Genealogy Ensemble, ( https://www.genealogyensemble.com) our collaborative blog began almost a decade ago. To this day it is still going strong. Nine ladies and one gentleman participate regularly. We, ladies, write stories about our ancestors, while our friend, Jacques Gagne, compiler and researcher prepares informative databases for posting on our blog.
The ladies meet once a month during the school year to discuss our stories. Over the years as our blog has grown with our published stories, we have come to realize that there are several among us who have common ancestors. Janice Hamilton and Lucy Anglin are cousins, Barb Angus and Sandra McHugh have ancestors in Scotland and Marian Bulford writes about hers in the United Kingdom. Dorothy Nixon, Mary Sutherland, Tracey Arial, and I, along with Jacques Gagne have French Canadian ancestors. Great diversity!
Jacques and I have discussed our ancestors knowing that they came to New France within a few years of each other and settled in the Sainte Anne de Beaupre area.
Initially, being a neophyte writer, and researcher, better skills were required, and completing the branches of our family trees was needed before tackling the relationship between Jacques’ ancestors and mine.
”That time has come”.“
Yes!” We are related going back more than 372 years when Julien Fortin, my 7th great-grandfather, a butcher, who in 1651, followed in the footsteps of Louis Gagne, the baker, Jacques’ great-grandfather who sailed to the New World in 1644 and settled in New France. Both men had occupations that would be welcomed in small communities.
The following graphics and details below tell the story of our ancestors; Jacques’ and mine. I have chosen to use the graphics from my private Ancestry.ca family tree to indicate these connections.
The stories of our 7th Great Grandfathers and their families are intertwined.
- Louis Gagné, his wife Marie Michel, and their daughter Anne Gagné
- Julien Fortin de Bellefontaine, his wife Geneviève Gamache, and their grandson Jacques Fortin
- Francois Lacroix, his wife Jeanne Huot, and their son Francois Normand Lacroix
Louis Gagné, Marie, Michel, Julien Fortin, Genevieve Gamache, Francois Lacroix, Jeanne Huot, and their son, Francois Normand were born in France.
The others were born when their families arrived in New France.
Louis Gagné married Marie Michel in France and arrived here in 1644.
In 1651 Julien Fortin arrived and in 1652, married Geneviève Gamaache “ une fille a marier’ who had arrived with her brother, Nicolas Gamache.
Louis Gagné and Julien Fortin along the way eventually found themselves and their families living around Chateau Richer and Saint Anne de Beaupre, east of Quebec City. Both families owned land along the shore of the St. Lawrence River.
GAGNE
FORTIN
Jacques Fortin is the son of Jacques Timothee Fortin and the grandson of Julien Fortin and Geneviève Gamache.
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MARRIAGES
François Lacroix was a “domestique.” Servants working in a home, agricultural servants and personal servants.
Any person at the service of another, without specifics. François Lacroix was employed as a domestic for Pierre Gagnon.
Genevieve Lacroix was the daughter of François Lacroix and Anne Gagné.
Louis François Fortin is the son of Jacques Fortin and Geneviève Lacroix
Continuing the relationship chart to the Author
François Xavier Fortin – 3rd gg Montebello, Quebec
Moyse Hypolite Fortin – 2nd gg Rigaud, Quebec
François Evariste Fortin – 1st gg Pembroke, Ontario
Louise Seraphina Fortin’s – my grandmother, Louis Joseph Jodouin – my grandfather Sudbury, Ontario
Estelle Anita Lindell – my Mother & Author – Sudbury, Ontario
Sources:
Ancestry.ca – Personal family tree is the source of the research and graphics.
http://www.gagnier.org/p0000353.htm
https://www.genealogiequebec.com/fr/
Notes
Dedicated to our good friend, Jacques Gagné who has recently moved to British Columbia to be near family. He will continue to grace our blog with his databases. We at Genealogy Ensemble wish him well.
Genealogy Ensemble 
Anyone related to Mathurin Parent?
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