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Adélard Hervé Joanis

Adélard Hervé Joanis

Male 1898 -

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  • Name Adélard Hervé Joanis 
    Born 19 Jul 1898  Rockland, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Notes 
    • From Gil Joanis:
      Hervé worked for a bank at one time. He embezzled some money and faced charges and jail. Délina and Lionel were able to raise enough money to repay the bank which agreed to drop charges.
      Nothing was heard from him for several years. Then one evening in the early '30s three men stopped at our farm seeking directions to Meachem, a town about 20 miles east of St. Denis. My father invited them in and recognized Hervé. He did not recognize my father who had not shaved for several days and who was largely crippled with arthritis. But my father introduced himself loudly and clearly.
      He and Hervé who was travelling under an assumed name managed to slip away for a few minutes to have a talk. He told my father he had been in a poker game in a lumber camp in northern Ontario. One man lost everything and accused of the others of cheating. He picked up a chair and was about to attack when one of the other players hit him with a club, killing him.
      Facing a murder charge the men scattered in all directions. It was still possible in those years to disappear in Western Canada. Maurice Dinelle felt quite strongly that Hervé had settled somewhere within 50-75 miles of St. Denis.
      In the 1970s I asked my father where he was. I was met with two minutes of silence. I felt that he knew but did not want to lie to me so he said nothing. End of story.

    Person ID I1024  Cullen family tree
    Last Modified 27 Nov 2021 

    Father Jules Joanis,   b. 04 Dec 1862, Angers, Canada East Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Sep 1900, Rockland, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 37 years) 
    Mother Marie Délina Quévillon,   b. 01 Aug 1867, Angers, Quebec Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Jul 1968, Hull, Quebec Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 100 years) 
    Married 17 Nov 1884  L'Ange Gardien, Angers, Quebec Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Family ID F1979  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Histories
    Joanis, Jules (1862-1900) and Délina Quévillon (1867-1968)
    Joanis, Jules (1862-1900) and Délina Quévillon (1867-1968)
    Our great grandfather, Jules Joanis, had a career in sawmilling, and was a millwright at the Edwards mills in Rockland when he died at the age of 37, leaving his wife and seven children.

    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, 2018 pp 112-122, 227-231 and 261-262.


  • Sources 
    1. [S100] Tres Sainte Trinite Rockland Ontario 1889-1988 Lemieux Publisher 1991, 236.

    2. [S41] Ancestry.ca, Quebec, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967Angers, L'Ange Gardien Parish, 1879-1890, Page 146.