BOUCHARD Marie Madeleine

Notes:

Marie-Madeleine Bouchard was born at Chateau-Richer on the Beaupre
Coast, on 31 May 1665, and was baptized in her native parish on 2
June of the same year, by the missionary priest Thomas Morel. It
appears that her father Michel Bouchard, in Canada since 1657, first
lived in the territory of Chateau-Richer, then at Sainte-Anne until
1674. Michel was a native of Andilly-les-Marais, canton of Marans,
arrondissement of La Rochelle. His wife Marie Trotin, daughter of the
late Jean, a weaver, and the late Madeleine Blanchard, was born at
Poitou.

The Bouchard family moved to Riviere-Ouelle about 1675. It was there
that Pierre Dancause met Marie-Madeleine Bouchard. She became his
wife in the summer of 1679. Alas! the act was lost. A first child was
born to them on the feast day of St-Jean in 1680.


NEW CHALLENGE

After more than a half-century of life, ancestor Pierre Dancause
felt his strength ebbing. He went to seek help at the Hotel-Dieu in
the summer of 1697. There he died and was buried at Quebec on
Tuesday, 13 August. The witnesses recorded in the registry were
Jacques Michelon dit Lorange, master nailsmith, and Jean Dubreuil,
inhabitant of the Ile d'Orleans.

The thirty-two year old Marie-Madeleine Bouchard must now take on a
new challenge, that of bringing her children to maturity. The
question of inheritance could have spoiled the sauce but, on 19
August 1697, a very generous arrangement was made. Jean Raby and his
wife Marie Dancause renounced their claim in the presence of notary
Genaple, at Quebec. The reasons put forth were the following: When
Madame Dancause was married, there were only four arpents of cleared
land on the homestead at Riviere-Ouelle. Whatever they owned had been
gained during the lifetime of their mother and mother-in-law.
Therefore, she would keep the family property for her use, according
to the costume of Paris. It appears that Pierre Dancause and Marie-
Madeleine Bouchard had been married without a contract.

In 1699, Francois Deserre, son of Antoine and of Mathurine Belanger,
an audacious twenty-one year old gentleman, proposed marriage to her
on 22 September, in the presence of the notary. Later, Marie-
Madeleine thought it over and courageously decided that it was wiser
to bear his natural child than to ruin her whole life.

Marie-Anne was baptized on the day of her birth, 18 June 1700. This
surprise gift became the wife of Pierre Roy dit Desjardins on 7 June
1717 at Riviere-Ouelle

Jean-Francois Gauvin, son of Jean and of Anne Magnan, fell in love
with Marie-Madeleine Bouchard in 1702. It was at
Riviere-Ouelle that her second wedding was celebrated on 29 May. On
the following 15 June, a marriage contract was signed before
Chambalon at Quebec. There were no children.

During the same period, the widow Dancause had a house built. A
notarized act informs USA that on 24 October 1702, she owed 160
livres to Pierre Soucy de la Grande Anse, "for framework of a house
which the said Soucy had previously built for her." On the first of
October 1713, the widow Dancause decided to have an official paper
drawn up by the notary Janneau. She simply declared that her
surviving children: Madeleine, Genevieve, Catherine, Francoise and
Pierre had right to the inheritance left by their late father. Marie-
Madeleine Bouchard was still going to live a long-time.

Marie married (Dancause) Pierre Dancosse in 1679 in Riviere-Quelle, PQ, Canada. Pierre was born in 1641 in LaRochelle, Aunis, France; died on 13 Aug 1697 in Quebec, QC. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Anne, god-daughter of Marie Leclerc, wife of Jean-Galleran Boucher,
had her baptism recorded at l'Islet. She gave her heart to ancestor
Michel Dupere dit Lariviere, widower of Marie Chretien, father of
seven children, on 17 August 1703. Anne was buried after the death of
her fourth child, Anne-Angelique, on 29 February 1712. Etienne and
Pierre Auclair were witnesses to her burial, recorded in the registry
of Notre-Dame de Quebec.

Died:
Burial: Feb 29, 1712, Notre-Dame De Quebec, Quebec

Anne married LARIVIERE Michel Duprere Dit on 17 Aug 1703. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the presence of witnesses Jean Lavoie, Jacques Gagnon, Pierre
Boucher, Etienne Bouchard and Pierre Dancause, Catherine was joined
in matrimony on 20 June 1707 to Jean Brisson, son of Rene and of Anne
Vezina. Their first five children were baptized at Riviere-Ouelle and
the last four at La Pocatiere.

Catherine married BRISSON Jean on 20 Jun 1707. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Pierre, the only son to carry on the Dancause surname, shared his
married life with Marie-Francoise Duval, on 10 July 1719 at Riviere-
Ouelle. His bride, daughter of Francois Duval and of Marie-Anne
Boucher, gave birth to five Dancause sons and two Dancause daughters.

Pierre married DUPONTHAUT Marie-Francoise Duval Dit on 10 Jul 1719 in Riviere-Quelle, PQ, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The oldest, Marie-Madeleine, after her birth at Riviere-Ouelle, was
brought to Quebec to be baptized on 30 June 1680. Jean Marchand, a
carpenter from Quebec, and Marie
Gachet, wife in a second marriage to Charles Roger, Sieur des
Colombiers, served as her godparents. At the end of her sixteenth
year, Marie-Madeleine became the wife of
Pierre Boucher, at Riviere-Ouelle, on 4 February 1697, and gave him
ten children. After the death of her first husband, Madeleine married
the twenty year old
Jean-Baptiste Maisonneuve, a Gascon from Bayonne, on 21 March 1716.
She had four more children by him.

Marie married BOUCHER Pierre on 04 Feb 1697 in Riviere-Quelle, PQ, Canada. Pierre (son of BOUCHER Pierre "Dit Pitoche" and St-Denis Marie Anne) was born on 04 May 1673 in Ste. Famille, PQ, Canada; died on 17 Jun 1714 in Montmorency, PQ, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marie married MAISONNEUVE Jean-Baptiste on 21 Mar 1716. Jean-Baptiste was born in 1696. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Jean Raby, the thirty year old son of Jean, a judge, and of Jeanne
Ceillier, from Cravans in Saintonge, became the husband of the
fifteen year old Marie Dancause, on 18 February 1697, at Riviere-
Ouelle. This couple had no children.

Marie married RABY Jean on 18 Feb 1697 in Riviere-Quelle, PQ, Canada. Jean (son of RABY Jean and CEILLIER Jeanne) was born in 1667. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Genevieve, god-daughter of Genevieve Huot dit St-Laurent on 26
December 1787, took Pierre Berube as her husband for life. He was the
son of Pierre and of Marie-Madeleine Bouchard, on 8 January 1706, at
Riviere-Ouelle. This family increased by ten.

Died:
Burial: Feb 6 1745

Genevieve married BERUBE Pierre on 08 Jan 1706 in Riviere-Quelle, PQ, Canada. Pierre (son of BERUBE Damien and SAUVENIER Jeanne) was born in 1682; died in 1736. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The fate of Marie-Angelique, born at Riviere-Ouelle on 17 June 1689,
is unknown.

Notes:

Baptism: Jun 10, 1691, Quebec.

Marie-Francoise Dancause, had Jean Abraham, English by origin, and
Marie-Ursule Philipeau as godparents when she was baptized at Quebec
on 10 June 1691. It is to be noted that the widow of Hugues Cochran
dit Floridor was the creditor of Madame Dancause, the bride's mother.
This is proof that debts do not always break up a friendship. Marie-
Francoise became Joseph Lizot's companion for life on 24 November
1710. Their family counted eight blossoms at La Pocatiere.

Marie-Francoise married LIZOT Joseph on 24 Nov 1710. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The youngest, Marie-Elisabeth, died at the age of five. She was
buried in her native parish on 27 March 1698.

Died:
Burial: March 27, 1698 at Riviere-Ouelle, Quebec, New France

Pierre married LIZOTTE Catherine on 17 Aug 1726 in LaPocatiere Et Riviere Quelle, QC. Catherine (daughter of LIZOTTE Noel and MENEUX Catherine) was born about 1703 in Riviere-Quelle, PQ, Canada; died on 16 Apr 1779. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marie married PELLETIER Joseph on 03 Feb 1721 in Riviere-Quelle, PQ, Canada. Joseph (son of PELLETIER Jean and (Huot) Marie Anne St. Laurent) was born on 14 Sep 1694 in Riviere-Quelle, PQ, Canada; died on 23 Jun 1753. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rosalie married PARADIS Jacques on 30 Apr 1729 in St Louis De Kamouraska, PQ, Canada. Jacques was born on 21 Mar 1698 in St Pierre, Ile De Orleans, PQ, Canada; died on 24 Jun 1767 in Kamouraska, Kamouraska, PQ, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorothe'e married LEVESQUE Dominique on 19 Jul 1745 in Riviere Quelle, Kamouraska, PQ, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Francois married BEAULIEU Catherine Hudon Dit on 21 Nov 1768 in Riviere-Quelle, PQ, Canada. Catherine (daughter of BEAULIEU Joseph Hudon Dit and SERIEN Marie Madeleine Langlois Dit) was born on 28 May 1750 in Riviere-Quelle, PQ, Canada; died on 04 Apr 1817 in Riviere-Quelle, PQ, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Angelique married BOUCHARD Jean on 09 Jan 1736 in St Roch Des Auln, PQ, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Augustin married BERUBE Louise on 11 Jan 1779 in Riviere-Quelle, PQ, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Augustin married SOUCY Catherine on 14 Feb 1788 in St Louis De Kamouraska, PQ, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jean married LAGACE Marie Anne Miginer on 24 Jan 1752 in St. Thomas Montmagamy, PQ, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married CARON Marie Anne on 15 Jan 1747 in L'Islet D Orleans, PQ, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married THIBOUTOT Marie Clair on 17 Jan 1758 in La Pocatiere, PQ, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married MIVILLE Josephte on 21 Oct 1788 in La Pocatiere, PQ, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married St PIERRE Brigitte on 16 Jun 1791 in La Pocatiere, PQ, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married DUBE Madeleine on 23 Jul 1798 in La Pocatiere, PQ, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Madeleine married OUELLETTE Francois Thomas on 09 Jan 1747 in St Roch Des Auln, PQ, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married MORNEAU Pierre on 03 Feb 1749 in St Roch Des Auln, PQ, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married ASSELIN Gabriel on 23 Aug 1756 in St Roch Des Auln, PQ, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married BERUBE Jean on 11 Feb 1765 in St. Anne Des Pocatiere, PQ, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Francois married CARON Marguerite Ursule on 09 Jan 1757 in Lislet Contrat Noel Dupont, PQ, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isidore married THIBOUTOT Marguerite on 17 Feb 1772 in La Pocatiere, PQ, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Andre married LACOSTE Angelique on 18 Jan 1773 in St Francois Xavier, Fort De Vincennes, PQ, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Felicite married PARADIS Jean Baptiste on 20 Oct 1760 in St Roch Des Auln, PQ, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Felicite married CHANDONNET Etienne on 15 May 1813 in St Pierre Les Becquets, PQ, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dominique married PELLETIER Angelique on 29 Oct 1781 in St-Roch-Des-Aulnaies, L'Islets, QC, PQ, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]