Missing families in the 1860 census of northern Aroostook County

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.)

Names of individuals/families	page in 1850	page in 1870†	Other remarks
Bélonie and Angélique Roy dit Voisine	p.152b	p.60b
Jean Baptiste and Josette Pelletier	p.152b	p.60b
Benjamin and Marie Blanchette	p.152b	p.62b (location of their sons Léandre and Simon)	Children who married at Ste-Luce: Léandre, 1855 Marie-Luce, 1858 Domitilde, 1860 Benjamin, 1861 Simon, 1866 Dorimène, 1868
Cyrille Morin  (widower of Marie Coulombe)	p.152b		Children who married at Ste-Luce: Malcolm/Marc, 1860 Arthémise, 1861 Hilaire, 1866 Christine, 1868
Cyrille and Émélie Morin, Jr.	p.152b		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
Thomas and Marcelline Gagnon	p.152b		They may have left the area by 1860 UPDATE: I have discovered that this family moved to Montréal in 1857. Details
Louis and Marcelline Plourde	p.152b	p.62b
Élie and Judith Fortin *	p.153a		Children who married: Marie, at St-François, 1866 Onésime, at St-François, 1874
Clément and Marie-Brigitte Saucier *	p.153a		Children who married: Marguerite, at St-François, 1864 Saturnin, at St-François, 1871 Josephine, at St-François, 1880
Jean Baptiste and Artémise Saucier	p.153a		Their daughter Elisabeth married in Caribou in 1884
Firmin and Madeleine Deschênes	p.153a	p.60b (location of their son Ferdinand)	Children who married at Ste-Luce: Marie, 1858 Ferdinand, 1861 Nathalie, 1862 François-Xavier, 1877
Benjamin and Marie Anne Ouellette	p.147b	p. 50a
Mathias and Salomée Blier (married at Ste Luce on 25 Oct 1853)		p.62a (listed with the last name "Gleugy")	Children who were baptized at Ste-Luce: Marie Catherine, 3 Aug 1854 Pierre, 27 Aug 1856 Marie Delphine, 2 Jun 1858

†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
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