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I am searching for information on my grandfather Joseph Chartier. He
married Sophronia Bouley. I am not sure if they were married in Canada
or Hudson, Massachusetts where they lived when they died. I have my
grandfathers death certificate and it lists his parents as unknown. On
the LDS site I can find a listing of all their children submitted by
someone who no longer responds to their email address. I did find a
birth record on LDS for a Joseph Chartier born Oct 14, 1842 which is the
birth date on the death certificate off by one year. His year was 1841.
The birth record indicated his parents were Francois and Appoline
Lamoureux. I am at a stand still. I don't know how to find out who his
parents were. I cannot request a marriage certificate because I don't
know when and where they were married. Any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated. The LDS birth record listed Chambly as place of birth.
Jan
Laura,
I just recently discovered RootsWeb Archives for Chartier-L and saw your
post on Ovide Chartier. Jean Chartier Robert in Montreal and I have been
researching Chartiers for over 30 years (Jean over 40 years). We published
5 Volumes on "The Chartier Families in North America" in 1982. Volume IV is
on the descendants of Rene Charter. Ovide Chartier m. Louise Dubord can be
found on page 101 of this volume. Ovide married Louise in Champlain on the
15 Aug 1853. Her parents were (Modeste & Vernonique Turcot).
Ovide was the son of Edouard Chartier and his first wife Josette Rivard. We
show Edouard having only this one child from his first marriage. He had
three children by his second wife; Adelaide Marchildon.
On page 102 we show the following children for Ovide Chartier and Louise
Dubord; Emelie m. David Sauvageau in Champlain on 17 Jul 1877; Ephrem m.
Marie-Jeanne Longval in Cap-de-la Madeleine on 10 Oct 1882; Henriette m.
Ulric Sauvageau in Champlain on 25 Feb 1884; and Ernestine m. Octave
Massicotte in Champlain on 22 Nov 1887.
This is Ovide Chartier's line starting with the first ancestor in Quebec
who came to Quebec from Potiers, France in 1667. I-Rene Chartier;
(Jeanne-Renee Chartier m. Pierre Durand); III-Francois Chartier;
IV-Joseph-Baptiste Chartier; V-Joseph Chartier; VI-Edouard Chartier;
VII-Ovide Chartier m. Louise Dubord.
Now, you may be wondering how did a female get into this line of male
Chartiers. Rene Chartier when he arrived in Quebec had three children with
him. These children were from his first wife, Madeleine Ranger who died in
France in 1662. The sons were Martin and Pierre Chartier. The daughter was
Jeanne-Renee Chartier. Martin and Pierre were explorers and fur traders.
They were involved with LaSalle's exploration; and later ran a fur trading
business between Montreal and Illinois. Pierre was killed by Indians in
Illinois. Martin became a leader of a band of Shawnee Indians and can be
found in historical records in most of the States between the Mississippi
River and the Atlantic Ocean. Martin married a Shawnee squaw, and they had
a son they named Pierre. We don't know if Martin had anymore children; and
we know of no children from Pierre even though he married an Indian woman
called, Snow-in-the-Face.
Rene had 4 more children in Quebec by a second wife; Marguerite Delorme;
two sons and two daughters. The two sons and one daughter were killed
during the famous raid of the Iroquois Indians on the village of Lachine in
1689. Jeanne-Renee was married and living elsewhere, but the one daughter
who survived the raid managed to find her way to the home of her
half-sister. This daughter, Jeanne was only 14. To honor their grandfather,
Rene, and to carry on the Chartier name; all of the sons except one of
Jeanne-Renee Chartier and Pierre Durand took Chartier for their last name
instead of their father's name, Durand. Now you know the rest of the story.
And to give you a P.S. to this story, the mother of Pierre Durand was Marie
Chartier.
When this volume was published in 1983, we did not know Rene's ancestral
line in France. However, Jean Chartier Robert with the aid of his
colleagues in France has traced that line back to 1100. I have a chart
showing this family back to 1100 somewhere in my piles of stuff.
This Chartier family has an extremely interesting history. In fact 2/3's of
the 200 page book on this family is devoted to history. Jean Chartier
Robert and I are descended from Guillaume Chartier (Vol. II). It is 660
page book, and only the first 60 pages are on the history of the family.
This is the largest Chartier family in North America. I have collected
enough data on major Chartier families that we did not know about in 1982
to add another 300 pages to Vol. II.
I trust this long message has been helpful; and I am looking forward to
your response.
Vernon L. Chartier