The 1860 census was supposed to enumerate every individual living in the territory of Aroostook County. But the census taker missed some people.
In transcribing the various censuses and comparing them to the 1860 one, I found that the 1860 census left out at least eleven families who all lived near each other in what is today Upper Frenchville (at that time Township 18, Range 5). I noticed this in particular because several of them are related to ancestors of mine.
I am very sure that these people did live in this area in 1860 because of later census records or because of marriage records. Based on the 1850 census returns, comparing the locations of people in that census and in the 1860 census, and the fact that many of them were in about the same place at the time of the 1870 census or that their children were married at Ste-Luce church, it seems that the 1860 census taker missed the following families who in the 1850 census were living in "Madawaska Plantation," and who appeared on pages 152b and 153a (listed here in the order they appeared in 1850). (I've included either the page they appear on in 1870, or marriages of those families that took place around 1860 at Ste-Luce church, indicating that they did indeed still live in that area.)
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(location of their sons Léandre and Simon) |
Children who married at Ste-Luce:
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Children who married at Ste-Luce:
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Cyrille remarried to Obéline Cyr at Ste-Luce
on 18 May 1868; Cyrille and Émélie's son Cyrille was married to Marie-Aglaé Martin at Ste-Luce, 11 Jan 1874 |
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UPDATE: I have discovered that this family moved to Montréal in 1857. Details |
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Their daughter Elisabeth married in Caribou in 1884 | |
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(location of their son Ferdinand) |
Children who married at Ste-Luce:
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p.147b |
p. 50a |
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(listed with the last name "Gleugy") |
Children who were baptized at Ste-Luce:
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The 1870 page locations are all in "Dickeyville," now known as Frenchville.
*As this information makes clear, the families of Élie Fortin and Clement Saucier by 1864 or so had moved to St-François, New Brunswick. They do not show up in the 1861 New Brunswick census, however, so it is likely that they were still in the Frenchville area at the time of the 1860 census.
Last revised 7 Mar 2007
©2003-2007 C.Gagnon