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Re: Joseph Cadarette

Posted: 12 Dec 2007 6:13PM GMT
Classification: Query
Arthur Cadarette's second wife, Florence Frankhouse is my grandmother. I don't have much information on Arthur but have alot on the Frankhouses.

Re: Joseph Cadarette

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 4:57PM GMT
Classification: Biography
Edited: 30 Mar 2011 4:58PM GMT
Surnames: Cloutier, Prevost, Cadarette, Cadorette,Cadrette,
Dear Michelle-

I am descended from the Cadrettes of Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts and I think that I might be able to help you. Before I forget, our family came from France to New France,Canada and eventually to the mills or Worcester County, Massachusetts.

Four generations ago when they emigrated to the United States, my grandfather's father yielded to the tremendous pressure put on new immigrants by society to assimilate as quickly as possible. With this in mind, he forbade the family to speak, cook, and in essence be French.

Like so many others, a part of this "americanization process", was our anglicizing of the family name. Thus, Cadorette/Cadarette became Cadrette, pronounced CA (rhymes with Nah) and DRIT (rhymes with sit)!

So, despite the fact that we are equal parts English and French, we have no French culture in our families at all. I'd love to have a recipe for French Pea Soup or Pork Pie, to know something about what it is to be from New France.

My Brother and my 85 year old Aunt have worked very hard to research our family tree. She has a huge circular chart of the various persons who have contributed to our gene pool. I am just a beginner at this, but I am fascinated.

While reading your post, I found enough similarities between your ancestors and mine to suggest that we might be related.

In regard to your Grandfather's Father, the name Louis comes up frequently in our line. The spelling of your name also suggests a match. Finally, I think I can shed light on Louis Cadarette's Indian blood.

Most of the original inhabitants of New France were men. Thus there was a shortage of women to marry. While some, esp. the trappers and traders, chose to keep Indian women as common law wives, or managed to convince their French wives and sweethearts to immigrate, and women (called the Filles du roi or the King's Wives) were imported in large groups to marry French men and help populate the colony, there simply were not enough French women to go around.

Canadian Indian women helped to fill this gap and were usually the source of the Indian blood found by their ascendants doing genealogical research today. In the case of my family, the knowledge that the Cadarettes and the Cloutiers intermarried enabling us to follow the Cloutier line back into Quebec in the early days of New France and even further into Perce France.

It is here that we found our Indian Ancestors, Roch Manitouabeowich, and his wife, Outchibabanoukoueou, Huron Indians of the Algonquin tribe. When Samuel deChamplain came to Canada to explore its lands, he brought with him,
right hand man and interpreter, Olivier LeTardiff? But they needed a local scout to travel with them thus enters our ancestor Roch. The two became great friends and when a few years down the road, the work was done, they settled down in Quebec. Roch joined the church, was baptized, and had his children baptized.

One of his children, a girl of great promise,and a God daughter to LeTardiff, was sent to the nuns in France to be educated as a Lady. Her name which changed at baptism was Marie Olivier Sylvestre Manitoubabewich (1624-1665).

Her marriage in 1644 to Martin Prevost (1611-1691) was the First Recorded Marriage of an American Indian,or Canadian?,
and a Frenchman in the New World! Our family line continues on through the Prevost, Cloutier and Cadarette families. This is my mother's family line, which joined with the marriage of her mother Julia Cloutier and of her father, Almedes Cadrette.

Her father's line is Almedes, Anthony, Theophilus and so forth again back to New France. His middle name was Louis. That's about all I can remember but I'll bet this story explains your Indian blood possibly much more.

Best wishes on your search...Susan (Andrews) Babbitt





Roch's daughter

Re: Joseph Lesperance

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 10:50AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi, Rita was my great grandmother, we have been trying to trace her family too. We know she gave birth to my grandmother Dorothy Joan Hedger but gave her to the wiltshire family to raise. Please contact me as we believe grandma had siblings but we have been unable to trace them.
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