The Wives of Honore Malo

Bonjour Cousins!

The other day I was searching for my great uncle, Elzear Malo, from Massachusetts. I found an Elzear in King, Washington.  I was pretty excited, thinking he must have moved ‘west.’ I found though this was not the same person. However, given this was the first Malo family I found in Washington, it was still an interesting find! 

On his Washington death record his mother was given as “Marie Trudeau.” 

Washington, Deaths, 1883-1960 about Elzear Peter Malo Name: Elzear Peter Malo Gender: Male Birth Date: abt 1875 Death Date: 3 Oct 1955 Age at Death: 80 Death Location: Seattle, King, Washington Father: Malo Mother: Marie Trudeau Record Source: Washington State Death Records

His marriage record from Quebec gave Elzear's parents as “Honore Malo” and “Marie Trudeau.” 

Great, that was easy! However, in searching for records for Honore, I found some people had him with one wife, Marie Treadu, and they had some or all of the children listed below. I was able to verify them on various censuses:

•        Marie Liduvine Malo 1874 –
•        Elzear Malo 1875 – 1955
•        Blandine Malo 1878 –
•        Louis Henri Malo 1879 –
•        Daniel Simon Malo 1881 –
•        Philippe Augustin Malo 1883 –
•        Luce Anna Malo 1885 –

Other researchers had a second wife for Honore named "Alphonsine Bourdeau" and they had the following children for the couple:

•      Joseph  Placide Malo 1889 –
•      Joseph Fidèle Candide Malo 1894 –
•       Euclide Malo 1895 –
•       Joseph Esioff Malo 1898 –

I noted their birth years, and after having viewed some census records, I realized that Alphonsine could not have been the mother of these children.  This is because on the 1901 census Honore was a widow.

It was not until the 1911 census that Alphonsine appears as his wife. 

This means the children that had been attributed to Honore and Alphonsine would actually be the children of Honore and another spouse. I searched around for more records for Honore and came across a marriage record for him and Alexandrine Lemure.

It seems these children would be the children of Alexandrine Lemure. It was possible that she passed on and Honore remarried, so I searched for records for the children which confirmed that their mother was Alexandrine Lemure. Below is the marriage record for  Euclide Malo 

Case solved.

Here is the family group sheet thanks to Pierrette Despots.
Family Group Sheet
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             Husband: Honoré Malo
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                Born: 12 fév 1845        
                Died: 12 avr 1919          in Montréal  Québec
              Buried: 14 avr 1919          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
             Resided: 1852                 in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
          Occupation:                      cultivateur
              Census: 1901-1911            in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
              Father: Joseph Ayet dit Malo
              Mother: Louise Martin
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                Wife: Marie Trudeau
             Married:  1 fév 1869          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
     Census (family): 1881                 in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
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                Born: 1851                
                Died: 1886                
              Father: François Trudeau
              Mother: Marie-Thais Bazinet
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           F Child 1: Marie Liduvine Malo
                Born: 28 sep 1873          in St-Stanislas-de-Kotska,Co.Beauharnois, Québec
            Baptized: 28 sep 1873          in St-Stanislas-de-Kotska,Co.Beauharnois, Québec
              Census: 1881                 in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
                Died: 17 déc 1881          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
              Buried: 19 déc 1881          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
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           M Child 2: Elzéar Malo
                Born: 12 mai 1875          in St-Isidore (Laprairie), Québec
                Died: 3 oct 1955           in Seattle, King, Washington, United States
          Occupation: 1899                 cultivateur à St-isidore
              Census: 1881                 in St-Isidore (Laprairie), Québec
          Occupation: 1913                 voyageur de commerce
                Wife: Rose Alba Gagné    b. 18 avr 1880  d. 1955
             Married: 4 sep 1899           in St-Rémi, Québec
     Census (family): 1901                 in St-Isidore (Laprairie), Québec
     Census (family): 1920                 in Seattle, King, Washington
     Census (family): 1930                 in Paterson, Benton, Washington
     Census (family): 1940                 in Seattle, King, Washington
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           F Child 3: Blandine Malo
                Born: 12 jun 1877          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
            Baptized: 13 jun 1877          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
              Census: 1881                 in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
                Died: ?                  
             Husband: Joseph B Daudelin Dit Carmel Joseph Carmel    b. nov 1874
             Married: 19 fév 1900          in Montréal (St-Joseph) Québec
     Census (family): 1901                 in Montréal (City/Cité) Sainte-Marie (Ward/Quartier)
     Census (family): 1911                 in Maisonneuve, Quebec, Canada
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           M Child 4: Louis Henri  Malo
                Born: 11 avr 1879          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
            Baptized: 11 avr 1879          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
                Died: 18 mar 1883          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
              Buried: 19 mar 1883          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
              Census: 1881                 in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
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           M Child 5: Daniel Simon Malo
                Born: 21 fév 1881          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
            Baptized: 21 fév 1881          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
                Died: 18 déc 1881          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
              Buried: 19 déc 1881          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
              Census: 1881                 in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
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           M Child 6: Philippe Augustin Malo
                Born: 21 sep 1882          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
            Baptized: 21 sep 1882          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
                Died: ?                  
              Census: 1901/1911            in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
                Wife: Marie Louise Florida Dubuc    b. 23 oct 1885
             Married: 19 fév 1912          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
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           F Child 7: Luce-Anna Malo
                Born: 5 fév 1885           in St-Isidore (Laprairie), Québec
            Baptized: 6 fév1885            in St-Isidore (Laprairie), Québec
                Died: ?                  
             Husband: Jules Cecyre    b. fév 1878
             Married: 22 mai 1905          in St-Isidore (Laprairie), Québec
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                Wife: Alexandrine Lemire
             Married: 22 nov 1887          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
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                Born: +-1850              
                Died: 30 nov 1900          in Montréal (St-Joseph) Québec
              Buried: 1900                 in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
              Father: Toussaint Mire
              Mother: Josette Emard
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           M Child 1: Joseph Placide Malo
                Born: 5 oct 1888           in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
            Baptized: 7 oct 1888           in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
                Died: ?                  
              Census: 1901/1911            in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
                Wife: M.-A.-Emelia Riendeau  
             Married: 19 fév 1912          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
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           M Child 2: Louis Mathieu Malo
                Born: 21sep 1889           in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
            Baptized: 22 sep 1889          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
                Died: 2 déc 1889           in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
              Buried: 4 déc 1889           in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
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           F Child 3: Joseph Fidèle Candide Malo
                Born: 24 avr 1893          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
            Baptized: 25 avr 1893          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
                Died: déc 1910             in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
              Buried: 15 déc 1910          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
              Census: 1901                 in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
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           M Child 4: Euclide Malo
                Born: 18 oct 1894          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
            Baptized: 20 oct 1894          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
              Census: 1901/1911            in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
                Died: ?                  
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           M Child 5: Paul Emile Alphonse Malo
                Born: 14 jan 1896          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
            Baptized: 15 jan 1896          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
                Died: ?                  
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           M Child 6: Joseph Erioff Malo
                Born: 28 avr 1897          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
            Baptized: 29 avr 1897          in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
                Died: ?                    in Washington, USA
            Military: 1914-1918            Legal, Alberta
          Occupation: 1940                 journalier
                Wife: Florence Ann Sullivan    b. 1897  d. 1987
             Married: 1930 - 1940          in
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                Wife: Alphonsine Bourdeau
             Married: 23 aoû 1904          in Montréal (St-Jean-Baptiste), Québec
     Census (family): 1911                 in St-Isidore,Co.Laprairie,Qc
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                Born: 1850                
          Christened:                    
                Died:                    
              Father: Raphael Bourdeau
              Mother: Claire Billet



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Au revoir mes cousins!

Kim