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HUBERT
DeLORNE/DeLORME, my 4th great grandfather, was the
youngest of ten children. He was born in 1762 in
Quebec & was the son of Louise Fricon, Frigon or
Prignon & Jean Baptiste DeLorne. Hubert
migrated to America in 1782 settling in Cahokia,
Illinois. On 1 November 1792, in Ste. Genevieve,
Missouri, he married Marie Francoise LeBoeuf who was
the daughter of Marie Catherine LeFrance
and Phillip LeBoeuf (dit LaFlamme) who were
natives of Prarie DuChien. Marie & Hubert resided
in Cahokia where they became the parents of six
children: Hubert, Dennis, Celeste, Susan, John
Baptiste, Louison. Marie died 2 December 1808 &
Hubert died 23 July 1818, both in Cahokia. They
were buried in the Holy Family Cemetery.
JEAN BAPTISTE DeLORME
was my 5th great grandfather. - - From the
archives of Three Rivers, by Thomas H. McCane -
July, 1893 - - Jean Baptiste DeLorne, the son of
Ettienette Gueneau and Hubert DeLorne, was
born at Brechateau in the Diocese of Dijon
Bourgogne, France in the year 1711. He came to
Three Rivers, Quebec, Canada in the year 1737 where
he occupied the position of Maitre Foundeur (Chief
Founder) in the government foundries of Saint
Maurice situated on the right bank of the St.
Maurice River, nine miles northeast of Three
Rivers. They were the first industries of their
kind established in North America. He ran out the
first blast from them on October 15, 1737. The
ruins of one of the old copula's still remained in
1893 on the occasion of my visit to those parts and
in the midst of its wild wierd solitude prevailed by
a deathlike stillness unbroken save by the sound of
the roaring rushing waters of the mad St. Maurice
River which goes leaping and frothing forth at their
base. I had the exquisite pleasure of standing upon
the brink and drinking deeply of the hallowed
memories of a by-gone age. |