Transcriptions from Handwritten Parish Registers

Notes from priests’ handwritten parish registers to 1884

Surnames DeCaen and LeBrasseur 9/30/2005

Family History Catalog record: subject: Québec, Bonaventure, Paspébiac—Church records

“Registres paroissiaux, 1818-1884” [actually 1818, 1826-40, 1842-1884] Notre-Dame-de-Paspébiac (Paspébiac, Quebec) Microfilm des originaux dans les Archives nationales du Québec à Sainte-Foy, Québec. Ces registres ont été faits par le clergé pour l’état civil. [baptisms, marriages, burials; each year preceded by index]

FHL US/CAN Film 1689535

from film front matter:

Series H-51029 Quebec Roll 0490A-312 Archives Film #M177/1 Fonds: Protonotaire New-Carlisle, Registres d’État Civil

DECAEN (DE CAEN, DECAEN; ALSO DÉCAN, DESCAN)

1858, folio 12 (verso), M8, Jean Frédéric Décan [sic], instituteur (Jean Décan [sic], Elizabeth Deslandes) and Victoire dite Lambert [sic; no parents or representatives], 27 September [signed Frederick DeCaen]

1859, folio 7 (verso), B25, Charles François Jean Julien Frédéric DeCaen, bapt. 2 June, b. 2 June [né ce jour]

1859, folio 17 (verso), Sépulture, Victoire dite Lambert [sic], buried 16 December [no date of death, no background information] 1863, folio 11 (verso), M5 [second marriage], Frédéric DeCaen and Victoire De La Rosbie [= Delarosbil] (Frédéric De La Rosbie and Séraphie [sic] Duguay, with Victoire’s brother-in-law Cléophas Landry), 12 November.

1864, folio 12 (verso), B59, Elisabeth Vénérante DeCaen, bapt. 13 November, b. 21 October.

1866, folio 14 (verso), B72, Jean Charles DeCaen, bapt. 9 December, b. 3 December.

1867, folio 8 (verso), S16, Jean Charles DeCaen, buried 30 August [not April? no date of death]

1868, folio 7 (verso), B24, Victoire DeCaen, bapt. 5 July, b. 3 July (Frédéric DeCaen, cultivateur)

1870, folio 21 (verso), B88, Marie Anastasie DeCaen, bapt. 21 November, b. 18 November [signing witness and godfather, Julien DeCaen (godmother Hélène de la Rosbille)]

1873, folio 16 (recto), B76, Frédéric [Jr.?] Descan [sic], bapt. 18 October, b. 1 October (Descan and DelaRosbie)

1876, folio 3, Marie Josephine DeCaen, bapt. 12 March, b. 8 March (Frédéric, instituteur, and DelaRosbil)

1882, folio 2 (verso), M2, Jules [sic] DeCaen (Frédéric DeCaen, Victoire Lambert) and Émilie [sic] LeBrasseur (Joseph LeBrasseur, Elizabeth Dugas), 24 January [signatures of Jules Decaen [sic], Frédéric Jean [notice order] DeCaen, Joseph Le Brasseur [sic]]

1882, folio 16 (verso), B75, Victoire DeCaen, bapt. 29 November, b. 28 November (Jules [sic] DeCaen, Émilie LeBrasseur)

1884, folio 11 (recto), B35, Jean Julien [Jr.?] DeCaen, bapt. 15 June, b. 13 June (Julien [sic] DeCaen, son of Frédéric DeCaen and Elizabeth Dugas, and Émilie LeBrasseur) [signed Julien De Caen [sic] and Frédéric De Caen [sic]] LEBRASSEUR (LE BRASSEUR, LEBRASSEUR)

1838, folio 13 (verso), B33, Joseph Emmanuel LeBrasseur (Sébastien LeBrasseur, Modeste De Larosbille [sic Delarosbil])

1842, folio 2, B6, Joseph LeBrasseur, bapt. 30 January, b. 1 January (Sébastien LeBrasseur, Modeste De Larosbille [sic Delarosbil])

1846, folio 1 (verso), B2, Joseph Télesphore LeBrasseur, bapt. 4 January (Sébastien LeBrasseur, Modeste De Larosbille [sic Delarosbil])

1861, folio 11 (recto), M11, Joseph LeBrasseur (Sébastien LeBrasseur, Modeste de la Rosbie [= Delarosbil]) and Elisabeth [later Elizabeth] Dugas (Charles Dugas, Marguérite Piné [= Pinet])

1862, folio 7 (recto), B30, Joseph LeBrasseur [Jr.], bapt. 25 July (Joseph LeBrasseur, pêcheur, and Elisabeth Dugas)

1863, folio 11 (verso), B63, Marie LeBrasseur [sic = Émilie LeBrasseur], bapt. 8 November, b. 6 November (Joseph LeBrasseur, pêcheur, and Elisabeth Dugas)

1865, folio 9 (recto), B36, Marie Rose Délima LeBrasseur, bapt. 28 August (Joseph LeBrasseur, pêcheur, and Elisabeth Dugas)

1867, folio 7 (verso), B40, Marguérite LeBrasseur, bapt. 18 August, b. 15? (Joseph LeBrasseur, pêcheur, and Elisabeth Dugas)

1869, folio 10 (recto), B42, Josephine LeBrasseur, bapt. 16 August, b. 10 August.

1872, folio 5 (recto), B11, Philippe LeBrasseur, bapt. 3 March, b. 1 March.

1874, folio 11 (recto), B30, Théodore LeBrasseur, bapt. 27 May, b. 27 May [sic].

1878, folio 14 (recto), Émmanuel LeBrasseur, bapt. 27 September, b. 21 September.

1883, folio 12 (rector), Jean Baptiste LeBrasseur, bapt. 1 September, b. 30 August (Joseph LeBrasseur, pêcheur, Elizabeth Dugas)