Joseph Roy dit Desjardins^{[1, 2]}

1832 - 1883  (51 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and 13 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Joseph Roy dit Desjardins
  Relationship	with Therese Nadeau
  Birth	2 Apr 1832	Kamouraska, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada   [1, 2, 3]
  Baptism	2 Apr 1832	St Louis, Kamouraska, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada   [4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Other Name	Joseph Gardner
  Emigration	Between Jan 1852 and Jul 1857 (19 years)	Old Town, Penobscot County, Maine, USA
  Death	13 Oct 1883	, Penobscot County, Maine, USA   [6]
  Burial	13 Oct 1883	St-Joseph's Catholic Church, Old Town, Penobscot County, Maine, USA   [6]
  Patriarch & Matriarch	Jean Roy   (6 x Great Grandfather) Marie Lourde Levasseur   d. Bef 26 Nov 1799  (Great Grandmother)
  Siblings	5 brothers and 5 sisters
  1. Henriette Desjardins dite Roy,   b. 24 Jun 1825, l'Isle Verte, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada d. Aft 1851, Québec (Aft Can. Census)  (Age > 27 years) ▻ Georges Gasseau ,  m. 31 Aug 1847 2. Antoine Isaie Desjardins dit Roy,   b. 12 Feb 1827, l'Isle Verte, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada d. Aft 27 Nov 1905, Matane, Québec (Aft his 3rd mar.)  (Age > 78 years) ▻ Genevieve Ouellet ,  m. 31 Aug 1847 ;   Margaret McCowan ,  m. 11 Apr 1853 ;   Louise Savard ,  m. 27 Nov 1905   3. Sara Desjardins dite Roy,   b. 19 Jan 1829, , Québec d. Between 19 Jan 1829 and 1831, , Québec (Prob. bef. 1831 Can. census)  (Age 0 years) 4. Emilie Desjardins dite Roy,   b. 5 Dec 1830, , Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada d. Aft 3 Jan 1855, Québec (Aft her 2nd mar.)  (Age > 25 years) ▻ Edouard Bergeron dit Damboise ,  m. 18 May 1847 ;   Paschal Ouellet ,  m. 3 Jan 1855 + 5. Joseph Roy dit Desjardins,   b. 2 Apr 1832, Kamouraska, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada d. 13 Oct 1883, , Penobscot County, Maine, USA  (Age 51 years) ▻ Marie Pauline "Polly" Hudon dit Beaulieu ,  m. 13 Jul 1857   6. Charles Elizee Desjardins dit Roy,   b. 21 Feb 1834, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada d. Aft 1851, (Aft Can. census)  (Age > 18 years) 7. Pierre Roy dit Desjardins aka Peter Gardner,   b. Nov 1834, , Québec, Canada d. Between Jun 1900 and Jun 1910, , Maine (Bet US Censuses)  (Age 65 years) ▻ Genevieve "Jennie" Cote ,  m. 24 Jan 1860   8. Francois Desjardins dit Roy,   b. 9 Jul 1836, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada d. Between 09 Jul 1836 and 1842, Québec (Bef. 1842 Can. census)  (Age 0 years) 9. Philomene Desjardins dite Roy,   b. 10 Jul 1838, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada d. Aft 1861, St-Georges, Cacouna, Québec, Canada (Aft. Can. Census)  (Age > 24 years) ▻ Pierre Sirois ,  m. 13 Jan 1857 10. Caroline Desjardins dite Roy,   b. 23 Jan 1841, l'Isle Verte, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada d. Between Jun 1880 and 08 Jun 1900, Bradley, Maine, (Bet. US Fed Censuses)  (Age 39 years) ▻ Jean Baptiste Jacques Laplante ,  m. 13 Sep 1859   11. Venerant Severin Roy dit Desjardins,   b. 13 Sep 1843, l'Isle Verte, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada d. 4 Apr 1846, l'Isle Verte, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada  (Age 2 years)
  Notes	Joseph was baptised at St-Louis de Kamouraska, Québec as Joseph Roy just one month after the marriage of his future parents-in-law, Jean Baptiste Hudon dit Beaulieu and Emilie Dionne. Baptismal entry shows that Joseph was "né de ce jour," meaning "born this day," the same day as his baptism. His godparents are: Parrain Francois Xavier Roy, Marraine Reine Roy. 2012: Nearly 20 years' research of church, census, vital, and other records of Québec and Maine suggested that the most likely candidates for Joseph Desjardins-Gardner's parents were Antoine Roy dit Desjardins and his wife Christine Cote, primarily for two important reasons: 1) There were only a few males who could be candidates for a match to Joseph Desjardins aka Joe Gardner of Maine. Only a few Joseph Roys and Joseph Desjardins' were born in French Canada (Québec) in the right time frame of 1830-1838 in the two counties--Kamouraska and Rivière-du-Loup-- from which nearly all ancestors of his related lines originated, including his wife Pauline Beaulieu's family and who neither died young nor married women other than Joseph's wife Pauline. One of those few possible candidates was Antoine Desjardins' and Christine Cote's son, Joseph, born in Apr 1832 in Kamouraska. No early death nor marriage records were found for him in the church records of the two researched counties, nor in the several marrage repetoires, which have been compiled for the Province of Québec up to the date of ancestor Joseph Gardner's marriage to Pauline in Maine in 1857. Additional research in other regions, including parts of Aroostook and Penobscot Counties in Maine, parts of Beauce County, Québec, and several counties in New Brunswick, Canada, including Madawaska and Victoria, did not revea lany possible candidates, either. 2) There were several of Antoine's and Christine's known children and grandchildren who emigrated to Bradley, Maine, a small town of a few thousand people (then and now) where ancestor Joseph lived with hisfamily, during the early 1870's. They moved to a farm in Aroostook County about 1876, then returned to Bradley, soon after the 1880 US Census, since their last child, Odelie, was born there in Oct 1882. According to the homeowner's map of Great Works, Bradley, Maine of 1875 (Atlas of Penobscot County, Maine, Comstock & Cline, New York,1875), Joseph Gardner's family lived on the corner of West and Brown Streets, overlooking the Penobscot River. Living a couple blocks east ofJoseph's was the family of Peter Gardner aka Pierre Desjardins, who emigrated there in and several blocks south of them, lived Caroline (Desjardins) Laplant's family. Peter and Caroline were siblings, children of Antoine Desjardins and Christine Cote. Also emigrating to Bradley, Maine in 1878 and 1880 were two sons of their sister, Henriette Gasseau. All told, there were typically 2- 3 dozen members of Antoine's and Christine's descendancy, including Joseph Gardner's own family, who lived in the very small town of Bradley around the late 1870's to at least the early1890's. Although records for family births and marriages in Bradley and Old Town, Maine in that time-frame are pretty much non-existent--thus evidence of Joseph as godfather or witness for these families is also non-existent-- Joseph's proximity to the Desjardins' of this line in the 1870-1880's suggests he is the son of Antoine and Christine who is missing from the marriage and death records of the counties of Rivière-du-Loup and Kamouraska, Québec prior to 1857. 2014: Fortunately, the results of DNA testing and research confirm that Antoine Roy dit Desjardins & Christine Cote are the parents of ancestor Joseph Desjardins aka Joe Gardner: Through researching the DNA ancestry of several, more-distant cousins (5th-7th), following a dozen lines from mutual ancestors through direct lines of descendancy invariably leads to Antoine Roy dit Desjardins and his wife Christine Cote. That is the only connection to these 'DNA cousins', proving that, if Antoine and Christine were not the parents of ancestor Joseph, one of their siblings had to be.Records research proves that not to be the case. None of the otherJosephs who could possibly have been ancestor Joseph (as described in#1, above) were children of Antoine's and Christine's siblings. All were children of the couple's distant cousins, none of whom are ancestors in this or any related line. Thus, the conclusion is made that Joseph Desjardins aka Joseph Gardner who emigrated to Maine in the early1850's, married Pauline Beaulieu there in 1857, and lived there until his death in 1883, was the son of Antoine Desjardins and his wife Christine Cote of the counties of Rivière-du-Loup and Kamouraska in Québec, Canada.
  Person ID	I24564	Antoine_Roy
  Last Modified	23 Sep 2014

  
  

  Father	Antoine Roy,   b. 19 Nov 1802, Kamouraska, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada d. 18 Sep 1862, Cacouna, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Age 59 years)
  Mother	Christine Coté,   b. 24 Jul 1802, l'Isle Verte, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada d. 11 Dec 1872, Ulric, Matane, Québec, Canada (Age 70 years)
  Marriage	6 Sep 1824	St Jean-Baptiste, Isle Verte, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada   [1, 7, 8]
  Age at Marriage	He : 21 years and 10 months - She : 22 years and 2 months.
  Notes	Witnesses to the marriage are: Jean Baptiste Roi, the groom's father,and his cousin, Antoine Roi, Pierre Cote, the bride's father and Augustin Canade, her "beaufrere," brother-in-law, and others not named in the record.
  Family ID	F9283	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Wife	Marie Pauline "Polly" Hudon dit Beaulieu,   b. 18 Jul 1839, St-Georges, Cacouna, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada d. 15 Aug 1916, Old Town, Penobscot County, Maine, USA (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	13 Jul 1857	St-John, Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine, USA   [9]
  Age at Marriage	He : 25 years and 3 months - She : 18 years.
  Children	6 sons and 7 daughters
  1. Joseph Theodule Roy dit Desjardins,   b. 23 May 1858, Old Town, Penobscot County, Maine, USA d. 23 Sep 1918, Connor, Caribou, Aroostook County, Maine, USA (Age 60 years) ▻ Philomene "Mandi" Dionne  m. 28 Feb 1881 2. Lea Ella Desjardins-Gardner,   b. 15 Feb 1860, Penobscot County, Maine, USA d. 14 Apr 1916, Old Town, Penobscot County, Maine, USA (Age 56 years) ▻ Edward Michaud  m. 4 Nov 1878 3. Genevieve Angeline Desjardins-Gardner,   b. 26 Mar 1861, Old Town, Penobscot County, Maine, USA d. 27 Nov 1893, Connor, Aroostook County, Maine, USA (Age 32 years) ▻ Eloi Theriault  m. 24 Nov 1879 4. Victoria Desjardins-Gardner,   b. Mar 1862, Maine, USA d. 14 Mar 1958, Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine, USA (Age 96 years) ▻ Xavier Cote  m. 18 Sep 1883 5. Marie "Mary" Desjardins-Gardner,   b. Between 1865 and 1866, , Penobscot County, Maine, USA d. Between 1886 and 1913, , Maine, (Bet her mar & mo's death) (Age 21 years) ▻ Damase "Thomas" Breton  m. 10 May 1886 6. Clementine Desjardins-Gardner,   b. 15 Apr 1868, Bradley, Penobscot County, Maine, USA d. 17 May 1941, Waterville, Kennebec County, Maine, USA (Age 73 years) ▻ Napoleon Loubier  m. 30 Aug 1886 7. Ferdinand Desjardins-Gardner,   b. 15 May 1869, Old Town, Penobscot County, Maine, USA d. 24 Aug 1930, Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine, USA (Age 61 years) ▻ Euphemie Bossé  m. 6 Nov 1899;   Agnes Gagne  m. 16 Jun 1913 8. Henri Desjardins-Gardner,   b. Jun 1872, , Penobscot County, Maine, USA d. 24 Sep 1910, Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine, USA (Age 38 years) ▻ Clara Lepage  m. 25 Jul 1892;   Lina "Lepage" Champagne  m. 2 Apr 1910   9. Flanders Desjardins-Gardner,   b. 21 Mar 1874, Bradley, Penobscot County, Maine, USA d. Between 1874 and 1880, Maine (Bet birth & 1880 US Fed. Census)   10. Fred Desjardins-Gardner,   b. 26 Aug 1876, Connor, Aroostook County, Maine, USA d. Between 1880 and 1900, Maine (Bet. the US Fed. Censuses) (Age 3 years) 11. Edouard Desjardins-Gardner,   b. 21 Aug 1878, Connor, Aroostook County, Maine, USA d. 3 Dec 1924, Old Town, Penobscot County, Maine, USA (Age 46 years) ▻ Lena Cunningham  m. 10 Mar 1921;   Adeline Cyr  m. 30 Aug 1903   12. Celena Desjardins-Gardner,   b. Abt 1879, Connor, Aroostook County, Maine, USA d. Between 1880 and 1900, , Maine (Bet. US Fed Censuses) (Age 1 year) 13. Odelie Adeline Roy dit Desjardins-Gardner,   b. 31 Oct 1882, Bradley, Penobscot County, Maine, USA d. 8 Apr 1956, , Maine (Age 73 years) ▻ Onesime Landry  m. 2 Oct 1904;   Napoleon Loubier  m. 9 Aug 1941
  Family ID	F9285	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  		Birth - 2 Apr 1832 - Kamouraska, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada Baptism - 2 Apr 1832 - St Louis, Kamouraska, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada Emigration - Between Jan 1852 and Jul 1857 - Old Town, Penobscot County, Maine, USA Child - Joseph Theodule Roy dit Desjardins - 23 May 1858 - Old Town, Penobscot County, Maine, USA Child - Genevieve Angeline Desjardins-Gardner - 26 Mar 1861 - Old Town, Penobscot County, Maine, USA Child - Victoria Desjardins-Gardner - Mar 1862 - Maine, USA Child - Clementine Desjardins-Gardner - 15 Apr 1868 - Bradley, Penobscot County, Maine, USA Child - Ferdinand Desjardins-Gardner - 15 May 1869 - Old Town, Penobscot County, Maine, USA Child - Flanders Desjardins-Gardner - 21 Mar 1874 - Bradley, Penobscot County, Maine, USA Child - Odelie Adeline Roy dit Desjardins-Gardner - 31 Oct 1882 - Bradley, Penobscot County, Maine, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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  [S12] Personal information, [Ancestry of David Desjardins from CMA 2014 Roy Reunion]. [S253] Anne Stefaniak's database. [S562] Roman Catholic Church, Québec Catholic Parish Registers (online),St-Louis-de-Kamouraska,Québec, Canada, St Louis de Kamouraska, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada. [S17] Gabriel Drouin, compiler, Drouin Collection, Québec Vital and Church Records, 1621-1967 (Ancestry, Kamouraska > St-Louis > 1832 > image 15, [Godparents were François Xavier Roy and Reine Roy]. [S560] Roman Catholic Church, Québec Catholic Parish Registers (online), Isle Verte, PQ, Canada. [S563] Robert E Chenard, Marriages of St-Joseph's, Old Town, Maine, Marriage & Death Index. [S17] Gabriel Drouin, compiler, Drouin Collection, Québec Vital and Church Records, 1621-1967 (Ancestry, L'Isle-Verte > St-Jean-Baptiste > 1824 > image 8. [S560] Roman Catholic Church, Québec Catholic Parish Registers (online), Isle Verte, PQ, Canada, St-Jean Bte IV, Image 10. [S719] St-John, Bangor, Maine, Records of Rev.John Bapst.