I have an ancestor married at St. Prosper de Champlain in 1871.  The records begin in 1850.  If I assume the parish was started then, what nearby parish served the people living there before that time?

Wikipedia offers: "The area opened up for colonization in the middle of the 19th century, and in 1850 the Parish of Saint-Prosper was established out of the territories of Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan and Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade. It was named after Prosper of Aquitaine possibly by Bishop Joseph Signay who wanted to emphasize the "prosperity" of the first settlers, who were poor but brave. In 1853, its post office opened, and two years later, the Parish Municipality of Saint-Prosper was formed, with Augustin Massicotte as first mayor." So it would appear that "the territories of Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan and Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade" is the answer to your question. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainte-Genevi%C3%A8ve-de-Batiscan,_Quebec and: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainte-Anne-de-la-P%C3%A9rade,_Quebec Cheers! Doreen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Right & Left" <bcr1@yahoo.com> To: QUEBEC-RESEARCH@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2014 8:06:44 AM Subject: [Q-R] Previous Parish? I have an ancestor married at St. Prosper de Champlain in 1871.  The records begin in 1850.  If I assume the parish was started then, what nearby parish served the people living there before that time? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~For the list web page, goto: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~unclefred/main.htm And we are on facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/QRlist/ List Archives are at: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/QUEBEC-RESEARCH ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to QUEBEC-RESEARCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message