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• _UID: 6D3CAC38A78B4002B70AB603949605D17B31
• God Parents: 5 Jun 1656, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
• Legal Matter: 1657

Notes:

God Parents:
The god parents were Jean Lepesse and Jeanne Lajeunesse.

Legal Matter:
Just before leaving New France to return to France, Jean Espaisse gave his god son, Jean Pare, his land at Sainte-Anne. Jean Pare was 18 months old at the time.

Jean married Jeanne Racine on 3 Nov 1682 in Chateau Richer, Quebec, Canada. Jeanne (daughter of Etienne Racine and Marguerite Martin) was born about 1660; died in 1702. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jean married Catherine Laisne in 1709. Catherine and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Robert Paray
• Name: Robert Paret
• Name: Robert Parree
• _UID: 3335E049B4D14B00AA45306A0B3B1086C681
• Residence: Bef 1653, St. Laurent en Solore, Loire, France
• Occupation: 1653; master carpenter
• First mentioned in Canada: 19 Oct 1653; debt
• Employment: 1654, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
• Employment: Jan 1653/54, Chateau Richer, Quebec, Canada
• Additional information: 11 Oct 1654, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
• Land: 30 Jan 1654/55, Ste. Anne du Petit Cap, Quebec, Canada
• Legal Matter: 15 Aug 1656
• Legal Matter: 21 Oct 1656, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
• Legal Matter: 10 Oct 1657
• Legal Matter: 3 Oct 1661, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
• Additional information: 1662
• Census: 1666, Comte de Montmorency, Quebec, Canada
• Census: 1667, Comte de Montmorency, Quebec, Canada
• Employment: 20 Sep 1667, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
• Legal Matter: 28 Mar 1668, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
• Additional information: 1678
• Census: 1681, Comte de Montmorency, Quebec, Canada
• Legal Matter: 15 Apr 1686, Quebec, Quebec, Canada

Notes:

See attached sources.

Residence:
He was from St-Laurent-en-Solore (St-Laurent-Rochefort), Loire, France. INSEE #42252

First mentioned in Canada:
Robert was first mentioned in a document that stated he owed Michel Blanot 283 livres for delivery of merchandise.

Employment:
In the fall of 1654, Robert and Jean Espaisse were hired by Toussaint Toupin to build a house measuring 26 by 16 feet, which was to be completed in early July 1655. They were to be paid 144 livres, with Toupin providing the necessary materials. Claude Bouchard, surgeon, witnessed and signed the document.

Employment:
Squire Rene Robineau hired Robert to build a small building, 18 feet square on his property. Robert was given 405 silver livres for his work.

Additional information:
Robert did not know how to write but would make his mark, a carpenter's square shaped like an "L", on documents such as the one drawn up by notary Audouart.

Land:
Jean de Lauzon, Governor of New France granted Robert a piece of land. The land consisted of 4 arpents of frontage and was situated between those of Jean Espaisse and Pierre Gibouin, just to west of Sainte-Anne. A copy of this grant is in the archives of the Basilica of Sainte-Anne.

Legal Matter:
Before notary Audouart, Robert and Jean Espaisse reached an agreement on salaries due for the construction of a windmill at Argentenay, on the Ile d'Orleans. Eighty two livres were already paid by Monsieur d'Aillebout, Seigneur of the island and he was giving an additional 50 livres.

Legal Matter:
Toussaint Toupin requested Robert and Jean Espaisse finish the work on his house in Lower-Town, Quebec. He stated there was an important rod missing under the beam. They must also pay for "two pails of lime".

Legal Matter:
Jean Espaisse requested 200 livres from Robert so he may return to France. As a guarantee of reimbursement, Robert accepted a house, on a lot 40 feet by 20 feet, in the Lower-Town of Quebec.

Legal Matter:
Robert rented the Jean Espaisse house to Guillaume Lemieux for 45 livres "for each of the said two years".

Additional information:
Robert took part in the building of the second church at Sainte-Anne. The account books state "paid robert pare for one day of hauling wood thirty sols".

Census:

Robert Parree, habitant, 40 years
Francoise Louvet, 40 years
Louise Parree, 12 years
Jean Parree, 10 years
Joseph Parree, 8 years
Noel Parree, 6 years
Marie Parree, 4 years
Marguerite Parree, 3 years
Anne Parree, 3 months
Francois Thibaut, engage, domestique, 18 years

Census:

Robert Pare, habitant, 40 years
Francoise Lehoux, 42 years
Louise Pare, 13 years
Jean Pare, 11 years
Joseph Pare, 9 years
Noel Pare, 6 years
Marie Pare, 5 years
Marguerite Pare, 3 years
Anne Pare, 1 years
Francois Thibault, domestique, 22 years

They owned 7 head of cattle and had 20 arpents of cleared land.


Employment:
Robert and partner Jean Poulin entered into an agreement with the nuns of Quebec. They were to deliver 1000 pine boards to Quebec before the feast of Saint-Jean the following year. They would each receive 250 livres for their work. Notary Rageot drew up the contract.

Legal Matter:
Robert sent Etienne Lessard to Quebec as his representative in defending the site deed for the Jean Espaisse house. This house had a foyer, a cellar and an attic and was located between Toussaint Toupin and Noel Pinguet.

Additional information:
The account books from Sainte-Anne states "in addition received from robert pare four and one half pounds of butter for the offering".

Census:

Robert Pare, charpentier, habitant, 57 years
Francoise Lehoux, 57 years
Jean Pare, 27 years
Joseph Pare, 25 years
Noel Pare, 19 years
Marguerite, 18 years
Joseph Pare, 17 years
Anne Pare, 16 years
Francois Pare, 13 years

They owned 4 guns and had 30 arpents of land under cultivation.


Legal Matter:
After Robert's death, his heirs sold the Jean Espaisse house to merchant Hazeur Desonneaux for 1585 livres.

Buried:
Present at burial were Etienne Lessard and Charles De Monmainier dit Jouvent.

Robert married Francoise Lehoux on 20 Oct 1653 in Quebec, Quebec, Canada. Francoise (daughter of Jacques Lehoux and Marie Meilleur) was christened on 9 Jul 1628 in Ste. Madeleine, La Ventrouze, France; died on 9 Apr 1685 in Ste. Anne de Beaupre, Quebec, Canada; was buried on 10 Apr 1685 in Ste. Anne de Beaupre, Quebec, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Francois Louvet
• _UID: 624BE579F30B42878E81615225590A829E6C
• Residence: Bef 1650, Ste. Madeleine, La Ventrouze, France
• First mentioned in Canada: 1650
• Indentured Service: 22 May 1651
• Census: 1666, Comte de Montmorency, Quebec, Canada
• Census: 1667, Comte de Montmorency, Quebec, Canada
• Additional information: 1666-1667
• Census: 1681, Comte de Montmorency, Quebec, Canada

Notes:

Residence:
She was from Ste-Madeleine, La Ventrouze (Orne), France. INSEE #61500

Indentured Service:
She signed a contract promising her service to "Jean Juchereau sieur de More living at Quebec...for five years times...this work was for...the sum of thirty livres tournois for each year". After two years of service Juchereau released her from the contract.

Census:

Robert Parree, habitant, 40 years
Francoise Louvet, 40 years
Louise Parree, 12 years
Jean Parree, 10 years
Joseph Parree, 8 years
Noel Parree, 6 years
Marie Parree, 4 years
Marguerite Parree, 3 years
Anne Parree, 3 months
Francois Thibaut, engage, domestique, 18 years


Census:

Robert Pare, habitant, 40 years
Francoise Lehoux, 42 years
Louise Pare, 13 years
Jean Pare, 11 years
Joseph Pare, 9 years
Noel Pare, 6 years
Marie Pare, 5 years
Marguerite Pare, 3 years
Anne Pare, 1 years
Francois Thibault, domestique, 22 years


Additional information:
Francoise did some work for the church, presumably fashioning some vestments. The account books read "in addition to the wife of robert pare 40 L 10 s" (40 livres, 10 sols).

Census:

Robert Pare, charpentier, habitant, 57 years
Francoise Lehoux, 57 years
Jean Pare, 27 years
Joseph Pare, 25 years
Noel Pare, 19 years
Marguerite, 18 years
Joseph Pare, 17 years
Anne Pare, 16 years
Francois Pare, 13 years

Notes:

Marriage Ceremony:
The marriage was celebrated at the "Chapelle des Sauvages" chapel of the Hurons at L'Ile d'Orleans. Present at the ceremony were Louis Gisfar (Louis Greffard dit Lecoq) and Mathurin Gangnon (Gagnon).

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• Name: Mathieu Paret
• Occupation: weaver
• _UID: 6CCE80A7B7FE477E887F346620B41A1D87DB

Mathieu married Marie Joannet. Marie and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 4A9A4CE405014A33BBF1608A0135CFEF21E9

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• _UID: 44F657D837694063883C0425E1313F745E34
• Residence: 1620, New France
• Residence: 1628, La Ventrouze, France
• Land: 8 Feb 1641/42, La Ventrouze, France
• First mentioned in Canada: 1647
• Residence: 1647, Ste. Madeleine, La Ventrouze, France
• Residence: 4 Apr 1659, Beauport, Quebec, Canada
• Confirmation: 2 Feb 1659/60, Chateau Richer, Quebec, Canada
• Census: 1666, Beauport, Quebec, Canada
• Occupation: 1666; coal man
• Census: 1667, Beauport, Quebec, Canada
• Debt: 29 Mar 1677
• Death: 16 Feb 1679/80
• Burial: 17 Feb 1679/80

Notes:

Additional information:
Jacques used a mark to sign documents. The mark was a spindle for winding thread or a pair of butterfly wings.

Land:
"On 8 February 1642 he remitted to Noel Collet a piece of land in the town of la Vantrouze, adjoining Noel Juchereau, which he had acquired from the late Simone Ernou, widow of Joachim Collet, brother of the said Noel, on 14 March 1641, for the sum of 29 livres which Gilles Lefort owed to the said Collet in a contract of acquistions". The document was signed by notary Me Choiseau at Tourouvre in France.

Residence:
La Ventrouze is a community in the present-day department of Orne, arrondissement of Mortagne, canton of Tourouvre, in the for province of Perche, located between Maine and Normandie.

Residence:
Jacques had settled on 29 arpents of land in 1655. It was written that: "The said Lehoux had built a small house, barn and stable".

Confirmation:
Jacques was confirmed along with his son Jean.

Census:

Jacques Lehoux, charbonnier, habitant, 86 years
Jeanne Jahan, 60 years
Pierre Lemieux, domestique, engage, 14 years

Census:

Jacques Lehoux, habitant, 87 years
Jeanne Jahan
Pierre Lemieux, valet, 14 years
Louis Leparc, valet, 26 years
Denis Avis, valet, 34 years

They owned two head of cattle and had 8 arpents of cleared land.

Debt:
A contract was drawn up by notary Paul Vachon stating that Jacques owed 45 silver livres to Jean Picart, a merchant from Sainte-Anne du Petit-Cap. The document said that Jacques was "living in the parish of our lady of chasteau Richer". Jacques stated that he could not write or sign his name.

Death:
He died at the home of his daughter Francoise at Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre.

Burial:
The priest L. Soumande recorded the act:
"The year gbj, eighty, the sixteenth of February; died in the Communion of Our Holy Mother Chruch Jacques le houx age one hundred and seven years, after having received the Holy Sacraments of Penitence, communion and Extreme unction; And was the following day buried in the Cemetery of this parish, in the presence of Robert Paray, son-in-law of the deceased, claude poulain and Guillaume Morel friends, who with the exception of the said Paray, signed with me./thus signed Claude poullain, guillaume Morel, and L Soumande, priest.


Died:
Record states his age at death as 107 years.

Jacques married Marie Meilleur about 1619 in La Ventrouze, France. Marie and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Marie Meilleure
• _UID: 2316547E1966471B9FE3BCB6C0DC7CB6AE24