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| Joseph and Olivine Beauvais, about 1897 |
This rather grainy picture is actually a recently scanned image of an approximately 25-year-old photocopy of a photograph.1
It shows my maternal great-grandparents Joseph Beauvais (1877-1937) and Olivine Hotte (1877-1926). I think it was taken on their wedding day, because they look so young compared to other photos I have of them as adults.
Joseph and Olivine married on 16 August 1897 in St-Félix-de-Valois R.C. church in the rural community of Hartwell (now Chénéville), Papineau County, Quebec, Canada.2 The newlyweds were distantly related: they were sixth cousins through their 5x great-grandparents Guillaume Labelle (d. 1710) and his wife Anne Charbonneau (d. 1729).
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| Beauvais - Hotte marriage record (partial image) [3] |
My great-grandparents had a large family of twelve sons and four daughters (including my grandmother Juliette), all of whom reached adulthood.
Joseph and Olivine’s marriage lasted until her death in June 1926, two months short of their 29th wedding anniversary.4
Sources:
1. Joseph and Olivine (Hotte) Beauvais photograph, ca 1897; digital image ca 1988, privately held by Madeleine (Desgroseilliers) Legault, London, Ontario, 2013. Madeleine allowed her niece Yvonne to photocopy the photograph during one of her visits to her aunt. (Madeleine and Jacqueline (Yvonne’s mother) are maternal granddaughters of Joseph and Olivine.)
2. St-Félix-de-Valois (Chénéville, Quebec), parish register, 1887-1899, p. 240 recto, entry no. M.11, Joseph Beauvais – Olivine Hott [sic] marriage, 16 August 1897; St-Félix-de-Valois parish; digital image, “Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967”, Ancestry.ca (http://www.ancestry.ca : accessed 13 August 2013).
3. St-Félix-de-Valois, parish register, 1887-1899, p. 240 recto, Joseph Beauvais – Olivine Hott [sic] marriage, 16 August 1897.
4. “Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1936 and Deaths Overseas, 1939-1947”, digital image, Ancestry.ca (http://www.ancestry.ca : accessed 6 December 2008); entry for Olivine Hotte, 4 June 1926.
Copyright © 2013, Yvonne Demoskoff.
I love the old photos and documents, but I have to tell you that my favorite part of this post is the fact that your great grandparents had twelve children who ALL survived to adulthood. How wonderful!
ReplyDeleteIt is indeed wonderful that all the children survived. My Mom knew most of her aunts and uncles, and I met four of them. I've always wondered, though, if having such a large family caused my great-grandmother health problems because she died young (just 49).
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