This is about the LaPorte-St Georges families.

It’s about finding a 17th century ancestor that could read and write…a skill normally reserved for royalty or religious leaders…yet our ancestor, Jacquets Laporte thrived in the mid-1600s in Noce, Basse-Normandie, France as owner of a bakery and a hotel.

It’s about the second Jacquets Laporte who married Nicole Duchesne in New France to become one of the founders of Montreal Canada.

It’s about Ambroise Laporte who changed the name to St George in the early 1800s and a second Ambroise born in 1818 in Canada who carried the lineage to the United States to Willsboro, New York.   His son, John St George, at the age of 20 crossed Lake Champaign to find Alice Olive Leno, age 15, and marry her in Salisbury, Vermont.

It’s about John and Alice St George working their way from Vermont South to the Massachusetts Berkshires settling on a farm purchased in Brimfield, Massachusetts.  It was here that the first American Ambrose was borne in 1899 one of 12 children of John and Alice.

In September 1930 Charles Timothy St George was born and survives this day as the last of Ambrose and Margaret’s family of 10 children.