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ALLEN BORDEAUX (1833-1917)
Allen emigrated to Malone from Canada, probably Quebec, at about the age of 15. Family tradition holds that he studied for the Catholic priesthood, and even in old age he assisted at house masses held in Reynoldston. At about the age of 24 he married Julia Hutchins, of Malone. The 1870 Federal census finds him in the town of Brandon, in the area that was to become Reynoldston. He was, if not the first, one of the very earliest settlers in that area. Bordeaux practiced farming and raising hops, and appears to have had little involvement with the Reynolds mill or logging operations. He died survived by four sons, twenty-three grandchildren, and five great grandchildren. Some of his descendants remained in Reynoldston until the 1980s, and others own land there today.
Beatrice Beaman
Allen Bordeaux. I can just remember him as a little old man when he was really quite old. I can remember going there for hops. Mother would send me there to buy a sack of hops. Not to the grandmother (Bordeaux)…I don’t think she ever spoke English. But we could talk to him. Nice looking man too. Well only that he was quite aristocratic sort of…you know a real pleasant nice sort of man to me Of course I was a kid I couldn’t talk to him but I think he was pretty well liked. And he was fairly well educated. I don’t know if he was educated in the church to start with or not…he might have been you know…because he had more education than any of them up there.
Beatrice Beaman Tape 6 p.4.
Eugene Bordeaux
Mr. Bordeaux: He was very religious. He would go to church whenever he could. You could not go to church here every Sunday. There would be some Sundays you could not get out of here. The snow was so deep. They always said the Rosary on Sunday. The whole family, during mass hour see, they all knelt down and said the Rosary.
Mr. Langlois: Did you say the Rosary as a boy?
Mr. Bordeaux: Yeah, I sure did. You had to. If you didn’t, he’d knock the head off me. He was a tough old nut. He could have been…he was an awful nice old man. Everybody in town called him Mr. Bordeaux.
Eugene Bordeaux tape 11 p.50
Letter from Mary Bordeaux
Note: probably Mary Alice Bordeaux married to Elmer Bordeaux (Reome) son of Theodore Bordeaux Pearl
River, New York 10965
June 21, 1969
Dear Cousin Bill
If there is anything I enjoy more than digging up ancestors, its swapping genealogy notes with cousins (included with letter is a family Genealogy for Frances Bordeaux Langlois). If you find anything about the Bordeaux history that I don’t have I would appreciated hearing about it. I started collecting Bordeaux history about forty years ago and I have very little to show for the search. Lately several cousins have sent me stories that I can’t quite swallow. I wonder why we never heard of them before. And how can they turn up now, when none of the older generation ever heard of them. For instance Marguerite told us that Bordeaux was not always the family name. She said the name used to be Bouvier and then was changed to Bordeaux. Your cousin Ernest Young said that he is descendent from both of the generals of the Battle of Quebec Wolf
& Montcalm???
This is what the old Bordeaux[1] told me. Eli Bordeaux lived in Le Prairie, Quebec Canada. His grandfather Eli Bordeaux came from France. Eli III came to the United States in the night during the war with the Indians. He said his family were buried in Malone – issue. Eli III had 6 children:
I. Eli Bordeaux who went west 5 children 1. Marie, 2. Eli (Fred) 3. Arthur, 4.Joseph, 5. Edith who married a Jasemere.
Eli (Fred) had 4 children – 1.Jimmy, 2. Josephine Married Pierce in 1967 she lived with her brother 3. Jerome E. Bordeaux 1917-1989 in Largo Fla.
II. Peter Bordeaux
III.
Allen 1832-1917 m. Julia Hutchins 8/11/1860 in Malone
IV. Judith Bordeaux m. Dumas Duluth
V. Captain David (Bordeaux) b. Clinton Co. New York 1841 married L.C. Keeley
1 child Ida who married Capt. Samuel Golden Ida had 6 children. Howard
b. 1888, Ida b. 1890, Edna b. 1892, Vera b. 1896, Doris b. 1907, Irving b. 1909
VI. Emma Bordeaux married Nero lived in Malone
3 children – 1. Lena Nero 2. Malvena Nero 3. Vina
Nero
Allen Bordeaux studied to be a priest for three years, maybe in Valleyfield, Quebec. He built a house nest to the (Franklin) Academy in Malone. It burned down and he built another. He went to Reynoldston to lumber and sold bark etc. Frank (Orson) Reynolds bought a farm in Reynoldston and was one of the early settlers. Allen married Julia Hutchins who was a milliner in Malone before she married. Before that she lived in Bombay or Ft. Covington. She was the daughter of William Hutchins and Julia Beauprie. Elmer Bordeaux remembers that Allen and other men who l ived Malone lumbered in Reynoldston before (Orson) Frank Reynolds bought land there. He says they sold hemlock bark to tanneries in Malone and St. Regis Falls.
I can’t be sure of any of this information. As the older members of the family remembered things, I wrote it down, but when I read my notes to others there is always someone who says it wasn’t that way.
One of the earliest exports from Reynoldston was Potash made from the wood that the early settlers burned to clear the land. Most of the settlers of Reynoldston were farmers. They sold hops, potatoes , grain and other farm products . They sold venison. I have heard that elves visited at night and tied knots in the horses tails. During the civil War every other man was conscripted but your g.g. grandfather Allan Bordeaux was skipped. By taking the owner of every other farm the
left a scattering of men to take care of all the farms…… One thing that I have never heard disputed is that Julia Huchins Bordeaux had an Indian ancestor.
The Allen Bordeaux family moved from Malone to Reynoldston when Alice Julia was four weeks old and she was born in Malone
December 2, 1869. ….
I have found several Bordeaux family histories in the NY Public Library but I can tie our Eli to them. I f I can help you further let me know and I’d like to hear about anything more that your find out about the family.
Good Luck to you
Sincerely
Mary
Bordeaux
Two
additional sheets were included with this letter one a genealogical chart or Frances Bordeaux
And the second was a note about Captain David Bordeaux.
(see material on Captain David Bordeaux in this section
[1] Probably Albert Bordeaux given that I believe Mary Bordeaux was
born in 1905 and died in 1997.
*AS RELATED BY ALLEN BORDEAUX TO MARY BORDEAUX LETTER DATED June 21 1969 tha is attached here.
ALLEN BORDEAUX b. 1833 in Canada d. 1917 m. 8-11-1860 to Julia Hutchins
(Children) -Ernest (Fred)Bordeaux, Albert Bordeaux, Miner Bordeaux, Theodore (Ted) Bordeaux
Alfred Bordeaux 1861-1945
Carolyn 1866-1908 7 children
Alice Mary 1869-1885
Joseph 1872
Mary 1878? or 1868
( information provided by Richard Young)
ERNEST (FRED) BORDEAUX B 1861
ALBERT BORDEAUX b. 4-4-1864, d. 1964 married
Mary Campbell 8-8-1867 d. 1-15-1958
11 children… Lillian Bordeaux, Gertrude Bordeaux,
Eugene Bordeaux, Hazel Bordeaux, Eleon Bordeaux,
Francis V. Bordeaux, Annabell (Ann) Bordeaux,.
Marguerite Bordeaux,. Leroy Bordeaux,
Dorothy H. Bordeaux
LILLIAN BORDEAUX 1892-192
m. To GEORGE PRUE
Lillian had 5 children: Gwen, Gordon, Donald, Raymond and Phyllis
b. 3-26-1895 d. 4-12-1982
m. To Daisy French b. 12-25-1898
d. 7-27-1980
4 children Frances Ethel Bordeaux, Eugenia M. Bordeaux,
Doris R. Bordeaux, Lois Bordeaux
FRANCES ETHEL BORDEAUX
b. 3-26-1920 d. 2-26-1994
m. To Milton J. Langlois
4 children – Jerilyn M. Langlois, Marcia Frances Langlois,
Milton Joseph Langlois, Jr, W. J. Langlois
EUGENIA BORDEAUX
b. 1923
1st m. to Roswell Brothers
2 children Karen Brothers, Thomas Brothers
2nd m. to Robert Lashomb
DORIS BORDEAUX
b. 1925 d. 1997
m. To Harold Le Boeuf
3 children… Diane Le Boeuf, Buddy Le Boeuf, Carol Ann Le Boeuf,
LOIS BORDEAUX
b. 1928 d. 9-8-1985
m. To Neal Patraw
4 children-James Patraw, Randy Patraw,Cindy Patraw, SusanPatraw, Terry Patraw
HAZEL BORDEAUX
b. 3-27-1896 d. 1-1-1959
m. To Wilbert Bombar
5 children… Eileen Bombard, Erma Bombard,
Everett Bombard, Norman Bombard, Alvin Bombard
ELEON BORDEAUX
b. 1899 – 1970
FRANCIS BORDEAUX
b. 1902- 1925
ANNABELL (ANN) BORDEAUX
b. 1903
Married Lawrence Baker
Two children Gloria
2nd Marriage to Mr. Claude DesParois
MARGUERITE BORDEAUX
b. 1907
m. To Mr. McCrilus
LEROY BORDEAUX
b. 1908
m. To Lil Hollowern
1 child Robert Bordeaux
DOROTHY H. BORDEAUX
b. 1913- 2000
M. Albert (Abbby) White 1914-1988
3 children – Susan, Monty. and Katherine
MINER BORDEAUX
b. 1872 -1947
ERNEST T. BORDEAUX
b. 1875
m. Nellie
7 children: Virginia E., Gladys M.,
Marian L. Ernestine D, Allen B. Donald R. Byron D.
THEODORE BORDEAUX
WIFE – HAZEL
6 CHILDREN
Hazel was married to Theodore Bordeaux and after he died in 1913 she later married William Reome and he adopeted al the children. I am not positive how many of them changed their names back to Bordeaux, but I do know that Elmer, did and maybe the women got married under either name.
(FROM MATERIAL PROVIDED BY RICHARD YOUNG)
IF ANYONE HAS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE BORDEAUX FAMILY, PLEASE CONTACT US WITH THE CONTACT FORM ON THIS SITE OR CONTACT RICHARD YOUNG:
He can be reached at: (401) 821-6910
THANK YOU
W. LANGLOIS
Captain David Bordeaux,* captain of the propeller, John Moran, is one of the most widely known masters of the merchant marine of the Great lakes. He was born in Clinton Co., NY in 1841 and was educated at the Academy in Malone , NY and at Nicolette College, Quebec taking a three year course of studies in the last named institution. At the age of fourteen years he began life on his own account as a tar-boy on the schooner “Courtland” sailing between Detroit and Ogdensburg and after two months was earning a man’s wages as a sailor before the mast. He was then employed as a watchman on the side-screw-steamer “Baltie” running from Buffalo to Chicago. The Captain was married to L.C Keeley in 1866 of Buffalo, N.Y. and the had one daughter, Ida who married Captain Samuel Golden. Captain Bordeaux resided at # 386-14th Street Buffalo,
N.Y. No record of Captain Bordeaux’s death is given, but it is believed he died at about 63.
Additonal material added by W.J. Langlois through genealogical research.
Additional material has been provided by Richard Young who has also been doing a lot of genealogical research on the Young and Bordeaux families.