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Hi,
I looking for any information on William Charest and his first wife Agnes Renaud married on 1872-08-20 at St-Louis-de-Gonzague, Qc
Where they lived, their children,
Thanks
Michel Renaud
renaudmr(a)yahoo.fr
Eusebe Adam and Marie-Elisa Charest M: feb 29, 1848
St-Stanislas QC.
Able to help on the Charest side only, for her ancestors.
decharest(a)pandore.qc.ca
CHARETTE/CHAREST FAMILY ASSOCIATION
July 2001
Number 4
The Association was founded in October 2000 from the support generated at the
Charette Family Reunion held in St Francois, NB, CAN in July 2000. The goal
of the Association is to foster an historical and genealogical study and
appreciation of the CHARETTE name and its variants.
Interim Officers at present are as follows;
President - Ray Thomas
Vice President - Denis Charest
Secretary/Treasurer - Ray Thomas
The ANNUAL dues are $10.00 US. For this first year, an agreed-to dues for
Canadians was $13.00. However, because of the exchange rate, it became less
than $9.00 US. Starting in October 2001, Canadians, in writing a dues check
should put "US FUNDS" $10.00. This would cover any fluctuation in the
exchange rate. Currently dues should be sent to Ray Thomas, 836 Marion Ave.,
Plantsville CT 06479 USA.
Notes from the President
Any organization, having been established, will undergo growing pains. As of
this writing, the Association has 23 members from various parts of Canada and
the United States. Growth is not automatic nor is it to be taken for
granted. This newsletter holds us together. It must be interesting,
exciting, informative, inquisitive. I trust the first three newsletters have
been that given the lack of editorial experience by the author, yours truly.
We need input from the members: articles, stories, tidbits, humor, queries,
letters. It is OUR Association. We will make it work.
As announced in previous newsletters, this is the LAST newsletter to
non-members. I hope everyone has enjoyed the newsletters and will consider
joining the Association.
Ray
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Here's your chance to meet some new cousins. As reported in the last
newsletter, there is a CHAREST reunion coming up on July 29th in Sanbornville
NH. They are looking for new relatives to come and meet them. The e-mail
address is after the article.
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We've been having it for the past 23 years this summer. Different people come
each year. Many have come from South Carolina, Florida, Connecticut, Rhode
Island, Massachusetts, Maine and even as far away as Germany. It is always
the last Sunday of July each year. We alternate years between Maine and New
Hampshire. This summer it will be held at our house in Sanbornville N.H. It
would be nice to meet more of the family. Our family always has a lot of fun
together.
(nancylaura(a)earthlink.net) Nancy & Peter Charest, PO Box 53, Sanbornville
NH.
We are all aware that the CHORET/CHARETTE/CHAREST/ETC. families did not all
remain in Quebec. As stories and articles are received from various sources,
we will attempt to put them in this newsletter. This issue will cover,
briefly, a small village named La Charette in St Louis County, Missouri.
LA CHARETTE, MISSOURI
Taken from the Schakes of La Charette (website)
St. Johns or the Village of La Charette
Little of certainty is recorded of this earliest Missouri river frontier
settlement at the confluence of the Missouri river and what at that time was
called Charette Creek south of the present day Marthasville. Originally it
was called Fort San Juan del Misuri established by the Spanish (4), later as
St Johns and finally as the French Village of La Charette, thus reflecting
Spanish, English and French influence before its disappearance. It was
established by 1797 , possibly as early as 1763 . A small fortification built
of logs, the Fort was probably first erected by a small party of militia
commanded by Lieutenant Antonine Gauliter to safeguard new settlers. Later
seven French families, including the families of Raymond Dubois and Joseph
Chartran lived there in as many houses apparently trading with the Indians
and trapping for furs. St Johns was more commonly known as the Village of La
Charette which means "The Cart" and was recognized as the last white
settlement on the Missouri River as late as the second Clark expedition of
August 1808. By the time of the Indian Wars (1812-1814) the fort remained
around the village to protect settlers which eventually included some Germans
and Dutch . A Reverend Reimer from Halberstadt, Germany had studied theology
in Leipsig under Professor Gellers arrived with his bride to farm in the
fertile Charette bottoms. They built a block house, cleared land and soon
were offering Sunday church services to those in this wilderness community,
the earliest on record. Following the first Sunday service a suggestion was
offered to consolidate the Roman Catholic, Dutch Reformed and Lutheran
ideologies represented into one service. After a thorough discussion the
villagers agreed to postpone this concept for later consideration. They did,
however, encouraged Reimer to continue preaching, as he apparently did even
though the majority of the settlers were religiously indifferent. Reverend
Reimer may also be credited with displaying one of the first Christmas trees
in this region of Missouri. Sometime in the early 1800´s the Missouri River
adjusted its course and consumed the Village of La Charette since the village
was constructed very near the banks of the river. A devastating flood was
recorded in 1844 but the flood which consumed the Village of La Charette
apparently occurred somewhat earlier. Flooding of these river bottoms is
respected yet today as a major force of nature capable of much devastation as
reenacted as recently as 1993 and 1995. We also know that this village was
located close to what would become Marthasville Landing, the final point of
disembarkment for Herman Ahmann, Kurt Schake and Jobst Ritter and their
families. The Karl Rocklage family would first land at Washington before
coming to Charette Township in the Dutzow community, probably at what was
then called the North Washington Landing and Ferry while the Rudolph
Hillebrands first settled in St Charles County.
>From Lowell Schake (E-Mail),
Jean Marie Cardinal, Sr, his Indian wife, family and Indian slave (Nicolas
Colas) are the first squatters thought to have been at yet unnamed Charrette
(Charette, Choret's etc.) Creek in 1763. He was originally from American
Bottoms south of present day St. Louis, then left and founded Prairie du
Chien, WI in about 1754 when he and Jose Tebeau killed a father and son named
Lansing from New York in the winter of 1672-63. From there they came to
"Charrette." Other squatters may have later joined them there. Next Jean
Baptiste Trudeau, a French fur trader-explorer and the first school teacher
of St. Louis stopped at the creek to trade with Indians. While there one of
his men, Joseph Chorette drowned at the mouth of the creek in 1795. Trudeau
had been trading on the Missouri River for 20 years. His journal explains
considerable detail of the event (See Below). Then in 1797 two Cardinal sons
and Jose Tebeau, Jr. crossed the Santa Fe Trail and drafted its first map
which they later shared with Zebulon Pike - the map is now on file with the
National Archives. By 1801 both Cardinal sons own property at La Charrette
Village; previously their father was licenced to trade furs with the Osage in
1777. By 1808 Cardinal and Tebeau and other La Charrette family members
settle Cote sans Dessein. Cotes and La Charrette were both the most westerly
settlements on the Missouri - for about 8 years for each before other
settlements were established.
In 1801 syndic Joseph Chartran founded the village of La Charrette with six
other families. Many had Indian wives and orphan children. Scholars have
given two primary explainations regarding the origin of the name for the
village. First, that it was named after the two wheel French cart called a
"cherette." The other and most commonly accepted naming is from the surname
Chorette. I have proposed yet a third alternative - the melding together of
cherette and Chorette into Charrette. In reality we will probably never know.
Other families living in the village were Jean Baptiste Luzon, William Lamme,
Jack Amos, widow St. Franceway and Charles "Don Carlos" Tayon. All were very
much frontiersmen, and again I have a few generations of most of these
families. Interestingly, I have established contact with one of the
descendants of the Tayon family who the by 1840s was assigned to the Ioway
Indian Reservation in Kansas. As early as 1798 others were also settling in
the area but not in the village, although Daniel Boone lived the last years
of his life there with son-in-law Francis Callaway who had by then purchased
the Cardinal farm.
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The below paragraph is from the JOURNAL OF JEAN BAPTISTE TRUDEAU AMONG THE
ARIKARA INDIANS IN 1795. (Pages 41-42) (I have a copy of this 48 page
document complements of the Missouri Historical Society - Ray)
"On the tenth of July, I unfortunately lost one of my Frenchmen, named
Joseph Chroette, who was drowned, while bathing alone at dusk, in the
Missouri. Two little Indians aged about ten and twelve years old, came
running to us to say, that they had seen a white man, who was washing his
body on the bank of the Missouri, and while playing had wandered a little
farther away from him; a few moments later, they looked towards the spot
where he had been and had seen him no more; then going to the spot where he
had gone into the water, they found his clothes, which were still there.
Accompanied by the other Frenchmen and several Indians, I ran to the edge of
the river; we found his clothes, just as these children had told us. The
Indians jumped into the river just at this spot, also some distance below, to
make a search, but without avail. For the last few days this man had been
taken the habit of going to bathe in the Missouri, in spite of all we could
say, telling him that the bed of the river being uneven, full of holes and
precipices and he being unable to swim, he would undoubtedly be drowned; but
incredulous to the last, he obstinately continued his bathing and
unfortunately was drowned. I was most unhappy over this misfortune. During
the twenty-six years and over, in which I have been making my trips, neither
I, nor any one of my companions, has met with a serious accident. I had him
searched for, during several days, but without success. "
On page 36, we find the following: "Joseph Chorette, son of Jean Charette,
lived on the Mississippi below Carondelet in 1787. He was then twenty-nine
years old. The name as written in old documents has the variants Choret,
Charet and Charette. The Charlton rivers were named, no doubt, for some
member of this family."
Does anyone have the ancestry of this person? - Ray
(Comment on #3 newsletter)
Very Interesting indeed. THANK YOU! Thomas L. Charette . (10th Gen Pierre Le
Jeune)
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I appreciate getting information about the town of CHARETTE, COMTE ST
MAURICE, QUEBEC. My twin sister, Evelyn Charette Grota and her husband,
Robert Grota, visited the town on their trip home from last year's reunion in
Fort Kent, ME. They took a couple pictures for me. Now I have a history to
compliment the pix.
Thanks again for the work on the newsletter.
Ev and Jane Charette (10th Gen. Robert)
One way to help us out is to send us any news clippings on Charette or any of
the various spellings, such as obituaries, marriages, births, events, etc.
We will put them in the newsletter.
UNLINKED INDIVIDUALS - Any help from anyone?
These were taken from the Social Security Death Index (except one)
Adelard Charette - 30-Sep 1892 VT- Jun 1970 VT
Adolphus Charette - 13 Nov 1902 TX - May 1976 TX
Adrien Charette - 30 Jan 1885 MA - May 1963 ?
Albert Charette - 2 Jan 1907 MA - Jul 1977 MA
Albert Charette - 21 Apr 1896 MA - May 1973 MA
Albert Charette Jr - Abt 1947 - Before 28 May 1997 Lawrence MA
Albert Charette - 15 Mar 1918 NH - Oct 1979 ?
Albert Charette - 26 Sep 1900 - 30 Dec 1917 Buried Fort Kent ME
Albert Charette - 31 Mar 1923 ME - 16 Aug 1977 ME
Albert Charette - 11Oct 1909 MA- 8 Feb 1994 MA
Albert Charette - 15 Aug 1909 MA - Aug 1966 MA
Albert Charette - 12 Feb 1908 NH - Jun 1972 NH
Alex Charette - ? WI - Jun 1954 ?
Alexander Charette - 23 Dec 1906 ND - Apr 1984 MT
Alfred Charette - 3 Sep 1927 RI - Mar 1975 ?
Alfred Charette - 12 Nov 1915 MA - Apr 1986 MA
1st Generation
Edgar Charette, son of ?
+Lucille Charette, dau of?
Marr ?
2nd Generation
Lucille Charette, dau of Edgar and Lucille Charette
+Albert Belanger,
Marr 27 Nov 1958 Fall River, MA
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1st generation
Damase Pelletier
+Marcelline Charette, dau of ?
Marr ?
2nd generation
Levite Pelletier, son of Damase & Marcelline Charette
+Marie Jeanne Soucy
Marr - 16 Jul 1917 Lac Baker, NB, CAN
Recent obituaries
Obituary, Meriden Record-Journal, Tuesday, January 30, 2001
Ronney A Charette Sr., of East Main Street died Sunday, Jan. 28, 2001,
after a brief illness.
He was born in Southington on July 23, 1951 to Pete Charette of Florida
and Dora (Marquis) Charette of Meriden. He was employed by Fan Steel in
Southington for the past 13 years and was employed by Goldfedders for 17
years before they went out of business.
Mr. Charette is survived by a son, Ronney Charette Jr. of Wallingford; a
daughter, Janet Charette of Meriden; also by his former wife, Linda Charette:
six grandchildren, Ashley, Cody, Michael, Steven, Christopher and Anthony;
two sisters, Betty Ann Pinette and Connie Charette, both of Meriden; and
several nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by a sister, Therese
Carpenter.
A memorial service will be held on Thursday, Feb. 1 at 11 a.m. at the
John J Ferry & Sons Funeral Home, 88 E. Main St., Meriden. Burial will be
private. There will be no calling hours.
Ronney is 10th generation (Jean) line.
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Following are recent obituaries with only basic details. You will notice
that a couple are marked as UNLINKED FAMILY. If you can help with ancestors,
it would be appreciated. If anyone wants further detail, please contact Lise
Charest (decharest(a)pandore.qc.ca)
BOUCHER, Yvette; 82, May 10, 2001 in Granby QC, husband Fernand Charette
COUTURE, Marie-Ange; 92 and 9 months, June 24, 2001 in Ste-Croix QC widower
of Jn-Baptiste Charest
JOHNS, Bethany-L; 36, June 16, 2001 in Easthampton MA, wife of Carl A.
Charrette
CHARETTE, Diane; 45, May 25, 2001 Rouyn-Noranda QC, wife of Marcel Gaignard
CHARETTE, Erick-Lance; 32, May 14, 2001 Hardy AK, son of Edward-Levi and
Sidney Hensen, born CA et father living in Tigard OR. UNLINK Family
CHAREST, Gilles; 67, June 7, 2001 in Laval QC, husband of Claudette Lajoie
CHARETTE, Helene; 53, May 28, 2001, Masson QC, daughter of Emilien & Therrese
Hebert
CHAREST, (SEIBEL) Janaitascha; 8, April 27, 2001 Edmonton AB
CHARRETTE, Joseph-A; 80, Mar 17, 2001 in Manchester NH husband of Eileen
Doherty
CHAREST, Leon; 34, May 31, 2001 Meriden CT, son of Leon and Mary
Berger-Freeman UNLINK Family
CHARETTE, M-Jane; 51, Mar 22, 2001, from Scranton PA, UNLINK, NO PARENTS OR
HUSBAND
CHAUREST, Rita; 85, a nun, Apr 26, 2001 Lachine QC, daughter of Alfred & Eva
Laframboise
CHARETTE, Samuel; 93, May 3, 2001 from Sault-Ste-Marie ON widow of Anni Mae
Vaughan UNLINK family
CHARETTE, Sylvio; 64, May 24, 2001 Gatineau QC, son of Eugene & Clementine
Robillard
Enjoy! Let's hear from you - comments, suggestions, criticisms
(constructive, of course).
Ray