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2000: Taken at the Durocher Family Reunion in Redford New York, From Left to Right,Mary Rowlette Durocher, and husband Gene (Eugene Leo) Durocher, Agnes Durocher Grotto, Elly(Eleanor) Durocher Bordea and husband Stanley Edward Bordeau

1937 summer: The picture has this text on the back; The Durocher Family. Ora Margaret Bell age 37, FredLawrence, 43, Eleanor M. age 12, Edward H. 10, Anita M. (going on 8) Agnes D. age 5. Kathleen Ann wasborn in 1941.

1939, Clayburg, New York: Eugene Durocher (smallboy in front) and his brother Edward had theirpicture taken on a workhorse. This is one of the firsttimes he remember going to his uncle’s farm.

2000: Taken at the Durocher Family Reunion inRedford New York, From Left to Right, MaryRowlette Durocher, and husband Gene (EugeneLeo) Durocher, Agnes Durocher Grotto, Elly(Eleanor) Durocher Bordea and husband StanleyEdward Bordeau

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Yanulavich (L) Rita Durocher Kourofsky ( R ) Eileen Durocher Kourofsky

Web pages that may be of interest General Information: http://www.familysearch.org has the 1880 US census and the 1881 Canadian censusThe Gagné Branch Gagnier (Gagné) History & Family Association sites: English site: http://www.gagnier.org French site: http://www.infinit.net/jybell Reverend John F Gagnier’s email address is [email protected] http://pages.videotron.com/jybell/lgml.pdf The family line including many branches of the family tree. (French) NOTE: In Europe the dates are listed date-month-year. (October 10- 1946 would be 4-10-1946). http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/9951 This web site even has a picture of a sign on Rout 3 in W. Plattsburgh! www.angelfire.com/ny5/clinton/FamilyNamePages/Gagne/GagneandAlliedFamiliesWeb.htm - English www.perche-quebec.com/files/perche/lieux/saint_cosme.htm Information about the 13 families who left, St. Cosme DeVair Sarthe, France (French) Association des familles GAGNÉ-BELLAVANCE d'Amérique Inc: http://pages.infinit.net/jybell/ French Canadian Ancestors: Gagné http://www.rootsweb.com/~nozell/GEN-NYS-L/archives/1997/05/0227.html Gagné Family Genealogy Forum: http://genforum.genealogy.com/gagne Louis (Lewis) Gagné dit BELLEAVANCE: http://www.soonet.ca/users/acadien/d0000/g0000081.html#I178 The Durocher Branch Valerie DuRocher's Genealogy Page Updated September 19, 2001 email [email protected] http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/d/u/r/Valerie-R-Durocher/ Genealogy Descendants of Francois Durocher 1982 in St. Peter's Square in Rome,

http://www.houseofnames.com/coatofarms_details.asp?sId=27E8B7C0-46BB-4A2B-B2BB-FFD8CEB8F068&s=durocher This site has a history and coat of arms for the Durocher name. It reads in part,” The name Durocher is derived from the Old French word roche, meaning rock, and indicates that the original bearer was distinguished by residence near a prominent rock. ….First found in Burgundy, where this ancient family was recognized as one of the original families of the region.”

Family Losses and Gains – 2005-2006 Death Eric Jeffrey Lawrence died on

10/28/05 at Fletcher Allen Hospital Bulington VT. His date of birth was 9/3/85, He is the son of Jeff & Phyllis (Gratto). Lawrence

Death Donna Lee Siskavich Atkinson d. March 16, 2006, Ovarian cancer, Plattsburgh, New York. Her date of birth was February 15, 1948 (she was premature), She is the daughter of Bernard Siskavich and (L). Rita Durocher Siskavich Kourofsky.

Birth Gavin Diego Vasquez b: January 11, 2005 Parents: Marcy Lynn Passino & Estevan (Steve) Anthony Vasquez

Birth Sidney Ellen Murray b: 6/5/05 7lb 4oz Parents: Tonya Marie Myers and Thomas Murray

Birth Alexandra Grace Brabenec b. 10/28/05 at Albany Medical Center. Daughter of Darcie (Bordeau) & David Brabenec

Birth Morgan Andrew Frego b. 3/20/06 , Son of Jody & Jen (Jennifer Michelle) (Smith) Frego, Glendale Arizona

Key to charts: b is for born bapt. is baptized bur is buried d is for died div is divorced m is married

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Baptiste, Israël Ancestors of Rose Eva and Blanche)

1st Marc Gasnier? 2nd Christophe Gasnier? b. 1555 (or 1567) Le Mans, Main France (or Stcomedevair, Perche, Orn)

Spouse one would be Louis’s Mother. Spouse 2 Françoise Vallee b 1559 .Mar. 1570 or 1579? in Le Mans, or Ige Maine, France died, 1628

Mar. 4/13/1587 Ige, (Stcomedevair) Perche, France

3rd generation: Louis Gasnier b 1580 St.-Cosme-de-Vair, Sarthe buried 4/9/1640 St Cosme-de-Vair, Sarthe, France

Marie Launay Gasnier d. April 9, 1640 bur. in St. Cosme-de-Vair, St. Cosme-en Aviaries, Sarthe France

Mar.1604 St. Cosme-de-Vair, Sarthe, France

4th generation: Louis Gasnier- bapt. 9/13/1612, St. Martin, Igé France, d. 2/2/1661 or ? 7/14/1661, (emigrated to Canada in 1644)

Marie Michel Gasnier b. 1620- d. November 12, 1687 bur. at Ste-Anne, Beaupré, Montmorency, Québec, Canada 11/12/1687 Ste-Anne-de-Beaupre, Montmorency, PQ. Daughter of: Pierre Michel Birth : Belleme, Orne, France and Louise Gory, (Gosri) Chartres, b. Abt 1595 Belleme, Orne, France

June 11, 1638 St. Martin-du-Vieux Belleme (France)

5th Generation: Ignace Gasnier, b. 3/12/1656, Quebec FR John Gagnier WEB page: Records show an emergency Baptism at the Gasnier home on March 12) Other records show a Baptism date 7/14/1661 for Ignace and 4/15/1656, Quebec Gasnier. d. 9/13/1712 or 7/20/1702, Quebec

Barbe Dodier Gagné bap. 1665 – buried 2/7/1689 Sts-Pierre-et-Paul, Baie-st-Paul, Charlevoix, PQ Daughter of: Jacques Dodier & Catherine Caron 2) Louise Tremblay Gasnier bapt. 10/21/1669

11/5/ 1680 Baie St. Paul PQ or St Anne-de-Beaupre, Montmorency PQ 11/6/ 1689 L Ange-Gardien PQ?

6th generation Jacques Gage b. 10/8/1688 St. Francois-Xavier, Petite-Riviere-St-Francois, Charlevoix, PQ bapt. 10/9/1688 Sts-Piere-et-Paul,Baie St.Paul, Charlevoix PQ Canada

Hélène Perron Gagné bap.1694 to bur. 10/ 26/1735 Ste-Famille, Ile-d’Orleans, Montmorency, Daughter of: Antoine Perron and Jeanne Tremblay

2/24/1716 Baie St. Paul PQ

7th generation Jacques Gagné dit Sancartier bapt. 4/13/1722 Baie St. Paul

Marie Françoise Gibaut Gagné 1729 to 3/24/175?) Daughter of: Philibert and Françoise Le Cuyer

4/29/1748 LaPrairie PQ

8th generation Jean Baptiste Gagné (bapt. Redford or La Prairie?)

Isabelle Poupart Gagné Daughter of: Pierre Poupart & Marie Anne Deniau

4/3/1780 LaPrairie PQ

9th generation Joseph Gagné bapt. 3/20/1785 Acadie (Quebec?) d. 9/21/1879 bur. in Redford NY.

Marie-Anne Bissonnet Gagné d. 9/ 11/1879 (Redford NY.) Daughter of: Jean-Baptiste Bissonnet & Charlotte Longuetain

11/26/ 1804 Chambly Canada

10th generation Jean Baptiste Gagné b. 1817(?) to 8/8/1886 (bapt. Redford NY, b. Redford NY

Lucie Dupuis Gagné 1823-d. 9/4/1905 Bur. in Redford NY.

1838 or 1839

11h generation Israël Gagné 6/23/1855 (bapt. 9/9/1936 Redford NY 7/22/1855) bur. Sherrington, PQ 9/30/1936

Louise (Iloise) Poupart Gagné 1862- 11/14/1939 Daughter of: Joseph Poupart & Emelie (on gravestone) Mélina (Milie) Gauthier d. 11/14/1937 bur. Sherrington, PQ 11/19/1937

10/6/1881 St Joseph’s parish Cohoes, NY

12 generation (a) Rose Eva Gagné Durocher 4/6/1901- bapt. Sherrington PQ, d. 10/4/1946 Plattsburgh, NY

Nelson Durocher bapt. Redford NY. 6/2/1895 5/16/1895 -12/1/1967, d. of Brights disease Son of: Louis Durocher & Cecelia '

10/8/1922 Sherring-ton PQ

12 generation (b) Marie Blanche Elodia Gagné Durocher b. 9/24/1903 bapt. 9/25/1903,

Sherrington, PQ, d. 9/ 27/99 at CVPH (Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital, Plattsburgh, NY

Louis Alexander Durocher b. 7/16/1899 bapt. 7/30/1899 Redford, NY. d. 10/19/1991 son of :Louis: (Lewis) Durocher & Cecelia Coulombe'

10/15/ 1923 Sherring-ton, PQ

Children of Israel Gagné & Elaïse Poupart Gagné, m. 10/6/1881 Parents: Israel (Israël) Gagné & Elaise (Louise/Heloise/Eloise) Poupart Gagné m. 10/6/1881 Cohoes, NY 1) Wilfrid Gagné b 10/13/1882, Cohoes NY d 10/8/1961

Spouse: Elizabeth Longtin m. 2/14/1905, St. Constant d. 10/8/1961 Parents: Ovila Longtin & Suzanne Rouleau

2 a) Eunelia (Unilia) (Nellie) Gagné Faille b 4/27/1884, Lyon Mountain? 2/6/1962 (twin of Lucian) d. 2/6/1962 (Parents of twins)

Spouse: Theodule Faille m. 9/18/1900 3) Lucian Coren Gagné b. 4/27/1884 bapt. 5/10/1884 Lyon Mountain NY, (twin of Nellie) died as an infant 4) Arthur Gagné b. 2/11/1886, Cohoes, NY 5) Agnes Gagné b 3/ 30/1888, Cohoes NY (died in 1888 as an infant) 6) Lady-Anne Gagné b 5/27/1889, (died in infancy) Cohoes NY

7) Eximer Gagné b. 2/6/1891 Negaunee USA (Lake Michigan). d. 3/3/1973, Montreal

Spouse: Agnes Beauvolsk m. 2/13/1929 Napierville P.Q.

8) Brother Ernest (Reverend Frere Magloire) Gagné b 4/30/1893 Cooks Mills, Michigan d. 12/25/1971 9) Laurentia Gagné Demers b. 1/16/1895 Sherrington Quebec d 7/13/1974, Windsor, Ontario

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10) (Cleoplas)-Anthime Gagné b 3/1/1897 Sherrington P. Quebec d 7/11/1961, buried in Sherrington PQ ( d. July 11, 1970 Claudia Lecuyer m 10/29/1927 d: September 1982, buried Sherrington, PQ

11) Rose-Alma Gagné b 2/6/1899 Sherrington Quebec d 9/ d: March 01, accrd. to B. Donaldson,(4?) 1920 or Sept 4, 1920? in Sherrington, P.Q. 12) Rose-Eva Gagné b 4/6/1901 & baptized Sherrington Quebec d 10/4/1946, Plattsburgh NY (childbirth)

Spouse: Narcisse (Nelson) Durocher, m 10/8/1922, (brother to Marie Blanche's husband) Parents: Louis Durocher & Cecelia Coulombe

13) Marie Blanche Elodia Gagné Durocher b 9/24/1903 Sherrington Quebec, d. 9/ 27/99 at CVPH (Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital, Plattsburgh, NY

Spouse: Louis Alexander Durocher, m 10/15/1923, Sherrington PQ (brother to Rose Eva's husband) Parents: Louis Durocher & Cecelia Coulombe

14) Exerilda Gagné Legault, b 4/29/ 1906 Sherrington Quebec d.8/30/2003 St. Remi, Quebec Buried/9/3/2003 Sherrington, PQ.

Spouse: Romeo Legault m. 5/19, 1932 d. 3/26/1993 15) unnamed--stillborn boy

Generations of the Durocher Family The Durocher line--François, Joseph, Rėne Joseph, Jean Baptiste (JB), Joseph, Joseph, Alexander, Louis Napoleon, ancestors of Frederic, Nelson, (Mary) Laura, Louis, Cecelia, Valida, Leon (Leo), Beatrice Durocher

1 François du Rocher Parish of Daze′, ville de Château-Gontier

Perrine LeFaucheur born- Parish of Dazy, Chateaugontier , France (Valerie DuRocher WWB Page)

mar. Parish of Daze, Ville de Chateau-Gontier

2 Joseph DuRocher b. 1681, St. Maurille Parish, Anjou, France d. 1749 (V Du Rocher WEB Page)

Marguerite Le Roy Durocher b. 1685 in France daughter of: Michel LeRoy & Renée Pasquereau

10/6/ 1705 St. Maurille, Church, diocese of Angers in Anjou France

3 Réne Joseph 3 Durocher (Brien, Joseph 2, Francoisi) b. 7/2/1706 Anjou France, d. 1755 (1749 V. Durocher WEB cite) in Batiscan P.Q.

1)Marie-Louise Catherine Juillet d'Avignon Durocher 5/29( not 30 according to V. DuRosher) /1710 in Pte-Aux Tremebles d. 1743, Montreal Daughter of: Blaise Juillet & Madeleine (Marie) Forestier (Fortier spelling of last name Valerie DuRocher WEB) 2) Marguerite Gaudet (Godé) Jarry Durocher b. 1702

a) m. Marie-Louise 6/03/ 1730 Batiscan ________ b) m. 6/24/1743 Parish of Batiscan (near Three Rivers, PQ)

4 (J.B.) Jean Baptiste Durocher 1732-1795, Quebec Canada?

1) Geneviève 2) Marguerite Boucher-Desnois Durocher d. 12/21/1795 at Nicolet Daughter of: Joseph a & M. Anne Bailleuil

1752 -------------- 7/22/1766 L Assomption

5 Joseph Durocher Betrand LaPrairie, Canada

Josette Brodeur Durocher Daughter of: Louis Brodeur and Judith Hébert

1/31/1791 LaPrairie

6 Joseph Durocher -Betrand b. 0/21/1789 (or 1794) d 10/1871 bur. in Redford NY.

Catherine Hébert Durocher b 10/8/1792 bap. 11/8/1792 La Prariee (corrected) d. 1871 bur. Redford NY Daughter of: Joseph Hébert & Marie Bisaillon

11/2/1822 Notre Dame de la Prairie de la Madeline

7 Alexander (Francis Xavier or Alexandre) Durocher b 3/14/1823- Chazy N.Y d 1/26/1915 bur. in Redford NY

1) Mary Gobriau (Gobriaux) Durocher b 1838 d 3/24/1863 2) Marie Caille Cahier (Carriere, Carrieres, Coryer) Lapanne (LaPann) Durocher b 1839- d 3/25/1904

------ 9/24/ 1865 St. Peters, Plattsburgh NY.

8 Louis Napolean Durocher b 7/14/1868 Saranac NY, bapt. Redford N.Y on Aug 15, 1868. d 6/12/1946

Cecelia Coulombe Durocher b 6/30/1869) not 66 Saranac NY d 8/30/1946 Daughter of: Narcesse Coulombe & Lesina (Lizzie/Onezine) Parent

10/31/1892

Children of Louis Durocher & Cecelia Coulombe Durocher m. 10/31/ 1892 1 Parents: Louis Durocher & Cecelia (Cecile) Coulombe (Columbe) Durocher ( m. 10/31/ 1892) Ware Mass. 2 Frederic Lawrence Durocher 10/15/1893 -9/9/1973 m. Ora Margaret Victoria Bell Durocher b. 1/8/1900, d. 8/30/1963


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2 Nelson (Earl) Harold Durocher b 5/16/1895-bapt. 6/2/1895 Redford NY (with middle name Earl) d 12/1/1967 m. St. Patrick’s of Sherrington, PQ Rose Eva Gagné b. 4/6/1901 d.10/4/46 2 (Mary) Laura Durocher b 4/6/1897 bapt. 5/2/1897 at Redford NY d. of "overlay" later called crib death, now called SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) at 1 month old b. 5/8/1897 at Assumption of Mary, Redford NY. 2 Louis Alexander Durocher b. 7/16/1899, Strackville, b. 7/30/1899, Redford, N.Y. d.-10/19/1991 m. 10/15/1923 Marie Blanche Elodia Gagné Durocher b. 9/24/1903 St. Patrick’s Parish, Sherrington PQ 2 Cecelia Durocher Surprenant Provost 4/11/1901- 11/20/1994 m. Edgar Supernant, Assumption of Mary, Redford NY 9/1/1935 Fred Provost b. 6/15/1906, d. 3/22/1975, m.8/24/1964 Assumption of Mary, Redford NY? 2 Valida Durocher Myers 5/30/1903- 12/8/1980 m Howard J. Myers 1928, Assumption of Mary, Redford NY 2 a) Leon Durocher, b 5/8/1905 bapt.5/14/1905 d. at 4 months old b. at Assumption of Mary, Redford, NY 9/14/1905. 2 b) Leo Durocher d. of Influenza (Dysentery) at nine months of age. Oral history (This is perhaps Leon, as there is no death record for Leo at Assumption of Mary Church.) 2 Beatrice Durocher Hall b 6/22/1909 bapt. 6/27/1909 Assumption of Mary, Redford NY, d 1/24/1999, burial service, 1/26/1999, Plattsburgh, NY, interred in the spring, St. Peter’s Cemetery, m. Bill (William) Hall, 6/22/1943. Bill b. 1900, d. 8/5/1977

Oral History

Lita Maroney Valida (Durocher) Myers, my mother,

Cecelia (Durocher) Supernault Provost and Beatrice (Durocher) Hall were sister. In later years they spent a lot of time together. When they were young they lived in the Strackville/Pup Hill area. Later they move to the farm now called 96 Durocher Road. My mother always said that the name Durocher (pronounced Da RUSHEE or Durocher, depending on which family member you talk to) used to be spelled DuRocher which meant OF THE ROCK in French. It also appeared as Derushia.

Do you remember Jerry Coulombe? Often Mom, Aunt Cecile, and Aunt Bea

spent time at Mom’s house after they were all widows. They certainly enjoyed each other’s company and spent time talking about times gone by. A few of the conversations that left an impression on me were when they told of Gram (Cecelia Coulomb Durocher) having a brother Jerry Coulombe who left to look for work and never was heard from after that. I realize that communications were limited then but I could

not imagine that a person could be totally lost. Does anyone in the family remember hearing of this? He apparently was a very young man, maybe seventeen or eighteen when he left if I remember the story as told.

Do you remember the Massachusetts branch of the family?

Mauri and Valli remember a visit with my mother when they were about eleven or twelve years of age, so that would make it about 1970 or so. They remember when Uncle Louis called my mother telling her he would come to her house with a visitor he wanted her to meet. He was calling to see that she was at home. Mauri and Valli understood that the young man and his family had called Uncle Louis from Massachusetts and said that he was trying to locate his family and in talking he learned that he had the same relative as Uncle Louis. I wonder if anyone else in the family remembers this visit?

Mom, Aunt Cecelia and Aunt Bea always talked of relatives in Massachusetts, particularly in North Adams. Names I remember are Rena Anderson and her sister Charlotte Anderson Gougier (Gouger) Charlotte had two children. People said that Charlotte and I looked a lot alike. Aunt Cecelia seemed to remember more about them perhaps because she was older. These old family stories we take for granted just slop away. I wish I had recorded their conversations. It would have been enlightening now that we know more about the family.

Beverly’s Notes Beverly Durocher Morgan Volume 6 #2 of Generations has photos

of Rena Anderson and her mother Marie “Mary” Josephine Durocher the North Adams branch of the family. “Mary is a daughter of Alexander Durocher by his first wife Mary Gobriau. She married Charles D. Anderson and died on 10/27/1932 in North Adams Mass at the age of 78. Rena Anderson is the youngest of five daughters. Rena and three of her sisters never married (Uina, Mary Louise and Isabella.) William their son married and adopted twins. Charlotte the oldest daughter had two children Andy and Anna. Oral history reports that Andy died of a heart attack.

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Robinson lived with a sister in Lawrence Massachusetts.

Another Massachusetts connection is that Louis Napolean Durocher and Cecile Coulombe (Columbe), their wedding photo was taken in Ware Massachusetts and their Record of Marriage in 1892 (M001319) is listed as Ware Massachusetts and is registered in Boston.

Beverly remembers a visit to the farm from the Massachusetts branch of the family.

This trip was about 20 years earlier in about 1950. Beverly was about 4 at the time and the reason the memory stays in that it was an unexpected visit AND they brought a bag of candy with them. If her memory serves her right is was spice drops and Beverly paid more attention to enjoying the candy then in the visitors!

The Durocher line--François, Joseph, Rėne Joseph, Jean Baptiste (JB), Joseph, Joseph, Alexander, Louis Napoleon, Frederick Frederick Lawrence Durocher b. 10/15/1892 d. 9/9/1973 m. 6/20/1921 Ora (Auroré) Margaret Victoria Bell Durocher b. 1/8/1900 d. 8/30/1963

Descendants of Fred L. Durocher & Ora M. Bell Durocher The Durocher line--François, Joseph, Rėne Joseph, Jean Baptiste (JB), Joseph, Joseph, Alexander, Louis Napoleon, Frederick, Elly 2) Elly (Eleanor) Marie Durocher Bordeau b.3/19/1925 d. 6/12/2002 & Stanley Edward Bordeau b. 7/16/1925 m. 9/22/1945 all children born in Plattsburgh NY (Elly and her sister Anita married brothers) 3)Russell Stanley Bordeau b. 2/6/1947 m Ann Dahlheimer 6/27/1970 Buffalo NY

4) Maggie (Margaret Anne) Bordeau b 9/28/1975 4) Nora (Lenora Marie) Bordeau b 9/26/1981

3) Roger Edward Bordeau b.1/31/1949, Plattsburgh N.Y., d. 4/21/1999, Plattsburgh, New York m. 1969 Susan Donna Bordeau St. Peters, Plattsburgh, New York

4)Michael Roger Bordeau. b. 3/22/1973 Spouse: Mandi Moore m. 8/6/99 5)Nathaniel Asa Moore Bordeau b. 1/21/02 5) Benjamin Albert Owen Bordeau 1/5/2004 4) (Dr.) Kevin Patrick Bordeau b.1/8/1974 Spouse A m. Kristin Bordeau 5) Hudson Wakefield Bordeau b. 4/25/03

5)Barett Cathryn Bordeau b.11/30/04 Spouse B Edward Bordeau m. Susan Donna Bordeau 6/28/1969 3) Randall Leo Bordeau b.1/3/1952 3) Brenda Marie Bordeau Stockman b.9/19/1953 m. John Charles Stockman m. 11/9/1974, St. Peters, Plattsburgh NY 4) Angie (Angela) Marie Stockman b. 5/15/1976 4) Emily Auroré Stockman b 5/29/1980 4) Claire Ellen Stockman b 7/26/1986

3) Richard Mark Bordeau b 3/5/57 m Nancy Jean Harris Bordeau 5/10/1980 m. .11/27/81 St. Peters, Plattsburgh NY.

4) Kara Jean Bordeau b 9/2/1984 4) Savannah Harris Bordeau b.10/4/1987

3)Ronald Paul Bordeau b 11/2/58 m Kathy (Kathleen) Collins Bordeau 11/27/1981 St. Peters, Plattsburgh N.Y. 4) Beth Lynne Bordeau b 6/29/1984 4) Sara Ann Bordeau b 9/26/1987

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3) Douglas Edward Durocher b.6/17/1948 & Constance Marie Giroux m.6/17/1972, Our Lady of Victory, Plattsburgh, NY 4) Jefferey Brian Durocher b.4/1/1973 4) Nicole Marie Durocher b. 5/25/1975

3) Nancy Jean Durocher b.6/3/1949 Harold Robert Gohlke b. 6/22/1943 m. 4/1/1967 Our Lady of Victory, Plattsburgh, NY

4) Kimberly Jean Gohlke b.7/4/1967 & Neil Robert Burdo' b. 7/10/? m. 9/15/1990 5) Kelsey Rachael Burdo b. 11/5/1992 4) Kelsey Rachael Burdo b. 11/5/1992 4) Kristina JoAnne Gohlke b. 4/12/1971 4) Keri Lynn Gohlke b.5/23/1972 5) Kaleb R. Gohlke 4//11/19 4) Karla Jeanine Gohlke Lyon b.4/19/1976 & Mark Lyon m. 8/1995, St. Phillips, Willsboro NY

. 5) Kolbi Sierra Lyon b. 11/3/1995 4) Harold Edward Matthew Gohlke (adopted) b. 2/5/1979 4) Kody Larson Gohlke (adopted) b.12/28/1980 4) Korissa Lynette Gohlke (adopted) b. 12/18/1981 4) Herrick Robert Gohlke (adopted) b. 2/25/1986

3 ) Lawrence Paul Durocher b.10/2/1950 & Erika Linda Major b. 1/16/1953 m. 10/6/1973, Our Lady of Victory, Plattsburgh N.Y 4) Heidi Chakyse Durcoher b. 7/27/1977

4) Kelley Sabrina Durocher b. 9/22/1982 3) Linda Marie Durocher b. 8/29/1951

spouse A) Joseph Arthur LaPorte b. 12/19/1952 m. 10/21/1972 divorced 5/87 4)Patrica Lynn LaPorte b.7/16/1973 4) Stephen Joseph Edward LaPorte 11/5/1974 5)Ashley Marie LaPorte b. 1/18/1992 4)Tracie Leanne LaPorte b. 7/5/1976 5) Tal Nicole Ducharme b. 10/17/199? D. 2/24/199?

4)Jason Craig LaPorte b.12/7/1977 spouse B )Allen Nelson Whitney b. 11/9/1956 Lisa Marie Durocher and Ducharme

5) Tia Nicole Ducharme b. 10/17/199? 3) Beverly Ann Durocher b.9/13/1952

spouse A) Robert Frank Prunier b. 4/26/1952 d. 2/20/1981 m. 12/15/1973 4) Terri Lynn Prunier .2/5/1979

4) Sara Elizabeth Prunier b. 6/8/1981 spouse B) Brian Joseph Lecuyer b. 6/4/1957 m. 8/4/1984

4) Brian Joseph Lecuyer II b. 6/21/1985

3) Michael David Durocher b. 7/9/1953 3) Susan Mary Durocher b. 8/31/1955 David Allen Gubbins b. 12/30/1950 4) Sharon Marie Gubbins 4/2/1975 4) Danny Allen Gubbins 8/9/1977 3) Bette Louise Durocher b. 11/6/1956

spouse A1)Michael Nolan Kirk b. 7/17/1956 m 12/17/1977 divorced 9/12/1989 4) Shana Bethany Kirk b. 8/21/1979

4) Casey Michelle Kirk b. 11/1/1982 spouse B ) Dennes Charles Smith m. 2/29/1992

3) Patrica (Patty) Diane Durocher b. 12/26/57 d. 1957 at the age of 3 months 3) Dennis James Durocher b. 1/21/1959

spouse A) Judith Michler spouse B) Michelle Thérése Du Pere b. 6/10/1966 m. 8/24/1991 4) Olivia Thérése Durocher b. 4/3/1993

4) Taylor Marie Durocher b. 1//2/1996 3) Robert John Durocher b. 8/2/1960 & Mary Celeste Keable b. 11/16/1957 m. 10/2/1982, St Patricks, Rouses Point NY. 4) Robert James Durocher b. 1/5/1986 4) Ryan Matthew Durocher b. 2/11/1990


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3) Thomas Alan Durocher b. 11/7/1961 & Caroline Cusprinie b. 3/6/64 m. 6/20/92 4) Matthew Ambrose Durocher b. 10/22/1991

The Durocher line--François, Joseph, Rėne Joseph, Jean Baptiste (JB), Joseph, Joseph, Alexander, Louis Napoleon, Frederick, Anita 2) Anita Margaret Durocher Bordeau b. 11/5/1929 d. 11/22/1985 (cancer) & Leonard Bordeau b. 4/5/1927 d. 1/13/1974 m. 5/1948 (Anita and her sister Elly married brothers)

3) Wayne Bordeau b.3/3/1949m. Patricia Fallon Bordeau 6/18/689 4) Renée Marie Bordeau b. 3/8/1969 Potsdam NY d. 11/19/1969 in an auto accident.

4) Nicole Anne Bordeau b. 10/3/1970 m. Eric Hewson 3/29/1997 4) John Leonard Bordeau b. 7/2/1973 Plattsburgh NY m. Wendy Mason\ 5) Joseph Leonard Bordeau b. 1/ 29/ 2000

5) Jeffrey George Bordeau b. 3/20/02 Goshen , NY 5) Emma Carol Bordeau b. 3/12/2004 Lima, N.Y.

3) Terry M Bordeau b. 7/7/1950 m. Barbara Jacques m. 4/17/71 4) Stephanie M. Bordeau b 3/15/1972 m. Peter Trombley

5)Alexis Morgan Trombley, b. 10/24/1996 5)Bryce Trombley 1/2001 4) Lori Bordeau b. 4/5/1977 Plattsburgh NY d. 1997 leukemia 3) Bruce Bordeau b. 7/25/1955

Spouse A: Cathy Demary m. 2/14/76 div. 1988

4) Darcie Bordeau b. 10/30/1978 Spouse: David Brabenec m.10/23/2003 Sandal in St. Lucia Golf Resort and Spa.

5) Alexandra Grace Brabenec b. 10/28/05 Albany Medical Center.

4) Holly Bordeau b. 1/19/1982

Spouse B Patricia Lawson b. 5/20/60 m. .May 20, 2000

3) Carol Bordeau Castellucci b. 3/24/1956 Plattsburgh NY Spouse: Gregg Castellucci m. 8/24/85 4) Gregg Anthony Castellucci b 1/6/1989 4)Nicholas Castellucci b. 5/24/1992

The Durocher line--François, Joseph, Rėne Joseph, Jean Baptiste (JB), Joseph, Joseph, Alexander, Louis Napoleon, Frederick, Agnes 2) Agnes Delia Durocher Gratto b. 9/14/1932 & James Anthony Grotto b. 5/14/1931 m.5/28/1951, Our Lady of Victory, Plattsburgh NY.

3) Frederic James Groatto b. 3/23/1952 & Kathy Kaufman Delhi m. 1/11/75 Pickens So. C. Judge (Margaret Katherine)

4) Anthony Russell Grotto b. 11/15/76 4) Melissa Katherine Grotto b. 3/23/78 4) Audrey Maria Grotto 12/31/1980

4) Dominic James Grotto b.2/29/1984 3 John Robert Grotto b. 11/12/1954 & JoAnne Dion m. 7/26/86 , Nazarene Church. Plattsburgh NY

4) Kristie Monique Grotto b. 2/12/1990 4) Nicholas John Grotto b. 7/17/1992

4) Stephanie Dion Grotto 2/7/1994 3) Phyllis Jean Grotto Lawrence b. 8/11/1956 & Jeffrey Edward Lawrence m. 3/17/1978

4) Maria Beth Lawrence b. 6/3/1982 4) Jesse Michael Lawrence b. 9/29/1983 4) Eric Jeffrey Lawrence b. 9/3/1985 d.10/28/05 at Fletcher Allen Hospital in Burlington.

9/3/85. Spouse 2 Phyllis Jean Grotto Bawrenze 3) Debra Marie Grotto Kelley b. 6/23/1960 & Steve Kelley m. 7/2/1983 at parents home

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4)Travis Paul Kelley b. 11/14/1989 3) James Anthony Grotto b. 6/23/61 & Karla Reiger m. 8/6/1988 Espisical Church, Glens Falls, NY.

4)Allison Marie Grotto m. 10/27/1989 4) Dustin James Grotto b. 2/14/1990 4) Andre Stephen Grotto b. 7/23/1992

3) Stephen Eric Grotto b. 2/27/1965

The Durocher line--François, Joseph, Rėne Joseph, Jean Baptiste (JB), Joseph, Joseph, Alexander, Louis Napoleon, Frederick, Eugene 2) Eugene Leo Durocher b. 10/9/1936 & Mary Rowlette m. 10/19/1958 Nashville, TN

3) Constance Elaine Durocher Terry b. 9/2/1960 3) Gregory Durocher b. 8/27/1961 3) Karen Leigh Durocher b. 4/4/1964

The Durocher line--François, Joseph, Rėne Joseph, Jean Baptiste (JB), Joseph, Joseph, Alexander, Louis Napoleon, Frederick, Kathleen 2) Kathleen Ann Durocher Guay 8/28/1941 & Wayne Guay b. 8/10/1940 m. 6/20/1964, Our Lady of Victory, Plattsburgh NY.

3) David Arthur Guay b. 6/20/1965 3) (Dr.) Julie Anne Guay McIntrye, b. 7/25/1966 & John McIntrye m. 5/29/1993, Our Lady of Victory, Plattsburgh NY 4) John Wayne McIntrye b. 5/23/1995 3) Gary Wayne Guay b. 1/8/1968

Old Times By Eugene Durocher Based on a recording done on February 19, 2006

These recollections are not necessarily in order but I am just trying to look at my memories filled with love for my family. I will start with several small incidents that I remember mostly from when I was very young.

We, the Fred and Ora Durocher family that lived in Plattsburgh, went up to the Clayburgh farm almost every other Sunday for quite a while. We split our time with our other visits to the Bell farm on the Wallace Hill Road which was my mother's family. We always enjoyed the Sunday visits. It seems like it was always on Sunday after church we went for visiting. The farm was a lot different from what I was used to, of course, growing up in the city. One of the first times I remember that we went on the farm in Clayburgh to visit my Uncle Nelson and Aunt Rose Eva was when I and my brother Edward had our picture taken on a horse. They were work horses and I was three years old and it was 1939. I still have that

picture today. These are recollections of times long, long ago.

I remember small items like the well that was down on the bottom of the hill had a crank on it. Of course that was where the family got their water. We had fun with it. The crank on the well was a lot of fun for a little kid like me. We often would crank it up and down, up and down, up and down and take a pail of water of water up from the well. There was the big hill to run down to where the well was. And one day there was a big collie dog, brown collie dog there, and I ran down the hill. I ran into the big collie dog and I bumped his face. I think I heard my nose crack. I went and told my father. He was talking to Uncle Nelson. Anyhow my father said, “Aw you didn't break your nose.” So he ought to know, I thought, so I went back and played again. Anyway, I liked to crank that cream separator in the shed. I’d crank it as fast as it would go. It was fascinating for me. It was something I always did when I went there.

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afternoon supper, or whatever it was, there was a big white milk pitcher she would pass around. That was nice.

I remember one time staying overnight. I guess I did stay overnight because I was there kind of early in the morning and the Raleigh Products man came by. He was showing Aunt Rose Eva stuff out of the trunk of his car. Aunt Rosa Eva bought a comb from him. She was combing the girls’ hair. I guess getting them ready to go to school. I remember that.

I remember the Redford Picnic. My father was there. It was the first time I really smelled cigars. Anyhow I remember my father bought me a chocolate pop and chocolate covered ice cream. That was the first time I went there.

Another time we were all sitting around. Actually we were all in the middle room there on the farm in the middle of the afternoon. I guess the kids were still at school and I was kind of bored. The ladies were sitting around with their high top shoes, and their stockings and their long dresses on. I remember they all seemed to have that same type of shoe on. I got bored. I went outside. I was small enough that I could crawl inside the chicken coop through that little door. And this may seem funny or amusing, but none the less, I took a stick with me and I ended up driving out all the chickens. There was feathers all over the place. I got all the chickens out of there. There was this one chicken that didn't want to leave. I poked it off the nest and it had a soft egg underneath it. I remember that. It was not a very nice thing to do but it was one of the recollections I have.

Another incident I remember was when my Aunt Rose Eva was there, my mother was there, and I was there. I think they were getting ready to fix supper. My mother was dressed particularly well that day. We were standing by the cellar door. She, Aunt Rose Eva, had her apron on. She went down the stairs. She got a bunch of potatoes and she had them in her apron rolled up. When she got to the top of

the stairs she said, “The light switch turned off by itself.” Of course, this was after Grandpa had died. She told me and my mother about it. I still remember it very well. The light switch was on the right hand side of the cellar when you were coming up. She said that she could hear my grandfather moaning when the light switch went off.

I remember going up there in the wintertime to the Clayburg Farm when there was too much snow to use the road. The road was not plowed. We parked on Route 3. We walked, me, my mother and father. We walked from Route 3 up to the farm through the woods in rather deep snow and we had to cross a little stream. We did make it up to the farm. I guess my dad wanted to see what was going on, how things were going.

I remember my cousin Young Nelson at the time. He was quite a strong young man. He used a pitch fork and he would throw the hay up in the loft. I tried it. I picked up some hay with a fork and I couldn't hardly do anything with it. We, me and my cousin Elsie, would jump in the hay. It was great fun. I don't know if my sister Agnes did or not but I guess my sister Kathleen being younger than me wouldn't have been there much.

I remember again on one Sunday we drove up there. My father had a 37 Ford which was pretty new at the time. It had a bad fuel pump on it and I guess. It kept bucking and bucking and it didn't run right. Finally we did make it up there and I guess it ran better coming home.

I remember when they had the new bathroom put in. It was a big deal at the time. I remember Uncle Nelson and all those potatoes he had down in the cellar and seeing him talking with my father down there one day. I think my father and Uncle Nelson were rather close when I think about it. My father used to visit with Nelson quite a bit when we would go up there.

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had a big dip in it down as low as the well was. I guess the county came in at some point and filled all that in. They put in an awfully lot of fill so they didn't have that big dip in the road so they could get out in the wintertime.

I remember my Grandfather in bed. Mostly I've only seen him walk around only a few times. The thing I remember was he would moan a lot. Another time I remember my Grandfather, the only time I remember him coming to visit at my father's house, was on a Sunday. Of course he was all dressed up on a Sunday afternoon. I had a new pair of shoes the heel was killing me on it and so Grandpa told me he would fix my shoe for me so he kneaded the heel of the shoe. That is to say he worked it around so that I could wear it and that was nice. I remember that. He definitely did that for me. Kathleen, my younger sister, she did say that once she was up there he gave her a cookie.

I remember the long hill and a sled ride with my cousin Raymond in the wintertime. We would slide a long way down the hill and the sled would go very fast. It was great fun. The cows-- milking the cows. When Raymond would milk the cows he

would squirt some milk over to the cats. It was amusing to a little kid like me.

The funeral for my Grandfather I remember. We were out in one of the cars somewhat ahead of the group. And I think they turned and they went down through my Uncle Howard's yard and down to Route 3. I remember looking back, the cars were all black. There was a long, long line of cars. All black cars that I could see, as far as I could see.

And I do remember a ride to the hospital with my father and Uncle Nelson. I guess it was in 1946 and he had stayed at our place on Grant Street when he was down because that was when Aunt Rose Eva died. I remember the ride to the hospital. It was kind of a quiet ride. There wasn't much said that I remember. I remember turning in at the hospital. I remember taking a turn going into the hospital. Then I realized later that is what it was. I didn't know that Aunt Rose Eva had died even though I was almost 10 years old. After 1946 when my Grandfather died, the Grandmother died and Aunt Rose Eva died. The last I remember that we did not go up there to the farm in Clayburgh very much after that.

The Durocher line--François, Joseph, Rėne Joseph, Jean Baptiste (JB), Joseph, Joseph, Alexander, Louis Napoleon, Valida

Valida M. Durocher Myers b. 5/30/ 1903 d. 12/8/1980 & Howard J. Myers b.6/7/1907 d. 7/22/1966 m. 1928 Descendants of Valida Durocher Myers & Howard J. Myers m. 1928 2 boy -unnamed-1929 (?) 2 boy-unnamed-1932 (?) The Durocher line--François, Joseph, Rėne Joseph, Jean Baptiste (JB), Joseph, Joseph, Alexander, Louis Napoleon, Valida, Lita 2 Lita Marie Myers Maroney b 5/19/1934 Plattsburgh NY Spouse: Richard Michael Maroney 6/23/1932 Canton, Smith Farm m. 6/ 25/ 1955, Assumption of Mary, Redford NY

3) Howard Leo Maroney b. 5/1/1956 Odgensburg NY Spouse: Nancy Sue Gokey b 9/18/1956 m. 1/3/1975 Hermon NY

4 Mandy Jo Maroney b. 1/28/1977 4 Spouse: David Michael Hunter m. 8/26, 2001

5) Kaleb Michael Howard Hunter, b. 5/4/2000 5) Kristen Ashley Hunter b. 10/27/01 Watertown NY

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5) Alexis Sue Ann Rabideau 4/4/04 3) Mauri Ellen Maroney b. 9/01/1959 Canton NY

3) Valli May Maroney b 12/01/1960 Canton NY Spouse: Joachim Beno Genditzki b 5/24/1954(correction 11/01) m. 11/10/1984 Canton, NY

4 Valida Elfriede Genditzki b.11/19/1986 4 Benjamin Michael Genditzki b. 3//15/1990

The Durocher line--François, Joseph, Rėne Joseph, Jean Baptiste (JB), Joseph, Joseph, Alexander, Louis Napoleon, Valida, Leo

2 Leo H. Myers b. 2/19/1940 Plattsburgh NY m. Bonnielee Sondra Millie Strong Myers b.12//23/1944 m.. 6/23/1962 Assumption of Mary, Redford NY all children born in Plattsburgh NY

3) Scott Myers b 8/18/63 3) Joy Myers b 9/21/65 Spouse A: Paul Sarbou m. 10/15/83 4) Cody Allen Sarbou b. 7/11/89 4) Anna Renee Sarbou b. 9/19/92

3)Spoise B Joy Myers Sarbou Joubert & Thomas “Tommy” Joubert m. 5/11/2002 4)Nathalie Rose Joubert b.6/9/2000, Plattsburgh N.Y. 3) Tonya Marie Myers b 2/2/70 Spouse: Thomas J. Murray m. 6/9/01 Rochester NY m. 6/9/01 Rochester NY 4) Madeline Jolie Murray b. 4/6/03 4) Sidney Ellen Murray b. 6/5/05

3) Ilya Howard Myers b 4/30/1973 Spouse: Amy Davidson Myers m. 6/5/94 4) Abriana Myers b 1/11/93 4) Miya Lilliann Myers b. 8/31/1998

Married Fifty Years! By Lita Maroney

On June 25, 2005 Richard Michael Maroney (Mike) and I have been married for 50 years. My cousin Rita and her daughter, Linda and my cousin Madeline were in our wedding. When we were married my mother and father were both alive and gave us a wonderful wedding at the Church of the Assumption, Redford, New York followed by a sit down dinner at the American Legion in Plattsburgh, New York. We were sponsored by my former boss, Mr. John Quinn who was a member of the Legion. We could not get a place that was large enough in the Clayburg/Saranac/Dannemora area so the Plattsburgh location was wonderful. They provided a great meal with plenty of room for everyone and accomplished this with style and good taste. Our wedding photo was featured in the Church of the Assumption’s 2005 calendar in celebration of 150 years of the church as it showed what the church looked like before it was redone.

After our wedding we went to the New England States, Round Pond, New York City and returned to 26 Miner Street, Canton, New York. We were married in June and bought a very old home in October of that year. It needed a lot of remodeling and we enjoyed every minute

of it. We were there seventeen years. It was the home our children Howie, Mauri and Valli were bought to from the hospital as newborns.

In 1972 we bought another old home which we remodeled and sold in 1981. This time and in 1993 we bought homes that were completed. The first one at 20 Craig Drive and the second one was at 5 Mildon Rd. (our present home) both of these homes were also in Canton, New York. We lived at Silver Lake, New York from 1989 to 1993.

As well as our celebration of our wedding, we also celebrated our granddaughter, Valida Genditzki’s graduation from high school. She graduated from Brockport High School at Brockport, New York in 2005.

Our children had a big party for our 50 Wedding Anniversary. 130 attended and we receiver 150 cards! Here is how the June 28, 2005 newspaper the Saint Lawrence Plaindealer reported the event.

Maroneys Celebrate 50 Years of Marriage

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at the Best Western University Inn., Canton; hosted by their children

Lita Marie Myers, daughter of the late Howard and Valida Durocher Myers, and R. Michael Maroney, son of the late Leo and Florence Chismore Maroney, were married June 25, 1955 at the Church of Assumption of Mary in Redford, N.Y. with Father Eugene Beaudette officiating.

Eileen Maroney Carrow, Canton, sister of the groom, was the maid of honor. Leo H. Myers, brother of the bride, Saranac, N.Y. was the best man.

Mrs. Maroney completed Business College in Plattsburgh, N.Y. and attended SUNY Canton. She worked at the State of New York Clinton prison and later at Danemora State prison. Mrs. Maroney was assistant vice president at Canton Federal Savings and Loan (now North Country Bank). She also worked on a substitute basis at Canton Central School and St. Mary’s School.

She is a member of the Altar Rosary Society and is a Rosary Maker. Mrs. Maroney is involved in the Church and Community Program in Canton and is a member of the Partridge Run Golf Course.

Mr. Maroney graduated from Canton High School and studied accounting at St. Lawrence University. Mr. Maroney worked many years for the U.S. Post Office; as a carrier, then supervisor and later Postmaster for many years in Canton.

He is an avid golfer and a member of the Partridge Run Golf Course, and the Knights of Columbus.

The couple has three children, Howard L. Maroney, Canton, Mauri Ellen Maroney, Canton, and Valli Maroney Genditzki of Adams Basin/Spencerport, N.Y.; also four grandchildren, Mandy Maroney Hunter and Megan Maroney, both of Plattsburg, Valida Genditzki and Benjamin Genditzki, both of Adams Basin/Spencerport; and four great-grandchildren.

The couple’s daughter Valli handled the decorating for the party with help from Sue LaPlante.

People attended the 50th anniversary celebration from throughout New York State, including Mooers, Queensbury, Plattsburgh, Saranac, Ogdensburg, North Syracuse, Star Lake, and many people from the Canton area. Arlene Messner and Dean Radel of Bellview, Florida traveled the longest distance for the celebration.”

Summing up a Year: 2005 Remembered Based on a the Christmas Letter of Lita Maroney 2005. (Additional updates added).

We spent 12/30/04 to 3/29/0 in North Myrtle Beach, North Carolina where Mike played golf three times a week, we spent a lot of time with good friends, and enjoyed meeting new ones. We cleaned and opened the cottage at Silver Lake, New York on May 26th and returned to Canton on June 1st. The highlight of June was our 50th wedding anniversary party our children gave us on the 25th.

On July 11th, Mauri had surgery for the removal of lumps and on August 9th, Valli had surgery for the removal of one lump. Mauri’s was benign but Valli was diagnosed with breast cancer. Valli started chemo treatments on September 22nd, a non-aggressive treatment due to the heart attack she had three years ago. She had a treatment every three weeks for six weeks (aggressive treatments would have been 4 weeks.) At this time she has two treatments left presently scheduled for 12/15/05 and 1/6/06 if all goes according to schedule. She will have a break of about one month then they will do 36 radiation treatments. After that she will be put on a medication (Tamoxicilin) for five years.

We had another family member who was fighting cancer this year. My brother Leo’s wife Bonnie Lee was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2004. It had mastizied to her liver. She had kemo and has done so much better than we expected.

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between the two types of treatment we may go to N. Myrtle for a month.

On October 3, Valli’s son Ben broke his leg practicing football at his high school. He was out of school for 2 months and returned on 11/30/05. (Note: By early February 2006 he was beginning to be able to put weight on his foot again.). In November their dog was diagnosed with brain cancer and is on phenobarbitol for seizures. Valli’s daughter Valida is attending college and works at Rochester General.

Howie and Nancy now have two grandsons and two granddaughters. One family lives in Plattsburgh and the other in Canton. We all manage to keep very busy and hope for health in the coming year!

The Youngest Daughters on the Farm

Five generations have lived on the farm (now called 96 Durocher Road) in Clayburg, New York, that Louis Napoleon Durocher and Cecelia Coulombe Durocher bought in 1912. The family moved from a log home that Louis had built on Pup Hill Road to the two-story plaster and lath home, that boasted acres of land as well as bead board in the kitchen and dining room and other features that made it a desirable home. Cecelia was proud to add chandeliers in the living room and parlor of her new home. The sweat equity of ridding the house of bed bugs and finding all the places the cats had used as litter boxes was part of the process of making the house theirs.

From 1911 to 2006, nearly a century has passed and the walls of the house on the farm have sheltered 24 children as they grew, Louis’s 8, Nelson Harold’s 11, Nelson Lewis’s 4, and Ina’s 1, have played, prayed, giggled and cried in that house. Ah! If walls could talk!

There have been five generations of children that have reached maturity on the farm. In each generation the youngest child has been a girl, Beatrice, Beverly, Ina Rose, and Ashley.

Beatrice Durocher Hall, the youngest of Louis and Cecelia’s children, was a toddler when her family moved to the farm. Beverly Theresa Durocher Morgan was the youngest of the 11 children born to Nelson and Rose Eva Gagné. Ina Rose Durocher was the youngest of Nelson and Loraine Wood Durocher’s 4 children who grew up at the farm. Ashley Durocher is the only child of Ina Rose Durocher and Ronald Terry.

While Bea and her siblings were not born on the farm, eight of Nelson and Rose

Eva’s children were born at home; Nelson, Eileen, Maddie, Rita, Lea, Millie, and Ray were all born at home at the farm. The family story is that when Eileen was born in the downstairs bedroom next to the stairway, little Nelson took a look at his baby sister, and then wanted to put her back in the dresser drawer. To his young mind he was ready for things to return to “normal.”

Because the last four of Rose Eva’s pregnancies endangered her health, her last four children, Elsie, Laura, Yvonne and Beverly, were born in a hospital and then went home to the farm.

When Nelson and Loraine moved to the farm, Leo Wood (Loraine’s son), Nelson, Terry, and Ina Rose were already born, having been born in Plattsburgh and returning to live in the homestead of Loraine’s father in Riverview. The house on the farm remained empty for a few years after Nelson’s Harold’s death and his grown children had left home. Then Nelson and Lorraine moved back into the house at the farm. Nelson has always loved the farm. “I do not need to travel,” he will tell you, “I know where I want to be.” Where he wants to be is on the farm where he was born.

Ina Rose was living on the farm when Ashley was born. So, like, her Great Aunts, Elsie, Laura, Yvonne and Beverly, Ashley was born in Plattsburgh and then she went home to the farm as an infant.

1911__When Beatrice lived on the farm it was a working farm with animals as well as a garden and it supported the extended family; Louis and his wife Cecelia and Louis’s father Alexander, and newly married Louis and Blanche his wife, and Nelson and Rose Eva and their family. There was a full compliment of barns from a cow barn to a hay barn and granary (which still remain in 2004) to a chicken coop, pig pen and sundry other outbuildings. The family continued to purchase additional parcels of land through the years.

Beatrice had a pet dog, Fido that she hooked up to a cart for rides around the farm. Wood stoves were used to heat the house and cook the food. There was no indoor plumbing, just a cistern in the shed with a hand pump to bring up the water. It was carried by pail or bucket to the areas where it was needed in the house. There was no indoor toilet. Where the bathroom is now was a closet. The two-seater outhouse, one hole for full-grown bottoms, one for smaller bottoms, was attached to the


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woodshed so no one had to go outside in the snow to get to the bathroom. This was quite a luxury. But still, the trip was through unheated portions of the house. Yes, the updating of adding a bathroom with running water did not sit well with everyone. Alexander was quite disturbed by the idea of bringing the outhouse into the house. New kitchen cupboards were also added to the kitchen. In Bea’s younger years the transportation was by horse and buggy. Bea was living on the farm when she developed her love affair with automobiles. She learned to drive a Model T car at the farm. This was at a time when no other woman in the family knew how to drive. Through her adult years she and husband Bill purchased a new automobile every three years and kept it clean and shining. Beatrice had been married for three years when Beverly Durocher was born.

Beatrice and Bill Hall had no children. 1946__While Beverly Durocher

Morgan lived on the farm it gradually became a garden farm rather than an animal farm. The last pig and chickens were slaughtered, the horses replaced by a tractor. The vegetables grown there were often taken to Pray’ Market in Plattsburgh, N.Y or sold at Nelson Durocher Jr’s auto repair garage down on Route 3.

She remembers when the horse Bill was bought at auction. She remembers the old workhouse Old Prince who was retired from working, and remembers when Prince died and finally when the team Bill and Ginger were sold when the horses were phased out by a tractor. She remembers when her father and sisters went for Sunday drives with Uncle Bill and Aunt Bea. Yvonne and Beverly were kept occupied by playing “the horse game”. Beverly and her sister Yvonne would count horses and the one who saw the largest number would win. Over the years there were less and less horses to count in the countryside.

When her father Nelson Harold (Earl) Durocher Sr. came to retirement age and he could no longer sell milk that was not collected by a milking machine, he sold the cows that had kept him on a grueling schedule of milking and feeding twice a day for nearly every day of his life. The routine changed for the years he was in the service and short breaks form time to time such as when he and Rose Eva went on their short honeymoon. Tuffy the farm dog had passed to his final resting place but the English

Shepherd, King still did his job, barking excitedly to keep that tractor going and on track.

Beverly remembers when they got a refrigerator and a gas stove for cooking. She, and her older siblings, remember how the frost would form on the inside of the windows and they would go running with a handful of clothing to stand by the open oven door in the wood stove to dress where it was warm. Beverly remembers the wonder of having a transistor radio! Ah! Being able to take music wherever you go, what a marvel! What wonderful advances were being made! Men had landed on the moon and nearly every house had a television—even a COLOR television! She remembers when there was a telephone installed. Brother Ray needed to have a way for his work at the mill in Plattsburgh, to contact him. You and three of your closest neighbors could eavesdrop on one another on a party line and one phone book had the name and number of EVERY person and business in your area! What wonderful modern conveniences! The year that Beverly graduated form high school Ina Rose was born.

Beverly and Bill Morgan have two children and 3 grandchildren.

1964__ Like Bea and her siblings Ina Rose was not a newborn infant when she moved into he farm. Ina was about four years old in 1968, when her family moved back to the farm. By that time the farm was no longer the sole support of the family. Nelson Louis also worked at the Dannamora Prison as a correction officer full time and farmed in his off hours. Nelson and Loraine spruced up the old farmhouse; they added insulation, rewired and added a wood-burning furnace in the cellar as well as remodeled the kitchen, put in new windows and added closed-in front porches. Nelson III, remembers tearing down the barns as they became less sturdy and removed the stone walls around the fields; the same stone walls Eileen remembered helping her father Nelson I and her grandfather Louis build.

Then there were snowmobiles to travel when the roads got blocked with snow, and VCR’s so you no longer had to settle for watching one of the 3 local television stations. Home movies starring your family could be made at home and popped right into the television! You could rent a movie to watch any time you wanted! Each family could have its own private telephone line. There were even answering machines. You could get messages

1918- Beatrice Durocher(Hall) with her dog Fido.

About 1949- BeverlyDurocher (Morgan)

1965 (April) - Ina RoseDurocher was 10 monthsold

1993 (October) - AshleyLorraine Durocher ( 9years old and in Grade 5 )

2005, Clayburg N. Y. BonnieLeeand Leo Myers with their children,Front (left to right) BonnieLee andLeo Myers Back (left – Right) IllyaMyers, Tonya Murray, Joy Sarbou-Jubert and Scott Myers

2005, Clayburg N.Y. Leo and BonnieLeeMyers and their grand children

Front row: Left to right Nathalie Jubert,Bonnielee Myers, Madeline Murray, LeoMyers, Miya Myers

Back Row (left to right) Abriana Myers,Cody Sarbou, Anna Renee Sarbou

(center) 2005, Canton, New York Lita MyersMaroney and Mike Maroney and children at theMaroney’s 50th Wedding Anniversary Celebra-tion. L to R, Howie Maroney, Maurie EllenMaroney, Valli Maroney Genditzki

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2000: Taken at the Durocher Family Reunion in Redford New ... · Jacques, Jacque, Jean Baptiste Joseph, Jean . Generations: The Story of the Durocher/Gagné Family Volume 11 #1, 2006