Joseph 'Raffe' Pitre

1838 Rustico, PEI – 1896 Rogersville, New Brunswick

 

 

Continuation of tree (8th child of Rufin Pitre/Josephine Doiron); all known surname descendants:

              7     Joseph 'Raffe' Pitre  b: 11 April 1838  St. Augustine, Rustico, PEI; d: 30 November 1896  St. Francois de Sales, Rogersville, Northumberland, NB

                               +Marie Gallant  b: 7 May 1839  St. Augustine, Rustico, PEI; m: 25 February 1862  St. Augustine, Rustico, PEI [Louis/Modeste Blaquiere]; d: 21 May 1914  Rogersville, Northumberland, NB         

                         8          Barthelemy Pitre  b: Abt. 1863  Hope River, PEI; d: 25 January 1892  Ste. Anne, Hope River, PEI

                                       +Theotiste 'Jane' Doiron  b: 19 May 1860  Rustico, PEI; m: 21 April 1885  Ste. Anne, Hope River, PEI [Fidele/Marie Pitre]; d: 24 November 1939  Rogersville, Northumberland, NB

                         8          Marie Josephine Pitre  b: 3 April 1865  St. Augustine, Rustico, PEI; d: 19 July 1939  Rogersville, Northumberland, NB

                                       +Valerin 'Adrien' Doiron  b: 19 May 1849  Rustico, PEI; m: 22 November 1887  Ste. Anne, Hope River, PEI [Fidele/Marie Pitre]; d: 20 May 1934  Rogersville, Northumberland, NB

                         8          Pierre Pitre  b: 25 November 1866  St. Augustine, Rustico, PEI; d: Bet. 1891-1901  Rustico, PEI

                                       +Judith Julia Leclerc  b: 21 August 1855  Rustico, PEI; m: 24 January 1888  St. Augustine, Rustico, PEI [Sylvestre/Anne Blaquiere]; d: 3 December 1927  Charlottetown, PEI

                         8          Moyse Pitre  b: 6 May 1869  St. Augustine, Rustico, PEI; d: 7 February 1908  Rogersville, Northumberland, NB

                                        +Marie Odile Antoinette Dame  b: 31 January 1872  St. Cesaire, Rouville, QUE; m: 31 July 1893  St. Hyacinth Church, Westbrook, Cumberland, ME [Magloire/Rosalie Leveque]; d: 3 December 1900  Westbrook, Cumberland, ME

                         8          Xavier Pitre  b: 10 February 1871  St. Augustine, Rustico, PEI; d: 14 May 1955  Collette, Northumberland, NB

                                        + Rosaline Blaquiere  b: 23 February 1891  St. Augustine, Rustico, PEI; m: 1 September 1913  Rogersville, Northumberland, NB [Joseph/Charlotte Pitre]; d: 8 May 1977  Moncton, Westmorland, NB

                         8          Ambroise Pitre  b: 25 July 1872  Hope River, PEI; d: c12 September 1904  Seven Mile Bay, PEI

                                        +Priscille Poirier  b: 24 June 1866  Rustico, PEI; m: 20 November 1894  Ste. Anne, Hope River, PEI [Sylvestre/Charlotte Lebrun]; d: c10 April 1902  Seven Mile Bay, PEI

                         8          Joseph Pitre  b: Abt. 1874  Hope River, PEI; d: Aft. 1891

                         8          Barbe 'Barbara' Pitre  b: 15 September 1876  Hope River, PEI; d: 1 July 1902  Rogersville, Northumberland, NB

                                        +Andre Poirier  b: 4 May 1868  Hope River, PEI; m: 21 July 1896  Ste. Anne, Hope River, PEI [Sylvestre/Charlotte Lebrun]; d: 9 June 1952  Rogersville, Northumberland, NB

                         8           George Pitre  b: 19 October 1879  Hope River, PEI; d: 23 November 1966  Moncton, Westmoreland, NB

                                         + Lucille Anne Doucet  b: 19 February 1880  Rustico, PEI; m: 6 May 1901  Rogersville, Northumberland, NB [Theophile/Valentine Blanchard]; d: 11 January 1910  Rogersville, Northumberland, NB

                                       *2nd Wife of George Pitre:

                                         + Emerise Roy  b: 17 March 1886  St. Mary's, Kent, NB; m: 13 January 1913  Moncton, Westmorland, NB [Alexis/Henriette Cormier]; d: 1 July 1936  Moncton, Westmorland, NB

                                       *3rd Wife of George Pitre:

                                         + Flora Roy (Cormier)  b: 24 September 1884  Bathurst, Gloucester, NB; m: 16 August 1937  l'Assomption, Moncton, Westmorland, NB [Alexis/Henriette Cormier]; d: 21 August 1974  Moncton, Westmorland, NB

                         8          Andre Pitre  b: 19 April 1882  Ste. Anne, Hope River, PEI; d: 22 February 1916  Nash Creek, Northumberland, NB

                                        +Mary Alice Adair  b: 15 May 1890  Newcastle, Northumberland, NB; m: 23 May 1908  Newcastle, Northumberland, NB [William/Annie Walsh]; d: 6 January 1939  Newcastle, Northumberland, NB

 

 

Notes for Joseph 'Raffe' Pitre:

Census

- 1881 PEI, Bagnalls Pond, Lot 23:  Joseph Peters 43 (farmer), wife Mary 43, Bartholomew 17, Mary 16, Peter 14, Moses 12, Savier 10, Ambrose 8, Joseph 6, Barbara 4, George 1.

- 1891 PEI, Lot 23E:  Joseph Peters 53 (farmer & fisherman), wife Mary 51, Exavier 21, Ambrose 18, Joseph 16, Barbara 14, George 10, Andrew 9.   [Moyse 21 - ??]

- 1901 Rogersville, Northumberland, New Brunswick:  Widow Marie Pitre 61, George 21, Andre 18.  [Xavier 30, Joseph 26 - ??]

- 1911 Rogersville, Northumberland, NB:   Widow Marie Pitre 71, Xavier 35 (merchant), grandson Leonard 11.

 

Obituaries for the children:

Xavier Pitre:  The Moncton Transcript (Moncton, NB), Monday, 16 May 1955:  The death of Francis Xavier Peters, of Collette, Northumberland county, occurred at his home Saturday evening after a long period of ill health.  He was 84 years of age and was born in Hope River, P.E.I., and had resided in Collette for the last 45 years.  He was a merchant and was well known by a large circle of friends who will learn with sorrow of his death.  Surviving are his wife, the former Roseline Blaquier, of North Rustico, P.E.I.; four sons, Pius, Moncton; Francis, Saint John; Victor, Campbellton, and Ambroise at home; six daughters, Mrs. Joseph Black and Mrs. Edgar Martin, Collette, Mrs. Jaddus LeBlanc, Minto, Mrs. Blair Bourgeois, Hamilton, Ont.; Mrs. Yvon Maille, Gardner, Mass., and Mrs. M. E. Collette, Parkton.  A solemn high mass of requiem will be celebrated in Notre Dame de Fatima church, Collette, with interment in the adjoining cemetery.

 

George Pitre:  Tombstone inscription, Our Lady of Calvary Cemetery, Dieppe, NB:  Edmond Roy 1902-1968 / wife / Gorgina Pitre 1916-1997 / Albenie Pitre 1930-2004 / Georges Pitre 1879-1966 / Flora Roy 1884-1974 / Clorice 1915 -1946 / Blair Joseph 1918-1998

 

Andre Pitre:  Daily Gleaner (Fredericton, NB), Wednesday, 23 February 1916:  Newcastle, N.B., Feb. 23 - Andrew Peters of this town, a brakeman on the Intercolonial Railway, was instantly killed yesterday afternoon by falling from a train near Jacquet River.  Deceased was brakeman of the passenger special going north in charge of Conductor McDougall, and as the train was nearing Jacquet River he was leaning over the side of the car looking for a hot box, when he lost his balance and fell to his death.  He was married and leaves a widow, formerly Miss Mary Adair of Newcastle, and two small children.  The body will be brought to Newcastle on No. 25 this morning.  He was about thirty years of age, and formerly worked with the D. & J. Ritchie Co. here.

 

 

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Items in RED have been verified against parish register entries. 

- Some deaths in RED from online death certificates (1920-1938), death registrations online (1888-1919), tombstone inscriptions.

- New Brunswick marriages in RED also from Vital Statistics Records (online).

 

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