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Historical Highlights

American Revolution
The American Revolution

Our patriot ancestors include:
George Klock (1714-1790)
Judge Jacob G Klock (1738-1814
William Knowlton (1738-1784)
Cornelius Beekman (1733-1790)
Joseph Hall Jr (1757-1831)
Thomas Fournier (1732-1808)

Mayflower Connection
Mayflower Connections

We descend from families that came over on the Mayflower:
John Alden (1599-1687) and his wife Priscilla Mullins (1602-1685)
John Howland (1593-1672) and his wife Elizabeth Tilley (1607-1687)
and William Brewster (1567-1644)

Mohwak Indians
Mohawk Indian Heritage

My wife's family comes from Brantford, Ontario. She is able to trace her Mohawk lineage back to Joseph Brant (1743-1807). He was a famous Mohawk Indian chief that sided with the British during the American Revolution.

New France Pioneer
New France Pioneer

Jacques Goulet (1615-1688) is our French pioneer that was one of the first settlers of Quebec. Him and his wife arrived in New France in 1646. Most people with the Surname Goulet descend from this man.

Past Births

1641 - Maurice Paquet in Chavy, Indre, Centre, France

1668 - Louise Gauthier in Ste Famille, Ile Orleans, Quebec, Canada

1714 - Marie Hubou in Quebec

1715 - Michel Charbonneau in St. Francois de Sales, Ile de Jesus, Quebec, Canada

1775 - Marie Catherine Goulet in L'Assomption, Quebec, Canada

1794 - Louis Goulet in L'Assomption, Quebec, Canada

1806 - Joseph Lamouche in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

1807 - Marie Scholastique Goulet in Bellechasse, Quebec, Canada

1815 - Francois Forget Dit Despatis in Quebec, Canada

1818 - Joseph Narcisse Dupuit in Maskinongé, Quebec, Canada

1831 - Eulalie Benoit in St-Denis-Sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

1833 - Adeline Vallieres in Quebec, Canada

1843 - Cyrille Roy in Saint-Gervais, Quebec, Canada

1864 - Aaron F. Kilmer in Missouri

1865 - Theodore Henry Leopole Rabe in Uchte, Nienburg, Niedersachsen, Germany

1869 - Melville Goulet in St Stanislas, Champlain, Quebec, Canada

1892 - Jessie Goulet in Blacktail, South Dakota

1894 - Russell Morrison in Ontario, Canada

1900 - Alvin Chester Goins in Tennessee

1902 - Oscar Lowande in Massachusetts, USA

1908 - Alma Goulet in Massachusetts

1910 - Malinda Buescher in Todd, Minnesota, USA

1916 - Omer Pelletier in Massachusetts

1920 - Harry (Hrynko) Slobodian in Tolstoi, Manitoba,Canada

1924 - Kathleen Goulet in McLeod, Minnesota, USA

Past Marriages

1822 - Andrew Dumphy and Ruth Burden in New Brunswick, Canada

1897 - Joseph Goulet and Marie Lea Scholastique Remillard in St Roch, Quebec, Canada

1908 - Collin Holland and Lucy Jane Clark in Obion, Tennessee, USA

1909 - Wilbur Gorman Craig and Psyche E Torrey in Coos, Oregon, USA

Past Deaths

1708 - Jean Barette in Ste Anne de Beaupre, Quebec, Canada

1759 - Marie Balard dit Latour in Montmagny, Quebec, Canada

1765 - Marie Marguerite Kemmener Quemeneur dit Laflamme in St Pierre de la Riviere du Sud, Quebec, Canada

1773 - Maria

1832 - Charles Goulet in Sts Gervais et Protais, Bellechasse, Quebec, Canada

1856 - Joseph Goulet in St Jacques de l'Achigan, Quebec, Canada

1886 - Agnes St. Amant in St-Eugène, Ontario, Canada

1893 - Marie Madeleine Lalonde in Ste Madeleine, Rigaud, Quebec, Canada

1926 - William Thomas Shirk in Bellefonte, Centre, Pennsylvania, USA

1946 - Emery Fontaine in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA

1995 - Joseph Antonio Romeo Taillefer in Montréal, QC, Canada

Last Names

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Clement Poyer (Poigué)

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Full Name
Date of Birth 29 Oct 1808
Place of BirthMarieville, Rouville, Quebec, Canada
FatherClement Poigué Dit Lapintade
MotherMarie Louise Favreau
SiblingsMarie Esther Poigué Dit Lapintade, Henriette Poigué Dit Lapintade, Anastasie Poigué Dit Lapintade, Marcel Poigué Dit Lapintade, Louis Poigué Dit Lapintade
Spouse #1 Apolline St Michel dit Circe
Date of Marriage 1841
Place of MarriageSt Cesaire, Rouville, Quebec, Canada
ChildrenClement Poyer, Edouard Pyard, Pierre Amable Poyer, Jean Baptiste Amable Poyer
Spouse #2 Mathilde Terrien
Date of Marriage 20 Feb 1849
Place of MarriageStukely-Nord, Québec, Canada
ChildrenJoseph Pyard, Solomon Poyerd, Josephine Poyer, Marie Dina Pyard, Marie Virginie Poyer
Date of Death 19 Nov 1872
Place of DeathStukely-Nord, Quebec, Canada
Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968

Fact: Baptism

Date: 31 Oct 1808

Place: Marieville, Québec, Canada

Baptized Clement Poigué. Father listed as Clement Poigué dit Lapintade and mother is Marie Louise Favreau. Also present was Marie Reine Damme (Paternal Grandmother)

Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968
Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968

Fact: Baptism

Date: 31 Oct 1808

Place: Marieville, Québec, Canada

Baptized Clement Poigué. Father listed as Clement Poigué dit Lapintade and mother is Marie Louise Favreau. Also present was Marie Reine Damme (Paternal Grandmother)

Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968
Marriage

Event: Marriage

Date: 1841

Spouse:

Place: St Cesaire, Rouville, Quebec, Canada

I believe this is the approximate date and location of marriage. Apolline was baptized at St Cesaire and their 2nd son, Edouard, was also baptized there.

Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968

Event: Marriage

Date: 20 Feb 1849

Spouse:

Place: Stukely-Nord, Québec, Canada

Marriage record states Clement is a widow. People present were Joseph St Michel (brother in law of groom), and David Robert (uncle of bride), among others.

Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968
1851 Census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia

Fact: Residence

Date: 1852

Place: Orford, Sherbrooke County, Canada East (Quebec), Canada

2 records attached, one being the census, the other being the agriculture schedule.

1851 Census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia
1851 Census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia

Fact: Residence

Date: 1852

Place: Orford, Sherbrooke County, Canada East (Quebec), Canada

2 records attached, one being the census, the other being the agriculture schedule.

1851 Census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia

Fact: Sherbrooke Census Missing

Date: 1861

Place: Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

The 1861 census for Sherbrooke did not survive per my research. So the family can't be located in that census.

1871 Census of Canada

Fact: Residence

Date: 1871

Place: Orford, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

Listed as being unable to read or write. I suspect that is how the name changed to Poyer.

1871 Census of Canada
Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968

Fact: Death

Date: 19 Nov 1872

Place: Stukely-Nord, Quebec, Canada

Never remarried. Record states he is the widow of Mathilde Terrien.

Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968
Research done on Poyard / Pyard line. Related to Mary Pyard and Charles Chabot by Grant Goulet (3rd great grandson) in 2019/2020
Research done on Poyard / Pyard line. Related to Mary Pyard and Charles Chabot by Grant Goulet (3rd great grandson) in 2019/2020

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