Children of the first Daragon family

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Permalink Reply by Arlene DeRagon on July 17, 2009 at 9:19am

Among my husband Lionel DeRagon's files on the children of Francois and Marie Guillemet I found copies of the baptisms of all THIRTEEN children. Your list of children above is missing one child:

JOSEPH DARAGON-dit-LAFRANCE, born 8 June 1709, baptised 9 June 1709. He went "ouest" on an engagement 29 June 1728. No further records have been found regarding Joseph.

Arlene DeRagon

Permalink Reply by Michelle Eber on July 21, 2009 at 5:29am

Question from Michelle: I have been trying to find the death record of the first daughter Marie-Marthe Daragon-Lafrance. She was born 15 Dec 1698 in St-Jean, Île-d'Orléans, New France. She married Julien Bonvouloir-dit-Deslières in Montreal on 23 Nov 1717. Can anyone tell me where/when she died?

From Denins: Michelle: My records show Marie- Marthe died Jan 14, 1777. In Windsor Assumption. I also have her second husband as Jean Baptiste Goyau Lagarde married September 02, 1740. I do not know where this information came from. I have never confirmed this information, but it is a starting point for you.

From Michelle: Hi Denis - When I first started to work on the family genealogy over 5 years ago, I never kept track of my sources either. I never realized at the time, the importance of doing that. Now, with my subscription to Ancestry, I have been going back and citing all of my sources. I had some contradicting information about a few of the daughters of the first François & Marie i.e. - it seems that they were all married to *Jean-Baptiste Gouyau-dit-Lagarde*!

I have Marie-Hélène as being married to Jean-Baptiste Gouyau-dit-Lagarde and that Marie-Hélène died on 01 Jan 1777, close to the date that you have Marie-Marthe as having died. I do not have a second husband for Marie-Marthe but I do have her first husband as having died on 31 Mar 1737 in Montreal. I have combed the records on Ancestry but can't seem to find a burial record for Marie-Marthe. It's like she disappeared!

From the records at Windsor, things get complicated when the marriage record contains only the first name "Marie" - I have attached the record here...1740 - Marie Daragon & Jean-Baptiste Goyau marriage.jpg

Permalink Reply by Arlene DeRagon on July 24, 2009 at 12:11pm

From Arlene: I agree with you, Michelle, that Marie-Helene born 02 Jun 1707 married Jean-Baptiste Goyau-dit-Lagarde on 02 Sept 1740 at Ste-Anne, Detroit (Source: PRDH). They had a son named Vital Goyau-dit-Lagarde. Marie-Helene died 14 Jan 1777 L'Assomption-de-la-Pointe-de-Montreal at Detroit (PRDH).

Marie-Marthe born 13 Dec 1698 at St-Jean, I.O., married 23 Nov 1717 at Montreal to Julien Bonvouloir-Deslierres (PRDH). No record of the date of death appears in PRDH for Marie-Marthe.