Could someone check the original record for Nicolas and see if he also used the name Joseph. On his son Josephs record of death in Lowell, MA., USA  his mother is listed as Angelique Audet but his father is listed as Joseph. Yes this is the correct family connection.

Thank You,

Gary Knight

Nicolas Carpentier had a brother with the name Joseph who married Josephte Beauregard.

The name Nicolas is probably known like Joseph Nicolas too.

Thanks for the reply. It's interesting that son Joseph married as his third wife Aurelia Beauregard born about 1845. I don't have the marriage record though. 1880 census has Aurelia as wife and the four children born to them.

Gary Knight

Here's a link to the marriage record ( M25 ) of Joseph Carpentier and Aurélie Beauregard: 

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G99Q-39CK-Q?i=135&wc=9RLN-BZ9%3A21019501%2C25638201%2C25638202%3Fcc%3D1321742&cc=1321742

Yves.

On all the records we can find for Carpentier and Angélique Audette, the given name used is Nicolas.  Except for one in 1822 for the baptism record of his son Joseph.

Yves.

Here's a link for Nicolas' baptism act on September 27 1783  ( act 18 ) :

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-899Q-QRHN?i=274&wc=9RLJ-HZS%3A21019501%2C17174802%2C25310301%3Fcc%3D1321742&cc=1321742

Yves.

Yves, Thank You. Failure on my part. Bad note keeping. One oddity and that is 1880 census has Joseph age 55 making birth 1825. On his death record, 15Jun1896, he is listed as being 69y, 11m, 10d which would agree with 1825 birth. Doesn't mean the church record isn't correct. He may have been trying to appear younger than he actually was when wooing the much younger Aurelia.

Thanks Again,

Gary Knight

By using this birthdate calculator  (  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~simoneau/agedate.htm ), we got July 5th 1826.  In fact, it was July 5th 1822.  The church is not in error because relatives gave this date to the priest for his records.  Joseph made an error and think he was born in 1826.  It happens frequently in these times.  There was no identity papers of any sort.  Here's his baptism act  ( B277 ) :

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G99Q-79HS-V?i=91&wc=9RLJ-RMS%3A21019501%2C17174802%2C21826901%3Fcc%3D1321742&cc=1321742

Yves.

Yves, Thank You again. I wasn't questioning the church record. I've learned over the decades to take stated dates with some latitude. I don't read, write or speak french but I do know how to use a translater. Slow but gets the job done. After learning of a parent being adopted, not born, to the family that I thought were my grand-parents and three months of piecing the new family, Carpentier, together with the help of here, LDS, NEHGS and the Lowell Sun newspaper I am feeling very lucky.

Thank You again,

Gary Knight

also on catholic church records males had the name of joseph and females had the name maey or marie. so my father church records says joseph   raymond dumont butall other times he signed as raymond a .dumont