First Muirs of the Province of Quebec, Including Two Millers, James and William Muir, Their Origins in Scotland : The Descendants of James Muir of Beloeil, Vercheres, Quebec, Who Settled in Various Towns in Quebec, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachus

by Phillips, Edward Wallace

• ISBN13: 9781475932843
• ISBN10: 1475932847
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-06-28
• Publisher: Textstream

Summary

The First Muirs of The Province of Quebec is the first professional research effort to identify all of the early Muir's who arrived after the French and Indian War which ended in 1763. Their origins and relationships are explored and parents identified for the first time for some of them. Evidence is presented herein that the Two Millers, James and William Muir, were brothers and were possibly related to Adam and Archibald Muir. James and William's Scottish origins were discovered as were their siblings. The Descendants of James Muir of Beloeil, Vercheres, Quebec, are documented through five generations to include all descendants that could be identified. Many of the spouses of these descendants and their parents were also identified for the first time. Many descendants migrated to Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Connecticut and Massachusetts to work in the mills that were springing up in the nineteenth century there. The variation of French names which changed from record to record as well as the French custom of dit names were major challenges that had to be overcome in this research.

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Second Generation 3. JACQUES MUIR (James), son of James Muir and Marie Archange Hébert, was born the 3 January and baptized at St Marc-sur-Richelieu parish, Vercheres, Québec, 4 January 1799. He died 2 November and was buried at St. Charles-sur-Richelieu, Vercheres, 4 November 1843 age 44. He married in St. Mathieu de Beloeil, Vercheres, 26 January 1818 MARIE LOUISE DUCHESNEAU/[DUCHAINEAU], born 19 January 1802 and baptized at St. Marc-sur-Richelieu the same day, daughter of Andre Duchesneau and Josèphe Nadeau. She was still living when her second husband died in 1865 and was living with her son Leon in 1871. Louise married secondly in St. Charles-sur-Richelieu Church 8 September 1851 JEAN BAPTISTE PLAMONDON, widower of Marie Mayotte [sic, Maillotte], and baptized at Notre Dame du Rosaire parish, St. Hyacinthe, 12 December 1789, son of Pierre Plamondon and Magdeleine Deranteau. He died 24 June and was buried at St. Hyacinthe Cathedral 26 June 1865 age 75 years 8 months. On 22 January 1818 they had a marriage contract drawn up by the notary Louis Chicou Duvert, when Jacques was 19 and Louise was 16. Jacques owned 80 acres of land at St. Jean Baptiste parish and consented to douaire prefix [a specified sum paid by the future husband to his wife] and préciput [a sum reserved to the survivor]. Louise brought a dot [clothes, animals, furniture]. Witnesses were both of their parents as well as William Muir (brother), Jean Baptiste Hébert (great uncle), Angelique Brissett (great aunt), Philippe Hébert (uncle), Jean Baptiste Hébert (uncle), Marie-Anne Beaudry (aunt), Josephte Hébert (Aunt), Christopher Brodeur, Michel Meunier, Antoine Chicoine, Marie Anne Poulin, Joseph Vegiard dit Labonte, Julie Blanchard, Alexis Gervais, Catherine Gelineau, Charles Duhamel, Geneviève Dion, Jean Baptiste Brodeau, Constant Brodeur, Joachim Lemoine, Andre, Jean Baptiste, Charles and Josephte Duchesneau, Antoine Dion, Pierre Champoux, Brigite Adams, Antoine Brodeur, Michel St. Pierre, Christine Veraneau, Jean Côté, Gervias Gosselin and Lucien Dion! On 12 April 1820 James Muir, Sr., granted a mortgage to his son James, Jr. (Jacques) for a sum of 700 livres and 20 shillings, a sum that had been granted by James Muir (Sr.) under the terms of a land rent by Joseph Hébert to François Noiseaux on 8 March 1802. James, Jr. put up a 78 acre lot at St. Jean Baptiste to guarantee the mortgage from his father. This land was southwest of Michel Champoux, next to Joseph Courtemanche, behind Yamaska lands, and next to Charlotte ___. On 26 December 1827 James Muir, Jr., agreed to pay Joseph Toussaint Drolet, Esq., Merchant, of the parish of St. Marc, the sum of twelve hundred eighty two pounds, plus six percent interest for a promissory note. Apparently James did not pay and the court of the King's Bench ordered the sheriff to issue a summons for James to appear in court in October 1828. James did not appear and on 18 October 1828 the court issued a judgment by default to Joseph Drolet, Esq., for fifty-three pounds nine shillings and a penny, plus interest, which was the balance of the promissory note dated 11 September of the previous year. In 1861 at St. Hyacinthe the Confessor parish, Jean Baptiste was a meunier (miller) age 73, and Louise Duchesneau his wife was age 66. In 1871 at St. Hyacinthe parish, Louise, a widow, was living with her son and daughter-in-law Leon and Sophronie Plamondon, age 69. Children of Jacques and Louise (Duchesneau) Muir: 7. i. LOUISE MUIR, born 18 March and baptized at St. Jean Baptiste de Rouville parish 19 March 1819; married JEAN BAPTISTE PLAMONDON. 8. ii. JACQUES MUIR, was born 4 March 1821 and baptized at St. Jean Baptiste de Rouville parish the same day; married SOPHIE YON/DION/GUYON. 9. iii. MARCEL[LIN] MUIR, born 6 April and baptized at St. Jean Baptiste de Rouville parish 7 April 1824; married MARIE AMABLE COUILLARD. 10. iv. ADELAIDE "DELIA" MUIR, born 14 March 1826 and baptized at St. Jean Baptiste de Rouville parish the same day; married AMABLE "EMIL" TARDIF/[TARDY]. v. CYPRIEN MUIR, born 28 February 1830 and baptized at St. Jean Baptiste de Rouville parish the same day; died 3 August and was buried there 5 August 1830 age 5 months. vi. ANATHALIE/VITALINE MUIR, born 9 May and baptized at St. Damase parish, Saint Hyacinthe county, 10 May 1831; died 22 December and was buried there 24 December 1837 age 6 years. vii. LOUIS THOMAS MUIR, born 31 August 1832 and baptized at St. Damase parish, Saint Hyacinthe, the same day; died 21 or 23 September and was buried there 24 September 1832. viii. NATALIE MUIR, born 3 January and baptized at St. Damase parish, 4 January 1835; married in St. Dominique Church, Bagot, Québec, 8 August 1854 AUGUSTIN FONTAINE, son of Augustin Fontaine [dit Laroche] and Agathe Poulin. No further record. 11. ix. SOPHRONIE MUIR, born 9 February and baptized at St. Damase parish, 10 February 1837; married LEON PLAMONDON. x. MARIE SOULANGE MUIR, born 29 April 1839 and baptized at St. Charles-sur-Richelieu parish the same day; died 19 May and was buried there 20 May 1839. xi. PHILOMENE MUIR, born 1 November 1840 and baptized in St. Charles-sur-Richelieu parish the same day; died there 10 November 1840.