The ancestor of my grandmother, Rebecca, was Joe-Alphonse Gauthier.  First of his line, in Canada, was Jean Gauthier dit Larouche.  Jean was born in 1645 at  Eschillais, Province de Saintonge, France.  He married Angelique Lefebvre in Quebec.  Jean died 21 Jan 1675 at Notre-Dame de Quebec, and was buried in the Notre-Dame cemetery.  His father was Mathurin and his mother was called Catherine Loumeaux.

    The line of Rebecca goes like this:
 
 

Claude	(m) Angelique Lefebvre 21 Jan 1675 at Notre-Dame de Quebec.
Claude	(m) Francoise Gagne in 1714
Louis	(m) Marie-Anne Dionne in 1769
Louis-Germain	(m) Felicite Simard in 1791
Basile	(m) Marie-Julie Thibault in 1818
Joe-Alphonse	(m) Elise Caron *  (Elise was baptised as a Gagnon, but married as a Caron).  2nd mariage to Delphine CGagnon in 1923
Rebecca	(m) Wilfrid Thibault

 

    * Two of the children of Joe-Alphonse and Elise Caron married in Brunswick, Maine.  His brother Ephrem married Marie-Adelaide Dube at the Saint Jean Baptiste Church in Brunswick, Maine.
There is a Gauthier Forum, provided by GenForum where information is exhanged on this family.

There is a Gauthier family page on the Web, however, I found it quite difficult to download.  Particularly because of the coat of arms and other things that is involved with the page.   Click on for the Gauthier page.
 
 

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Ray Drouin
22 Jun 99