Peter Pierre Eugène Bechard b. Oct 1852 Canada: Our Family History

Peter Pierre Eugène Bechard

1852 -

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Name	Peter Pierre Eugène Bechard [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Birth	Oct 1852	Canada [4, 5]
Gender	Male
Arrival	1867 [4]
Arrival	1870 [5]
Residence	1900	Van Buren, Aroostook, Maine, USA [4]
	Occupation: Carpenter; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
Residence	1910	Van Buren, Aroostook, Maine, USA [5]
	Occupation: Carpenter; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
Person ID	I292662657381	Alwin2025
Last Modified	23 Apr 2025

Father	Thomas Bechard, b. Canada d. 31 Jan 1901, Van Buren, Aroostook, Maine, USA
Mother	Marcelline Dubé, b. 11 Nov 1827, Cacouna, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada d. 11 Oct 1916, Van Buren, Aroostook, Maine, USA (Age 88 years)
Marriage	27 Jun 1848	Cacouna, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada [4, 6]
Family ID	F2790	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Marie Elise Guerette, b. Dec 1852, Maine, USA

Marriage 1872 [1, 4, 7]

Children

1. Wilfred Bechard, b. 25 Mar 1894, Frenchville, Aroostook, Maine, USA

d. 27 Oct 1980, Caribou, Aroostook, Maine, USA

(Age 86 years)

Family ID F15784 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 23 Apr 2025

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[S965673094] Institut Généalogique Drouin; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Drouin Collection; Author: Gabriel Drouin, comp.
[S965667050] Year: 1900; Census Place: Van Buren, Aroostook, Maine; Roll: 588; Page: 9; Enumeration District: 0014.

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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.