Jean Baptiste Viel b. 3 Jan 1880 Ste-Anastasie-de-Nelson, Mégantic, Québec, Canada d. 1953 Massachusetts: Our Family History

Jean Baptiste Viel

1880 - 1953 (72 years)

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Name	Jean Baptiste Viel [2]
Birth	3 Jan 1880	Ste-Anastasie-de-Nelson, Mégantic, Québec, Canada [2]
Gender	Male
Arrival	1893 [2]
Residence	1930	Beverly, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, USA [2]
Residence	Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head; Occupation: Laborer
Death	1953	Massachusetts
Person ID	I292294637802	Alwin2025
Last Modified	23 Apr 2025

Father	Joseph Octave Viel, b. 01 May 1835, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec d. 23 Aug 1912, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 77 years)
Mother	Eléanore Lévesque, b. 16 déc 1849, Saint-Pascal, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada d. 1920, Salem, Massachusetts, USA (Age 71 years)
Marriage	4 Mar 1867	St-Antonin, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada
Family ID	F16680	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1	Sara Marquis, b. 16 Nov 1893, St-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Quebec d. 1922, Salem, Massachusetts (Age 28 years)
Marriage	7 Jan 1914	St-Grégoire-de-Montmorency, Québec, Canada
Family ID	F4342	Group Sheet \| Family Chart
Last Modified	23 Apr 2025

Family 2 Mary Ann St Pierre, b. 4 Nov 1884, Balmoral, New Brunswick, Canada d. 1 Sep 1979, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 94 years)

Marriage 26 Jan 1924 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

Children

1. Edna Viel, b. Abt 1914, Massachusetts

Family ID F4343 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 23 Apr 2025

Sources
[S965666108] Ancestry Family Tree.

[S965666717] Year: 1930; Census Place: Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 0017; FHL microfilm: 2340630.

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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.