Other Events:

• Name: Jean Desforges dit St. Maurice
• Name: Jean Francois Desforges
• Reference Number: 426
• _UID: 95785C78357A40FCABB5208F163D712ECD83
• Godparents: 11 Aug 1723, Boucherville, Chambly, Quebec, Canada

Notes:

Godparents:
His god parents were Francois Riviere and Francois Benar.

Francois married Marie Josephe Martin dit Ladouceur on 27 Jan 1743/44 in St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada. Marie (daughter of Jean Baptiste Martin dit Ladouceur and Anne Gauthier) was born on 20 Aug 1722 in St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada; was christened on 24 Aug 1722 in St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Marriage Ceremony:
Present at the ceremony were Jean Baptiste Martin dit Ladouceur (father of Marie Josephe), Jean Marie Desforges, (uncle of Francois), Joseph Martin (uncle of Marie Josephe) and Pierre Martin (brother of Marie Josephe).

1. Marie Josephe Desforges was born on 17 May 1744 in St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada; was christened on 18 May 1744 in St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada; and died.
2. Marie Louise Desforges was born on 29 Aug 1745 in St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada; was christened on 30 Aug 1745 in St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada; died on 22 Jun 1751 in St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada; was buried on 23 Jun 1751 in St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada.
3. Marie Francoise Desforges was born on 31 Jan 1746/47 in St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada; was christened on 2 Feb 1746/47 in St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada; and died.
4. Jean Francois Desforges was born on 15 Oct 1748 in Lachine, Quebec, Canada; was christened on 15 Oct 1748 in Lachine, Quebec, Canada; and died.
5. Joseph Desforges was born on 31 Aug 1750 in St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada; was christened on 1 Sep 1750 in St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada; and died.
6. Jean Marie Desforges was born on 18 May 1752 in St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada; was christened on 19 May 1752 in St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada; and died.
7. Jean Baptiste Desforges was born on 24 Mar 1757 in St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada; was christened on 25 Mar 1757 in St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada; and died.

Other Events:

• Name: Jean Claude Desforges
• Reference Number: 852
• _UID: 337DD896267640AEAFAB4490F72BA5892626
• Godparents: 6 Oct 1696, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Notes:

Godparents:
His godparents were Claude Pothier and Louise Maignan dit Lesperence.

Died:
noted age 72 years

Jean married Marie Madeleine Menard on 3 Nov 1722 in Boucherville, Chambly, Quebec, Canada. Marie (daughter of Catherine Menard) was born on 7 Aug 1698 in Boucherville, Chambly, Quebec, Canada; was christened on 9 Aug 1698 in Boucherville, Chambly, Quebec, Canada; died on 26 Dec 1776 in Lachine, Quebec, Canada; was buried on 28 Dec 1776 in Lachine, Quebec, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Marie Madeleine Riviere
• Reference Number: 853
• _UID: 31E99C2E08324261B2A5BA63B2E3C353E0C0
• Godparents: 9 Aug 1698, Boucherville, Chambly, Quebec, Canada

Notes:

Christened:
The name of her father was omitted on the record at baptism (nee de pere inconnu).

Godparents:
Her godparent were Pierre Larrivee, spouse of Marie Lefevre, and Marie Liardin, spouse of Pierre Lancoignee.

Died:
noted age 82 years

Notes:

Marriage Ceremony:
Present at the ceremony were Jean Deforge dit St. Maurice, father, Marguerite Verdon, mother of Jean, Jean Beau, Francois Cesar, Pierre Bertin and Louis, frere, maitre d'ecole.

Other Events:

• _UID: 679EC61813D64FBEA7F3521AC34744447190
• Residence: Bef 1689
• Occupation: 1689

Notes:

Residence:
St. Georges, eveche de Perigord.

Occupation:
Soldat de M. Delorimier.

Buried:
noted age 80 years

Jean married Marie Marguerite Verdon on 14 Feb 1688/89 in Lachine, Quebec, Canada. Marie (daughter of Jean Verdon and Marguerite Richer) was born on 10 Jan 1676/77 in LaPrairie, Quebec, Canada; was christened on 10 Jan 1676/77 in LaPrairie, Quebec, Canada; died on 17 Feb 1757 in Hopital General de Montreal, Quebec, Canada; was buried on 18 Feb 1757 in Hopital General de Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Additonal information: Lachine, Quebec, Canada
• _UID: 01EC6ABE510D4388A0C47577AB7572C0E033
• Godparents: 10 Jan 1676/77, LaPrairie, Quebec, Canada
• Adopted: 24 Jun 1679

Notes:

Additonal information:
Marie Marguerite was living in Lachine, never having followed her adoptive parents to Bout-de-l'Isle (Saint-Anne-de-Bellevue). Her adopted father, Mathurin Lievre, died in 1683 and her adopted mother, Marguerite Jasselin, had remarried in 1684 to Nicolas Lemoine.

Godparents:
Her godparents were Pierre Poupar and Marie Mothier.

Adopted:
Marie Marguerite's father's death left his family without resources. On 17 June 1679 the following act of adoption was signed by Claude Maugue.

The year one thousand six hundred seventy-nine the seventeenth day of June appeared in our study in our presense Jean Baptiste Migeon bailiff of the island of Montreal, Mathurin Le Lievre of the upper island of Montreal and resident of the upper Island on his concession, who is motivated and driven by Christian and charitable desire, stated to us that because he saw Marie-Marguerite Verdon, daughter of the late Jean Verdon resident of the coast of Saint-Lambert belonging to Laprairie de la Magdeleine a young orphan being only about three years old and abandoned and relinquished by her mother in flight and nearly all others and having little property is in the care of Jean Magnan who has had the said minor at his home for five or six months, came to us to complain that he could neither feed her nor support her not having any sous and that he himself had a rather large family, that he was in the process of adopting her and keeping her in his house as if she were his own daughter permitting us to take care of raising her feeding and supporting and instructing her in our Catholic apostolic and roman religion and even if he could to send her to school in order to give her the best education that will be possible for her and that through this charity and also when she will have been separated from their care by marriage or otherwise to continue to provide for her so favorably that he will advance to her the old clothes and this as his own daughter and to treat her in this capacity until the said time since God did not give him any children for the three years that he is committed in the marriage and that he believes that his wife will not have any.
One week later, Marguerite Jasselin, thirty years old and wife of Mathurin Le Lievre, came to ratify the act of adoption herself and promised that she would take good care of Marguerite Verdon who until that day was in the care of the tailor Jean Magnan.

Died:
noted age 88 years

Notes:

Marriage Contract:
Notary Jean Baptiste Pottier drew up a contract between Marguerite and Jean Desforges dit Saint Maurice, a soldier in the Company of Captain de Lorimier.
"Marguerite was said to be the daughter of the late Jean Verdon and of Marguerite Richer, during their lifetime residents of the prairie St Lambert, her natural father and mother who having left her at an early age was adopted by the late Mathurin Lelievre, during his lifetime resident of Bout de l'isle and Marguerite Jasselin his wife as it appears in the act of adoption on the date of 17 June 1679 here-attached by virtue of the adoption, the said Jasselin remarried in a second marriage to Nicolas Lemoyne considering the said Verdon as his own daughter the he authorized for the purpose of the document in the presence and with the consent of the relatives and friends named below..."

Marriage Ceremony:
Present at the ceremony were Marguerite Jasselin, adoptive mother of Marguerite and wife of Mathurin Lelievre, Nicolas Lemoyne, Jean Fournier, Aime Cherier dit Laroze, Pierre Jamme, Pierre Barbary, Jean Baptiste Pottier, notaire, Marie Beauvais, wife of Pottier, Jean Michau and Francois Michau.

Other Events:

• Name: Marie Catherine Menard
• _UID: 60ED39B880164E90A3C4659762172CA35DF4
• Godparents: 29 Sep 1673, Boucherville, Chambly, Quebec, Canada
• Census: 1681, Boucherville, Chambly, Quebec, Canada
• Children: 7 Aug 1698, Boucherville, Chambly, Quebec, Canada

Notes:

Godparents:
Her godparents were Jeanne Estienne, wife of Jean Vinet, and Pierre Decaumont.

Census:

Jacques Menard, charron, habitant, 52 years
Catherine Forestier, 46 years
Jean Menard, 22 years
Louis Menard, 19 years
Maurice Menard, 18 years
Jean Menard, 16 years
Marguerite Menard, 14 years
Jeanne Menard, 12 years
Anne Menard, 9 years
Catherine Menard, 6 years
Therese Menard, 5 years
Jacques Menard, 3 years

Children:
Catherine gave birth to an illegitmate daughter, Marie Madeleine Menard. Marie Madeleine was baptised on 9 August 1698 at Boucherville. Marie Madeleine was married on 3 November 1722 at Boucherville to Jean Deforge.

Died:
noted age 55 years

Other Events:

• _UID: 07A6B4BAF3F846CD9106D869CA64FA5E77E6
• Occupation: 1689

Notes:

Occupation:
He was a master carpenter.

Jean married Anne Bernard. Anne and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• _UID: 32890EC06BAA4B3797C74233566E29917113

Other Events:

• Name: Jean Vredon
• _UID: 857B6B7EB52C43FC90E2BD2A4FADAA38405C
• Residence: Bef 1667, Souvigne, France
• Census: 1667, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Occupation: 1672, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
• Land: 24 Jul 1673, LaPrairie, Quebec, Canada
• Death: Bef 20 Dec 1678
• Occupation: 1689, Lachine, Quebec, Canada
• Residence: 1689

Notes:

Residence:
His family was from Souvigne (either in the arrondissement and diocese of Angouleme, Angoumois or in the arrondissement of Niort, diocese of Poitiers, Poitou).

Census:
He is found in the household of Jacques LeBer at Montreal. Jean Vredon is a servant and 25 years of age.

Occupation:
He was a plowman.

Land:
The Jesuit Jacques Fremin, head of the administration of Prairie de la Magdeleine, granted to Jean Verdon an area of forty arpents, comprising about two arpents in frontage by twenty deep, beginning at the standing wood, His neighbors were Antoine Rolleau (Rousseau) and the south side and Jean Inard on the north.
Jean had to pay to the administration of Laprairie two liards (half -farthings) per year for each of the forty arpents, this being twenty sols in land rent and two live capons or their value, and two deniers for the cens for the whole concession. He had to build lodging, clear constantly and incessantly, maintain the public roads deemed necessary and to have his grain ground at the seigneurial mill. The administration also stated "and when the said Verdon asks for a day off work to cut wood in order to build we will give him permission with respect to the spot which he will mark and as there is a prairie between the standing wood and the great river all along the said coast to being at a place called the marigot, we give the said prairie to being at the said marigot in common into perpetuity to all the residents of the said coast of saint Lambert on condition that they pay us every years on the first day of december five sols per beast that they pasture there, the calves of seven or eight months excepted.."
The notary only indicated where it began; at "le marigot" or the small marsh formed by a stream whose mouth is lost in the middle of the fruit trees and wild oats, twenty-five arpents from the river Saint-Jacques.

Death:
It is indicated in a rider to a contract made by Pierre Richer dated 2 March 1705 and recorded in the margin of act written by Antoine Adhemar on 23 August 1699, that Jean Verdon died before 20 December 1678, the date of the inventory of his property.

Occupation:
He was a "labourer".

Residence:
Prairie de la Madeleine

Jean married Marguerite Richer on 19 Sep 1672 in Quebec, Quebec, Canada. Marguerite (daughter of Pierre Richer and Anne Maricourt) was born about 1650 in Saint Martin sur Renelle, Rouen, Normandy, France; died before 1700. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• _UID: BFD53ED80E6043CBA25AE444F39B8EF85E33
• Residence: Bef 1671, Saint Martin sur Renelle, Rouen, Normandy, France
• Immigration: 1672
• Emigration: Abt 1679; possibly

Notes:

King's Daughter

Residence:
Rouen (seine-Maritime) INSEE 76540

Immigration:
She came to Canada at about age 19 with and estimated dowry of 200 livres. Her father was living in Quebec and working as a tailor at the time.

Emigration:
A petition for adoption was signed on 17 June 1679 for Marie Marguerite Verdon. It stated that "Marie-Marguerite Verdon, daughter of the late Jean Verdon resident of the coast of Saint-Lambert belonging to Laprairie de la Magdeleine a young orphan being only about three years old and abandoned and relinquished by her mother in flight and nearly all others and having little property is in the care of Jean Magnan who has had the said minor at his home for five or six months..." No other record of Marguerite Richer was noted. Marguerite may have returned to France.

Notes:

Marriage Contract:
Neither spouse could sign the contract drawn up by notary Duquet. Jean gave is bride 300 livres, while she brought property valued at 200 livres. Pierre Pricher, Pierre Caille, and the witnesses Jean Baptiste Gosset and Nicolas Durand signed the record with the notary.

Marriage Ceremony:
Present at the ceremony were Pierre Richer, Pierre Caille dit LaRochelle, Jacques Doublet, Nicolas Durand and Gabriel Berard.

Other Events:

• Name: Jacques Lafontaine
• Name: Jacques Menard
• Name: Jacques Menart
• Name: Jacques Meynard
• _UID: 2C6BC0544D1B4836A87C3183FCE2F2467F5D
• Land: 1663, Trois Rivieres, Quebec, Canada
• Census: 1666, Trois Rivieres, Quebec, Canada
• Census: 1667, Trois Rivieres, Quebec, Canada
• Census: 1681, Boucherville, Chambly, Quebec, Canada

Notes:

Land:
Jacques owned two lots at Trois-Rivieres.

Census:

Jacques Mesnard Lafontaine, habitant, 38 years
Catherine Forestier, 29 years
Marie Mesnard, 6 years
Jean Mesnard, 4 years
Louis Mesnard, 2 years
Maurice Mesnard, 2 days
Simon Caillouet, domestique, 35 years
Jerome Langlois, serrurier, domestique, 64 years

Census:

Jacques Lafontaine, habitant, 35 years
Catherine Fortier, 33 years
Marie Lafontaine, 8 years
Jean Baptiste Lafontaine, 7 years
Louis Lafontaine, 6 years
Maurice Lafontaine, 5 years
Jean Baptiste Lafontaine, 4 years
Simon Caillouet, domestique, 20 years

Census:

Jacques Menard, charron, habitant, 52 years
Catherine Forestier, 46 years
Jean Menard, 22 years
Louis Menard, 19 years
Maurice Menard, 18 years
Jean Menard, 16 years
Marguerite Menard, 14 years
Jeanne Menard, 12 years
Anne Menard, 9 years
Catherine Menard, 6 years
Therese Menard, 5 years
Jacques Menard, 3 years

Died:
noted age 83 years

Buried:
Present at the burial were Boucher de Boucherville, Seigneur, Labaume, royal notary and surgeon, and Nicolas Dubray.

Jacques married Catherine Forestier on 19 Nov 1657 in Trois Rivieres, Quebec, Canada. Catherine (daughter of Jean Forestier and Julienne Coiffe) was christened on 6 Jan 1639/40 in Sainte Marguerite, La Rochelle, Aunis, France; died on 31 Mar 1694 in Boucherville, Chambly, Quebec, Canada; was buried on 1 Apr 1694 in Boucherville, Chambly, Quebec, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Catherine Foretier
• Name: Catherine Forretier
• Name: Catherine Fortier
• _UID: 99025748B9F343DBBA20B351B535107F5B0F
• Census: 1666, Trois Rivieres, Quebec, Canada
• Census: 1667, Trois Rivieres, Quebec, Canada
• Census: 1681, Boucherville, Chambly, Quebec, Canada

Notes:

Filles a Marier

Census:

Jacques Mesnard Lafontaine, habitant, 38 years
Catherine Forestier, 29 years
Marie Mesnard, 6 years
Jean Mesnard, 4 years
Louis Mesnard, 2 years
Maurice Mesnard, 2 days
Simon Caillouet, domestique, 35 years
Jerome Langlois, serrurier, domestique, 64 years

Census:

Jacques Lafontaine, habitant, 35 years
Catherine Fortier, 33 years
Marie Lafontaine, 8 years
Jean Baptiste Lafontaine, 7 years
Louis Lafontaine, 6 years
Maurice Lafontaine, 5 years
Jean Baptiste Lafontaine, 4 years
Simon Caillouet, domestique, 20 years

Census:

Jacques Menard, charron, habitant, 52 years
Catherine Forestier, 46 years
Jean Menard, 22 years
Louis Menard, 19 years
Maurice Menard, 18 years
Jean Menard, 16 years
Marguerite Menard, 14 years
Jeanne Menard, 12 years
Anne Menard, 9 years
Catherine Menard, 6 years
Therese Menard, 5 years
Jacques Menard, 3 years

Died:
noted age 54 years

Notes:

Marriage Ceremony:
Present at the ceremony were Delapoterie and Francois Hartel.