Paternal line of descent of Odelie Demers
Odelie Demers 1900
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Introduction:
A brief history of one branch of the Demers Family
The Demers family is originally from the city of Dieppe in Normandy, France. The spelling of the family name varied before 1700 - Dumoys, DuMet, DeMès, DuMay, DeMets, DeMest, DuMetz, Dumais, De Mer, Dermerse, et Demers. The name finally became Demers at the end of 17th century. Demers, Benjamin. Un des premiers colons d’Etchemin, P.Q., Jean DuMet ou Demers at 5. Imprimerie Vincent 1914. Québec. (This book, in French, can be read on line at: http://eco.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.73926/2?r=0&s=1.) See also, Brunette, Jacques. Les Demers et leur histoire at 17. (L’Association des Familles Demers, Inc. 2016. Québec.)
The third great-grandfather of Odelie Demers, Jean Dumay, arrived in New France in 1643 or 1644 with his father, Jehan Dumay, and his brother André and half-brother Étienne. In 1645, Jehan bought six arpents, about 0.845 acres, of land on the Saint Lawrence River on the Côte de Beaupré near Québec City. He sold this land in 1646. In 1647, he bought land in the seigneurie of Gaudarville half-way between Sillery and the Cap Rouge River, also near Québec on the north shore of the river. At this time, Jean Dumay was still living with his father along with his half-brother Étienne and his wife, while his brother André was living in Montréal. In 1651, Jehan left his land and Canada and returned alone to Dieppe, while his sons stayed in New France. (Brunette at 35-39).
After his father returned to France, Jean Dumay went to live with his brother André in Montréal, where he married Jeanne Védié or Voidie in 1654. Jeanne had arrived in Montreal as part of the Grande Recrue - the Great Recruitment - of colonists in 1653, which brought 100 men and 14 women from France to Montreal. (For more information on the Grande Recrue, visit this site maintained by the Musée Maison Garbriel: http://www.maisonsaint-gabriel.qc.ca/en/musee/chr-18.php). In 1662, Jean returned to the Québec region where he settled in 1666 on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in the seigneurie of Lauzon, between the Chaudière and Etchemin Rivers (now, the sector of Saint-Romuald in the city of Lévis). At the end of his life, he moved to the city of Québec to a house which remains to this day on Rue Petit-Champlain. (Brunette at 40-51.)
A son of Jean Dumay, Jean-Nicolas DuMet, a grandson, Joseph Demers, and a great-grandson, Henry-Aristobule Demers, lived their lives as farmers in the seigneurie of Lauzon, most of the time in the parish of Saint-Nicolas. A son of Henry-Aristobule, Damase, another farmer, moved from Saint-Nicolas around 1837 to Saint-Gilles in the nearby seigneurie of Beaurivage. (Today Damase’s old farmland is in the the town of Saint-Agapit.)
In 1859, Damase sold his land in Saint-Gilles and moved to the parish of Saint-Julien-de-Wolfestown, in the Eastern Townships, about half-way between Québec City and Sherbrooke, Québec. He cleared the forested land on the sixieme rang, the sixth rang of surveyed land, and farmed it until his death at age 59 after being struck, according to family oral history, by a plow handle while plowing his fields. In Saint-Julien, Damase’s son Télesphore married Henriette Lamontagne in 1869, and Odelie was born there in 1871. Wolfestown was divided in 1871 to form the new village of Saint-Fortunat, in which the Demers farm was now located. Like his father, Télesphore was a farmer. In 1890, Télesphore and his entire family, including Odelie, moved to Sanford, Maine. Télesphore worked there as a carpenter, while Odelie work in the textile mills.
Paternal line of descent
The Last Generation in France
Jehan Dumay - b. around 1595 in Dieppe, France in the parish of Saint-Jacques, d. in 16?? in France.
(Jehan’s father and mother were Adrien Dumoys and Catherine Pougnye, m. in 1594 in Dieppe, and his grandfather and grandmother were Jehan Dumoys and Marguerite Berservoyse, m. in 1555 in Dieppe. (Brunette at 25.) Adrien´s father and mother were Pierre Dumoys et Guyonne Hamelot, m. in 1525. (See, https://www.geni.com/people/Jehan-Dumoys-DumayDemers/6000000004852510954.)
m. around 1616 in Dieppe to his first wife Miotte LaCombe. They had a son, Étienne, born around 1618 in Dieppe.
m. in 1622 in Dieppe to his second wife Barbe Mauger. They had five children: André, b. 1628; Catherine, b. 1629 ; François, b. 1631; Jean, b. 1633; et Laurent, b. 1635.
The First Generation in Canada
Jean Dumay - b. in Dieppe 6 February 1633 in the parish of Saint-Jacques, d. in Québec City, 3 July 1708.
m. in Montréal 09 November 1654 to Jeanne Védié (1637-1708), the daughter of Michel Védié and Catherine Dorbelle of the parish of Saint-Germain, diocese of Angers, France.
They had twelve children.
The Second Generation in Canada
Jean-Nicolas DuMet - b. in Saint-Nicolas, in the seigneurie of Lauzon, bapt. 13 June 1677, d. in Saint-Nicolas 17 December 1740.
m. at Sainte-Famille, Île d'Orléans, 03 May 1700, to Anne Rocheron (1681-1755), the daughter of Gervais Rocheron and Marie Madeleine Guyon of Sainte-Famille.
They had 17 children, all born and baptized in Saint-Nicolas.
The Third Generation in Canada
Joseph Demers - b. in Saint-Nicolas 2 March 1706, d. in Saint-Nicolas 1772.
m. in Saint-Nicolas 30 October 1758 to Catherine Grenier, the daughter of Louis Grenier and Madeleine Hamel of Saint-Nicolas.
They had six children.
(Catherine was born 19 April 1731 in Lotbinière and died 05 January 1814 in Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets at 83. At his marriage with Catherine, Joseph was 52 years and Catherine was 27. He was the widower of Marie-Josephte Gingras with whom he had had 13 children.)
The Fourth Generation in Canada
Henry-Aristobule Demers - b. in Saint-Nicolas 09 July 1772, d. in 1821.
m. in Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly 12 September 1779 to Marie-Josephte Daigle dit Lalemant, the daughter of André-Joseph Daigle dit Lalemant and Josephte Rondeau of Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly.
They had ten children.
The Fifth Generation in Canada
Damase Demers - b. in Saint-Nicolas 01 January 1812, d. in Saint-Fortunat 12 July 1869.
m. in Saint-Nicolas 14 August 1838 to Euphrasie/Euphrosine Baquet dit Lamontagne, the daughter of Ambroise Baquet dit Lamontagne and Angèle Côté of Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly.
They had seven children.
The First Generation in the United States
Télesphore Demers - b. in Saint-Gilles/Saint-Agapit 23 August 1847, d. in Lewiston, Maine 28 March 1950.
m. in in Saint-Julien-de-Wolfestown/Saint-Fortunat-de-Wolfestown 19 January 1869 to Henriette Lamontagne, the daughter of Simon Lamontagne and Marie Legendre of Saint-Julien-de-Wolfestown.
They had thirteen children.
The Second Generation in the United States
Odelie Demers, b. in Saint-Julien/Saint-Fortunat 21 May 1871, d. 02 May 1937 in Sanford, Maine.
m. in Sanford, Maine 03 January 1900 to Napoléon Dubois b. in Sainte-Sophie (Megantic), Québec.
They had three children, Clement N. Dubois (1904-1982), Éva Dubois Tibbetts (1907-2002), and Anita Dubois Washington (1919-1996).
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