I was looking up for an entry after July 18, date of his death, and though I couldn\u2019t come up with anything, I kept reading articles about the immigrants, the Sheds, and sick people. A quick check at the dictionary made me realize that 1847 was also the year of the typhus epidemic in Montreal brought by the Irish emigrating to Canada. Unlike the 1832 cholera epidemic, the civil population was not affected by the typhus so much but the immigrants living in the Sheds, the religious community members taking care of them, and the policemen on the front line were victims of it.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Biblioth\u00e8que et Archives nationales du Qu\u00e9bec, La Minerve<\/em>, Thursday, July 22, 1847 — TRANSLATION: A fourth member of the Grey Nuns Congregation died last night. Sister Marie Rosalie Barbeau, known as Sister Marie, passed away at midnight at the age of 44 years, 7 months and 18 days old. Sisters Bruy\u00e8re and Caron are most likely to die and 16 other nuns are still bedridden. Another policeman died Monday and eleven others are off work owing to illness. More than 1500 immigrants are close to death in the Sheds but as reported by the Ministry confident that all this is nothing but business as usual: \u201cEverything will be fine\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n Charles Tourville\u2019s name does not appear in the newspaper but it has to be him. That Charles Courville is surely \u00ab\u00a0our\u00a0\u00bb Charles Tourville as he died only six months after his marriage to Sophie Lemire, dite Marsolais, on January 11, 1847 at Notre-Dame Church of Montreal, and that Sophie gave birth to a son, Charles (hereafter for ease of reference, \u201cCharles Jr.\u201d), on October 30, 1847, in Montreal. The baby is said to be the son of the \u00ab\u00a0late\u00a0\u00bb Charles Tourville, carter of Montreal. When Charles [Jr.] died on January 31, 1849, he is once again identified as the late Charles Tourville\u2019s son, carter of Montreal. At the time of his marriage\u00a0 Charles Tourville was a carter from the parish of Montreal, like his own father.<\/p>\n Being born on January 18, 1818 in Mascouche from Charles Tourville and Marie Pauz\u00e9, he was indeed 29 years old at the time of his death in 1847. Furthermore, I couldn\u2019t find any Charles Courville born near the date of 1818. A lot of Tourvilles are identified as Courvilles in the church records; sometimes the \u00ab\u00a0T\u00a0\u00bb looks like a \u00ab\u00a0C\u00a0\u00bb, sometimes it might be the priest who made a mistake.<\/p>\n According to the newspapers, the Montreal Police was recruiting hoping to prevent the spread of the epidemic. Was Charles hired before the disease got out of hand? Was he out of work as a carter? From what I have read, the Police was implemented in the City in 1843. I doubt I can get anything as I am not sure a paper trail still exists. Nonetheless, during my summer vacations, I do plan to go to the Archives of Montr\u00e9al to see if I can discover anything on policemen working for the city in 1847. I think it\u2019s worth a try.<\/p>\n To learn more on the 1847 typhus epidemic, click here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The advantage of doing one of your ancestors\u2019 descending genealogy is that you get to learn about people you would have never heard of precisely because they didn\u2019t have any descendants. Then, why write about them? So many reasons I … Continue reading <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"