Euphrosine Rheault

Brief Life History of Euphrosine

When Euphrosine Rheault was born on 18 November 1815, in Bécancour, Quebec, Canada, her father, Pierre Rheault sr., was 45 and her mother, Marie Madeleine Pépin, was 27. She married Jean Baptiste Houle on 10 October 1837, in Bécancour, Nicolet, Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Nicolet, Quebec, Canada in 1901. She died on 8 July 1854, in Bécancour, Nicolet, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 38, and was buried in Bécancour, Nicolet, Quebec, Canada.

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Family Time Line

Jean Baptiste Houle
1812–1877
Euphrosine Rheault
1815–1854
Marriage: 10 October 1837
Caroline Houle
1838–1842
Béatrix Houle
1847–
Beatrice Houle
–
Phileas Houle
–
Norbert Houle
1840–1840
Louis Edmond Houle
1840–1843
Philias Houle
1841–1894
Marie Philomene Houle
1842–1921
Marie Elmire Houle
1844–
Marie Claire Houle
1846–
Marie Houle
1849–
Hercule Houle
1849–
Joseph Edmond Houle
1851–1927
Octave Arthur Hercule Houle
1853–

Sources (5)

  • Oscte Houle dans le foyer de Edmond Houle, "Canada, recensement, 1901"
  • Osite Houle dans le foyer de Edmond Houle, "Canada, recensement, 1901"
  • naissance de Marie Euphrosine Raux, Quebec, Catholic Parish Registers, 1621-1979

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: French Andre, Armand, Alphe, Alphonse, Dany, Emile, Florent, Jean Louis, Julien, Lucien, Ovila, Pierrette.

Altered form of French (or possibly Breton) Raoul or, alternatively, Rault . Compare Rau 4 and Reau 1.

History: The progenitor of the Rheaults was Alexandre Raoul or Rault from Deyrançon in Deux-Sèvres, who was in Trois-Rivières, QC, by 1661. He married Marie Desrosiers in 1664. His descendants also bear the surnames Rau, Rault, and Reau.

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

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