Surname Saturday - Tremblay

I chose to explore the "Tremblay" surname today, my great-grandmother's maiden name. I have posted about Pierre Tremblay and Ozanne Achon, who were my immigrant ancestors. Tremblay and it's variations is the most common French-Canadian surname, put it into Google translate and it comes back with "Smith", the most common name in North America! The difference between "Smith" and "Tremblay" is that Smith is a common name that a lot of different families share, with no blood relationship, there was a smith in every village and hamlet in Europe, it was a "nickname". But people with the name of Tremblay, Trombley, Trimble and variations in North America, " in their tree, although a common name, are all cousins, descendants of Pierre du Tremble, from La Rochelle, France.

My great-grandmother, Celinase Tremblay was the granddaughter of Pierre Tremblay Romain, the Seignieur of Eboullements, Quebec in the early 1800's. She was born at Charlevois and was married to Jean Desbiens of Ste-Jerome parish. They migrated to Essex County in 1890, after the birth of their third child with Celina's parents, Philias Tremblay and Marie-Louise Dallaire, Extended family made the journey as well, but her father died less than a year after arriving, 1n 1891.

Here is my great-grandmother's family:


As you can see, she had a large family. I found a few newspaper clippings in the Essex Free Press Archives at OurOntario as well:


I have a lot of research yet to do on this family. I found a few records on the Seeking Michigan website for the families that moved across the river. I have to find time to enter all of the sources and images that I've discovered into my database, but there's a lot of searching left to do.

Here is Celina Tremblay Desbien's pedigree chart: