Sunday 21 April 2013

Marie Archange Laroche 1811 - 1895? or 1901?

Marie Archange Laroche was the mother of Thomas Cole who was my third great - grandfather. She was born in December 1811 at Quebec City, Quebec to Gabriel Laroche and Genevieve Gaudin. She was one of eleven children that included Marie Eleonore (1803), Gabriel (1805), Genevieve (1806), Marguerite (1806), Josephte (1807), Amable (1815), Narcisse (1818), Edouard (1820), Francois (1823), and Flavie (1824).

She married James Ezekiel Cole at the age of 14 on April 2, 1826 at Richmond, Carleton county, Upper Canada. In the 1852 census they were living in Horton, Renfrew County, Canada West, however by 1871 she is noted living back in Quebec. By this time she was a widow and I suspect she moved to be closer to her siblings. In the 1880 census she is living the Catskill Mountain area of New York State, but by 1881 she is back in Canada living in St Marys Ward, Montreal. I am having issues finding her exact date of death, but she died sometime between 1895 and 1901 and is buried at Bonaventure, Quebec.

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