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From: "R.L. Boisjolie" <*user@*SITE.*MYSITE.*DOMAIN.SI-STAR2.SI-STAR.COM.SI-STAR2.SI-STAR.COM>
Subject: Re: Drouin et les Houle, Houde, etc
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 19:25:29 -0400


Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 17:31:39 -0700
From: "R.L. Boisjolie" <>

Joseph E. Houle wrote:
>
> To Dick, Pam and other interested members:
> There is a great deal of information concerning the Houde-Houle-Desrochers
> (and other variants) line founded by Louis Houde and Madeleine Boucher in
> 1655. The family Association has a web-page located at
> http://www.accent.net/pdesrochers/houde/ The page is in French with
> English translation. The Association publishes a quarterly "le Manousien"
> which is mostly in French. There is a bilingual book "French Migration to
> North America" by Jean-Louis Houde, Box 82, Glencoe, Illinois 60022.
> There is also a "repertoire" of nearly all the marriages of this family.
> (There are four volumes!) The author is Brother Hubert Houle S.C. It can be
> found in some genealogical libraries, in particular, that of the American
> Canadian Genealogical Society, which can be reached at
> There is also a lot of material published
> by the "Institut Drouin" in Montreal.
> The original Louis Houde ended up on the south bank of the St.Lawrence
> upriver from Quebec at a place called St.Croix de Lotbiniere. The
> neighboring parish was St.Antoine de Tilly. There may have been at least
> two Lemay families in the vicinity.
> Louis Marie Houde (born 30Sept1662 ) married Marie Lemay on 24Nov1685 in
> Lotbiniere. His brother Claude (born11July1671) married Marie-Madeleine
> Lemay in 1695 in St. Antoine de Tilly, also in the county of Lotbiniere.
> Their sister Louise (born1673) married Charles Lemay on 26May1691 in
> Neuville and settled in Lotbiniere.
> In 1759, one Ignace Lemay and one of the Houle boys (there were lots of
> them by that time!) were involved in trying to blow up a British ship in
> the St. Lawrence. (Source "le Manousien" vol.4 no.4)
> My conclusion is that, as in so many other cases in French Canada, the
> Houde-Houle and Lemay families were friends and neighbors over several
> generations with brothers and sisters of one marrying with the other.
> Also, I have found several cases of aunts and nieces having the same name.
>
> >

Joseph, thank you for the above information. Very interesting. I recently
joined the DLHMB Association--It will be quite a challenge because,
except for my surname, I do not speak or read French. I do have a couple
dictionaries, however.

Regards,

Dick

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