Lorraine Rivard b. Abt 1928 Massachusetts d. Abt 2023: Our Family History

Lorraine Rivard

Abt 1928 - Abt 2023 (95 years)

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Name	Lorraine Rivard [1, 2, 3, 4]
Birth	Abt 1928	Massachusetts [1, 2, 3]
Gender	Female
Residence	1930	Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA [2]
	Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head: Daughter
Residence	1935	Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts [1]
Residence	1940	Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA [1]
	Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head: Daughter
Death	Abt 2023 [3]
Burial	16 Sep 2023 [3]
Person ID	I292230129956	Alwin2025
Last Modified	23 Apr 2025

Father	Thomas Rivard, b. 16 août 1883, Mont-Carmel, Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada d. 27 Jul 1967, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA (Age 84 years)
Mother	Marie Anne Marion Dumais, b. 18 Jan 1886, St-Pascal, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada d. Abt 1960 (Age 73 years)
Marriage	30 août 1904	St-Pascal, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada [5]
Family ID	F14994	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family	James Leahey
Family ID	F2182	Group Sheet \| Family Chart
Last Modified	23 Apr 2025

[S965665967] Year: 1940; Census Place: Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts; Roll: m-t0627-01706; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 22-19.
[S965666717] Year: 1930; Census Place: Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 0003; FHL microfilm: 2340643.
[S1067891577] The Republican; Publication Date: 2023; Publication Place: Springfield, Massachusetts, USA; URL: https://obits.masslive.com/us/obituaries/masslive/name/lorraine-leahey-obituary?id=53057103.
[S1067997467] The Springfield Union; Publication Date: 28 Jul 1967; Publication Place: Springfield, Massachusetts, USA; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/1071285938/?article=830ff215-7051-4236-b482-98669ee2d669&focus=0.38416258,0.26368105,0.50183266,0.4792929&xid=33.
[S965666108] Ancestry Family Tree.

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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.