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Source reference N01271 :

Individuals : DESPINS-GIGUERE Jeanne (255)

Source reference N01531 :

Individuals : SAMSON NICOLAS (1616)
REF; BOB WAY--FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. SEPT 1992

Source reference N01276 :

Individuals : BOUDROT Francoise (631)

Source reference N01541 :

Individuals : Millet Jeanne (1325)
REFN: 3059
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Source reference N01280 :

Individuals : GELINAS Marie-Josephte (73)

Source reference N01283 :

Individuals : Vanasse Paul (2020)

Source reference N01285 :

Individuals : GRENIER Elisabeth (69)

Source reference N01287 :

Individuals : HEROUX Marguerite (17)

Source reference N01288 :

Individuals : BELANGER Ignace (84)

Source reference N01551 :

Individuals : BELANGER dit Bonsecour Louis (160)
Louis Belanger was the first Seigneur of L'Islet. He and Marguerite Lafrancois had 13 children, of whom 5 where boys.

Source reference N01553 :

Individuals : BACHELIN Marguerite (3261)
REF; BOB WAY--FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. SEPT 1992

Source reference N01554 :

Individuals : Roteau Barbe (411)
I am happy to exchange data on these families.

Source reference N01292 :

Individuals : Lorillot Marguerite (1467)

Source reference N01294 :

Individuals : JACQUES Marie-Veronique (53)

Source reference N01563 :

Individuals : Roger Madeleine-Renée (3337)
REFN: 1768

Source reference N01564 :

Individuals : Lemercier Marie (2735)
Reference Number:55451

Source reference N01566 :

Individuals : Lejeune Catherine (927)
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Source reference N01571 :

Individuals : Boucher Marin (570)

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Source St. Boniface College & Li brary Research Irene Butra[1307251.ged]
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Pionnier. Marin and his second wife, Perinne Mallet arrived in Canada on August 9, 1634. The 28 year old Perinne accompanied her 45 year old husband and seven of their children. Six children were from Marins' marriage to his first wife, Julienne Baril, and one, Jean-Galeran, was the first of many Marin and Perinne would have together. Juliennes' children were Francois, age 8, Pierre, Guillaum e, Marie, Madeleine, one unidentified, ages unknown. Jean-Galeran was about 1 y ear old. [25230 marie-th boucher.FTW] Marin Boucher came over from Perche, Fran ce in early 1634 aboard the ship, St. Jehan under the command of Captain Pierre Nesle, which arrived in Quebec on June 4, 1634. With him was his wife Julienne and their child Francois. They were met by Champlain and taken into Fort St. L ouis. There were forty people aboard the ship from Perche who were the censitua ries of Robert Giffard. Giffard along with Juchereau had recruited them in Perc he, France in early 1634. With him was a cousin Gaspard Boucher and his wife Ni cole Lemaine and their children. Source: doryl@@freeway.net Marin emigrated to N ew France with his son Francois from his first marriage, his second wife and tw o children from his second marriage. The other 5 children were born in Quebec. When Samuel de Champlain died in 1635, one of the bequests in his will left Mar in Boucher "the suit of clothes which I had made (for me) from the cloth I boug ht at the store."Another Source: Jane Lavallee Kenn Roots web Note: Marin Bouch er was born in the town of Mortagne, France. (C. Tanguay lists his place of bir th as Langy) He married twice before coming to "Nouvelle-France" (Canada). His first wife was Julienne Baril. She died in 1627 after giving her husband seven children. In 1629, at the age of 42, Marin married 23 year-old Perrine Mallet i n Mortagne. After the birth of their second child in 1634, they came to Kebec ( the Indian word for the place at the narrowing of the river). They arrived with all nine of Marin's children. Samuel de Champlain invited them to stay at his house at the Fort of Quebec. This compound was located on the rocky bank of the Saint Laurence River, just below the high cliffs which make up the pallisades of Quebec. Marin and Perrine had their third child, Francoise, in 1636. Perrine gave her husband four more children after the birth of Francoise. Marin played a prominent role in the establishment of the town of Beauport. He was a mason by trade and was responsible for the building of the town. He died there at the age of 84. His wife, Perrine, died 16 years after her husband in Quebec.

Source reference N01574 :

Individuals : SEDILOT JEAN ADRIEN (406)
REF; BOB WAY--FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. SEPT 1992

Source reference N01300 :

Individuals : FOURNIER Jeanne (1011)

Source reference N01301 :

Individuals : Houde or Houle Louis (596)
abt 1647 - Immigrated to New France

Source reference N01302 :

Individuals : CREVET Pierre (1410)

Source reference N01303 :

Individuals : GELINAS Marie (19)

Source reference N01306 :

Individuals : LeBlond Etienette (16795)

Source reference N01586 :

Individuals : Halay or Halle Jean-Baptiste (1478)
Have also found the name spelled Haley.
_UIDC7502340EA1DD511973344455354000061C2

Source reference N01309 :

Individuals : SERLE Marie (2029)

Source reference N01589 :

Individuals : LEFEBVRE Elisabeth (527)

Marriage Contract: Unknown site in Quebec; No. 94270; 28 Dec 1665
Felix THUNE DUFRESNE; master surgeon, residence Cap-de-la-Madeleine, born St-Lohier, Argentan, Bretagne, single, present, male
Elisabeth LEFEBVRE; residence Cap-de-la-Madeleine, single, present, female
Marin THUNE; father of Felix, married, male
Anne LEVAVASSEUR; mother of Felix, married, female
Pierre LEFEBVRE; father of Elisabeth, residence Cap-de-la-Madeleine, married, male
Jeanne HONO; mother of Elisabeth, residence Cap-de-la-Madeleine, married, female
LATOUCHE; notary, present, male
Elisabeth Lefebvre had no children with her 2nd husband Jean Collet.

Source reference N01594 :

Individuals : MILLET Jeanne (1601)

REFN: 5341

Source reference N01601 :

Individuals : MASSE Marie Genevieve (109)

Red Drouins book pg.754

Source reference N01312 :

Individuals : Jean Marie (269)

Source reference N01313 :

Individuals : CARON Robert (704)

Source reference N01314 :

Individuals : Landry Jean (468)
BIRTH-PARENTS-MARRIAGE-CENSUS: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; p. 919; own copy. #(23): He was on the 1757 census at Chelmsford, MA, age 62 years; in 1758 age 63 years; in 1760 as Jane age 64 years; on 1763 MA census.
!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES: Arsenault, H&G, p. 1200 (Grand Pré). He lived at Saint Charles des Mines, and was deported to Boston, MA.

Source reference N01610 :

Individuals : Pelletier Jeanne (699)
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Source reference N01615 :

Individuals : Guilbault Pierre (992)
Pierre was born in La Rochelle, France in 1639 and migrated to Nova Scotia before 1668. In that year he settled in Port Royal, Nova Scotia and married Catherine Terriot. He became a successful farmer and by 1671 had 15 arpents of land, 6 cattle, and 5 sheep. the census of 1686 listed him as owning 14 head of cattle, 6 sheep, 7 swine, and 1 gun. By 1698, Pierre was cultivating 25 arpents and owned 14 cattle, 5 sheep, 7 swine, and 1 gun. He also had the second largest fruit orchard totaling 150 trees. In 1701 he gave 15 arpents to his son Charles as a wedding gift.

Source reference N01616 :

Individuals : Auneau Jeanne (1055)
Census of Canada in 1666:
Age 45
In Trois-Rivieres, St-Maurice, Quebec, Canada
Census of Canada in 1667:
Age 41
In Trois-Rivieres, St-Maurice, Quebec, Canada
Census of Canada in 1681:
Age 54
In Trois-Rivieres, St-Maurice, Quebec, Canada

Source reference N01322 :

Individuals : Aure dit Grandmont Rene (798)
PRDH - origin: Paroisse d'Azay-le-Rideau, Province de Tours, France

Source reference N01620 :

Individuals : Grenier Antoinette (329)
REFN: 2889
The first Bernier to marry in New France, Jacques and his bride Antoinette were married in governor Jean de Lauzon's mansion. FatherJerome Lalemant officiate d at the ceremony. The couple settled on Ile d'Orleans; courage and bravery w ere required in those days as Iroquois Indians were constantly raiding settleme nts.
On March 19, 1659, Jacques became a land tenant on the seigneurie of Jacq ues Gourdeau and acquired more land two years later. In 1667 through hard work he cultivated 25 acres of land, had eight heads of livestock and had three wor kers at his service. At this time five children were already born.
In 1673 th e constant threat of Iroquois raids prompted him to move; he sold his land on Ile d'Orleans and purchased a piece of land 9 acres wide and 40 acres deep from the Chavigy widow in Cap-St-Ignace, becoming the first settler in that region. His home served as the first chapel there. In 1684, the prosperous settler b ecomes a Seigneur through the purchase of land at Pointe-aux-Foins.
In 1960 a monument was unveiled in Cap St-Ignace in honor of JaquesBernier with some 2,0 00 Bernier descendents in attendance.
(Robert Prevost, Genealogie, Tome 4) (pa ge 20-21)

Source reference N01621 :

Individuals : Moisan Pierre (410)
I am happy to exchange data on these families.

Source reference N01622 :

Individuals : Rousseau Genevieve (347)

Still Living.

Source reference N01329 :

Individuals : PLAMONDON Benoit (6)

Source reference N01631 :

Individuals : Belanger Francois (672)
Source: Jette: Vol.1, pg.76
Source unknown:
FRANCOIS BELANGER
Archange Godbout has compiled notes several hundred Canadian pioneers, principally those who landed on our shores during the XVII century. Here is what he had to say about Francois Belanger, the earliest colonist bearing this name and having offspring in Canada:
"He was active and resourceful and the notaries of the time in their contracts, sometimes show us the businessman; informed, upright and honest, sometimes a man much sought after as an expert appraiser....In order to be fair, it is necessary to add that Francois Belanger was authoritative, violent, and tenacious in his demands. He wanted above all, that his ideas to be those of others...which made him a few enimies...because he was not infallible, even when he appealed to the Bishop and the Governor of New-France."(1)
The Belanger family, however, has had the privilege of having its own historian in the person of decendant of the ancestor, Leonidas Belanger who, about 1967, took over from Msgr Victor Tremblay as President of what would be the most important Historical Society in Canada, that of Saguenay.(2)
FROM PERCHE AND FROM NORMANDY
Leonidas Belanger cites historians Thwaites and Sulte, as well as genealogist Tanguay, to prove that Francois was originally from Touques in Normandy.(3)
However, this opinion is not universally shared. Abbot Gaulin(4) and Pierre Montagne(5) say that he was from Perche or Orne. The confirmation list of 2 February 1660 at Chateau-Richer indicates "diocese of Lisieux." However, ancesor Belanger could have been born in Perche and then lived in Normandy because these two provinces are neighbors. The Bulletin of Historical Research for 1938 reproduced the following act, taken from the registry of Saint-Pierre-de-Seez (Orne):
"On the seventh day of October (1612) was baptized Francois Bellanger, son of Francois Bellanger and Francoise Horlays and was named after the honorable Francois Dumesnil, Squire of St-Teny, and by the honorable Nicolas Bougis, Sieur de Fosses, and demoisell Loyse Gurou, wife of Squire Guillaume Lepaulnier, Sieur de la Chapelle."
FIRST DOUBLE MARRIAGE IN CANADA
On 27 July 1636, Francois Belanger was mentioned fo rthe first time in New France: He was a witness at the signing of the marriage contract of Robert Drouin and the ten year old Anne Cloutier. (6) His bold signature denoted a degree of education superior to that of the average settler. On 12 July of the following year, Francois himself took a wife. His union with the thirteen year old Marie Guyon, daughter of Jean and Mathurine Robin, was blessed by Father Charles Lallemant, acting as the curate of Notre-Dame-des-Anges.(7) The marriage act, drawn up in 1640, tells us that Francois was a mason by trade. That same morning, at the same place, Anne Cloutier and Robert Drouin were united in a church wedding delayed because of her age. This was the first double marriage ceremony celebrated in Canada.
MAYOR AND CHURCH WARDEN
From the time of his arrival in the country, Francois Belanger must have worked for seigneur Robert Giffard. In the first notarized act concerning him, drawn on 8 September 1647 by Claude Lecoustre, our ancestor was required to pay Pierre Legardeur de Repentigny the sum of one hundred livres for the purchase of some wheat. To guarantee the loan, he put up all of his property as security. On 9 August 1653, the Journal of the Jesuits reported that Francois was chosen for the important office of mayor of the citizens of the Quebec region who lived at the Longue Pointe, which would become future parish of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre. Also elected to the town council at the same time were Thomas Hayot, Charles Legardeur de Tilly, Christophe Crevier dit Lameslee, Guillaume Peltier, Pierre Picard and Francois Bissot.
At this time Francois Belanger and Mass Gravel worked a concession together on the Beaupre coast.(8) On 24 March 1655, Gravel agreed to sell his half to his partner for the sum of one hundred livres per arpent, payable in three installments on Saint-Jean's Day.(9) Once again, Francois secured this debt by pledging all of his property as well as the present and future inheritance of his children. Has anyone ever seen a mortage better endoresed? On 23 March 1660, Gravel declared that his former partner had paid up and owed him nothing more. In this same year both of them became church warden in the parish of Chateau-Richer, as indicated in a document mentioning the gift of a small building made to the fabrique by Julien Fortin dit Bellefontaine.
In 1662, Francois Belanger was named trustee of the affairs and guardian of the children of the late Olivier Le Tardif, co-seigneur and justice of the peace at Beaupre. That same year, Francois sold two oxen to Romain de Trepagny, for the sum of 300 livres, payable to him in silver, in beaver pelts, or in valid currency. In 1663, the year of the founding of the Sovereign Council, this Quebecois pioneer became, accoridng the Msgr David Gosselin, "one of the principal inhabitants of the region and he had the confidence of the authorities and the colonists."(10) That same year also marked the departure from the paternal hearth of two of the children, Marguerite and Charles, in order to marry. It also tolled the knell for Jean Guyon, Marie's father. His death led to a family quarrel, which lasted five years, over the settling of his estate. The Sovereign Council finally had to step in to decide this affair and to resolve the details.
A MILITIA CAPTAIN ON THE BEAUPRE COAST
In 1667 the general census of the inhabitants of New France notes that Francois Belanger had fifty arpents under cultivation and thirteen animals, which made him one of the richest property owners of that time.(11) In 1669, the year the militia was established in the colony, Francois was named captain of the Beaupre coast. According to J. -Edmond Roy, the captians "were, so to speak, the head's of the municipal organization in each village. They had to carry out the governors' ordinances, as well as supervise the construction and maintenance of the roads."(12)
AN HONEST MAN BUT HARD IN BUSINESS
Francois Belanger earned a reputation as an honest but hard man with whom to do business. He had an argument with his brother-in-law Simon Guyon and had to resort to the Sovereign Council for recourse. This litigation lasted until 21 April 1670, at which time Francois was forced to loosen his purse strings. A little earlier he had lost another lawsuit to his former partner Masse Gravel. The councilors, undoubtedly exasperated by his penchant for suits, begged him to make his apologies to the intendant.
"As we have seen," writes Leonides Belanger, "our mand did not have any luck with his suit and it was certainly not willingly that he must have made his apology. This also proves to us that he was stubbornly set in his own ideas a little too much. Better educated perhaps than the majority of his fellow citizens, he sought to impose his will on them in a thousand and one ways."(13)
Nor did Francois get along with his son-in-law, Bertrand Chesnay de la Garenne, on the subject of their accounts. Not content to act for himself, he interfered in the affairs of his daughter Mathurine, widow of Jean Maheu, concerning a house situated in the Lower Town of Quebec, and bordering the one belonging to defendants Etienne Blanchon and Anne Convent, his wife.(14) In 1674, Belanger again had trouble with his neighbor Masse Gravel concerning a boundry between their properties established by the surveyor Jean Guyon dit Dubuisson. Quite simply put, Masse wanted Francois to stop bothering him about the exact placement of the line. Again, the matter ended up on the agenda of the Sovereign Council, which gave him another opportunity to lose a lawsuit, his last.
SEIGNEUR OF BONSECOURS
When incessantly involved in protests and demands, one usually ends up by longing for a more tranquil life. On 1 July 1677, Francois Belanger obtained a vast concession from Governor Frontenac; a league in frontage by two leages in depth on the south bank of the river. After forty years of struggle and constant work,our ancestor had suddenly become the Seigneur of Bonsecours (L'Islet). This concession was placed on record by the Sovereign Council on 24 October 1680.(15) In 1709 the engineer Gedeon de Catalogne spoke of it as follows:
"The land there is rather level, sprinkled with plowed up stones, and marginally produces all sorts of grains, vegetables and pasturage. The fruit trees produce abundantly, and the natural woods are a mixture of all species."(16)
The Census of 1681 places the Belanger family in the seigneury of Bellechasse, of which the fief of Bonsecours was a part. Four servants worked for the new seigneur: Jean de la Voye, Barthelemy Gobeil, Pierre Lafaye and Pierre Mataule. The move had been made but recently because Francois had only cleared five arpents.
On 25 October 1685, he bequeathed all of his remaining property to his son Jacques, in return for good and loyal service.(17) This donation included his lands at Bonsecours, a house, a barn, a mill, a mare, three oxen, three cows, wagons, etc. Marie Guyon ratified this act on 25 April 1687, in a document which indicated that she had become a widow.(18) Francois had probably died the preceding winter while Marie would live for about another ten years. The registry of Cap-Saint-Ignace mentions her burial act, on 1 October 1696. She was then 78 years old.
TEN OF TWELVE CHILDREN HAVE OFFSPRING
Today the Belangers are spread throughout North America. This proliferation began with our ancestor himself. Ten of his twelve children had offspring. The first generation may be presented as follows:
1. Charles (1640-1692), was married in 1663 to Barbe Cloutier, the daughter of Zacharie Cloutier, Jr., and Madeleine Emard. They had 4 boys and 5 girls. Charles inherited a half of the Bonsecours fief.
2. Marie-Madeleine (1643-1670), married Seigneur Bertrand Chesnay de la Garenne in 1656. They had 2 boys.
3. Marguerite (1645-1703), married Antoine Berson dit Chatillon in 1663. They had 2 girls. Marguerite remarried in 1666 to Louis Levasseur and they had 5 boys and 6 girls.
4. Jean-Francois (1648-1699), was married in 1671 to Marie Cloutier and settled at L'Islet. They had 3 boys and 2 girls. It was Jean-Francois who succeeded his father as a captain of militia.
5. Francoise-Charlotte (1650-1707?), was married in 1665 to Jean Langlois dit Boisverdun. They had 11 children, 6 of whom were boys. She remarried in 1691 to Thomas Rousseau and they had one son.
6. Mathurine (1652-1698), had three husbands: Jean Maheu in 1673, Antoine Deserre in 1674 and Francois Gregoire in 1688. She had a total of 10 children by her second and third husbands.
7. Louis (1655-1724), married in 1682 to Marguerite Lefrancois, was the first Seigneur of L'Islet. They had 13 children, of whom 5 were boys.
8. Louis (1657-1726), was married in 1679 to Jean Cloutier. They had 12 children.
9. Genevieve (1659-?), was married in 1682 to Guillaume Ferte. This family settled in L'Islet and had 3 children.
10. Guillaume, was born and died in 1661
11. Jacques (1662-1699), was married in 1691 to Elisabeth Thibault, also a pioneer at L'Islet. They had 4 children, 3 of whom were boys.
12. Anne (1664-1665) lived only a little more than a year.
NAME VARIATIONS
Belanger was known as Bellenger in colonial days. Later variations were Baker, Ballonger, Belenger, Bonsecours, Boulanger, Catherine, Deliennes, Labonte, Lavolonte, LePrince and Marchand.(19)
END NOTES
1) Archange Godbout. "Nos ancestres au XVIIe siecle." RAPQ, 1955-1957, page 385.
2) Leonidas Belanger keeps a library of 15,000 volumes of important archival content. Among other things, there are 100,000 photos and 75, 000 negatives showing scenes and people of Saguenay. Monsieur Belanger has compiled and published, since 1959, the marriages in his region in the Saguenayensia revue.
3) "Memoires," SGCF, Volume 21, (1970)
4) Canada, Perche et Normandie, 8 December 1899
5) Le Perche des Canadiens, page 38.
6) The original of this marriage contract, the first in Canada, is preserved in the Archives of the Seminary of Quebec. (ASQ)
7) Charles Lallemant (1587-1674) arrived in Canada in 1625, as head of the Jesuit mission. He assisted Champlain during his last hours.
8) Joseph-Masse Gravel (1616-1674), ancestor of the Gravel families of Canada.
9) Records of notary Claude Auber.
10) David Gosselin (1846-1926) was the author of several parish monographs and historical reviews.
11) Benjamin Sulte, HCF, Volume IV, page 74.
12) Roy, Histoire de la seigneurie de Lauzon. Tome I, page 180.
13) Op Cit (3), Volume 21(1970), page 134.
14) Judements et deliberations du Conseil Souverain de la Nouvelle-France. Volume 1, 5 September 1674.
15) Etats et ordonnances royaux, declarations, etc. Volume 1, pages 240 and 241.
16) Op Cit (3), Volume 21, page 139.
17 & 18) Records of Pierre Duquet.
19) Tanguay, Jette, et al.

Source reference N01634 :

Individuals : Veillon Sebastienne (1407)
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Source reference N01338 :

Individuals : GAUTHIER Jean-Baptiste (30)
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1851canada&h=1002269&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

Source reference N01339 :

Individuals : GAUTHIER Jean-Baptiste (30)

Source reference N01637 :

Individuals : BERNIER Augustin (82)

REFN: 2032

Source reference N01341 :

Individuals : LANDRY Jean-Baptiste (78)
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepoold&h=1544596&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

Source reference N01342 :

Individuals : LANDRY Jean-Baptiste (78)
<i>Note:</i> Selon Bona Arseneau, sans doute le fils de Jean et Anne. Il s'est réfugié à Chipoudy. Déporté au Massachusetts, il était à Boston en 1764, le chef d'une famille de 5 personnes. Sa fille Marie était à Yamachiche en 1765. Enfant: Marie née vers 1745.
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Title: Acadian / Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Acadiennes
Author: Stephen A. White
Publication: Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes - Universite de Moncton, Nova Scotia
Note: Nous comptons Francois Raymond, son espouse Cecile Landry et tous enfants parmi les falilles acadiennes de lile St. Jean disparues sans aucune trace apres 1758. Apres une etude approfondie du suget, nouw croyons qu'ils figuraient parmi les malheureux passagers a bord d'un des deux transports.

Source reference N01343 :

Individuals : LANDRY Jean-Baptiste (78)

Source reference N01345 :

Individuals : LEMERCIER Marie (1411)

Source reference N01640 :

Individuals : Parant Pierre (888)
Red Drouins pg.1023
Title: Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles du Quebec des Origines A 1730: Rene Jette- Vol.3 pg.875 AFGS-Woon.RI

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