Walking in the Steps of my Ancestors - Part Two (Maison Alexis Parent)
The Alexis Parent House is not as magnificent as the Marguerite Marie Parent house but it is not any less interesting. For the Marguerite Marie Parent house there was a lot of information that was not that difficult to find with a little work. For the Alexis Parent house all I had was a name, an address and an old picture from 1920 of the house. Using the information that we had, my wife and I found the house. I took pictures of the house and the historical plaque above that was attached to the outside wall of the house. Alexis Parent was born on July 17, 1840. He was the eleventh of thirteen children of Joseph Parent (1807) and Marguerite Belanger (1797). It is interesting to note that Marguerite was ten years older than Joseph, there is another story here to be explored. Alexis married Adele Paquet (1852) on August 2, 1869. Alex was twenty - nine years old and Adele was only seventeen years which was not all that unusual in those days. Alexis and Adele had five children Ledia, ...