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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

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.  

 

 

 

 

 

My great-grandfather Jack "Etienne" Arsenault on the left and his second wife Marie Gallant (My Great Grandmother) on the right.

In the middle is my grandfather Aubin.

The 2 boys are Perrys (Eddie and Emile) and I have not been able to determine yet what family they belong to.       

 

 

This is Jack "Etienne" Arsenault and his first wife Mary McDonald.

They lived on the St John Road in St Nicholas.

In 1902 Mary fell from a barn and died leaving 5 children.

Soon after Jack "Etienne" Arsenault remarried to Marie Gallant and they had one child my grandfather Aubin    

 

 

These are pictures of the old farm on the St John Road.

It was located near the road at the first slight bend. 

The farm is no longer there and the house was hauled over to make the home for Elmer "Albani" Poirier and his family.  

 

 

 

 

 

Sozime Gaudet

This this the family of Sozime Gaudet and Elizabeth Desroches from St Nicholas

 

Sosime's baptism from the Miscouche Parish Records.  His property was very near Raymond Albani Poirier.

 

This is Sosime's son

This is Sosime's grandson

 

 

JJ's Capitol Theater in Summerside

 

 

Brothers in Business (Grandsons of Sosime)

from the files of Georges Arsenault 

 

Headstones of Joseph and Albert (Summerside)

 

 

 

 

Joe "Bun" Gaudet - Grandson of Sosime

 

 

 

Amable Gaudet who is the grand-nephew of Sosime. Article from the Journal Pioneer 1957. 

 

 

 

 

Isiah Arsenault and Decendants

Isiah Arsenault in St Nicholas (Census 1861) 

 

 

From the Book on the History of Mont Carmel 

 

From the 1881 census showing Isiah and his family (page 1)

                             

 

  1881 Census (page 1)

 

 

John Son of Isiah

 

                                         

                                                       1901 Census

 

 

Philip's Obituary

 

 

 

Published in the S'side paper July 27, 1944

 

 

More on the families of St Nicholas

This is a picture of Alphonse Gaudet's brother Stephen who was married to Bridgette Richard.

The little girl is their daughter Gertie who was married to John Peter Gallant.

John Peter and Gertie raised Joe Pineau Gallant who mother was Lucy, sister of John Peter.

John Peter was the brother of Madeline who was married to Leo Fidele Gaudet.

 

 

Another daughter of Stephen and Bridgette was Mildred who was married to Alphie Gaudet who ran a store in Miscouche.     

 

 

 

 

This is the grave site for Bridgette in Mont Carmel shortly following her death

 

 

In 2010 the headstone for Bridgette had fallen and was in poor condition.

It laid on the ground over two winters.  

  

 

 

 

In 2011, with the help of some family, the headstone was reconstructed to as close to the original condition as possible.  

 

 

In the same year, I had noticed this cement stone showing through the grass at the cemetery.

 

 

Come to find out 2 years later, after it was cleaned off and raised, that this stone

belongs to the brother of my grandfather Reggie Gaudet.

He had died as a child and was buried in Mont Carmel because, at the time of this death, the family lived on the St John Road which Mont Carmel would have been their parish.  

 

This is the headstone that was unearthed in Mont Carmel.   

 

 

It was an odd shape as I had not seen one quite like this.

 

Then in the summer of 2013 I found another one like this in Miscouche buried underground. This one was the child of Arthur Gaudet of St Nicholas. Both stones had this oval circle and what appears to be a small base at the top possibly for a cross which had been broken off.

   

The picture of this stone is below soon after I had found it. Being found face down the lettering was much preserved.

Jim Gaudet of St Nicholas is a nephew of Adrien,  had cleaned off this stone and set it atop some gravel to better preserve it.

 

 

     

 

In addition to the stone above, I have repaired over 30 others in Mont Carmel and Miscouche some of which were found behind an old barn in Mont Carmel. With the help of Aldine Richard, we were able to locate where they had been situated. Over several summers I will have these back in place one of which is now completed.       

 

 

Mont Carmel Church in the earlier years. 

 

 

 

Some Misc Obits that I will describe better shortly.