Catherine (Avard) Havard (abt. 1603 - 1637)

Born about 1603 in Maine, France

Wife of René Chauvin — married about 1624 in Anjou, France

Descendants

Died 21 Oct 1637 at about age 34 in Vion, Maine, France

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Biography

Catherine Avard (H'Avard, Havard) was born in France about 1600/1603.

Her parents are not known (see Research Notes, below), but the following profiles have been/are attached as parents:

Maurice Havard,^[1] who died 9 April 1627 in Sarthe, Vion, France.^[2]

Pierre Avard (1575-April 9, 1627) and Pernalle Chevalier (1582-).^[3]

Catherine married René Chauvin in

1622, Anjou, France^[4] or

1624, Normandy, France^[5]

They had seven children:^[6]

• son Francois Chauvin
• son Rene Chauvin
• son Jehan Chauvin
• daughter Reneé Chauvin
• daughter Francoise Chauvin
• son Pierre Chauvin b.1631 Lion Dangers, France
• son Antoine Chauvin

Pierre, born in 1631,^[7] in Vion, France^{[citation needed]} to Catherine and René Chauvin,^[8] married Marthe Autreuil (b 1636) in Montréal on September 1658.^[7][9]

Catherine died before 1658,^[10] possibly on October 21, 1638, in Lafleche, Solesmes, Anjou, Normandy, France.^[5]

From her son's Fichier Origine

This is the most reliable research currently available.

Catherine Havard was the wife of René Chauvin. Her baptism and marriage acts have not been found and her parents are unknown. René Chauvin and Catherine Havard had the following known children, all baptised at Saint-Martin (Vion, Maine, now Sarthe):

1. Jehan, bapt. 28 September 1616
2. Jean, bapt 29 October 1619
3. Renée, bapt 17 April 1623
4. Pierre, born ca. 1625, migrant
5. Françoise, bapt 27 April 1627
6. Antoine, bapt 19 May 1635

She died and was buried on 21 October 1637 in Vion (Saint-Aubin church).^[11]

Research Notes

Name: I was unable to find a Solesne or Solesme, but Solesmes is a town northwest of Vion (see the Wikipedia articles on Vion and Solesmes [in French; see Google Translate of Vion for English]). Therefore, I changed references to Solesne and Solesme in this profile to Solesmes. ~ Noland-165 12:58, 7 May 2016 (EDT)

Unknown Parents - The following comment posted 15 Jan. 2019 by French Roots Project leader (thanks Isabelle!) notes that her parents are not known:

I have updated the profile according to information given by Fichier Origine (which would override all the other sources on the profile at this point). Fichier does not name parents for her, which means her parents are unknown, until original research using reliable sources uncovers them. I can see no evidence that she was "of Solesmes".

Leads

from The Bissonette Family:

Rene CHAUVIN was born before 1617 in Selesme, Anjou, France. He died in Lefleche, Solesme, France. Rene married Catherine (Havard) AVARD DE SOLESNE.^[12]

Catherine (Havard) AVARD DE SOLESNE was born before before 1620.^[12]

(Catherine's father) Maurice HAVARD died 9 Apr 1627 in Sarthe, Vion, France.^[13]

from the Hepburn & O'Neill Family History Site

• Rene Chauvin's page (which notes that his parents are unknown; this page also collects and discusses various trees and other information from the Internet):^[14]

Marriage: abt 1637

Spouse: Catherine Avard De'Solesne

Born: Bet 1611 and 1620 Solesme, Anjou, France

Died: 21 Oct 1638 Lafleche, Solesme, Anjou, France

Father: Pierre Or Maurice AVARD

Mother: Pernalle CHEVELLION

• Pierre Chauvin's page:^[15]

Mother: Catherine Avard [De'Solesne] b. abt 1609 Anjou, France

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry trees show 1575 birth
2. ↑ Maurice
3. ↑ profiles attached as parents to Avard-47, which was merged into Avard-4 on May 7, 2016
4. ↑ from Avard-4
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} from Avard-47
6. ↑ seven children according to list on this site; this site says Pierre was "the son and only known child" of René and Catherine.^{[citation needed]}
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} page 46, Tanguay's Genealogical Dictionary, Vol 3
8. ↑ most sources agree Pierre was their son
9. ↑ marriage document for Pierre & Marthe, posted on the Filles à Marier website, Recherches effectuées par Gérald Ménard & Transcription effectuées par Gérald Ménard et Jocelyne Nicol-Quillivic (accessed May 7, 2016)
10. ↑ Record ID Number MH:IF6884; User ID F6AE36C0-6193-48EE-A629-75ADB3E56E9F
11. ↑ Pierre Chauvin, Fichier Origine 240869, accessed January 2019
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1} The Bissonette Family
13. ↑ Bissonette Family (different page)
14. ↑ Rene Chauvin, Hepburn & O'Neill Family History Site
15. ↑ Pierre Chauvin, Hepburn & O'Neill Family History Site

• Nos Origines, entry for Pierre Chauvin
• Grace L. Hardy, The Hardys of Louisiana and Their Ancestors (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1985), page 58.

Acknowledgements

• The WikiTree profile Avard-4 was created through the import of myfamily.ged on 23 March 2011. As of May 20, 2014, it included Nos Origines as source, but some entries also referenced what looked like LDS Ancestral File Numbers with user IDs (left as footnotes). The profile also included the "unattached" user ID: 7D161A24-6D2E-48AF-9620-B69459226C92.
• A profile for Avard de Salesne-1 was created by Maureen Deegan through the import of LaValle.ged on Mar 12, 2018 (merged 24 March 2018).