Marriage:
Occupation:
Oliviana Savaria
Lillian Mary Henrietta Augustus Legge
Between 1910-1912
Street car conductor, motorman, plumber, mill worker (wool processing), mechanic, coal shoveler
| Parents: Marriage: Occupation: |
Francis Bordua Oliviana Savaria Lillian Mary Henrietta Augustus Legge Between 1910-1912 Street car conductor, motorman, plumber, mill worker (wool processing), mechanic, coal shoveler |
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| Children: | Florence L. | Mar. 15, 1913 | † July 8, 2000 |
| Lawrence A. | Apr. 1915 | ||
| Howard "Howie" F. | Jan. 24, 1917 | ||
| Robert Edward | Oct. 20, 1918 | † July 6, 1975 | |
| Leonard "Lenny" Thomas | Sept. 15, 1920 | † June 17, 2004 | |
| Mildred Edith | Jan. 29, 1923 | † Dec. 5, 2014 | |
| Dorothy May | May 5, 1926 | † Apr. 25, 2010 | |
| James Frederick "Jimmy, Jim Bee" | Oct. 3, 1928 | † May 16, 2012 | |
| Notes: | Alexis was born at St. Barnaby, Canada. According to Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World, 1913, (p. 1597), Saint |
| Barnabé is a post-village of St. Maurice county, Quebec, 15 miles from Louiseville. It
has saw- and grist-mills and cheese- and butter-factories, with a population of about 500.
Francis Bordua traveled from Canada to Connecticut on the Grand Trunk Railroad when Alexis was eight years old (1897). In 1914 Alexis was living on King Way in Enfield, Connecticut and working as a motorman [Source: Enfield, Thompsonville, Hazardville, Suffield and Somers, Connecticut City Directory, 1914 Enfield, p. 28.] On June 5, 1917, Alexis was 27 years old and described as tall and slender with brown eyes and brown hair. He was working as a farm laborer for Dr. Price of Somers, Tolland, Connecticut [Source: Registration Location: Tolland County, Connecticut; Roll: 1570619; Draft Board: 23]. At the time of the January 9, 1920 census, Alexis was 29 years old and living with his wife, Lillian M., her daughter Ann M., and their 4 children at 67 Spring St., Rockville, Tolland Co., Connecticut. He was working as an assistant machinist in a woolen mill. He stated that he was born in Canada as were both his parents, and that he spoke French. At the time of the April 15, 1930 federal census, Alexis G. was 39 years old and living with his wife Lillian M. and nine children at 67 Spring Street, Rockville, Tolland county, CT. Alexis was working as a machinist in a woolen mill. He stated that they were married when Lillian was 24 and he was 22 years old. They owned their own home which was valued at $3,000. At the time of the Apr. 2, 1940 U.S. Federal census, Alex was 50 years old and living with his 51-year-old wife, Lillian, and their four children in the family home valued at $1,500 located at 67 Spring St., Rockville, Tolland, Connecticut. He, Lillian and their 21-year-old son Robert all had completed their education through the 8th grade. Seventeen-year-old daughter Mildred had completed two years of high school, 13-year-old daughter Dorothy was in the 7th grade, and 11-year-old son James was in the 5th grade of elementary school. Alex was employed as a millwright in a woolen mill. He worked 40 hours during the week of Mar. 24-30, 1940, and worked 52 weeks in 1939, earning $1,500. Son Robert was employed in the wash room of a woolen mill, working 40 hours the week of Mar. 24-30, 1940; he worked 48 weeks in 1939, earning $1,000. In 1942 Alexis was working for M. T. Stevens Co. at American Mill, Rockville, Tolland, Connecticut. His residence was still 67 Spring Street in Rockville. He was 52 years old [Source: Roll: WW2_2283888; Local board: Tolland , Connecticut]. Alexis was brought up in the Catholic faith. He raised chickens and rabbits on his land. He also made his own wine and root beer. Daughter Dorothy remembers that her father worked three jobs. He was a full time mills mechanic and also worked as a carpenter, plumber, elecrician and farmhand during his life. He had two trained Irish Setter hunting dogs. The children weren't allowed to pet or play with them. He built a runway where the two dogs were kept. In the winter her father would put boards together to make a sled using strips of metal for the runners, which they would wax. Someone would watch for traffic and when the coast was clear they would sled down the hill across the road. Her father was always doing something to help them. There was quite a bit of land around their house. They had a chicken shed and raised their own eggs. It was a "nice young life." Unfortunately, Alexis was a heavy smoker and died from emphysema at the age of 77. |
| Ancestry: | The Bordua Line |
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