Toussaint Hunault

Male Abt 1625 - 1690  (65 years)


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  • Name Toussaint Hunault  [1, 2
    Born Abt 1625  Saint Pierre es Champs, Picardy, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Gender Male 
    Residence Bef Apr 1653  Saint Pierre, Beauvais, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    • Paroisse de St. Pierre, diocese de Beauvais. (Saint-Pierre-es-Champs, arrondissement and diocese of Beauvais, Picardy; near Gournay.)
    Engagement Contract (indentured servant) 18 Apr 1653  La Fleche, Anjou, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 5
    • He was a member of the Grande Recrue, enlisting to go to Canada. He was accepted at the Hotel-Dieu de La Fleche by Jerome LeRoyer de La Dauversiere, in the presence of notary Lafousse. His contract was for five years as a plowman and defricheur at 75 livres per year. He received 120 livres in advanced wages.
    Immigration 30 Apr 1653  [5, 6
    • St.Nazaire

      Toussaint Hunault Deschamps
      Occupation: defricheur
      From: St. Pierre-aux-Champs, Normandie

      Note - Toussaint Hunault est concessionnaire des le 24 Juillet 1654

      He and Marie came aboard the Sainte-Marguerite.
    Land 24 Jul 1654  [3, 5
    • He was given a land grant by Monsieur de Maisonneuve. The land measured 30 arpents in depth by one arpent wide, on the Saint-Louis slope, today from the Rue d'Iberville to the boulevard Saint-Laurent. His neighbors were Jean Lemarche dit Laroche and Pierre Chauvin.
    Land 16 Sep 1655  [5
    • Toussaint sold the farm to Pierre Chauvin.
    Confirmation 24 Aug 1660  Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Census 1666  Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [8

    • Toussaint Henault, habitant, 38 years
      Marie Lorgueil, 28 years
      Therese Henault, 11 years
      Andre Henault, 8 years
      Jeanne Henault, 7 years
      Pierre Henault, 5 years
      Marie Henault, 3 years
      Mathurin Henault, 1 year
    Census 1667  Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 9

    • Toussaint Hunault, habitant, 42 years
      Marie Lorgueuil, 28 years
      Thecle Hunault, 11 years
      Andre Hunault, 10 years
      Jeanne Hunault, 8 years
      Pierre Hunault, 5 years
      Marie Therese Hunault, 3 years
      Mathurin Hunault, 2 years

      They owned 3 head of cattle and had 4 arpents of land under cultivation.

      Thecle Hunault est age de 11 ans et demi et Marie Therese Hunault est agee de trois ans et demi. 01-05-1666 et celle du Fort de Sorel du 02-06-1666
      Confirmes les 16, 23 et 30 May 1666.
    Residence 1669  [5
    • In the beginning of 1669, they lived on the coast of Saint-Francois de la Longue-Pointe.
    Legal Matter Oct 1680  [5
    • Fellow traveler from 1653, Catherine Hurault, wife of Jean Lemarche dit Laroche, died at age 40. Her two youngest children: Catherine, 5 years and Marie Madeleine, 3 years were welcomed into the Hunault home. Catherine was married in 1695. Marie Madeleine was killed by a soldier, shot with a pistol.
    Census 1681  Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 10

    • Toussaint Hunault, habitant, 56 years
      Marie Lorgueuil, 45 years
      Pierre Hunault, 19 years
      Francoise Hunault, 13 years
      Toussaint Hunault, 9 years
      Charles Hunault, 4 years

      They had 19 arpents of land under cultivation, 4 head of cattle and 4 guns.
    Legal Matter 15 Nov 1683  [5
    • Toussaint declared that he owed his son, Andre, 307 livres.
    Land 22 Feb 1683/84  [5
    • The seigneurs of Montreal, the Sulpicien fathers, owners of the island, granted Toussaint land with 4 arpents in frontage, in a place called the Saint-Francois coast.
    Land 5 Apr 1687  [5
    • Toussaint sold 30 arpents to his son Andre, in a place called Saint-Francois.
    Land 7 Apr 1687  [5
    • He bought a concession of 80 arpents in the area on the Saint-Dominique coast on the Riviere-des Praires from Claude Tardy, a merchant of the city. On this day the notary Cabazie verified that Toussaint was also a resident of this city. The next day, 8 April 1687, the Sulpiciens granted an addition to the concession of 80 arpents to the land bought the day before.
    Land 25 Apr 1688  [5
    • Pierre LeRoux sold a concession of 60 square arpents on the Saint-Dominique coast to Toussaint.
    Land 30 May 1688  [5
    • Toussaint bought 28 arpents of land from Nicolas Desroches.
    Legal Matter 30 May 1688  [5
    • Four contracts were signed before notary Antoine Adhemar. One established rent to the creditor, Charles de Couagne, a merchant and lender.
    Land 25 Jun 1689  [5
    • Toussaint ceded to Michel Desrosiers dit Desilets, the land that he obtained from Claude Tardy, two years earlier.
    Death 13 Sep 1690  [3, 5
    • He was murdered by Gabriel Dumont, Baron de Blaignac, lieutenant of a company of marines. Dumont ran him through with a sword and fled after the attack. Marie and her children brought suit against Dumont, ceding their rights of inheritance and any possible damages from the trail to merchant Charles de Couagne in return for 520 livres and the dissolution of the debt that Toussaint owed Couagne.

      "cowardly assassinated by Sieur Dumont de Blaignac, lieutenant in a company of the detachement of the Navy, who fatally stabbed him with a sword, and who fled immediately afterwards."
    Name Toussaint Henau  [11
    Name Toussaint Hunault dit Deschamps  [12
    Name Toussaint Hunaut 
    _UID 2AD621663844488BA9D3C779EEBF861BE095 
    Died 13 Sep 1690  [3
    Person ID I10013  Lirette Family Tree
    Last Modified 4 Aug 2020 

    Father Nicolas Hunault,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Mother Marie Benoit,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F2223  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Marie Lorgueil,   b. Abt 1639, Cognac, Saintonge, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Nov 1700, Varennes, Lajemmerais, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 61 years) 
    Married 23 Nov 1654  Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Marriage Ceremony 23 Nov 1654  Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    • Witnesses of the marriage were governor Paul de Chomedey and Gilbert Barbier, master carpenter.
    Children 
     1. Thecle Hunault,   b. 23 Sep 1655, Montreal (Basilique Notre Dame), Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 12 Mar 1673/74, Montreal (Basilique Notre Dame), Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 18 years)
     2. Jeanne Hunault,   c. 2 Nov 1658, Montreal (Basilique Notre Dame), Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Sep 1748, Riviere des Prairies, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 89 years)
     3. Andre Hunault,   b. 3 Aug 1657, Montreal (Basilique Notre Dame), Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Jul 1707, Varennes, Lajemmerais, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 49 years)
     4. Pierre Hunault,   c. 22 Nov 1660, Montreal (Basilique Notre Dame), Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     5. Marie Therese Hunault,   c. 12 Feb 1662/63, Montreal (Basilique Notre Dame), Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 17 Aug 1689, Lachenaie, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 26 years)
     6. Mathurin Hunault,   c. 27 Dec 1664, Montreal (Basilique Notre Dame), Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 25 Jun 1671, Montreal (Basilique Notre Dame), Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 6 years)
     7. Francoise Hunault,   c. 5 Dec 1667, Montreal (Basilique Notre Dame), Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 2 May 1748, Lachenaie, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 80 years)
     8. Toussaint Hunault,   c. 1 May 1671, Montreal (Basilique Notre Dame), Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 23 Apr 1673, Montreal (Basilique Notre Dame), Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 1 years)
     9. Toussaint Hunault,   c. 25 Aug 1673, Montreal (Basilique Notre Dame), Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 22 Oct 1748, Sault au Recollet, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 75 years)
     10. Charles Hunault,   c. 25 Jul 1676, Montreal (Basilique Notre Dame), Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified 6 May 2014 
    Family ID F4129  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • (Research):Before the King's Daughters, page 209
      His nickname comes from the name of his hometown.

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