Continuation of tree (5th child of Jean Baptiste Pitre/2nd Wife Marie Anne Surette); all known surname descendants:
5 'Jean Marie' Jean Baptiste Pitre b: 13 October 1766 Sts. Anges Gardiens, Lachine, Quebec; d: 25 May 1832 St. Regis, Huntingdon, Beauharnois, Quebec
+Julie Leduc b: 13 August 1773 St. Joachim, Pointe Claire, Quebec; m: 13 February 1792 Ile Perrot, Montreal, Quebec [Pierre/Marie Josephe Lalonde]; d: 26 May 1803 St. Joachim, Chateauguay, Quebec
6 Catherine Pitre b: 25 November 1792 St. Joachim, Chateauguay, Quebec; d: Aft. 1860 Bombay, Franklin, NY
+Michel Jeandron b: Abt. 4 December 1786 St. Joachim, Chateauguay, Quebec; m: 7 November 1814 St. Joachim, Chateauguay, Quebec [Michel/Marie Cuillerier]; d: 29 March 1815 St. Joachim, Chateauguay, Quebec
*2nd Husband of Catherine Pitre:
+Joseph Rousseau b: Abt. 1787 Quebec; m: 20 October 1817 St. Joachim, Chateauguay, Quebec [Joseph/Archange Edeline?]; d: Aft. 1860
6 Julie Pitre b: 5 March 1794 St. Joachim, Chateauguay, Quebec; d: 14 June 1864 St. Timothee, Beauharnois, Quebec
+Pierre Poirier dit Lafleur b: 28 July 1791 Ile Perrot, Montreal, Quebec; m: 6 February 1815 Ile Perrot, Montreal, Quebec [Antoine/Marie Anne Leduc]; d: 12 March 1876 St. Timothee, Beauharnois, Quebec
6 Jean Baptiste Pitre b: 22 September 1795 Ile Perrot, Montreal, Quebec; d: 23 December 1795 Ile Perrot, Montreal, Quebec
6 Jean Baptiste Pitre b: 2 March 1797 St. Joachim, Chateauguay, Quebec; d: Aft. 1871 Glengarry, ONT
+Elisabeth 'Isabelle' Vandandaigue b: 17 April 1806 St. Regis, Quebec; m: 23 February 1824 St. Regis, Huntingdon, Beauharnois, Quebec [Joseph/Catherine Laliberte]; d: c19 January 1863 Williamstown, Glengarry, ONT
6 Ignace Pitre b: 31 January 1799 St. Joachim, Chateauguay, Quebec; d: Bet. 1861-1870 Huntingdon, Quebec
+Marie Maher b: Abt. 1810 St. Regis, Quebec; m: Abt. 1830 America [‘rehabilitation’ 21 July 1842 St. Regis, Huntingdon, Beauharnois, Quebec] [Peter/-----]; d: 14 December 1891 St. Regis, Huntingdon, Quebec
6 Pierre Pitre b: 22 July 1801 St. Joseph de Soulanges, Les Cedres, Quebec; d: 15 November 1871 Brasher Falls, St. Lawrence, NY
+Sophie Noreau b: Abt. 1805 Quebec; m: 24 April 1823 St. Regis, Huntingdon, Beauharnois, Quebec [Jean Baptiste/Angelique Hebert]; d: 30 September 1887 Brasher Falls, St. Lawrence, NY
*2nd Wife of 'Jean Marie' Jean Baptiste Pitre:
+Marie Louise Lefebvre b: Abt. 25 November 1782 St. Joachim, Chateauguay, Quebec; m: 14 November 1803 St. Joachim, Chateauguay, Quebec [Louis Basile/Marie Louise Colignon]; d: Aft. 1850 New York
6 Louis Pitre b: 3 February 1820 St. Regis, Huntingdon, Beauharnois, Quebec; d: 4 July 1894 Norfolk, St. Lawrence, NY
+Ann Dunn b: Abt. 1814 Quebec; m: 10 July 1837 St. Regis, Huntingdon, Beauharnois, Quebec [John/Catherine Ross]; d: Bet. 1870-1874
*2nd Wife of Louis Pitre:
+Marie Angeline Trepanier (aka Trippany) b: 18 April 1858 St. Anicet, Huntingdon, Quebec; m: Abt. 1874 (Francois/Angeline Quenneville); d: 9 December 1927 Bombay, Franklin, NY
Notes for 'Jean Marie' Jean Baptiste' Pitre:
This family seems to have settled amidst the Mohawk Nation Territory, aka 'Indian lands', located across the intersection of the New York-Ontario-Quebec borders, including St. Regis/St. Anicet/Dundee, Quebec, Cornwall, Ontario and northern areas of New York State (Massena, Hogansburg, Ogdensburg, Fort Covington, Bombay).
The following information is taken from 'The History of the St. Regis Catholic Church' by Darren Bonaparte: The St. Regis church is located at the tip of a peninsula formed by the St. Regis & St. Lawrence River. On the river settlers would have been approaching from Montreal. By land, they would have come from the southwest via Hogansburg (New York). The mission was created in the mid-1700's. During the War of 1812, between Britain and the U.S., a British detachment was stationed at St. Regis in 1812. They were attacked by an American force from French Mills (Fort Covington, New York). This was also the era of crop failure due to a volcanic eruption. In the spring of 1829 there was a small pox epidemic followed by cholera and typhus in 1832. Another outbreak followed in 1849/50. The church itself suffered a devastating fire in 1866, followed by a flood the following year when the river became jammed with ice.
Jean Marie's 6 children by first wife Julie Leduc are all recorded in local registers. Definitive sources exist for Catherine's baptism and 2 marriages; Julie's baptism & marriage; first Jean Baptiste's baptism/burial; second Jean Baptiste's baptism & marriage; Ignace's baptism; and Pierre's baptism & marriage. Only Ignace's marriage is not definitively sourced as the record exists but no parents were listed.
After Julie Leduc dies in May 1803, Jean Marie remarries in November 1803 to Marie Louise Lefebvre. The exact number of children from this union is unresolved. Definitive sources exist for Louis's baptism & marriage, but I cannot locate any other siblings thus far.
Jean Marie's death is recorded in the St. Regis registers in 1832 with Jean Baptiste & Pierre as witnesses. If his son Ignace is the one who marries Marie Maher, his absence might be explained by his being in New York at this time. Jean Marie's widow, Marie Louise Lefebvre, seems to be with son Louis in the 1840 Brasher, NY census as she is listed with his family in the 1850 census of Bombay, NY. She is not listed in the 1860 census so presumably has died within that time.
Back one generation to parents of 'Jean Marie' Jean Baptiste Pitre
Items in RED have been verified against parish register entries. A few early registers are so degraded I have relied on the PRDH extractions in those cases.
- New York birth/marriage/death items in RED have come from tombstone inscriptions, newspaper obituaries, some marriage announcements, and occasional birth announcements.
Last updated: 5 June 2023.