...from the Great-Branch of
'Élisabeth &
Benoit Ouellet' [MRIN 519]
[VERSION FRANÇAISE]
Lineage
1. Jehan
2. Claude
3. Germain
4. Claude
5. Joseph I
6. Anselme
7. Abraham
8. Élisabeth |
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Migration:
Acadia... St Lawrence... Madawaska
With
the exception of Jehan who was born in France, the first four
generations in this branch were born, raised and buried in
Acadia.
Journey of the Fifth Generation. Joseph I, of the 5th generation, was born around 1719
in Rivière aux Canards, Acadia where he was raised. He later moved to the
more prosperous settlement of Beaubassin where he married Agnès Cormier in 1745.
With the burning of Beaubassin in 1750 and the worsening conflicts with the
English,
he decided to leave his homeland and migrate with his wife and his six children to the
Montmagny area on the Saint
Lawrence River in 1759. After their daughter Catherine was
born in January, they departed on their trek westward to the St-John River then
continuing north to Québec. They arrived in the Montmagny area around November of
1759 where they baptized infant Catherine
at the parish of Saint François de Sales de la Rivière du Sud in Montmagny. After
several years, Joseph and Agnès eventually received a grant of land where he settled
on the Côtes des Chênes in St-Jean-Port-Joli. Today,
a monument is
erected in their honor
by the Association des familles Thériault d'Amérique.

Théogenie Ouellet and Joseph II Thériault in
their wedding day pose. |
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The next three
generations, generations 5 (Joseph) through 7 (Abraham) stayed in the
St-Lawrence area until Elizabeth of the 8th generation
remarried to Pierre Plourde of present-day St-Jacques, New
Brunswick. The two had lost their spouses a few years ago. Pierre was quite
family with the Theriault family. His first wife, Apolline was a first
cousin once removed with Élisabeth. Élisabeth was Anselme's granddaughter,
and Apolline was Charles I daughter. Anselme and Charles I were brothers.
Relationships became more complicated when Élisabeth and her
remaining adult children moved in Pierre's home in St Joseph. There was a
young mill operator who at the time who was working with his foster father,
David Rousseau in the Plourde hamlet of St Jacques, the neighboring village.
David was working to expand, maintain and operate the mills that Pierre
Plourde had first built in 1845. The young mill operator apparently caught
the eye of one of Élisabeth's daughters, Theogenie. And he, was another
Thériault. Joseph Thériault, a great-grandson of Charles I. (See the 'Joseph
& Théogenie' branch)
Joseph Ralph Theriault is a
12th generation
great-grandson of Jehan
Terriault and our Delegate for the Joseph & Théogenie
Theriault Great-Branch.
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