Updated 21 August 2021
One more name has been highlighted.
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Remember this post with a list of names?
Joe gave me this when I went to see him back in September 2012.
It was 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. Ann in Bristol)
I have copied that list here making it easier for people searching for their roots.
First families of St. Ann parish Bristol, Connecticut (people in bold are somewhat related…
| 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 had added this part for a little history of that parish…
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 my great-grandfather Stanislas Lagacé, the well-known celebrity among Our Ancestors on this blog.
Stanilas Lagacé (aka Dennis Lagasse)
Sometimes people find my blog and that list, and they contact me.
Contacting me is a way to feed this blog about our ancestors. If you wish to contact me in 2015 you can write a comment or use this contact form.
Our Ancestors 
Hi Pierre,
As you know, I am related to many of the folks on the St. Ann’s Parish page. I just now realized that many of the families were descendents of Acadian exiles who established the parish of L’Acadie in Quebec after they were not allowed to return to Nova Scotia. St. Anne’s had been their church in Nova Scotia, and then when they founded the parish of L’Acadie in Quebec, they of course constructed a new St. Anne’s.
By the mid 1800s, many of the families had migrated south to Stanbridge-East in Canada, where they stayed for a generation or two, before migrating down south to Bristol, CT. Of course they would once again establish a St. Ann’s church. I’ve always wondered what caused so many of the families to leave L’Acadie, Quebec for Stanbridge East. I think many of the men may have fought in the war of 1812 and been given land grants.
If anyone can explain that leg of the migration, please let me know…. but it is certainly fascinating to watch the families hang together for hundreds of years.
Carol Valentine
Sais pas ce qu’il est advenu du commentaire que j’ai tapé ce matin (sans doute perdu quelque part dans l’ether internetien), mais ça allait plus ou moins comme suit:
”Joseph Bleau”
hmmmm
Peut-être es-tu parent (de (très?) loin) avec Gustave Bleau, premier curé de la paroisse Sainte-Louise-de-Marillac que j’ai habitée à compter du milieu des années 50 et en l’honneur duquel on a rebaptisé une rue du quartier (l’ancienne rue Leney, à une rue au sud de Sherbrooke Est)?
Aucune idée que ton commentaire ne soit pas apparu.
Le Jos Bleau était marié à Helen Alexandre, la fille de Philomène Lagacé, la soeur de Stanislas Lagacé.
Je crois savoir pourquoi. J’ai inséré mon commentaire par mégarde dans la case au-dessus (ton ”contact form”). Quant à savoir pourquoi tu ne l’as pas reçu… mystère.