Marie Madeleine Bouchard (1665 - 1755)

Born 31 May 1665 in Château-Richer, Canada, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Wife of Pierre Dancosse — married about 1679 in Canada, Nouvelle-France

Wife of Jean François Gauvin — married 29 May 1702 in Notre-Dame-de-Liesse de Rivière-Ouelle, Nouvelle France

Descendants

Died 21 Nov 1755 at age 90 in Rivière-Ouelle, Canada, Nouvelle-France

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Biographie

Marie Madeleine Bouchard, née 31 mai 1665 bapt. 2 juin Château-Richer; mariée avec Pierre Dancosse c 1679; veuve remariée avec Jean Gauvain 29 mai 1702 Rivière-Ouelle^[1]

Recensement 1666: HABITANTS DE BEAUPRÉ
Michel Bouchard, 30, habitant ; Marie Trotinne, 20, sa femme ; Etienne, 2 ; Marie, 1.^[2]

Recensement 1667: CÔTE DE BEAUPRÉ
Michel Bouchard, 28 ; Marie Trotine, sa femme, 22 ; Etienne, 3 ; Marie, 2 ; Charles, 6 mois ; 2 arpents en valeur.^[2]

Recensement 1681: LA BOUTEILLERIE
Pierre Dancosse 40 ; Madelaine Bouchard, sa femme, 16 ; Marie, leur fille 1 ; 8 bêtes à cornes ; 7 arpents en valeur.^[3]

Biography

Madeleine Bouchard lived
in Canada, Nouvelle-France.

Marie Madeleine Bouchard was born on 31 May 1665 and baptized on 2 Jun 1665 in La-Visitation-de-Notre-Dame de Château-Richer, Canada, Nouvelle France. Her parents were Michel Bouchard and Marie Trotinne. Godparents at the infant's baptism were Pierre Gravelle and Madeleine Gasgnon. The officiating priest was Thomas Morel.^[4][5]

Marriage
Marie Madeleine Bouchard and Pierre Dancosse married about 1679. Neither a marriage contract nor act of marriage has been found for this marriage. Their first child Marie Madeleine was born in 1680. Pierre Dancosse was buried being given the age of around 50 years on the record on 13 Aug 1697 in Notre-Dame de Québec.^[6]

Children of This Marriage^[7]

1. Marie Madeleine, b. 30 Jul 1680; married 4 Feb 1697 to Pierre Boucher in Rivière-Ouelle; 2 married 21 Mar 1716 to Jean Baptiste Maisonneuve
2. Marie Anne, b. 20 Nov 1681; married 7 Aug 1703 to Michel Duperre
3. Marie, b. 1682; m 18 Feb 1697 to Jean Rady in Rivière-Ouelle
4. Catherine, b. 1684; married 20 Jun 1707 to Jean Brisson
5. Pierre, b. abt. 1686; married 10 Jul 1719 to Marie Françoise Duval
6. Geneviève, b. 26 Dec 1687; married 8 Jan 1706 to Pierre Bérubé
7. Marie Angélique, b. 29 Jun 1689
8. Marie Françoise, b. 10 Jun 1691; married 24 Nov 1710 to Joseph Lizot
9. Marie Thérèse Élisabeth, b. 30 Mar 1693; d. 27 Mar 1698

Natural child with François De Serre and Marie Magdeleine Bouchard, widow of Pierre Dancosse, entered into a marriage contract with Notary Guillaume Roger on 22 Sep 1699.^[8][9] This marriage contract was cancelled.^[10] They had a natural child, Marie Anne Deserre, born 18 Jun 1700.

Second Marriage
Marie Madeleine Bouchard, aged 36 on the record, widow of Pierre Dancosse, married Jean François Gauvin, aged 27 on the record, son of Jean Gauvin and Anne Magnan, on 29 May 1702 in Notre-Dame-de-Liesse de Rivière-Ouelle. In the presence of known witnesses Étienne Bouchard, Gabriel Bouchard, François Bouchard, Mathurin Dubé, and Étienne Janneau. The celebrant priest was J. Bernard de Requeleyne.^[11][12] There were no children from this marriage.

Death and Burial
Madeleine Bouchard passed away on 21 Nov 1755 being given the age of around 90 years on the record. Her burial was the following day in Notre-Dame-de-Liesse parish cemetery of Rivière-Ouelle. In the presence of known witnesses Pierre Plourde, René Dubé and Louis Dubé. The officiating priest was Chevalier.^[13][14]

Notes

• Research Note: PRDH lists Marie Anne last name as Serre. However, her baptismal act clearly states Deserre. PRDH also calls her birth "née hors marriage". However, her parents entered into a marriage contract and there may well have been a marriage act that was lost (as was the case of many marriages of this era). Marie Anne's father's first name is not mentioned in the baptismal act, so the marriage annulment seems likely to have occurred in 1699 as stated above. At least PRDH did not call Marie Anne an illegitimate child as given her birth date it seems her parents were married when she was conceived. While out of wedlock may be a factual statement because her parents were not married when she was born, PRDH seems a bit snarky for the situation. After all they do not call people born after a their father died "né(e) hors mariage". Additional note: There was no actual marriage, there was a marriage contract done on 22 September 1699 before notary Roger, the contract was canceled. Note that in French the words annuled and canceled both read annulé. It's not only Tanguay that says there was no actual marriage, so does Jetté.^[15]

• Also, while there is a marriage contract by Notary Guillaume Roger dated 22 Sept. 1699 for Francois de Serre and Marie Madeleine Bouchard, Tanguay noted that "le marriage n'a pa eu lieu"... the marriage never took place. This, of course, is according to Tanguay. He gave no reference, and numerous marriage records were lost over the years. Perhaps Tanguay should just have stated "acte de mariage non trouvé." Marie Anne's baptismal record simply states she is the "fille de ( ) de serre & de Marie Madeleinne Bouchard veuve de feu Pierre Dancosse...." Usually if a child is illegitimate, the record will say so (fille naturelle). Perhaps Father Bernard left it this way because Marie and Francois were engaged? It is interesting that only her father's surname is given and not his first name. What happened to Francois? He seems to disappear from the records. One has to wonder if he may have died or left the Province after the engagement and prior to the marriage, if so, why didn't Marie Anne's baptismal record state that? Hmmmm.... another genealogical mystery. Note: when a child is legitimate, the priests write daughter of so-and-so and such-and-such his wife. This is not the case here, the priest wrote Marie Anne fille de __ deserre et de Marie Madeleine Bouchard veuve de feu Pierre Dancosse.^[16] The record right after this baptism uses the formula of stating his wife, so the priest simply did not pass judgement on paper; not all priests wrote the word illegitimate on their records. If an actual marriage had taken place and subsequently an annulment was done, there would be a large paper trail for it. Annulments by the church were few and far between. This couple never married.

BAnQ

Nomination de François-Mathieu Martin de Lino pour faire la taxe des dépens, sur la requête de Michel Bouchard, procureur de Marie-Madeleine Bouchard, sa fille, veuve de Pierre Dancosse (Dancause) contre Louis Bardet et sa femme, boucher de Québec, au sujet d'un arrêt du 30 janvier 1702 par lequel ces derniers sont condamnés à payer une somme de 90 livres et à toutes les dépens; 1er octobre 1703

Description: Transcription du texte avec orthographe modernisée : «Sur la requête présentée en ce Conseil par Michel Bouchard habitant en cette ville au nom et comme procureur de Marie Madeleine Bouchard sa fille ci-devant veuve de Pierre Dancosse (Dancause), expositive que sa dite fille aurait eu ci-devant instance en ce conseil, à l'encontre de Louis Beaudet (Bardet) et sa femme Boucher en cette dite ville, sur laquelle instance serait intervenu arrêt le trentième janvier de l'année dernière 1702, par lequel lesdits Baudet et sa femme sont condamnés de payer à ladite veuve Dancosse le somme de quatre-vingt-dix livres et tous les dépens, requérant qu'il soit nommé tel conseiller qu'il plairait à ce conseil pour procéder à la taxe desdits dépens lesdits Baudet et sa femme dûment appelés. Vu ledit arrêt, le Conseil a commis et commet maître François Mathieu Martin Delino (De Lino) conseiller pour faire la taxe desdits dépens. BEAUHARNOIS.»^[17]

Sources

1. ↑ Quebec, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1997 - Drouin IGD
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Recensements de 1666-1667 en Nouvelle-France, référant au chapitre IV du livre Histoire des Canadiens Français de Benjamin Sulte, compilés par Jean-Guy Sénécal (email address removed) le 17 mars 1998
3. ↑ Wikisource Recensement 1681 Census selon Benjamin Sulte Histoire des Canadiens-français, Tome 5, chap. 4
4. ↑ Baptism IGD
5. ↑ Baptism FamilySearch. Québec, registres paroissiaux catholiques, 1621-1979, Château Richer > La Visitation-de-Notre-Dame > Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1661-1690 > image 30 of 129; Archives Nationales du Quebec (National Archives of Quebec), Montreal.
6. ↑ Burial of Pierre Dancosse IGD
7. ↑ Quebec, Genealogical Dictionary of Canadian Families (Tanguay Collection), 1608-1890. Ancestry.com Operations. Tanguay, Cyprien, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes depuis la fondation de la colonie jusqu'à nos jours, Québec, Canada: Eusèbe Senécal, 1871-1890. Ancestry.com
8. ↑ Quebec, Canada, Notarial Records, 1637-1935, Répertoires de notaires (Notarial catalogs), Québec, Roger, Guillaume (1694-1702), image 20 of 46 at Ancestry.com (paid subscription).
9. ↑ Marriage Contract with Notary Roger at Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Inventaire des contrats de mariage du Régime français conservés aux Archives judiciaires de Québec par Pierre-Georges Roy, Volume premier. Quebec 1937. Page 198, image 214 of 304.
10. ↑ Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Rapport de l'Archiviste de la province de Québec pour 1959-1960. Antoine Roy. Roch Lefebvre. Imprimeur de sa Majeste la Reine. Page 295, image 299 of 374.
11. ↑ Marriage #2 IGD
12. ↑ Third Marriage FamilySearch. Québec, registres paroissiaux catholiques, 1621-1979, Rivière-Ouelle > Notre-Dame-de-Liesse > Index des baptêmes 1685-1877 Index des sépultures 1681, 1685-1876 Index des mariages 1685-1872 Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1681, 1685-1750 > image 396 of 659; Archives Nationales du Quebec (National Archives of Quebec), Montreal.
13. ↑ Burial IGD
14. ↑ Sepulture FamilySearch. Québec, registres paroissiaux catholiques, 1621-1979, Rivière-Ouelle > Notre-Dame-de-Liesse > Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1751-1796 > image 81 of 739; Archives Nationales du Quebec (National Archives of Quebec), Montreal.
15. ↑ Dictionnaire généalogique des familles du Québec des origines à 1730, René Jetté, avec la collaboration du PRDH, 1983, Presses de l'Université de Montréal, pg 340 (Deserre) (membership IGD)
16. ↑ Bapt. image Marie Anne Deserre IGD (membership)
17. ↑ 1er octobre 1703 Cote : TP1,S28,P7713 Fonds Conseil souverain - BAnQ Québec Id 407802

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