1854

Junion’s Arrive in America

In 1854 Jean Lambert Junion was thirty-eight years old living with a wife and six children in Corroy-le-Grand, Brabant, Belgium. At that time Belgium had been plagued with disease and economic hardship for many years. Like many families in Belgium at that time “American fever” took hold and Jean looked to America for a better life. In America, Wisconsin encouraged Belgium immigrates and even had advertising campaigns to encourage them. In 1854 Jean with his wife Marie and their children Philippe, Marie, Xavier, Pierre, Jean and Josephine took a steamship to Canada, and then traveling by boat up the St. Lawrence River though Lake Erie, Lake Huron into Lake Michigan to Kewaunee Wisconsin where they settled. Like many Belgium’s at that time, they were devoted Catholics. 
 
The following is the genealogy of my maternal Grandfather’s family from when they migrated to the United States from Belgium.

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J00 REGORIE JOSEPH JUNION

Regorie Joseph Junion, b. 1771, d. 1827, m. May 25, 1797 to Marie Philippine Debroux, b. 1777, d 1863. 
Children:

*J01 Jean Lambert Junion - b. Jan 28, 1816, d. Nov 20, 1891

 

J01 JEAN LAMBERT JUNION, REGORIE JOSEPH JUNION (J0)

 

Jean Lambert Junion was born Jan 28, 1816 in Corroy-le-Grand, Brabant, Belgium, and died Nov. 20, 1891 in Red River Township, Kewaunee County, WI. He married Marie Julienne Raison, b. Nov 10, 1817, in Sart-Risbart, Brabant, Belgium, d. Oct 9, 1900, in Kewaunee County, WI. Both bur. Saint Odile's Cemetery in Saint Odile's Cemetery, Thiry Daems, Red River Township, Kewaunee County, WI.

 

Jean and his family migrated from Belgium to the United States in 1854.

 

U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index Source Publication Code: 1495, Jean Joseph, Josephine, Pierre Joseph, Philippe, Frances Xavier. Arrival year 1854-1858

 

Census:

1870 Red River, Kewaunee, WI, Lambert age 53, wife Mary P-51, children: Xavier-25, Pierre-23, Joseph-3

Their children:

J02 Philippe Junion

J03 Marie Philippine Junion - b. Sep. 11, 1841 in Opprebais, Brabant, Belgium, d. Mar. 16, 1905 in Kewaunee County, WI, bur. Saint Odile's Cemetery. She married Jean Joseph Delain ABT 1864, son of Henri Delain and Anne Josephe Jandrain, b. Dec. 10, 1839 in Opprebais, Brabant, Belgium, d. Oct. 2, 1913 in Luxemburg, Kewaunee County, WI, bur. Saint Odile's Cemetery. 
Children:

Joseph Delain - b. 1865, d. 1934

Xavier Delain - b. Apr. 26, 1868, d. Nov. 6, 1949

Alex Delain -b. 1870, d.  1946

Theophile Delain - b. 1875, d. 1951

Constant Delain - b. 1877, d. 1944

Anna Delain - b. 1879, d. 1968, m. John B. Monfort, b. Oct. 6, 1876, d. Nov. 23, 1914)

Clementine Delain - b. 1881, d. 1942, m. Henry Boulanger, b. 1878, d. 1935

J04 Francois Xavier Junion - b. Jul. 3, 1844, in Opprebais, Brabant, Belgium, d. May 28, 1916 in Luxemburg Township, Kewaunee County, WI, bur. Saint Odile's Cemetery, Thiry Daems, WI. He married Marie Josephine Mottard 1868 in Bay Settlement, Brown County, WI, daughter of Honore Mottart and Rosalie Jacquart. She was born Dec. 11, 1850, in Beauvechain, Brabant, Belgium, d. Feb. 21, 1920 in Thiry Daems, Red River Township, Kewaunee County, WI, bur. Saint Odile's Cemetery, Thiry Daems, WI.

*J05 Pierre Joseph Junion - b. Apr. 3, 1847, in Opprebais, Brabant, Belgium, d. Oct. 2, 1925 in Luxemburg, Kewaunee County, WI. He married Clementine Mornard on Feb 3, 1871 in Chapel at Robinsonville, Brown County, WI, daughter of Jean Baptiste Mornard and Marie Josephe Barette. She was born Dec 16, 1852 in Nodebais, Brabant, Belgium, and died 12 OCT 1932 in Green Bay, Brown County, WI.

J06 Jean Joseph Junion - b. Nov. 21, 1850 in Opprebais, Brabant, Belgium.

J07 Josephine Junion - b. Jun. 18, 1852, in Opprebais, Brabant, Belgium.

J08 Charles Junion - b. ABT 1857 in WI

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