Updated 21 August 2021
Joe gave me this when I went to see him in September.
It’s the list of the First families of St. Ann parish in Bristol, Connecticut.
Click on the link below to the PDF file.
(families of St. Anne in Bristol)
It is also all here.
First families of St. Ann parish Bristol, Connecticut
| Jean Baptiste Alexandre | Joseph Gervais | Aime Millette |
| Pierre Allaire | Joseph Giguère | Jules Moquin |
| Joseph Auclair | David Girard | Steven Moquin |
| George Bachand | Henri Gosselin | Jean-Baptiste Monty |
| Rodolphe Beaudoin | Louis Grenier | Jean-Baptiste Myers |
| Joseph Béchard | David Grisé | Jean-Baptiste Paré |
| Moise Beloin | Ernest Guimond | Didyme Pelletier |
| William Benoit | Emile Hamel | Oscar Perreault |
| Joseph Bleau | Eustache Jodoin | Joseph Phaneuf |
| Joseph Boucher | Alfred Joyal | Philippe Pion |
| Alexandre Boutot | Léon Lacourse | Jean-Baptiste Pratt |
| Leandre Breault | Octave Lacourse | Frank Ritchie |
| Napoléon Breault | Frank Lagasse | Oliva Roberge |
| Joseph Carignan | Louis Lagasse | Philimon Rondeau |
| Arthur Choinière | Stanislas Lagasse | Joseph Rondeau |
| Zéphir Choinière | J. Albert Lamoureux | Adrien Taillon |
| Emilien Côté | Joseph Lamoureux | Odilon Taillon |
| Louis Côté | Jean-Baptiste Landry | Zoël Taillon |
| Joseph Courville | Joseph Landry | Joseph Terrien |
| Joseph Couture | Napoléon Landry | Philias Thibault |
| Albert Daigneault | Louis LaPierre | Joseph Turcotte |
| Gilbert Desrosiers | Elzéar LaRocque | Alfred Valentin |
| Eugène Dubé | Alfred Lebeau | Édouard Valentin |
| Joseph Dubé | Honora Lebeau | George Vanesse |
| Napoléon Dubé | Joseph Lebeau | Louis Vanesse |
| Télesphore Dufresne | Osias Lebeau | |
| Edmond Duquette | Didace Lebrun | |
| Napoléon Duquette | George Lessard | |
| Alfred Duval | Charles Letoumeau | |
| Arthur Duval | Bruno L’Heureux | |
| Joseph Faucher | Philippe L’Heureux | |
| Albert Fontaine | Anthony Lupien | |
| Lévi Fournier | Fanie Lupien | |
| Joseph Galipeau | Philippe Marchand | |
| Gédéon Gamache | Ephrem Marcotte | |
| Wilfred Gauthier | Maxime Maynard | |
| Emery Gaudreau | Zéphirin Maynard | |
| Pierre Gaudreau | Omer Melançon | |
| Isidore Ménard |
I have added this part…
Parish History
St. Ann Church
Established 1908
French
Almost 1400 households
During the late 19th century, waves of French Catholics migrated to Connecticut from Canada and Maine. With 200 French families in Bristol by 1905, three representatives met with Bishop Michael A. Tierney to request a separate parish for French-Canadians. As a result, Father Joseph P. Perreault was appointed first pastor on November 28 at the old Town Hall on Main Street.
By January 1908, the liturgical celebrations were moved to the second floor of the J.H. Sessions and Son factory on North Main Street.
A site for a parish church was selected in July at the corner of West and Gaylord streets. A basement church was erected and hosted its first Mass on Christmas Day 1908.
Father Perreault next planned a school and convent to fulfill the desires of his parishioners for a Catholic education for their children.
St. Ann School opened on September 4, 1918, staffed by the Sisters of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. On December 20, 1953, Archbishop Henry J. O’Brien dedicated a new St. Ann Church on top of the old basement church.
In 1982 the Sisters of the Assumption departed, and the school became lay-staffed, eventually closing in June 1989.
St. Ann Church
215 West Street, Bristol CT 06010
Mailing Address: 180 Laurel Street, Bristol CT 06010
Telephone: 860-582-8169 Fax: 860-585-7139
Email: saintann180@comcast.net
Deanery: Bristol
Vicariate: Waterbury
I am related to the Lagasses on that list: Frank, Louis and Stanislas. Most people on that list are related somehow. The Dubés, the Lagasses, the Alexanders, the Maynards, the Myers…
Frank Lagasse’s real name was François-Xavier Lagacé, Louis Lagasse was Louis Lagacé and Stanislas Lagasse… well he was Stanislas Lagacé, the well-known celebrity among Our Ancestors: Dennis Lagasse II.
Our Ancestors 