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I have traced our Martell lineage to one Honoré Martel dit Lamontagne who came from France as a soldier under the command of the Marquis de Tracy. They docked in Québec, Canada on 30 June 1665. When Tracy returned to France on 28 August 1667, some of his troops decided to remain in Canada. Honoré‚ was one of those.
He lived the rest of his life in and near Québec, QC trying to become a farmer for 20 years. Townsman and soldier before everything, his adaptation to the trade of habitant was rather difficult. Consequently failing miserably. He then became a maker of construction lumber or longsawyer. Honoré was originally from the parish of Saint-Eustache in Paris, France. He lived to be about 50 years old. He died on 28 July 1710. His birth date is unknown. He was married twice, to Marguerite L'Admirault (26 November 1668) and then to Marie Marchand (26 October 1707.) He fathered eight sons and six daughters. Ten of them were married, and nine of them produced at least 75 offspring. A more thorough accounting of Honoré's life is found in Chapter 9 of Your Ancestors, 16 Volume series of Canadian pioneers in and around Québec. This historical accounting, Chapter 9, is reproduced here:
"In the beginning of the 1660's, New France seemed on the way to total break down. If such had been the case, the present Québec would never have existed; nor the Québécois. And the face of America would have been different from the one we know today.
From 1627 to 1663, the Canadian population increased from 100 to more than 2,500 people. It claimed to have rights to the whole North American continent. In the face of other Atlantic colonies which already numbered 80,000 inhabitants, what audacity. It would be an impossible mission without an important military force.
'This small French population, wrote Marcel Trudel, suffered from military and economic insecurity. Still safe during the time of Champlain, its situation became deplorable following the sudden growth of Iroquois power, the notification of an invasion by the enemy was sufficient to lead everyone to barricade himself in his home; the years 1660 and 1661 had been, in particular, years of panic ... In 1627, there had been for New France an urgency for a new beginning; in 1663, it became urgent to proceed again to a reorganization.'(1)
THE CARIGNAN REGIMENT
The arrival of the Carignan Regiment in 1665 was going to completely change the situation. Until then, the few soldiers supported by the One Hundred Associates were only pawns in a game of chess. The inhabitants had to defend themselves and several were massacred shamelessly.
As soon as they debarked, the troops hurried to occupy strategic points along the Richelieu River, the traditional route of the Mohawks when traveling north. A post was established at the mouth of the river, another in the basin of Chambly (Saint-Louis) and a third, three leagues higher (Sainte-Thérése). In January 1666 and in the autumn of the same year, marches were organized to surprise the enemy in his homeland. With the arrival of the French, the warriors of the woods disappeared into the forest, leaving behind only the elderly and the children. The invader contented himself with burning the huts and pillaging the crops. This demonstration of force had the effect of calming the bellicose instinct of the native and the very best men of the Carignan Regiment went on to people the colony.
A PARISIAN IN THE JUNGLE
In the middle of the seventeenth century, Paris was already a great city where some 425,000 people lived. Principal source of the "daughters of the king" the capital occupied an important position in the development of New France. Several colonists were originally from Paris; the best known among all of them was undoubtedly Louis Hèbert, apothecary and first Canadian farmer. The families of Lefebvre, Dandurand, Plouffe, Ducharme, Gonthier, Léger, Lepailleur, Lussier, Noiseux, Paris, Perrault, Pilon, Robineau, Ruel, Ruette d'Auteuil, etc., were also originally from there and contributed in an important way to the peopling of America.
The Marquis de Tracy, lieutenant-general of the king, left La Rochelle on 26 February 1664 with the Antilles as his destination. A year later, he received orders to leave those islands and go to Canada. On 25 April 1665, his fleet raised anchor at Guadeloupe, and docked at Québec on 30 June. The viceroy was received triumphantly with the four companies which he brought with him: Chambelle, Orléans, Poitou and Allier. The latter was commanded by Captain Isaac Berthier, who had under his command several future colonists who would found families in Canada: Michel Gauron dit Petitbois, André Mignier dit Lagassé, François Couillard dit Lafontaine, Jean Gely dit Laverdure, Louis Bureau dit Sanssoucy and Honoré Martel dit Lamontagne. (2)
The Allier Company was quartered at Québec during its first winter on American soil. It was thus that soldier Martel sampled the cold temperatures of our climate. This Parisian had a new experience in this jungle of bare trees, with trunks frozen in a thick cover of snow, camouflaging all breath of life during the long winter months. The following summer, Martel followed his captain to the Fort of Assumption (Saint-Jean) and accompanied the Carignan Regiment at the time of the expedition against the Mohawks at the end of 1666.
On 28 August 1667, Tracy embarked for France with some of his troops. On 18 October, Marie de l'Incarnation sent a letter to her son Claude Martin, a monastic in the Benedictine order. The following excerpt is very significant for the impression it leaves of the passage of the Carignan Regiment.
'They made roads in order to communicate with one another. The Officers make very fine seigneurs and do good business through the marriages that they arrange with the families of the country. This year 92 girls from France arrived. Now they are already married for the most part to soldiers and to workmen, to whom one gives a homestead and supplies for eight months, so that they can clear the lands to support themselves. There also arrived a great number of men at, the expense of the King, who desires that this country be peopled. His Majesty has also sent horses, mares, goats, sheep, in order to provide the country with herds and domestic animals. We have been given for our part two fine mares and a horse for both the plow and for the carriage. It is said that the troops will return next year, but it appears that the largest part will remain here, as inhabitants, finding here lands which they perhaps would not have in their own country'. (3)
ESTABLISHMENT AND MARRIAGE
Honoré Martel found himself among those who decided to remain. Once discharged, he began to look for work. On 30 November 1668, at the home of notary Romain Becquet he signed a commitment to Jacques Larchevèque, a resident of Gaudarville. He would help the latter seed his workable arpent of land and clear two other arpents of felled trees.
On the following 17 November, the apprenticeship of civilian life truly began. On this afternoon, friends were summoned to the home of Sieur Jean Soulard, master gunsmith of Québec. For the second time in less than two months, the notary Becquet worked for the young colonist who was preparing to take a wife. Honoré Martel de Lamontagne, resident of Guardarville, parish of Saint-Michel de Sillery, son of Jean Martel, horse merchant living on Rue des Ursulines in Paris, and of the late Marie Duchesne, his father and mother, on one side, and Marguerite Lamirault, daughter of François Lamirault, coachman of the queen, and of Jeanne Glause, her father and mother living on Rue des Poullies, also in Paris, parish of Saint-Germain- d'Auxerrois, promised to marry as soon as possible. The bride said she was agreeable to placing in the community property from the day of their marriage, according to the Coutume de Paris. Marguerite would be endowered with the sum of 250 livres, and she would bring property valued at some 300 livres to the marriage. Present were Simon Pleau dit Lafleur, Jacques Formelhuys dit Belle-Isle, Samuel Vignier, Jacques Larchevêque, Étienne Pasquier and his wife Thiennette Rousseau, Simon Darme dit Jolicoeur, all residents of this country. Martel, Gilles Dutartre, Formelhuys, Jean-Baptiste Gosset and Becquet recorded their signatures at the bottom of the act. A rider added on 28 November confirmed that Martel had received from Sieur de Comporté, clerk in charge of the King's warehouses, the sum of 50 livres awarded to the bride by His Majesty in favor of her marriage.
On the 26th of the same month, in the church of Notre Dame de Québec, Honoré and Marguerite were united in the presence of God and men. This act indicates that the husband was originally from the parish of Saint-Eustache in Paris, that there had been the engagement and the publication of two banns, the Bishop de Pétrié having dispensed with the third. The curate Henry de Bemiéres presided at the ceremony in the presence of the witnesses Jacques Larche, Samuel Vignier and Jean Giron. The parishes of Saint-Eustache and Saint-Germain-I'Auxerrois occupied the heart of Paris, in the immediate neighborhood of the present les Halles. If Honoré and Marguerite did not know each other in their native city, their families lived very close to each other, and they undoubtedly visited the same neighborhoods.
THE SAINTE-GENEVIEVE COAST AND THE SAINT-CHARLES RIVER
Charles, a first son, was born less than a year later. Unfortunately, he only lived three weeks. It seems likely that after their wedding, the young couple settled on the Sainte-Geneviève Coast, which at that time linked the Upper Town with the seigneurie of Sillery. In any case, it was there that our ancestor was living on 7 October 1670, when he acquired from Charles Aubert de La Chesnaye thirty arpents of land situated near the Saint Charles River, three arpents of frontage by ten deep, for the amount of sixty livres tournois. This domain was planted with tall trees, except for five arpents which had been worked by pickaxes On the land, were a hut and a shed, rudimentary building with which Honoré had to be content in the beginning. (4)
Exactly two months after this purchase, he decided to lease to Jean Lefebvre dit Champagne, living at the home of Jacques Larchevêque, the homestead that he had occupied at the time of his marriage, in the seigneunie of Guardarville. This land, with two arpents in frontage by thirty deep, bordered those of Ignace Bonhomme and Jean Guyon Dubuisson. The contract was to take effect on the following 15 April and terminate on the same day four years later. The tenant was committed to clearing six arpents of land in order to prepare them for seeding. As was his custom, Honoré Martel initialed the act, this time in the presence of witnesses Jacques de la Tousche and Adrien Michelon. (5)
The following year, Honoré made two new visits to the Becquet home. In the first case on 5 July, he rented, in good and proper form, from Charles Aubert de La Chesnaye, a milk cow which he acknowledged already having in his possession, for twenty livres a year. In the second, on 2 November, Claude Lefebvre dit Laliberté admitted owing Honoré one hundred livres which he promised to pay back from the first ship arriving from France at the beginning of 1672. This Claude Lefebvre is said to be the son of Rolland Lefebvre and the late Madeleine Fillion, from the town of Montmorency, near Paris.
In spite of all his efforts, Honoré Martel seems to have experienced difficulties in his attempt to clear and farm the land. On 18 December 1672, the merchant Charles Bazire, an associate of La Chesnaye, asked Martel for an accounting concerning the land at the Saint-Charles River, specifically, the eight arpents of wood which remained to be burned and cleared, as well as the rent of the cow and other matters on which they had agreed. On 24 September 1673, Martel admitted his failure. With the impossibility of paying the arrears which he owed La Chesnaye, he, begged him to take back possession of his land and to annul the contract signed in 1670, requiring no compensation for the work and the improvements carried out during the last three years. (4)
THE STAY AT NEUVILLE
Abandoning the land at the Saint-Charles River meant a new direction in the career of Honoré Martel. On 20 March 1673, he decided to relinquish what remained to him of the land in the immediate region of Québec, which was his land at Guardarville. It included a homestead and six arpents worked by plow or pickaxes The buyer was Jean Dubust, a resident of the seigneurie of Saint-Jean, near Québec The transaction was concluded for 284 livres tournois and one hundred sols "for the pot-de-vin and the pins" from the market and the payment of the cens and rentes. (4)
The following year, the family moved to Neuville. On 16 October, Honoré acquired one of the numerous lands ceded on 20 March 1667 (4) by Seigneur Jean-François Bourdon, the one which had gone to Charles Delaurice dit Jambon. As the latter was in Paris at the moment, his wife and proxy Louise Petit acted in her husband's name. This property measured two arpents, three perches and twelve feet in frontage on the river, by forty arpents deep. The neighbors were Jean de Lastre dit Lajeunesse and Michel Rognon. This new transaction between Parisians (6) was concluded for 200 livres toumois, which included the seven cleared arpents, a cabin and a shed.
'There was indeed on this new property a small mortgage which the buyer must have granted the noble man Charles Bazire, general agent of the Royal Company of the East Indies, for the loan of the necessary sum for this acquisition, but we easily imagine that he did not think about it too much, when surrounded by his wife and his first sons born at Québec, he contemplates this magnificent domain from which in clear weather one can see the course of the magnificent river, almost as far as Québec' (7).
It was in the seigneurie of Dombour-Neuville that the census takers found the Martel family in 1681. Our ancestor was 49 years old, it was said, and his wife 36. Six children enlivened the home: Jean, Joseph, Madeleine, Marguerite, Paul and Antoine. The neighbors were the same as in 1674. The lands were almost contiguous to those of the seigneurie of Maure. Did the Martels own any animals? There was no mention of them. Nor was there any mention of that portion of land under cultivation.
THE PLAINTIFF
Honoré Martel knew well the address of the Provost of Québec since he appeared there nearly forty times. Four cases are recorded from October to December 1671. In November, the ancestor was accused of being responsible for the death of an ox belonging to Henry Delaunay: In 1672, eight other appearances, including at least two concerning problems of land boundaries. In 1674, Hubert Simon insisted that Honoré fulfill his commitment to clear and make ready a piece of land, etc.
A case heard in 1673 was only resolved with the intervention of the Sovereign Council. On 2 June, before the highest court, Honoré Martel dit Lamontagne and Charles Jobin mutually claimed justice, but the court decided that it was Martel who must pay. The latter was ordered to restore without delay three arpents of land to Jobin and to provide him with fifteen minots of wheat after the harvest for the damages and interest; to give him three-and-a-half more arpents
'of land cleared and ready to receive seeds during the appropriate time the next year, and failing to do this allow the said Jobin to return complete property and possession of the land by him sold to the said Montagne, without being obliged to make him any payment for the work that he could have done for the said Jobin conforming to the agreement made earlier between them'. (8)
The parties were summoned again on 28 August and on 17 November of the same year. The two decisions signed by Frontenac himself prompted Martel to gather the grains that he had sown, to thresh or have threshed constantly a certain amount of barley which will serve to repay Jobin. (9)
During the following years, the lawsuits by Martel at the Provost would be less frequent. Sometimes, he was the plaintiff and the court agreed with him. Most often, he was the defendant for having neglected to pay his debts, or at the very least to contest the payment of them. There were other reasons also. For quarrels with neighbors and for various reasons, other lawsuits were heard until at least 1699. This was very normal at that time and demonstrates that our ancestors must have had character and defended relentlessly the little property that they had at their disposal.
THE LONGSAWYER
Townsman and soldier before everything, his adaptation to his new trade of a habitant was rather difficult. For him, to clear land, to cut wood, to dig up stumps, to use a pickaxe, to plow, to seed, to harvest, to thresh grain, in short the daily schedule necessary for every farmer of his era must have been totally arduous . During the twenty years that he tried, he did not even seem to have owned a herd, except for a leased cow or an occasional rented ox.
In 1688, this experience had lasted long enough. He had another string on his bow, that of maker of construction lumber or longsawyer. He was sometimes even involved in the art of carpentry. History does not say so, but he must have practiced these activities all his life. On 23 June, probably influenced by the prospects of a life conforming more to his aspirations, he leased for one year from Pierre Menage, King's carpenter, a house located on Rue Saint-Louis, in the Upper-Town of Québec. The annual rent was fixed at 70 livres: 17 livres and 10 sols every three months. The house contained a cellar, two rooms on one floor, one of which was furnished as a foyer and an attic. The adjoining yard was provided with a small fenced garden where grass and vegetables were grown from which the family could profit. (10)
As for the land at Neuville, Martel kept it, perhaps out of respect for his word given to Charles Bazire in 1674. By lending him the 200 livres necessary for his purchase, the latter kept his rent of ten livres and had Honoré and Marguerite promise to choose to live there in a manner "perpetual and irrevocable". (11) This land was rented several times during the subsequent years. On 23 August 1688, his neighbor Pierre Mercier (12) leased it with its outbuildings for five years, until 1693. He said he knew this land well and committed himself to use it as a good head of family, to pay the cens and rentes to the seigneur and to deliver, upon receipt from the lessor, twenty minots of "good and marketable" wheat a year to Charles Aubert de La Chesnaye. (12)
The same land was leased again on 24 November 1693 (13), for three more years to François Circé de Saint-Michel, a surgeon from Neuville, beginning on the following first of April. Circé was committed to provide 18 minots of wheat the first year and 20 for each of the following years, and to improve the buildings and to produce fire wood. At least two other farm leases were agreed to by Martel, in 1696 and 1702, for his land at Neuville, to Jean Garnier and René Fournier respectively. (14)
Once settled at Québec, jobs were not lacking. We know of several of them, important ones. On 28 October 1689, the Sieur de Lamontagne, living on Rue Saint-Louis, promised to deliver to Jacques Chappelain, woodworker from Québec one hundred wild cherry planks, twelve feet long and one foot wide; 80 of them must be two inches thick and the 20 others one-and a-half inches thick; plus 30 planks, 104 columns of different lengths, all in "good and marketable" wood. Chappelain would pay him 80 livres, with as much in silver as in "marketable, good and valid" bills. An advance of 20 livres was given and the rest would come with the rate of the deliveries. (10)
On 23 December 1692 (13), Honoré Martel dit Lamontagne and Pierre Rocher dit Champagne "carpenters longsawyers", worked together in the fabrication of 2,000 pine boards, eight feet long, to be delivered to the Lower-Town of Québec, to the places where the ships embarked. Jean Fredin, secretary to the Intendant, stipulated for Sieur Charron in this deal which was worth 28 livres "and a pot of eau-de-vie" per one hundred boards to the producers. On 7 January 1693 (10), a transaction of prime importance "for planking for the use of the King". This time, Honoré worked with his son Jean, as well as Pierre Desrochers (15) and Jacques Cochu, all sawyers living at Québec in order to produce all the planking that they could until the following month of May, to wit, an amount of approximately 10,000 pine boards, 30 feet long, plus 500 to 600 more boards ten feet long. The transaction was concluded at the rate of two sols per foot of planking and 35 livres per one hundred boards. Each worker received an advance of 50 livres paid in deniers from His Majesty.
The same year, on 4 October (16), there was another agreement for planking in which the sole name of Martel appears across from that of the Intendant Jean Bochart de Champigny. The order for 15,000 feet of planking in pine boards, in lengths of 16, 20 and 25 feet, would be used in the construction of boats for the King and for other work. For 750 livres in "French currency", at the rate of one sol per foot, Martel was required to transport all the material to the port of Québec across from the Royal park, during the month of June the following year. In a rider dated 3 August 1694, the Intendant declared that our ancestor had fulfilled his contract in a satisfactory manner.
This year of 1693 was an auspicious one for Honoré since it ended with him picking up another important contract. On 9 December (10), he worked with Louis Dupuis, another longsawyer from Québec to answer a request from the Intendant, for 12,000 feet of planking wood also destined for the Royal naval yards and promised for the end of May with the same terms as the preceding agreement.
About the same time, the Martel family moved to the rue Cul-de-Sac, in a house belonging to the mason Mathieu Lagrange, from Beauport. The rental lease earlier initialed by the notary Guillaume Roger was renewed for another year, on 7 December 1695, in the presence of Chambalon. Martel would pay 120 livres in four installments, the owner reserving for himself the right to occupy the upper bedroom when he needed it.
DEATH AND REMARRIAGE
A dozen years pass during the course of which the Sieur de Lamontagne must have pursued his professional activities. His home was shattered by the demise of Marguerite Lamirault, who died at the Hôtel-Dieu of Québec on 17 October 1706, at the age of 62. Of the fourteen children that she had brought into the world, nine were still living, including five not yet married.
A year later, Honoré found another companion and a second mothr for his children in Marie Marchand. On 26 October 1707, in the presence of Chambalon, still sporting his title of longsawyer in spite of his 70 years, he stated that he wanted to take for his wife this Marie, already widow of Joseph Massé and of Jean Labbé. The contract mentions that our ancestor still owned his land at Neuville, his only property, which he offered to share with his bride, who was herself the owner of furniture and household utensils valued at 250 livres.
The nuptial ceremony took place at Québec on 3 November after the publication of three banns made during the sermon on the 23rd, 27th, and 29th of October. The curate François Dupré blessed this union in the presence of Jean Martel, Jean Bafil, Gabriel Courtois and Nicolas Batonnier, who all signed, with the exception of Courtois.
Honoré had experienced several problems with his health, at least since 1692. That year, he spent 25 days at the Hôtel-Dieu. He left there on 31 May. The ledger entry which noted his stay indicate that he was 50 years old and a native of Saint-Eustache in Paris. The Hôtel-Dieu received him at least three more times, the last being on 30 June 1710. His departure from the hospital was noted on 28 July. Was this last illness fatal? We believe so, since the records which subsequently mention him speak of him as having left for a better world.
THE CHILDREN
Fourteen children were the issue of the marriage of Honoré Martel and Marguerite Lamirault, eight sons and six daughters. Ten of them were married, and nine of them produced at least 75 offspring. Here is some information concerning them:
1. Charles, born on the 4th and baptized at Québec on 6 October 1669; died on the 27th and buried on the 28th of the same month.
2. Jean-François, born and baptized at Québec on 4 November 1671; died at the Hôtel-Dieu on 14 March 1715. Married at Charlesbourg on 14 February 1695 (contract Jean Robert Duprac, the 13th), to Marie-Madeleine Vanier (1675-1749), daughter of Guillaume and of Madeleine Lebaby (5 sons and 3 daughters). Jean-François lived at Charlesbourg. After his death, Marie-Madeleine was remarried to Franqois Barbeau, by whom she had another child.
3. Joseph-Alphonse, born on the 12th and baptized at Québec on 14 May 1672; buried at Longue-Pointe on 31 December 1741. Married at Sainte-Famille, I.O. on 8 January 1701(contract Chambalon, 2 August 1700), to Marguerite Groinier (1680-1748), daughter of Nicolas and of Marie Bouet (6 sons, 5 daughters and I anonymous). The children were baptized at Saint-Nicolas, Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Lanoraie, Boucherville, Pointe-aux-Trembles de Montréal and Longue-Pointe.
4. Marie-Madeleine, born and baptized at Québec on 29 July 1674; buried in this city on 2 January 1703. Married in the same place on 12 June 1696 (contract Charles Rageot, on the 11 th), to Louis Loisel, soldier at the Fort of Québec son of Jacques and of Catherine Deloire, from Bonneville, diocese of Bayeux, in Normandy (1 son, 2 daughters and 1 anonymous). Inventory by La Cetière, on 15 September 1704. Louis was remarried in 1704 to Marie-Anne Michel (11 more children). This family lived at Charlesbourg, where Louis was buried on 17 March 1744, at the age of 84.
5. Marguerite, born on the 29th at Neuville and bapatized at Québec on 30 August 1676. First marriage in this city on 10 January 1695 (contract Chambalon, on the 2nd), to Louis Courault dit Coulon (1673-1699), son of Pierre and Françoise Duval (2 sons and 1 daughter); second marriage at Varennes on 28 January 1704 (contract Tailhandier, on the 25th) to Jean François Douault dit Saint-Jean, master shoemaker, son of François and of Catherine Durant, from Saint-Jean d'Angely, in Saintonge (3 sons and 5 daughters). This family settled at Québec (Courault), then at Varennes (Douault).
6. Paul, born at Neuville on the 24th and baptized at Québec on 28 May 1678; buried at Saint Antoine-de-Tilly on 27 May 1723. Married at Saint-Pierre, I. O. on 25 November 1698 (contract Chmbalon, on the 18th), to Madeleine Guillot (1681-?), daughter of Vincent and Elisabeth Blais ( 8 sons and 6 daughters), inventory Laneuville, 19 July1724. This family lived at Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly.
7. Honoré, born on the 6th and baptized at Neuville on 8 February1680. Died and buried ten days later.
8. Antoine, born on the 7th and baptized at Neuville on 8 January1681; buried at Saint-Pierre, I.O. 19 March 1759. Married in this parish on 15 November 1706 (contract Jacob, on the 5th), to Catherine Guillot (1688-?), daughter of Vincent and of Elisabeth Blais (7 sons and 4 daughters). This family settled at Saint-Pierre.
9. Isabelle, born on the 25th and baptized at Neuville on 26 November 1682. Died two days later.
10. Anne, born on the 8th and baptized at Neuville on 11 November 1683; died on the 21st and buried on 25 February 1703 at Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly. Married at Québec on 9 November 1699 (contract Chambalon, on the 2nd), to Charles Rognon dit Laroche (1673-1718), son of Michel and of Marguerite Lamain (1 daughter and 1 anonymous). Charles was remarried about 1703 to Charlotte Huot, widow of Jean Vaillancourt (5 more children). This family lived at Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly.
11. Jean, born on the 13th and baptized on 15 November 1685 at Neuville; buried at Baie-Saint-Paul on 22 September 1762. First marriage at Château-Richer on 27 June 1712 (contract La Cetière, on the 16th), to Jeanne Roulois (1686-before 1723), daughter of Michel and of Catherine Drouin (2 sons and 1 daughter). Second marriage at Baie-Saint-Paul (contract Michel Brulé, Recollet missionary, on the first of May 1723), to Anne Simard (1701-1731) daughter of Noël and of Anne Dodier (3 sons and 2 daughters). Third marriage at Baie-Saint-Paul on 5 June 1732, to Marie-Joseph de Lavoye (1711-?), daughter of Jacques and of Angélique Garant (1 son, 3 daughters and 1 anonymous). Inventory signed by Godard on 10 March 1723 and recorded in the notes of Michel LaVoie. This family lived at Baie-Saint-Paul for forty years. (17)
12. Louis, born on the first and baptized on 2 September 1687 at Neuville. Apprenticed to Jean Duprat, baker, in 1704.
13. Marie-Anne, born and baptized at Québec on 28 August 1689. First marriage at Québec on 29 August 1708 (contract Barbel, on the 23rd), to Thomas Ferret (1668-1725), carter, son of Louis and of Marie Duval, from Saint-Pierre de Lisieux, in Normandy (5 sons and 5 daughters). Thomas had 4 children from a first marriage to Marie-Madeleine Couteron. Marie-Anne's second marriage at Charlesbourg on 10 July 1727, to François Boucher (1699-?), son of Pierre and of Marie-Madeleine Dancause (2 sons and 1 daughter). In the census of 1744, this family was living at Québec Franqois was an innkeeper there.
14. Marie-Thérèse, born and baptized at Québec on 4 September1691. Married in this city on 3 September 1714 to Guillaume Hoguenet dit Argencourt, soldier in the Company de Gannes son of Louis and of Marie Quesnel, from Saint-Barthelemi de Paris. No known children.
FAMILY NAME VARIATIONS
Bacquet, Beauséjour, Belleville, Berhouague, Martell, Rouisse and St-Jacques.
END NOTES
1) Trudel, Marcel., Initiation à la Nouvelle-France, Montréal, 1971, pages 64 and 65.
2) Malchelosse and Roy: Le Régiment de Carignan, page 107.
3) Oury, Dom Guy., Marie de l'Incamation-Correspondance, Edition 1971, page 787.
4) Records of Romain Becquet.
5) Record of Gilles Rageot.
6) Charles de Laurice and Louise Petit were also originally from Paris.
7) Fernet-Martel, Florence., Honoré Martel, MSGCF, 1959, page 73.
8) _______. JDCSNF, Vol. 1, page 746.
9) Idem, 1, p.765,789.
10) Records of François Genaple.
11) Becquet, 16 October 1674.
12) Records of Gilles Rageot. This Pierre Mercier was originally from Saint-Denis-la-Chevasse, nearby La Roche-sur-Yon, Poitou. He was the second husband of Marguerite Lemain, widow of Michel Rognon, who gave him eight children, most of whom died in the cradle.
13) Records of Louis Chambalon.
14) Chambalon, 10 October 1696 and 23 October 1702.
15) Probably Pierre Rocher dit Champagne, his associate from the preceding year.
16) A private record deposed from the minutes of Franqols Genaple, 20 September 1699.
17) Notation by Richard Martel of Charlesbourg, reproduces in Généalogie Charlevoix-Saguenay, by Éloi-Gérard Talbot, tome 4, P. 220."
