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Cullen Family History
and Genealogy
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 1799 - 1890 (90 years)
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| Name |
Abraham Audet-dit-Lapointe |
| Born |
30 Jan 1799 |
La Malbaie, Lower Canada  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
28 Jan 1890 |
La Malbaie, Quebec [2] |
| Buried |
30 Jan 1890 |
La Malbaie, Lower Canada [3] |
| Notes |
- Sometime between 1828 and 1831, Abraham moved from La Malbaie to Notre Dame du Portage. In 1832 he was living in St. Louis Parish, Co. Kamouraska and working as a blacksmith. By 1834, he had moved back to Notre Dame du Portage and was plying his trade there. A family history states that he died from a fractured skull resulting from a fall on ice. His burial record states that he was buried in St. Etienne Parish, La Malbaie where there is a large headstone for he, Anastasie Harvey and later descendants.
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| Person ID |
I2458 |
Cullen family tree |
| Father |
Pierre Audet-dit-Lapointe, b. Abt Jun 1765, Île-aux-Coudres, Quebec , d. 21 Feb 1816, La Malbaie, Lower Canada (Age ~ 50 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Marie Esther Boudreau, b. 06 Jan 1772, Île-aux-Coudres, Quebec , d. 31 Mar 1865, La Malbaie, Canada East (Age 93 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Married |
05 Aug 1789 |
St. Louis, Île-aux-Coudres, Quebec [4] |
| Family ID |
F1669 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Anastasie Harvey, b. 24 Apr 1805, La Malbaie, Lower Canada , d. 16 May 1886, La Malbaie, Quebec (Age 81 years) |
| Married |
22 Jul 1823 |
La Malbaie, Lower Canada [5] |
| Children |
| | 1. Pierre Alexandre Audet-dit-Lapointe, b. 20 Feb 1825, La Malbaie, Lower Canada , d. 29 Jul 1896, Ste Rose du Dégelé, Quebec (Age 71 years) |
| | 2. Marie Séraphine Lapointe, b. 14 Dec 1828, La Malbaie, Lower Canada , d. 13 Jan 1918, Saint-Louis, Kamouraska, Quebec (Age 89 years) |
| | 3. Élie-Joseph Lapointe, b. 04 May 1832, St. Louis, Kamouraska, Lower Canada , d. 08 Apr 1915, La Malbaie, Quebec (Age 82 years) |
| | 4. Abraham Flavien Lapointe, b. 19 Apr 1834, St. Patrice, Rivière-du-Loup, Lower Canada , d. 03 Jun 1904, La Malbaie, Quebec (Age 70 years) |
| | 5. Émilie Lapointe, b. 12 Jun 1836, St. Patrice, Rivière-du-Loup, Lower Canada , d. 14 Apr 1874, La Malbaie, Quebec (Age 37 years) |
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| Family ID |
F1579 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Documents
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 | Abraham Audet dit Lapointe - 1825 census La Malbaie
Abraham Audet is listed on the 7th line |
 | Abraham Audet dit Lapointe/Anastasie Harvey marriage contract 21 July 1823 - page 1
Agreement covering the marriage of Abraham Audet, master blacksmith and Damoiselle Stazile Harvey. Abraham’s father was deceased. So was Stazile’s. Esther Boudreault was married to Louis Harvey, farmer and captain of the militia. Madeleine Cote was married to Alexandre Boivin, a farmer in La Malbaie.
Among other things, one party brought 1200 livres and the other 600 livres in furniture (?)
Only Abraham could sign the document.
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 | Abraham Audet dit Lapointe/Anastasie Harvey marriage contract 21 july 1823 Page_2
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 | Abraham Audet dit Lapointe/Anastasie Harvey marriage contract 21 july 1823 Page 3
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 | Abraham Audet dit Lapointe/Anastasie Harvey marriage contract 21 july 1823 Page 4
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 | Abraham Audet dit Lapointe baptism 1799, page 1
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 | Abraham Audet dit Lapointe baptism page 2
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 | Abraham Audet dit Lapointe marriage 1823
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 | Lapointe, Abraham 1851 Agriculture Census page 1
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 | Lapointe, Abraham 1851 Agriculture Census page 2
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 | Lapointe, Abraham 1851 Agriculture Census page 3
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 | Lapointe, Abraham 1851 Agriculture Census page 4
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 | Lapointe, Abraham 1851 personal census page 1
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 | Lapointe, Abraham 1851 personal census page 2
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 | Lapointe, Abraham 1851 personal census page 3
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 | Lapointe, Abraham 1851 personal census page 4
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 | Lapointe, Abraham 1861 census
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 | Lapointe, Abraham 1871 census
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 | Lapointe, Abraham 1871 census Table 3
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 | Lapointe, Abraham 1871 census Table 4
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 | Lapointe, Abraham 1871 census Table 5
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 | Lapointe, Abraham 1871 census Table 6
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 | Lapointe, Abraham 1871 census Table 7
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 | Lapointe, Abraham 1881 census Malbaie
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 | Lapointe, Abraham baptism 1799
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 | Lapointe, Abraham burial 1890
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 | Lapointe, Abraham marriage 1823
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| Histories |
 | Lapointe Ancestors – Family Tree Charts
Family tree charts for each generation of our direct Audet and Lapointe ancestors. Excerpt from A Melding of Cultures Ancestors of George Turner and Bernadette Joanis, Volume 2: Our Lapointe and Joanis Ancestors Four Hundred Years of French Canadian Heritage, Mark Cullen, Vancouver, 2018, pp 38 and 131-138 |
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| Audet dit Lapointe, Abraham (1799-1890) and Anastasie Harvey (1805-1886)
The lives of Abraham Audet dit Lapointe and Anastasie Harvey in La Malbaie and Kamouraska. Our great-great grandfather was a master blacksmith and prominent farmer and land owner.
Excerpt from A Melding of Cultures Ancestors of George Turner and Bernadette Joanis, Volume 2: Our Lapointe and Joanis Ancestors Four Hundred Years of French Canadian Heritage, Mark Cullen, Vancouver, 2018, pp 50-56, 152-160 and 56-257. |
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| A Melding of Cultures Volume 2: Our Lapointe and Joanis Ancestors - Introduction
Table of contents, preface, introduction, acknowledgements, bibliography and photographic creditsExcerpt from A Melding of Cultures Ancestors of George Turner and Bernadette Joanis, Volume 2: Our Lapointe and Joanis Ancestors Four Hundred Years of French Canadian Heritage, Mark Cullen, Vancouver, 2018 |
 | Lapointe, Abraham No 148 9 Oct 1826
Madame Magdeleine Tremblay, widow of Jean Bouchard, wife of Alexis Gagnon, sold to Abraham Audet dit Lapointe, master blacksmith, land of 2 arpents and 2 perches frontage X 40 arpents deep in Murray Bay Seigneurie in the Ruisseau des Fresnes concession: at the front to the line called Boudreault and depth to the Petit Lac concession including the buildings the buildings; the price was 25 livres. |
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| Lapointe, Abraham No. 170 16 Oct 1826
Ignace Couturier, farmer in Mount Murray and Dame Marie Audet dit Lapointe, Abraham’s sister, sold to Abraham, farmer and master blacksmith, 7½ perches X 40 arpents in Ruisseau des Fresnes in Murray Bay: to the Boudreault line in the front, to the Petit Lac concession, southwest to Alexis Tremblay, to the northeast to Michel Hervey, son. The price was 33 piastres, 1 shilling, 8 pence. |
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| Lapointe, Abraham 4 Jan 1833 land transaction in Notre Dame du Portage
Abraham was a farmer and blacksmith living in Kamouraska; these agreements refer to an earlier agreement dated 11 October 1832 regarding land in Range 1 of Kamouraska consisting of 2 X 40 arpents with frontage on the St. Lawrence, to the southwest to Joseph Dionne and Joseph Marcaux and to the northeast to Theodore Sirois. |
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| Lapointe, Abraham 4 Jan 1833 further reference to Land purchased in Notre Dame du Portage
This second agreement is between Abraham and Francois Paradis of Saint Jean Port Joly. Uncertain as to details, but references 11 October 1832 agreement and the Seigneur, Andrew Laughlin Fraser, and a payment or debt of 224 livres |
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| Lapointe, Abraham report of 5 Feb 1835
Messrs Abraham Lapointe, Pierre Fournier, Francois Chasse, Isaae Carvois, surveyors of bridges and roads in Rivière du Loup and Pierre Ganon surveyor of Cacouna reported on repairs required to bridges on the Grande and Petit Rivière du Loup in Range 1 of R-D-L. Details of material specs are listed. Repairs were to be completed by April 1835. |
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| Lapointe, Abraham debt assumed 2 March 1853
Abraham and Stazile assumed his brother Joseph’s debt of 54 livres 10 shillings, originated on 28 January 1850. The debt is secured by two properties in Murray Bay Seigneurie, Ruisseau des Fresnes: (i) 2 ¾ arpents frontage on the line of Francois Boudreault to the house of Timothée Harvey, southwest to Joseph Gagnon and northeast to Timothée Harvey; (2) 1 X 40 arpents in Ste. Agnes parish, bordering in front by the Boudreault line, on the southwest to Étienne Boivin, on the northeast by Hubert Cimon, plus all buildings. |
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| Lapointe, Abraham Will No. 190 20 Oct 1853
Abraham created a new will. (i) as a Christian, he remands his soul to God, his creator; (2) he requested his body be interred in the cemetery of his death and that 10 requiem masses be said in the year of his death; (iv) bequeathed to Anastasie all furniture, personal effects, animals, agriculture and cooking implements, etc.
Anastasie was named executrix
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| Lapointe, Abraham 3 Nov 1854 donation of Notre Dame du Portage property to son Alexandre
Abraham and Anastasie gifted their land and buildings in St. Patrice parish, Riviere-du-Loup, to Alexandre. The land consisted of 2 X 40 arpents and was located on the St. Lawrence River, bordering Jean Fournier on the southwest, Chrisasthome Morin on the northest. There were conditions: Alexandre had to provide accommodations to widow of Chrisasthome Morin; pay 50 livres to Abraham’s brother Fabien; the sum of 37 livres 10 shillings payable to Abraham in 6 years without interest |
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| Lapointe, Abraham Sale No. 2942 6 April 1858
Abraham and Anastasie sold land to Leandre Lapointe, at a price of 183 livres, consisting of 2 X 36 arpents in Murray Bay Seigneurie, Ruisseau des Fresnes concession, bordering Ruisseau Rouge and the Boudreault line in the front and Jean Barst in the rear, and to Joseph Harvey to the southwest. All buildings included. |
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| Lapointe, Abraham No. 166 15 April 1862 Gift of land to son Élie-Joseph
Two weeks before his marriage to Susanne Jesse Malvina Tremblay, Abraham and Anastasie gave their son Élie-Joseph the following properties: (i) an irregular plot bordered by the Boudreault line in the front, in the rear by the house of Timothée Harvey, southwest to Leandre Audet and to the northeast to Timothée Harvey, plus buildings; (ii) 2¾ X 40 arpents near the Queen’s Road, to Timothée Harvey, in the rear to the Boudreault line, to the southwest to Leandre Lapointe, and to the northeast to Timothee Harvey, without buildings; (iii) a property in the Ruisseau des Fresnes concession, bordered by the Boudreault line, in the rear by François Lapointe, then on two sides northeast and southwest to François Lapointe, without the buildings; (iv) land of 1 X 40 arpents in Ste. Agnes parish in Ruisseau des Fresnes, bordering the Boudreault line at the rear, to Étienne Boivin on the southouest, to Hubert Cimon to the northest, with buildings.
Son Alexandre’s debt of 37 livres 10 shillings, when paid, the animals and other effects would transfer to Élie. Élie had to pay his brother 100 livres, plus a 4 year old horse and one milk cow; there is another clause referencing his sisters Séraphine and Émilie, but the obligations, if any, are uncertain.
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| Lapointe, Abraham Will dated 15 April 1862
With his land gifted to Élie, at age 63, Abraham made new will. He had given away all his hard assets. (i) As a true Christian, he gives his soul to God, his Creator; (ii) He was to be buried with Anastasie; (iii) his sons Alexandre and Élie would receive all furniture and effects and were charged with paying his debts; (iv) he made specific bequests to each of son Abraham and daughters Séraphine and Émilie, but the details are uncertain.
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| Sources |
- [S57] Ancestry.ca Drouin Collection, Quebec, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967 LaMalbaie, St-…tienne, 1774-1804, page 66.
- [S41] Ancestry.ca, Quebec, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967 LaMalbaie, St. Etienne, 1890, page 7.
- [S57] Ancestry.ca Drouin Collection, Quebec, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967 LaMalbaie, St. Etienne, 1890, page 7.
- [S41] Ancestry.ca, Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968 Isle-aux-Coudres, St-Louis, 1789, page 3.
- [S41] Ancestry.ca, Quebec, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967 LaMalbaie, St. Etienne, 1823, page 17.
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