From orphan to patriarch

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Edward Roby. From orphan to patriarch

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From orphan to patriarch

Men without a past who founded dynasties of New France

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The Roberge surname has spread far and wide through Canada and the United States but is especially well represented in the parishes around Quebec city. The direct line now known as Roby migrated to the northeastern United States in the late 19th Century from a quiet corner of Quebec located north of frontier with western Maine and New Hampshire. The particular Roberge dit Lapierre family tree reconstructed in this manuscript relies largely on the updated database of the University of Montreal's PRDH, now managed by Institut généalogique Drouin.

1 Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH), Université de Montréal. PRDG-IGD's marriage #32659, with underlying Institut généalogique Drouin image _d1p_30780121.jpg, is apparently the registry entry for the marriage of Pierre Roberge dit La Pierre and Françoise Loignon at Ste. Famille parish, Ile d'Orléans, on 3 July 1679. The four-line certificate at the foot of the right-hand page, of which the corner is damaged and missing, is scarcely legible. A family sheet for this union is PRDH-IGD #4843.

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