Sometimes just something in a caption catches your eyes.
In circle Oscar Boisjolie
I am not related to Oscar Boisjolie, not even as a distant relative-in-law.
So why am I going on a search for Oscar Boisjolie?
Because he is on this picture of the Larose family, and he is related to them, and this is a good starter for several posts about 33 pictures Jason West sent me two days ago putting the Cayo story on the back burner once again…
A proud French-Canadian family looking for descendants.
Collection Jason West
Collection Jason West
These pictures were taken the same day.
The back of this photo contains so much information that we are able to link thousands of descendants who know little or nothing about their French-Canadian roots.
Stay tuned…
Just amazing!
No they are not Cayos but Myers and Laroses.
Jason sent me 33 old pictures from the Myers and the Larose families.
Just can’t wait to sort it all out and show them on this blog that pays homage to all our ancestors and freely shares everything.
I guess the Cayos will have to wait a little longer now.
Are you ready for this?
You will have to bear with me because I am going to go step by step in all this search for Anton Cayo’s ancestors even if it takes the whole year. I will focus only on the Cayos unless someone related to Aldéi Lord’s ashtray contacts me.
This being said let’s have a close look at clue numero uno. These Cayos are not Spaniards, nor Mexicans…
They were French-Canadians!
Clue no. 1
September 19th, 1850, Colchester, Vermont.
There is a family on this census page.
It’s Peter Kayou’s family.
All the family members were born in Canada according to this census. Censuses are not always a reliable source, but in this case, I will use them and proceed cautiously.
The wife of Peter Kayou is Frances. She’s 45 years and thus would have been born around 1805.
She is probably Françoise Trudeau. I can’t think of any alternative for her given name except Françoise.
Peter is of course Pierre.
This is a no brainer…
The name Kayou is most probably Cadieux. People back then would prononced it Caieux or Cayeux, dropping the “D”.
Who are the chidren in this family?
Two sons: Antoine and Samuel.
My guess is that Antoine, 22 years old in the 1850 census (1850 – 22 = 1828), is Joseph born in 1826.
Samuel, 20 years old in 1850 (1850- 20 = 1830), is Charles Anselme born in 1830.
There was also a Cordelia in this family. She was born in 1834.
Where would Cordelia Cadieux be?
Well, she would be just next door with the neighbors baby-sitting little Julia Lord of course!
Mathilda, 17 years old (1850 – 17 = 1833).
That’s all close enough for me!
Censuses don’t give you a precise date of the birth year of people, just a general idea. So for the record, at least for this demonstration, Pierre Cadieux was Peter Kayou. His wife Frances was Françoise Trudeau, and they had at least three children…
Make that four because there is another one…
Peter Junior born in 1824!
Peter would be Mary Evelyne Cayo’s grandfather.
Every time I want to ease up a bit on writing on this blog there is always something popping-up like this ashtray which rekindled my interest in our ancestors.
Lésime was my great-great-grandmother’s first name, but that’s not what she was named all her life.
She was once named Elizabeth in the 1852 Canadian census!
This shows you how difficult it is to find who your ancestors were when you are looking for them in the 21st century.
Lésime was Onésime Cadieux born in 1822. Onésime can also be a man’s name.
That’s what I told my wife yesterday.
Lésime married Stanislas Minier dit Lagassé in 1840. Stanislas would later become Dennis Lagasse when he emigrated to the U.S.
Dennis Lagasse would become later on Dennis Lagasse I. He had a son who he named Stanislas who became Dennis II. In turn Dennis II also had a son he named Dennis. Dennis III had a son Levi Napoleon who had a son Lionel who had a son he chose to name Dennis.
This last Dennis Lagasse is Dennis Lagasse IV who sent me this picture of an ashtray given as a gift by Aldéi Lord to his grandfather Levi Napoleon.
That story of an ashtray will be written later after I have written the story about the Cayos which is going to be very long indeed.
I feel like Nostradamus this morning.
An urge to write again.
This is precisely when Dennis left his message on Gen Forum…
February 25, 2004 at 17:37:06
10 years ago!
I’m the son of Lionel Lagasse and the grandson of Levi N. Lagasse and Marie Louise (Dube) Lagasse. Levi was one of twelve children born to my great-grandfather Dennis, and the Lagasse name was spelled with a “y” at the end for a time. My great-grandfather Dennis was killed in 1921 in an industrial accident while working in Bristol CT. U.S.A.
Are there any others with a great-grandfather Dennis in their family tree?
I replied on June 17, 2010 at 19:08:24…
Dennis (Stanislas) Lagasse married Harriet (Henriette) Alexandre in 1862.
They had 13 chridren (typo!).
My grandfather Léo Senior is their son. He was the last child.
He was born June 6, 1888.
I know all there is to know, well almost all, and I will share all with their descendants.
Contact me… you will not regret it.
Pierre Lagacé
10 years and one day later I am writing about a 19 years-old candy maker in Burlington in 1900…
Post 657
This might be the most important post on this blog about our ancestors.
Maybe someone out there on cyberspace is looking for his or her ancestors like Dennis Lagasse was in 2011. I had seen Dennis Lagasse’s message on a genealogy forum that Dennis had left in 2008 if I don’t have these senior moments once again.
I’m the son of Lionel Lagasse and the grandson of Levi N. Lagasse and Marie Louise (Dube) Lagasse. Levi was one of twelve children born to my great-grandfather Dennis, and the Lagasse name was spelled with a “y” at the end for a time. My great-grandfather Dennis was killed in 1921 in an industrial accident while working in Bristol CT. U.S.A.
Are there any others with a great-grandfather Dennis in their family tree?
Luckily I had kept his message in my files so I can share it again with you.
This morning I just got the urge to write again on my blog as I was taking my shower. I always get my ideas for this blog while taking my shower or while I am doing the dishes.
I have learned that when I get an urge to write about our ancestors on Our Ancestors I do so…
So what is this all about a candy maker whose name was Cayo?
Mary Evelyne Cayo was born in June 1880 according to the 1900 U.S. Census in Burlington. The census says she was a candy maker and her father was a mason.
I got curious because I am not sure Peter Cayo is a descendant of Pierre Cadieux and Françoise Trudeau who got married in February 1822. Their first child was Onésime, a little girl born just three months after their marriage. Children born out of wedlocks in those days were often abandonned.
Luckily for me she was not and became my lost great-great-grandmother. She was of course Dennis Lagasse’s ancestors. I will continue with this story later…
The urge has just left me momentarily.
See my comment below.
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