Index Voyageur Grandfathers — La Prairie, Trois-Rivières and Quebec

Honoring my French-Canadian Voyageur Grandfathers

🛶 Mathieu Amiot (Amyot) Sieur de Villeneuve (1628-1688) (8th great-grandfather)

son of Philippe Amiot (Amyot) dit Villeneuve (1602-1639) and Anne Convent (1605-1675) Marriage 1650 to Marie Catherine Miville (1632-1702)

• 1640s, Interpreter and fur trader for the Jesuits in the Huron country.

🛶 Pierre Barette dit Courville (1748-1794) (5th great-grandfather)

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son of Louis Courville Barrette (Baret) (1717-1753) and Marie Josephe Poupart (1725-1799) Marriage 1772 to Marie Anne Dupuis (Dupuy) (1753-1807)

• 1778, Fort Michilimackinac

🛶 Francois Bourassa (1659-1708) (7th great-grandfather)

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son of Francois Bourassa (1630-1684) and Marguerite Dugas (1635-1698)

 Marriage 1668 to Marie Le Ber (1666-1756)

• 1686, Hudson Bay • 1688, Ottawa Indians • 1690 Michilimackinac • 1690, Ottawa Indians

🛶 Antoine Jacques Boyer (1671-1747) (8th great-grandfather)

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son of Charles Boyer (1631-1698) and Marguerite Ténard (1645-1678)

Marriage 1690 to Marie Perras (1673-1736)

• 1694, Ottawa Indians

🛶 Jean Mignault dit Chatillon (1622-1680) (9th great-grandfather)

son of Nicolas Mignault (1600-1648) and Madeleine DeBrie (1600-1648)

Marriage 1648 to Louise Cloutier (1632-1699)

• 1648, Governor Montmagny sent Jean Mignault to the (le pays des Hurons) "Huron's Country" to invite them to the fur trade. 

🛶 Jean Cusson (1630-1718) (9th great-grandfather)

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son of Jean Cusson (1605-1656) and Jacqueline Pepin (1606-1663)

Marriage 1656 to Marie Foubert (1640-1715)

• 1690, Ottawa Indians

• 1704, Ottawa Indians

My homage to my 'fur trade' grandfathers

🛶 Jacques Deneau (Deniau) dit Destaillis (1660-1720) (7th great-grandfather)

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son of Marin Deneau dit Destaillis (1621-1678) and Louise Therese LeBreuil (1634-1727)

Marriage 1690 to Marie Rivet (1673-1705)

• 1685, Sault Ste. Marie • 1688, Ottawa Indians

🛶 Jean Baptiste Desroches (1621-1684) (8th great-grandfather)

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son of Jean Antoine Desroches (1585-1652) and Antoinette Unknown (1585-_)

Marriage 1647 to Francoise Godé (Gaudet) (1631-1715)

• 1667, formed a trading company with Nicolas Perrot, Toussaint Baudry, and Isaac Nafrechoux. Together they traveled west to Ottawa Country, and to Green Bay in 1668.

⚜️Charles Diel dit Le Petit Breton (1652-1702) (8th great-grandfather)

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son of Philippe Diel (1618-1676) and Marie Anquetin (Hanquetin) (1630-_)

Marriage 1676 to Marie Anne Picard (1663-1697)

• 1665, arrived with La Fouille Company of the Carignan-Salières Regiment.

• 1677 Sep 7, Fort Frontenac

🛶 Charles Diel (1688-1734) (7th great-grandfather)

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son of Charles Diel dit Le Petit Breton (1652-1702) and Marie Anne Picard (1663-1697)

Marriage 1716 to Jeanne Boyer (1694-1730) (7th great-grandmother) (2) 1732 to Marguerite Robert (1683-1766)

• 1713, Détroit • 1718, Détroit

🛶 Moïse Dupuis (Depuis) (1673-1750) (7th great-grandfather)

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son of Francois Dupuis (Dupays) (1634-1681) and Georgette Richer (1647-1799) 👑filles du roi

Marriage 1699 to Marie Anne Christiansen (1676-1750)

• 1692, courier de bois and trader at Schenectady, NY -- from "Narratives and ldentities in the Saint Lawrence Valley, 1667-1720"

🛶 Francois Moise Dupuis (1709-1764) (6th great-grandfather)

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son of Moise Dupuis (Depuis) (1673-1750) and Marie Anne Christiansen (1676-1750)

Marriage 1733 to Marie Anne Roy (1712-1750)

• 1752, Michilimackinac

🛶 Denis Duquet (1605-1675) (8th great-grandfather)

son of Joseph Duquet and Jeanne Barbie

Marriage 1638 to Catherine Gautier (1625-1702)

• 1659, member of the "Traite de Tadoussac"

🛶 Etienne Duquet dit Desrochers (1694-1762) (6th great-grandfather) 

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son of Jean Duquet dit Desrochers (1651-1710) and Catherine-Ursule Amiot (1664-1715)

Marriage 1722 to Marie-Françoise Deneau dit Destaillis (1698-1737)

• 1751, Michilimackinac • 1752, Michilimackinac • 1753, Michilimackinac

🛶 Pierre Gagne (Gagnier) (1645-1726) (8th great-grandfather)

son of Pierre Gagne (Gasnier) (1610-1656) and Marguerite Roset (Rouzee) (1615-1685)

Marriage 1670 to Catherine Daubigeon (1653-1712)

• La Prairie's Captain of Militia and very likely a Coureur des Bois.

Anne Godefroy (1615-1678) (9th great grandmother) daughter of Pierre Godefroy de Linctot (1585-1666) and Perrette Cavalier (1590-1636) • 1652 Arrival at Quebec, Canada

Marriage 1630 to Jean Testard dit Lafontaine (1612-1705)

🛶 Two brothers of Anne Godefroy, 9th great grandmother: Thomas Godefroy de Normanville and Jean Godefroy de Lintot arrived in New France with Samuel de Champlain about 1626. They both served under Champlain in the capacity of interpreters. 

🛶 Francois Leber (Lebert) (1626-1694) (8th great-grandfather)

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son of Robert LeBer (1601-1625) and Colette Cavelier (1605-1694)

Marriage (1) to BEF 1656 to Marguerite Leseur (1628-1662) (2) 1662 to Jeanne Testard (1642-1723) (8th great-grandmother) 

• 1688, Ottawa Country

🛶 Gabriel Lemieux (1663-1739) (8th great-grandfather)

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son of Gabriel Lemieux (1626-1700) and Marguerite Leboeuf (1636-1671)

Marriage 1690 to Jeanne Robidoux (1673-1736)

• 1690, Michilimackinac • 1692, Ottawa Indians • 1737, Détroit

⚜️André Meunier (Mignier) dit Lagacé (1641-1727) (8th great-grandfather)

son of Michel Mignier Lagace (1602-1678) and Catherine Masson (1620-1669)

Marriage 1668 to Jacquette Michel (1630-1710) (a King's Daughter - 👑filles du roi)

• 1665, a French Sharpshooter in the Berthier Company of the Carignan-Salières Regiment, arrived on the ship Le Brézé 30 June 1665.

🛶 Jean-Baptiste Meunier (Mignier) Lagasse (Lagace) (1749-1828) (5th great-grandfather)

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son of Joseph Mignier (Meunier) Lagasse (Lagace) (1706-1778) and Felicite Caouette (Cahouet) (1709-1783)

Marriage 1775 to Marie Judith Gravel Brindeliere (1757-1779)

• 1778, Ezechiel Solomon - Mississippi • 1794, Ponca Indians - Missouri River.   

🛶 Jean-Baptiste Meunier (Mignier, Minier) Lagasse (Lagace) (1776-1835) (4th great-grandfather)

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son of Jean-Baptiste Mignier (Meunier) Lagasse (Lagace) (1749-1828) and Marie Judith Gravel Brindeliere (1757-1779)

Marriage 1799 to Marie Angelique Baret (Barette) dit Courville (1779-1815)

• 1800, James & Andrew McGill - Mississippi • 1803, Oct 6, McTavish, Frobisher & Co. (North West Company) - Lac De La Pluie (Rainy Lake)

🛶 Jean Baptiste Moreau (1657-1727) (8th great-grandfather)

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son of Jean Moreau (1635-1710) and Catherine Leroux (1635-1689)

Marriage 1692 to Marie Anne Rodrigue (1673-1720)

• 1703, Detroit via Lake Erie • 1704, Fort Le pont Chartrain du lac Êrié • 1705, Fort Le pont Chartrain du lac Êrié • 1716, Michilimackinac • 1717, Michilimackinac • 1718, Michilimackinac

🛶 Jacques Hugues Picard (1618-1707) (9th great-grandfather)

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son of Gabriel Picard dit LaFortune (1590-1660) and Michelle Clavier (1598-1660)

Marriage 1660 to Antoinette Liercourt (1634-1707)

• 1693, Ottawa Indians

⚜️François Pinsonneau dit Lafleur (1646-1731) (7th great-grandfather) parents unknown

Birth 1646 • Saintogne, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France

Death 26 JAN 1731 • La Prairie (Notre-Dame-de-La Prairie-de-la-Madeleine), Québec

Marriage 1673 to Anne LeBer (Leper) (1647-1732) (a King's Daughter - 👑filles du roi)

• a soldier in the Saint-Ours Company of the Carignan-Salières Regiment, arrived on the ship La Justice 14 September 1665.

🛶 Joseph Pinsonneau (Pinsono) (1733-1779) (5th great-grandfather)

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son of Jacques Pinsonneau dit Lafleur (1682-1773) and Marie Elisabeth Bourassa (1695-1766)

Marriage 1761 to Marie Madeleine Duquet (1734-1791)

• 1763, Detroit

🛶 Gabriel Pinsonneau (1770-1807) (4th great-grandfather)

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son of Joseph Pinsonneau (Pinsono) (1733-1779) and Marie Madeleine Duquet (1734-1791)

Marriage 1802 to Marie-Louise Vielle (1780-1813)

• 1797 Detroit

🛶 Pierre Poupart (1653-1699) (8th great-grandfather) 

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son of Jean Poupart (1625-1682) and Marguerite Frichet (1625-1682)

Marriage 1682 to Marguerite Perras dit La Fontaine (1665-1708)

• 1667, Nicolas Perrot - Lake Superior • 1670, Voyageur for Daumont de Saint-Lusson and Nicolas Perrot when they claimed the Great Lakes for France.

🛶 Joseph Poupart (1696-1726) (7th great-grandfather)

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son of Pierre Poupart (1653-1699) and Marguerite Perras dit La Fontaine (1665-1708)

Marriage 1724 to Marie Anne Lemieux (1706-1777)

• 1715, Michilimackinac • 1723, Détroit

In future blog posts I hope to be posting documents for other relatives such as François Rivet Sr. (2nd cousin 7x removed), who traveled with Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (The Corps of Discovery) and David Thompson, map maker of the NWCo. François died at French Prairie, Oregon 1852, at age 96.

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2016/08/cousin-francois-rivet-mountain-man.html

Lots more in my blog...
http://laprairie-voyageur-canoes.blogspot.com/2017/10/ripples-from-la-prairie-voyageur-canoes.html