Biography

The parents of Charles Champie

By Sigrid Nord-Champie

Charles Champie's father was a Charles also. He was Charles Hubert 
Deslandes dit Champigny, born on February 19, 1809 in St. Denis, 
Quebec. Joseph and Marie Deslandes dit Champigny were his parents, 
and he was either the ninth or tenth child of his parents' 12 
children. When he was 21, he married Marie Reine Debled, who was 
eighteen at the time. She was born on January 18, 1812, in St. 
Mathias, Quebec, and her parents were Antoine Debled and Marie 
Bessette. Charles and Marie Reine married on November 16, 1830 
in St. Mathias, Quebec. They had their first child, a boy, 
Eusebe, on September 13, 1831. They had five more children in 
the following years, Charles, Reine, Joseph, Solyme, who died 
as an infant, and Marie Arline. They emigrated to the U.S. in 
1846 or 1847. The names of everyone in the family were 
Americanized. Marie Reine Debled became Lorana Dibbley, Eusebe 
became James, Reine became Lorana, and Marie Arline became 
Adeline. The last name became Shampy or Shampay, an 
Americanization of Champigny (When James and the younger Charles 
entered the U.S. military, however, their last names were changed 
to Champie). The family lived in Vermont for a short time, where 
Alfred was born, and then moved to New York State. Their last 
child, John, was born in Brockport there in 1848. The date of 
Charles Hubert Shampay's death is not known at this time, but 
his wife Lorana died in Chicago, Illinois in 1898.