Marie Venerande Poirier

Brief Life History of Marie Venerande

When Marie Venerande Poirier was born on 7 August 1784, in Saint-Jacques, Montcalm, Quebec, Canada, her father, Hilaire Poirier, was 37 and her mother, Angélique Dugas, was 35. She married Jean Baptiste Bourgeois on 2 February 1807, in Saint-Jacques, Montcalm, Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Saint-Eustache, Deux-Montagnes, Quebec, Canada in 1851. She died on 22 March 1829, in Saint-Jacques, Montcalm, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 44, and was buried in Saint-Alphonse-de-Liguori, Montcalm, Quebec, Canada.

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Family Time Line

Jean Baptiste Bourgeois
1778–1824
Marie Venerande Poirier
1784–1829
Marriage: 2 February 1807
Marie-Louise Bourgeois
1808–1860
Marguerite Bourgeois
1809–1844
Jules Bourgeois
1811–1885
Sophie Bourgeois
1812–1812
Marie-Judith Bourgeois
1813–1813
Joseph-David Bourgeois
1814–1814
Alexis Bourgeois
1815–
Hedwige Bourgeois
1817–1891
Sophie Justine Bourgeois
1821–1905
Marie Euphemie Bourgeois
1823–1890

Sources (3)

  • Marie Louise Poirier, "Canada, Census, 1851"
  • Robichaud-Bourgeois marriage, Canada, Quebec Catholic Parish Registers, 1621-1979; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L99Q-997T-G?cc=1321742&wc=HCMT-DP8%3A21117401%2C21117402%2C21117403
  • Marie Venerante Poirie, "Québec, naissances et baptêmes, 1662-1898"

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: French Armand, Marcel, Andre, Normand, Pierre, Emile, Laurent, Cecile, Jacques, Michel, Raoul, Gilles.

French: topographic name for someone who lived by a pear tree, poirier (from Old French perier), or a habitational name from (Le) Poirier, the name of several places in various parts of France. Compare Peryea and Poirrier .

History: Jean Poirier from France married Jeanne Chebrat in France or Acadia c. 1647. Jean Poirier dit Lajeunesse from Molières in Lot, France, married Marie Langlois in Montreal, QC, in 1668. Joseph Poirier dit Desloges from Lathus-Saint-Rémy in Vienne, France, married Marie Gauthier in Montreal, QC, in 1709. Nicolas Poirier from Les Brouzils in Vendée, France, married Anne Rabouin in Montreal, QC, in 1689. Pierre Poirier dit Lafleur from France married Marie-Clémence Maupetit in Lachine, QC, in 1707.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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