William Joseph Desrosiers b. 24 Mar 1895 Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, USA d. 9 Sep 1956 Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, USA: Our Family History

William Joseph Desrosiers

1895 - 1956 (61 years)

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Name	William Joseph Desrosiers
Birth	24 Mar 1895	Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, USA
Gender	Male
Death	9 Sep 1956	Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, USA
Person ID	I292508407979	Alwin2025
Last Modified	23 Apr 2025

Father	Joseph Desrosiers dit Dutremble, b. 26 Mar 1869, St-Alexandre, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada d. 16 May 1947, Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, USA (Age 78 years)
Mother	Marie Cedulie Ouellet, b. 10 Sep 1873, L'Isle-Verte, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada d. 5 Apr 1912, Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, USA (Age 38 years)
Marriage	19 mai 1891	L'Isle-Verte, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada
Family ID	F261	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Marie Bernadette Poulin, b. 14 May 1902, Beauceville, Beauce, Quebec, Canada d. 13 Nov 1980, Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, USA (Age 78 years)

Marriage 3 Aug 1919 Waterville, Kennebec, Maine, USA

Children

1. Raymond J Desrosiers, b. 6 Aug 1924, Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, USA

d. 6 Jul 1972, Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, USA

(Age 47 years)

Family ID F221 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 23 Apr 2025

Sources
[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.