Church Record Sunday: Jeanvril – Lalonde 1845 Marriage Record

One hundred and seventy-three years ago today – on 2 September 1845 – my paternal great-great-grandparents Paul Janvry dit Belair and Angélique Lalonde married. [1]

Paul, born in 1822, was the third, but eldest surviving son of Pierre Janvry dit Belair by his second wife Scholastique St-Michel. (To learn more about Pierre’s children by his two wives, see 52 Ancestors 2015: #32 – Pierre Janvry dit Belair, Father of 25 Children.)

Angélique, four years older than her husband, was born in 1818. She was the eleventh of twelve children of Jean-Baptiste Lalonde by his wife Angélique Bray.

Jeanvril - Lalonde marriage record, Ancestry

Transcription of Paul and Angélique’s marriage record (original lineation indicated by /):

Le deux Septembre, mil huit cent quarante-cinq / après la publication de trois bans de mariage faits / au prône des messes de nos missions, entre Paul / Jeanvril, domicilié à Hull, fils majeur de Pierre / Jeanvril et de Scholastique St-Michel de Hull / d’une part et Angélique Lalonde, aussi domiciliée / à Hull, fille majeure de Jean Baptiste Lalonde du / Côteau du Lac, et de défunte Angélique Bray d’autre / part; ne s’étant découvert aucun empêchement et / vu le consentement des parens [sic], nous prêtre mission- / naire soussigné avons reçu leur mutuel consen- / tement de mariage et leur avons donné la benediction / nuptial en présence de Pierre Jeanvril, Louis [Poulin?] / Louis Guilbault et Toussaint Jeanvril qui ainsi / que les époux ont déclaré ne savoir [signé]. [signed] J. Desautels, ptre

My English translation (original lineation indicated by /):

The two September, one hundred eighteen forty-five / after the publication of three banns of marriage made / at the sermons of the masses of our missions, between Paul / Jeanvril, domiciled at Hull, son of age of Pierre / Jeanvril and of Scholastique St-Michel of Hull / on the one part and Angélique Lalonde, also domiciled / at Hull, daughter of age of Jean Baptiste Lalonde of / Côteau du Lac, and of the late Angélique Bray on the other / part; not having found any impediment and / having the consent of the parents, we missionary priest / undersigned have received their mutual consent / of marriage and have given them the nuptial benediction / in the presence of Pierre Jeanvril, Louis [Poulin?] / Louis Guilbault and Toussaint Jeanvril who along / with the couple have declared they could not sign [their names]. [signed] J. Desautels, [priest]

The ceremony took place in St-Paul’s R.C. church in Aylmer, Quebec. Four witnesses were present, including Paul’s father Pierre and his younger brother Toussaint.

Source:

1. St-Paul (Aylmer, Quebec), parish register, 1841-1848, p. 250, no entry no. (1845), Paul Jeanvril – Angelique Lalonde marriage, 2 September 1845, Missions d’Aylmer parish; digital images, “Quebec, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968”, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.ca : accessed 1 March 2012).

Copyright © 2018, Yvonne Demoskoff.

52 Ancestors: #20 Angélique Lalonde, a bride at 27 years old

Amy Johnson Crow at No Story Too Small has issued herself and her readers a challenge for 2014. It’s called “52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks”, and as Amy explains, the challenge is to “have one blog post each week devoted to a specific ancestor. It could be a story, a biography, a photograph, an outline of a research problem — anything that focuses on one ancestor”.

For the 20th week of this challenge, I chose Angélique Lalonde (1818-1900).

Angélique is my paternal great-great-grandmother and is number 17 in my ancestor list.

She was born on 5 February 1818 in Les Cèdres, Soulanges County, Quebec and received the name Angélique at her baptism the next day. She was known as Angèle on at least three occasions: on the 1851 census, at her son Pierre’s baptism in 1852, and at her son Paul’s marriage in 1887.

Angélique was the second youngest among the twelve children of Jean-Baptiste Lalonde and his wife Angélique Bray. Through her father, Angélique is a descendant of Sarah Allen (Madeleine Hélène), who was brought to New France in 1704 as a Deerfield captive.

Les Cèdres, ca 1840

Angélique’s parents were born and married in Les Cèdres; it’s also where all but their last child was born. When Angélique was a young girl, the Lalonde family moved a little to the west to Côteau-du-Lac. Located in southwestern Quebec, these small rural communities are located on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River.

In June 1842, Angélique’s mother died aged 66 in Côteau-du-Lac. By now, all of Angélique's surviving brothers and sisters were married. She was 24 years old and unmarried. Angélique must have wondered what her prospects were like for a marriage and a family of her own.

I don’t know what prompted my 2x great-grandmother to leave her family and widowed father in Côteau-du-Lac, but by the summer of 1845, she was living in Hull, a logging town on the Ottawa River across the future city of Ottawa, capital of Canada.

At the rather advanced age of 27, Angélique married Paul Janvry dit Belair on 2 September 1845 in Aylmer, near Hull. Her husband was four years younger than she was. (I recently wrote about Paul for 52 Ancestors. You can read his story here.)

The couple’s first child Paul was born in August 1846. He died three months short of his eighth birthday when he drowned in May 1854. Angélique’s third child, daughter Delphine, died when she was only five weeks old, in January 1850.

Angélique and Paul’s other children, most of whom were born in Ste-Cécile-de-Masham, not far from Hull, lived to maturity.

• Joseph, born in 1848, eventually moved to Ontario, where he married and had seven children.

• Pierre, born in 1851, my great-grandfather. He married three times and had 16 children.

• Lucie, born in 1853, also married and had a family.

• Emilien, born in 1855, married a local girl and had 12 children.

• Jean-Baptiste, born in 1856, also married a local girl, and had a family. He followed his elder brother’s example and moved to Ontario.

• Paul, born in 1858, married, had a family and went to live in nearby Hull.

• Youngest child Adélaïde (Adèle), born in 1861, remained in Masham, where she married and had six children.

At about the same time as the Belair family arrived in Masham, Angélique elder sister Geneviève left Soulanges County with her husband Joseph Onézime Legros and their children and established themselves in the same community. It is through this couple, Geneviève and Joseph, that I am a fourth cousin of the Dionne quintuplets, whom I’ve written about in Famous Relatives: The Dionne Quintuplets.

Angélique died on 16 January 1900 in Ste-Cécile-de-Masham. She was buried there two days later in the presence of a large number of family and friends, including her sons Pierre and Emilien.

Image credit: Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, no d'acc 1931-218-1.

Copyright © 2014, Yvonne Demoskoff.

52 Ancestors: #19 Paul Janvry dit Belair

Amy Johnson Crow at No Story Too Small has issued herself and her readers a challenge for 2014. It’s called “52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks”, and as Amy explains, the challenge is to “have one blog post each week devoted to a specific ancestor. It could be a story, a biography, a photograph, an outline of a research problem — anything that focuses on one ancestor”.

For the 19th week of this challenge, I chose Paul Janvry dit Belair (1822-1902).

Paul is my paternal great-great-grandfather and is number 16 in my ancestor list.

He was born on 13 May 1822 in Ste-Geneviève (later Pierrefonds, and now part of the City of Montreal) on the Island of Montreal, Lower Canada (now the province of Quebec), and baptized there the following day.

Paul was the third child, but second surviving son of Pierre Janvry dit Belair and his second wife Scholastique St-Michel. By his first wife, the late Marguerite Campeau, Pierre had 14 children, 10 sons and 4 daughters.

Throughout his life, Paul’s surname alternated between his patronym Janvry (and its spelling variations like Janvril) and its dit name Belair (with its spelling variations like Bellaire).

Paul’s parents moved frequently when he was younger. The family lived in Ste-Geneviève, then a little to the north in Ste-Anne-des-Plaines, then at some distance west in the Hull-Gatineau area (across from the future city of Ottawa, later capital of Canada), where Paul’s youngest siblings were born.

When Paul was 23 years old, he married Angélique Lalonde on 2 September 1845. Although the bride and groom each resided in Hull, the wedding ceremony took place in a mission church attached to St-Paul RC church in Aylmer, just to the west of Hull.* Missionary priest J. Desautels blessed their union, which was witnessed by Paul’s father Pierre, his younger brother Toussaint, and his sister’s husband Louis Poulin.

* A mission church is a church that does not have a resident priest. It is served by a missionary priest, who travels from the home church to outlying areas to serve the faithful.

Masham, comté d'Ottawa [Masham, county of Ottawa]

Paul and Angélique settled on lot 55 in range 4 of Ste-Cécile-de-Masham Township (now La Pêche), about 30 kilometres (19 miles) north of Hull, between 1849 and 1851.

The couple had nine children, most of who were born in Masham: Paul, Joseph, Delphine, Pierre (my great-grandfather), Lucie, Emilien, Jean-Baptiste, Paul, and Adélaïde (Adèle). Paul père supported his large brood as a farmer on his own land of about 123 acres.

Paul died in Masham on 17 July 1902; he was 80 years old. He was predeceased by Angélique and three of their children. Paul’s funeral took place three days later in Ste-Cécile parish church. It was well attended by family, including his sons Pierre and Emilien, and by members of the Ligue du Sacré-Coeur (a lay brotherhood devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus), to which Paul belonged.

Image credit: Library and Archives Canada (MIKAN no. 4126897).

Copyright © 2014, Yvonne Demoskoff.