Overview: Annotated Vermette Marriages

 

FIRST GENERATION

Antoine Vermet-dit-LaForme and Barbe Menard married 26 August 1669, Ste. Famille, Île d’Orleans, CANADA

Antoine is from St-Nicaise d'Arras, Artois, France; 45 years old in the census of 1681, at l'Île d'Orléans (Î.O.).  (He is the son of Fleury Asquet Vermette and Marie LeBlanc, married Paroisse, St-Niquaire, Arras, Artois, France)

died between 15 October1708 and 25 August 1713, Ste-Famille Î.O.

Barbe (René & Judith Veillon) is from La Rochelle, Aunis, France; 32 years old in the census of 1681
Buried (S. 16) June 17, 1685 Ste-Famille, Î.O. (age about 36)

 

SECOND GENERATION
Robert Vermette and Marie-Madeleine Hains Bernard married 12 June 1703, Ste. Famille, Î.O.

Robert is the second child and eldest son of Antoine Vermette and Barbe Menard

Born 8 and baptized 16 April 1672 (B. 08.), Ste-Famille, Î.O.
Buried 12 March 1741, Berthier, Montmagny, CANADA

 

Marie-Madeleine (Jean & Marie Debure)

Born (B. 20), 21 December 1680, St-Bernard à Charlesbourg, Québec, CANADA

Died before 16 February 1716, St-Vallier, Bellechasse, CANADA

[First marriage of Marie-Madeleine Bernard:
13 November 1702 St-Jean, Î.O., CANADA (ct 7 November 1702 Charles Rageot)

to François Milet (Nicolas & Michelle Lesdiller)

born 2 August 1676 Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Champlain, CANADA
buried 5 January 1703 St-François Î.O, CANADA.]

 

Second Marriage: Marguerite Catrin (Nicolas & Françoise Delaunay), m 16 February 1716, St-Vallier (ct 12-02-1716 Michon)

 

Note:  Probably between 1704 and 1709, Robert and his family moved from the island (Île d’Orleans) where his father had settled onto the mainland on the south bank of the Saint Lawrence River, to the town of Berthier (also called “Berthier-sur-mer” or “Berthier en bas”).  Several generations of Vermettes would be born in Berthier.

 

THIRD GENERATION

Pierre (Berthier) Vermette and Marie-Madeleine Boutin married 8 April 1727, Berthier

Pierre is the eldest child of Robert Vermette and Marie-Madeleine Hains Bernard

Born and baptized 24 March 1704, St-François, Î.O.

Died 9 buried (S.3) 12 April 1774, Berthier

 

Marie-Madeleine (Jean-Baptiste & Jeanne Audebout)

Born 27 and baptized 28 October 1700, Québec City, CANADA

Died 17 and buried (S.18) 18 January 1788, Berthier

Fourth GENERATION

Louis-Joseph Vermette and Ursule Bernier married 13 February 1764, Cap-St-Ignace, Montmagny, Québec

Louis-Joseph is the eighth child (the third son) of Pierre (Berthier) Vermette and Marie-Madeleine Boutin

Born 14 and baptized 15 September 1742, Berthier

Died 26 and buried 28 July 1823, Berthier

 

Ursule (Joseph and Marie-Claire Fortin)

Born around 1745, Cap Saint-Ignace

Died 20 and buried 21 May 1774, Berthier

 

Second Marriage:

Elizabeth Drugeot (born 1750, Berthier), 9 January 1775, Berthier

 

Third Marriage:
Cecile Mercier, 16 April 1787, Berthier, (“Louis-Joseph Vermette, widower of Ursule Bernier”)

 

Note:  Louis-Joseph and his third wife Cecile Mercier had a number of children together at Berthier

FIFTH GENERATION

Louis Vermette and Marguerite Marceau married 12 Feb 1787, Berthier

 

Louis

Born and baptized 19 June 1766, Berthier, the second child of, Louis-Joseph Vermette and Ursule Bernier. 

Died 23 and buried (S.67) 25 November 1837, Saint-Michel, Bellechasse, Québec

 

Marguerite (Jean & Marie-Joseph Boissonault)

Born around 1763, Saint-Vallier

Died 14 and buried 16 November 1842 (S. 44) (79 years old), Saint-Michel?

 

Note:  Louis had an older brother, also Louis, who died age 1-and-a-half months (b 14 Feb buried 31 March 1765).  Marguerite Marceau was from the Parish of Saint-Vallier, and Louis and Marguerite moved from Berthier to that parish between 1789 and 1791; in the early 1820s, after their sons had departed for Saint-Gervais, Louis and Marguerite seem to have made another move to the nearby parish of Saint-Michel 

SIXTH GENERATION

Augustin Vermette and Françoise Couchon-dite-Laverdiere married 12 February 1810, St-Vallier

 

Augustin is the second child of Louis Vermette and Marguerite Marceau

Born and baptized 2 December 1788, Berthier

Died 28 and buried 30 January 1854 (S.2), St-Gervais, Bellechasse, Québec

 

Françoise Couchon-dite-Laverdiere (Louis and Françoise Lebrun)

Born 24 December and Baptized 25 December 1787, St-Vallier

Died circa 1860, St-Gervais

 

Note: Augustin Vermette and his brother, Louis Vermette, relocated from Saint-Vallier to nearby Saint-Gervais by 1815.  Augustin acquired a plot of land in this parish – the last lot of the “second range east” of Saint-Gervais.

 

SEVENTH GENERATION

Joseph Vermette and Marie-Louise Pouliot, married 18 January 1848, at Saint-Charles, Bellechasse, Québec.

 

Joseph is the tenth child, the sixth son, of Augustin Vermette and Françoise Couchon-dite-Laverdiere

Born 31 July and baptized (B.171) 1 August 1828, St-Gervais

Died 7 May 1912, Brunswick, Maine, USA

 

Marie-Louise (Nicolas and Marie Goulet)

Born 7 and baptized (B.259) 8 November 1828, St-Gervais

Died 12 and buried (S.17) 14 June 1864, Ste-Agathe-de-Lotbiniere (Nelson Township, Megantic County), Québec

Second Marriage: Rebecca Turgeon (born and baptized 20 September 1849, Saint-Michel), 10 September 1866, Ste-Agathe-de-Lotbiniere (M.10)

 

Note:  Joseph fathered 23 children by his two wives.  He was the first of our Vermettes to venture beyond the St. Lawrence River valley area, moving to the Eastern Townships region of Québec in the early 1860s.  By the 1880s, Joseph and his family had settled in Thetford-Mines, Québec, where he made his living as an asbestos miner.

EIGHTH GENERATION

Charles Vermette and Albina Ouellette, married 5 September 1887 at St-Jean-Baptiste Brunswick.

 

Charles is the eighth child, the fourth son, of Joseph Vermette and Marie-Louise Pouilot

Born and baptized (B.52) 14 May 1860, St-Gervais

Died 17 and buried 20 November 1936, Brunswick

 

Albina (Thomas and Josephine Racine)

Born 10 and baptized (B.14) 16 February 1868, Roxton Falls, Shefford, Québec

Died 10 (Lewiston, ME, USA) and buried (Brunswick) 13 June 1918

 

Note: Charles, also called “Charles Henri,” entered the USA in 1880 and relocated to Brunswick, Maine around 1881 where he worked in the Cabot textile mill (as a Loom Fixer), and, later, for the Maine Central Railroad in that town.  Albina, who came to Brunswick with her family in the early 1870s, was baptized in Québec as Virginie Ouellette.

 

NINTH GENERATION

Albert Napoleon Vermette and Ida Adrienne LaVigueur married 23 April 1920, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA

 

Albert was the fifth child the third son of Charles and Albina

Born 31 March 1894, Brunswick

Died 18 January 1971, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

 

Ida (Alphonse and Hermine Bernier)

Born 31 March 1901, Topsham, Maine

Died 12 August 1987, Norwell, Massachusetts

 

Note:  (Topsham, Maine formed an economic and social unit with Brunswick.)  This family lived in both Brunswick and the Boston area at various times through the 1920s and 1930s.  They settled in Portland, Maine in the early 1940s, and then Albert and Ida moved to the Boston area permanently after World War II.

 

TENTH GENERATION

Charles Alphonse Vermette and LIVING

 

Charles was the fifth child, the fourth son of Albert and Ida.

Born 26 January 1927, Brunswick

Died 10 January 1983, Boston

 

LIVING

 

ELEVENTH GENERATION

David Gerard Vermette, the author, and three older siblings

 

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Sources:

I.      Primary Sources

 

1. Manuscript sources on microfilm at the New England Historical and Genealogical Society Library:

 

a) The Drouin Institute photographs of registers for the following Québec parishes: Ste-Famille, Î.O. (#1625); Berthier, Montmagny (#1002, #1003, # 3112, #3147); Cap-St-Ignace, Montmagny (#3118); St-Vallier, Bellechasse (#1063, #727); St-Gervais, Bellechasse (#1035, #1036); St-Charles, Bellechasse (#1025); St-Michel, Bellechasse (#1048); Ste-Agathe, Lotbiniere (#1633a); Roxton Falls, Shefford

b) Maine Vital Records 1892-1937

c) New Hampshire Marriages 1901-1937

 

2.  The Brunswick Telegraph and The Brunswick Record on Microfilm at the Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick, Maine with the Snow Index to Brunswick Newspapers

 

II.  Compiled Sources

 

3.  Dictionnaire généalogique des familles du Québec, René Jetté (Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1983). (see also: http://www.grandesfamilles.org/Vermette/01.html#1)

 

4.  Marriages of Saint John the Baptist (1877-1979) and of Saint Charles Borromeo (1930-1980), Brunswick, Maine.  Compiled by Youville Labonté, January 27, 1981.

 

5.  Répertoire des Acte de Baptême, Marriage, Sepulture et des recensements du Québec Ancien (ouvrage public sous la direction de Hubert Charbonneau et Jacques Légare)