Joseph Julien Fortin was born in 1828. He is the son of Luc Clément Fortin and Marie Angelique Brun.[1] Luc Fortin and Angélique Brun also gave birth to another son called Jules. He was born on the farm in St-Sébastien on July 10, 1828 and was baptized the next day at Iberville. He became a farmer at St-Sébastien and on February 5, 1850 he married Sophie Roy in Henryville.[2] She was Charles Roy’s daughter. Jules Fortin and Sophie Roy had 9 children but we mention only 2 of them here : Georgiana, born in 1865 at St-Sébastien...The other of Jule’s children was Sifroy, born at St-Sébastien on May 6, 1867.
1881 Canada Census, St-Sebastien Henryville. Household of Jules Fortin, 52 cultivateur; Sophie Fortin, 47 b Quebec; Georges Fortin, 21; Georgiana Fortin, 16; Sifroy Fortin, 14; Alfred Fortin, 12; Auguste Fortin, 10; Alberta Fortin, 7; Erica Fortin, 5; Joseph Fortin, 72 jounalier.[3]
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