Kelsey++Roy

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=Ancestors Of Kelsey Roy!=

Napoleon Roi and Elise Vermete - Married in Canada May 11, 1866. Had 7 kids named Fortunat, Gideon, Letitia, Ciceron, Joseph, Avelina, and Nolire. They lived in Ste-Isadore, Dorchester in Quebec, Canada. I myself am a direct decendant of Fortunat Roi who first came to America somtime around 1890. Fortunat walked 242 miles from Quebec to Rochester, New Hampshire with his parents and 6 siblings: Gideon, Letitia, Ciceron, Joseph, Avelina, and Nolire. There Fortunat's father, Napoleon, got a job as bookkeeper and Fortunat met his wife, Delziar Fortier.

Delziar Fortier was born in Rochester, New Hampshire around 1882 and had lived there all her life. She was 18 in 1900 when her and Fortunat married, Fortunat was 22 at the time. Fortunat and Delziar inherited a farm from Pierre Fortier, Delziar's father. The Roy's (Roi's changed their name to Roy after they moved to Rochester because it sounded more "American") and the Fortier's cultivated the land together and both lived on it. Fortunat also got a job as a shoe maker in Rochester.

Fortunat and Delziar had 4 kids together who went by the names of Gedeon (he went by Gideon), Wilfred, Edgar, and Elaine. All of the kids went to a Catholic French speaking K-12 school as kids. Their daily routine went like this: In the morning they would help out their dad on the farm, then they would depart to school. After shool they would play baseball, basketball, or football, but primarily baseball, then they would help their dad once more on the farm. Finally they would eat and go to bed.

For college both Gideon and Wilfred went the the University of New Hampshire and were star athletes and students. In college Gid (Gideon) was a start player for the football, basketball, and baseball team. His brother Edgar also went to the University of New Hampshire but was asked to leave on account of his excessive partying and bad behavior. Edgar finished collage somewhere in Boston and eventually went on to design the Iron Lung. Wilfred graduated from the University and went on to become a dentist and stayed in Rochester.

Gid graduated with the coveted Chase Davis academic/athletic award along with a double E in Engineering. Gid was given offers to go play for the Balitmore Oriols and Pittsburg Piraes after he finished school but instead he decided to go work for Westing House which was the General Electric of its time. But pretty soon Gid missed the appeal of sports, so in 1927 Gid became the math teacher at Danbury High school in conneticut and also coached the baseball, basketball, and football team. In 1945 Gid ended his coaching career with Danbury High School but continued to be the math teacher there. It wasn't until 1970 that he finally left the sublime walls of Danbury High in which he had spent 43 years teaching and 18 years coaching. Lamentably, Gid passed away eight years after he quit, leaving 6 kids and 3 grandchildren to pass on not only his legacy, but the ancestry of the Roy family!

This information for this project was provided by 3 of the Children of Gideon Charles Roy Sr.: Sandra Roy, Gideon Charles Roy Jr., and Therese Roy Epsteine. They get their information from 3 years of genealogy research.