Hilarion Daigle

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Hilarion DAIGLE was born on 19 May 1796. He grew up in the area around the Green River, but settled further west, near the mouth of Baker Brook. He was married to Madeleine AYOTTE on 17 Feb 1824 in St-Basile, New Brunswick.

He appeared in the 1830 US census in Madawaska (p.375), as Lawrence Daigle. He appeared on the 1833 New Brunswick census of Madawaska, as Larion Deagle, head of a household that included his wife, one son and three daughters; he lived on ungranted land on an island in the St.John near the mouth of Baker Brook. He owned 2 horses, 5 oxen, 6 cows, 7 young cattle, 30 sheep and 6 pigs.

He appeared on the 1840 US census in Madawaska North of the Saint John River, Aroostook County, Maine, as Larion Daigle, head of a household with one male aged 0-4 years, 1 male 10-14, 1 male 30-39, one female 0-4, one female 5-9, two females 15-19, one female 30-39, living on the north bank of the St.John River. (5154) (Although this area is in New Brunswick, until 1842 the region was claimed by the U.S. and the State of Maine, which sent a census taker to the settlements on the north bank of the St.John River.)

He appeared in the 1851 New Brunswick census of Madawaska parish (p.16), age 52, born in New Brunswick, the head of household that included his wife Magdelina (46 years old) and children Registe (20 years old), Dodite (19), Gedion (11), Dorumène (9), Margueritte (7), and Sophia (4). He appeared in the 1861 New Brunswick census of Madawaska parish (p.3), age 65, in household with wife Mary (50) and children son Isidore (22), daughter-in-law Modeste (20), and daughters Dorimene (19) and Margret (17), as well as two servants (Cyprian Duke, 25, and Anthony Losier, 17).