Nelson Perrault

NELSON PERRAULT

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Nelson Perrault is the grandson six times great of François Perrot, I and Étiennette Perreault The profile portrait displayed here is taken from a photograph of Nelson Perrault and his wife Anne Greene, which was taken at Kamloops in British Columbia, Canada, in 1890. [Robin E W Hamamy]

Birth and Death

Nelson Perrault is th son of Francois Perrault and his Canadian First Nation wife, Lucie Kesaltsu. He was born on 15 October 1865, at Lillooet in British Columbia, Canada. British Columbia Marriage Registrations and died at the Provincial Infirmary in Marpole, Vancouver, on 18 April 1956 British Columbia, Death Registrations

First Marriage

Nelson Perrault married Annie Green.

Second Marriage

Nelson Perrault married Amelia Duteau. They were married at Kamloops in British Columbia, Canada, on 5 November 1930 British Columbia Marriage Registrations

Children

Nelson Perrault had children by his first marriage only. He and his first wife, Annie Green, had ten children whose names are known. They follow now:

(1) Flora Perrault

(2) Margaret Melina Perrault

(3) Amy Florence Perrault

(5) Dennis Xavier Perrault

(6) Joseph Phillip Perrault

(7) Albert Nelson Perrault

(8) Walrer Perrault

(9) Helen Dorothy Perrault

(10) Edward Perrault

Other:

Nelson was raised around the Cache Creek and Yale area off the Frazier River with his brother Francis and sister Melina. His father was Francois Perreault and his Mother was Lucy Apposcosti. Francois was born 16 May 1826 in Saint-Esprit, Montcalm, Québec, Canada. Nelson's mother Lucy, was of the first Nation Shuswap tribe. Nelson and Annie Were living with Francois in the Yale area per the 1891 Census. Nelson married Annie Green on 19 June 1881 in the Lillooet area and later settled around Savona Lake and the Kamloops Area. A Canada 1881 census has Annie in the household of an Andrew Green at age 9. The marriage document of Nelson and Maggie Green, states Andrew and Annie were the parents of Maggie. However, Nelson married Annie who was 9 years old and not Maggie. Annie Green is Listed as Swedish. Annie is anything but Swedish. She is First Nation, possibly Shuswap, or as some speculate American Chippewa Indian. Nelson's brother Francis is listed as a 1/2 Breed on his death registration. Nelson would have been a 1/2 Breed also, who married a full blood. Some relatives have been listed in the 1908 census of the White Earth Agency removal of the Chippewa, from the Mississippi Valley in Minnesota. Nelson and Annie went to Massachusetts in 1883, to stay with relatives, during the illness and death of their first Child Flora who died of Cholera. Find A Grave