BOUCHER Pierre "Dit Pitoche"^[1]

1639 - 1707  (68 years)

• Name	BOUCHER Pierre "Dit Pitoche"
  Birth	13 Feb 1639	Quebec, PQ, Canada
  Gender	Male
  Death	13 May 1707	Riviere-Quelle, PQ, Canada
  	Burial: May 13, 1707, Riviere-Quelle, PQ, Canada
  Notes	A HARD CROSSING Pierre Boucher, interpreter, soldier and the Governor of Trois- Rivieres, had devoted his life to his new homeland. He was sent to Paris on 22 October 1661, carrying dispatches from the civil and religious authorities of New France. On the occasion of this official visit, the Sieur de Grosbois took the opportunity to hire 100 workmen, including Pierre Dancause, at La Rochelle. Indeed, a costly enterprise! According to Raymond Douville, Pierre Boucher could rely on two ships for his return to Canada; along with the men he had hired and about one hundred soldiers. These ships were the Saint-Jean- Baptiste displacing 150 tons, and the 300 ton l'Aigle d'Or. Between them they, carried the 300 passengers of this last contingent of the year 1662. Those who had their contracts signed in the presence of notary Moreau, like Pierre Dancause, took their passage in the Angle d'Or. This was a long, perilous, difficult and, as it turns out, a rather macabre crossing. Pierre Dancause left La Rochelle on 15 July 1662. The sea voyage lasted almost three months. Half the immigrants fell ill while death visited many others. Seventy-five were too sick to continue and were put ashore at Newfoundland. One hundred fifty-nine more were disembarked at Tadoussac, at the end of October. Pierre Boucher arrived by small boat at Quebec on 27 October, according to the Journal des Jesuites. Only by 12 November did the boats bring everyone who had come from France "both healthy and ill", to Quebec. BIRTH-BURIAL-MARRIAGE-COMMENT-CENSUS: Page 136, Page 137. 28 At the recording of 1666 and 1667, he was living on the Isle of Orleans, and at the recording of 1681, in Chateau-Richer. ______________ During the 17th century, Pierre Boucher dit Pitoche lived on both the north and south coasts of the St. Lawrence River, as well as a major island in between. Pierre started out life in Quebec City, born there to Marin Boucher and Perrine Mallet on February 13, 1639. The Boucher family had migrated among the first wave of colonists after the French took Quebec back from the English. Pierre grew up with six siblings, plus a half-brother from his father’s earlier marriage (there were several half-sisters who had remained in France). The first few years of Pierre's life were spent in the Beauport section of Quebec before his father acquired land in Château-Richer in 1648. The Bouchers lived in Château-Richer on a large tract with 8 arpents of river frontage. It was said that their home was used by the community for religious functions before the church was built in about 1661. On April 4, 1663, Pierre got married in the new church; his bride was Marie Saint-Denys, who had arrived from France with her parents in 1659. At some point, the nickname “Pitoche” was added to Pierre’s name. This was likely because there was a famous Pierre Boucher who was the governor of Trois-Rivières. Pierre had more humble pursuits—he was a farmer who supplemented his income building carts. Pierre and his wife spent the first couple years of their marriage in Château-Richer where their first two children were born, then by 1666, they moved to Île d’Orleans. He acquired land with 3 arpents of frontage in Ste-Famille, the oldest settlement on the island. The family grew to include five more children, then in 1679, he moved back to Château-Richer where they had five more. His widowed mother lived nearby, and some time after she died in 1687, Pierre moved again, this time to the southern shore of the St. Lawrence. The place Pierre settled was Rivière-Ouelle; his older brother Galleran was already living there, and so was his daughter Marie-Sainte and her husband. Rivière-Ouelle was downriver towards the Atlantic, far enough so that ocean fish were within reach. It was said that Pierre had land at a location that was ideally suited for fishing, but it isn’t certain whether he made a living that way. Pierre’s wife died in January 1705, and he passed away two year later on May 13, 1707. Many of Pierre’s descendants remained in the Rivière-Ouelle area for generations. Three of his great-grandsons served in the Rivière-Ouelle militia against the Americans during the Revolutionary War. Pierre was a direct ancestor of Madonna. —Reference found at: http://ancestorbios.blogspot.com/2019/02/both-sides-of-river-pierre-boucher-dit.html
  Person ID	I1332	Freeman-Smith
  Last Modified	10 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	BOUCHER Marin,   b. 01 Jan 1589, Mortagne, Chartres, Perche, France d. 25 Mar 1671, Chateau-Richer, Montmorency, PQ, Canada (Age 82 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	(Mallette) Perrine (Prinne) Mallet,   b. 01 Jan 1603, St-Langis-Les-Mortagne, France d. 24 Aug 1687, Chateau-Richer, Montmorency, PQ, Canada (Age 84 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	01 Jan 1629	St-Langis-Les-Mortagne, Chartres, Perche, France
  Family ID	F1312	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	St-Denis Marie Anne,   b. Abt 1650, Chateau-Richer, PQ, Canada d. 23 Jan 1705, Riviere-Quelle, PQ, Canada (Age ~ 55 years)
  Marriage	04 Apr 1663	Chateau-Richer, Montmorency, PQ, Canada
  Children	1. BOUCHER Barbe,   b. 13 Dec 1663, Chateau-Richer, Montmorency, PQ, Canada d. 20 Mar 1724, Pointe-de-Lévy (Lauzon) [Co. Lévis, Québec] (Age 60 years)  [natural]   2. BOUCHER Pierre,   b. 01 Jan 1666, Chateau-Richer, PQ, Canada d. 17 Jun 1666, Montmorency, PQ, Canada (Age 0 years)  [natural]   3. BOUCHER Jacques,   b. 04 Jan 1667, Ste-Famille, I'le D'Orleans, PQ, Canada d. 06 Jan 1667 (Age 0 years)  [natural]   4. BOUCHER Marie-Sainte,   b. 11 Aug 1668, St-Famille, Ile D'Orleans, QC d. 15 Jul 1717, Riviere-Quelle, PQ, Canada (Age 48 years)  [natural]   5. BOUCHER Jean,   b. 14 Jan 1671, Ste-Famille, I'le D'Orleans, PQ, Canada  [natural]   6. BOUCHER Pierre,   b. 04 May 1673, Ste. Famille, PQ, Canada d. 17 Jun 1714, Montmorency, PQ, Canada (Age 41 years)  [natural]   7. BOUCHER Angelique,   b. 27 Oct 1676, Ste-Famille, I'le D'Orleans, PQ, Canada d. 02 Mar 1717 (Age 40 years)  [natural]   8. BOUCHER Charles,   b. 07 Sep 1679, Chateau-Richer, PQ, Canada d. 04 May 1709, Riviere-Ouelle, L'Assomption, Kamouraska, Quebec (Age 29 years)  [natural]   9. BOUCHER Marie-Therese,   b. 09 Jan 1683, Chateau-Richer, Montmorency, PQ, Canada d. 15 Jul 1743 (Age 60 years)  [natural]   10. BOUCHER Genevieve,   b. 12 Sep 1685, Chateau-Richer, PQ, Canada d. 23 Jun 1769, St-Roch Des Aulnaies, QC (Age 83 years)  [natural]   11. BOUCHER Prisque,   b. 22 Apr 1689, Chateau-Richer, Montmorency, PQ, Canada d. 09 May 1768, Pointe-de-Lévy (Lauzon) [Co. Lévis, Québec] (Age 79 years)  [natural]   12. BOUCHER Marguerite,   b. 12 May 1692, Montmorency, PQ, Canada d. 13 Mar 1747, St-Roch Des Aulnaies, QC (Age 54 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F1332	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Apr 2024

  
  

• Sources

  [S1748] Genealogy of Canada.