Frampton is a

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in La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality in the

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administrative region of

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. After the

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, in the time of land grants were given to soldiers in the region as reward for their service to the British Crown. Brothers William and Gilbert Henderson, originally of the

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, and Pierre-Edouard Desbarats, partnered in developing Frampton Township along with the surrounding towns of Saint-Malachie, where both Henderson brothers are buried, and Standon Township. The towns grew with the influx of Irish

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after the war. It is said that the well-read William Henderson gave the town the name Frampton in honour of Mary Frampton, an author in England from that period. In 1844, the 1,662 inhabitants of Frampton were almost exclusively

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and

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. However, 100 years later, the Irish community had practically vanished because of

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;

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, and

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; and

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to the

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culture.Redmond, Patrick M. ''Irish Life in Rural Quebec, A History of Frampton'', Duquesne University, 1977

External links

Frampton's webpage on the Nouvelle-Beauce website
(in French)
History and Genealogy of the Frampton Irish

References

{{authority control Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Chaudière-Appalaches Irish diaspora in Quebec 1855 establishments in Canada Populated places established in 1855