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Emma Delima <I>Deroucher</I> Peach

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Emma Delima Deroucher Peach

Birth
Saint-Anicet, Monteregie Region, Quebec, Canada
Death
14 Jun 1910 (aged 45)
Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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Emma Delima Deroche aka Durocher was born the 18th and baptized the 19th January 1865, St. Anicet, Huntingdon, Quebec, Canada. She was the 2nd of 7 known children of Louis Durocher and Adalina Delima Rose Ammelotte. Her sibling were Louis b 1859, Emma Delima b 1861, Melina Appolyne b 1863, Marie Adalaide b 1865, Marie Philomena b 1867, Marie Louise b 1869, and Joseph Durocher b 1872, all in St. Anicet, Quebec. As a young woman she went to Constable, Franklin County, New York (few mile across the Canadian border)to work as a domestic on a local farm where she met her future husband, Francois Xavier "Oliver" Poirier aka Peach, who was a farm laborer on the same farm. They briefly returned to St. Anicet, Quebec to marry among family and returned to Constable, Franklin County, New York to raise a family. By 1890's they move to Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts. The photograph shown of her and her daughters has a notation on the back, "all dark hair, dark skin, mother with violet eyes". Emma sadly died, age 44 years, in Mercy Hospital, Springfield, Massachusetts of Kidney Disease.
Emma Delima Deroche aka Durocher was born the 18th and baptized the 19th January 1865, St. Anicet, Huntingdon, Quebec, Canada. She was the 2nd of 7 known children of Louis Durocher and Adalina Delima Rose Ammelotte. Her sibling were Louis b 1859, Emma Delima b 1861, Melina Appolyne b 1863, Marie Adalaide b 1865, Marie Philomena b 1867, Marie Louise b 1869, and Joseph Durocher b 1872, all in St. Anicet, Quebec. As a young woman she went to Constable, Franklin County, New York (few mile across the Canadian border)to work as a domestic on a local farm where she met her future husband, Francois Xavier "Oliver" Poirier aka Peach, who was a farm laborer on the same farm. They briefly returned to St. Anicet, Quebec to marry among family and returned to Constable, Franklin County, New York to raise a family. By 1890's they move to Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts. The photograph shown of her and her daughters has a notation on the back, "all dark hair, dark skin, mother with violet eyes". Emma sadly died, age 44 years, in Mercy Hospital, Springfield, Massachusetts of Kidney Disease.


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