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Question RE: Parish Cemetry Notre-Dame-de-la-Victorie, Lévis

Question RE: Parish Cemetry Notre-Dame-de-la-Victorie, Lévis

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 5:27PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: POLIQUIN, ROGER
Is any one familiar with this cemetery?

I was wondering just where with relation to the Church building this cemetery is located.

And what might be the chances of physically locating burials within the cemetery from the period 1862 - 1878 for the family of Benjamin POLIQUIN and wife Clarisse ROGER?

I know there are burial records for this parish and have copies for the individuals buried during the time period I've mentioned but is there some other sort of record in the parish that will tell specifically the actual physical location within the cemetery of a burial and maybe a map of the cemetery?

Objet : Question RE: Parish Cemetry Notre-Dame-de-la-Victorie, Lévis

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 9:26PM GMT
Classification: Query
The cemetery of this parish is called Mont-Marie Cemetery.

It is located at 153, Mont-Marie, Lévis (QC)

Here's a link to their website:http://www.cimetieremontmarie.com/Accueil.html

It is possible to look up for people in the website. I tried Benjamin Poliquin and Clarisse Roger and they were not listed.

Hope it might help!

Objet : Question RE: Parish Cemetry Notre-Dame-de-la-Victorie, Lévis

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 9:51PM GMT
Classification: Query
A quick look in the record parish:

Children of Benjamin Poliquin and Clarisse Roger

an infant who died at birth on December 22, 1862

Marie Mathilde Poliquin , died on October 29, 1863

Re: Objet : Question RE: Parish Cemetry Notre-Dame-de-la-Victorie, Lévis

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 10:04PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: POLIQUIN
Thanks so much for the information & link.

I've always seen the statement about burial in the parish cemetery in the records but never, for some reason, thought the cemeteries might be named differently from the parishes. As I search for other burials, I guess I'll need to post first to see if I can learn what the name is of a particular parish's cemetery.


You won't find Benjamin & Clarisse buried in Québec. They were the first of the family to head south to New England and are buried in the US. But I am hoping to find Edward's parents and maybe some of his siblings buried here.

Thanks again.

Re: Objet : Question RE: Parish Cemetry Notre-Dame-de-la-Victorie, Lévis

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 10:07PM GMT
Classification: Query
Opps...Meant to say looking for Benjamin but my mind was already leaping forward to the search for Benjamin's father Edouard.

Re: Objet : Question RE: Parish Cemetry Notre-Dame-de-la-Victorie, Lévis

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 11:29PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: POLIQUIN
In all, Benjamin & Clarisse had 16 children born to them but only 6, 3 sons & 3 daughters, survived to make the trek south to the States.

Of those, I've located the burials of just three. One of these six was an early victim of the 1918 Flu Pandemic.

I've been trying the site but am not sure what search "style" works. I know the deaths I'm looking for are all supposed to be in the parish cemetery for Notre-Dame-de-la-Victorie because the parish records say so.

I've just read the history of the cemetery and I think the problem might be that current Mont-Marie isn't the original location of the parish cemetery.

I don't really speak French so I use a translation site and if the translation is correct, the original parish cemetery at the inception of Notre-Dame-de-la-Victory in 1850 was located on rue St-Georges.

Then in 1887, Mont-Marie is consecreated and the St-Georges burials moved to the new Mont-Marie by which tie the family had already been in the US for 2 years.

I probably won't find the burials of Benjamin & Clarisse's 10 deceased children on the site since they all died between the years 1862 - 1878 but I may find the burials of some of the siblings of Benjamin. Benjamin's parents, Edouard & M. Genevieve Viens also would have been buried in the original St-Georges location.

From the cemetery plan it appears that most if not all of the earlier moved burials - Poliquin family and other families - may not all have had markers and they are all together in a mass burial. The plan doesn't indicate if there is a memorial marker listing all the family names of those who now rest there.

I don't think I will find individual burials for Benjamin & Clarisse's children or Benjamin's parents. I doubt they had markers so I think they may all be mixed in together with the rest of the 4400 burials that were moved to the new Mont-Marie.

However, it's still useful to have learned that there had been an earlier parish cemetery and the general location for that and to know from looking at the map of the present Mont-Marie the location of the mass burial for all the old burials that were moved.

Thanks again for the link.

Objet : Re: Objet : Question RE: Parish Cemetry Notre-Dame-de-la-Victorie, Lévis

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 11:53PM GMT
Classification: Query
There is a gravestone in the center of the cemetery to mark the place where people buried in the former cemeteries were moved.

It is engraved : Here are the bodies of about 15000 persons moved from the former cemetery in 1885.

Re: Objet : Re: Objet : Question RE: Parish Cemetry Notre-Dame-de-la-Victorie, Lévis

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 12:21AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: POLIQUIN
Ah...I had assumed that with a relocation of that many burials that there would be a memorial of some sort. It's too bad that those in charge of this didn't go through the parish records, record all the family surnames and include them on the monument.

Sure, it was a lot of bodies but I don't think the list of family surnames would have been quite that extensive.

I've been entering the Poliquin family burials in the Find A Grave database for Mont-Marie but there is no function on this particular cemetery's page as there usually is with US cemeteries to request a photo so I think I will post here in a bit when I'm done entering the family and request someone to take a photo of the mass burial marker to add to the Mont-Marie page.

Thank you again for your help and for letting me know that there is a marker for all those souls moved from the original location.

Objet : Re: Objet : Re: Objet : Question RE: Parish Cemetry Notre-Dame-de-la-Victorie, Lévis

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 2:30AM GMT
Classification: Query
Here's a link to a picture of the memorial

http://canadianheadstones.com/qc/viewF.php?id=50511
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