Ancestor is complete! Grave has been located immigrant - Canada to US  female ancestor  Rose  DEMERS

  (b. 17 June 1810 Saint-Luc, Lower Canada   d. 5 May 1877 Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA )  
Age: 69
Cause of Death: fever

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Rose DEMERS was born 17 June 1810 in Saint-Luc, Lower Canada

Rose DEMERS was the child of Joseph DEMERS   and   Marie-Thecle FRECHETTE and the grandchild of: (paternal)  Joseph DEMERS dit CHEFDEVILLE and Marie-Anne PAQUET dite LARIVIERE (maternal)  Louis FRECHETTE and Marie-Thecle DUBOIS

Rose was an immigrant to the United States, arriving by 1864.

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Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Rose  married  Jean Baptiste David BOUCHER 12 January 1830 in Saint-Luc, Lower Canada .  The couple had (at least) 13 children.
Jean Baptiste David BOUCHER  was born 17 January 1807 in Saint-Luc, Québec, Canada.  Jean Baptiste David died 2 April 1877 in Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA (Globe) (Lensdale) (Saundersdale) (Shuttleville).  Jean Baptiste David was the child of Jean-Louis BOUCHER and Marie-Louise LAREAU.

Rose DEMERS died 5 May 1877 in Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA .





Demers Name Meaning
French Canadian: altered form (probably in the literal sense of 2 below) of northern French Dumets itself a variant of Dumetz a habitational name with fused preposition and definite article du ‘from the’ for someone from any of several places in the north of France called (Le) Metz named with a regional term for a ‘farmstead’ (compare Mas 1 and Dume ). Compare also Demarce Demars 1 and Dumay French: habitational name with fused preposition de ‘from’ denoting someone from either of two places in France named Mers Mers-les-Bains (Somme) or Mers-sur-Indre (Indre). English: variant of Deamer with post-medieval excrescent -s.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022

Similar surnames: Demars, Detmers, Devers, Demar, Demark, Deger, Deer, Demey, Demary


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Did You Know? Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

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