Looking for Joseph LaFontaine - husband of Jane Mccormick, father of Margaret
Here is what I have looking to fill in the holes - Joseph LaFountian
Birth: could be 1806 per US census
1808, Canada East Chambly (also have records showing 1805 and 1811)
Death: 1909???
Jefferson County, New York, USA
Mother:???
Father: ???
1825 Joseph Lafontaine crewed on the vessel Chambly from Montreal to Ottawa with the St. Lawrence Steamboat Company
sidebar: 1827 the Rideau Canal was being built and a number of irish imigrants came to the area for work.
1830 (There are no assessment tolls for 1832, 1833, 1834) A large group of people that came into Osgoode Township on the 4th and 5th concession. Daniel O’Connor and Joseph Lafontaine each cleared 3 acres of land – Joseph may have been living in Glouscester previous (1981 Osgoode township historical Society and Museum (http://www.osgoodemuseum.ca/download.php?id=164)
Early Pioneers traveling to Osgoode would come up the St. Lawrence to near Prescott and then take the high ground to Gloucester.
*** Osgoode township Historical society and museum have information on Joseph Vol. 7. No 2 (1981) – mail 7814 Lawrence St., box 74 Vernon ON K0A 3J0 – phone: 613-821-4062 fax 613-821-3140 email manager@osgoodemuseum.ca
Notre Dame Cathedral, Bytown (Ottawa, Canada) -- Marriages
www.bytown.net/notredamemarriages.htm
Joseph Lafontaine to Jane McCormick 29 Sep.
1833 9 Sep Joseph Lafontaine to Jane McCormick
Notre Dame Cathedral
Notre Dame Cemetery Ottawa
455 Montreal Road
Ottawa ON K1K 0V2
The phone number is (613) 746-4175
1836-1842 Joseph Jr , Margaret and Martin Lafontaine all baptism Ottawa Ontario Basilique Notre Dame all within a1836-1840
1842 – Joseph lafountain living in Osgoode Township he paid taxes on lot 9 conc 4. I also found a Hugh Mccormick married to a Marget Busby lot 12 conc 8 (these could be Jane’s parents) There was also a Patrick H. Mark Mccormick , a Andrew McCormick and a John McCormick living in Osgoode at that time.
1851
I have a Jane McCormick passing in 1851
NAME:
Jane McCormick
BIRTH DATE:
1811
DEATH DATE:
9 Aug 1851
CEMETERY:
Killean Cemetery
BURIAL OR CREMATION PLACE:
Killean, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada
HAS BIO?:
N
Mother's name Jane, father's name John. John McCormick's first son was John, and he had a daughter named Jane. January birth month fits with death record. Other John McCormicks born in Antrim in 1820 & 1814 had these parent names: Henry, Ellen, Thomas, Mary.
(Osgoode (also known as Osgoode Village) is a population centre in Osgoode Ward in the rural south end of Ottawa, Canada. It is located just 2km east of the Rideau River.) http://www.osgoodemuseum.ca/download.php?id=71
volume xxvi no2 june 1999 newsletter from the local historical society
The above is confirmed with the marriage record of Margaret Lafontaine’s marrage to Stephen Furlong
ID No:
855424
Firstname:
Marguerite
Name:
Lafontaine
Gender:
F
Occupation:
Born:
1841 about
Parish/City:
Osgoode Township, ON
Country:
Death:
Parish/City:
Country:
Information, Other Kids, Notes, etc.
Daughter of Joseph Lafountain and Jane Lafountain
1855 New York Census have Joseph living in Orleans, Jefferson County New York with his children:
John (b1846/1845),
Patrick ( b1844),
Margaret (b1842),
Martin(b1840),
Joseph Jr. (b1838),
Michael (b1836) all born in Canada. Along with a servant Elizabeth Nagene and one other servant. Joseph’s occupation is listed as a Wood Chopper
