Olive Celanire Lajoie b. 14 May 1859 New Brunswick, Canada d. 14 Sep 1903 Van Buren, Aroostook, Maine, USA: Our Family History

Olive Celanire Lajoie

1859 - 1903 (44 years)

Personal Information | Sources | All | PDF

Name	Olive Celanire Lajoie [2, 3, 4]
Birth	14 May 1859	New Brunswick, Canada [1, 3]
Gender	Female
Residence	1861	Madawaska, Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada [3]
Residence	Religion: Roman Catholic; Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Death	14 Sep 1903	Van Buren, Aroostook, Maine, USA [1]
Person ID	I292191727269	Alwin2025
Last Modified	23 Apr 2025

Father	François Xavier Lajoie, b. 15 déc 1827, Québec
Mother	Modeste Hudon dit Beaulieu, b. 14 Jul 1830, L'Isle-Verte, Québec d. 1906 (Age 75 years)
Family ID	F16103	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Napoléon Bechard, b. 22 Jun 1856, Québec

Marriage 24 fév 1879 New Brunswick, Canada [1, 2]

Children

1. Marie Modeste Bechard, b. 17 Aug 1888, Van Buren, Aroostook, Maine, USA

d. 31 Jan 1982, Waterbury, Connecticut, USA

(Age 93 years)

Family ID F16035 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 23 Apr 2025

[S1070407375] Ancestry Family Tree.
[S966011890] .
[S965753382] Library and Archives Canada; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Census Returns For 1861; Roll: C-1004.
[S1069516597] Maine State Archives; Cultural Building, 84 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0084; Pre 1892 Delayed Returns; Roll Number: 7.

Albert Alwin Ayotte Babin Beaulieu Bélanger Bergeron Bernier Bérubé Bossé Bouchard Boucher Bourgeois Bourgoin Broussard Caron Castonguay Chamberland Charest Charette Chassé Chouinard Cloutier Cormier Coté Cyr D'Amours Daigle Deschenes Desjardins Desrosiers Dionne Dubé Dubois Dufour Dugas Dumais Dumont Emond Fortin Fournier Gagné Gagnon Gauthier Gauthier dit Larouche Gauvin Graf Grandmaison Guéret dit Dumont Hébert Hudon dit Beaulieu Jean Labbé Labourlière dit Laplante Lagacé Lajoie Landry Larouche Lavoie Lebel LeBlanc Leclerc Lemieux Lepage Levasseur Lévesque Lizotte Madore Marquis Martin Michaud Mignier dit Lagacé Miville dit Deschênes Moreau Morin Morneau Nadeau Ouellet Ouellette Paradis Parent Pelletier Phocas dit Raymond Plourde Raedel Raymond Richard Rioux Rivard Robichaud Rossignol Rousseau Roy Roy dit Desjardins Saindon Saucier Schmidt Simard Sirois Sirois dit Duplessis Soucy St Laurent St Pierre St Pierre dit Dessaint Tardif Thériault Thibault Thibeault Thibodeau Tremblay Turcotte Vaillancourt Violette Wretlind Young

My earliest European ancestors in North America were probably Nicolas Marsolet and Louis Hébert. However, one of my 8th great-grandmothers, the wife of Philippe Mius d'Entremont, was a Native North American of the Mi'kmaq tribe. Unfortunately, there is uncertainty about her name. She may have been called Kjipuktuk. In modern times, the name Marie Coyote Blanc has been assigned to her, but there is no evidence that this was actually her name. Her ancestors would obviously been in North America long before Europeans arrived.

The French-Canadian lines of my family tree can be confirmed by literaly thousands of DNA links that support the family tree as mapped out. And, due to a couple of lucky DNA links to 3rd cousins in Sweden, with well-documented family trees of their own, I can extend my Swedish roots back several centuries. The German links have proved much more difficult, and in most cases, I have been unable to trace my German ancestors much further back in time than their arrival in North America.