Memere Ducharme's Mother

I am sharing from my great great grandmother's mother. These were found in an album in my Grandmother's attic. It belonged to Amanda Laporte, Ducharme, a weaver from Claremont, NH. The photos appear to be from her childhood around 1860.

She was listed as an inmate in 1900 Taunton State Hospital.

My contributions on the FamilySearch.org are shared with respect by Memere Ducharme who left this album of genealogical records. Her granddaughter was the youngest of four women, my grand mother. This branch of the tree were known in the various census as weavers and seamstress.

Amanda Brouillard LaPorte Ducharme lived in Newport, Vt with her only son, Elphage.

My great great grandmother, Amanda Brouillard. She married Pierre Isadore Laporte of St. Hyacinth, Quebec. They had five children. Two survived childhood. My great grandfather, Elphage Laporte smoked hand rolled cigarettes and made homemade decoupage from his rocking chair in his old age. He did live to be 89 and died a short time after my own grandfather passed.

Adeline LeBeau Brouillard was born at St. Cuthbert. The surname of Brouillard in French: habitational name from (Le) Brouillard, the name of several places mainly in the west-central part of France, derived from Old Occitan brolh, brouil ‘copse enclosed by a wall or hedge’.

These are the Catholic churches where my ancestry was baptized, married and buried.