Continuation of tree (5th child of 'Jean Marie' Jean Baptiste Pitre/Julie Leduc); all known surname descendants:
6 Ignace Pitre b: 31 January 1799 St. Joachim, Chateauguay, QUE; d: Bet. March 1864-1870 Huntingdon, QUE
+Marie Maher b: Abt. 1810 St. Regis, QUE; m: Abt. 1824 America [‘rehabilitation’ 21 July 1842 St. Regis, Huntingdon, Beauharnois, QUE [Peter/Josephine ---]; d: 14 December 1891 St. Regis, Huntingdon, QUE
7 Pierre Lajambe b: Abt. 1825 St. Regis, QUE; d: 2 May 1892 Fort Covington, Franklin, NY
+Anne Poirier b: Abt. 1841; m: Abt. 1855; d: Aft. 1862
7 Marie Lajambe b: Abt. 1827 Quebec; d: Bet. 1850-1860
+Edouard Tessier (aka Tacy) b: Abt. 1826 Quebec; m: 25 November 1844 Ft. Covington, Franklin, NY; d: 2 May 1909 St. Hippolyte, Wotton, Richmond, QUE
7 Catherine Lajambe b: October 1829 Dundee, QUE; d: 14 April 1907 Albany, Orleans, VT
+Louis Lafleur b: April 1825 Fort Covington, Franklin, NY; m: 20 September 1854 Hogansburg, Franklin, NY [Joseph/-- French]; d: 25 February 1911 Lowell, Middlesex, MA
7 Thomas Lajambe b: 17 March 1833 St. Regis, Beauharnois, QUE; d: 10 February 1916 Hopkins Point, Franklin, NY
+Lucie Taillon b: 20 December 1841 St. Regis, Beauharnois, QUE; m: 13 August 1861 St. Regis, Huntingdon, Beauharnois, QUE [Jean Baptiste/Lucie Plamondon]; d: 18 June 1923 Moira, Franklin, NY
7 Josephte Lepitre b: July 1835 St. Regis, Beauharnois, QUE; d: Aft. 1851
7 Jean Baptiste Lepitre b: 14 February 1838 St. Regis, Beauharnois, QUE; d: Aft. December 1891
7 Julie Lepitre b: 11 February 1840 St. Regis, Beauharnois, QUE; d: Aft. 1851
7 Ignace Lepitre b: 3 January 1842 St. Regis, Beauharnois, QUE; d: 19 March 1891 Ellenburg, Clinton, NY
+Eulalie 'Adelaide' Gadouas b: 16 September 1838 St. Edouard, Napierville, QUE; m: Abt. 1865 [Jean Baptiste/Eulalie Forgue]; d: Aft. 1910 Fort Edward, Washington, NY
7 Edouard Pitre b: 15 July 1844 St. Regis, Beauharnois, QUE; d: 18 August 1844 St. Regis, Beauharnois, QUE
7 Etienne Pitre b: 12 July 1845 St. Regis, Beauharnois, QUE; d: 31 December 1886 St. Regis, Beauharnois, QUE
7 Joseph Pitre b: 24 September 1847 St. Regis, Beauharnois, QUE; d: 8 January 1920 Marcellus, Onondaga, NY
+Helene Blais b: Abt. 1846; m: 24 June 1867 Burlington, Chittenden, VT
*2nd Wife of Joseph Pitre:
+Anna Russell b: April 1850 Quebec; m: Abt. 1873; d: 5 January 1929 Syracuse, Onondaga, NY
7 Francois Xavier Pitre b: October 1849 St. Regis, Beauharnois, QUE; d: 21 September 1909 Merrill, Clinton, NY
+Isabella Larriviere (aka Larribee) b: 28 December 1849 Green Bay, Wisconsin; m: Abt. 1875 [Edward/---]; d: 12 January 1948 Plattsburgh, Clinton, NY
7 Ellen Pitre b: Abt. 1852 Quebec; d: Aft. 1870
Notes for Ignace Pitre:
This family presents quite a few challenges, not least because of the different surname usages/spellings. After finally accessing all years of Canadian census, I believe Ignace is most probably the son of Jean Marie 'Jean Baptiste' Pitre and his first wife Julie Leduc.
The 1825 census of St. Regis lists the household of Ignace Pitre as a married couple (husband 25-39 & wife 14-44). By the 1842 census of Dundee he is listed as having a household of 10 people. Using a birth rate of one child every 2 years, that would mean 8 children + the parents. The 1851 St. Regis census lists him as Ignace Lajambe 42 farmer, wife Marie Merfer 39 and 9 children (Pierre 26, Thomas 18, Josephte 16, John 13, Julienne 11, Angus 9, Etienne 7, Joseph 5, Francis 3). Marie married in 1844, and Catherine married c1846 with the formal record in 1854.
The 1861 census of Dundee then lists him as Angus Pitts 66 (anglicized version of Ignace Pitre) farmer, wife Polly 52, & 6 children (John 22, Angus 19, Stephen 17, Joseph 12, Francis 11, Ellen 7). Son Thomas Pitts 24 laborer is also in Dundee but still single. Sometime before the 1870 census Ignace dies, as the 1870 Franklin, NY census has his widow Mary Petes 69 living with 3 of their children (John 28, Stephen 25 listed as 'idiotic' & Ellen 27), while son Thomas Lashombe is now married with 6 children and living with his maternal grandparents. Son Ignace is married and living in Ellenburg, Clinton, NY.
The 1881 Dundee census shows son Thomas Peets 47, with wife Lucy, their 7 children, his widowed mother Mary 68, and brother Etienne. Then lastly the 1891 Dundee census has Thomas Peets, his children, and mother Mary 78. Marie Maher, Ignace's widow, dies in December 1891 at St. Regis aged 81 years.
Other than the children whose births/deaths were listed in the St. Regis registers, the rest of the family is open to question. Son Thomas' birth and marriage identifies his parents, but I have not found this definitive tie for sons Pierre, Ignace, Joseph or Francois Xavier. And of the other children whose birth records were found or who appear in the census listing, I have yet to find what became of them.
- Malone Palladium, 27th July 1871 (p. 2): Mortgage Sale - Whereas default has been made in the payment of the money secured by a mortgage dated 21st day of March 1864, executed by Angus Lashomb, then of the town of Burke, Franklin County, state of New York (since deceased), and Mary Lashomb, his wife, to William R. Earle, of the town, county, and state aforesaid, which said mortgage contained a power to the mortgagee, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, to sell the mortgaged premises upon default being made in any of the conditions of said mortgage, and which said mortgage, with said power of sale therein contained, was duly recorded in the office of the Clerk of Franklin County (where said mortgaged premises are situated) on the 21st day of March, 1864, at 4 o'clock P.M., in book No. 16 of mortgages, on page 55, &c., which said mortgage, with the power of sale, therein contained, was, on the 27th day of April, 1871, by an instrument in writing signed and sealed, for a valuable consideration, duly assigned and transferred to Isaac Seeley, who is now the owner and holder thereof, which said assignment was duly recorded in the office of the Clerk of Franklin County, on said 27th day of April 1871. And whereas the amount claimed to be due on said mortgage at the time of the first publication of this notice is four hundred and six dollars and ten cents, which is the whole amount unpaid thereon. No action, suit or proceeding has been commenced to recover the amount secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof. Now, therefore, notice is hereby given that by virtue of the power of sale in said mortgage contained and recorded as aforesaid, and in pursuance of the statute in such case made and provided, the said mortgage will be foreclosed by a sale of the premises therein described, and the said premises will be sold at public auction at the front door of the Court House, in the village of Malone, in said County of Franklin, on the 14th day of October, 1871, at one o'clock in the afternoon. The said premises are described in said mortgage as follows: All that tract or parcel of land situate in the town of Burke aforesaid, being a part of lot number sixty-nine (69) in township number seven of the Old Military Tract, described as follows: Beginning at the north-east corner of a piece of land formerly owned by John Wright one hundred rods north of the south-east corner of said lot number sixty-nine (69) and running a westerly course along the north line of said piece of land formerly owned by said John Wright one hundred and sixty rods, thence north parallel with the east line of said lot fifty rods, thence east parallel with the south line of said lot (69) one hundred and sixty rods to the east line of said lot sixty-nine (69), and thence south in said east line fifty rods to the place of beginning, containing fifty acres of land, being the same premises conveyed to the said William R. Earl by Zephaniah K. Stickney and wife by deed dated September 9th, 1851, and conveyed to the said Angus Lashomb by the said William R. Earle by deed bearing even date herewith - Dated 20th July, 1871. Isaac Seeley, Assignee. Silas W. Wilson, Attorney
Burial Entry for Marie Maher: St. Regis, Quebec register: BUR. 16 Dec 1891, d. 14 Dec - Mary Myres, widow of Ignace Pitre dit Lajambe, died in the territory of this mission; wit: Thomas Pitre dit Lajambe & Jean Baptiste Pitre sons, age 81 years [signed: Thomas Peets, Jean Baptiste Pitre].
Obituaries for the children:
Catherine Lajambe: Orleans County Monitor (Barton, VT), Monday, 22 April 1907: Albany - Mrs. Lewis LaFleur died Sunday morning, Apr. 14.
Thomas Lajambe: Adirondack News (St. Regis Falls, NY), Saturday, 12 February 1916: Moira: Thomas Peets, a former resident of Moira, died at his home at Hopkins Point last Thursday, aged 81 years. He was a most highly respected man. The burial was at Brushton. He is survived by his wife and four sons, John, David, Will and Albert and three daughters, Mrs. John McCullough, Mrs. Agnes Walsh, of Moira and Mary of Hopkins Point.
Francois Xavier Pitre: Chateaugay Record (NY), Friday, 8 Oct 1909: Frank Peets, Sr., died at his home in Merrill Sept. 21, after an illness of six months, caused by a shock of paralysis. He has been a prominent citizen of that community for that 50 years, being practically the first person to settle in that hamlet. Mr. Peets, who was 59 years of age, has conducted a hotel for a number of years. He is survived by two brothers and one sister, the widow and two daughters, Mrs. Emma Lamare and Miss Nellie Peets.
Tombstone Inscription, St. Bernard's Cemetery, Lyon Mountain, NY: Frank Peets / 1859 - 1909 / PEETS
Back one generation to parents of Ignace Pitre
Items in RED have been verified against parish register entries.
- New York birth/marriage/death items in RED have come from newspaper obituaries, some marriage announcements, and occasional birth announcements.
Last updated: 17 March 2023.