Michel Goyette
Michel Goyette, son of Francois Goyette II and Marie-Martine Balthazor, was born on 7 Apr 1826 in Marieville, Canada, was christened on 12 Nov 1910 in Immaculate Conception Cemetery in St Marys, Kansas, and died on 10 Nov 1910 in St Marys, Kansas at age 84.
Tremendous amounts of primary source material on Michael’s life, including land deeds, obituaries, newspaper ads, and so forth, are all chronicled in Barbara Harvey’s book on the Guyette family. Also with that book is a copy of the picture shown here of him with his family, circa 1899.
Cross-reference these with the "Canadian Genealogy Index" entry for Michel Goyette, living in Marieville in 1871: he appears as a blacksmith in John Lovell’s "Lovell’s Province of Quebec Directory for 1871." This is probably not the same man, as Harvey’s book appears to indicate that he had left Canada by then.
It is presumably only a mistake that Belle Guyette’s 1920 federal census entry records her parents’ birth-places as France. However, her 1900 federal census entry does record his birth-place as New York.
Michel married Lenora Jette on 7 Oct 1845 in St. Athanase Parish, St. Gregoire, Iberville, Quebec.
The child from this marriage was Margaret Isabelle (Belle/Bell) Guyette.
