Thank you Martin. I have found most of what you have posted. The new information you mention is the 1900 census where Alfred is a servant in the Octave Paradis. I don't think I had this. Only one thing I can add to what you have here is that 'Nancy' is Anastasie Doucette and she and Marcel had a son. The original post about adoption was a story told to me by a Great Uncle, which turned out to be inaccurate. I now know that Alfred was not adopted by the Grivois family, but there is new evidence that Fred's children were placed in an orphanage in New Brunswick or with other families when their mother died while they were very young.
Jessica Cyr