American

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Saranac Lake

October 17, 2015

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Samuel de Champlain

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4 Grandparents8 Great Grandparents

16 2nd Great Grandparents32 3rd Great Grandparents64 4th Great Grandparents128 5th Great Grandparents256 6th Great Grandparents512 7th Great Grandparents

1024 8th Great Grandparents2048 9th Great Grandparents4096 10th Great Grandparents

Total - 8,191

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If you have no French-Canadian connections, you can choose a famous French-Canadianand chase their ancestry

Some people with connections in the North County and French-Canadian Roots

Dr. Francois D’Avignon – Civil War SurgeonBrother André - Saint

Peggy Facto – Alleged child murderer Clyde Rabideau – Mayor of Saranac Lake

Addie Shields – Former Clinton County HistorianJack Downs – Journalism Professor and Editor

Louis Riel – Métis political leaderJoseph Ledoux – Founder of Dawson City

Clement Gosselin – George Washington’s spy

Kathie Lee Gifford Lady Gaga Hilary ClintonJack Kerouac Leo Durocher Alex Trebek

Dionne Quintuplets Angelina Jolie MadonnaAvril Lavigne Alannis Morissette Maurice Richard

General Beauregard Paul Michel Levesque Emeril Lagasse Buffalo Bill Cody Louis Cyr

General Alexander Macomb Dan AkroydBeyoncé Ashley Judd Wayne Lapierre

Matt Leblanc Celine Dion Toussaint Charbonneau

Dictionnairegénéalogiquedes familles canadiennes

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THE BRAVEFILLES DU ROI

WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

The Filles à Marier

and theFilles du Roi

are your8th, 9th and 10th great grandmothers -

10, 11, and 12 generations back from you

1530's and '40'sJacques Cartier started 1st settlement near what is now Quebec CityPope Paul III declared Indians were human beings and needed the Catholic faith

Early 1600'sSamuel de Champlain1604 - Port Royal1608 - Quebec –

28 men1609 - Lake Champlain

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1615 - Arrival of the Récollets1617 - Louis Hébert and family come to Quebec1625 - Arrival of the Jesuits 1627 - Cardinal Richelieu –

Company of Nouvelle FranceLouis XII introduces the seigneurial system

1630 - Population 103

1634 - First Filles à MarierTrois-Rivières founded

1639 - Arrival of the Ursulines1641 - Population 2001642 - Ville Marie founded1653 - Population only 2,0001661 - Louis XIV and

Jean-Baptiste Colbertreorganize New France

1663 - End of the Company of New France and therecruitment of Filles à Marier Filles du Roi come to Quebec - first of 700+

1665 - Arrival of the Carignan Salières Regiment –1,200 - eventually about 450 stayed

1666 - European Population 3,215

- Must have arrived before September 1663- Must have come over at marriageable age

(12 through 45)- Must have married or signed a marriage contract at least once in New France or have signed an enlistment contract- Must not have been accompanied by both parents- Must not have been accompanied by or joining a husband

FILLESÀ MARIER

If they survived the boat journey, they lived with the daily threat ofdeath at the hands of the Iroquois. If they survived the Iroquois, theyhad to deal with the hard life of subsistence farming, harsh wintersspent in a log cabin that they may have helped build, epidemics ofsmallpox, typhus, measles, cholera and difficult and often dangerouschildbirth.

If less than 10% died on thecrossing, the captainconsidered it a successfultrip - scurvy, seasickness,cramped space, lack ofsanitation, disease, badweather, all added to thedeath rate.

Between 1634 and 1663, only about 260 filles à marier came toQuebec - about 13 a year. They were recruited by religious and privateindividuals who paid for their travel and lodging and expenses beforethey got married.In 1663, Louis XIV sent the first 36 filles du roi to Québec.

Most of the early filles were recruited by ship outfitters and merchantsfrom cities, but later, they were recruited from the county. Menconsidered women from peasant stock to be more desirable.They had to present their birth certificates, and prove that they werefree to marry. They also had to show they were of good character,capable of bearing children and had an aptitude for housework orfarm chores.

Contrary to popular belief,they were not prostitutes.

Ancestors of a few CHM employees:

RecorDesoMonetteWildLavareMathieuBarrièreRacine

RECOR

FILLES À MARIER

Françoise Fafard – Mathurin MeunierGeneviève Gamache – Julien FortinMarguerite Charlot – Louis Loisel

FILLES DU ROI

Catherine Fièvre – Charles AllaireMarie-Madeleine Guilleboeuf – Jean PloufOzanne-Jeanne Achon – Pierre Tremblay TwiceMarguerite Paquet – François Biville ¤Catherine Rivet – Pierre DuchesneMarie Michel – Louis Gasnier

Françoise Fafard's mother died when she was small and she came toQuebec with her father, step mother and two step brothers - contractedto marry as a fille à marier.She and Mathurin Meunier had 10 children -- her first 3 died beforethey were a year old - including a set of twins. Her daughter, Barbe, wasthe first French baptism in Montreal.

5 of her childrengave her a total of 39 grandchildren

Between 1650 and 165332 settlers were killedand 22 were captured

Fort Ville Marie

Marguerite Charlot and Louis Loisel, a locksmith, were marriedwhile there were still less than 100 people in Ville Marie.Witnesses to their marriage in 1648 were: Jeanne Mance, whohosted the wedding, Paul Chomedy, the Governor of Montreal andCharles LeMoyne, Sieur d'Iberville.

They had 8 children, 4 of whomdied before a month old.

Between 1650 and 1672, 94houses were built in Montreal -their's was on Rue St. Paul

Fille à marier, Geneviève Gamache and Julien Fortin, a butcher,had 12 children - 7 of whom gave her a total of 46 grandchildren.As part of his wife's dowry, Julien was indentured to his brother-in-

law for two years.

This couple arethe 7thgreat grandparents of afamoussinger -

Cap Tourmente

Nicolas Gamache, the brother of Geneviève, is the 7th great grandfather of Céline Dion

DESO

FILLES À MARIER

Marie Riton - LéonardMarie Godard - Toussaint GirouxBarbe Poisson - Léonard Lucault

FILLES DU ROI

Marie Chevreau – René RéaumeMarie Marchesseau - Jean MichelMarie Pelletier - Mathurin RegnaultMarie Varin - René Branche

Marie Godard came toVille Marie with her sister,Jeanne, as fille à marier.Marie and Toussaint had12 children before shedied 30 years later.

3 of her children died before a week old - 6 children married and gaveher 56 grandchildren.Jeanne had 2 husbands. In February 1662, the Iroquois attacked VilleMarie and killed her new husband with 11 others while they werecutting wood. In November 1662, she married again and went on tohave 59 grandchildren.

This is the man who was sentout of the stockade at VilleMarie to rescue Jeanne'shusband, Simon Roy.Lambert Closse arrived inMontreal in 1647 as a merchantand became the Sergeant Majorof the garrison and died in therescue attempt.A noted Indian fighter, he gothis wife by rescuing her from theIroquois.

Fille du roi, Marie Chevreau, married master carpenter, RenéRéaume in October 1655. They had 13 children - 11 of them sons -and left 75 grandchildren. René built many houses in theCharlesbourg area near Quebec City.Several of their sons were in the fur trade as voyageurs, marriednative women, and settled in Detroit and other areas around theGreat Lakes.

MONETTE - FILLES À MARIER

Marie Testu – André PépinCatherine Charles - Urbain JetteFrançoise Morin - Étienne DemersMadeleine Surget – Jean ClémentMarie Godard - Toussaint GirouxMarguerite Maclin - Nicolas BoyerCatherine Paulo - Étienne CampeauMarie-Marthe Arnue - Pierre RichaumeMadeleine Aymard – Zacharie CloutierVincente Desvariaux – Pierre GagnonCatherine Fortier - Jacques Ménard TwiceMarie Therèse LeBreuil – Marin DeneauGeneviève Gamache – Julien Fortin Twice Marie-Madeleine Triot – Charles LeFrançoisMarie Angélique Brière - André Longtin Twice

Catherine Paulo was a fille àmarier who married ÉtienneCampeau, a master mason andtool maker in 1663.As part of the duties for beinggiven land in Ville Marie by itsfounder, Paul Chomedy deMaisonneuve, he was obliged tocultivate it and defend it fromthe Iroquois.

Two years after their marriage,the governor decided to form abuffer zone from the Iroquois afew miles west of Ville Marie onPetite Rivière and gave land toseven brave settlers and theirfamilies.Within the first year, two of theseven were killed by Iroquoisarrows. By 1668 the Iroquois inthe local area were conqueredand they lived in peace for thenext 30 years.

MONETTE - FILLES DU ROI

Marie Boisleau + - Jean Jolin Marie Michel – Louis GasnierAnne Delestre – François César TwiceCatherine de Seine – Jean SenecalMarie Campion – Mathurin DubéCatherine Rivet – Pierre DuchesneMarie Deschamps - Michel VerretCatherine Ducharme – Pierre Le RoyMarguerite Raisin – Bernard DeNiger ¤Anne LeBier – François Pinsonneau ¤Catherine-Antoinette Eloy - Mathurin MastaMarie Le Long – Rene Dumats ¤ TwiceMarguerite Argouinne – Laurent Beaudet Twice

Marie Boileau was a fille du roi from minor nobility whoseparents had fallen on hard times before they died. In 1665, shefollowed her sister to New France and became a servant to PierreDenis in Quebec City. She contracted to marry one man but hadit anulled.

Eventually, she married 3 times on Île d'Orléans. She had one child with each of her her first and last husbands and 8 children with her second husband.

WILD

FILLES À MARIER

Marie Crevet – Robert CaronMarie Testu – Antoine PépinMarie Pomponelle – Nicolas PetitJeanne-Angélique Brière - André LongtinMarie Renaud - François Leroux dit CardinalMarie-Antoinette de Liercourt – Blaise JuilletMarie-Antoinette de Liercourt – Hughes PicardMarie Metayer – Mathurin Baillargeon TwiceMarie-Madeleine Morisseau – François Pelletier, dit Antaya

Jeanne-Angélique Brière was a young widow with one son in Pariswhen she contracted to become a fille à marier. He future husbandwas Adrien Sédilot, a son of one of the founding families ofQuebec.

Adrien was a carpenter andfound a good life working inQuebec City.Although it appears thatJeanne-Angélique and Adrienwere childless her sonmarried and had 10children.

WILD - FILLES DU ROI

Marie Michel – Louis GasnierAnne Michel – Jacques Paviot ¤Anne Delestre – François CesarGeorgette Richer – François DupuisFrançois Lemoine – Pierre NiquetSuzanne Durand – Gabriel Gibault ¤Catherine Guyard – Antoine BeaudryMarguerite Colet – Jacques BisssonnetteOzanne-Jeanne Achon – Pierre TremblayMarie Guillaume – Laurent MigneronMathurine Gouard – Louis Marié TwiceMarguerite Raisin – Bernard DeNiger ¤ Jeanne Denote – Jacques Suprenant ¤Marie Madeleine Pescher – Jean-François HarelMarie-Louise Gargottine – Daniel-François Perron

Bernard was one of about 200soldiers who married filles du roi.Their first child died in 1671 but theywent on to have six more. They bothdied in November 1700 in La Prairie.

Marguerite Raisin married aCarignan soldier, BernardDeNiger dit Sanssoucy. Theymarried at Fort Chambly in 1669,four years after the first fort wasbuilt.

LAVARE

FILLES À MARIER

Jeanne Rousselière - Pierre GaudinBarbe Poisson - Léonard LoucaultFrançoise Bigot - Denis BrièreAnne Martin - Jean Côté

FILLES DU ROI

Marie Brabant - Jean LalondeMarie LeBrun - Pierre BarbarinMarie Chancy - Michel PrésseauMarie Blanchard - Mathieu BrunetCharlotte Roussel - Pierre GauthierAndrée Remondière - Thomas RondeauRenée Rivière - Jean-Jacques Remondière

At 25, Jean Lalonde, a Carignan soldier, was determined tomarry a fille du roi because of their large dowries. Before hefinally married Marie Brabant, a 31 year-old fille du roi, threewomen had broken their contracts with him and almostimmediately married someone else.After their 1674 marriage, they tried faming in three differentareas, Sorel and two farms on Lac St. Louis.In September 1687, Jean was killed by the Iroquois with 9 othermen. By January 1688, Marie married another Carignan soldierand became step-mother to 4 children.One of her sons, Guillaume, married Marie-Madeleine Allen whowas carried off by the Iroquois from the famous DeerfieldMassacre in Massachusetts.

MATHIEU - FILLES À MARIER

Marie-Madeleine Françoise – Guillaume Thibault Suzanne Betfer – Mathieu Hubou Marguérite Thomas – Jean Trudel Judith Rigaud – François LeMaître Anne Martin – Jacques Raté

MATHIEU - FILLES DU ROI

Élizabeth-Agnès Lefebvre – François Louis Thibault Jeanne Cederet – Pierre Picard Geneviève Rigault – Pierre Têtu Louise LeLoutre – Nicolas Crevier Marie Brabant - Jean Lalonde

Catherine Senécal - Jean Lafond

BARRIÈRE - FILLES À MARIER

Louise Brodeur - Marc ArnueMarie Lelong - René Dumats ¤Gillette Banne - Marin ChauvinMadeleine Surget – Jean ClémentAngélique Brière - André LongtinMarguerite Maclin - Nicolas BoyerCatherine Fortier - Jacques MénardCatherine Paulo - Étienne CampeauVincente Desvariaux - Pierre GagnonMarie -Therèse LeBreuil – Marin DeniauMarie-Marthe Arnue - Pierre RichaumeMarie Godard – Toussaint Giroux TwiceGeneviève Gamache – Julien Fortin TwiceMadeleine Aymard – Zacharie Cloutier Twice

Marguerite Maquelin was a fille à marier who married JeanChicot. In 1651, Jean had been partially scalped and left for deadby the Iroquois at Ville Marie. Jeanne Mance nursed him back tohealth.

They married in 1662 and by June1667, after fathering 3 children, hewas dead.In August 1667, she married NicolasBoyer and had 10 more children, fourof whom died as babies. One of theirchildren had 20 kids, another 19 andanother, 16.

BARRIÈRE - FILLES DU ROI

Catherine-Antoinette Eloy - Mathurin MastaMarguérite Arguionne – Laurent BeaudetMarguerite Raisin - Bérnard DeNiger ¤Marguerite Dusson - Jean LavalléeAnne LeBier – François PinsonneauCatherine De Seine – Jean Senécal Marie LeLong – René Dumats ¤Anne Delestre - François César

Anne DeLestre and François César were married in 1674 in St. Ours.By June of 1685, he was a widower with 7 young children living inBoucherville.In February of 1686, he married Marie Attanville, thrice-widowed withtwo children. One of her husbands, Charles Martin, had previouslybeen married to another fille du roi, Catherine Dupuis, who had diedchildless.

Anne DeLestre's death certificate

RACINE

FILLES À MARIER

Marie Testu – Antoine PépinMadeleine Surget – Jean ClémentMarie Godard – Toussaint GirouxMarguerite Maclin – Nicolas BoyerGeneviève Gamache – Julien FortinMadeleine Aymard – Zacharie CloutierMarie-Madeleine Triot – Charles LeFrançoisLouise-Therèse LeBreuil – Marin DeneauJeanne-Angélique Brière – André Longtin

Madeleine Émard who married Zacharie Cloutier had two sisterswho came to Quebec to be filles à marier. Barbe Émard, already awidow, married Olivier Tardif. The pair had married their husbandswhen they were back in France on business trips. When they cameback to Quebec, they brought Anne Émard, who married GuillaumeCouture, a year later.

Madeleine and Zacharie had a pretty privileged life. He was a clerkfor the Company of 100 Associates. They lived in town and endedup having 8 children who gave them a total of 77 grandchildren.

In 1655, Jean Lauzon, the governor at the time, awarded Oliver landat Cap Tourmente on the Beaupré Shore for his services to the colony.On January 30, 1656, his son was born and after that, things didn'tgo well for the family. His son from a former marriage died and hishealth began to fail. Barbe who had married him 6 years before wasforced to manage all his properties - eventually selling them to survivebut she died in 1665.Zacharie, his brother-in-law.became the legal guardianof his minor children.

After a period of prematuresenility, Olivier died in 1665.

Anne Émard, the third sister, married Guillaume Couture. Sheand her husband settled at Lauzon, near Quebec City and hadseveral children who gave them 31 grandchildren. She stayedhome and managed the farm while he continued to go out onhis dangerous diplomatic missions among the native tribes.

Before he was married he was a Jesuitpriest who traveled with Father Jogues.In one attack he killed an Iroquois chief.He was tortured and given to the chief'swife who nursed him back to health. Hereturned to Trois-Rivières with anotherchief and signed a peace treaty.

RACINE - FILLES DU ROI

Catherine Ducharme-Fontaine – Pierre Le RoyMarie Crosnier – Philippe DestroismaisonsMarguerite Raisin – Bérnard DeNiger ¤Marguerite Argouinne – Laurent BeaudetMarie Le Long – René Dumats ¤ TwiceAnne LeBier – François Pinsonneau ¤Vincente Desvariaux – Pierre GagnonCatherine De Seine – Jean SenécalCatherine Rivet – Pierre DuchesneMarie Campion – Mathurin DubéAnne DeLestre – François CésarMarie Michel – Louis GasnierMarie Boisleau + - Jean Jolin

Catherine de Seine and Jean Senécal were married in October1672 in Montreal. Theirs was one of the last "fille du roi"weddings. The program ended in 1673.The family and their descendants always lived near Montrealsome settling on the north shore of the island. They were farmersalways with the threat of the Iroquois.

Other Senecal generations movedinto Clinton County during the1837 Rebellion. Others camedown on the Richelieu Riverduring the winter months tosettle and become loggers.

CHM employees relationship with Cardinal Marc Armand Ouellet

Recor - 10th cousin 3x removed in lawDeso - 10th cousin 2x removedMonette - 10th cousin 1x removedWild - 10th cousin 2x removedLavare -Mathieu - 10th cousin 1x removedBarriere - 10th cousin 2x removedRacine - 10th cousin

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