Hi, I'm Andy Prevost

I have been researching my family trees for the Prévost side and the Charron side for the past 45 or so years. I am not sure what stimulated the start of my research, but every now and then I look at my father’s notebook with his hand-written history. I recall him telling a few of the stories, particularly the hardship of farming in Paspébiac Québec (la Gaspésie). There was much emotion when he talked about losing his sister when he was quite young and the struggles his father had paying the medical bills.

The rest of this website is dated. I created it some years back before health issues knocked my plans out of whack.

I can provide a few updates for now:

  • my father John Albert Prévost passed on (September 6 2014)
  • my mother Marie Gertrude Thérèse (Charron) Prévost passed on (February 3 2017)
  • after many years of searching, I have finally been able to track my great-great-great-grandmother, Cherry Douglas. Her name had been previously incorrectly documented. She is of Irish background, arrived as an immigrant from Ireland in 1831, married my g-g-g-grandfather in the same year. She was hospitalized (and passed on) in Montreal and was buried on hospital grounds.

famille - Charron - family      famille - Prévost - family

In this photo, my father - John Albert Prévost - is about 9 years old (about 1929). His first communion, taken near the house at the end of their lane way. Even though from a French Canadian family, his “real” first name was John.

In this photo, my mother - Marie Gertrude Thérèse (Charron) Prévost - is about 3 years old (about 1935). She is to the right of her older sister Laurianne.