Joseph times 3?
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PRDH Family certificate #83705 for Joseph Bombardrier dit LaBombarde and Françoise Fontaine shows 15 children for this couple.Three of those children are named Joseph.
PRDH Joseph #1 is shown born 1762-12-22 in Pointe-Olivier.There is no other information about him.
PRDH Joseph #2 is shown as born before 1766 at a place unknown and married to Marie Céleste Beaudin on 1795-10-12 in Saint-Constant.
PRDH Joseph #3 is shown born 1770-03-25 in Chambly.There is no other information about him.
My analysis is that Joseph #1 died as a child before Joseph #3 was born in 1770 and that Joseph #2 and Joseph #3 are the same person.
Rationale:
This family did not use the same name for their other living children so it is unlikely that they did so with Joseph.Re-use of the same name was common in Québec when the first child bearing that name had died.The second occurrence of the name indicates that Joseph #1 most likely died before the next Joseph received that name.
Joseph #2 is the only child in the family whose birth/baptism is unrecorded.If he was born prior to 1766, it would have to have been in 1763 as a child is recorded as born in each of the other years.As Joseph #1 was born 1762-12-22 and the next child Marguerite was born 1764-08-18, a birth is 1763 is possible but unlikely.
If Joseph #3 is the son who married Marie Céleste Beaudin on 1795-10-12, he would have been 25 years old at the time of the marriage.Joseph #2 would have been at least 32 years old.The other siblings all married in their 20s.While it is possible that one son would have married so late, it is not highly probable.