| The Desrosiers Family |
| Jean-Baptiste Desrosiers (born 1851 at St. Hughes, Quebec), married Aurelie Guertin (born 1855 at St. Hughes, Quebec) in 1875 at Ste. Hyacinthe, Bagot county, Quebec. They lived in St. Hughes, a suburb of Ste. Hyacinthe, and raised their children. Family rumour has it that they had a total of 18 children, but to date, we are still missing several. Here is a list of the children we HAVE found, and what we know about them: |
| - Marie Alexandrine Desrosiers, born 1876. She died in 1877, approximately 1 1/2 years old. - Joseph Hormisdas (Joe) Desrosiers born 1877. Joe became one of the family's adventurers, travelling throughout the northern United States and settling in southern British Columbia, Canada. He married Florence Lillian ROO in 1908, and settled in Grasmere, BC, where the couple raised their family on a ranch in the Sand Creek Valley (now flooded by the Libby Dam in Montana, USA, and located on the lake bed of what is now Lake Koocanusa- which straddles the British Columbia/ Montana border.) For more information on this family, please click here. - Marie Regina (Regina) Desrosiers born 1878. Regina has been a bit of a mystery, in that I haven't found out much about her... however, what I have found out had been interesting. She moved to Massachussetts, USA, (date unknown), and married Joseph LANGUIRAND in 1900 at Worecester, Massachusetts. (Joesph was the son of Remi LANGUIRAND and Marie ARIEL, and was born approx. 1881). Click here to learn a bit more about Regina's family. - Francois (Frank) Desrosiers born 1880. Frank was easy to trace! In 1908, he married Rose Alma BEAUDETTE in Worcester, Mass. Rose, born in 1887, was the daughter of Isaie BEAUDETTE and Celina PAQUETTE. An interesting note here: Rose's father was born in Bagot, Quebec, Canada- where Frank's family also lived. Click here to find out more about Frank's family. - Jean (John) Leonidas Desrosiers born 1882. John is also interesting. I'm not sure if one of his brothers and their wives were trying to set him up, or he found an interesting girl on his own, but he did correspond with Jessie Loranger in Nashua, New Hampshire, USA for some time. During this, John was living in British Columbia, where he was a camp cook for logging companies. - Marie-Anne Alexandrine Desrosiers born 1884. No further information available. - Marie Desrosiers born 1884, died 1885 at approximately 3 months old. No further information available. - Louis Aime Alfred Desrosiers born 1885. No further information available. - Jean/ Joseph Hector (Hector) Desrosiers born 1886. I remember hearing stories about Hector when I was little! Hector married Sara BRODEUR in Worcester, Massachussetts in 1916. He and Sara sound like they were interesting people... I wish I'd been able to meet them. - Marie Anne Eva Desrosiers born 1889. No further information available. - Agathe Desrosiers born ?. No further information available. - Beatrice Desrosiers born ?. Beatrice was another sibling who moved down to Massachussetts from Quebec. In 1920, the census lists her in the house belonging to her sister Regina and brother-in-law Joseph. I suspect she was either visiting them (from Canada) or actually staying with them at this point. She married a man whose surname was LIMERICK, and lived in Boston at the time of her father's death in 1954. I've seen a telegram sent from Boston to British Columbia in reply to a message from one of her brothers than her brother Joe had died. The reply expressed her regrets that she was unable to come to the funeral. It gave her address in Boston, as well as her married surname- an awesome find that gave us a number of leads to follow in the quest to unravel her story : ) Unfortunately, I don't know whether she had any children, or when she and her husband died. |
| Updated September 2, 2004 |
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| Jean Baptiste died in 1897, and Aurelie died in 1903. |
| This side of my mother's family has been very interesting to trace. This may be partially due to the fact that there have been a lot of pictures and documents saved (THANK GOODNESS FOR PACK RATS!!), making it more accessible and easier to become interested in the stories. I love to drag out my Desrosier family binder when I go home for a visit. It's been a great way to connect with my mother, and she is a fountain of untapped knowledge! |