Lucien BELANGER
Lucien and Leda went to the mills in Fall River Massachusetts. Manywent there to work in the mills. Lucien and Leda went back to Leda's hometown to be married but returned to work in Fall River, Massachusetts. Theyhad Alice and Alma in Fall River and then went back to Saint Pascal, Canada,where they had Stella. They heard that Grand Falls was a good place and wentthere by train. Lucien arrived with a wife, 3 children & 1 child on the waywith 10 cents in his pocket. He knew a man there who gave them dinner and letthem stay overnight. He bought a small house and started a blacksmith business. Lucien was born and brought up in Saint Alexandre, Quebec, Canada. Hewent by the initials J.L. to most who knew him. At the age of 14, he went toGreen Island (L'Isle Verte), which is located South of Riviere du Loup.There, he began his apprenticeship as a blacksmith at the salary of five centsper day. He met his future wife, Leda Gagnon, while working at L'Isle Verte.When Lucien was 18 years of age, he and Leda were married. There is a possibility that Lucien's birth year is 1868. Lucien died of cancer at age 70 yrs, 6 months. Leda and Lucien had 12 children, 7 daughters, 5 sons. They celebratedtheir 50th wedding anniversary on 26 OCT 1937 in Grand Falls, New Brunswick,Canada They met and courted in Fall River, Massachusetts, while working atthe mills there. According to Marina Belanger McCormack, Lucien Belanger married LedaGagnon on 26 OCT 1887 in Isle Verte, Quebec, Canada.
As listed on Joseph Emile Lucien Belanger's Marriage License,Parmella's birth place is Saint Alexandre. Parmella died at age 73, cause unknown.
Alma either died of diabetes or a heart attack at age 61 years, 8months.
Since Rosanna died at birth, she was stillborn, Lucien and Parmellanamed another daughter Rosanna. That daughter, Rose died at age 60 of aheart attack.
Alice died at age 92.
Estelle had the devil in her, like her brothers. The Pirie's livednext door and they were thought to be the RICH people of Grand Falls.Mrs. Pirie would sit on her balcony and rock while yelling at the kids going by.Well, Mrs. Pirie wore a lot of makeup and powdered her face. One day, Estelle (or Stella as she was always called) walked by andgot Mrs. Pirie to yell at her. She then picked up her dress and showed her barebehind (mooned her) which she had already painted with make-up and powder sothat it looked like Mrs. Pirie's face. The Pirie's house was a reproductionof the house (Tara) in Gone with the Wind.
Emile died at age 63 from a brain tumor which he got after receiving astroke 7 years earlier.
Alexina was always called Sina by her family. Sina died at age 81 ofa heart attack.
Laura met Arthur while working as a waitress for Stella (Arthur'ssister) and Joe McClure. (There wasn't enough sure material for me to extrapolate to a FamilyGroup Record for this entry. My guess is that this Arthur married someonenamed Laura [surname unknown] and that they had the children as shown below.The marriages shown below, with given names but few surnames, are notaccompnanied by any really useable data. Too bad. The recorder obviously knew whothe people were but was, apparently, just too lazy to include all thematerial available. JFN,1997) Arthur's children: Lilian (Zoone) married Arthur Walker Lucien (Pish) married Irene. Vivian (Mike) married Rita Elmer (Blou) married Irene Carmelita (Carm) married Camille Adrien (Tatoon) married Pauline Cyr Yvonne married Rï¿[1/2]n Arthur (Junior) married Marie Anne Martin married Odette Lucille (Minou) married Onille Nora married Elude Joseph (Joe) married Mary Lou Romeo (Mickey) married Joyce
Died at 87 years of age, cause unknown.
Dollard and Alphena had a child (Robert) that died in a house fire.Dollard's brother Gerald always said Dollard was probably his closest friend.From personal knowledge, his brother George was certainly a close second.Dollard and his brothers were always up to something and it usually let themget into trouble for it. The neighbors (Pirie's) were renovating the house, one time, andDollard talked the brothers into tieing up a goat in the tent where thefurniture was stored. This was after they fed the goat cabbage and castor oil. Theresult was messy and unuseable furniture. The Pirie house was a reproductionof TARA, the house in Gone with the Wind. Dollard died at the age of 70 of a heart attack.
When Gerald died, he was at work in his shop in Caribou, Maine. Atage 66 he was still working with his sons at Belanger's Auto Electric and thereis where he died of a heart attack. Joseph Louis Gerald Belanger was baptized on 30 JAN 1910 by FatherHenry Jayner, in Grand Falls. Godparents were Mr & Mrs Louis Beaulieu (AuntAlma). Gerald was confirmed on 20 JUN 1920 by Bishop O'Leary in Grand FallsNew Brunswick. Gerald is buried in a plot next to the road in the cemetery just Eastof Holy Rosary Church in Caribou (next to the bypass highway), Maine. Thiswas always a beautiful spot until they put the highway in next to the cemetery. At his Naturalization as a US Citizen in Caribou, Maine on 05 FEB1941, Gerald signed the paper as Gerald Louis Belanger but they typed in GeraldLewis Belanger. He was 31 and they noted, on the document, his nationalityas British. Gerald and Irene were married by Reverend J J Fournier, SM, in thepresence of Lucien Belanger and Louis Philippe Michaud as witnesses. Gerald'smother had been against his marrying all along and was conveniently ill on theday of the wedding and could not attend.
He married Parmella Gagnon 26 Oct 1887 at L'Isle Verte, Riviere du Loup, Quebec, Canada . Parmella Gagnon was born at L'Isle Verte, Riviere du Loup, Quebec Canada 2 Dec 1870 .
They were the parents of 11
children:
Alma Belanger
Rosanna Belanger
born Abt 1899.
Alice Belanger
born 1888.
Emma Belanger
born 20 Sep 1892.
Joseph Emile Lucien Belanger
born 14 Dec 1894.
Alexandra Belanger
born 31 Dec 1897.
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Lucien Belanger died 18 Apr 1939 at Grand Falls, Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada .
Parmella Gagnon died 27 Jan 1943 at Saint Basile, Madawaska, New Brunswick, Canada .