Édouard (Edward) DUCHARME

Born 1897-05-04 in Worcester, MA

Ordained to the RC priesthood as a member of the

Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI)

1924-07-06

Died 1989-05-17 in Lowell, MA

Son of Napoléon DUCHARME+Amélie BEAUDOIN

Adélard DUCHARME

Born 1891-09-13 in Worcester, MA

Ordained to the RC priesthood in Montréal, QC 1917-12-11

Died 1925-12-13 in Worcester, MA

Son of Napoléon DUCHARME+Amélie BEAUDOIN

 

Abbé Jean DUCHARME (1858-1922)

Born 1858-09-19 in Contrecoeur, Verchères County, QC
Ordained 1883-05-09 to the RC priesthood
Died 1922-10-31 in Contrecoeur, Verchères Coutny, QC
Buried in the crypt of the parish church in
Contrecoeur, QC
Son of
Joseph Ambroise CHARRON dit DUCHARME
+
Marie Élisabeth ROY
Vicaire à Longueuil (1883-1891)
Curé d'Hemmingford (1891-1897)
Curé de Rigaud (1897-1898)
Aumonier des Soeurs de la Miséricorde à Montréal (1898-1900)
Curé de Contrecoeur (1900-1920)
Retiré à Contrecoeur (1920-1922)

Dans sa lettre de démission, envoyée à Mgr Bruchesi, le 3 juin 1920,
Monsieur Ducharme disait "Jaimerais, Monseigneur, à mourir près de mon berceau, près de l'église ou j'ai reçu le saint Baptême, ou j'ai été curé plus de vingt ans.  Monseigneur, c'est une favour que je demande à Votre Grandeur comme récompense de mes travaux.  Un modeste logis abritera ma vieillesse, que je passerai dans la prière et la solitude pour préparer mes
années éternelles."
Dans sa réponse (8 juin), Mgr Bruchesi éprouvant un vif regret d'être dans la nécessité d'accepter sa démission à cause de ses infirmités:  "J'ai toujours eu en vous, lui disait-il, un de mes prêtres les plus zélés et les plus sincèrement dévoués.  Vous semblez avoir pris comme règle de conduite, dès le début de votre sacerdoce, le mot de S. Paul a Timothée:  LABORA SICUT BONUS MILES CHRISTI JESU, et il ne me coîte pas de vous rendre le temoignage que vous y avez été fidèle.  Vous avez eu cette joie rare d'être le pasteur de la paroisse qui vous a vu naître.  Je comprends le désir que vous m'exprimez de ne pas vous éloigner d'eux, mais de prendre parmi eux votre retraite et je m'y rends bien volontiers.  Ma bénédiction vous suivra partout; croyez à mon amitié sincère et à mon entier dévouement en Notre-Seigneur.

Our QC heritage is disappearing

It's with great sadness that I've just received the news of the closure of 2 more Québec, French, Roman Catholic churches. If we don't continue researching our QC ancestry and taking pictures, very few ancestral buildings will be left for us to discover.

St-Antoine-de-Padoue church (1878))

Lennoxville, QC

&

St-Joseph church (1946)

Belvédère St.

Sherbrooke, QC

are the most recent closures due to lack of funds because of a  decreasing number of parishioners.

A little part of me seems to be disappearing with each closure, part of my French-Canadian heritage. I guess, like our ancestors, it's the disappearance of something or someone that makes them memorable...

2 more QC churches will disappear

Ste-Jeanne-d'Arc church

1922

Lefebvre, QC

will be sold to the municipality for $1.00 & it will be turned into a multifunctional center for the use of the citizens. Mass will continue to be celebrated for the Catholics of the area.

St-Sauveur  church

1865

Montréal, QC

An historic building located at the corner of Viger & St-Denis Streets in the city, the church will be demolished to make way for the new hospital (Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal: CHUM). We are told that the bell and steeple will be kept as will be the stained glass windows.

For more news of interest to Roman Catholics,

click on the title above.

QC churches to be demolished

Parish administrators have recently voted for the demolition of 2 Trois-Rivières, QC Roman Catholic churches pending the approval of the local Archbishop.
St-Philippe parish was founded in 1909 & St-François-d'Assise parish  in 1927 since there is no longer sufficient attendance to warrant their upkeep. It is possible that the land on which they stand will be sold & the churches will be replaced by apartment buildings or condominiums.
If you have ancestors from these parishes & you want to visit them, you should plan the trip for no later than mid 2011... It's always nice to be able to sit in the church pews where your distant relatives sat, where part of your history was lived...

Paul THÉRIAULT

Paul THÉRIAULT,

a descendant of

Claude THÉRIAULT

(son of JEHAN)

+

Marie-Louise GAUTEROT/GAUDROT

has recently decided to branch out on his own. You may wish to discover just who Paul THÉRIAULT is by checking out his FACEBOOK page, which is a good start. You just may discover that you're related...

Click on the title above

to learn more about his new business.

Connie LEMONDE's book for meditation

I'm amazed at all the work Connie is getting done in such a short period of time. Here's her first coffee-table book consisting of her paintings of the Virgin, which are complemented by her poetry. A must for anyone interested in subjects for meditation.

Click onthe title above

for more information about

"When the Angel Came

she was just a teenage girl."

Connie LEMONDE from Rhode Island

I have just received a message from CONNIE telling me about her recent activities. I thought you'd be interested in knowing that she is still being creative by writing, publishing & painting. Read about them in her own words:

I just finished a new minibook (5" x 3.5"). I updated and changed the info in the little one that I made all my myself years ago (called Adapting to Living Alone), whi...ch was directed mostly to women. The new one, for both women and men, is called Surviving Living Alone and it is published by Viovio, a photo-book publisher.I never expected to be able to do this because POD publishers don't do color--and I never found one that made the mini size that I wanted. I have no idea what it will look like, but it's being printed this week.

Now I'm working on a painting called From heaven to earth, through FAMILY. This is my third attempt! Hope to get it done before September and bring it to the art exhibit in Bellingham, Mass.

Pauline TURMEL (1920-2010)

Pauline TURMEL

b. 1920-03-30

d. 2010-05-13

To see pictures of the TURMEL ancestors,

click on the title above

and go to their photo album.

TURMEL

Jean Turmel

Louise Vincent

Pleurtruit, Basse Bretagne, Saint-Malo, FRANCE

(2)

Jean-François Turmel

Marie-Françoise Bisson

1762.05.10

  Sainte-Foy, QC

(3)

Louis Gaspard Turmel

Marie-Véronique Ferland

1790.07.20 

Sainte-Marie, Beauce County, QC

(4)

Ignace Turmel

Marie-Ursule Grégoire

1824.11.09 

Sainte-Marie, Beauce County, QC

(5)

Jean-Ignace Turmel

Césarie Lessard

1849.10.29

Saint-Elzéar, Beauce County, QC

(6)

Jean Turmel

Rébecca Thivierge

1880.06.30 

Saints-Anges, Beauce County, QC

(7)

Jean-Paul “Burt” TURMEL

Marie-Anna BOILY

1913-04-01 

Saints-Anges de Beauce, QC

 (8)

Pauline TURMEL

Rock MOISAN

1945.06.25 

Québec City, QC

DUCHARME+HICKS couple

Looking for parents of

Maxime DUCHARME+Ann HICKS

married 1845-12-07 

Anglican church, Clarendon, Portage-du-Fort, Pontiac Cty, QC, 

marriage  rehabilitated 1858-02-16

in RC church, Portage-du-Fort, Pontiac County, QC. 

Portage-du-Fort was locally known as Clarendon.

Help appreciated

DELADURANTAYE=LADURANTAYE=DURANT

Anyone researching the LADURANTAYE or DELADURANTAYE surname, please leave a message of comment. Am stuck at marriage of Joseph CAOUETTE DelADURANTAYE with Lucie BEAUGRAND-CHAMPAGNE in 1834 in Ste-Geneviève parish, Berthier, QC. In the marriage registry, the groom's parents are not listed; hence, can't go further back b......eyound him. Any help would be appreciated.

Alice MAUVIEL-PILOTTE (1919-2004)

The daughter of Henri MAUVIEL & Carmella HALDE, Alice was born 1927-09-22 in Manchester, Hillsborough County, NH. She died 2010-01-30 in Farmington. In 1949-12-31, she married Henry PILOTTE in St. Augustin church, Manchester, NH. Henry was the son of Oscar PILOTTE & Claudia VAILLANCOURT, who had 12 children.

PILOTE/PILOTTE

 (1)

Léonard PILOTE

Denise GAUTHIER

1644-05-26

Ste-Marguerite, LaRochelle, Aunis, FRANCE

 (2)

Jean PILOTE

Françoise GAUDRY de la BOURBONNIÈRE

1678-06-27

Québec City, QC

 (3)

Charles PILOTE

Ursule TREMBLAY

1730-10-22

Québec City, QC

 (4)

Félix Philémon PILOTE

Marie-Louise MARIER

1772-06-01

Île-aux-Coudres, Charlevoix County, QC

Marie-Luce SIMARD

1787-05-01

Baie-Saint-Paul, Charlevoix County, QC

(5)

 Félix PILOTE

Antoinette ALLARD

1827-11-27

Baie-Saint-Paul, Charlevoix County, QC

(6)

Théophile PILOTE

Marie TREMBLAY

1867-02-26

Baie-Saint-Paul, Charlevoix County, QC

 (7)

 Napoléon PI'LOTTE

Emma MORIN

1898-06-20

Manchester, Hillsborough County, NH

 (8)

Oscar PILOTTE

Claudia VAILLANCOURT

1918-04-30

Manchester, Hillsborough County, NH
Click on title above
to see pictures of  
members of the PILOTTE lineage. 

Talbot PAPINEAU (1883-1917)

Talbot PAPINEAU

b. 1883-03-25

Montébello (La Petite Patrie), Papineau County, QC

son of 

Louis-Joseph PAPINEAU and Caroline PITKINS ROGERS.

Talbot received a degree in law from McGill University in Montréal, QC where he began practicing his profession in 1908. In August of 1914, he enlisted in the Canadian military service. He died in BELGIUM in 1917.

Much has been written about Talbot PAPINEAU; therefore, there's no need to add to his biography here. In 2007, there was also a CBC movie produced, THE GREAT WAR, in which Justin TRUDEAU played the part of Talbot PAPINEAU.

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for more biographical information

about Talbot PAPINEAU

TALBOT PAPINEAU's Ancestry

 (1)

Samuel PAPINEAU

Marie DELAIN

Montigny, Poitiers, Poitou, FRANCE

 (2)

Samuel PAPINEAU dit MONTIGNY

Catherine QUÉVILLON

1704-06-16

Rivière-des-Pairies (Montréal), QC

(3)

Joseph PAPINEAU

Marie-Josèphte BEAUDRY

1749-02-17

Longue-Pointe (Montréal), QC

 (4)

Joseph PAPINEAU

Rosalie CHEWIER/CHERRIER

1779-08-23

Montréal, QC

(5)

Louis-Joseph PAPINEAU

Julie BRUNEAU

1818-04-29

Québec City, QC

(6)

Amédée PAPINEAU dit MONTIGNY

Eleonore WESTCOTT

1846-05-25

Saratoga Spring, NY

(7)

Louis-Joseph PAPINEAU

Caroline PITKIN ROGERS

1880-08-18

Philadelphia, PA