Alexander Ouellette (1849)

Alexander (Alexis) Ouellette was born circa [24 April 1849] of Gabriel Ouellette (1801) and Catherine Laselle, likely in St-Raphaël, Glengarry, ON. He was baptised [17 May 1849] at St-Polycarpe, QC; his godparents were Pierre Groulx and Josephte Martin. He identified as a Roman Catholic.

At the age of three during the 1851 Census of Canada, he lived with his grandmother, parents, and siblings at Lochiel, Glengarry, ON. They were registered as Catholic and living in a stone residence. At the age of nineteen, the 1871 Census of Canada located him with his parents and brother at Roxborough, Stormont, ON. He was registered as Roman Catholic, of French origin, and working as a labourer.

He married Marie Amelia Blondin [24 April 1871] at St. Andrew's West, Stormont, ON. They both lived at Indian Lands (Nutfield Tract), Glengarry, ON at the time. He moved with her to New York, where he apparently lived out his remaining forty years. He worked as a mason and farmer. He fathered at least two children, Mack Willard and an unidentified daughter.

He was possibly present at the interment of his brother's wife Hannah Poole [23 October 1889] at Moose Creek, Stormont, ON (unless the Alexander Ouellette listed is another person).

He died at the age of sixty-six of pneumonia Friday evening, [24 April 1914], at the home of his daughter in Massena, NY; he was buried in the St. Mary's Cemetery at Ogdensburg, NY.