Joseph LEVEILLEE

1839 - 1922  (83 years)

• Name	Joseph LEVEILLEE
  Born	23 Aug 1839	Assomption, St-Lin (New Glasgow), Quebec
  Gender	Male
  Died	15 Oct 1922	Limoges,,,ONTARIO,,
  Buried	21 Oct 1922	Ontario,B-9-2),,,,Limoges (St-Viateur
  Person ID	280	main
  Last Modified	14 Aug 2023

  
  

  Father	Jean-Baptiste LEVEILLEE,   d. Abt 1850
  Mother	Adelaide EMERY-DIT-CODERRE
  Married	5 Sep 1825	St-Roch-de-L'Achigan,,,QUEBEC,,
  Family ID	109650	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Marguerite-Lina GAUTHIER
  Married	20 Oct 1862	Embrun,,,ONTARIO,,
  Children	1. Adelina LEVEILLEE,   b. 4 May 1864, Limoges,,,ONTARIO,,
  Last Modified	24 Nov 2020
  Family ID	114121	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Cordelia RACETTE,   b. 11 Nov 1849, L'Assomption, Quebec ,   d. 17 Dec 1928, Eastview,,,ONTARIO,,  (Age 79 years)
  Married	10 Nov 1870	Embrun,,,ONTARIO,,
  Children	1. Mélanie (Mélanise) LEVEILLEE,   b. 21 Feb 1872, Limoges (formerly South Indian),,,ONTARIO,, ,   d. 13 Feb 1936  (Age 63 years)   2. Leonie LEVEILLEE,   b. 1874,   d. 1 May 1944  (Age 70 years)   3. Clementine LEVEILLEE,   b. 1 Nov 1879, Limoges,,,ONTARIO,, ,   d. 18 Oct 1970, Sturgeon Falls,,,ONTARIO,,  (Age 90 years)   4. Adeline LEVEILLEE,   b. 12 Apr 1880   5. Avelina Aurélie LEVEILLEE,   b. 25 Apr 1881, Limoges, Ontario   6. Amanda LEVEILLEE,   b. 23 Jun 1883,   d. 18 Nov 1970  (Age 87 years)   7. Adelaide LEVEILLEE,   b. 17 Dec 1886, Limoges,,,ONTARIO,, ,   d. 10 Jun 1960  (Age 73 years)   8. Adomina LEVEILLEE,   b. 26 Mar 1888,   d. 26 Feb 1964  (Age 75 years) + 9. Louis LEVEILLEE,   b. 4 Jun 1890,   d. 19 Jul 1968  (Age 78 years)   10. Florida LEVEILLEE,   b. 26 Feb 1893,   d. 1994  (Age 100 years) + 11. Eugene LEVEILLEE,   b. 28 Feb 1898, Limoges,,,ONTARIO,, ,   d. 7 May 1972, Ottawa,,,ONTARIO,,  (Age 74 years)
  Last Modified	26 Feb 2024
  Family ID	109637	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos		Joseph Léveillée - Cordélia Racette family picture
  		Joseph Léveillée 1839-1922

  
  

• Notes

  Achete une propriete au 224 rue Mabel en 1923 de sa fille Cordelia Leveille pour la vendre ensuite a Alphonse Clement en 1933. D'apres le recensement 1901 (T6494, South Indian, Page 2) il serait ne le 20 nov 1842. On his tombstone he is said to be born in 1839. Bapteme 18 aug 1839 St-Lin, Assomption, Qc. : Source: St-Lin, parish register, 1839, p. 21 recto Taken from Yvonne's Genealogy blog: Early in my research, I found sources that stated Joseph was born about 1839 or in 1842 in New Glasgow, Quebec. It wasn’t until I got a subscription to Ancestry that I eventually found his baptism record. It showed that my great-great-grandfather was born and baptized on 23 August 1839 in St-Lin, L’Assomption County, Quebec. [1] Granted, New Glasgow and St-Lin are near each other, but not near enough to be the same place. Joseph was a younger son of Jean-Baptiste Léveillé and Adélaïde Coderre. He had four older brothers, Jean-Baptiste, François-Xavier, Louis and Joseph (the last two died as infants), and two sisters, Marguerite and Marie Mélina (who also died as an infant). The Léveillé family is enumerated on the 1851 census in L’Assomption (at that time Leinster) County in Quebec. Ten years later, Joseph and his parents are living in Russell County, Ontario, according to the 1861 census. It’s possible they were there as early as 1857, because a local history book names a Jean-Baptiste Léveillé and a Xavier Léveillé among some of the first settlers of Embrun. [2] These men could be Joseph’s father and brother, or his two eldest brothers, who paved the way, so to speak, for the rest of the family to join them in this part southeastern Ontario. In October 1862, Joseph married as his first wife Marguerite Gauthier in Embrun. [3] The couple had one child, a daughter, before Marguerite died. Despite my searches, I haven’t found her burial record or her death registration. I also haven’t found his second marriage, to Cordélia Racette, in the sacramental registers of St-Jacques parish of Embrun. Fortunately, though, the 1871 census helps out by giving a date: November 1870. [4] In the late 1980s, a distant cousin wrote to me about our mutual ancestors Joseph and Cordélia. He told me about the time he visited their youngest daughter Florida and how she had shared with him many details about her family, as well as photos of her parents. Florida appears to be the source for her parents’ marriage date and place of 10 November 1870 Embrun, Ontario and for the photo of Joseph seen above that was sent to me by my correspondent.[5] Joseph and Cordélia, who were third cousins, had eleven children, born between 1872 and 1896: Mélanise (Mélanie), Joseph (who died young), Léonie, Clémentine (my great-grandmother), Adeline, Amanda, Adélaïde, Odilon Dominat, Louis, Florida and Eugène. Joseph, who was a laborer and farmer all his life, died presumably in October 1922. He was buried on 21 October 1922 in the parish cemetery of St-Viateur in Limoges, Russell County, Ontario. [6] Unfortunately, his burial record doesn’t give his date or place of death. I didn’t find Joseph's death registration in Ancestry.ca’s “Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1938 and Deaths Overseas, 1939-1947” database or in “Ontario Deaths 1869-1947” at FamilySearch.org. I even searched the microfilmed death registration records at the Archives of Ontario when I was in Toronto last May, but didn’t locate Joseph. I also checked the "Le LAFRANCE" database at GénéalogieQuebec.com in case he died in the province of Quebec, but there weren’t any candidates. Finally, Joseph’s death wouldn’t be registered in that site’s “Mariages et décès 1926-1997” database, because the records begin in 1926, five years after he passed away. Sources: 1. St-Lin (St-Lin-des-Laurentides, Quebec), parish register, 1839, p. 21 recto, entry no. B.102, Joseph Léveillé baptism, 23 August 1839; St-Lin parish; digital image, “Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967”, Ancestry.ca (http://www.ancestry.ca : accessed 22 August 2008). 2. J.-U. Forget and Elie-J. Auclair, Histoire de Saint-Jacques d’Embrun (Ottawa: La Cie d’Imprimerie d’Ottawa, 1910), 19; digital image, Our Roots (http://ourroots.ca : accessed 21 April 2013). 3. "Ontario, Roman Catholic Church Records, 1760-1923," digital image, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-24169-4211-91?cc=1927566&wc=M6VT-9TG:221001601,221046001,221030802,221049401 : accessed 27 March 2012), Russell > Embrun > St Jacques > Baptisms, marriages, burials 1858-1869 > image 62 of 187, Léveillé – Gauthier marriage. 4. 1871 census of Canada, Russell Township, Russell County, Ontario, population schedule, subdistrict d, p. 27, dwelling 95, family 95, Joseph Léveyer [sic] household; digital image, Ancestry.ca (http://www.ancestry.ca : accessed 22 August 2008); citing Library and Archives Canada, Census of Canada, 1871. The enumerator wrote “November” in Column 16 (Married within last twelve months), indicating that Joseph and Cordélia married in November 1870. 5. Paul Lavoie to Yvonne Belair, letter, 7 January 1988; privately held by Yvonne (Belair) Demoskoff, 2014. Paul, a great-great-grandson of Joseph and Cordélia (Racette) Léveillé, spoke with their daughter Florida (Léveillé) Leroux in Vars, Ontario in 1974. 6. St-Viateur (Limoges, Ontario), parish register, 1911-1927, p. 294, entry no. S.15, Joseph Léveillé (written as Léveillé, indexed as Laville) burial, 21 October 1922; St-Viateur parish; digital image, “Ontario, Canada, Catholic Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1747-1967”, Ancestry.ca (http://www.ancestry.ca : accessed 22 August 2008). Copyright © 2014, Yvonne Demoskoff.