St Nicholas, PEI

Monday, 14 October 2013

Joseph C Perry

This Blog is being up dated.

The Perrys are L->R back row, Margaret, Elizabeth, Alma (Calexte’s wife), Phebe. Front row is - little girl is Winnie (Frank Perry’s sister) and Calexte
. This was taken at the farm in St Nicholas. Home of Elizabeth’s Parents.

Saturday, 28 September 2013

Some Poirier/Perry Families of St Nicholas

Maurice Perry was the uncle of Arsene Poirier.

Maurice's wife was is sister of Agno and Hubert Gaudet

Maurice's son was Celestin Perry where the name "Celestin Shore" came from.

Celina was the wife of Celestin and the Aunt of Yvonne (Edmond Phil Arsenault's wife)

Celestin's lived at the lower end of the St Nicholas Road and his brother Terry Perry lived at the other and across the highway.

Celestin and Celina below

Cyrus would be another son of Maurice

Another Perry (Poirier) family would be that of

Phelias. Phelias's wife was an Arsenault who would be the Aunt of my grandfather Alban Arsenault.

Their son was Alban (or Albani) had lived at the old home and later his son Raymond would inherit this farm.

Neighbors to Phelias was Firmin Perry

Firmin was married to Sarah Steele and two of their sons were named Jack "Sarah" and Joe "Firmin"

to help differentiate the many Johns and Joes in the area.

SARAH STEELE was born 19 June 1844 in St. Nicholas, PEI / Miscouche, PEI. She married FIRMIN (POIRIER) PERRY 20 November 1866 in St. John the Baptist R. C. Church, Miscouche, PEI, son of MELEME POIRIER and SOPHIQUE GALLANT. He was born Abt. 1841 in St. Nicholas, PEI, and died Bef. August 1902.

Children of SARAH STEELE and FIRMIN PERRY are:
i. MARY JANE⁶ PERRY, b. Abt. 1868.
ii. JOHN PERRY, b. 10 August 1869; m. ZELIE GAUDET, 27 January 1903, St. John the Baptist R. C. Church, Miscouche, PEI; b. Abt. 1872.
iii. PETER PERRY, b. 1875; m. LEONE BUOTE, 3 August 1908, St. Paul's R. C. Church, Summerside, PEI; b. Abt. 1878.
iv. JOSEPH AUGUSTE (PERRY) POIRIER, b. 15 August 1877, St. Nicholas, PEI; m. ELIZABETH POIRIER, 28 January 1902, St. John the Baptist R. C. Church, Miscouche, PEI; b. Abt. 1878, St. Nicholas, PEI.
v. THOMAS POIRIER, b. 2 November 1879, Miscouche, PEI.
vi. ETIENNE (STEPHEN) POIRIER, b. 24 January 1882, Miscouche, PEI.
vii. STANISLAUS POIRIER, b. 23 July 1884, Miscouche, PEI.
viii. THEODORE PERRY, b. Abt. 1886.
ix. JOSEPH WILFRED (POIRIER) PERRY, b. 28 March 1887, Miscouche, PEI; m. ZELLA GAUDET, 27 January 1903, St. John the Baptist R. C. Church, Miscouche, PEI; b. Abt. 1876, St. Nicholas, PEI.
x. FRANCOIS POIRIER, b. 28 May 1889, Miscouche, PEI.
xi. FRANCIS STEPHEN PERRY, b. Abt. 1890, Miscouche, PEI / Saunton, MA., USA; m. MARY ELIZA ARSENAULT, 27 July 1920, St. Paul's R. C. Church, Summerside, PEI; b. 1895, Mont-Carmel, PEI. John (Jack Sarah) and Zellie has a daughter Corina who is married to Elmer Gaudet.
John's son was Edward who was killed in WW2. Zellie is the daughter of Sosime Gaudet from St Nicholas.

Joe Firmin (Jack Sarah's brother) was married to Elizabeth Perry (who were the parents of Frank and Winnie). Elizabeth was the daughter of Joseph C Perry.

Saturday, 7 September 2013

Misc Items and Pictures

Taken in front of the St Nicholas Hall with the Men coming home from the Great War.

To the left is the Brother of Phil Arsenault (Joe) and the person on the wagon is Webe (Wilbert) Richard

This is the house owned by Stephen Strang. It was at the end of the Strang Road at the point.

Our Older generation still remember the house but it is long since gone.

Stephen and his wife are buried at Union Corner.

Family of Stephen Strang

The have been some untimely deaths within the community

This addressed envelope below was to C.R. Dickie and posted in 1872. He had lived where Vital Gauthier lived well prior to Vital moving there from Rustico as a teacher at St Nicholas School.

Isaac Ives born Apr 20 1747 in the U.S.A., married Dec 08 1771, Sarah Thompson. Isaac died in 1806, North Tryon, PEI. Their son Charles Ives born 1776 married 1818 to Frances FANNY Dawson born Nov 18 1795, Cootehill, Co. Cavan, Ireland., (daughter of Col. Thomas Dawson and Elizabeth FRANCES Tate). Jane SARAH Ives daughter of Charles born Nov 16 1820, married Mar 01 1843 to John Dickie, born Jun 12 1812, Aberdeenshire, Scotland and died Jun 12 1890, Muddy Creek, PEI

Their children are:

i Frances Dickie born Jul 05 1846.
ii Thomas Dickie born Jan 09 1847.
iii Charles R. Dickie born ___ 1849

Later Vital Gauthier move in on the property where Charlie Dickie Lived.

This would be the wedding announcement for Vital's daughter Lila.

Saturday, 31 August 2013

My Arsenault Connection

The Men cutting wood for winter in St Nicholas.

Left to right

Sylvar Jim, John Peter Gallant, Glorice, Aubin Arsenault (my grandfather), Joe "Antoine" Gallant.

Aubin Arsenault my Grandfather

(Was born and raised on the St John Road, St Nicholas)

My Grandmother Lucie Arsenault nee Gallant

She was born in Egmont Bay

When my father was only months old in 1940 she had passed away and my father Melvin was adopted by his god parents Aldona and Reggie Gaudet where he was raised.

Lucy is on the right.

This was my grandmother's headstone in Mont Carmel Cemetery

For many years I thought about repairing her headstone.

In 2012 I began the task of making a new one.

Using re-inforced concrete supported by rebar, I had hand carved the lettering and symbol with diamond drill bits and a rotozip saw.

In the summer of 2013 the job was completed and the stone shipped from our home in Mississauga to the cemetery on PEI. Upon removing the old headstone and after poring the base using 700 lbs of cement, the new headstone was put in to its final resting place.

My goal was to make it lasting as well as to fit into the surroundings as if it had been there since the day she was buried in 1940.