THE
MELANSON FAMILY
Father:
Pierre
Melanson [David]
[Pierre dit Parrotte] [Charles]
[Charles dit La Ramée] [Pierre
Laverdure] Mother:
Rosalie Forest (this
family was among a small group of tenant farmers from Minudie to settle at Shemogue
in mid-late 1790's prior to the mass eviction of the remaining tenants around
1805. Records for births, marriages and deaths are listed under the Saint-Timothée
Parish records, 1812-1899, for Shemogue) 7th
Generation Children:
1. Maximin Melanson:
b. abt 1800, Cap-Pelé, New Brunswick; d. Mar 27, 1888, Cap-Pelé (Rg), New Brunswick. Married
1st: Sept 26, 1821, Cap-Pelé (Rg), New Brunswick, to Modeste
Léger: b. abt 1804, Minudie, Nova Scotia; d. May 5, 1842, Cap-Pelé, New
Brunswick. Children:
Hyppolite, Maximin, Osite, Marguerite, Barbe, Marie, Dimerpas and Wincelas dit
Philippe. Married
2nd: June 15, 1853, Cap-Pelé (Rg), New Brunswick, to Osithe
Richard: b. Sept 3, 1815, Memramcook, New Brunswick; d. Aug 12, 1896,
Cap-Pelé, New Brunswick. 2.
Osite Melanson: b. abt 1804, Cap-Pelé, New Brunswick (?); d. Nov
13, 1866, Cap-Pelé (Rg - death records records her as "w/o Etienne Duguay"),
New Brunswick. Married
1st: May 9, 1825, Barachois, New Brunswick, to Joseph Duguay:
b. abt 1804; d. abt mid-Aug, 1834, Cap-Pelé (buried Aug. 31, 1834 - Rg), New Brunswick. Married
2nd: Feb 15, 1841, Barachois, New Brunswick, to Étienne LeBlanc:
(2nd-3rd cousins) b. abt 1808; d.abt Apr 1859, Barachois,
New Brunswick. 3.
Paul-Pierre Melanson: b. abt 1806, Cap-Pelé, New Brunswick; b. abt
Oct 1883, Cap-Pelé (buried Oct. 23, 1883 - Rg), New Brunswick. Married:
Nov 22, 1830, Barachois, New Brunswick, to Geneviève Cormier: b.
Aug 18, 1808, Memramcook, New Brunswick; d. Jan 9, 1882, Cap-Pelé (Rg), New Brunswick. Children:
Marie, Pierre (died young), Madeleine, Aimé, Pierre, Fidèle, Rosalie, Osite (died
young), Dominique, Osite, Antoinette and Sylvain. 4.
Marcelline Melanson: b. abt 1810, Cap-Pelé, New Brunswick; d. abt
Sept-Aug 1861, Cap-Pelé, New Brunswick. Married:
Sept 13, 1830, Barachois, New Brunswick, to Simon Bonnevie: b. abt
1807, New Brunswick; d. May 10, 1888, Cap-Pelé, New Brunswick. Child:
Simon F. 5.
Damase Melanson: b. Dec 10, 1812 (Rg), Cap-Pelé, New Brunswick. Married:
Sept 11, 1838, Cap-Pelé, New Brunswick (Rg), to Nathalie Bourg:
(2nd cousins) b. Mar 7, 1821, Cap-Pelé, New Brunswick. Children:
Marguerite, male infant (died young), David, Antoine, Célestin, Françoise dite
Fanny, Marcelline, Susanne, François, Philippe, Barbe, Joseph, Damase, Eustache
and Ferdinand. 6.
Célestin Melanson: b. Oct 5, 1815, Cap-Pelé (Rg), New Brunswick;
d. abt May 1831, Cap-Pelé, New Brunswick. 7.
Scholastique Melanson: b. Mar 12, 1819, Cap-Pelé (Rg), New Brunswick;
d. abt Nov-Dec 1884, Cap-Pelé, New Brunswick. Married:
Jun 11, 1838, Barachois, New Brunswick, to Damien Léger (3rd
cousins): b. Apr 5, 1816, Cap-Pelé, New Brunswick; d. Oct 15, 1905, Cap-Pelé,
New Brunswick. 8.
Françoise Melanson: b. July 27, 1821, Cap-Pelé (Rg), New Brunswick;
d. Oct 27, 1894, Barachois, New Brunswick. Married:
Feb 6, 1843, Barachois, New Brunswick, to Laurent Thibodeau: b.
Mar 15, 1816, Barachois, New Brunswick; d. Feb 10, 1897, Barachois, New Brunswick. |