John (10 Jan 1852-19??) — m. Mary Ann Doiron dit Gould on 25 Nov 1873; m. Harriette Cormier on 19 July 1896
Julia (~1854-????)
John was the eldest child of Joseph Gallant and Mary Finnigan dit Fagan. He was reportedly born in Richibucto-Village, Kent County, New Brunswick, although there are indications that he might have been born on western Prince Edward Island.
Émilie was the daughter of Joseph Mercure and Louisette Letourneau, both of Richibucto Village.
John and Émilie married on 10 Sep 1849 in Sainte-Marie-de-Kent, about 10 miles south of Richibucto. The marriage was witnessed by Joseph Gallant (presumably John’s father) and Placide Poirier. Unfortunately, the 1851 census records for Richibucto did not survive.
The couple had a son Jean-Baptiste born about 1850 or 1852, and a daughter Julie or Julia born about 1854. Émilie apparently died in the mid-1850s.
John married Françoise Haché (27 Jul 1813-188x), a spinster more than a decade his senior, on 7 Jan 1857 in Richibucto. She was born in Grande-Digue to Isaac Haché and Scholastique Arsenault. The 1861 census showed John’s daughter Julia (6) living with her Gallant grandparents, but I can’t find John, his son John, or Francoise.
The 1871 census in Richibucto showed John (supposedly born in Nova Scotia) and Francoise, ages 46 and 58, with no children other than young John (19). They lived next door to the Doiron family, including Mary Ann. Mary Ann and the older John were second cousins – both trace back to great-grandparents Jean “Petit Charle” Brun and Angélique Doiron.
In 1881, Jean Gallant, Sr. (58) and Françoise (71) were living in St. Louis, New Brunswick, a few miles north of Richibucto, with Agnes Breau (9). This could be the Agnes Breau who married John Surrette on 26 Nov 1906 in Cocagne, New Brunswick. Maybe it’s also the Agnes Barrio, age 1 month, who was living with parents Joseph & Marie Barrio (both 33) in 1871 New Brunswick. But what was her connection to the Gallants?
Françoise must have died in the early 1880s. On 16 Nov 1885, Jean married for a third time to Victoire Babineau (22 Sep 1837-????), spinster daughter of Stanislas Babineau and Isabelle/Elisabeth Breau, resident of St. Louis, New Brunswick. I don’t know what happened to them after that.
The 1891 census listed John Gallant (65), fisherman, with wife Vitoire (53) and son James John (7), in Carleton sub-district, Kent County, New Brunswick, up at the northern end of the county above St. Louis. The names and ages fit pretty well, but I don’t know if this was them or not. Earlier censuses had never listed John as a fisherman.
A farmer’s wife named Victoire Babineau, 57, died on 29 Mar 1894 at Notre-Dame-de-Kent, Kent County, New Brunswick. Again, I can’t be sure it was the same woman. Some researchers think it was the Victoire Babineau who married Philippe LeBlanc.
John has his own entry in the family tree.
There’s no record of Julia after the 1861 census, when she was living with her paternal grandparents in Richibucto. In the 1871 census, she wasn’t with her father. She might have been with her grandmother, whom I also can’t find in that census.
http://www.umoncton.ca/umcm-ceaac/files/umcm-ceaac/wf/wf/pdf/37fam-hache.pdf -- Descent of John’s parents and uncle, en Francais
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F2P9-CMV -- Wedding of John’s parents
https://www.myheritage.com/names/emilie_mercure -- Multiple machine-generated records for Emilie
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVBF-J39G -- Marriage of John Gallant & “Emily Merture”, 1849
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVBF-J71D -- Marriage of John Gallant & “Frances Hatcher”
http://boards.ancestry.com/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=1148&p=localities.northam.canada.newbrunswick.kent -- Traces John & Francoise Gallant
http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pbujold/pafg11.htm -- Frances’s family
http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pbujold/pafg14.htm -- John’s family; claims birth in Richibucto
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQMP-JDQ -- 1861 census, Julia
http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/1861/jpg/4108515_00285.jpg -- 1861 census, Julia
http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/1871/jpg/4396276_00479.jpg -- 1871 census
http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/e/e326/e008134385.jpg -- 1881 census
http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.canada.newbrunswick.kent/1199/mb.ashx -- 2015 inquiry into Jean
http://www.genealogie-acadienne.net/?action=indiDetails&I=33435 -- Jean and his 3 marriages
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KCXD-6SH -- Baptism of Jean Gallant born 12 Mar 1827 on PEI to ?? and Marie
http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1891&op=img&id=30953_148102-00182 -- 1891 census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XG4V-2J7 -- 1894 death of a Victoire Babineau of Kent County
