Thursday, January 24, 2019

Peter Louis Rabideau: 52 Ancestors #69

Peter Louis Rabideau, ca. 1925
Having tried the 52 Ancestors "weekly prompt" approach, I've decided it just doesn't work for me. Casting about for a different inspiration, I noted that Randy Seaver (Genea-Musings) based his 52 Ancestors series on his Ahnentafel. I've compared my blog post list with my Ahnentafel, and found that I've blogged about everyone through my great-grandparents (with one exception), and about most of my male immigrant ancestors (some of whom are 10th and 11th great-grandfathers), but in between... well, there are a lot of gaps. So I'm going to try working through my Ahnentafel and filling in the generations, starting with that overlooked great-grandfather with Ahnentafel #14.

Peter Louis Rabideau, the first child of Louis Robida and Celina Cloutier, was born 15 April 1870, probably at his parents' home in Milan, Coos County, New Hampshire. He was baptised "Louis" on 11 July that year at Saint-Michel-de-Sherbrooke Parish, Sherbrooke, Quebec, with his paternal grandparents Louis Robida and Marie St. Cyr as godparents.1

Baptismal record for Louis Robida

He grew up in Milan and Berlin, N.H., and attended school through the eighth grade.2 He was not quite 11, and had three younger sisters, when his mother Celina died in January 1881. His father quickly remarried, to Marie Beatrice Croteau, and over the next seven years young Louis acquired three half-brothers.

"Loi" Rabida household, 1880 U.S. Census, Berlin, Coos, New Hampshire
Judging by the censuses, he seems to have been called just Louis (or Lewis) during his childhood.3 Perhaps that name caused confusion as he got older, with both his father and grandfather also being named Louis; when he married Eva (Woodward) Taylor in Berlin on 3 November 1894, it was as Peter L. Rabideau, the name he used for the rest of his life.4

Peter L. Rabideau-Evie M. Taylor marriage, 1894, Berlin, N.H.
Peter and Eva lived in Milan for over 25 years, where they raised Eva's son Ernest Taylor, from her first marriage; their three daughters, Ermine, Glenna, and Thelma; and finally, their grandson Wilfred Thibeault, Glenna's son by her first marriage. Peter was enumerated as a day laborer in 1900 and a farmer in 1910-1930, though his obituary called him "a carpenter by trade."5

Children of Peter Louis Rabideau and Eva Woodward:
  1. Ermine Mona Rabideau, b. 1897, married Howard E. Tyler
  2. Glenna Marie Rabideau, b. 1899, married (1) John Thibeault, (2) William G. Murphy, (3) Paul Costanza, (4) William Anderson
  3. Thelma J. Rabideau, b. 1905, married (1) Glenn Swan, (2) Earl Brann

1910 U. S. Census, Milan, Coos, N.H., Peter L. Rabideau household

1940 U. S. Census, Norway, Oxford, Maine, Peter L. Rabideau household

Eva (Woodward) and Peter L. Rabideau, July 1940, probably Norway, Maine


In 1930, Peter and Eva were living in nearby Dummer, N.H., with their grandson,6 and around 1934, they relocated to Norway, Maine,7 where their married daughter Ermine lived. By the time of his death on 16 December 1946, Peter had been ill for eight years and bedridden for three.8 He was buried in Hillcrest Cemetery in Milan,9 to be joined by Eva in 1953.

My descent from Peter Louis Rabideau:



Peter L. and Eva M. Rabideau gravestone, Hillcrest Cemetery, Milan, N.H.


SOURCES
  1. Saint-Michel-de-Sherbrooke Parish (Sherbrooke, Quebec), Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1869-1874, pp. 140-141, baptism 146, Louis Robida, 1870; digital images, “Quebec, Catholic Parish Registers, 1621-1900,” FamilySearch, (https://familysearch.org : accessed 18 May 2012).
  2. 1870 U.S. census, Coos County, New Hampshire, Milan, p. 17 (penned) 135 (stamped), dwelling 137, family 130, Lewis Rabideau household; 1880 U.S. census, Coos County, New Hampshire, Berlin, ED 29, p. 2-B, dwelling 11, family 16, Loi Rabida household; both as digital images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 Jan 2014).
  3. Ibid.
  4. “New Hampshire, Marriage and Divorce Records, 1659–1947,” database and digital images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 30 Mar 2014), Peter L. Rabideau-Evie M. Taylor marriage, 1894.
  5. 1900 U.S. census, Coos County, New Hampshire, Milan, ED 268, aheet 4B, dwelling 85, family 86, Peter L. Rabideau household; 1910 U.S. census, Coos County, New Hampshire, Milan, ED 67, aheet 3A, dwelling 33, family 34, Peter L. Rabideau household; both as digital images, ProQuest, HeritageQuest Online (access through participating libraries : accessed 9 Dec 2010). Also, 1920 U.S. Census, Coos County, New Hampshire, Milan, ED 53, aheet 3B, dwelling 58, family 60, Peter L. "Rabadeau" household; 1930 U.S. Census, Coos County, New Hampshire, Dummer, ED 4-27, sheet 3A, p. 279 (stamped), dwelling 36, family 78, Peter L. Rabideau household; both as digital images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 30 Mar 2014).
  6. 1930 U.S. Census, Coos County, New Hampshire, Dummer, ED 4-27, sheet 3A, p. 279 (stamped), dwelling 36, family 78, Peter L. Rabideau household.
  7. "Peter L. Rabideau" obituary, Lewiston (Maine) Daily Sun, 17 Dec 1946, p. 2; digital images, Google News Archive (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=IT5EXw6i2GUC : accessed 28 May 2013). Also, 1940 U.S. Census, Oxford County, Maine, Norway, ED 9-38, sheet 9B, household 205, Peter L. Rabideau household; digital images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 4 Apr 2012).
  8. "Peter L. Rabideau" obituary.
  9. Hillcrest Cemetery (Milan, Coos County, New Hampshire), Peter L. and Eva M. Rabideau marker, read and photographed by the author, 11 Oct 2013.
  10. Photos of Peter Louis Rabideau (ca 1925) and of Eva (Woodward and Peter L. Rabideau (July 1940); Kirk-Murphy Family Collection, privately held by the author, Virginia Beach, Virginia.

1 comment:

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