Thomas-Pierre-Joseph Taschereau [SEP] father
Thomas-Pierre-Joseph Taschereau
Thomas-Pierre-Joseph Taschereau was born in Quebec April 19, 1775, a son of Gabriel-Elzéar Taschereau, the patriarch of this important family, and his first wife, Marie-Louise-Élizabeth Bazin. He studied at the Petit Séminaire of Quebec from 1784 to 1792.
He embarked on a military career and became a lieutenant in 1797. Demobilized in 1802, he went into business and set up a distillery with his brother Jean-Thomas Taschereau, in the Sainte
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Taschereau was half-brother of Jean-Thomas and Thomas-Pierre-Joseph Taschereau and uncle of Joseph-André and Pierre-Elzéar Taschereau.
References.
- Roy, PG "La famille Taschereau" (1901) pp. 161–2