheticamp is an extremely well-informated history, folklore and guide to this little know corner of the Maritimes.

The undeclared capital of Acadian Cape Breton, Cheticamp is the centre of a distinct culture with its own songs, stories, and approach to religion, business and education. From the settlers in the 1780's to the community today, this book is pasisonate, informative and entertaining. 275 pages.

6. Our French-Canadian Ancestors Volume 1 Revised by Thomas J. Laforest, The LISI Press, Palm Harbor, Florida (1993).Condition: Very Good - PRICE: $25 SOLD

Content: Ancestral biographies of the oldest of the French-Canadian families as follows: Nicolas Audet dit Lapointe, Damien Berube, Pierre Blais, Pierre Blanchet, Guillaume Couture, Gregoire Deblois, Antoine Dionne dit Sansoucy, Julien Fortin dit Bellefontaine, Gagnon, Antoine Lacasse, Francois Lavergne, Nicolas Leroy, Etienne Lessard, Robert Levesque, Nicolas Paquin, Pierre Paradis, Leonard Pilote, Jean-Baptiste Pothier, Rene Rheaume, Pierre Rondeau, Simon Savard, Etiene Trudeau,Paul Vachon, Nicolas Veilleux. 300 Pages.

7. Our French-Canadian Ancestors Volume 3 Revised by Thomas J. Laforest, The LISI Press, Palm Harbor, Florida (1985).Condition: Very Good - PRICE: $25 SOLD

Content: Biographies of the following families: Allard, Bauche dit Morency, Bouchard, Campagna, Charles dit Lajeunesse, Crete, Dagenais, Duguay, Gravel, Gueret dit Dumont, Lalonde, Legendre, Lerige dit Laplante, Le Roy dit Audy, Letourneau, Levasseur, Marcotte, Mercier, Parrot, Pasquier dit Lavallee, Plamondon, Prou(lx), Quentin dit Lafontaine, Tremblay. 285 pages.

8. Mason Wade, Acadia and Quebec, The Perception of an Outsider edited by N.E.S. Griffiths and G. a. Rawlyk, Carleton University Press Incorporated (1991). Conditon: Very Good - PRICE: $25

Essays written by the controversial but significant historian Mason Wade provide his last important work on the Maritimes. Also included is a biography of Wade, an analysis of his enduring importance as an historian and a select bibliography.

9. Preserving The Past, A History of Cascumpec - Fortune Cover 1779-1979, by J. Arthur Hudson and S. Jean Meggison, Williams & Crue, Ltd., Publisher, Summerside, Prince Edward Island (1979). Condition: Good PRICE: $25

The book was signed to a father for his 82nd birthday from his daughter. Front cover has a crease down the middle. The book has been read a great deal and both the front and back cover show this.

Content: There is a great deal of information about the families living in this area during those years. This chapter is accurately named "Family Tree". This chapter beings on page 259 and ends on 412. It is about the many families living in the are who were not only Acadian but English, Irish etc. 412 pages.

10. Nova Scotia, Shaped By The Sea - A Living History by Lesley Choyce, Penguin Books Publisher ((1996). Condition: Very Good - Price: $25

The history of Nova Scotia is an amazing story of a land and people shaped by the waves, the tides, the winds and the wonder of the North Atlantic. Lesley Choyce weaves the legacy of this unique coastal province, piecing together the stories written in the rocks, the wrecks, and the record books of human glory and human error. 296 pages.

11. Two Beginnings, A Brief Acadian History by Alphonse Deveau, Lescarbot Publications (1992). Condition: Excellent - PRICE: $25

This work is translated summary of a two part volume entitled "Notre Heritage acadien" published in 1980. This book was irst published in 1980 under the same title "Two Beginnings" A Brief Acadian History."

Photographs and Chapter XIII have been added and minor changes made in other chapters>

Professor J. Alphonse Deveau is the renowned author of 14 major books and numerous articles on Acadian HIstory. He is the founder and first director of Le Centre acadien de l'Universite Sainte-Anne. He received an Honorary Doctorate in History from the university located at Church Point, Nova Scotia. Retiring after 35 years in teaching, he has devoted most of his time and energy to historical research and writing. 135 pages.

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1. Acadians People of the Maritimes by Henri-Dominique Paratte (Revised and Expanded Edition), Nimbus Publishing (1998 Second Edition). Condition: Excellent - New - PRICE: $25

Content: Henri-Dominique Parattetraces the origins of the Acadians in France, their settlement andcultural patterns throughout the Maritime (New Brunswick and NovaScotia) region and their expulsion in 1755. The return to the Maritimesand their Acadiancontributions to the region up to time this book was published.Contained are photos of well known Acadians as well as biographies. The author of this very interesting book has been actively involved in Acadian and Canadian cultural renaissance for many years. A professor at Acadia University he has taught Acadian studies. 225 pages.

2. Acadians (The) A People's Story of Exile and Triumph by Dean Jobb, John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., Publishing (2005). Condition: Excellent - New - PRICE: $25

From the author: This is the story of one of the great crimes of history, a brutal act of genocide committed two and a half centuries ago.More than 10,000 men, women and children were removed from their homeland at gunpoint and sent into exile. They were stripped of the farms that ad nurtured and sustained their families for four generations. Their homes and most of their possessions were destroyed. Five thousand of these unfortunate people, maybe more, died of disease and deprivation or perished in shipwrecks...

The deportation was a deliberate attempt to destroy a people and wipe out a distinct culture. It failed. The Acadians were too tough and too resilient. Today, there are an estimated 3 million Acadian descendants worldwide... Thousands of deportees made their way to Louisiana, where "Acadian" was transmuted to "Cajun," and the new surroundings forged a distinct culture although true to its northern roots. More than half-a-million Americans, most of them in Louisiana and eastern Texas, are descendants of those refugees...
The people survived against incredible odds. They preserved a vibrant culture, a zest for life, and a deep respect for their heritage. This is a story ofthe triumph of the human spirit in the face of cruelty and unimaginablehardship. 296 pages.

3. An Unsettled Conquest The British Campaign Against The Peoples of Acadia by Geoffrey Plank, University of Pennsylvania Press (2001). Condition: Excellent - PRICE: $25

Content: The former French colony of Acadia—permanently renamed Nova Scotia by the British when they began an ambitious occupation of the territory in 1710—witnessed one of the bitterest struggles in the British empire. Whereas in its other North American colonies Britain assumed it could garner the sympathies of fellow Europeans against the native peoples, in Nova Scotia nothing was further from the truth. The Mi'kmaq, the native local population, and the Acadians, descendants of the original French settlers, had coexisted for more than a hundred years prior to the British conquest, and their friendships, family ties, common Catholic religion, and commercial relationships proved resistant to British-enforced change. Unable to seize satisfactory political control over the region, despite numerous efforts at separating the Acadians and Mi'kmaq, the authorities took drastic steps in the 1750s, forcibly deporting the Acadians to other British colonies and systematically decimating the remaining native population.
The story of the removal of the Acadians, some of whose descendants are the Cajuns of Louisiana, and the subsequent oppression of the Mi'kmaq has never been completely told. In this first comprehensive history of the events leading up to the ultimate break-up of Nova Scotian society, Geoffrey Plank skillfully unravels the complex relationships of all of the groups involved, establishing the strong bonds between the Mi'kmaq and Acadians as well as the frustration of the British administrators that led to the Acadian removal, culminating in one of the most infamous events in North American history. Hard cover: 239 pages.

4. Canadian Saga The Incredible Journey by Joseph A. Maillet, Canuck Publishing - Hammonton, New Jersey (2001). Condition: Excellent - PRICE: $25

Content: Eager to get away from his oppressive orphanage in Paris, thirteen year old Jacques enlists in the French Army for duty in Port Royal, Canada. Follow this true-to-life saga as he meets the beautiful Magdelaine and then is forced to leave his beloved French Canada when exiled with other Acadian French neutrals to a life of servitude in the American colonies.160 pages.

5. Cheticamp History and Acadian Traditions by Anselme Chiasson, Breton Books, Wreck Cove, Nova Scotia (1998). Condition: Excellent - New - PRICE $25

Here is the story of an extraordinary people -- the Acadians of Cape Breton Island. Witten with clarity and love, and hailed as a rare local history with wide appeal, Cheticamp is an extremely well-informated history, folklore and guide to this little know corner of the Maritimes.

The undeclared capital of Acadian Cape Breton, Cheticamp is the centre of a distinct culture with its own songs, stories, and approach to religion, business and education. From the settlers in the 1780's to the community today, this book is pasisonate, informative and entertaining. 275 pages.

6. Our French-Canadian Ancestors Volume 1 Revised by Thomas J. Laforest, The LISI Press, Palm Harbor, Florida (1993).Condition: Very Good - PRICE: $25

Content: Ancestral biographies of the oldest of the French-Canadian families as follows: Nicolas Audet dit Lapointe, Damien Berube, Pierre Blais, Pierre Blanchet, Guillaume Couture, Gregoire Deblois, Antoine Dionne dit Sansoucy, Julien Fortin dit Bellefontaine, Gagnon, Antoine Lacasse, Francois Lavergne, Nicolas Leroy, Etienne Lessard, Robert Levesque, Nicolas Paquin, Pierre Paradis, Leonard Pilote, Jean-Baptiste Pothier, Rene Rheaume, Pierre Rondeau, Simon Savard, Etiene Trudeau,Paul Vachon, Nicolas Veilleux. 300 Pages.

7. Our French-Canadian Ancestors Volume 3 Revised by Thomas J. Laforest, The LISI Press, Palm Harbor, Florida (1985).Condition: Very Good - PRICE: $25

Content: Biographies of the following families: Allard, Bauche dit Morency, Bouchard, Campagna, Charles dit Lajeunesse, Crete, Dagenais, Duguay, Gravel, Gueret dit Dumont, Lalonde, Legendre, Lerige dit Laplante, Le Roy dit Audy, Letourneau, Levasseur, Marcotte, Mercier, Parrot, Pasquier dit Lavallee, Plamondon, Prou(lx), Quentin dit Lafontaine, Tremblay. 285 pages.

8. Mason Wade, Acadia and Quebec, The Perception of an Outsider edited by N.E.S. Griffiths and G. a. Rawlyk, Carleton University Press Incorporated (1991). Conditon: Very Good - PRICE: $25

Essays written by the controversial but significant historian Mason Wade provide his last important work on the Maritimes. Also included is a biography of Wade, an analysis of his enduring importance as an historian and a select bibliography.

The book was signed to a father for his 82nd birthday from his daughter. Front cover has a crease down the middle. The book has been read a great deal and both the front and back cover show this.

Content: There is a great deal of information about the families living in this area during those years. This chapter is accurately named "Family Tree". This chapter beings on page 259 and ends on 412. It is about the many families living in the are who were not only Acadian but English, Irish etc. 412 pages.

10. Nova Scotia, Shaped By The Sea - A Living History by Lesley Choyce, Penguin Books Publisher ((1996). Condition: Very Good - Price: $25

The history of Nova Scotia is an amazing story of a land and people shaped by the waves, the tides, the winds and the wonder of the North Atlantic. Lesley Choyce weaves the legacy of this unique coastal province, piecing together the stories written in the rocks, the wrecks, and the record books of human glory and human error. 296 pages.

11. Two Beginnings, A Brief Acadian History by Alphonse Deveau, Lescarbot Publications (1992). Condition: Excellent - PRICE: $25

This work is translated summary of a two part volume entitled "Notre Heritage acadien" published in 1980. This book was irst published in 1980 under the same title "Two Beginnings" A Brief Acadian History."

Photographs and Chapter XIII have been added and minor changes made in other chapters>

Professor J. Alphonse Deveau is the renowned author of 14 major books and numerous articles on Acadian HIstory. He is the founder and first director of Le Centre acadien de l'Universite Sainte-Anne. He received an Honorary Doctorate in History from the university located at Church Point, Nova Scotia. Retiring after 35 years in teaching, he has devoted most of his time and energy to historical research and writing. 135 pages.

To see Books from previous sales that are still available click on the following links:

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For each book, I list a sale price that covers the cost of the book ONLY. In addition tothis price, the buyer will pay the shipping and handling costs as calculated bythe seller. (Note that handling costs cover the cost of shipping supplies.)

HOW TO PLACE AN ORDER
Email luciemc@acadian-home.orgwith the name(s) of the book(s) you wish to purchase AND your mailing address(so that I may calculate shipping costs accurately). Requests will be filled inthe order received. If you were the first to respond requesting a book, youwill receive a return email confirming this.

POLICIES
First come, first served. Whoever emails me first with arequest will receive an email confirmation from me, followed by an invoice.

Prospective buyers who are unsuccessful in their requestswill not receive a personal email back. Instead, please check the book list; ifit is marked “sold” but you did not receive a message from me, it was sold to somebodyelse.

HOW TO MAKE PAYMENT
After receiving your invoice, please submit your paymentwithin seven days. Buyers may pay as follows:
1. Buyers within the continental U.S. may pay viaPayPal or personal check.
2. Buyers from Canada may pay via PayPal only.

ORDER FULFILLMENT
Your order will ship after your payment has cleared. Youwill receive an email confirming that your order has shipped.

RESTRICTIONS
No returns. All sales are final.

Buyers who reserve a book but do not submit payment within 7days of invoice will lose their reservation and the book will be relisted. Atthe seller’s discretion, buyers who reserve books but do not complete the transactionmay be ineligible for future purchases.

Lucie's BOOK SALE ~ December 5, 2011

2011-12-05T06:40:00.001-05:00

Photo of Today's Books For Sale

Books for sale! (Want to buy a book? See instructions for buyers at the bottom of this post.)

Prices are for book only. Additional shipping and insurance costs to be calculated based on buyer's location. Order 2 books pay same shipping.

1. Acadian Odyssey, Oscar William Winzerling, Louisiana State University Press; First Edition (1955). Price: ~~$100~~ REDUCED! PRICED TO SELL AT $50

This hard cover book is in really good condition. The previous owner used a red pencil for check marks in a margin here and there, "Maryland" with underscores of names in the index. No dust jacket.

Content: Exile without end; The Acadian Exiles in England; Nivernois Rescues the Acadians in England; Nivernois Rallies the Acadians in the American Colonies; Acadians Appeal to Louis SV at Compiegne, 1772; The Acadian Colony of the Grand' Ligne; Disillusioned Acadians, 1777; Peyroux de la Coudreniere; Aranda Acieves Removal of the Acadians, The Seven Acadian Expeditions to Louisiana; The New Acadia in Louisiana. 224 pages - Condition: Good because of markings - otherwise, very good.

2. The Founding of New Acadia The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana 1765-1803, Carl Brasseaux, Louisiana State University Press 1997-01 (1997). Price: $50

This hard cover book is in very good condition.No dust jacket.
Content: Children of the Frontier; Dispersal and Survival; Acadians in the Middle Atlantic Colonies; Frontiersmen in Feudal France; Allons a la Louisiane: Aadian Immigration 1765-1769; Acadian Settlement Patters; From Barachois to Bayou: The Metamorphosis of Acadian Culture In Spanish Louisiana; Acadian Anticlericalism; Cultures In Conflict: Acadian-Creole Relations; Red Men and Refugees: Acadian-Indian Relations; The Rise of Slavery in New Acadia; and much more. 229 pages - Condition: Very Good
3. Acadian Reminiscences, Felix Voorhies, The Jacobs News Depot Co., Publishers, Opelousas, Louisiana (1907) ~~Price: $100~~ REDUCED! PRICED TO SELL AT $50
This is a First Edition with grey hard cover. Title is printed in Gold lettering. Considering the age of this book it is in very good condition.
The Acadian Reminiscences is a word painting of the life of the Acadians in the Teche Country in the long ago. The plain, simple frugal life of these people, their devotion to principle, their unbound faith in the goodness of God, their love for each other during all their misfortunes and perilous wanderings, appeal to the heart. The simple pathos of the grandmother's story comes to us with such consummate art, that the eye unwittingly grows moist, as the reader follows the journeyings of this little band, self-exiled and noble in their poverty, from desolated homes on the bleak Acadian coast, to their final destination in the hospitable valley of the Teche. . . . With them [the Acadians] we hear in their peaceful Acadian homes the first war-cry that startles the country, and shudder at the near approach of the cruel and merciless foe. We hope against hope that God or man will interfere in their behalf-till the dreaded day dawns, on which they must decide whether or not they will be true to their God, their King, their country, lose all and become wanderers on the face of the earth; or sacrificing these, supinely yield to Britain, and continue to live at ease and in plenty in the homes of their youth, and till the soil hallowed by the graves of their forefathers. When these issues were presented to them, much as they loved their homes, and the land that gave them birth, they cried out with one accord: No, no a thousand times! Sacrifice our religion, our King, our country? No, let ruin, desolation, despair, let death overtake us, we cannot, we will not give up those. And so the die was cast. In the utmost haste valuables were gathered together or thrown into wells, objects of spoil were destroyed, and they themselves applied the torch that soon reduced their beloved village to ashes. In the darkness of the night, lighted only by the lurid glare of their burning homes, they left their devoted St. Gabriel forever. -Andrew Thorpe from the Introduction. 107 pages - Condition: Very Good
4. Along The Shores of Saint Mary's Bay The Story of a Unique Community Volume I: The First Hundred Years, J. Alphonse Deveau, Sainte Anne University Press/Imprimerie de L'Universite Sainte-Anne, Church Point, Nova Scotia (1977). Price: $50
This blue soft cover book is a first edition signed by the author. The first 16 pages have sustained a bit of water damage before I purchased it but the text is intact.
Contents: Topography, Climate, and Soil; Toponomy, or Origin of Place Names; The First Inhaitants of Saint Mary's Bay, the Micmac Indians; The First Acadian Settlers of Saint Mary's Bay; The Pre-Loyalist English Settlers; The Loyalist Settlements on the Shores of Saint Mary's Bay; The Post-Loyalist Settlements on the Shores of Saint Mary's Bay; The Economy of the First Hundred Years; Family Life Along Saint Mary's Bay; Everyday Life along Saint Mary's Bay Area; Diary of Francois Bourneuf; The Great Fires and Other Disasters; Bibliography. 165 pages - Condition: Good
5. Histoire du Cap-Sable de l'An Mil Au Traite de Paris Volume 3 (1763), Clarence-J. d'Entremont, Priest, Hebert Publications, Eunice, Louisiana (1981). ~~Price: $100~~ REDUCED! PRICED TO SELL AT $75
French hard cover book in good condition.
Content: Philippe Mius d'Entremont; Les Enfants La Tour-Motin; La Famillle d'Entremont; Les Mius; La Branche Acadienne et la Branche Micmaque; Les Suites de la Concession Hervieux: Bajolet, Pesseley, Pitre, Amirault; Autres Failles refugiees au Cap-Sable: Aubois, Roy, Guy, Sicot, Dugas. 737 pages - Condition: Good
6. Missing Links Of A Lost Chapter in American History, Volume II, Edouard Richard, Home Book Company, New York (1895). First Edition. Price: $125
This greatly desired book by Acadian researchers was written by an Acadian who was an ex-member of The House of Commons of Canada. The previous owner was a priest who signed his name and year he obtained the book. The map in the front of the book is a bit loose as are a few pages but as a whole the book is intact.
Content: The author begins with the Deportation of the Acadians and takes us through their years of exile ending with a letter from Jean Baptiste Galerme to the Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, as is this one, are now extremely scarce. I considered myself extremely fortunate when I was able to purchase this book quite a few years ago. 384 pages - Condition: Good
7. Le Drame Acadien Depuis 1604, Antoine Bernard, Clerc de Saint-Viateur, Les Clercs de Saint-Viateur, Montreal (1936). Price: ~~$100~~ REDUCED! PRICED TO SELL AT $50
In French and in its original paperback edition is again greatly desired by Acadian researchers.
Content: Volume I contains fifteen chapters as follows: Premieres exploration; Poutrincourt a Port-Royal; Premiers missionnaires d'Acadie; Sir William Alexander et les deux Latour; richelieu, Razilly et l'acadie; Charles d'Aulnay a Port-Royal; Nicolas Denys, chef d'industrie en Acadie et publiciste de l'Acadie; L'Acadie au temps de La Valliere; Deux visiteurs de marque en Acadie en 1686; Unce colonie chancelante; L'acadie de 1700, vue par Diereville; Fin de regime francais en Acadie; Les Acadiens s'attachent a la Nouvelle-Ecosse;Fin tragique de l'ancienne Acadie; Denouement du drame: une nouvelle Acadie; Appendices; Index des noms de personnes; Table des Matieres; Table des cartes et illustrations. 459 pages - Condition: Good
8. Histoire de la Survivance Acadienne 1755-1935, Antoine Bernard, Clerc de Saint-Viateur, Les Clercs de Saint-Viateur, Montreal (1935). Signed by author. Price: ~~$100~~ REDUCED! PRICED TO SELL AT $50
In French and in its original paperback edition is again greatly desired by Acadian researchers.
Content: Le pays Acadien; Les ruines de 1755; L'oeuvre de l'Abbe Bourg en Acadie; Les origines Francaises du Nouveau-Brunswick oriental; Debuts de la region de Memramcook (1766-1812); Debuts de la region de Caraquet (1755-1812); Pale demi-siecle au Nouveau-Brunswick (1812-1864); Progres Acadien au Nouveau-Brunswick oriental (depuis 1864); Le Madawaska-Restigouche; La Nouvelle-Ecosse; L'ile du Cap-Breton; L'il du Prince Edouard; Les iles de la Madeleine; Labrador et Anticosti; Regions Acadiennes de la province de Quebec; Appendices; Tables des matieres; Table des cartes et illustrations. 465 pages - Condition: Good.
~~9. This Is Caraquet Its history Its people Its tales, J. Antonin Friolet, Self published (1994).~~ ~~Price: $25~~ SOLD
Beautiful paperback cover. This is an interesting that has been written and published in both English and French.
Content: Foreword; The Old Lost Road; First Glimpse; About Caraquet; Its People; The Acadian Village; The Laughing Frenchman; Tears of Acadia; An Epic Journey; Wild Flowers; Murder on the Island; The Caraquet Riot; Voyage in the Night; Burnt Fingers; The Lady in the Snow; Tragedy Strikes; The Fisherman's Day. 105 pages in each language. Condition: Excellent - New
10. Cheticamp History and Acadian Traditions, Father Anselme Chiasson, Capucin, Breakwater Books Ltd., (1986). Price: ~~$50~~ PRICED TO SELL AT $25
In paperback with photo of the Cheticamp church on the cover. Father Anselme was well known for promoting all things Acadian. He once worked at the Centre d'etudes acadiennes at U Moncton and since he passed away the centre is now known as the Anselme Chiasson Centre.
Partial Content: Dawning of Acadia and the English Conquest; Geographical and Political Positions of Cheticamp; Founding of Cheticamp before and after the Deportation; Economic Life etc.
If your ancestors came from Cheticamp, this is the book for you. 316 pages - Condition: Good
11. The Siege of Fort Beausejour 1755, Chris M. Hand, Goose Lane Editions and The New Brunswick Military Heritage Project (2004). Price: $20
Content: From the back cover: In the 1750s, the present New Brunswick / Nova Scotia border was a fortified camp as the British and French vied for Acadia. Fort Beauséjour guarded the rich fields that Acadian farmers had cultivated for generations, and it secured New France’s crucial overland route from the Atlantic to the North American interior. Fort Lawrence, in plain view only three kilometres away, asserted the British counterclaim. In June 1755, after a brief siege, a combined force of British soldiers and New England volunteers captured Fort Beauséjour. The Siege of Fort Beauséjour, 1755 tells the story of the fort and its defeat. When Beauséjour fell, so did Acadia and, within a few years, New France. This campaign determined the fate of the region, precipitated the Deportation of the Acadians, and changed the destiny of the entire continent. The Siege of Fort Beauséjour, 1755 is the third volume in the New Brunswick Military Heritage Series.109 pages - Condition: Excellent - New
12. Genealogy of the Thirty-Seven Families/ La Genealogie des Trente-Sept Famillies Hotesses des Retrouvaille, vol. 25, n^os 2 et 3 (1994), Stephen A. White, Tribune Press Ltd., Sackville, N.B. Price: Make a reasonable offer. SOLD
This book really needs no introduction. Acadian genealogists have been using the contents of this book ever since it was published in 1994.
Family genealogies for: Allain, Arsenault, Babin, Babineau, Bastarache dit Basque, Belliveau, Bordage (Bourdage), Boucher, Boudreau, Bourgeois, Bourque, Caissie, Collet, Cormier, Daigle, Devarennes (Gaultier de Varennes), Doiron, Gaudet, Gautreau, Girouard, Goguen (Gueguen), Gosselin, Hache dit Gallant, Landry, LeBlanc, Leger, Maillet, Martin, Melanson, Petitpas, Poirier, Richard, Robichaud, Savoie, Surette, Thibodeau, Vautour.
238 pages - Condition: Excellent - New
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Lucie's Acadian Home Book Sale:

Information for Buyers
PRICING
For each book, I list a sale price that covers the cost of the book ONLY. In addition tothis price, the buyer will pay the shipping and handling costs as calculated bythe seller. (Note that handling costs cover the cost of shipping supplies.)

HOW TO PLACE AN ORDER
Email luciemc@acadian-home.orgwith the name(s) of the book(s) you wish to purchase AND your mailing address(so that I may calculate shipping costs accurately). Requests will be filled inthe order received. If you were the first to respond requesting a book, youwill receive a return email confirming this.

POLICIES
First come, first served. Whoever emails me first with arequest will receive an email confirmation from me, followed by an invoice.

Prospective buyers who are unsuccessful in their requestswill not receive a personal email back. Instead, please check the book list; ifit is marked “sold” but you did not receive a message from me, it was sold to somebodyelse.

HOW TO MAKE PAYMENT
After receiving your invoice, please submit your paymentwithin seven days. Buyers may pay as follows:
1. Buyers within the continental U.S. may pay viaPayPal or personal check.
2. Buyers from Canada may pay via PayPal only.

ORDER FULFILLMENT
Your order will ship after your payment has cleared. Youwill receive an email confirming that your order has shipped.

RESTRICTIONS
No returns. All sales are final.

Buyers who reserve a book but do not submit payment within 7days of invoice will lose their reservation and the book will be relisted. Atthe seller’s discretion, buyers who reserve books but do not complete the transactionmay be ineligible for future purchases.

Lucie's Cyber Week BOOK SALE

2011-11-29T07:49:00.001-05:00

Today's books for sale

Books for sale! (Want to buy a book? See instructions for buyers at the bottom of this post.)

Prices are for book only. Additional shipping costs to be calculated based on the buyer's location.

1. 1666 Census of Nouvelle France/New France Quintin Publications (1998). Price: $25 SOLD

This soft cover book is in excellent condition. It contains the earliest census of Quebec taken from the Archives of Quebec. If you do not read French just remember that names are names and places are places. It is very easy to follow through this French-Canadian census and to know where your earliest ancestors were living in 1666 Quebec. 154 pages - Condition: Excellent

2. 1762 Census of the Government of Quebec Amédée Gosselin, Priest, Quintin Publications (1997) Price: $25 SOLD

This soft cover book is in excellent condition. This census of Quebec taken from the Archives of Quebec. If you do not read French just remember that names are names and places are places. It is very easy to follow through this French-Canadian census and to know where your earliest ancestors were living in 1666 Quebec. 143 pages - Condition: Excellent

Including: South Shore of the St. Lawrence River: Deschaillons, Lotbiniere; Ste-Croix; St-Antoine; St-Nicolas; Levis; St-Henri; Ste-Marie; St-Joseph; St-Charles; St-Michel; Beaumont; St-Vallier; Berthier-sur-Mer; St-Francois; St-Pierre; Montmagny; Cap St-Ignace; L'Islet' Port-Joly; St-Roch-des-Aulnaies; Ste-Anne-de-La Pocatiere; Riviere-Ouelle; Kamouraska; Riviere-du-Loup; L'Ile-Verte; Trois-Pistoles and Rimouski.

North Shore of the St. Lawrence River: Les Grondines; Deschambault; Cap-Sante; Les Ecureuills; Neuville; Lancienne Lorette; Jeune-Lorette; Ste-Foy; Charlesbourg; St-Augustin; Quebec; Beauport; L'Ange-Gardien; Chateau-Richer; Ste-Anne-De-Beaupre; St-Joachim; Petite-Riviere; Baie St-Paul; Ile-aux-Coudres; Les Eboulements and the Ile d'Orleans.

3, (The) Acadian Miracle Dudley LeBlanc Evangeline Publishing Co., Lafayette, Louisiana (1966) Price: $100 SOLD

A first edition, this book was inscribed to me from a friend. Red hard bound cover with 419 pages. Given the age of the book it is very good condition.

Contents: Acadian history from the origin of the name through the exile and more. Also contains some census records, militia lists and a few ships' lists.

4. Acadian Redemption from Beausoleil Broussard to the Queen's Royal Proclamation, Warren A. Perrin, Andrepont Publishing, Opelousas, Louisiana (2004) Price: $22 SOLD

Acadian Redemption: From Beausoleil Broussard to the Queen’s Royal Proclamation, the first biography of an Acadian exile, defines the 18th century society of Acadia into which Joseph dit Beausoleil Broussard was born in 1702. The book tells of his early life events and militant struggles with the British who had for years wanted to lay claim to the Acadian rich lands. Subsequent chapters discuss the epic odyssey during which Beausoleil led a group of one hundred ninety-three Acadians from Nova Scotia to Louisiana, the New Acadia, with the hope that his beloved Acadian culture would survive. Condition: Excellent

Voted best history book by La Press Women's Association 2004

5. (The) Acadians of Madawaska, Maine Reverend Charles W. Collins, Chancellor Maine Diocese, Boston: Press of Thomas A. Whalen & Co. (1902) Reprint by Quintin Publications (1997) Price: $25

Brief Acadian history and how the Acadians settled in Madawaska also an abstract of Acadians listed in the 1820 census for Matawaska. There is a tear on the bottom of the back cover that makes the condition very good rather than excellent - other than the back cover, it really is like new.

6. An Unsettled Conquest - The British Campaign Against The Peoples of Acadia, Geoffrey Plank, University of Pennsylvania Press (2001) Price: $50

The former French colony of Acadia—permanently renamed Nova Scotia by the British when they began an ambitious occupation of the territory in 1710—witnessed one of the bitterest struggles in the British empire. Whereas in its other North American colonies Britain assumed it could garner the sympathies of fellow Europeans against the native peoples, in Nova Scotia nothing was further from the truth. The Mi'kmaq, the native local population, and the Acadians, descendants of the original French settlers, had coexisted for more than a hundred years prior to the British conquest, and their friendships, family ties, common Catholic religion, and commercial relationships proved resistant to British-enforced change. Unable to seize satisfactory political control over the region, despite numerous efforts at separating the Acadians and Mi'kmaq, the authorities took drastic steps in the 1750s, forcibly deporting the Acadians to other British colonies and systematically decimating the remaining native population.

The story of the removal of the Acadians, some of whose descendants are the Cajuns of Louisiana, and the subsequent oppression of the Mi'kmaq has never been completely told. In this first comprehensive history of the events leading up to the ultimate break-up of Nova Scotian society, Geoffrey Plank skillfully unravels the complex relationships of all of the groups involved, establishing the strong bonds between the Mi'kmaq and Acadians as well as the frustration of the British administrators that led to the Acadian removal, culminating in one of the most infamous events in North American history.

Hard bound with dust cover. Condition: Excellent

7. Gentlemen and Jesuits - Glory and Adventure in the Early Days of Acadia, Elizabeth Jones, Nimbus Publishing Ltd (2002) Price: $25

Paper back - Condition: Excellent

8. Life in Acadia, Rosemary Neering, Stan Garrod, Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Growth of a Nation Series (2003) Price: $25

Soft cover - very good condition.

9. Postcards from Acadie - Grand-Pre, Evangeline & The Acadian Identity, Barbara Le Blanc, Gaspereau Press, Kentville, Nova Scotia (2003). Price: $25

The book is 6 x 9 inch sewn paperback with black endpapers. Includes 39 black and white reproductions. The cover includes a full colour reproduction of a painting by Maurice Le Blanc.

In Postcards from Acadie, Barbara Le Blanc explores the cultural and symbolic resonance of the Grand-Pré National Historic site. Settled in the 1680s, Grand-Pré was one of the loci for the Acadian deportation in 1755. From the settlement and deportation of the early Acadians, to the mass marketing of the Dominion Atlantic Railway and the federal reshaping as a National Historic site, Grand-Pré has served "as a historical clue, a focal point, a catharsis, a catalyst, and a motivator, both for Acadians and for others." Excavating the political and cultural symbols that have shaped Grand-Pré, Le Blanc explores the ways in which we negotiate personal and group identity. In Acadian endeavours to direct and control a sense of identity in a changing world, Grand-Pré plays a significant role by serving as a place of heritage commemoration and celebration – of past, present, and future.
Barbara Le Blanc has published numerous articles on Acadian culture in journals and anthologies. From 1988 to 1992, she was the director of Grand-Pré National Historic site and from 1998 to 2001, was the president of the Société Promotion Grand-Pré. She has also served as the president of the Fédération Acadienne de la Nouvelle-Écosse and the president of the Folklore Association of Canada. She is currently a professor at Université Sainte-Anne in the Education department. This book was inscribed for a friend but has the author's signature on the title page.

10 (The) Road to Canada - The Grand Communications Route from Saint John to Quebec, Gary Campbell, Goose Lane Editions (2005). Price: $25

This is a really nice little back with great graphics and maps. Condition: Excellent

11. Two Volumes Set for St, Mary's Bay (Catholic Parish Church Registers) 1818-1829 and 1840-1844.Compiled by Father Jean-Mande Sigogne, Transcribed, Edited and indexed by Leonard H. Smith, Jr., Self-published 1975. 2 Volume Set. Price $100 each. May be purchased separately. SOLD

These volumes were previously library editions so they show some wear and tear on the corners and paper back spines. All of the pages numbering 201 and 152 respectively are intact and in very good condition.

These records of the church in Clare, Digby Co., Nova Scotia include the catalogues of families kept by Father Sigogne. A French-English glossary is included.The first volume has an introduction by Father Sigogne both in French and English. The second volume contains an introduction by Father Clarence d'Entremont.

12. Le Régiment Carignan/The Carignan Regiment, G.-Robert Gareau, Self-published (2001). Price: $45

If you read French and have ancestors who belonged to the Carignan Regiment, this is the book for you. 173 pages chuck full of information.

Condition: Excellent

13. Repertoire/Reportory of the Marriages for St-Andre, Kamouraska 1791-1968, M. L'Abbe Armand Proulx, (1970). Price: $40

French-Canadians had many ancestors who came from St-Andre Parish. Though in French, names are names, dates are dates so it is very easy to use these repertories. There is a French introduction that I would be more than happy to translate for the buyer.

Condition: Good: Heavy paper bound. Has had library use. Has a tear top of binding. The 181 pages, including indes, are in good condition.

14. Repertoire/Repertory of Marriages for St-Edouard Parish, Gentilly, Nicolet Cty, 1784-1914 F. Dominique Campagna, s.c.(1964) Price: $40 SOLD

15. Repertoire/Repertory of the Marriages for St-Zephirin (1846) St-Pie-de-Guire (1874), La Visitation (1898), St-Bonaventure (1866), St- Elphege (1886), St-Joachim (1901) Yamaska County, Quebec, (1969) Price: $45

Condition: Very good

15. Repertoire/Repertory of the Marriages for St-Louis, Lotbiniere, 1691-1965. Compiled by Eloi-Gerard, Marist (1966). Price: $50

This repertory is hard bound. Condition: Very good.

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Lucie's Acadian Home Book Sale:

Information for Buyers
PRICING
For each book, I list a sale price that covers the cost of the book ONLY. In addition tothis price, the buyer will pay the shipping and handling costs as calculated bythe seller. (Note that handling costs cover the cost of shipping supplies.)

HOW TO PLACE AN ORDER
Email luciemc@acadian-home.orgwith the name(s) of the book(s) you wish to purchase AND your mailing address(so that I may calculate shipping costs accurately). Requests will be filled inthe order received. If you were the first to respond requesting a book, youwill receive a return email confirming this.

POLICIES
First come, first served. Whoever emails me first with arequest will receive an email confirmation from me, followed by an invoice.

Prospective buyers who are unsuccessful in their requestswill not receive a personal email back. Instead, please check the book list; ifit is marked “sold” but you did not receive a message from me, it was sold to somebodyelse.

HOW TO MAKE PAYMENT
After receiving your invoice, please submit your paymentwithin seven days. Buyers may pay as follows:
1. Buyers within the continental U.S. may pay viaPayPal or personal check.
2. Buyers from Canada may pay via PayPal only.

ORDER FULFILLMENT
Your order will ship after your payment has cleared. Youwill receive an email confirming that your order has shipped.

RESTRICTIONS
No returns. All sales are final.

Buyers who reserve a book but do not submit payment within 7days of invoice will lose their reservation and the book will be relisted. Atthe seller’s discretion, buyers who reserve books but do not complete the transactionmay be ineligible for future purchases.

Cyber Week BOOK SALE Going On

2011-11-28T05:48:00.001-05:00

Today's books for sale

Books for sale! (Want to buy a book? See instructions for buyers at the bottom of this post.)

Prices are for book only. Additional shipping costs to be calculated based on the buyer's location.

1. 1666 Census of Nouvelle France/New France Quintin Publications (1998). Price: $25 SOLD

This soft cover book is in excellent condition. It contains the earliest census of Quebec taken from the Archives of Quebec. If you do not read French just remember that names are names and places are places. It is very easy to follow through this French-Canadian census and to know where your earliest ancestors were living in 1666 Quebec. 154 pages - Condition: Excellent

2. 1762 Census of the Government of Quebec Amédée Gosselin, Priest, Quintin Publications (1997) Price: $25 SOLD

This soft cover book is in excellent condition. This census of Quebec taken from the Archives of Quebec. If you do not read French just remember that names are names and places are places. It is very easy to follow through this French-Canadian census and to know where your earliest ancestors were living in 1666 Quebec. 143 pages - Condition: Excellent

Including: South Shore of the St. Lawrence River: Deschaillons, Lotbiniere; Ste-Croix; St-Antoine; St-Nicolas; Levis; St-Henri; Ste-Marie; St-Joseph; St-Charles; St-Michel; Beaumont; St-Vallier; Berthier-sur-Mer; St-Francois; St-Pierre; Montmagny; Cap St-Ignace; L'Islet' Port-Joly; St-Roch-des-Aulnaies; Ste-Anne-de-La Pocatiere; Riviere-Ouelle; Kamouraska; Riviere-du-Loup; L'Ile-Verte; Trois-Pistoles and Rimouski.

North Shore of the St. Lawrence River: Les Grondines; Deschambault; Cap-Sante; Les Ecureuills; Neuville; Lancienne Lorette; Jeune-Lorette; Ste-Foy; Charlesbourg; St-Augustin; Quebec; Beauport; L'Ange-Gardien; Chateau-Richer; Ste-Anne-De-Beaupre; St-Joachim; Petite-Riviere; Baie St-Paul; Ile-aux-Coudres; Les Eboulements and the Ile d'Orleans.

3, (The) Acadian Miracle Dudley LeBlanc Evangeline Publishing Co., Lafayette, Louisiana (1966) Price: $100

A first edition, this book was inscribed to me from a friend. Red hard bound cover with 419 pages. Given the age of the book it is very good condition.

Contents: Acadian history from the origin of the name through the exile and more. Also contains some census records, militia lists and a few ships' lists.

4. Acadian Redemption from Beausoleil Broussard to the Queen's Royal Proclamation, Warren A. Perrin, Andrepont Publishing, Opelousas, Louisiana (2004) Price: $22

Voted best history book by La Press Women's Association 2004

5. (The) Acadians of Madawaska, Maine Reverend Charles W. Collins, Chancellor Maine Diocese, Boston: Press of Thomas A. Whalen & Co. (1902) Reprint by Quintin Publications (1997) Price: $25

6. An Unsettled Conquest - The British Campaign Against The Peoples of Acadia, Geoffrey Plank, University of Pennsylvania Press (2001) Price: $50

Hard bound with dust cover. Condition: Excellent

7. Gentlemen and Jesuits - Glory and Adventure in the Early Days of Acadia, Elizabeth Jones, Nimbus Publishing Ltd (2002) Price: $25

Paper back - Condition: Excellent

ogne Life in Acadia, Rosemary Neering, Stan Garrod, Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Growth of a Nation Series (2003) Price: $25

Soft cover - very good condition.

9. Postcards from Acadie - Grand-Pre, Evangeline & The Acadian Identity, Barbara Le Blanc, Gaspereau Press, Kentville, Nova Scotia (2003). Price: $25

The book is 6 x 9 inch sewn paperback with black endpapers. Includes 39 black and white reproductions. The cover includes a full colour reproduction of a painting by Maurice Le Blanc.

In Postcards from Acadie, Barbara Le Blanc explores the cultural and symbolic resonance of the Grand-Pré National Historic site. Settled in the 1680s, Grand-Pré was one of the loci for the Acadian deportation in 1755. From the settlement and deportation of the early Acadians, to the mass marketing of the Dominion Atlantic Railway and the federal reshaping as a National Historic site, Grand-Pré has served "as a historical clue, a focal point, a catharsis, a catalyst, and a motivator, both for Acadians and for others." Excavating the political and cultural symbols that have shaped Grand-Pré, Le Blanc explores the ways in which we negotiate personal and group identity. In Acadian endeavours to direct and control a sense of identity in a changing world, Grand-Pré plays a significant role by serving as a place of heritage commemoration and celebration – of past, present, and future.
Barbara Le Blanc has published numerous articles on Acadian culture in journals and anthologies. From 1988 to 1992, she was the director of Grand-Pré National Historic site and from 1998 to 2001, was the president of the Société Promotion Grand-Pré. She has also served as the president of the Fédération Acadienne de la Nouvelle-Écosse and the president of the Folklore Association of Canada. She is currently a professor at Université Sainte-Anne in the Education department. This book was inscribed for a friend but has the author's signature on the title page.

10. (The) Road to Canada - The Grand Communications Route from Saint John to Quebec, Gary Campbell, Goose Lane Editions (2005). Price: $25

This is a really nice little back with great graphics and maps. Condition: Excellent

These volumes were previously library editions so they show some wear and tear on the corners and paper back spines. All of the pages numbering 201 and 152 respectively are intact and in very good condition.

These records of the church in Clare, Digby Co., Nova Scotia include the catalogues of families kept by Father Sigogne. A French-English glossary is included.The first volume has an introduction by Father Sigogne both in French and English. The second volume contains an introduction by Father Clarence d'Entremont.

12. Le Régiment Carignan/The Carignan Regiment, G.-Robert Gareau, Self-published (2001). Price: $45

If you read French and have ancestors who belonged to the Carignan Regiment, this is the book for you. 173 pages chuck full of information.

Condition: Excellent

13. Repertoire/Reportory of the Marriages for St-Andre, Kamouraska 1791-1968, M. L'Abbe Armand Proulx, (1970). Price: $40

French-Canadians had many ancestors who came from St-Andre Parish. Though in French, names are names, dates are dates so it is very easy to use these repertories. There is a French introduction that I would be more than happy to translate for the buyer.

Condition: Good: Heavy paper bound. Has had library use. Has a tear top of binding. The 181 pages, including indes, are in good condition.

14. Repertoire/Repertory of Marriages for St-Edouard Parish, Gentilly, Nicolet Cty, 1784-1914 F. Dominique Campagna, s.c.(1964) Price: $40 SOLD

15. Repertoire/Repertory of the Marriages for St-Zephirin (1846) St-Pie-de-Guire (1874), La Visitation (1898), St-Bonaventure (1866), St- Elphege (1886), St-Joachim (1901) Yamaska County, Quebec, (1969) Price: $45

Condition: Very good

15. Repertoire/Repertory of the Marriages for St-Louis, Lotbiniere, 1691-1965. Compiled by Eloi-Gerard, Marist (1966). Price: $50

This repertory is hard bound. Condition: Very good.

ONLY FOUR BOOKS LISTED FOR BLACK FRIDAY ARE STILL AVAILABLE. CLICK HERE

Lucie's Acadian Home Book Sale:

Information for Buyers
PRICING
For each book, I list a sale price that covers the cost of the book ONLY. In addition tothis price, the buyer will pay the shipping and handling costs as calculated bythe seller. (Note that handling costs cover the cost of shipping supplies.)

HOW TO PLACE AN ORDER
Email luciemc@acadian-home.orgwith the name(s) of the book(s) you wish to purchase AND your mailing address(so that I may calculate shipping costs accurately). Requests will be filled inthe order received. If you were the first to respond requesting a book, youwill receive a return email confirming this.

POLICIES
First come, first served. Whoever emails me first with arequest will receive an email confirmation from me, followed by an invoice.

Prospective buyers who are unsuccessful in their requestswill not receive a personal email back. Instead, please check the book list; ifit is marked “sold” but you did not receive a message from me, it was sold to somebodyelse.

HOW TO MAKE PAYMENT
After receiving your invoice, please submit your paymentwithin seven days. Buyers may pay as follows:
1. Buyers within the continental U.S. may pay viaPayPal or personal check.
2. Buyers from Canada may pay via PayPal only.

ORDER FULFILLMENT
Your order will ship after your payment has cleared. Youwill receive an email confirming that your order has shipped.

RESTRICTIONS
No returns. All sales are final.

Buyers who reserve a book but do not submit payment within 7days of invoice will lose their reservation and the book will be relisted. Atthe seller’s discretion, buyers who reserve books but do not complete the transactionmay be ineligible for future purchases.

Black Friday BOOK SALE Now Open!

2011-11-25T16:00:00.000-05:00

Today's books for sale

Books for sale! (Want to buy a book? See instructions for buyers at the bottom of this post.)
Prices are for book only. Additional shipping costs to be calculated based on the buyer's location.

~~1. Acadians in Exile by Rev. Donald J. Hebert (1980). Cecilia, Louisiana: Hebert Publications.~~ ~~Price: $50~~. SOLD

This out-of-print volume is includes valuable information about Acadians who were in Acadia; South America; France; and the West Indies.It consists of genealogy and census records.

2. The Acadian Exiles in the American Colonies. Milton P. Rieder, Jr. and Norma Gaudet Rieder. (1977). Price: $50. SOLD

This excellent book states where the exiles were in the colonies. Out of print and very difficult to find. This is an ex-library edition.

3. History of Acadia, from Its First Discovery to Its Surrender to England by the Treaty of Paris. James Hannay. (1879.) J & A McMillan Press. Price: $125. SOLD

This is a beautiful old book with historic significance. It's a collectable in good condition. I think this is a first edition. It's the book in the center at top. The spine is worn more than the cover, as is typical with books of this age.

4. Baie des Chaleurs Parish Registres, 1786-1799. Transcribed and translated into English by Janet B. Gehn (1984). Price: $25. SOLD

Baie des Chaleurs was an important area for Acadians who went there after the exile ended. This book consists of genealogy. It's a little marked up here and there with some highlighting from a previous owner, but overall is in good condition.

5. Repertoire des Mariages/Marriage Repertoty de Bécancour, Cté Nicolet, Quebec, 1716-1914. Par/By Dominique Campagna, S.C. Price: $40

Almost all marriages in this repertoire consists of Acadian marriages post exile.

6. Repertoire des Mariages/Marriage Reprrtory for St-Grégoire Parish, Cté/Cty Nicolet, Quebec, 1803-1946. Compiled by Alphonse Allard and Albert Labonté. Price: $40

Many of the marriages at St-Grégoire were Acadian marriages post exile.

7. Repertoire des St-Ours/St-Ours Marriage Repertoire,1750-1975, Compiled by Gerard Binette and Yvette Binette (1976). Price: $40 SOLD

Another predominantly Acadian parish post exile.

8. The Melansons of Nineteenth-Century Southeastern New Brunswick, A Genealogy by Michael B. Melanson (1998) First Edition. Price: $15 SOLD

9. The Melanson Story, Acadian Family, Acadian Times by Margaret C. Melanson, (2003).Price: $34

This illustrated historical biography traces the lives and adventures of Pierre and Charles Mellanson, the precursors of all of today's Melansons and Melançons.

10. Montcalm and Wolfe, Volume 1 by Francis Parkman (1889). Thirteenth Edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Price: $50

This antique edition has lovely brown decorative covers in an arts and crafts style. In good condition. Chapter VIII: Removal of the Acadians is especially pertinent to Acadian genealogy and history. It covers: "State of Acadia. Threatened Invasion. Peril of the English. Their Plans. French Forts to be attacked. Beausejour and its Occupants. French treatment of the Acadians. John Winslow. Siege and Capture of Beausejour. Attitude of Acadians. Influence of their Priests. They refuse the Oath of Allegiance. Their Condition and Character. Pretended Neutrals. Moderation of English Authorities. The Acadians persist in their Refusal. Enemies or Subjects? Choice of the Acadians. The Consequences. Their Removal determined. Winslow at Grand Pre. Conference with Murray. Summons to the Inhabitants. Their Seizure. Their Embarkation. Their Fate. Their Treatment in Canada. Misapprehension concerning them."

Lucie's Acadian Home Book Sale:

Information for Buyers
PRICING
For each book, I list a sale price that covers the cost of the book ONLY. In addition tothis price, the buyer will pay the shipping and handling costs as calculated bythe seller. (Note that handling costs cover the cost of shipping supplies.)

HOW TO PLACE AN ORDER
Email luciemc@acadian-home.orgwith the name(s) of the book(s) you wish to purchase AND your mailing address(so that I may calculate shipping costs accurately). Requests will be filled inthe order received. If you were the first to respond requesting a book, youwill receive a return email confirming this.

POLICIES
First come, first served. Whoever emails me first with arequest will receive an email confirmation from me, followed by an invoice.

Prospective buyers who are unsuccessful in their requestswill not receive a personal email back. Instead, please check the book list; ifit is marked “sold” but you did not receive a message from me, it was sold to somebodyelse.

HOW TO MAKE PAYMENT
After receiving your invoice, please submit your paymentwithin seven days. Buyers may pay as follows:
1. Buyers within the continental U.S. may pay viaPayPal or personal check.
2. Buyers from Canada may pay via PayPal only.

ORDER FULFILLMENT
Your order will ship after your payment has cleared. Youwill receive an email confirming that your order has shipped.

RESTRICTIONS
No returns. All sales are final.

Buyers who reserve a book but do not submit payment within 7days of invoice will lose their reservation and the book will be relisted. Atthe seller’s discretion, buyers who reserve books but do not complete the transactionmay be ineligible for future purchases.

Photojojo - Lenses for your iPhone!?!

2011-11-10T06:31:00.000-05:00

Photojojo.com

New! iPhone 4/iPhone 4S magnetic mounts to make your fancy photos even schmancier.

I could not believe it when I saw these three lenses our daughter has for her iPhone. In fact, I was in really in awe that something like this had been developed to make photos taken with an iPhone 4/4s better than ever. What innovation!

This proves once again that in this day and age anything is possible.

Lucie's Legacy

Lucie LeBlanc Consentino

2011 - Present

Amesbury Public Library - October 29th, 2011

2011-10-20T11:27:00.000-04:00

Dear Cousins and Friends,

On Saturday, October 29th, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. I will be speaking at the Amesbury Public Library. Topic: Acadian History & Genealogy - I will also speak about the Acadians exiled to Amesbury from 1755-1763.

To register please go to the library site at:

http://www.eventkeeper.com/code/ekform.cfm?curOrg=AMESBURY&curApp=events&curID=50162&tEvt=2242512

I hope to see you there!

Lucie

9/11/2011 - Tenth Anniversary

2011-09-11T08:37:00.000-04:00

Family Tree Maker 2012 - My Evaluation

2011-09-08T10:37:00.000-04:00

I don't usually write about the technology or software that I use but decided it is time I write what I think about Family Tree Maker Software.

Since the early versions were available I've been a user of FTM software. I appreciated its user-friendliness and all that it could do in generating family trees, genealogy reports, export of gedcoms etc. Having said that, as far as I am concerned version 16 was the best! Yes..I said *16*. I began with version 3 and over the years we were offered an upgrade every year. I also remember an upgrade after six months! Imagine that while some software was offering free downloads to upgrades those of us who were faithful FTM users kept shelling out the $$ to remain current with the software.

After version 16, the software was stripped to bare bones and the re-building began. I've purchased each new version and now Ancestry is about to launch Family Tree Maker 2012 that has been in public beta but will undoubtedly be available for purchase before long. I wonder when we can stop purchasing a yearly update and have been wondering what will is new in this updated version.

Here is what I found:

The main new feature is the ability to synchronize your tree between Family Tree Maker and Ancestry.com and we're especially focused on making sure that works well.

Here is a list of new features:

1. TreeSync - Ability to synchronize your tree between FTM and Ancestry.
2. Blended family view - Easily show all of the children for two spouses whether they are children of one or both of them.
3. Index of Individuals Report
4. Chart improvements

Show generation labels
Add text anywhere on a chart
Option to limit descendant chart to the direct line between two people

5. Report improvements

Custom fact sentences (used in genealogy reports & Smart Stories
Automatic Smart Story generation includes primary individual, spouse, and children
Research notes report changed to "Notes Report" with options to include other types of notes

While I am interested in some of the new features, I'm not crazy about "TreeSync" and I'll tell you why. Over the years I have found many errors in the ancestry.com trees. I even found my own immediate family that someone absconded with from my web site and connected me to the incorrect grandmother. How bad is that?

Another person had one of my aunts as having had a number of children, one of which her husband supposedly descended. The truth is that this aunt had three children who all died as babies. I have all of the death records.

On top of that, as an Acadian researcher, I know without a doubt that a great number of trees on Ancestry contain errors. People have simply copied from others what they found on Ancestry or elsewhere and added it to their own data long before we had access to more accurate information now available to us. Because of the Acadian deportation from Nova Scotia in 1755, Acadian genealogy has been difficult at best. So I know what I'm talking about with what I've seen in those trees. I predict that some will have a multitude of errors they will have to spend a great deal of time deleting from their database - or - start over.

So for now that's my take especially on the "TreeSync" feature - I will not use it.

As for the rest, we shall see. Long ago, I asked that Family Tree Maker contain colors we can use to code male/female lines. I think that would be a really nice feature. We could use a color for our direct ancestors too. For now what I do is I capitalize the names of all of my grandparents - that makes it easy to see/find my lines without have to spend a whole lot of time trying to find who was who but that's me.

Lastly, I want to say that I am truly weary of having to update FTM every year. Oh I know people will say it is my choice but here is the hook: if you update each version as it is made available, you get a good discount - if you wait until yet another version, you pay full price.

I would love to hear from other FTM users who would like to share an evaluation of what they think.

Meanwhile, I did look at other software when I was at NERGC in April. The only thing that keeps me from making the leap is the ability to access ancestry.com records from the FTM software - I must admit that is a plus.

Lucie's Legacy

Lucie LeBlanc Consentino

8 September 2011

9/11 Tenth Anniversary

2011-09-07T12:35:00.001-04:00

September 11th, 2001 will long be remembered as one of the most horrific days in the history of the United States.

I've no doubt that everyone remembers where they were when news hit the air waves that a plane had crashed into one of the towers in New York City.

I was at the American-Canadian Genealogical Society for a meeting with the Fall Conference Committee. One member walked in and said a plane had hit one of the towers. Not believing for one moment there was anything sinister involved, I remember telling her that some ridiculous person must have tried a stunt of some kind. We went about our business, but as other members arrived, it was clear that the United States of America had been attacked and a second plane had crashed into the second tower. Then there was the plane brought down in Pennsylvania.

We quickly ended our meeting and headed home. I still remember how desolate the highway was coming home to Methuen from Manchester, New Hampshire. Though not all that long a drive, this highway is usually teaming with some kind of traffic all day long. It was obvious everyone who could was off the highways and in a "safe" place.

When I arrived home our daughter who is a college professor in Boston was there and told me she had called the college and they were allowing their staff to remain at home. Nobody else knew if more attacks would take place and those two airline jets had flown out of Boston.

All afternoon we watched television and saw the devastation played over and over again - we saw people searching all over NYC in search of loved ones who worked in the towers and financial district. Mid afternoon as the list of names that had been passengers on both airlines were listed on the television screen, we could not believe that some people from our town were among them and even worse, one of our neighbors Doug Gowell

was on the United flight 175 . I think just about everyone somewhere was affected by the loss of a family member, neighbor or acquaintance that day as so many lives were lost.

I still get pretty emotional when I remember how for so many nights Doug's wife Barbara would put a candle out on the front porch as though waiting for Doug to come home from his business trip . It was heart wrenching. Just the night before flew out of Boston, I saw him working in front of their home; I also remember the limo driving in front of our house the morning of that fateful flight - Doug was on his way to Logan Airport in Boston.

Robert George LeBlanc of Lee, New Hamsphire was on the same flight as Doug. Robert is well known to us in the Acadian community. A Geography Professor at New Hampshire College, Robert was the creator of the map Acadian Odyssey.

The memories of that day are imbedded in our minds, hearts and souls forever.

So on Sunday, the 10th anniversary of this attack on our country and the loss of so many Americans and visitors to our country, we will pause to remember all who died that fateful September 11th. Below is a list of those who were on the American and United airlines flights... May they rest in peace. We stand with their families and the efforts they have made these past ten years to keep the memory of their loved ones alive.

AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT #11

from Boston, Massachusetts on way to Los Angeles, California
crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center with 92 people on board.

CREW

Barbara Arestegui, 38, Marstons Mills, Massachusetts
Karen A. Martin, 40, Danvers, Mass.
First Officer Thomas McGuinness, 42, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Kathleen Nicosia, 54, Winthrop, Mass.
John Ogonowski, 52, Dracut, Massachusetts
Betty Ong, 45, Andover, Massachusetts
Jean Roger, 24, Longmeadow, Massachusetts
Dianne Snyder, 42, Westport, Massachusetts
Madeline Sweeney, 35, Acton, Massachusetts

PASSENGERS

Anna Williams Allison, 48, Stoneham, Massachusetts
Myra Aronson, 52, Charlestown, Massachusetts
Christine Barbuto, 32, Brookline, Massachusetts
Kelly Ann Booms, 24, Brookline, Mass.
Carol Bouchard, 43, Warwick, Rhode Island
Neilie Anne Heffernan Casey, 32, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Jeffrey Coombs, 42, Abington, Massachusetts
Tara Creamer, 30, Worcester, Massachusetts
Thelma Cuccinello, 71, Wilmot, New Hampshire
Patrick Currivan, 52, Winchester, Mass.
David DiMeglio, 22, Wakefield, Mass.
Donald Americo DiTullio, 49, Peabody, Mass.
Paige Farley-Hackel, 46, Newton, Mass.
Alex Filipov, 70, Concord, Massachusetts
Carol Flyzik, 40, Plaistow, N.H.
Paul Friedman, 45, Belmont, Massachusetts
Karleton D.B. Fyfe, 31, Brookline, Massachusetts
Peter Gay, 54, Tewksbury, Massachusetts
Linda George, 27, Westboro, Massachusetts
Lisa Fenn Gordenstein, 41, Needham, Massachusetts
Peter Hashem, 40, Tewksbury, Massachusetts
Robert Hayes, 37, from Amesbury, Massachusetts
Edward (Ted) R. Hennessy, 35, Belmont, Mass.
Cora Hidalgo Holland, 52, of Sudbury, Massachusetts
Nicholas Humber, 60, of Newton, Massachusetts
John Charles Jenkins, 45, Cambridge, Mass.
Charles Edward Jones, 48, Bedford, Mass.
Robin Kaplan, 33, Westboro, Massachusetts
David P. Kovalcin, 42, Hudson, New Hampshire
Judy Larocque, 50, Framingham, Mass.
Natalie Janis Lasden, 46, Peabody, Mass.
Daniel C. Lewin, 31, Charlestown, Mass.
Susan A. MacKay, 44, Westford, Massachusetts
Christopher D. Mello, 25, Boston, Mass.
Antonio Jesus Montoya Valdes, 46, East Boston, Mass.
Carlos Alberto Montoya, 36, Bellmont, Mass.
Laura Lee Morabito, 34, Framingham, Massachusetts
Mildred Rose Naiman, 81, Andover, Mass.
Renee Newell, 37, of Cranston, Rhode Island
Jacqueline J. Norton, 61, Lubec, Maine
Robert Grant Norton, 85, Lubec, Maine
Jane M. Orth, 49, Haverhill, Mass.
Sonia Morales Puopolo, 58, of Dover, Massachusetts
David E. Retik, 33, Needham, Mass.
Philip M. Rosenzweig, 47, Acton, Mass.
Richard Ross, 58, Newton, Massachusetts
Jessica Sachs, 22, Billerica, Massachusetts
Rahma Salie, 28, Boston, Mass.
Heather Lee Smith, 30, Boston, Mass.
Douglas J. Stone, 54, Dover, N.H
Michael Theodoridis, 32, Boston, Mass.
James Trentini, 65, Everett, Massachusetts
Mary Trentini, 67, Everett, Massachusetts
Kenneth Waldie, 46, Methuen, Massachusetts
Candace Lee Williams, 20, Danbury, Conn.
Christopher Zarba, 47, Hopkinton, Massachusetts

UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT #175

from Boston, Massachusetts on way to Los Angeles, California
second plane crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

Two pilots, seven flight attendants and 56 passengers were on board.

CREW

Amy N. Jarret, 28, North Smithfield, R.I.

Amy R. King, 29, Stafford Springs, Conn.

Kathryn L. LaBorie, 44, Providence, R.I.

Michael C. Tarrou, 38, Stafford Springs, Conn.

PASSENGERS

Garnet Edward (Ace) Bailey, 54, Lynnfield, Mass.

Mark Bavis, 31, West Newton, Mass.

Graham Andrew Berkeley, 37, Boston, Mass.

John Brett Cahill, 56, Wellesley, Mass.

Christoffer Carstanjen, 33, Turner Falls, Mass.

John (Jay) J. Corcoran, 43, Norwell, Mass

Lynn Catherine Goodchild, 25, Attleboro, Mass.

Peter Morgan Goodrich, 33, Sudbury, Mass.

Douglas A. Gowell, 52, Methuen, Mass.

The Rev. Francis E. Grogan, 76, of Easton, Mass.

Carl Max Hammond, 37, Derry, N.H.

Peter Hanson, 32, Groton, Mass.

Sue Kim Hanson, 35, Groton, Mass.

Christine Lee Hanson, 2, Groton, Mass.

Eric Samadikan Hartono, 20, Boston, Mass.

James E. Hayden, 47, Westford, Mass.

Herbert W. Homer, 48, Milford, Mass.

Robert Adrien Jalbert, 61, Swampscott, Mass.

Ralph Francis Kershaw, 52, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass.

Brian Kinney, 29, Lowell, Mass.

Robert George LeBlanc, 70, Lee, N.H.

Maclovio Lopez, Jr., 41, Norwalk, Calif.

Marianne MacFarlane, 34, Revere, Mass.

Louis Neil Mariani, 59, Derry, N.H.

Juliana Valentine McCourt, 4, New London, Conn.

Ruth Magdaline McCourt, 45, New London, Conn.

Shawn M. Nassaney, 25, Pawtucket, R.I.

Patrick Quigley, 40, of Wellesley, Mass.

Frederick Charles Rimmele, 32, Marblehead, Mass.

James M. Roux, 43, Portland, Maine

Jesus Sanchez, 45, Hudson, Mass.

Mary Kathleen Shearer, 61, Dover, N.H.

Robert Michael Shearer, 63, Dover, N.H.

Jane Louise Simpkin, 36, Wayland, Mass.

Brian D. Sweeney, 38, Barnstable, Mass.

William M. Weems, 46, Marblehead, Mass.

UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT 93

from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, California,
crashed in rural southwest Pennsylvania,
with 45 people on board.

All victims of a senseless attack, they and all who died that day were American martyrs! We shall never forget!

Peace and love to all of their families. God bless them and GOD BLESS AMERICA!

A Brief History of Towns Settled in the Merrimack Valley and Southern New Hampshire

2011-09-04T17:41:00.000-04:00

Massachusetts Settlements in the Merrimack Valley

Andover

In 1634, the Great and General Court of Massachusetts set aside a portion of land in what is now Essex County for an inland plantation, including parts of what now is Andover. The first permanent settlement in the Andover area was established in 1641 by John Woodbridge and a group of settlers from Newbury and Ipswich.

Settled around 1636, Andover was known as Cochichewick. It was renamed Andover and incorporated in 1646. In 1709, it was separated into two parishes, Andover and North Andover. In 1855, these became two separate towns.

Boxford

The Eames family founded the town of Boxford, naming it after a town in the United Kingdom. Although it was originally settled in 1646, it wasn't incorporated until 1685.

Boxford was first settled in 1646 as part of Rowley Village by Abraham Redington. When it was officially incorporated in 1685, about forty families resided in Boxford.

Farming was the primary occupation of the early settlers although craftsmen were also found among the townspeople. The largest industry in Boxford was the match factory (located on Lawrence Road) which operated from 1866 to 1905.

The original building of the First Church was built in 1701 in East Boxford Village. As the population of West Boxford expanded, the legislature designated this section as precinct 2 in 1735. Town meetings alternated between East and West parishes. The first West Boxford church building was erected in 1774.

Georgetown

Georgetown was incorporated in 1838 but its birth was 200 years before when a small group of Yorkshire families led by Rev. Ezekial Rogers set sail in 1638 from Rowley, England for Salem, Massachusetts on the ship "John". Mr. Rogers and his party of about 100 men, women and children, having arrived late in the year, remained in Salem for the winter living in common houses.

In the spring of 1639, the group, now numbering over 200 individuals, purchased a tract of land between the villages of Newbury and Ipswich and named their plantation Rowley. This territory included the present day towns of Rowley, Georgetown, Groveland, Byfield and Boxford. Working together they erected shelters and prepared for the coming winter. They lived in common houses for about three years until they were able to help each family erect their own humble dwellings.

The community thrived and after a few years these settlers began to explore the rest of their plantation that extended to the Merrimac River. From the vantage point of Prospect Hill, named in anticipation of what lay to the west, they saw another hill, bare at its summit and surrounded with trees below. The image suggested a bald pate and today is still known as Baldpate Hill. It is the highest point in the county, and on clear days one could see the ocean from this Georgetown hilltop.

Groveland

Groveland was originally a part of the towns of Rowley and Bradford. It wasn't until September 9, 1850, that it became a separate town. In the 20th century Groveland changed from a shoe industry and textile manufacturing community to one that is almost wholly residential.

Haverhill

The Indian name for this locality was Pentucket. It was named Haverhill by the Reverend John Ward, first minister, who had come from Haverhill, England. Haverhill was founded in 1640 by twelve English Puritans from Ipswich, Massachusetts and Newbury, Massachusetts as a frontier settlement. Mr. Ward and the Newberry men petitioned the General Court on May 13, 1640 for permission to begin a new plantation on the Merrimack River. Permission was granted provided they build before the next Courte. Though the town was settled and houses erected in 1640 it was not until November 15, 1642 that a title to the land was purchased from the Indian owners consisting of Pentucket, Passaquo and Saggahew Tribes with the consent of Passaconway who signed for the tribe. The settlers purchased the land for 3 pounds and 10 shillings.

Settled as farmland Haverhill evolved into a major industrial center through the establishment of saw and grist mills in the 17th century.

Lawrence

Europeans first settled the area in 1640. The site of the city – formerly parts of Andover and Methuen - was purchased in 1845 by a group of Boston industrialists headed by the wealthy merchant and congressman Abbott Lawrence, the community's namesake. The city was incorporated in 1853.

The industrialists, most prominently Lawrence, established textile mills near sources of abundant waterpower. Lawrence's location on the Merrimack River, just downriver of Lowell and a short train ride from Boston was an ideal location to set up an industrial center. The Merrimack River was dammed right above the city, and a canal was dug on both the north and the south banks to provide power to the factories that would soon be built on its banks.

Merrimac

Merrimac was first settled in 1638 and was a part of the town of Amesbury starting in 1666. When it was incorporated in 1876, he riverside portion of the area was called Merrimacport. It is believed that both the town and the river that runs along its southren border are named for the American Indian tribe that occupied the regions. "Merrimac" means "swift water place" in the language of this tribe.

Methuen

At the time of the earliest white settlers in this area, what is now Methuen was a part of Haverhill. This area extended north of the Merrimack River, westward to Dracut. Friendly Penacook Indians used the banks of the Merrimack and Spicket Rivers to hunt and fish from 1666 to 1683 and about this time residents of Haverhill and Andover settled in the eastern and southern parts of this territory that would one day be Methuen.

Years later in 1723, Methuen settlers such as Joshua Swan, petitioned Haverhill for land but were refused. The settlers then sought to incorporate as a town and petitioned the General Court for their own separate charter. In December 1725, the charter was granted and Governor Dummer named the town Methuen, the only town so named in the world. The town was named after Lord Methuen, an English official of Pre-Revolutionary days and a friend of Governor Dummer.

North Andover

n 1634, the Great and General Court of Massachusetts reserved the land around Lake Cochichewick for an inland plantation. This included what is now Andover, North Andover and South Lawrence. Early colonists were offered three years' immunity from taxes, levies and services, except military service, as inducements to settle in the Andover area. A group of Newbury and Ipswich residents, led by a man named John Woodbridge, established the first permanent settlement in the Andover and North Andover area in 1641.

Shortly after they arrived, the local Pennacook tribal chief Cutshamache sold a parcel of land that included what is now Andover to Woodbridge and his followers. The price was "six pounds of currency and a coat" and permission for Roger, a local Pennacook man, to plant his corn and take alewives from the brook. A small brook, named in his honor, still meanders its way through the eastern part of town.

This notable bargain is commemorated in Andover's official seal, which can be seen on all official town stationery and is displayed in a tile mosaic on the lobby floor of the Old Town Hall on Main Street. The settlement was incorporated as a town in May of 1646 and was named Andover, most likely after Andover, England, which was near the original home of some of the first residents. The first recorded town meeting was held in settler John Osgood's home in 1656.

Southern New Hampshire

Atkinson

Atkinson has a rich history, dating back before the American Revolution. The town was part of a tract of land purchased from the Indians by settlers of Haverhill, Massachusetts on November 15, 1642. The first settlements were made in 1728 by Benjamin Richards of Rochester and Johathan and Edmund Page and John Dow of Haverhill.

Chester

Incorporated in 1722, Chester once included Candia and was set off in 1763. First called "the chestnut country," it may have been the first of the settlement grants by Massachusetts selected for expansion of growing populations in the seacoast. The name may be derived from Cheshire, Chester being the county seat of Cheshire in England. Earl of Chester is a title held by the Prince of Wales. Daniel Chester French, sculptor of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., was a summer resident and took Chester as his middle name because of his love for the town.

The towns of Auburn, Candia, Derryfield (renamed Manchester), Hooksett, and Raymond were later formed from Chester's original 100 square mile grant.

Danville

Danville was originally one of several parishes of Kingston which was first settled in 1694. It was chartered in 1760 as Hawke, after Admiral Sir Edward Hawke. Never a popular name, the town was incorporated as Danville in 1836.

The Hawke Meeting House is the oldest origiinal construction meeting house still standing in New Hampshire. Construction of the meeting house began in 1754 and was used for religious services until 1887. It is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Derry

Although Derry, New Hampshire was first settled by Scottish-Irish families in 1719, Derry was not incorporated until 1827. It was for a long time part of Londonderry, which included Windham and portions of Manchester, Salem and Hudson.

The town was named for the city of Derry, Northern Ireland, the Irish word "Doire" meaning "oak woods." The first potato planted in the United States was planted here in 1719.

Hampstead

Once part of Haverhill and Amesbury, Massachusetts settled in 1640, this town was formed as a result of the 1739 change in boundary lines between Massachusetts and the new province of New Hampshire. It was originally known as "Timberlane Parish" because of the heavy growth of native trees. The town would be incorporated in 1749 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, who renamed it after Hampstead, England, the residence of William Pitt, a close friend.

Hampstead's Main Street is lined with antique homes. The town was a popular summer camp location.

Londonderry

The immigrants who settled the Town of Londonderry, New Hampshire, were descendants of a colony migrating from Scotland to Northern Ireland (Ulster) about 1612. A large number of these Scotch-Irish settlers left their homes in Londonderry, Ireland, and arrived in Boston in 1718 to start a new life without religious wars and persecution. Of the five shiploads of people under the guidance of Rev. James MacGregor, one group remained in Boston, one group settled in Dracut and Andover and a third group ventured north to what is now Portland, Maine. A harsh winter and low provisions forced the third group to retreat south to Haverhill, Massachusetts, where they heard of a twelve square mile area “abound with nut trees”. Sixteen families left Haverhill for Nutfield in 1719 and on June 21, 1722, established a charter for the Township of Londonderry. Later, several portions of the Town were subdivided into parishes and other towns.

Nutfield was the first inland settlement in the Merrimack Valley and originally included what are now the city of Manchester and the towns of Hudson, Windham, Salem and Derry (the oak grove). In 1741 a section was lost on the southern boundary to form Windham and Hudson; Derryfield (later named Manchester) was incorporated in 1751 and Derry became a separate town in 1828.

Pelham

Pelham was split from Old Dunstable in 1741, when the border between Massachusetts and New Hampshire was settled. It was incorporated in 1746. The town is named after Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle.

Before being incorporated in 1746, Pelham had been part of Nottingham, Massachusetts to the west and Dracut, Massachussets to the east. Due to the prolonged boundary line dispute between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, the settlement of Pelham occurred very slowly over time.

Plaistow

Plaistow was originally part of the 1642 land purchase that was Haverhill, Massachusetts. However, when the New Hampshire - Massachusetts boundary was established in 1741, it became part of the Haverhilll district.

It was officially established as a town in 1749 after a boundary dispute between the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the New Hampshire Grants. It is the only town outside the United Kingdom with the name Plaistow. In 1776 the western part of Plaistow became a separate town, Atkinson.

Salem

The area was first settled in 1652. As early as 1736, Salem was the "North Parish" of Methuen, Massachusetts, or "Methuen District." In 1741, when the boundary line between Massachusetts and New Hampshire was re-established, the "North Parish" became part of New Hampshire, and was given the name "Salem," taken from nearby Salem, Massachusetts. It was incorporated in 1750 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth.

Sandown

This territory was part of the original Kingston grant of 1694. As the western portin of Kingston became more heavily populated, residents felt that they could support a meetinghouse of their own, and petitioned Governor Benning Wentworth for separation.

Sandown was incorporated as a separate town in 1756 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth. It was named for picturesque Sandown on the Isle of Wight. The first minister of Sandown, Reverend Joseph Cotton, built the Sandown Meeting House in 1774. It had an 11 foot high pulpit and marble columns supporting the gallery, and is still an excellent example of early New England church architecture. In fact, the meetinghouse is said to be the finest of its type in New Hampshire, with outstanding craftsmanship and architectural details.

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Lucie LeBlanc Consentino

4 September 2011

When I Was A Kid At Salisbury Beach

2011-08-04T17:32:00.000-04:00

Growing up in Lawrence, Massachusetts we were about an hour from Salisbury Beach. A little further up the road was Seabrook, Hampton and Rye beaches. Another almost two hours away was Old Orchard Beach, Maine.

We were quite fortunate to live so close to the ocean. A few Sundays during the Summer the whole extended family would board a bus headed to Salisbury Beach for a day in the sun. The other Sundays we would all go to Canobie Lake that I've mentioned in another blog.

After swimming in the ocean and having lunch on the beach, we kids used to head for the Penny Arcade, the Dobby Horses and whatever amusement rides our money would allow. There were not many amusement rides at the beach in those days so we would ride the Dobbies several times and spend most of the rest of the time in the Arcade. We called it "Penny Arcade" back then because all of the machines pretty much cost only one cent.

The photo taken above tells a different story. My mother, like the rest of my aunts and uncles as well as my Levesque grandfather all worked in the mills. They knew hard work and they all had a good work ethic. My father was about the only one who did not work in one of the mills. He worked in a laundry and worked part time for Cooper's Express - a moving company.

One summer my mother decided to rent a cottage at the beach for a month. This was after the war so my parents had a car at this time. My mother decided she and my father would come to the beach after work each day and head back to the city for work next day. When I think of that today I know that had to be very difficult but they did it so we could have a "vacation at the beach".. a vacation.. something we'd never had before. The is what the postcard about is about.

One day we went to the beach photographer to have this postcard created. To the left was my brother Albert with his arm around my grandmother Arthemise Dumais Levesque. In the back row (I've no idea what happened to her face on this card) was my aunt Claudia who was my mother's sister. Next to her was my sister Claudia then my uncle Lucien who was my aunt Claudia's husband.

In the front row next to my grandmother was me (wasn't I a cute kid?) next to me my cousin Gloria (daughter of my mother's brother Albert) and Dolores (daughter of my mother's brother Alphee. As you can see the extended family decided to take a "vacation" that summer also. You know, I don't remember any of us going on vacation after that summer but I can tell you we had a really great time.

My sister Claudia was taught to play the guitar while we were there by a fellow who owned and played the local restaurant/bar. I think he really liked my sister but Mama put a stop to that because he was not French - yup those when the days when you married within your own ethnic group.

What a treat it was to be able to go play down on the beach every single day, dip into the ocean and go back to the cottage whenever we wanted to eat, change etc. of course for us children it was called play play play!

Other than that when the extended family took the bus to the beach it could take more than an hour to get there. In those days there was only one road that led to the beach and it went through all of the cities and towns. It was route 110. Buses did not have the horse power they have today. There was a curve on 110 that had a bit of an incline and the bus would have a difficult time making it but make it did make it. Everybody would clap once we made that curve. Today we have super highways and by taking I-495 we are at the beach in 40 minutes tops.

I always think how fortunate we are to live so close to oceans, lakes and the mountains of New Hampshire and Vermont.

For CMA 2004, I was invited to participate in the closing Mass on August 15th that took place at Grand-Pré. I was asked to bring water for the offertory from our area. After reflecting on this a while, I decided to go to Salisbury Beach and bring water from there. Why you might wonder. After thinking about it a while I realized that the Atlantic Ocean reaches the shores of all the places Acadians have lived and live whether it be the Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, St-Pierre et Miquelon, France, Louisiana and so on. It was an overwhelming feeling when I poured that water representing New England Acadians at that moment.

Well I have digressed again but I know you are tolerant readers ;o)

I do hope you enjoy seeing that photo postcard of us at Salisbury Beach.

By the way, in case you are wondering, what we called Dobby Horses were actually carousels or merry go-rounds.

Here is a link to Merry Go-Memories Museum.

Love,

Your Cousin Lucie

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A Golden Anniversary - Mémère and Pépère's 50 Year Celebration

2011-07-30T07:30:00.000-04:00

Back row: Armand Levesque, Raymond Levesque,
Jeanne Soucy Levesque, Lucien Delcour,
my brother Albert LeBlanc, Mathilda Doyon Levesque,
Alphee Levesque, Albert Levesque,
Gloria Levesque, my sister Claudia LeBlanc,
my father George LeBlanc,

Front row: Me, my mother Rosanna Levesque LeBlanc,
Claudia Levesque Delcour, my cousins Gilbert/ Dolores Levesque,

Mémère Arthémise Dumais Levesque - on her lap Ronald Levesque, Pépère Étienne Levesque, Emile Levesque,

Malvina Gallant Levesque, Patricia VanCoillie - absent: Gerard Levesque and Gabrielle Rousselle Levesque

The above is a family photo taken when we celebrated my grandparent's Golden Wedding Anniversary. Fifty years of marriage is certainly an occasion to celebrate and celebrate we did. My grandparents, Étienne Lévesque and Arthémise Dumais were married 15 October 1895 at Ste Anne Church, Lawrence, Massachusetts.

They were the parents of nine children. Three died shortly after birth and one died in child birth at the age of 22. Her name was Alexina. I've always like that name.

All of their living children married. Their son Emile and his wife Malvina five sons and two daughters for a total of eight. One son and one daughter died sometime after birth. Albert and Viola had one daughter; Alphee and Mathilda had one son and two daughters; Claudia and Lucien had no children; my parents Rosanna and George had three sons and three daughters. Two sons and one daughter died at young ages. Two great grandchildren are in the photo - they were grandchildren of my uncle Emile and his wife Malvina.

Beatrice, Arthémise, Étienne and Philibert

leaving Ste-Anne Church after renewal of marriage vows

The anniversary celebration for our grandparents began with the renewal of their marriage vows at Ste Anne's where they had married fifty years earlier. The same "witnesses" participated - my grandmother's sister Beatrice and her husband Philibert. From the church we went to a hall where a gala celebration took place. It was a wonderful time.

This year my husband Tony and I will celebrate our 35th wedding anniversary. Our youngest daughter Sarah married this past May. Our oldest daughter Rebecca will be married 9 years at the end of September. What pleases us most is that our daughters and their spouses entered their marriages committed that they will be wed forever.

I believe there are three things to live by in a marriage:

1. Never go to bed angry with one another (even if that seems impossible!)
2. Keep your love for one another alive
3. Never let anyone come between you and your spouse (especially your own parents)

If you are having an anniversary this day, this week, this month or this year, CELEBRATE! An anniversary is the time to celebrate all you have lived as a couple committed to one another.

Love,

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Four LeBlanc Brothers - Who Were They?

2011-07-16T10:24:00.000-04:00

Some time ago a long lost cousin who found me through my Family Tree Maker site sent me the above photo hoping that I could identify the four people in it.

Actually, they are four LeBlanc brothers. The fellow to the far right is my uncle Albert LeBlanc. The only reason I can identify him is because he was an older brother who helped to raise the younger ones when their parents were both deceased.

The other three names are Narcisse, George and Henry but I don't know who is who. Narcisse was two years older than my father and and Henry five years younger.

George is my father but of course, I did not know him when he was this young and I didn't know any of my LeBlanc uncles (most unfortunately!). I do suspect that the young man to the left is my father and that the fellow standing to his right is my uncle Narcisse then uncle Henry though I could be mistaken.

If anyone can identify this photo please let me know. It will mean we are related.

These four LeBlanc brothers were the children of my grandparents Damien S. LeBlanc and OdilleDoiron.

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Lucie LeBlanc Consentino

July 2011

As time goes by..

2011-06-16T13:44:00.000-04:00

Mémère Lévesque

Dear Cousins,

Time flies and that old song keeps running through my mind "As time goes by.." and it certainly does.

The other day I was thinking about how I first became interested in history and in particular, family history - our family's history.

One day when I was in sixth grade (I won't say how long ago that was... ha!) our teacher gave us an assignment that remained with me to this very day. She said "I want you to write an essay on your family. Go talk to your grandparents and asked them about your family, where they were from and so on."

Right after school I dutifully went to visit my Mémère Lévesque (née Dumais). She was the only grandmother I could interview as my father's parents passed away when he was young so I never knew them.

Anyhow while talking with Mémère she told me that there was someone in the family who had married an "Indian Princess" - well that was of great interest to a wide eyed eleven year old. She gave me little tidbits here and there just enough to make me curious - a curiosity that would keep me collecting little pieces of information here and there over the years until as a young adult I realized that though I thought I had gathered enough information, I began to realize that there were gaps that needed to be filled. Mémère had not given me the information I really needed such as the names of her parents of and of Pépère's parents and all the pertinent information that goes with it all. At that point, I did not even know that her parents and my grandfather's parents had lived in Lawrence and were the ones who had brought them all there. I never knew my great grandparents so after a while, I was all the more intrigued.

For many years I had collected information but that information was entirely for my mother's side of the family. My mother's family was French-Canadian and my grandparents had come to Massachusetts as teenagers. Of course, as time passed and I found all of the family genealogy I realized that, as I had heard, everyone was related in one way or another.

But what of my father's family? I recalled only one conversation with my father in which he told me the names of his parents and how young he was when they died. My grandmother died at age 42. After searching for many years, I recently found a death record or my grandfather I believe who was 67 and had died just a few years after his wife. This was a second marriage for my grandfather and he was older. Between the two marriages seventeen children were born. It would be several years after my father passed away when I decided I needed to know more about his family.

I joined the American-Canadian Genealogical Society of Manchester, New Hampshire and my quest began. After three trips to the society I had pretty much lost hope of finding anything there on my grandparents. That day as I decided to call it a day I glanced over to one side of the library where odds and ends used to be placed on shelves. I strolled over there and looking through these papers and things saw a thin booklet with the title "New Bedford Births". Well when my grandparents migrated from New Brunswick, they went to New Bedford, Massachusetts. My father George and three of his siblings were born in New Bedford. I looked at that booklet for a few moments and thought "I'm foolish to think it could be this easy!" In spite of myself, I opened this typewritten booklet and there was an index in the back. I looked at the index and among the surnames were *many* entries for the LeBlanc surname and no given names were included in this index.

I picked a page number and could not believe my eyes when I saw my father's name, George Charles LeBlanc and especially the names of his parents, Damien S. LeBlanc and Odille Doiron, whom I'd never known. I must tell you a few tears were shed from shear joy and awe.

Now I had the names of my grandparents. I began to look for their marriage and did find both marriages for my grandfather first in the Blue Drouin as it is referred to. However, my grandfather's parents were not mentioned in either marriage record that I then found in the New Brunswick microfilmed records. Drat!

From census records that I could now access I searched for my grandfather's birth record based on the age given in the census. Well it was not meant to be that easy. There were two (!) Damien LeBlanc born in the same year.

I decided to write to Stephen White at the Centre d'études acadienne, Université de Moncton, Moncton, New Brunswick. I sent him all of the information I had found regarding the children from each marriage, etc. People at the society told me he was so busy that I'd never hear from him. I was so happy when only two weeks later I received a response from him. He was able to tell me where my grandfather was born and who his parents were but he had not found the baptismal record.

Having scoured the microfilmed records as I had, when I read his letter I knew immediately where to find his baptismal record and I was finally on my way to getting to know my Acadian roots.

From that point on I was able to find my LeBlanc line and my grandmother's Doiron line and I've been at it ever since! Our research is never done.

At one point I had so much data that I thought it was a shame it could not be shared to help others. With the encouragement of our daughter Rebecca who was in college at the time, I decided to give it a try. That was 13 years ago and with time I have been able to share much information though my website, the Acadian Ancestral Home web site as well as through my two blogs Acadian & French-Canadian Ancestral Home blog and Lucie's Legacy blog.

Now let me say that I never found an "Indian Princess" on my mother's side of the family. First of all, there is no such thing as an Indian "Princess" (and just about all Acadian and French-Canadian families have told their children there was one in their family); secondly none of the records to date have pointed to a Native woman in our Lévesque, Dumais or collaterate lineages.

On the other hand, I did find one on my father's Acadian side of the family. Marie Christine Aubois who married Jean Roy dit Laliberté in 1686.

So there is a moral to my story: to anyone and to all have are still hoping to find that or those elusive ancestors, don't stop digging. Sometimes they turn up when you least expect them to as they did for me that Wednesday afternoon in Manchester, New Hampshire!

Lucie

Telephone Trivia

2011-06-01T08:30:00.000-04:00

The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876.

The first telephone "book" was published by the New Haven District Telephone Company, in Connecticut, in 1878. It was one page long and contained fifty names - and because, in those days, the operator would connect callers, it was a telephone directory that didn't actually list any telephone numbers.

It is estimated the 85% of Americans now own a cell phone.

Before push-button telephones, people used dial telephones. Before dial telephones were invented, operators connected every call.

Memorial Day 2011 - We Remember...

2011-05-30T03:25:00.000-04:00

This Memorial Day, 2009, we remember all of our military past and present especially those who are fighting two wars to keep us all free from terrorists who harm the innocent and resent the freedoms we enjoy. Over 5,000 men and women in the U.S. military have died since the wars began in Iraq and Afghanistan; 36,000 wounded - this does not even account for the military from other countries who have made the ultimate sacrifice so that their loved ones and the citizens of their countries might live free. Today, we remember them all and we are grateful as individuals, as Americans and as citizens of the world! My father, George Charles LeBlanc knew something about fighting for our freedoms that we have long enjoyed. The photo above captures him in his World War I uniform. He fought with Yankee Division. It was said at the time that World War I was the war to end all wars. How wonderful if that had been true. It was a war that incurred many deaths.
and a great many wounded.

Members of the Yankee Division were cast into the worse of the battles.
Activated and Inducted into Federal Service: July 1917 (National Guard Division from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont).

Overseas: October 1917.

Major Operations: Champagne-Marne, Aisne-Marne, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne

Days of combat: 210
Casualties: Total-13,664
Killed in action: 1,587
Wounded in action: 12,077

Inactivated, and returned to National Guard service: May 1919
The Yankee Division was re-activated in World War II and continues as a viable part of the military today.

As an aside, one day while searching for information regarding the 26th Yankee Division, I came across a photo on E-bay that was for sale by Zazzle. Zazzle has purchased many photos from the National Archives and have made "reasonable" sizes of the photos available for purchase. I say "reasonable" because an inquiry I made to the National Archives informed me that 1. the originals photos as huge landscape size photos and 2. very expensive if purchased from the archives.

Zazzle had two sizes of the photo I wanted. The photo is of the final review at Fort Devens, Massachusetts before the Yankee Division was inactivated after World War I. It is a great photo and I know that my Dad is "somewhere" among all of the military on the parade grounds for the last time.

I decided to inquire as to whether the company might have a photo of the company my Dad was part of - they did not but they purchased it from the National Archives and a few months later I was able to purchase a copy from Zazzle. Amazingly, what could have cost me in the hundreds of dollars from the National Archives cost me only $25 and $35 respectively in a much more manageable size that I framed and hangs on the wall in this, my work space or home office as some might call it. Next to those two photos is the photo of my Dad in his World War I uniform encased in a frame that also holds his Victory Medal with clasps or bars described as follows: " battle clasps were awarded for each of the major operations for individuals actually present under competent orders. The clasps, with a star on each side of the name of the campaign or one of the defensive sectors, were worn on the suspension ribbon."

To the right is what the WWI Victory Medal looks like. I was able to find this on the Internet - my father's medal has four clasps representing the four battles he fought in. I treasure the fact that my mother kept my father's enlistment and discharge papers, including his medal, safely among her treasured items.

[ I sometimes see these things on E-bay and people just do not realize the history they've given away. Some of these items can never again be retrieved in any way. A few years ago I tried to obtain new copies of my father's papers. There had been a fire some years ago where the military records were housed. My father's papers were among those lost in that fire. So had my mother not kept these I would never have known my father's military history.]

World War I sources: Wikipedia, Free pages military on Ancestry.com, Zazzle Company
Patriotic holidays bring back great memories of when I was growing up. As children, we would be playing out in the yard and suddenly we would hear the drum and bugle corps coming up the street. Yup, a parade! It just seems to me that everyone was so patriotic back then. We didn't need a war to bind us together and to be proud of who we were. I was so impressed with my family's patriotism that I have always been very patriotic as has been my husband and his family.

Family cookouts were great but if we had not been celebrating something American, we would not have been gathering to remember. I hope every child grows up knowing what it is to be bound together with the pride of being American.

No matter our country, we should always remember the brave men and women who fought that we might all be free - and... don't forget to thank a Veteran!

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Happy Mother's Day 2011

2011-05-08T10:45:00.000-04:00

Me and my Mother Rosanna Levesque LeBlanc

Happy Mother's Day to all Mothers around the world. In a most particular way, I remember my Mother who was a woman of deep conviction, warm love and strength for her family. She was the best!

I have no doubt she watches over us and enjoys her great grandchild she never met, our little Theo!

We love you Mama and as I did when a child in school, I cherish all of the Mother's Days spent with you when I would sing all of the Mother's Day songs we were taught in school for this wonderful day.

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The New England Regional Genealogical Conference - NERGC

2011-04-02T06:12:00.000-04:00

The New England Regional Genealogical Conference from April 6-10 is being held in Springfield, Massachusetts. If interested, you can still sign up. As of yesterday morning 768 people were registered.

I will be speaking at this conference on Saturday, April 9 - 4:45p.m. talk S-335 Marriott Hotel – Springfield East.
Topic: Acadian History & Genealogy: The Search for New England Descendants

Anyone interested in attending the conference may register for the whole conference or for a single day. I know quite a few people who will be there and hope to get to meet up with everyone.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT NERGC

On Saturday morning 10:15-11:30 I will be a consultant for the Ancestors Road Show - 20 minute consultations are free. People registering may also reserve a time slot if they want to meet with a consultant.

CLICK HERE FOR LIST OF ROAD SHOW CONSULTANTS

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE

Hope to see many of you there!

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2011-Present

I'm going to NERGC and I will be speaking

2011-03-31T12:07:00.000-04:00

Not only am I going to NERGC, I will also be speaking at NERGC as well as volunteering.

If you are interested in coming to my lecture, the topic is:

S-335 Acadian History & Genealogy

The Search for New England Ancestors

When: Saturday, April 9th at 4:45 p.m.

Location: The Marriott Hotel – Springfield East

On Saturday morning I have volunteered as a consultant for the Ancestors Road Show. I will be available from 10:30-11:45. If you have questions regarding Acadian or French-Canadian research don't hesitate to set up a consult with me. Consultations are free.

Just go to the NERGC web site at http://www.nergc.org/NERGC2011/roadshow.html and set up your appointment for a 20 minute consult with me or with any other consultant who might be of help to you in your research.

One way or another, I look forward to seeing you at NERGC!

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Lucie LeBlanc Consentino

2011-Present

An Interview with Maureen Taylor

2011-03-29T11:31:00.000-04:00

Maureen Taylor, known to many as the “Photo Detective,” has loved photography and historical images since she was a young child. She is forever fascinated with the topic and her work has been internationally recognized.

Maureen will be making two presentations at the New England Regional Genealogical Conference (NERGC). Her first presentation with David L. Mishkin is a workshop on Friday, April 8^th from 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. entitled Preserving Family Photographs (F-215).

Her next presentation, The Last Muster: Photographs and Stories from the American Revolution, (S324) will occur on Saturday, April 9^th at 1:45 p.m.

As an “Official NERGC Blogger,” I interviewed Maureen Taylor to ask about her initial interest in daguerreotypes; her ongoing passion in working to find the history behind the photos she finds or that are given to her; and how she became internationally known as an expert in her field.

Your book The Last Muster: Photographs and Stories from the American Revolution is an interesting reflection of the work you have been doing, in this case with daguerreotypes of the American Revolution. Your research’s intersection with genealogy and history is a real strength. What drove you to research the history of the photos you found? What started you on the journey of identifying these old daguerreotypes, and when?

I saw my first daguerreotype way back in 1978 at the Rhode Island Historical Society. I couldn’t believe how gorgeous and realistic the image was. At a NERGC conference held at Cape Cod, an attendee showed me a photo of his Loyalist ancestor. I was hooked and immediately thought, “If he has one then there could be more.” The Last Muster contains 70 images of men and women who lived during the American Revolution. I’m now working on a volume two!

Tell us about the most difficult “hunt” you’ve ever done. Where did the photo or photos come from and what made the research difficult?

I maintain a “Cold Case file” of images. While I can date the images and often tell the story of them there are sometimes persistent mysteries. Not all of our everyday history makes it into history books, there are details that are lost to us today. The cold cases usually involve an odd prop or piece of clothing.

I understand that you receive a lot of private work from individuals seeking help in identifying people in old family photographs. Who are your typical clients? How does your work with their photographs begin?

My typical client is a family historian who just inherited a group of photos and doesn’t know how to care for them and has a few unsolved picture mysteries. My first step is to interview them about the history of that collection.

In your book Preserving Your Family Photographs, you offer excellent advice on the proper storage of family photographs--beginning with “Preservation Facts,” covering where not to store photographs, and how to best store and protect them.

For those readers who don’t have a lot of old photographs and may not feel their photographs are at risk, what advice would you give them? Is there a single most common pitfall that you wish everyone could avoid?

Here in New England the changing seasons offer the greatest risk to our pictures. Try to store them in an area of your house that doesn’t experience fluctuations of temperature and humidity. An interior closet is the best place.

Also…use the right pencil to write on the back of your pictures. A soft lead graphite pencil is best for heritage images while a Zig marker ( NOT a Sharpie) works on resin coated twentieth century images.

At your lecture at the Marblehead Museum and Historical Society last week you mentioned how grateful you were that Kent State published your collection of photographs that reflect a diversity, or cross-section, of those who served in the Revolutionary War. Your searches for people of various races, classes, and geographies have taken you all over the country.

Were there any particular challenges to this task, or any experiences in the process that you particularly enjoyed?

The Last Muster took about 8 years to pull together. In the first years of the project, I spent a lot of time reassuring folks that these images could exist in their family collection. I’ve looked all over the place for pictures. I love finding new images for the next phase of the project! It’s the thrill of the hunt and then the discovery.

During your presentation in Marblehead, as well as in this interview, you mentioned that a second volume of The Last Muster: Photographs and Stories from the American Revolution is forthcoming. Is it possible to tell our readers when they can expect to look for this second volume?

I don’t have a publication date, but I already have a good number of images. I’m hoping to finish it in the next few years. I’m still looking for images, so if anyone thinks they have a photo that fits the criteria on my website, please send me a note. I’d love to hear from them!

Early registration is required for anyone planning to attend Maureen's first presentation/workshop with David L. Mishkin on Friday, April 8th from 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Preserving Family Photographs F-215 requires pre-registration. Click here to register.

Maureen’s address:

Maureen Taylor
The Photo Detective
P.O. Box 283
Westwood, MA 02090

Watch Maureen solve cases on Vimeo. You can also follow her on Facebook and Twitter.

The list of speakers who will be at NERGC 2011 can be found at:

NERGC

More information about Maureen Taylor can be found at:

Maureen Taylor.com

NERGC Speakers Taylor M

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2011 - Present

Women of World War II

2011-02-27T12:55:00.000-05:00

Rosie the Riveter by J. Howard Miller

I was a very little girl when on December 7th 1941, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor launched the people of the United States into World War II and out of the Depression. The state's industrial cities and shipyards sprang back to life to meet wartime demand for munitions, ships, and military supplies. But with men leaving to enlist, there was a sudden labor shortage; women stepped forward taking their place on assembly lines. In many towns across the country, where women had traditionally worked unskilled jobs for low wages, new opportunities grew.

These opportunities offered independence, self-respect, and money. At the end of the war, many women lost their jobs to returning G.I.s, yet others, armed with new skills, remained. The number of working women never again fell to pre-war levels. Some women who were not retained in their jobs fought industrial management when told they would be replaced by G.I.s returning from war. They had earned their place in industry and in history. However, doors that the war had opened for women workers slammed shut. While the number of American women in the workforce continued to grow, it would take decades, and a series of law suits, to restore the occupational opportunities WW II had created.

During the war industries throughout the country looked for new ways to increase their much needed labor force. To counter the problem the government launched a propaganda program that would bring women to work in mills and factories throughout the land They promoted the fictional character of Rosie the Riveter. Posters of Rosie depicted her as pretty but equal to her beauty was that she was very patriotic, here loyality and efficiency were unequaled. Many women who worked in the factories to help the war effort would call themselves "Rosies".

In Massachusetts, the mill towns were humming and work was plentiful as materials were woven for military uniforms. The war brought about a sort of revolution where women were concerned. Women from all society classes went to work and when the men returned after the war there were now men and women working side by side in the factories and mills. So many women in the work force had never been heard of prior to the war.

Back from the war, men were working mostly in jobs held by women during the war. In addition to that, the G.I. Bill of rights that provided G.I.s returning from the war with the opportunity to go to college and advance their careers helped to create the middle class. The government gave billions of dollars to the G.I. Bill as well as to Veterans Administration. home loans. The middle class was something as new as the "suburbs" that we would come to know.

Everyone who applied did not receive a first time loan to buy a house so did not have the opportunity to move to the new suburbs. They remained in the city tenements, sometimes in broken down tenements of the ghetto. Businesses in the center of cities were growing pushing many of these tenants into a different kind of city life... generations to come would be trapped in this situation. Meanwhile those who could buy a home experienced a new sense of freedom and pride in ownership. They were proud owners of a home in the suburbs where their children could roam and play unafraid of what was happening in the crowded cities they left behind.

Post World War II experienced the creation of a new chapter in the American life style. It was no longer a choice of living an urban a way of life or a rural way of life. People now had a choice of living an urban, rural or suburban way of life.

Suburbia grew thanks to the highway system created under President Eisenhower in the 1950's. Now anyone who could own a car and hold a job in the city could commute and return to the peace and quiet of the suburbs at day's end.

My mother, grandfather aunts and uncles working in the mills during World War II. Many of them were weavers and when I would hear them talk about their work, they took great pride in weaving a good cloth that would later be made into uniforms for the men and women of the military.

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Lucie LeBlanc Consentino

2011-02-23T11:45:00.000-05:00

Arthémise Dumais Lévesque

My Mémère (Grandmother) was baptized Arthémise Marie Dumais in 1874 at Ste-Anastasie de Lyster, Quebec, Canada.

She passed away in 1962 in Lawrence, Massachusetts where her family had migrated when she was a teenager.

I used to spend a great deal of time with my Mémère. Much of our extended family lived in the same neighborhood in nearby tenements. (They used to be called tenements whereas today they are given a sophisticated name of "apartments" - they are all the same. If you have a comfortable living, I suppose it is an apartment with amenities; if not, it is still a tenement with little amenities.)

My Mémère and I had a special relationship and I loved her dearly. There used to be evening novenas in the parish church almost year round. She used to take me with her as a small child - in the winter months I used to get tired pretty early and would fall asleep with my head leaning on her fur coat until she would wake me to go home. After all, playing out-of-doors for a young child was very tiring and by 7p.m. this child was ready to call it a day but would not miss going with Mémère for anything in the world. When I was in junior high and high school I would meet her at 6 a.m. Mass every morning.

Étienne "Stephen" Lévesque

My Pépère (Grandfather) was baptized Étienne Lévesque on in 1872 at Notre-Dame de l'Assomption, Baie-des-Sables, Matane, Quebec, Canada. He passed away on May 3, 1953 in Lawrence, Massachusetts where he too had migrated withhis family as a teenager. My grandmother and his mother were fourth cousins and I'm sure their relationship was not lost on the family.

As all immigrant families to Lawrence, their families settled into a French-Canadian ethnic neighborhood near their parish church of Ste Anne. The Italians, Lebanese, Irish etc. all had their own neighborhoods - it was almost like villages within the city. Each had everything it needed such as variety stores (markets), pharmacies as well as newspapers in their own ethnic tongue and social groups where they could meet and organize to be involved in the city.

My Pépère, like most immigrants who lived in Lawrence, worked in the mills. He worked for as long as I could remember in the Wood Mills - once the largest worsted mill industry in the country. At work, and as I discovered in other settings, he was known as Stephen which is English for Étienne.

I did not see a whole lot of him except when I slept over at their home. He would leave for work around 1p.m. - as did most of our family - begin working at 2p.m. and end work at 10 or 11p.m. My Pépère worked in the weave room as did most of our family. My mother, my sister and my brother worked at the Pacific Lower Mills situated on the canal. The Wood Mills were situated on the Merrimack River. The mills all went south in the 1950s because employees could be hired at much lower hourly rates. By the way, it is in Lawrence that the Bread and Roses Strike took place.

My grandparents married in 1895 at Ste-Anne Church, Lawrence, Massachusetts. The above photo was taken on the day they celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary in 1945.

I believe that in remembering our ancestors, we honor their memory, their commitment, their faith and their love of family. There isn't a day when I don't think about them.

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History of Lawrence, MA - Immigrant Communities

2011-02-20T13:55:00.000-05:00

Ste-Anne Parish Church, Lawrence, Massachusetts

Ste-Anne Church was located at the corner of Haverhill and Franklin Streets - the chapel was on Haverhill Street. This is where my family as well as all French-Canadian immigrants worshiped when they migrated to Lawrence from Quebec. The church on the right of the street is where the parish began. It was soon too small to accommodate the growing French-Canadian population.

Once the larger church was built under the leadership of Father Forestier s.m., who was pastor at the time, the original parish church became a chapel for daily mass on the lower level and the upper lever was converted into a parish hall with stage and all where the parish school would hold its plays, graduations and all its events.

In yet later years, as the parish population began to purchase homes in the suburbs, the number of parishioners began to dwindle and Ste Anne Chapel was dismantled and became a second "hall" where parish meetings as well as other activities were conducted. Eventually and many years later, the Marist Fathers who had ministered since the early 1900's no longer had enough priests to continue on. Ste Anne Parish would come to and end as would eventually Our Lady of Mount Carmel, St. Theresa and more recently Sacred Heart. The Augustian Fathers took over ministry at St. Theresa's merging it with St. Augustine's of Lawrence renaming it Our Lady of Good Consel. Most recently, Diocesan priest have assumed its ministry.

Anyhow, that big beautiful church that was Ste Anne still stands empty today. The Archdiocese in recent years finally removed all of the beautiful stained glass windows parishioners had sacrificed to obtain for their beautiful house of worship and those a now in storage. There was a magnificent weather vane on top of the church and family oral history is that my grandfather and his brother climbed to the very top of that huge building to install it. I have not been able to verify whether or not this is true.

Ever since I can remember, Lawrence was known as the "Immigrant City." Starting with the Irish in the 1840's, it has been home to numerous different immigrant communities, mostly arriving during the great European immigration to America that ended in the 1920's. Since early 1970s, Lawrence has become home to a sizable Hispanic population, reaching over 68% of the population of Lawrence by 2006.

Immigrant communities, 1845–1920

Lawrence became home to large groups of immigrants from Europe, beginning with the Irish in 1845, Germans after the social upheaval in Germany in 1848, and French Canadians seeking to escape hard northern farm life from the 1850s onward. A second wave began arriving after 1900, as part of the great mass of Italian and Eastern European immigrants, including Jews from Russia, Poland, Lithuania and neighboring regions. Immigration to the United States was severely curtailed in the 1920's with the Immigration Act of 1924, when foreign born immigration to Lawrence virtually ceased for over 40 years. In 1890, the foreign-born population of 28,577 was comprised as follows, with the significant remainder of the population being children of foreign born residents: 7,058 Irish; 6,999 French Canadians; 5,131 English; 2,465 German; 1,683 English Canadian. In 1920, towards the end of the first wave of immigration, most ethnic groups had numerous social clubs in the city. The Portuguese had 2; the English had 2; the Jews had 3; the Armenians, 5; the Lebanese and Syrians, 6; the Irish, 8; the Polish, 9; the French Canadians and Belgian-French, 14; the Lithuanians, 18; the Italians, 32; and the Germans, 47. However, the center of social life, even more than clubs or fraternal organizations, was churches. Lawrence is dotted with churches, many now closed, torn down or converted into other uses. These churches signify, more than any other artifacts, the immigrant communities that once lived within walking distance of each church.

The French Canadians

French Canadians were the second major immigrant group to settle in Lawrence. In 1872, they erected their first church, St. Anne’s, at the corner of Haverhill and Franklin Streets. Within decades, St. Anne’s established a “missionary church”, Sacred Heart on South Broadway, to serve the burgeoning Québécois community in South Lawrence. Later it would also establish the "missionary" parishes in Methuen: Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St. Theresa's (Notre-Dame du Mont Carmel et St-Thérèse). The French-Canadians arrived from various farming areas of Quebec where farms had grown arrid for lack of knowledge that crops needed to be rotated after a time. Others who integrated themselves into these French-Canadian communities were actually Acadians who had left the Canadian Maritimes of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia also in search of work.

The Irish

Irish immigrants arrived in Lawrence at its birth, which nearly coincided with the Great Potato Famine of 1842, the event that drove great numbers of Irish out of Ireland. The Great Stone Dam, constructed in from 1845–1848 to power the nascent textile mills, was largely built by Irish laborers. The first Irish immigrants settled in the area south of the Merrimack River near the intersection of Kingston Street and South Broadway. Their shantytown settlement put them close to the dam being constructed, but away from the Essex Corporation row houses built north of the river to attract New England farm girls as mill workers. The religious needs of the Irish were initially met by the Immaculate Conception church, originally erected near the corner of Chestnut and White Street in 1846, the first Roman Catholic church in Lawrence. By 1847, observers counted over ninety shanties in the Irish shantytown. In 1869, the Irish were able to collect sufficient funds form their own church, St. Patrick’s, on South Broadway.

The Germans

The first sizable German community arrived following the revolutions of 1848. However, a larger German community was formed after 1871, when industrial workers from Saxony were displaced by economic competition from new industrial areas like the Ruhr. The German community was characterized by numerous school clubs, shooting clubs, national and regional clubs, as well as men’s choirs and mutual aid societies, many of which were clustered around the Turn Verein, a major social club on Park Street.

The Italians

Some Italian immigrants celebrated Mass in the basement chapel of the largely Irish St. Laurence O’Toole Church, at the intersection of East Haverhill Street and Newbury Street, until they had collected sufficient funds to erect the Holy Rosary Church in 1909 nearby at the intersection of Union Street and Essex Street. Immigrants from Lentini (a city in the Sicilian province of Syracuse) and from the Sicilian province of Catania maintained a particular devotion to three Catholic martyrs, Saint Alfio, Saint Filadelfo and Saint Cirino, and in 1923 began celebrating a procession on their feast day. Although most of the participants live in neighboring towns, the Feast of Three Saints festival continues in Lawrence today. My husband's Consentino family came from Mistretta, Italy. They lived next door to St. Lawrence O'Toole Church but eventually became parishioners of Holy Rosary since it was the Italian ethnic parish of the neighborhood just a few blocks away from where they lived. This parish was ministered to by the Augustinian Fathers but Diocesan priest have taken the helm and the parish was merged and renamed Corpus Christi Parish.

The Lebanese

Lawrence residents frequently referred to their Arabic-speaking Middle Eastern community as "Syrian". In fact, most so-called Syrians in Lawrence were from present-day Lebanon, and were largely Maronite Christian. Lebanese immigrants organized St. Anthony’s Maronite Church in 1903 . Pictured here is St. George’s Orthodox Church, the oldest Greek Orthodox-rite Church in the United States.

The Jews

Jewish merchants became increasingly numerous in Lawrence and specialized in dry goods and retail shops. The fanciest men's clothing store in Lawrence, Kap's, established in 1902 and closed in the early 1990s, was founded by Elias Kapelson, born in Lithuania. Jacob Sandler and two brothers also immigrated from Lithuania in approximately 1900 and established Sandlers Department Store, which continued in business until 1978. In the 1880s, the first Jewish arrivals established a community around Common, Valley, Concord and Lowell Streets. In the 1920s, the Jews of Lawrence began congregating further up Tower Hill, where they erected two synagogues on Lowell Street above Milton Street, as well as a Jewish Community Center on nearby Haverhill Street. All three institutions had closed their doors by 1990 as the remaining elderly members of the community died out or moved away.

The Polish

The Polish community of Lawrence was estimated to be only 600–800 persons in 1900. However by 1905, the community had expanded sufficiently to fund the construction of the Holy Trinity Church at the corner of Avon and Trinity Streets. Their numbers grew to 2,100 Poles in 1910. Like many of their immigrant brethren from other nations, most of the Poles were employed in woolen and worsted goods manufacturing.

The English

A sizable English community, comprised mainly of unskilled laborers that arrived after 1880, sought work in the textile mills where they were given choice jobs by the Yankee overseers on account of their shared linguistic heritage and close cultural links.

Yankee farmers

Not all immigrants to Lawrence were foreign-born or their children. Yankee farmers, unable to compete against the cheaper farmlands of the Midwest that had been linked to the East coast by rail, settled in corners of Lawrence. Congregationalists were the first Protestant denomination to begin worship in South Lawrence, with the erection in 1852 of the first South Congregational Church on South Broadway, near the corner of Andover Street.

First Settlers

Of course, the very first settlers were the English who pioneered our villages back in the 1600's and early 1700's. In 1776 the American Revolution ensued - the rest is history!

Sources: Personal notes and experiences and Wikipedia. I have been unable to find photos of all the churches but I am still searching. We knew where all of these communities were when I was growing up and there were postcards of all the churches and my sister took many photos as well.

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An Interview with Maureen Taylor

2011-02-16T10:06:00.002-05:00

Her next presentation, The Last Muster: Photographs and Stories from the American Revolution, (S324) will occur on Saturday, April 9^th at 1:45 p.m.

Tell us about the most difficult “hunt” you’ve ever done. Where did the photo or photos come from and what made the research difficult?

Were there any particular challenges to this task, or any experiences in the process that you particularly enjoyed?

Maureen’s address:

Maureen Taylor
The Photo Detective
P.O. Box 283
Westwood, MA 02090

Watch Maureen solve cases on Vimeo. You can also follow her on Facebook and Twitter.

The list of speakers who will be at NERGC 2011 can be found at:

NERGC

More information about Maureen Taylor can be found at:

Maureen Taylor.com

NERGC Speakers Taylor M

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2011 - Present

Maureen Taylor Author of The Last Muster

2011-02-12T18:49:00.000-05:00

Next week, my blog will feature an interview with Maureen Taylor that I am conducting for the New England Regional Genealogical Conference (NERGC).

Photo of Maureen Tayler

and Lucie LeBlanc Consentino

Here is a small preview of what is to come - a taste of the presentation that my daughter and I attended last Sunday at the Marblehead (MA) Historical Society and Museum - entitled The Last Muster. Maureen shared highlights of her latest book by the same name. The Last Muster contains images of the Revolutionary War generation. Maureen identifies the daguerreotypes published and also presents the history of the people in those photos.

Known as the "Photo Detective", she is an amazing sleuth when it comes to identifying old photos of different types. Her presentation detailed the painstaking and sometime serendipitous process by which she identified which photos were of Revolutionary War heroes and explored their roles in the war.

Photo taken February 6, 2011 at the Marblehead Museum

The above photo shows Maureen signing the books I purchased: The Last Muster, Preserving Your Family Photographs and More Dating Old Photographs 1840-1929.

For more information about Maureen, including a complete list of her publications, please go to her

web site MAUREEN TAYLOR

Photo by Rebecca Hains of me taking a photo of Maureen

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12 February 2011 - Present

The Continental Congress 1774-1776

2011-02-09T07:52:00.000-05:00

The ten years between the Stamp Act crisis and the closing of the port of Boston in 1774 saw an erosion of British authority throughout the thirteen mainland colonies. In particular, the colonists' efforts to avoid British taxation led to a fatal crisis within the imperial order. When neither rioting nor royal petitions won for the colonists the political settlement they wished, provincials inspired by members of the Boston Whig movement began to systematically destroy taxed tea or otherwise impede its sale. The resulting crisis led Parliament to pass the Boston Port Bill (Coercive Acts), which in turn led to the calling of the First Continental Congress. This body, drawn from the provincial gentry, was primarily a last-ditch effort to seek legal redress and reform within the empire. Meeting in Philadelphia on 5 September 1774, the fifty-five delegates from all the colonies except Georgia elected Peyton Randolph of Virginia president of the congress; denounced the Coercive Acts; toyed with the Pennsylvanian Joseph Galloway's "Plan of Union," which would have kept the colonies in the empire; and formulated an address to George III. Adjourning on 26 October, the delegates agreed to reassemble the following year to set a course of action. The Second Continental Congress, which convened in May 1775, contained both a conservative element, headed by John Jay of New York and Pennsylvania's John Dickinson (1732-1808), and a radical group leaning toward independence. The Battles of Lexington and Concord, in April 1775, and the subsequent siege of the British army in Boston by a provincial militia army, drove the majority of congressional delegates into the radical camp, where John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794), and others advocated the end of the imperial relationship. In mid-June 1775, Congress voted to raise an army and named George Washington to lead it. In July 1776, the delegates issued the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming the colonies free from Great Britain, a move widely celebrated across America. By the Articles of Confederation, debated for months and finally adopted on 15 November 1777, the delegates constituted themselves as a unicameral legislative body that functioned as the central authority of the new nation until 1788. These representatives faced a host of domestic, military, and diplomatic problems. Foremost among these were raising and maintaining a Continental Army to fight the Revolutionary War, finance and money-supply issues, and launching overseas diplomatic initiatives. Factional fighting magnified these issues. Although the Continental Congress provided sufficient political leadership for the colonists to win the war, the financial and diplomatic problems faced by the new nation ultimately led to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and a new government.

Bibliography

Jack Rakove, The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress, 1979. Calvin Jillson and Rick K. Wilson, Congressional Dynamics: Structure, Coordination, and Choice in the First American Congress, 1774-1789, 1994.

Some Of The Women Who Participated in The American Revolution

2011-02-08T13:52:00.002-05:00

Not only men fought in the American Revolution and military contributions were not the only important contributions to the cause. Many citizens participated in whatever capacity they could to help win independence. Below are some of the women who participated.

A

Abigail Adams
Hannah Arnett

B

Sarah Franklin Bache
Anne Bailey
Penelope Barker
Catherine "Kate" Moore Barry
Ann Eliza Bleecker
Mary Brant
Martha Bratton
Elizabeth Burgin
Mary Willing Byrd

C

Margaret Corbin

D

Lydia Darragh
Esther de Berdt

F

Rebecca Franks

G

Margaret Kemble Gage
Emily Geiger
Catherine Littlefield Greene

H

Nancy Hart
Ann Wood Henry

J

Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson
Miss Jenny

L

Sybil Ludington

M

Mammy Kate
Grace and Rachel Martin
Jane McCrea
Jane Mecom
Rebecca Motte
Mary Lindley Murray

R

Esther Reed
Frederika Charlotte Riedesel
Betsy Ross

S

Deborah Sampson
Molly Stark

T

Sarah Tarrant
Jane Thomas

W

Nancy Ward
Mercy Otis Warren
Martha Washington
Phillis Wheatley
Prudence Wright
Patience Wright

Z

Elizabeth Zane
For more information about these women, please go to Women in the American Revolution

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Lucie LeBlanc Consentino

2011 - Present

The Dumais/Goodrich Story Is Growing

2011-02-04T04:15:00.000-05:00

Raquel (Rachel) Del Castillo Dumais

If you follow this blog, you will recall that on January 10, 2010 I blogged about Raquel/Rachel Del Castillo who was my great aunt. I think she was also one of my mother's favorite aunts through marriage. From the time I was quite young I remember my mother talking about "ma tante Rachel" (aunt Rachel).

My mother spoke often of her and she thought she was one of the most stylish women she had ever known and she loved her for the wonderful person she was.

The difficulty I encountered in doing our family genealogy and history was that I never knew how she fit into the family until I had a get-together with some of my mother's first cousins (my first cousins once removed). Their mother was my grandmother's sister thus Dumais sisters so I figured they might be able to tell me something about the Dumais side of the family that I did not yet know.

While sharing and chatting, my cousin Rita asked if I had ever found information about Napoleon Dumais and his wife Raquel Del Castillo! Though only 5 years old when they returned to Lawrence from Cuba, now in her 90's, Rita remembered them and over the years wondered what had become of them. Wow! I finally had a connection that I could dig into!

In my blog of January 10th I asked that if anyone knew anything about Rachel/Raquel Del Castillo to please contact me. Lo and behold toward the end of June while I was painting our bathroom, I received a phone call from Florida. Thinking it might be a telemarketer I almost did not pick up. Then I decided I should so that this "person" would not keep calling. I was floored when I heard the caller say "Hi, I believe we are related - Raquel Del Castillo was my great grandmother" - stunned, I asked her to repeat what she had just said... I was totally elated to have finally found this lost part of our family and our history.

This second cousin was none other than Adrianna Goodrich Blanco. She was excited.. I was excited.. and we had a difficult time putting our words together! She told me that her uncle Bill Goodrich would call me later as he had been doing the family history.

As I've written about the connection that has been made with my Goodrich/Dumais cousin I must tell you that cousin Bill and I have been exchanging a great deal of information. My family's connection with the Goodrich cousins does not end with Bill Goodrich and Adrianna Goodrich Blanco. Recently I was contacted by another descendant of my great uncle Napoleon Dumais and great aunt Raquel Del Castillo. She is another great granddaughter of this couple. Then just last week, I received another message from yet another Goodrich great grandchild who happened upon my updated blog. His name is also William Goodrich. What is most interesting is that all three descend from three different children of Napoleon and Raquel. Who knew we had so many more Dumais/Goodrich cousins? It has been a marvelously enriching experience for all of us.

Stay tuned.. I have a feeling that I've not yet met the last Goodrich cousin.

If you have not read the whole story, the following link will give you an update on what has happened since I posted my first query regarding Raquel Del Castillo.

A Tale of Two Families - Dumais and Goodrich - The Whole Story

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2011 - Present

Who Is In Those Photos

2011-01-25T16:45:00.000-05:00

Some people have asked "who is in the photos" - those photos in question are part of the header of this blog.

From the left:

# 1. My grandparents Arthémise Dumais and Étienne Levesque on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary.

#2. Photo taken with them and their children, grandchildren and great grandchild on the same occasion.

#3. Their daughter Rosanna Levesque and George LeBlanc - my parents.

#4. Wedding photo of Lucie LeBlanc and Anthony Consentino (me and my husband).

#5. Photo of our two daughters Rebecca and Sarah.

#6. Wedding photo of Rebecca Consentino and Tyler Hains.

#7. Wedding photo of Sarah Consentino and Corey Jackson.

#8. Our grandson Theo, son of Rebecca and Tyler.

#9. Old photo of me and my grandmother at the beach when I was a child.

#10. My husband Anthony when he was a boy.

#11. Wedding photo of Maria Grazia Consentino and Filippo Consentino - my husband's parents

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Surname Saturday - Doiron

2011-01-15T07:43:00.000-05:00

Descendants of JEAN DOIRON

Generation No. 1

1. JEAN¹ DOIRON was born Abt. 1649 in France, and died Bet. 28 April 1735 - 03 June 1736 in Ste-Famille de Pigiguit, Acadia - DBIM. He married (1) MARIE-ANNE CANOL Abt. 1671. She was born Abt. 1651, and died 1693 in Before census of 1693. He married (2) MARIE TRAHAN 1693 in Before census of 1693, daughter of GUILLAUME TRAHAN and MADELEINE BRUN. She was born Abt. 1672 in Port-Royal , Acadia.

Notes for JEAN DOIRON:

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 513

DOIRON, Jean

The Doiron family traces its roots back to Jean Doiron, born in France about 1649. His name first appears on the Census of 1686. Married twice, he was the father of at least nineteen children.

Jean's parentage is unknown. Placide Gaudet cites his birthplace as Saint-Martin de l'île de Ré though other genealogists have not been able to find this link.

He married Marie-Anne Canol and in a second marriage, he wed Marie Trahan.

When Jean Doiron appears in the census of 1686, he is called Jean Douaron, aged 37 and married to Marianne Cannol, aged 35. At this time, he had seven children, which means they would have married about 1671. At the time of this census, it is also noted that Jean Doiron was certainly not a farmer. He had no land cultivated though he had seven horned animals and a sheep. This could in- dicate that he was newly arrived in Port-Royal. Could it be that he had another profession/trade - perhaps that of a soldier or navigator?

Very few details are available about his life in Port-Royal. His wife Marie-Anne Canol died about 1690. He married Marie Trahan in 1671 when he was 42 and she was 20. In 1693, he had settled his family in the colony of Mines (Les Mines).

By 1693 he was a well established farmer with eight acres of cultivated land, 8 horned animals, 9 lambs and 5 hogs.

Jean died at Pisiguit about 1735.

Sources: 1. La Famille Doiron by Allen Doiron - Fidèle Thériault

2. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 513

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DOIRON, Jean, married Marie-Anne Canol, and both of them were from France, according to Pierre Trahan, husband of his granddaughter Madeleine Vincent (Doc. inéd., Vol. III, p. 111). Another Pierre Trahan, who was a nephew of Jean Doiron?s second wife, Marie Trahan, mistakenly attributes the given name of Charles to him (ibid., p. 8), as do three other depositions: one from Jean Doiron?s grandson Jean Hébert (ibid., p. 11), one from his great-grandson Félix Boudrot (ibid., p. 39), and the last from Marie-Madeleine LeBlanc on behalf of her son-in-law Miniac Daigre, another of the ancestor?s great-grandsons (ibid., p. 25). Miniac Daigre?s uncles Alexis and Jean Doiron in their joint deposition likewise call their grandfather Charles, but do not mention his place of origin (ibid., p. 16). The 1693 census shows clearly that the same man who was listed as the husband of Marie-Anne Canol in 1686 had remarried Marie Trahan, and both those censuses and various other records in Acadia uniformly call the Doiron forebear Jean (see DGFA-1, pp. 513-516).

Source: Acadian Origins According to the Depositions Made by Their Descendants at Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1767 by Stephen A. White, January 17, 2005

Notes for MARIE-ANNE CANOL:

Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 513

CANOL, Marie-Anne, married Jean Doiron, and both of them were from France, according to Pierre Trahan, husband of her granddaughter Madeleine Vincent (Doc. inéd., Vol. III, p. 111). Marie-Anne?s family name is not provided in this deposition, but it is known from the 1686 census and the marriage records of three of her children in the registers of Port-Royal and Grand-Pré (see DGFA-1, pp. 513-514).

Source: Acadian Origins According to the Depositions Made by Their Descendants at Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1767 by Stephen A. White, January 17, 2005

Notes for MARIE TRAHAN:

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 1536

Children of JEAN DOIRON and MARIE-ANNE CANOL are:

2 i. Anne-Marie² Doiron. She married Michel Vincent Abt. 1710 in Pisiguit, Acadia - DBIM; born Abt. 1668.

Notes for Anne-Marie Doiron:

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 513

Notes for Michel Vincent:

Source: Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 1575 c.

3 ii. Abraham Doiron, born Abt. 1672; died Bef. 1705. He married Anne Babin Abt. 1697; born Abt. 1674.

Notes for Abraham Doiron:

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 513 a. 3. & p 517 3.

Notes for Anne Babin:

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 57-58

4 iii. Charles Doiron, born Abt. 1674; died 1758 in (DBIM) - Arch Port St-Servan - died at sea while being Deported to France.. He married Françoise Gaudet Aft. 1693; born Abt. 1673; died 1758 in (DBIM)- Arch Port St-Servan - died at sea while being Deported to rance.

Notes for Charles Doiron:

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 513

5 iv. Jeanne Doiron, born Abt. 1676 in Unknown; died Unknown in Unknown. She married Jean Hébert Abt. 1692 in DBIM; born Abt. 1659 in nknown; died Unknown in Unknown.

Notes for Jeanne Doiron:

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 513

Notes for Jean Hébert:

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 813

Explanatory Notes by S. A. White

i. Note that the godparents of the two eldest daughters of Jeanne Hébert and Augustin Guédry included Jeanne Doiron and Charles Hébert (Rg GP 26 Sept 1723).

ii. Nicolas Lacroix was a witness at Étienne Hébert's marriage (Rg GP 18 Aug 1734). It would appear that he and Étienne were brothers-in-law.

iii. One may well believe that Joseph belonged to Jean Hébert Senior's family because he was with Jean Junior in exile at Liverpool, England and because later on his widow and children settled in French Guiana together with some of Jean Junior's children. There must have been a close relationship between Joseph and Jean Junior to explain the similarity of their itineraries.

iv. Joseph Vincent dit Clément was a native of Port-Royal, but he settled in the parish of L'Assomption at Pisiguit, where his eldest son was born about 1741. It is likely that Joseph took up residence there because his wife was originally from that parish. This leads to the deduction that his wife was a daughter of Jean Hébert and Jeanne Doiron, because they were the parents of the only Hébert family in L'Assomption parish at Pisiguit at the time of Joseph Vincent's wife's birth.

v. Marie-Josèphe Lejeune and Marie Michel were both originally from Pisiguit. It is likely that their husband originally came from the same place. This supposition leads to the conclusion that Paul Hébert must have been a son of Jean Hébert and Jeanne Doiron, becuase at the time of Paul's birth theirs was the only Hébert family settled at Pisiguit. This conclusion is reinforced by the fact that Paul bore the nickname Benjamin, which suggests that he was the youngest child of a large family. Additionally, this connection provides an explanation for the settlement of Charles Hébert and Catherine Saulnier on a lot of land at the Anse-aux-Pirogues on Île St-Jean, near Paul's own lot.

Exlanatory Note by M. Barriault:

The dispensation for the fourth degree of kindred granted upon the marriage of Michel Henry, great-grandson of Jean Henry dit LeVieux and Marie Hébert, to Anne Hébert, great-granddaughter of Charles Hébert and Catherine Saulnier (Rg St-Charles de Ken 10 Jan 1825), leads to the conclusion that Marie Hébert, Catherine Saulnier's husband, were sister and brother, and thus that Marie was a member of Jean Hébert and Jeanne Doiron's family.

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White

& English Supplement, pp 167-168

6 v. Jean Doiron, born Abt. 1678; died Bef. 1750. He married Anne LeBlanc Abt. 1710; born Abt. 1692 in Les Mines, Acadia; died 04 December 1757 in Québec, Canada.

Notes for Jean Doiron:

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 513

Notes for Anne LeBlanc:

Birth: Census for Les Mines 1693 1a

Marriage according to A. Godbout

Death/burial: Québec Register for December 4/4 1757 60a

She had been a widow at time of her death

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 991 d.

7 vi. PIERRE DOIRON, born Abt. 1680. He married (1) Unknown Abt. 1703. He married (2) MADELEINE DOUCET Abt. 1709; born Abt. August 1671; died Bef. 25 February 1740. He married (3) Véronique Brasseur 25 February 1740 in Beaubassin, Acadia; born 12 June 1717 in Grand-Pré, Acadia; died Bet. 1754 - 1755.

Notes for PIERRE DOIRON:

Registers: Beaubassin;Grand Pre

Census: Beaubassin 1703; newly weds; 1 able to carry arms

Census: Mines [Grand-Pre] 1707: 1 son voe the age of 12

Census: Beaubassin 1714: also living with them: Jean-Baptiste, Anne, Marguerite, Joseph and Michel (children of René Bernard)

Census: Aulac 1754-1755: The old Pierre Doiron widower, 2 sons, 1 daughter

Secondary source: Placide Gaudet, "Arbre généalogique de feu Dosithée-J. Doiron", L'Évangéline, 5 March 1942, p 12, col 1.

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 518-519 4.

Notes for Unknown:

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 518-519 4.

Notes for MADELEINE DOUCET:

Port-Royal census 1671 - 3 months; 1678 - age 10; 1686 - age 16; Beaubassin census 1693 - age 23; 1698 - age 28; 1700 - age 30; 1714

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 529

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 518-519 4.

Notes for Véronique Brasseur:

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 518-519 4. M 3.

8 vii. Philippe Doiron, born Abt. 1682. He married Marie-Josèphe Guédry Abt. 1715 in Port-Toulouse, (St. Peters) Cape Breton; died Bef. 02 February 1752.

Notes for Philippe Doiron:

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 513 & 772

Notes for Marie-Josèphe Guédry:

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 772 & 513

9 viii. Noël Doiron, born Abt. 1684 in Les Mines, Acadia; died Abt. 13 December 1758 in At sea on the Duke William while being Deported to France. He married Marie Henry Abt. 1705 in Boston, Massachusetts; born Abt. 1681; died 13 December 1758 in At sea on the Duke William while being Deported to France.

Notes for Noël Doiron:

Noel Doiron, his wife, five of their children, more than thirty of their grandchildren, and many of their great grandchildren were among the Acadian families on Ile St-Jean who disappeared without a trace after 1758. It appears that Noel Doiron was the old leader of the Acadians of Pointe-Prime who is mentioned but not named in Captain Nicholls' account of the shipwreck of the Duke William. According to this account, the old leader and all of his family perished when the ship sank at sea.

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 513 & the English Supplement, p 111

Marriage Notes for Noël Doiron and Marie Henry:

Nuptial Blessing on 24 September 1706 at Port-Royal

10 ix. Marie Doiron, born Abt. 1687 in Port-Royal , Acadia; died 02 February 1733 in Louisbourg, Cape Breton. She married (1) François Testard dit Paris 22 November 1706 in Port Royal , Acadia. She married (2) Pierre Boisseau 05 September 1729 in Louisbourg, Cape Breton.

Notes for Marie Doiron:

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 513

11 x. Jacques (twin) Doiron, born Abt. 1689.

Notes for Jacques (twin) Doiron:

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 513

12 xi. Louis (twin) Doiron, born Abt. 1689; died November 1727 in L'Assomption, Pisiguit, Acadia - DBIM. He married Marguerite Barrieau 21 November 1712 in Grand-Pré , Acadia; born Abt. 1689; died in SS-Pierre & Paul de la Pointe-Prime, Ile St-Jean - DBIM.

Notes for Louis (twin) Doiron:

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 525

Notes for Marguerite Barrieau:

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, pages 76 & 77

Children of JEAN DOIRON and MARIE TRAHAN are:

13 i. Marguerite² Doiron, died Aft. 1752. She married René Guillot dit Langevin Abt. 1719.

Notes for Marguerite Doiron:

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 513

14 ii. MARIE DOIRON. She married PIERRE GIROUARD 14 November 1709 in Grand-Pré, Acadia; born Abt. 1673 in Port Royal , Acadia.

Notes for MARIE DOIRON:

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 513

Notes for PIERRE GIROUARD:

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 720 b. 5. 724 5., 725 & 726

15 iii. Thomas Doiron, born Abt. 1699; died 1758 in Arch Port St-Servan - died at sea while being Deported to France.. He married Anne Girouard Abt. 1724; born Abt. 1704; died 10 December 1761 in Arch Port St-Servan - St-Suliac, France.

Notes for Thomas Doiron:

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 513

Notes for Anne Girouard:

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 724, 725 & 726

More About Anne Girouard:

Burial: 12 December 1761, St-Suliac, France

16 iv. Paul Doiron, born Abt. 1701; died Aft. 12 August 1763. He married Marguerite Doucet Abt. 1725.

Notes for Paul Doiron:

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 513

17 v. Alexandre Doiron, born Abt. 1703; died Bet. 1763 - 1768. He married Anne Vincent 20 October 1727 in Grand-Pré , Acadia; born 17 June 1711 in Port- Royal , Acadia.

Notes for Alexandre Doiron:

Deported to Oxford, Maryland - in the census of 1763

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 513

Notes for Anne Vincent:

Baptised conditionally on 22 July 1711 by Abraham Bourg - Godparents: Yves Maucaïre and Anne Lord

Census: Oxford, Maryland 1763

On list of arrivals for Louisiana 1768 age 59

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 1582

18 vi. Madeleline Doiron, born Abt. 1705; died 11 January 1795 in St-Michel de Bellechase, Québec, Canada. She married François Nogues Abt. 1729.

Notes for Madeleline Doiron:

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 513

19 vii. Pierre Doiron, born Abt. 1706; died 29 March 1751 in Ile St-Jean (P.E.I.), Canada - ( Port Lajoie Register). He married Marguerite Breau Abt. 1746.

Notes for Pierre Doiron:

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 513

20 viii. Catherine Doiron, born Bet. 15 May - 29 June 1709 in Grand-Pré, Acadia; died 14 December 1784 in St-Ours, Québec, Canada. She married François Turcot Abt. 1740 in Ste-Famille de Pisiguit, Acadia (possibly); born 07 May 1710 in Doué-La-Fontaine, Anjou, France; died 07 August 1789 in St-Ours, Québec.

Notes for Catherine Doiron:

Baptized 29 June 1709 - St-Charles-des-Mines parish registers

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 513

Received electronically from Stephen A. White on 28 February 2009:

As the DGFA-1 shows, Catherine Doiron was born on May 15, 1709, and was baptized at Grand-Pré on the following June 29th. She was not born between those dates.

It is not known where Catherine Doiron married François Turcot, but it was probably in the parish of Ste-Famille de Pisiguit, where Catherine's father, Jean Doiron, had died a few years previously, according to the Déclarations at Belle-Île-en-Mer. There is no evidence insofar as I know suggesting that Catherine and François would have been married on île Royale. By the way, there was no parish named St-Pierre de Toulouse. The parish of St-Pierre on île Royale was at Port-Toulouse, as is shown on page xx of the DGFA-1.

As for François Turcot, his origin in France has been traced by Jean-Marie Germe. François was born and baptized on May 7, 1710, at Doué-La-Fontaine, which is, as La Roque's census shows, in what was the province of Anjou. He did not come from St-Pierre de Doix in the Vendée. His parents, as shown by his baptismal record, were François Turcot and Jeanne Bidet, as I have indicated in the Corrections and Additions to the DGFA-1 on the Centre d'études acadiennes's webpage. This information was not available to me in 1999, when the DGFA-1 was published, but was only found in 2000, when M. Germe published it, in Les Amitiés généalogiques canadiennes-françaises, no 11, pp. 33-34. Not only did M. Germe find François Turcot's baptismal record, but also the marriage record of his parents, dated Sept. 2, 1709, also at Doué-La-Fontaine, which shows that his father François Turcot was a son of François Turcot and Jeanne Pérodeau, of the parish of St-Barthélemy at La Rochelle, and that his mother Jeanne Bidet was a daughter of Pierre Bidet and Jeanne Renault. And M. Germe's brief article includes actual facsimile copies of both records. Curiously, his discovery has not been reported in the Fichier origine, perhaps because the François Turcot who married Catherine Doiron lived in Acadia before ending up in Québec.

François Turcot was thus born in 1710, and not in 1718. The 1710 date fits much better with his reported age of seventy-eight when he died in 1789. As for his age at the time of La Roque's census in 1752, this must be taken to be an error, as he certainly wasn't twenty-four at that time. Interestingly, simply transposing the two numbers would hit the mark, as he would have been just forty-two when the Sieur de La Roque visited his area

Notes for François Turcot:

Premier Turcot de ma famille au Canada, un acadien De France, il arrive d'abord en N E (St-Pierre), s'y marie et a 4 enfants Ensuite il vit quelques années à l'Ile St-Jean (Ile du Prince Edouard) Pour fuir la déportation, avec sa femme et ses 4 enfants, se dirige vers Québec à l'hiver 1755-56. Il obtint de Bigot, une terre près de Québec et fut le premier colon de St-Gervais de Bellechasse, à dix-huit kms au sud de Beaumont.

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Received electronically from Stephen A. White on 28 February 2009:

As the DGFA-1 shows, Catherine Doiron was born on May 15, 1709, and was baptized at Grand-Pré on the following June 29th. She was not born between those dates.

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Treasure Chest Thursday - Death Record for Grandfather Damien LeBlanc

2011-01-13T08:43:00.000-05:00

This death record for my grandfather Daniel (Damien) LeBlanc is truly a treasure for me and for my family. I had been searching for his place of death and burial for more years than I can remember. What I never knew was that he had changed his name to Daniel.

Why the name change? That really had me baffled but it seems that many Acadian men by the name of Damien change their names to Daniel.

Someone asked how I knew this was really my grandfather. Because I've done my family genealogy I knew the names of his parents and their names are on the death record. The person giving the information was a Mrs. Pierre LeBlanc. Well this is another mystery. She obviously knew my grandfather very well to have given the names of his parents. She was obviously aware that both his wives had passed away. I hope I can solve who this lady was and how we are related.

So if I'd known about this interchange of names I would have probably found my grandfather's death record long ago. I found it just this past October 21st and I was just thrilled when I saw it, was able to download it and print it. Indeed this is a treasure. The record also tells me where he was buried. Now finding his grave will be a whole new search!

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2011 - Present

Interpreting Marriage Dispensations

2011-01-11T13:56:00.000-05:00

When doing genealogy research, we often hear how family relationships were figured out by looking at marriage dispensations. These dispensations were very common in the Catholic Church so I thought it might be of some help to blog about how dispensations work.

Since cousins marrying one another raises some moral, as well as genetic issues, the Catholic Church set up a system to regulate such unions. Official Church permission was required to marry a blood relative. This permission was given in the form of granting dispensations for varying degrees of consanguinity of blood relationship. No distinction was made between half-siblings and those who shared both parents.

There are four basic degrees of consanguinity:

First degree: siblings, who share the same parents

Second degree: first cousins, who share the same grandparents

Third degree: second cousins, who share the same great grandparents

Fourth degree: third cousins, who share the same great, great grandparents

Therefore, if second cousins wished to marry one another, they would need to be granted a dispensation for a third (or third to third - 3/3) degree of consanguinity from the Church before the marriage could be solemnized.

Now if you happen to descend from the Acadians of southeastern New Brunswick, dispensations were not always that simple. A couple could be third cousins through their mothers, as well as their fathers, requiring a dispensation for a double, fourth degree of consanguinity. A relationship could also be uneven whereas the groom's grandfather was the brother of the bride's great grandfather requiring a dispensation for a third to fourth degree of consanguinity, because they were second cousins, once removed.

Dispensations were not limited to blood relationships. There were also spiritual relationships. When a person married, that person became a spiritual member of the new spouse's family. A sister-in-law was, in a spiritual sense, a sister. This applied to brothers, cousins, etc. If a man wished to marry his late wife's first cousin, spiritually he would be marrying his own first cousin. This would require a dispensation for a second degree of affinity. Dispensations for affinity relationships were governed by the same guidelines as blood relationships of consanguinity.

For people with Acadian roots, dispensations play a major role in New Brunswick-Acadian genealogy. With a lack of surviving, original records of the late eighteenth-century and a number of nineteenth-century marriage records in which the parents of the couple were not noted, dispensations are a valuable tool in the confirmation of ancestry and relationships. Dispensations are used by professional researchers in determining if indeed such and such ancestors were related to one another because of the dispensations being granted their children, etc.

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1998 - Present

Thank you Randy Seaver!

2011-01-10T10:14:00.000-05:00

Sincere thanks for Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings for the shout out. I really appreciate the fact that Randy took the time to read my last recent blogs "Mama and Me" and "Papa and Me".

Randy posted the following:

Best of the Genea-Blogs - 2 January to 8 January 2011

Hundreds of genealogy and family history bloggers write thousands of posts every week about their research, their families, and their interests. I appreciate each one of them and their efforts.

My criteria for "Best of ..." are pretty simple - I pick posts that advance knowledge about genealogy and family history, address current genealogy issues, provide personal family history, are funny or are poignant. I don't list posts destined for the genealogy carnivals, or other meme submissions (but I do include summaries of them), or my own posts.

After listing his picks for the Best 2 January to 8 January 2011, he ended with the following:

Did I miss a great genealogy blog post? Tell me! I am currently reading posts from over 740 genealogy bloggers using Google Reader, but I still miss quite a few it seems.

I think Randy deserves a shout out for following so many blogs and for taking the time to summarize his view on blogs he chooses for a given week.

Please don't forget to visit Genea-Musings to read about his Genealogy research tips and techniques, genealogy news items and commentary, genealogy humor, San Diego genealogy society news, family history research and some family history stories from the keyboard of Randy Seaver (of Chula Vista CA).

While there take a look at the blogs he has reviewed. I'm sure there are some you've never read before.

Lucie LeBlanc Consentino

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10 January 2011

52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History - Week 2: Winter

2011-01-09T08:34:00.001-05:00

Amy Coffin of the We Tree blog has yet another successful series on her hands: 52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History.

This is Week 2 of the series: Winter. What was winter like where and when you grew up? Describe not only the climate, but how the season influenced your activities, food choices, etc.

Growing up in New England Winters has always been a challenge for its inhabitants whether living inland, by the ocean or further up country. I grew up in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Today that is about a 45 minute drive north or south to the ocean. Lawrence is about a 35 minutes north of Boston and is situated near the New Hampshire border of Salem and Methuen, Massachusetts where I live today.

When we were children, my mother used to always tell us the snowstorms were nothing compared to when she grew up. I think how much snow there "seems to be all depends on the era when one lived. My mother grew up in the horse and buggy era then the trolleys and finally buses. In her day few people had cars and they either found transportation to the mills where they worked or they walked. Until the era of buses it seems my mother, as well as her parents and siblings who worked in the mills, most often walked to work. I remember walking pretty much everyone when I was growing up. We never thought about distance or time, we just did it.

When I was growing up it did seem to me that winters were colder and snowfalls greater but for some perspective, I was just a little kid looking up at big piles of snow and as that little kid, I probably felt the cold more than adults did. But then again, who knows for sure.

We didn't go to the store to buy milk like we do today. Milk companies employed "milkmen" to deliver milk to homes. During the first half of the 20th century, milkmen delivered bottles of milk to their customers' doors and would take empty bottles left at the door from their last delivery. All bottles of milk contained cream. By the time the bottles were delivered in the winter, the cream was frozen over the top of the bottle with stopper still intact. Back then, the stoppers were simply made of thin cardboard with a tab so it was easy to remove whenever we poured some milk from the bottle.

The food we ate differed greatly from what we ate during warmer weather. Summers were too hot to cook some of the things Mama cooked over the winter. There was no air conditioning back then! My mother would bake beans in a big crock pot every Saturday. It would take all day for the beans to bake and the aroma of beans baking permeated our home. The beans would be ready by supper time then Mama would boil some Essem frankfurters to go with the beans. At that time, Essem's was considered to be the best hot dog around.

Because we were catholic and could not eat meat on Fridays, Mama would fry haddock and french fries. She would send me to the fish store, which was in our neighborhood, to buy a couple of pounds of nice fresh haddock.

It was pretty much like this all winter long - nice big hot meals, lots of soup to boot. Soup was not in a package as it is today. It was cooked from scratch. Some Sundays we would have a nice boiled dinner or roast beef with potatoes and carrots. If we had ham, Mama would save the ham bone to make pea soup during the week. Again, making pea soup was a day long project. There were no gas stoves. Everything was cooked on the very stove that was stoked with wood or coal to warm the house. I was quite young when my family was finally able to afford a gas stove. What a difference that made and Mama loved cooking on that stove!

Before we had a gas stove, with one side that had burners to heat the house, at night there would be no heat in the house. Once the wood or coal burned out late evening that was it until Mama got up very early next morning to heat the house before we children arose.

Now because there was no heat in the house overnight, Mama would pile a few warm blankets on our beds to keep us warm. We also wore long flannel night gowns or pajamas and that helped to keep us warm.

As a child, the best part of winter was playing out in the snow and building a facsimile of a snowman. I grew up in one of four large tenement buildings that totaled 24 tenements (today we call them "apartments"). You can imagine how much fun we had. Our playground was the yard we shared in the middle of the buildings with the yard in between two tenement buildings to the back and two to the front of the yard. It was the best! There was a bunch of kids to play with and all the snow would be shoveled into one huge pile in the middle of the yard so we could sled down that mound of snow.

You know, life was simpler then and it really didn't take much to make us happy.

Well these are some of the good memories I have growing up in New England winters. There are many more but those will have to be shared at another time. Thanks for asking!

Lucie LeBlanc Consentino

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2011 - Present

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Bread & Roses Strike of 1912 - 100 Years Later - Lawrence, Massachusetts

Childhood Memories - My First Christmas Present

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Amesbury Public Library - October 29th, 2011

Dear Cousins and Friends,

On Saturday, October 29th, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. I will be speaking at the Amesbury Public Library. Topic: Acadian History & Genealogy - I will also speak about the Acadians exiled to Amesbury from 1755-1763. To register please go to the library site at:

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On Saturday, October 29th, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. I will be speaking at the Amesbury Public Library. Topic: Acadian History & Genealogy - I will also speak about the Acadians exiled to Amesbury from 1755-1763.

To register please go to the library site at: