François Xavier Richard b. 1877 Cacourna,Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada d. 15 Nov 1935 Old Town, Penobscot, Maine, USA: Our Family History

François Xavier Richard

1877 - 1935 (58 years)

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Name	François Xavier Richard [2, 3]
Birth	1877	Cacourna,Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada [3]
Gender	Male
Death	15 Nov 1935	Old Town, Penobscot, Maine, USA
Person ID	I290185999474	Alwin2025
Last Modified	23 Apr 2025

Father	Joseph Richard, b. 22 Oct 1841, Rivière-Ouelle, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada d. 17 Feb 1916, Old Town, Penobscot, Maine, USA (Age 74 years)
Mother	Euphémie Gauthier dit Larouche, b. 9 Sep 1847, Lower Canada d. 21 Sep 1914, Old Town, Penobscot, Maine, USA (Age 67 years)
Marriage	1867	Cacouna, Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada [4]
Family ID	F7535	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Claudia Marie Paradis, b. 19 Mar 1881, Old Town, Penobscot, Maine, USA d. 6 Dec 1927, Old Town, Penobscot, Maine, USA (Age 46 years)

Marriage 15 Apr 1901 Old Town, Maine, USA [3]

Children

	1. Leona Marie Richard, b. 4 Apr 1904, Old Town, Penobscot, Maine, USA d. 21 Oct 1995, Bangor, Penobscot, Maine, USA (Age 91 years)
	2. Living

Family ID F6861 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 23 Apr 2025

[S965666108] Ancestry Family Tree.
[S968444766] Maine State Archives; Cultural Building, 84 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0084; 1908-1922 Vital Records; Roll Number: 47.
[S968423476] Maine State Archives; Cultural Building, 84 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0084; 1892-1907 Vital Records; Roll Number: 47.
[S966834856] Institut Généalogique Drouin; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Author: Gabriel Drouin, comp.

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My earliest European ancestors in North America were probably Nicolas Marsolet and Louis Hébert. However, one of my 8th great-grandmothers, the wife of Philippe Mius d'Entremont, was a Native North American of the Mi'kmaq tribe. Unfortunately, there is uncertainty about her name. She may have been called Kjipuktuk. In modern times, the name Marie Coyote Blanc has been assigned to her, but there is no evidence that this was actually her name. Her ancestors would obviously been in North America long before Europeans arrived.

The French-Canadian lines of my family tree can be confirmed by literaly thousands of DNA links that support the family tree as mapped out. And, due to a couple of lucky DNA links to 3rd cousins in Sweden, with well-documented family trees of their own, I can extend my Swedish roots back several centuries. The German links have proved much more difficult, and in most cases, I have been unable to trace my German ancestors much further back in time than their arrival in North America.