TROIS RIVIERES, QUEBEC, CANADA

Between the years 1825 to 1845, 60% of all immigrants to Canada were Irish . . . During this time, Canada

was the destination of the most destitute Irish Catholics cleared from land estates . . . Passage fares to

Canada were much lower than those to the United States . . . due to such factors as distance and the use of

empty, returning timber ships to transport the masses. The great majority of Irish Catholics arrived in

Grosse Isle, an island in Quebec in the St. Lawrence River, which housed the immigration reception station.

– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Canadian

Routes to the principal settlements in Lower Canada [lower on Saint Lawrence River - the southern portion

of present-day Québec] are as follow: . . . Eastern Townships of Lower Canada. The present route is to

Three Rivers, 90 miles above Quebec, by steam-boat – http://jubilation.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/

papers/emigrants 1832.html

Children of John Devine and Rose Ann McGaughan

Born in Ireland

1. Berd/Barnet “Barney” 1) Born 11 July 1823 in his obituary

2) Born 11 July 1822 in notarized copy of Barney & Abigail’s family Bible

3) Born January 1819 in Clonfeacle parish baptism record

4) Referred to as the senior brother in, History of Kossuth County, Iowa, The

Irvington Country-1856-1864, Benjamin F. Reed, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.

(Chicago) 1913

5) Recently Mr. Devine discovered that he was born three years earlier than he

calculated when . . . --Algona Upper Des Moines, 17 June 1903, page 5

6) Birth year on gravestone 1823

2. John

1) Born 26 January 1819 in his obituary

2)

Born 25 February 1822 in Clonfeacle parish baptism record

3. Frank

Born about 1825, undocumented

4. Margaret

Born about 1827, undocumented

Born in Trois Rivieres

5. Mary

Baptized 30 August 1831. Last record 1871census when she was single

6. John “James”

Baptized 25 May 1833. Buried 21 April 1856, age 22, probably single

7. Eleonore

Baptized 28 April 1836. Buried 28 September 1836, age 5 months

8. Francois Xavier “Frank” Baptized 28 April 1836. Died 26 March 1897, age 56.

9. Sara Philomene

Baptized 12 May 1838. Buried 31 May 1838, age 21 days

10. Georgianna “Anne”

Baptized 22 March 1840. Buried 8 June 1860, probably single

11. Marguerite “Maggie” Baptized 21 July 1842. Buried 3 November 1924, age 74, unmarried

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Rachel (Scherf) Levine

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