Holly Charette who was killed in Iraq is the niece of a friend of mine, Rene Charette, and is somehow related to my fiance (Thomas Charette) as well. Holly Ann was born to Raymond Anthony Charette and his wife Regina. Raymond's father is Henry Joseph Charette, and his mother is Jackie (Gore). Henry Joseph has a brother Lawrence, a sister Gloria and another sibling that I've yet to find out their name. From what I understand Henry Joseph Charette's father was Henry Alex Charette 1911-2004 married to Margaret Beatrice Denton 1915-1987.Henry Alex had a brother Joseph (nickname Buster) and a sister Ida Marie (or maybe Mae). There may well have been more siblings. Henry Alex Charette's father, Camille Charette 1880-1971 was married to a Josephine Biron (Beron)1884-1965. From what I've gleaned from Henry Joseph who is still living, Camille's father's name was Louis, but he couldn't remember his wife's name. Other names Henry was able to tell me, though he wasn't sure of the relationship were Ferdina (Fardina) Charette married to a Mathilde Gignac (or perhaps Gagnon), a Jephir? Charette married to Irene, Moises Charette d.1953(possibly a brother to Camille who also had a twin brother who died at around age 21 (he couldn't remember his name). He also mentioned a Lorette or Loretta and Paulette and Florence Charette as well, whether Charette was their maiden or married names I'm not sure as Henry is is close to 80 and his memory is not the best. Henry also mentioned that some family still lives near Drummondville, Que. He also said that some of the family listed their names as Charet, Charest, Choret, Charrette, Charette, Carrette and even Carter.

Somehow this branch of the Charettes is connected to my fiance's branch though we have yet to discover how. We are very sure of it because Holly is a near spitting image to my fiance's sister and niece, and Holly's brother looks like a younger version of my fiance's younger brother. Both branches of the tree share the same high cheekbones (an indian in there somewhere), the same nose, and the very wide toothy smile. We call them the Charette nose and smile. Though hair and eye color vary, nearly every Charette in both branches have that Charette smile. Both branches are liberally sprinkled with twins. The names, Joseph, Anthony, Louis, are common to both branches, but Henry seems to be exclusive to Rene's branch and Thomas and Leonard are common in Tom's branch. I've been working on both of their trees, hoping to discover the connection, and all I can say is that the Charettes are quite prolific. Tom's father's name is Leonard Robert, his grandfather was Leonard E, his great grandfather's name was Leonard Leo, his gr.gr. grandfather was Thomas married to Sophia Gagno, and Thomas's father's name was Louis, but I don't think the two ancestors named Louis are the same as they don't share similar siblings' names. The ancestor Thomas Charette was quite prolific as I've seen 15 children attributed to him, whether by one wife or more than one, I don't know. Tres Rivieres (Three Rivers) was mentioned as the area that Tom's ancestors originally came from in Canada, then moving into Maine (Aroostook County), then his branch traveled by horse and cart working farms along the way into Swansea and Fall River MA, and then on to Rhode Island. I'd really like to know of any siblings to Thomas Charette (1843) and or his father Louis. I've seen the last names listed as Charette, Chauret, Charett, Charatte, and Choret in censuses etc. If anyone can fill in any blanks, I'd sure appreciate it.

I haven't found any connections to those in your post, but my wife's Charette family comes from Upstate New York and her great x 8 grandparents, Mathieu and Sebastienne (Veillon) Choret came to Canada arount 1650. I have seen every spelling variation that you listed (inclusing Carter, which would be sort of a direct translation of their name) in her family. One Branch of that family did settle in the Chicopee/Springfield area of Mass a couple of generations ago. The family is quit massive, and yes, there is Amerindian blood in the line. Please contact me if you think I can be of help.

Tony
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I have had some success researching, I've gone back at least 7 generations in Tom's tree and 5 generations back in Rene's tree. A friend of ours who has done extensive Charette research has connected the 2 families some 9 generations back.. back to John (Jean), Ultimately most Charettes are descended from the original two Charettes that emigrated here from France, but I wanted to find the common ancestor. He will be sending me the registry albeit in sections, because it is so large, well over 10,000 names. He can only send a few generations at a time, so it will be a while before I get them all from both trees. But at least I now know for a fact, that Rene and Tom are related, although very distantly. But the Charette genes are strong, strong enough to show up on both trees, 9 generations down from the shared ancestor.

Hi I would like to get some of that info please.
I am descended from Mathiu my great grandfather was Amos.Mygrandfather was Henry and my Dad is James. I was born in RI and that is where most of my family is from. As far as I got was that AMos served inthe Civil war and was a pallbearer for President Lincoln. I got that from his discharge papers that my dad has. I will try to post what else I haveonce I find itin my computer

Here is to root to approx. 2000 Charette/Choret/Chauret/Charest/...etc... names I have, which may (or may not) help you:

http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=stephan...

I don't have Thomas and Sophia, but since you say you have several generations, perhaps there is enough to tie everything together.

Stéphane Charette

Thank you, you have been a big help! Between the info you have provided, and that of my friend, along with the info I already have, I now have both Rene's and Tom's direct lines back to Mathieu and then Thomas Chaure! With the info you have given I may very well be able to help someone else who has asked for help with her family tree. Thanks so much!

Where do Tomas and Rene fall intothe line?

Tony

correct me if i am wrong. Was Thomas and Mathiau brothers?

Thomas, my husband, is Thomas and Sophie's great great grandson ( and happens to have Thomas's burial cross which was passed down from his great grandfather, to his grandfather to his father and now to him) and is a descendant of Jean, son of Mathieu... Rene is a descendant of Robert, also a son of Mathieu

I'm not sure of which Thomas you are speaking. There are quite a few Thomases in the Charette/Choret/Chaure line. I'm no authority by any means, and there are much more informed people to be asking, but you definitely need to give more than just a first name for me to know of which Thomas you speak. It also seems that there is more than one Mathieu from what I've seen. I've seen a Mathieu and a Robert Mathieu, but I'm am not positive that they are even two separate people. Censuses may call the same person by two or more different names on different year's censuses, so it can be quite confusing. Also, quite often an ancestor's baptismal name is different from their given name. Camile, Rene's great grandfather always claimed his name was just Camile Charette,(only one L) with no middle name, but on his baptismal record it showed his name was Joseph Camille Charette (Joseph being his first name and Camille,(with 2 L's) his middle. I found his name listed on different censuses as Camile, Carmile, Cammel, so you see it's not easy tracking down these Charette's (smile) I have seen one Charette ancestor's last name listed as Charette, Choret, Charest, Sharett, Shaurette, and God knows what else on different year censuses, military records, and birth and marriage records. I guess it was however the information taker thought it was spelled. The only way I knew it was the same person was through dates of birth, wife's name, parents names, or children's names and ages.