I am sorry Rick. None of the information that you provided is familiar to me.

Peter

Would like to hear from Peter who posted on the Springfield, Ma Choquettes. Are your related to the Choquettes from Leeds. I know my grandmother had a brother Peter, Louis, Ralph, and lots of sisters. They grew up in Leeds, Mass . Any connections?

There are quite a few Choquette families in Western Massachusetts, but the vast majority of them are not connected to my family tree in any significant way. If related at all to the Leeds Choquettes that you mention, then we would be fourth cousins at best. Sorry, I can't offer more.

MY GREATGRAND FATHER WAS EUGENE WALTER CHOQUETTE. I BELIEVE HE IS YOUR MAN MY GREATGRAND MOTHER WAS MARY JANE CRESEAU? SHE DIED 1918. I THINK EUGENE MARRIED CONSTANCE AFTER MARYJANE DIED? CANT PROVE ANY OF THIS THOUGH. WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU RE: OUR POSSIBLE COMMON GRAND FATHER.. DONT KNOW HOW WE COULD FIND OUT... DO YOU? PLEASE REPLY....THANK TOU....

The circus people in NYC were my grandmother, Ora Gregoire, and maybe her mother, Malvina Choquette. Ora also used the name Choquette because she was raised by Malvina's parents, Louis and Ellen Choquette in Leeds, Massachusetts. You also mentioned Lily and her son Hubert. Malvina's other daughter was Lillian and she had a son named Herbert. Sorry it took so long for me to answer. If you want more info on the Choquette family from Leeds, please send me an e-mail at mikewood414@yahoo.com and I'll be glad to share any info I have.

i now lives in Thornton, Colorado... my family were from New England and Canada... my father's name was Edward and his father was Oscar...i was original from Massachusetts... i raised in Byfield, Newburyport, Newbury and Rowley, Mass

Our family is related to Leon Choquette via his marriage to Mary Barbara (Mae) Hanlon. They indeed lived most of their life in Helena, Mt.

By any chance, would you have information on Emma Choquette (b. 1866) who married Joseph Desroches. I'm a descendant from Chicopee and they're buried in South Hadley, MA

I believe I know who this unknown Choquette is I believe it is Eugene Choquette. My choquette ancestors also performed with circus...i believe ringling brothers....I know that my Great great grandfather Eugene choquette had married my gg grandmother and she divorced hima nd he had later married a gertrude beede/st. jean and my mother had said that we had thought he had married another woman(my mother beklieves name Dederick) and had a child(female perhaps named constance or woman he was married to was constance)...we heard he left her before child was born.and that he was later to have been found married to the st. jean woman. Now Eugene's mother would have been Lucretia Aubrey.And his father would be Joseph I. Choquette. Eugene had a very shady past and from what I have learned he was in and out of jail for several charges. We do not know where he eventually ended up or when or where he died. Hope this helps let me know if i can help anymore.

Hello the Cathy Grose who replied to this message in 2003 is my mother and i believe she had not yet learned our grandmothers name when she posted it. It is Mary Jane Trembley. She was married to J. Eugene Choquette, then divorced and we believe Eugene married one woman and had a child and left them and married another woman. J. Eugene was born in 1887 and divorced Mary Jane Trembley in 1909. Eugene lead a very shady lifestyle from what i have heard and it is possible he went by other names to avoid the law. The other wife that we know of is Gertrude St. Jean. This woman we only know of from newspaper clipping when Eugene was accussed of kidnapping a boy. Also we had relatives who were part of the ringling brothers circus. I believe one of us even has pictures.