Charles Boyer — Voyageur Grandfather

Charles Boyer (1631­-1698) (9th great­grandfather)

son of Pierre Boyer (1610­-1660) and Denise Refence (1610­-1666)

Birth 1631 • Vançais, Deux­Sevres, Poitou­Charentes, France

Death 16 FEB 1698 • La Prairie, Quebec, Canada

Married 1666 to Marguerite Ténard (1645­-1678)

Among these early settlers in the La Prairie de la Magdeleine seigneury Charles Boyer and Marguerite Tenard earned their farm by serving as domestic servants to the Jesuits.

• 1660s, ten members of the Boyer family, including his son Antoine Boyer (husband of Marie Perras) are listed on 31 voyageur trips. These lists do not include the trips these same men made on their own as coureurs des bois.

• 1668, 22 octobre — Société entre Boisneau Raymond et Charles Boyer. Fur trade partnership with Raymond Boisneau, a neighbor of Cavelier de la Salle, and a frequent trader at Michilimackinac.

SOURCE: INVENTAIRE DES Greffes Des Notaires DU REGIME FRANÇAIS—Notaire Bénigne Basset, 1943, Vol 1, P 191.

• 1668, 22 Oct — Société entre Raimond Boisneau et Charles Boyer—original document

 LINEAGE:

Charles Boyer (1631 - 1698) -- 9th great-grandfather

Antoine Jacques Boyer (1671 - 1747) -- Son of Charles Boyer

Jeanne Boyer (1694 - 1730) -- Daughter of Antoine Jacques Boyer

Marie Anne Diel (1727 - 1760) -- Daughter of Jeanne Boyer

Marie Anne Dupuis (Dupuy) (1753 - 1807) -- Daughter of Marie Anne Diel

Marie Angelique Baret dit Courville (1779 - 1815) -- Daughter of Marie Anne Dupuis

Marie Emélie Meunier Lagacé (1808 - 1883) -- Daughter of Marie Angelique Baret dit Courville

Lucy Pinsonneau (aka PASSINO) (1836 - 1917) -- Daughter of Marie Emélie Meunier Lagacé -- 2nd grandmother

I have been collecting documents and/or archive notes for my voyageur grandfathers, and will be posting new pages for each of them -- one grandfather at a time.  SEE: https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2019/01/timeline-of-my-french-canadian-great.html for my list of voyageur grandfathers.