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Leon Israel Mercure

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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Leon Israel Mercure 11 Apr 1840 St. Basile, NB (son of Louis Michel Adrien Mercure and Marie Venerande Pelletier).

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Louis Michel Adrien Mercure 9 Feb 1804 St. Basile, NB; 19 Mar 1806 St. Basile, NB (son of Louis Michel Mercure and Marie Anne Josephte Violet); 13 Jun 1876St. Basile, NB; 14 Jun 1876St. Basile, NB.

    Notes:

    DOB: Poitras
    DOD: Dubay St. Basile S29 F301

    Louis Marie Venerande Pelletier 7 May 1833St. Basile, NB. Marie 1 Feb 1809 St. Basile, NB; 2 Feb 1809 St. Basile, NB; 12 Jun 1876St. Basile, NB; St. Basile, NB. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Marie Venerande Pelletier 1 Feb 1809 St. Basile, NB; 2 Feb 1809 St. Basile, NB; 12 Jun 1876St. Basile, NB; St. Basile, NB.

    Notes:

    DOB: Poitras
    DOD: Poitras pg 593. Age 75. Dubay, St. Basile, S12, F75

    Children:
    1. Louis Bruno Mercure 27 Jul 1835 St. Basile, NB.
    2. Joseph Prudent Mercure 23 Feb 1837 St. Basile, NB.
    3. Sarah Mercure 19 Jul 1838 St. Basile, NB; 2 Nov 1910St. Leonard-Parent, Madawaska, NB.
    4. 1. Leon Israel Mercure 11 Apr 1840 St. Basile, NB.
    5. Victor Mercure 12 Jan 1842 St. Basile, NB.
    6. Alexis Mercure 18 Jul 1843 St. Basile, NB.
    7. Abraham Mercure 12 Feb 1846 St. Basile, NB.
    8. Joseph Mercure 9 Mar 1848 St. Basile, NB.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Louis Michel Mercure 1 Sep 1773 Lower St. John River, NB; 14 Sep 1774 St. Basile, NB (son of Louis Mercure and Madeleine Thibodeau); 18 Feb 1848St. Basile, NB.

    Notes:

    DOB: Guy Dubay
    DOD: Poitras' St. Basile Death Records. Dubay has 14 Feb 1848 St. Basile S6 F98.

    Louis Marie Anne Josephte Violet about 1802St. Basile, NB. Marie (daughter of Francois Violet and Marie-Luce Thibodeau) about 1780 Kennebecasis, NB; about 1806. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Marie Anne Josephte Violet about 1780 Kennebecasis, NB (daughter of Francois Violet and Marie-Luce Thibodeau); about 1806.

    Notes:

    DOM: Lippe pg 21 & Poitras

    Errata: 2f) change location of b. to Kennebecasis, New Brunswick

    Notes:

    Marr: Poitrasa

    Children:
    1. 2. Louis Michel Adrien Mercure 9 Feb 1804 St. Basile, NB; 19 Mar 1806 St. Basile, NB; 13 Jun 1876St. Basile, NB; 14 Jun 1876St. Basile, NB.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Louis Mercure 11 May 1753 Port Lajoie, Charlottetown, PE (son of Joseph Mercure and Anne Gauthier); 1817.

    Notes:

    DOB: Dictionay of Canadian Biography & Albert pg 35
    DOD: Dictionay of Canadian Biography

    Was one of the better known "courrier de bois" between Halifax and Quebec city during the war of independence in the states. This was a six hundred mile voyage that they completed in two weeks for the sum of fifty dollars.

    He joined the English army during the War of Independence

    Ref. p.16, 33 & 35 History of Madawaska.

    Louis Madeleine Thibodeau 1773. Madeleine before 1785. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Madeleine Thibodeau before 1785.
    Children:
    1. 4. Louis Michel Mercure 1 Sep 1773 Lower St. John River, NB; 14 Sep 1774 St. Basile, NB; 18 Feb 1848St. Basile, NB.
    2. Michel Mercure

  3. 10.  Francois Violet 16 Dec 1744 Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France; 16 Dec 1744 St. Vivien, Saintes, France (son of Charles Francois Violet and Marie David); 10 Apr 1824Van Buren, ME; 12 Apr 1824St. Basile, NB.

    Notes:

    DOB: Lippe pg 21, from Saintes, France Civil records. Baptismal record states that he was baptised on the same day he was born.
    DOD: Lippe pg 21. He lived 79 yrs 3 mths 25 days. Mercure Tome III pg 57.
    First mention of Francois Violet in the St. John River area: about 1768 a small French settlement was formed on the Hammond River in the Kennebecasis region in which were included families bearing the names Thibodeau, Violette, Robichau, Gaudein, Blanchard, LeBlanc, and Doucet. Source Tome I pg 13 Papers of Prudent L. Mercure.
    Mercure Tome III pg 57 lists him as farmer, miller and master blacksmith.

    Francois Marie-Luce Thibodeau 6 May 1770Ekoupahaq, NB. Marie-Luce (daughter of Jean-Baptiste dit Cramatte Thibodeau and Marie Le Blanc) about 1750 Lower St. John River, NB; about 1800Van Buren, ME. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 11.  Marie-Luce Thibodeau about 1750 Lower St. John River, NB (daughter of Jean-Baptiste dit Cramatte Thibodeau and Marie Le Blanc); about 1800Van Buren, ME.

    Notes:

    Prudent Mercure Papers: Pg. 13 Fr. Bailly states Marie Luce Thibodeau was born on the St. John River.

    Leo Cyr's "Madawaskan History" p.226 shows birthplace as Minas Basin, NS

    Notes:

    DOM: Genealogies of the Catholic Families of Maine, New Brunswick, and the Province of Quebec

    Francois and Marie-Luce were most likely married before witnesses during a civil ceremony at Kennebecasis in the fall of 1769; as was the custom. Later, on May 6, 1770, Fr. Bailey blessed the marriage at the Ecoupahag mission. The mission records were kept at Caraquet, but that is not where the ceremony was performed.

    Children:
    1. Marguerite Genevieve Violet 25 Jul 1770 Kennebecasis, NB; 15 Sep 1774 Ekoupahaq, NB; 30 Nov 1802St. Basile, NB; 5 Jul 1803St. Basile, NB.
    2. Augustin Violet 15 Sep 1772 Kennebecasis, NB; 15 Sep 1774 Ekoupahaq, NB; 27 Feb 1849St. Basile, NB; 1 Mar 1849St. Basile, NB.
    3. Marie Genevieve Violet 15 Mar 1774 Kennebecasis, NB; 15 Sep 1774 Kennebecasis, NB; 12 Oct 1853St. Basile, NB; 13 Oct 1853St. Basile, NB.
    4. Francois Violet Jr. about 1775 Kennebecasis, NB; 4 Mar 1856Van Buren, ME.
    5. Charles Amand Henri Violet about 1776 Kennebecasis, NB; before 1818St. Basile, NB.
    6. Dominique Violet about 1777 Kennebecasis, NB; 29 Jun 1850Van Buren, ME; 1 Jul 1850St Bruno, Van Buren, ME.
    7. Louis Violet about 1779 Kennebecasis, NB.
    8. 5. Marie Anne Josephte Violet about 1780 Kennebecasis, NB; about 1806.
    9. Madeleine Violet about 1781 Kennebecasis, NB; 13 Jun 1853St. Basile, NB; 15 Jun 1853St. Basile, NB.
    10. Benoni Guillaume (Benjamin) Violet about 1785 Kennebecasis, NB; 28 Mar 1812St. Basile, NB; 30 Mar 1812St. Basile, NB.
    11. Venerande Violet about 1787 Kennebecasis, NB; 1 Feb 1808 St. Basile, NB; 3 May 1812St. Basile, NB.
    12. Alexandre Violet 29 Sep 1789 Kennebecasis, NB; 23 Jun 1791 St. Basile, NB; 4 Sep 1856Van Buren, ME; 6 Sep 1856St Bruno, Van Buren, ME.
    13. Pierre Hilarion Violet 3 May 1792 St. Basile, NB; 17 Jun 1792 St. Basile, NB; 27 Oct 1871Lille, ME; 30 Oct 1871Mt. Carmel, Lille, ME.
    14. Marie Elizabeth Violet 17 Mar 1794 St. Basile, NB; 7 Jul 1794 St. Basile, NB; 2 Dec 1811St. Basile, NB; 4 Dec 1811St. Basile, NB.
    15. Isaac Joseph Violet 28 Oct 1796 St. Basile, NB; 6 Jan 1797 St. Basile, NB; 1 Jul 1850Van Buren, ME.