Left to Right: Mr. and Mrs. Lorenzo Fafard (Georgette Nadeau), Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Nadeau (Ida St. Hilaire), Mr. and Mrs. Paul Nadeau (Madeleine Plasse). The officiant of this triple wedding at St. Joseph's Church was Rev. Celas A. Robitaille. Bride Georgette Nadeau was the sister of the two grooms, Alfred and Paul Nadeau. (Mr. and Mrs. Lorenzo Fafard were Mary Doukas' parents.)
This photograph was taken at the celebration of the 50th wedding anniversary of Mary Doukas' paternal grandparents, Telesphore and Orgée Fafard. Mary is third from the left in the front row. Her sister Lucille is also in the front row, third from the end at the right, and sister Lorraine is in the front row at the very end on the right.
Photograph of Isabelle and Joseph Charbonneau, paternal grandparents of Yvette Alexopoulos. At a relatively young age, Joseph had already immigrated to the U.S.. He returned to Canada following his wife's passing. He later remarried and moved to Connecticut and then to the state of New York.
Eva Gaudreau and Albert Charbonneau were wed at St. Joseph's Church in Cohoes, NY. Albert lived in Waterford, NY. Eva lived in Cohoes, NY. Both immigrated from Quebec to the U.S. as children and later met in the state of New York. They married and went on to have seven children, one of whom is Yvette (Charbonneau) Alexopoulos.
Handmade wedding scroll made and signed by Eva and Alice Gaudreau for the bride, their cousin Eva, and the groom, Albert Charbonneau. Though geographically separated, the Gaudreau and Charbonneau families remained close and regularly visited each other.
Photograph of oval framed wedding portrait of Michel J-B Venne, also known as Mitchell Vann, was the first in the Venne family to be born in New York. He had three brothers and four sisters, also born in New York. His father, Exeas Venne, immigrated from Quebec to Riverview in 1865. (Exeas Venne came from St-Jacques de l'Achigan, QC)
Photograph of oval framed wedding portrait of May Gauthier was the wife of Michel Venne and the daughter of Barnabe Gauthier, a Civil War veteran for the Union Army.
This was probably a wedding photo of Joseph Lewis and Julie Amelia Mayotte. This was a likely an arranged marriage and may have been the primary motivation behind Joseph immigrating to Troy. They married at Saint Jean Baptiste Church--the "French" church--in Troy, NY. (NB The spelling of the family name of Mayotte changed often with the passage of time. Marriage records refer to her as Maillot. Later, on her husband's death record, her name is spelled Mailhot. Later, Mayotte became the most common spelling of the family name.
Photograph taken at the Smith Studio in Adams, MA to commemorate the wedding of Rose Perras Bourdon (seated) to Alfred Bourdon (also seated). The witnesses, Maria Perras and Archie Coutu, are standing behind the couple.
Studio photograph of John Hennessey, best man (in chair) and Omer Therriault, groom (standing) in wedding attire. Therriault married Anna D. Mace at St. Joseph's Church in Cohoes, NY.
