I'm back this week to my Dad's side of the family or more specifically to my Grandmother's side.
Isaac Hebert is my Great Great Uncle. He was the first born son of Dazi (Dasie, D'Assis, plus other spellings) and Marie (Clementine) Robert and brother to my Great Grandmother Beatrice Hebert. Although I have not found any baptism or birth records for him I believe that he was most likely born in Shippagan on March 8-9, 1871-72 based on the contents of various census records and his death certificate.
Isaac lived and worked along side his father as a farmer and fisherman in Shippagan, New Brunswick, Canada, with his 10 other siblings, until at least 1891. On Sept 7, 1891 Isaac married widower Angele Thibodeau in the Roman Catholic Church of Shippagan. One of the witnesses to his marriage was Isaac's younger brother Honore.
Isaac and Angele lived in Shippagan when their first three children were born where I assume that he continued to support his family with farming and fishing. Isaac must have felt strong ties to his family as he name his first born son and daughter after his parents.
Sometime between 1895 and 1897 Isaac moved his family from Shippagan to Paquetville (a distance of about 50 kilometers). This move would have happened during the same time period that Isaac's father moved his family from Shippagan to Paquetville. I wonder if they moved at the same time or did one family move first and get settled and the other follow them? The 1901 census has them living just one household away from each other with another Hebert family in between (possibly a brother to Dazi, based on the age stated). Isaac's family continued to grow with the addition of three more children, unfortunately their last child died when only one month old. Isaac supported this growing family mainly by farming but he also supplemented his income as a labourer, earning $48 dollars for 2 months of work in 1901. In 1911 Isaac was still farming but he only had his two youngest children left at home. Sometime between 1911 and 1921 Isaac and Angele adopted a son who was born around 1907. Who is this child and how and why did they adopt him? Another genealogy puzzle to solve.
Isaac continued to farm right up until his death from Tuberculosis on Feb 28, 1936 in Paquetville, Range St. Georges.
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