Welcome to the Bright Branches Family Tree
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Historical Highlights
The American Revolution
Our patriot ancestors include:
George Klock (1714-1790)
Judge Jacob G Klock (1738-1814
William Knowlton (1738-1784)
Cornelius Beekman (1733-1790)
Joseph Hall Jr (1757-1831)
Thomas Fournier (1732-1808)
Mayflower Connections
We descend from families that came over on the Mayflower:
John Alden (1599-1687) and his wife Priscilla Mullins (1602-1685)
John Howland (1593-1672) and his wife Elizabeth Tilley (1607-1687)
and
William Brewster (1567-1644)
Mohawk Indian Heritage
My wife's family comes from Brantford, Ontario. She is able to trace her Mohawk lineage back to Joseph Brant (1743-1807). He was a famous Mohawk Indian chief that sided with the British during the American Revolution.
New France Pioneer
Jacques Goulet (1615-1688) is our French pioneer that was one of the first settlers of Quebec. Him and his wife arrived in New France in 1646. Most people with the Surname Goulet descend from this man.
Past Births
1673 - Louis Fournier in Québec, , Quebec, Canada
1694 - Marguerite Goulet in St Pierre, Ile d Orleans, Quebec, Canada
1704 - Marie Catherine Lussier in Varennes, Quebec, Canada
1714 - Marie Anne Letartre in Neuville, Quebec, Canada
1728 - Marie Madeleine Gueret dit Dumont in Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada
1738 - Pierre Augustin Goulet in St Augustin, Quebec, Canada
1755 - Barbe Goulet in Repentigny, Quebec, Canada
1780 - Marie Genevieve Gendron in St François de la Rivière Du Sud, Montmagny, Quebec, Canada
1796 - Charles Goulet in St Gervais, Bellechasse, Quebec, Canada
1808 - Isaac Lejeune dit Breard in Sts Gervais et Protais, Bellechasse, Quebec, Canada
1811 - Sarah Munro in Glassary, Argyll, Scotland
1824 - Marguerite Dagneau Dit Laprise in St Jean Baptiste, Rouville, Quebec, Canada
1838 - Benjamin Goulet in St Roch de l'Achigan, Quebec, Canada
1841 - Louis Goulet in St Antoine sur Richelieu, Quebec, Canada
1849 - Calixte Boutillier in St Athanase, Bleury, Quebec, Canada
1870 - Cyrille Bolduc in Bellechasse, Quebec, Canada
1873 - Mary Armenie Goulet in Leeds, Ontario, Canada
1874 - John Billingsley in Iowa
1874 - Joseph Saucier in Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada
1882 - Alphonse Lachance in Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States
1892 - Julia Kalmukoski Salminen in Kaustinen, Finland
1896 - Cyrille Lamontagne in Quebec
1899 - Fillmore Huard in North Dakota
1900 - George Goulet in North Dakota
1901 - Joseph Fidelin Gobeil in Notre Dame des Bois, Quebec
1907 - Herbert Gaines in Missouri
1910 - Maria Hilda Spina in Algoma, Ontario, Canada
1917 - Agnes Lillian Munier in Kandiyohi, Minnesota, USA
1932 - Joan Alma Gelo in Lowell, Orleans, Vermont, USA
Past Marriages
1699 - Ebenezer Howes and Sarah Gorham in Yarmouth, Massachusetts
1750 - Jean Baptiste Kemner dit LaFlamme and Marie Francoise Metivier in St Pierre de la Riviere du Sud, Quebec, Canada
1795 - Joseph Derome and Angelique Beleau in Ste Foy, Quebec, Canada
1852 - Narcisse Turgeon and Marie Angele Goulet in Lambton, Quebec, Canada
1857 - Jean Baptiste Goulet and Emilie Vallerand in Lambton, Quebec, Canada
1863 - Frederic Lajoie and Angele Goulet in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1903 - Henriette Goulet and Peter Potvin in Carleton, Ontario, Canada
1940 - Joseph L Alexander Fournier and Helen Keenan in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA
Past Deaths
1705 - Mabel Keate Stamps in Rosenallis, Montmellick, Queens, Ireland
1733 - Marie Veronique Charbonneau in St. Francois de Sales, Ile de Jesus, Quebec, Canada
1757 - Marie Louise Tessier dit Lavigne in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1781 - Francois Goulet in L'Ange Gardien, Montmorency, Quebec, Canada
1810 - Marie Angelique Leclerc in Masouche, Quebec, Canada
1844 - Ludivine Elisabeth Beliveau in St Jacques de l'Achigan, Quebec, Canada
1873 - Pierre Benoit in St-Denis-sur-Richelieu, St-Hyacinthe County, Quebec, Canada
1899 - Arthur Klock
1908 - Emanuel Berger in Chicago, Cook, Illinois
1923 - Disa 'Dicey' Riddle in Stoddard, Missouri, United States
1966 - Eva {Shorty} Dugal in Windsor, Ont. Canada
1975 - Leroy Sylas Hawkins in Fitchburg, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
1990 - Albert Langevin in Southbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
1997 - Catherine Edna Goulette
2003 - Mildred Irene Goulet
2008 - Ida Laura Lebrecque in Tumwater, Thurston County, Washington, USA