A Family Reunion
Last update of site: 7 August 2005. What's new? Check out recent Major
Additions. "A Family Reunion" is the family history web site of Douglas
J. Graham and France Marcoux, Canadians living in Washington, DC. It brings
together the information available on the family history of our daughters
Camille (b. 1992) and Stéphanie (b. 1994) Graham. The family genealogy
thus covers Douglas' Danish and Scottish/Irish/English ancestors and the
French-Canadian ancestors of France. A search page
allows searching for names or any other text. To the left, the 161 surnames are those of the known direct ancestors
of Camille and Stéphanie and thus the focus of this web site. If
a hyperlink does not work, the relevant chapter is still under development
and not yet posted. Note that the texts on the maternal side (ancestors
from Québec) are written in French. No personal information is included for any living relatives. Generally
speaking, for any given lineage, information is only provided for direct
ancestors and their siblings (I have previously included their children,
i.e. to the level of first cousins of direct ancestors, but this is not
practical!). For the most recent generations, information may be provided
down to the level of second cousins. In all cases, we have endeavoured
to provide links or references to more detailed information that can be
found elsewhere and when readily available on the Web, information is
not repeated here. The earliest known ancestors of Camille and Stéphanie Graham on
the paternal side are in family lines in England which eventually lead
to the Tuppers in Massachusetts. The lineage to Edward and Agnes Fish
(or Fysh) of Leicestershire, England is 18 generations. Edward was born
about 1465. An even earlier ancestor is Simon Mayhew,
b. ca. 1450, of Dynton,Wiltshire (this line representing 17 generations).
On the maternal side, we have a lineage going through the Lessard and
Sévestre families to Balthazar L'Escallier
of France, b. ca. 1520 (17 generations). In order to better relate the story of this family grove, nine separate
family trees are given below, which group Camille's and Stéphanie's
ancestors by relationship and by geographic origin. They include every
surname of the direct ancestors, as noted in the list above. Names shown
in bold are those that are treated as belonging to that tree (this convention
is also followed in the individual family chapters). The trees, numbered
in the illustrated family tree above, are: This lineage includes the ancestors of my great-grandfather, Frank Graham,
and of the Grahams directly descended from him. With the notable exception
of the Grahams themselves, descended from a Scot who emigrated directly
to Nova Scotia, almost all the various lineages are of Irish and English
stock which first passed through New England. The various families were
centred in Colchester County, in the area of Truro, Nova Scotia. The last
three or four generations in this group have scattered over much of North
America but are centred in British Columbia and Alberta. David Blair, b. 1618 (of
Ayrshire, Scotland) | James Blair, b. ca. 1644-1650 (of Ayrshire, Scotland,
to Ulster) --- m. --- Rachel Boyd | Robert Blair, b. 1683 (of Ulster, to Massachusetts)---
m. --- Isabella Rankin | William Blair, b. 1716 --- m. --- Jane Barns | Robert Archibald, b. 1745
--- m. --- Hannah Blair (link through him to Elliott) | Samuel Tupper, b. 1764 ---
m. --- Elizabeth Archibald (link through him to Barter, Bridmore,
Craddock, English, Fish, Gallyon, Hodgson, Mason, Mayhew, Miller, Newcomb,
Sisson, Sprague, Sprigge, Swift, Tobey, Waterman, and Woodworth) | William Creelman, b. 1784 --- m. --- Hannah Tupper
(link through him to Campbell and Flemming) | James Graham, b. 1808 ---
m. --- Rachel Creelman (link through him to Alan, Longfellow,
Lyons, Smith, and Whidden) | Frank Graham, b. 1856 --- m. --- Mary Muir
(see Muir Nova Scotians and Wisdom
lineage) | Paul Graham, b. 1894 --- m. --- Mildred Maxwell (see
Maxwells of Ontario and Alberta) | William Graham, b. 1929 --- m. --- Margaret Barclay
(see Danes) | Douglas J. Graham, b. 1958 --- m. --- France Marcoux
(see last four groups from Québec) | Camille, b. 1992 and Stéphanie Graham,
b. 1994 This is the lineage of my great-grandmother, Mary E. Muir, wife of Frank
Graham. Unlike the families in the tree above, the Muirs and related families
are descended from Scots who emigrated directly to Nova Scotia (in general,
several generations later than those of Frank Graham's ancestors). Included
in this group are the Muir descendents of Mary E.'s father William Muir;
these Muirs are linked together as constituting the Muir half of those
who have been or are eligible for the Muir Educational
Trust Fund. George McJerrow, b. 1700 | David McJerrow, b. 1750 --- m. --- Agnes Gordon
(link through her to Douglas) | Andrew Muir, b. 1784 --- m.
--- Jean McJerrow (link through him to McIlwraith) | William Muir, b. 1827 --- m. --- Harriet Wisdom (see
Wisdom lineage) | Frank Graham --- m. --- Mary
E. Muir, b. 1867 This is the third subset of the ancestors of my grandfather Paul Ashmore
Graham, and is specifically the lineage of Harriet Wisdom, wife of William
Muir. Her ancestors had been in Nova Scotia for a few generations but
had been resident before that in New England. This was so, most notably
for Mary Scott who I previously believed could be traced back to the Mayflower; I no longer think this can be susbtantiated. What we know of the Wisdom lineage is the following: Henry Wisdom, b. abt 1699 --- m. --- ? | John Wisdom, b. 1733 --- m. --- Mary Maker | Henry Wisdom, b. 1750 --- m. --- Mary Scott | William Wisdom, b. 1797 --- m. --- Mary S. Elliott | William Muir, b. 1827 --- m. ---
Harriet Wisdom These are the ancestors of my paternal grandmother, Mildred Maxwell.
This lineage was founded by Scottish and English immigrants to Ontario,
arriving in Canada much later than the Nova Scotians above. From Ontario,
most of the Maxwells moved west in the early 1900s, largely to pioneer
in Alberta. William Maxwell --- m.
--- Sarah (Agnes?) Lowry | Hamilton Maxwell, b. 1832 --- m. --- Margaret
Coulter (link through her to Baird, Dick, McCaull, McGowan,
Ross, and Rowan) | Bill Maxwell, b. 1855 --- m. --- Martha Smyth (link through her to Henry and McKee) | Paul Graham, b. 1894 --- m. --- Mildred Maxwell,
b. 1894 These are the ancestors of my mother, Margaret Barclay. Her parents both
emigrated to western Canada from Denmark in the late 1920s. Christopher Barclay ---
m. --- Kristine Berg | Niels Estrup, b. 1812 --- m. --- Boulette Barclay | Julius Estrup, b. 1861 --- m. --- Ingeborg Larsen (link through her to Arentzen and Meyer) | John Barclay, b. 1901 --- m. --- Gudrun Christensen (link through her to Lassen, Hansen,
and Nørgaard) | William Graham, b.1929 --- m. ---
Margaret Barclay, b. 1929 All the various lineages of the family of France Marcoux have been in
the province of Quebec for many hundreds of years with several lineages
documented back to immigrants to New-France in the mid-1600s and sometimes
several generations further back in France. The Marcoux lineage of France's
father André is that of Pierre Marcoux who emigrated to New-France
by 1662 from Bourgogne/Champagne and who is the ancestor of virtually
all the Marcoux of North America. Claude Marcoux --- m. ---
Marie Juneau (or Jouineau) | Pierre Marcoux, b. 1631--- m. --- Marthe de Rainville
(link through her to Poète or Poëte) | Jean-Baptiste Marcoux, b. 1669--- m. --- Madeleine
Magnan (link through her to Doigt) | Noël-François Marcoux, b. 1695--- m.
--- Marguerite-Madeleine Bélanger (link through her to Delaunay) | Louis-Alexandre Marcoux, b. 1730--- m. --- M.-Thècle
Mercier (link through her to Cartier dit Lebrun) | Marc Marcoux, b. ?--- m. --- M.-Anne Tanguay (link
through her to Lecours) | Pierre Marcoux, b. ?--- m. --- Thérèse
Gosselin (link through her to Maurisset) | Joseph Marcoux, b. ?--- m. --- Véronique
Gosselin | Wilfrid Marcoux, b. ?--- m. --- M.-Louise Lessard (of the "Lessard family of St-Joachim";
link through her to Baillargeon, Bolduc,
Cloutier, Lehoux, Meunier, Paquet, Paré, and Racine and also to the early part of
the tree of the Lessard of St-Michel) | Antonio Marcoux, b. 1889--- m. --- Anna Gagnon
(link through her to Morissette) | André Marcoux, b. 1933--- m. --- Huguette
De Rome | Douglas J. Graham, b. 1958 (link
through him to the first five trees above)--- m. --- France Marcoux,
b. 1961 | Camille, b. 1992 and Stéphanie Graham, b. 1994 The family tree here is that of France's mother, Huguette De Rome. Her
grandfather Charles De Rome was born in Cap-Santé, a small village
50 km upstream from Québec City five generations of Derome
were centred in Cap-Santé as was the case of course for many of
the other families linked to this tree. Several generations earlier, Denys
Derome was among the earliest settlers of Québec City, arriving
by 1653. Jean Derome --- m. --- Marie
Goultier | Denys Derome, b. 1624 --- m. --- Jacqueline Roullois
(link through her to Masline and Boulay) | Jean Derome, b. 1678 --- m. --- Marie-Anne Ferré
(link through her to Lasnon) | Jean-Baptiste Derome, b. 1708 --- m. --- Suzanne
Jeanne (link through her to Hurdouil, Nepveu, Pot,
and Savard) | Jean-Baptiste Derome, b. 1734--- m. --- Marie-Rose
Proulx | Jean Derome, b. 1759--- m. --- Marguerite Gignac | Jean-Baptiste Derome, b. 1783--- m. --- Rosalie
Hardy (link through her to Gignac) | Jean-Baptiste Derome, b. 1818 --- m. --- Léocadie
Richard (link through her to Germain, Paris, and Proulx) | Charles De Rome, b. 1868 --- m. --- Amanda Lessard
(of the Lessard family of Saint-Michel) | Alexandre De Rome, b. 1904 --- m. --- Fleurette Thérien | André Marcoux, b. 1933---
m. --- Huguette De Rome, b. 1937 The family tree here is that of my wife's great-grandmother, Amanda Lessard
(through her maternal grandmother). Amanda was born in Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse,
a small village on the south side of the St. Lawrence River across from
Québec City. Her branch of the Lessard family was in the Saint-Michel
area for about five generations (thus the arbitrary name for this family
tree) but her lineage is documented here for another eight generations
further back, mostly in the Québec City area (particularly Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré
and Saint-Joachim) and in France. The "Lessard
family of Saint-Joachim", included here as an offshoot of the
Marcoux family tree, is a branch of this Lessard lineage,
from the secnod marriage of Joseph Lessard, b. 1672. The longest known lineage of my daughters on their maternal side is the
17 generations going back to Balthazar L'Escallier born in France in about
1520 (they are thus descended from Balthazar through both the Marcoux
and Lessard families). Balthazar L'Escallier, b. ca. 1520 | Louis Sévestre,
b. before 1543 --- m. --- Jeanne L'Escallier | Thomas Sévestre, b. ca. 1560-- m. --- Jeanne
Boucherot | Étienne Sévestre, b. ca. 1585 --- m.
--- Marguerite Petitpas (link through her to Macé and
Rolland) | Charles Sévestre, b. 1607 --- m. --- Marie
Pichon | Étienne Lessard, b. 1623 --- m. --- Marguerite
Sévestre, b. 1635 (link through him to de Lessart
and Herson) | Joseph Lessard, b. 1672 --- m. --- Marguerite
Racine (link through her to Avrard, Baucher,
Guillebert, Guyon, Huet, Langlois, Loysel,
Martin, Paradis, Pelle,
and Robin; through his other marriage Joseph is the founder of
the "Lessard of Saint-Joachim") | Ignace Lessard, b. 1709 --- m. --- Reine Bolduc (link through her to Crosnier, Destroismasons,
Fontaine, Hubert, Lacherer, Leroux, Malboeuf, Pijart, Rotreau, and Terrien) | Jean-Baptiste Lessard, b. ? --- m. --- Agathe
Ratte | Pierre-Noël Lessard, b. ? --- m. --- Françoise
Roy | Pierre Lessard, b. ? --- m. --- Desanges Laflamme
(link through her to Rouillard) | Elzéar Lessard, b. ? --- m. --- Delphine
Bélanger | Charles De Rome, b. 1868 --- m. ---
Amanda Lessard, b. ? The family tree here is that of my wife's grandmother, Fleurette Thérien,
wife of Alexandre De Rome. Pierre Terrien arrived in New France by 1656. N. Terrien, b. ca. 1580 | André Terrien, b. 1611 --- m. --- Marie
Foucault | Pierre Terrien, b. 1640 --- m. --- Gabrielle Mignot | Jacques Terrien, b. 1696 --- m. --- ? | François Hyacinthe Terrien, b. 1728 --- m.
--- ? | Pierre Terrien, b. 1767 --- m. --- ? | Jean-Baptiste Thérien, b. ca. 1800 --- m.
--- A. Léveillé | Pierre Thérien, b. ca. 1830 --- m. ---
Alphonsine Corbeil | Moïse Thérien, b. 1874 --- m. ---
Délia Hallé (link through her
to Bourget, Carrier (two lines), Charpentier, Drapeau,
Dumas, Grénet, Joly, Léveillé, Paradis, possibly
another branch of Thérien, and Valet) | Alexandre De Rome, b. 1904 --- m.
--- Fleurette Thérien, b. 1908
The original "A Family Reunion" was written by me, Douglas
J. Graham, when I was a teenager and the 170 pages were printed up in
a hundred or so copies in July, 1982. The Reunion brought together the
information that was available to me at that time on my mother's Danish
relatives and on those from my father's side: mostly Nova Scotian branches
of Scottish, Irish, and English emigrants to Canada. For this first edition,
I owed a debt of graditude to my great-aunt Ethel Graham (1890-1975),
the proverbial spinster aunt who through a long life time saved and collected
the basic papers on the family, and to my two parents who were also critical
sources of information on their respective families. I have since grafted onto the French-Canadian family tree of France Marcoux
and a great deal more information has become available on almost all other
branches of my family. Fifteen years later, in 1996, a Revised Edition
was launched as this living World Wide Web site. (Note: only about half
of the original text from 1982 has thus far been transferred here and
a great deal of additional material, fruits of ongoing research, including
photos and voice recordings, remains to be added; this will probably take
me many years.) Specific sources of information are acknowledged on the web page created
for each major branch of the family.
Welcome to A Family Reunion!
Introduction
1) Truro Nova Scotians and early Massachussets
families (mostly Irish and English descendance)
2) Muir Nova Scotians (Scottish descendance)
3) Wisdom lineage
4) Maxwells of Ontario and Alberta (mostly Scottish
and Irish descendance)
5) Danes
6) Marcoux Family of Québec
7) Derome Family of Cap-Santé, Québec
8) Lessard Family of Saint-Michel
9) Thérien Family of Québec
Major additions in last years
Sources
Created by Douglas J. Graham. Comments or enquiries would be very
welcome at: douglasjgraham@earthlink.net. The web address of the Family
Reunion site is "http://home.earthlink.net/~douglasjgraham/DG_FM.htm".