Norman MOUSSEAU

Notes:

In the 1940 census, he and his wife and son live in Milwaukee. He’s the proprietor of a gas station.

Birth:
according to Minnesota Births and Christenings

Family/Spouse: Margaret. Margaret was born about 1902 in Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1924-MN-021074

Notes:

Living at home with his parents and younger siblings in the 1870 census. He already had an occupation: shingle packer.

In the 1895 state census, he and Ellen and their children lived at 110 5th Street North in Minneapolis. Bernard was a railroad agent.

In the 1900 census, he was Bernard Mousso. His occupation was express agent.

He’s a widower in the 1920 census. He’s a deputy sheriff for the county.

His death certificate says he was deputy sheriff and his address was 5016 Newton, the same address as the informant, Mrs. C. R. Brown. He was a widower of Mary. (Ellen was his second wife so it is likely that Mrs. Brown is one of the daughters of Mary Gavin and Barney.)

He died of arteriosclerosis.

Died:
He died at Minneapolis General Hospital.

Bernard married Ellen GALLAGHER on 16 Aug 1893 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Ellen was born in Apr 1870 in Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
in MOMS as Bernard Morrison and Ellen Gallagher

Notes:

Also known as Charles Mosseaux Mousseau.

From “Kim” on the internet: “Charles arrived from Montreal at age 21 working for the Hudson Bay Company. Arrived at Fort Snelling in 1827. Helped build the fort and stayed seven years. Married Fannie Perry in 1835. They settled in Mendota in a home furnished them by General Sibley. Children: Henry 1836, David 1838, Anthony 1841, Mary 1843, Paul 1856, Sophia 1858, Mitchell 1845, Ellen 1851, Bernard 1854, Minnie 1862.”

Another poster says that Charles is cited in "Pig's Eye's Notepad: A Historical Encyclopedia of St Paul, MN." That citation is:

MOUSSEAU, CHARLES - Born in 1807 in Canada, he came to Minnesota in 1827 as a voyageur with the American Fur Company. In 1827, he was married at Fort Snelling to Fanny Perry, and in the fall of 1838, he staked a claim on Dayton's Bluff in St. Paul. In 1848, he sold that claim to Eben Weld, and moved to Hennepin County where he resided until his death. Charles and Fanny had 12 children, among them: Charles (1834), Henri (1836), David (1838), Antoine (1840), Michel (1846), Marie Anne (1842), Sophie (1848), and Bernard (1854).

Phil says that Charles was one of some 50 retired voyageurs who traveled to Minnesota from Canada.

Marie Mousseau-Hendrickson cites an 1896 newspaper article that says that the Mousseaus were the first white people to settle on the site of Minneapolis and that the Mousseaus assisted in the construction of the Stevens House, now in Minnehaha Park. Charles lived in Mendota, Lake Calhoun area, St. Anthony, St. Paul, and Minneapolis.

One internet poster believes that Charles was the son of Joseph who was the son of Jacques.

In the 1830 census, there is a head of family named Charles Mousseau living in Michilimackinac County, Michigan Territory. At that time, Michigan Territory included what is now the north side of the Mississippi River in what was to become the Minneapolis/St. Paul area.

In the 1840 census, the area Charles lives in is still part of Iowa Territory. Officially, it’s in the St. Peter’s precinct of Clayton County, Iowa Territory. The census is only a listing of the heads of household with tallies for the ages of the various members of the household. Charles’s household has 3 male children under 5 years old, 1 male in his 30s, 1 male in his 60s, 1 female under 5, 1 female between 10 and 14, and two women in their 20s. This suggests that Charles’s father, and some of Charles’s siblings, may have accompanied him from Canada.

In the 1850 census, Charles is a lumberman, living with his family in Saint Anthony, Ramsey County, Minnesota Territory.

The family lived on a farm in the 2nd ward of Minneapolis in the 1860 census.

The family was still living in the 2nd ward in the 1870 census. Charles is now a house painter. Sons Henry and David live in adjoining households to Charles and Fannie.

In the 1880 census, Charles lives with his daughter Sophie Bourdeaux and her family.

Birth:
per Ancestry.com family tree posting

Charles married Fanny PERRY on 3 Feb 1835 in Fort Snelling, Michigan Territory. Fanny (daughter of Abraham PERRY and Mary Ann BOURQUIN) was born on 14 Nov 1818 in Lausanne, Switzerland; died on 10 Apr 1878 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She may have been Frances. Also known as Rose.

Notes:

His entry in Pig’s Eye’s Notepad:

PERRY, ABRAHAM - A refugee from the Selkirk Colony, he had been born in Switzerland about 1780, and had been a watchmaker. With his wife, three of his children, and a considerable number of his countrymen, he had emigrated to the Red River Colony in 1820. He arrived at Fort Snelling in 1827, settling north of the Fort at Camp Coldwater, opened a farm, and prospered. It was said that Perry owned more cattle than all the rest of the families combined, except for Joseph Renville.
The forced move to the Fountain Cave site was a cruel blow to Perry, who was no longer young. And within a few months of having reestablished a farm on his new claim, the survey of the military reservation had been completed, and to the dismay of the Fountain Cave settlers, Major Joseph Plympton had extended the territory of the Fort to a point nearly to the upper levee, what is now Seven Corners in St. Paul, and they were again rousted from their homes. This time, the Perry's moved to the site of Lambert's Landing, where Pierre Parrant, their former neighbor, was already established in business.
Almost completely broken by his ill-fortune and the loss of his herds, they moved in with their son-in-law, James Clewett. Soon Perry's health took a turn for the worse, and he died in 1849. His wife, Mary Ann, died in 1859 at the residence of another son-in-law, Charles Bazille. In all, they had seven children: Charles, Sophia, Fanny, Rose Ann, Adele, Josephine (1830 MN), and Annie Jane. Together, they provided over 75 grandchildren.

The 1881 Minnesota and Hennepin County history says:

Perry is described as a great owner of cattle and was called, in consequence, the “Abraham” of this region. The purpose of government militaru posts seems to have been interpreted in one way by these settlers [from Selkirk] and in quite another by the officers of the government. These settlers accused the officers of the fort if exercising arbitrary and tyrannical power and thus frustrating one purpose of the fort, viz., affording protection and encouragement to settlers. This view was sustained by subsequent settlers who, like these Swiss, wished to settler as squatters on the [Fort Snelling Military] reservation. The officers of the fort, however, had definite orders from the United States Marshal, to remove squatters from the Fort Snelling Reserve. In accordance with this order, instead of fostering this colony, they subjected them to persecution, even proceeding so far as to burn their buildings. At last, in 1836-1837, they were compelled to abandon lands where they had made their homes for about ten years. Mr. Perry moved to the present site of St. Paul, taking his cattle with him, and remained there until his death.

Abraham married Mary Ann BOURQUIN. Mary was born in 1786; died on 29 Nov 1859 in St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]