About this Project
Our Family Tree started out with the descendants of Francois
LaVoy II, the first LaVoy to come to Monroe County, Michigan
in about 1808. As of this date the tree includes over 4,200
LaVoy Family members, descendants of Francois and his wife Marie
Gouin, also known by her Potawatomi Indian name White Feather.
Many still live today in Monroe County, MI, where the ancestral
couple settled.
As the information accumulated it also became an ascending
tree of all the traceable maternal and paternal ancestry of
Patrick LaVoy Tombeau and his siblings, Jerry Harvey Tambeau,
Anne Tambeau Travis, and Lucille Tambeau McMurtrie. To date
all of our maternal ancestry has been traced to France. Literally
hundreds our mother’s ancestors are recorded in this tree.
If you are related to us through a French Canadian heritage,
they are your ancestors as well.
With respect to my father, Leo Thomas Tambeau, parts of his
ancestry have been traced back to Europe, while other parts
are a work in progress. His paternal ancestry has been traced
back to Holland, although the correct spelling of the name has
been altered throughout the generations from Tombos to Tombow,
or Tombo, and finally Tambeau or Tombeau. His paternal great-grandparents,
William and Catherine Lake, have not been traced beyond their
presence in Susquehenna County, Pennsylvania in 1850. Some German
ancestry of my father’s paternal great-grandmother, Elizabeth
Rohrer Tombow, has yet to be found. The ancestry of his mother,
Elizabeth Fitzsimmons, has been traced back to County Mayo,
Ireland.
In addition to the above content, several partially researched
descendant trees of immigrant ancestors are also recorded: Peter
Fitzsimmons and Anne Joyce of Olyphant, Pennsylvania (790 descendants);
William Tombos and Mary Herzkey of Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
(with the help of Dorothy Tombow Boulware of Argyle, TX, Irene
Westphal of Marshalltown, MN, and Shirley Hern of Anaheim, CA)(1800
descendants); Jean Baptiste Trombley and Mary Baumier/Boemier
of Monroe County, MI (138 descendants); Joesph Gervais/Jarvis
and Sophia LaMarre of Monroe County (313 descedendants); and
Jean Baptiste DuSault IV and Tharcile LaForest of Monroe County,
Toledo, Ohio, and Bay County, Michigan (586 descendants).
The Dusseau Family can claim as their forbears five Canadian
Lords DuSault, as well as Charlemagne and his ancestors back
seven more generations to St. Arnolf (580-640).
Those who can add to these trees or find errors in my data
are encouraged to contact me. Currently this database consists
of over 10,500 individuals. As of May, 2007, work is ongoing
to scan all data and
documents collected over 50 years and import them into this website. These items include court records, school
records, obituaries, newspaper articles, birth, marriage and
death records, wills, pictures, funeral cards, oral histories,
etc. Thank you for looking.
Patrick LaVoy Tombeau
