Simone Marcotte

Brief Life History of Simone

When Simone Marcotte was born on 8 September 1898, in Canada, her father, Michel Jean Baptiste Marcotte, was 32 and her mother, Helene Augusta Weippert, was 20. She married Lucien Albert Gastonguay on 9 June 1924, in Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She immigrated to United States in 1900 and lived in Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, United States for about 40 years. She died on 14 February 1979, in Maine, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Saint Peter Catholic Cemetery, Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, United States.

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Family Time Line

Lucien Albert Gastonguay
1899–1954
Simone Marcotte
1898–1979
Marriage: 9 June 1924
Helen Alberta Gastonguay
1932–2024
Irene A Gastonguay
1934–2012

Sources (9)

  • Simone Marcotte in household of John B Marcotte, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Simonne Marcotte, "Maine, Marriage Index, 1892-1966, 1977-1996"
  • Simone Gastonguay, "Maine Death Index, 1960-1996"

World Events (8)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1915

Oldest Grave Seen in the Memorials List

1920

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: French Armand, Andre, Lucien, Marcel, Normand, Alphonse, Fernand, Henri, Michel, Pierre, Rosaire, Adrien.

Altered form of French Marcot: from a pet form of the personal name Marc, Latin Marcus (see Mark 1). Altered ending reflects the Canadian and American French practice of sounding the final -t.

French (Picardy): metonymic occupational name for a vine-grower, from Old French marcotte ‘vineshoot forming a layer’.

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

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Baked bean dinners at Grandma's on Saturday night

Most Saturday nights for our small family (large family of small boys) in the 1950's and 1960's included dinner at Grandma's house. She lived in town on Cottage Street, in a small 2-story duplex with …

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