Update 30 October 2022
Herman Farmer was in fact Amable Therrien son of Fabien Therrien and Marie Delinelle.
If you have been following this research, I just found out that Herman Farmer’s real name was Amable Herman Therrien.
We have enough fake news. We don’t need more.
To be continued…
Updated 30 October 2022
Herman Farmer was in fact Amable Therrien son of Fabien Therrien and Marie Delinelle.
I don’t think I will ever visit Woonsocket except virtually on my time machine I built in 2009.
This is a census page dated 1915.
On that page we find the Robillard family.
This is where I started to put 2 and 2 together in the life of Marie-Anne. Romulus Robillard is the head of the family. Next are his wife Dora, 20 years-old, and their little baby son Oscar. Two sisters-in-law are present: Alexina, 19, and Elodia, 17, listed as Lagaces. Orea Lagace is Romulus Robillard’s mother-in-law.
Orea, 51 years-old was in fact Marie-Anne Lagassé born on December 15, 1862 and baptised six days later on December 21, 1862.
Why Marie-Anne went by that first name Orea I have no idea, but I can imagine something went terribly wrong in her marriage with Herman Farmer who died of liver cirrhosis on March 31, 1910.
Romulus Robillard’s two sisters-in-law’s surname is Lagace, but they are not Lagaces. Dora, Alexina, Elodia are the daughters of Herman Farmer and my great-great-grandaunt Marie-Anne Lagacé.
I had found Marie-Anne Lagacé had existed back in 2010 when she appeared in the 1880 US census with her father Stanislas Lagassée I.
Stanislas I was a widower and he was living with his youngest daughter in Waterbury, Vermont.
The enumerator had written down Leagafsa which translates to Leagassa… meaning Lagassa… meaning Lagasse…meaning Lagassee… meaning Lagassée… meaning Lagacé… meaning Mignier dit L’Agacé…
To be continued…
Often I will get messages on Ancestry from people but which afterwards are left unanswered when I reply.
We are 5th cousins…
Even if it doesn’t go anywhere, I will leave traces on Ancestry for someone to find them later.
Ida Adele Sovey could be on this photo. Ida Adele was the daughter of Marceline Leroux and François Sauvé. Ida married Joseph Foote whose parents haven’t been able to find yet.
These are parish registers pages of four other children of François Sauvé and Marcelline Leroux.
Marceline Leroux was found here on Automated Genealogy.
We see Marcelline’s parents Joseph Leroux and Charlotte Dazé and a few siblings: Éphrem, Émilie, Damase, Arthur and Augustin.
This is Ida Foote’s headstone that I found on Find A Grave. Ida Foote who was in fact Ida Adele Sovey aka Ida Adèle Sauvé.
There was also a picture of Ida Adele Foote on Find A Grave.
She is on the right with her daughter Roseleane on the left beside her granddaughter Lillian May Warner. The other young girl is Ida’s other daughter.
This was also found on Find A Grave, a document confirming Ida’s wedding to Joseph Foote.
So where do I go from there after I had replied We are 5th cousins…
I have scared away so many distant cousins with my obsession for your ancestors.
One person whom I had contacted last month on 23andMe is Odna Lagasse’s descendants as well as Odna’s parents Dennis Lagassey III and Amanda Ménard seen on this photo of a wedding in East Bristol, Connecticut.
It’s their daughter Ida’s wedding.
Lionel Lagasse’s collection
Levi Napoleon Lagasse, Lionel’s father, is also on that photo but not his sister Odna.
This is Odna…
Ida’s wedding took place on April 23, 1919 in East Bristol, Connecticut. We can tell how old all these people were even the small baby on the extreme right.
Many people are still unidentified.
But I digress…
Which brings me back to this photo where something ought to have been obvious when someone shared it.
I had not immediately identified Anna Campbell on that photo also part of Lionel’s collection.
I should have because of Anna Campbell’s Mona Lisa smile.
Another obvious thing is this photo I thought was Penelope.
Michael had sent it in 2015 when he met his newly found relatives. He also sent this one…
Same little baby.
Strikingly similar don’t you think.
I never forget a face. Well most of the time.
Michael also sent these.
Dennis Lagassey and Amanda Ménard
Dennis Lagassey and Amanda Ménard on the left.
Dennis Lagassey
Napoleon Levi Lagasse, Joseph Lagasse, their father Dennis Lagassey and unknown man.
Amanda Ménard
In front: Dennis Lagassey, his sister Malvina, Anna Campbell, Harry Lagasse, Dennis Lagasse II.
Dennis Lagassey, his father Dennis Lagasse II and Napoléon Dubé ?
My grandfather with his first wife Maria Landry.
Maria Landry
Jean-Baptiste Carignan, Anna Campbell’s second husband.
Jean-Baptiste Carignan on the left, and his brother Charles Carignan?
Levi Napoleon Lagasse with Joseph Louis Dubé, son of Malvina.
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Next time more about Agnes Lagasse…
Sorry if I have kept you waiting for Part 5.
Updated 30 October 2022
Herman Farmer was in fact Amable Therrien son of Fabien Therrien and Marie Delinelle.
Sorry for all the intermissions. You will understand why.
Residence 1900 • Holyoke city, Hampden, Massachusetts
Everything is plausible on Our Ancestors II. This is why I had looked at some photos I had and repost them.
The 1900 US census tells us where Mary was and how many children she had.
9 children born; 6 were still alive in 1900…
These are Marie Anne Lagassée’s children though some would later change their names from Farmer to either Lagace or Therrien.
Confused?
Why did they changed their names?
Five of Mary’s children left descendants and maybe one of them will someday find my research on his or her ancestors on Our Ancestors II and shed light on that.
Some old photos I have were taken at Holyoke city, Hampden, Massachusetts, and most are still unidentified.
A search is never over as you will find out later when I document what I have been digging up.
http://www.woonsocket.org/index.html
As Herman Farmer and Marie Anne Lagassée once lived in Woonsocket in the early 20th century, it’s fitting to learn more about the history of Woonsocket.
Our Ancestors II 