Marie Thécle Martin (1816 - 1892)

Born 23 Mar 1816 in Rivière-Ouelle, Bas-Canada

Ancestors

Wife of Benjamin Élzeard (Cote) Côté — married 27 Nov 1827 in Trois-Pistoles, Bas-Canada

Descendants

Died 18 Nov 1892 at age 76 in Beaverville, Iroquois, Illinois, United States

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Biography

Marie Thècle Martin was born on 23 Mar 1816 and was baptized the next day in Notre-Dame-de-Liesse parish in Rivière-Ouelle, Kamouraska, Bas-Canada. She was the daughter of Paschal Martin and Charlotte Dubé. Sponsors for Thècle's baptism were Joseph Desjardins and Thècle Martin, wife of Louis Gagnon; neither sponsor signed the register.

At age 17 Marie Thècle married Benjamin Élzeard Côté on 4 Feb 1834 in Notre-Dame-de-Liesse parish in Rivière-Ouelle, Kamouraska, Bas-Canada. The couple received a dispensation for two banns of marriage and for the fourth degree of consanguiinty.

She passed away in 1892.

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Sources

• Baptême/Baptismal record [B-43] for Marie Thècle Martin. Notre-Dame-de-Liesse (Rivière-Ouelle) parish register: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-899Q-C6MC. Image 12. Archives Nationales du Québec. Free access.
• Mariage/Marriage record [M-10] for Benjamin Côté and Marie Thécle Martin. Notre-Dame-de-Liesse (Rivière-Ouelle) parish register: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-899Q-C9MN-7. Image 13. Archives Nationales du Québec. Free access.
• 1851 Canada East Census. Tecle Martin, wife, in household of Benjamin Côté, farmer. Trois Pistoles , Rimouski; page 87 (handwritten 44), line 20. https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1851&op=img&id=e002312756

• Nos Origines, entry for Maire-Thècle Martin. https://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogie=Martin_Maire-Thecle&pid=1944584

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Mark Chapman, for creating this profile on Thursday, 13 November 2014.