Louis_Larocbrune

 

My ancestor Louis Couillaud dit Laroque dit Roquebrune, also know as Vachignac or Gachiniac, would have been born after his brother François between 1686 and 1694. His baptism act was never found. A recent test performed on my DNA-Y and on an other descendant of Louis  proved without a shadow of doubt that our ancestor Louis Couillaud (Larocque dit Roqubrune) was from European descent and is the son of Philibert Couillaud.  The surnames Vachignac or Gachignac were also found in France.
So why do we think that Louis could have been born  beteeen 1686 and 1694 ? Looking at the repartition of the birth in this family we think that Catherine Laporte certain must had at least one child between the age 23 et 30. She had six children in 10 year before 1684.
(PRDH avance une autre hypothèse qui place la naissance de Louis à 1679). (.  At the 1681 census Louis's name doesn't appear on it indicating that he would have been born at a later year. Louis would have been the seventh child of Philibert Couillaud dit Roquebrune et Catherine Laporte dit Saint-Georges.  
March 18 1709 Louis Laporte, Louis' uncle, sells his land to Adrien Ménard. His nephew Louis (Couillaud dit Roquebrune) find himself without a roof and six days later on March 24 he is hired by Jean Quenet who since 1700 is the owner of properties in Beaurepaire and Sainte-Anne at the west end of the Isle of Montréal.   See the document where Louis is engaged by Jean Quenet March 24, 1709 (In French).

Louis married Marie Madeleine Sabourin in Pointe-Claire (Québec) on May 21st 1716. We can see the marriage act  in the  archives section.  In 1718 when is brother Michel get married Louis is said to be a miller the upper section of the Isle of Montréal. (West end of the Isle) in Ste-Anne-du-Bout-de-l'Ile. He operates the mill of the Seigneur de Senneville in 1720 you can see on the right of the painting below. (See Senneville wind mill).  
The first two children of Louis were born, Louis and Jean-Baptiste he and Madeleine lived at the end of the Isle of Montr;eacute;al. When his son Pierre is baptised the family had moved to Isle Perrot probably around 1721. During the 1724 census he is at Isle Perrot on the south side of the Domaine He is the owner of a plot of  3 x 18 arpents of which 20 are cleared and cultivated, one house, one barn and one stable.  He also owns a plot a little ways from here about  3 arpents of  frontage by 20 depth which has no building on it. For those unfamiliar with Isle Perrot  the Domaine is the section that goes from Pointe-du-Moulin (Windmill Point) to the village of Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot (Link to the map ). One should not confuse the Domaine with La Pointe du Domaine. The plot my ancestor had was located approximately where Atlantide Golf club is now located. Click on the map on the left. The plots that Louis Larocque owned are numbered 4649 and 4668. 
Louis and Madeleine lived near the Windmill that can still be seen at  Pointe du Moulin on Isle Perrot (Picture above on this page). The first mention fo this windmill goes back as far as  1708 and was built by the Seigneur (Landlord) of Isle Perrot, Joseph Trottier Desruisseaux. When Jean Gendron, who was the miller on the island left, it is possible that Louis replaced him in his fonction of miller.
On June 8 1742 Louis buys an other plot from Françoise Cuillerier widdow of the Landland of the island. In 1734 Louis sells his land to Antoine Deschamps. It is said that this plot of land was covered with trees and had no building on it. Did Louis moved his onther land he owned on the island. Between 1743 and 1744 Louis sell his land at Ile Perrot and they move to Vaudreuil. Because there is no church in Vaudreuil, Louis et his wife go to the church in Oka which is the closest to them. It is accross the Lake of two Mountains.  Louis is buried in Oka on June 5th 1764 at the age of 80 years old and  Madeleine is burried in Vaudreuil on January 19 1784 aged 85.The Parish in Vaudreuil was founded in 1773 and Madeleine died january 19, 1784 (See the act). The present Church in Vaudreuil was built in 1791.
From  the couple of  Louis Laroque and Marie Madeleine Sabourin was born 13 children  (According to Mgr Forbes book of the families of Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue). The children list appears on this page. 

The Wind Mill in Pointe-Claire
Louis Laroque and Madeleine Sabourin married in Pointe Claire May 21 1716.  When they came out of the wooden church they probably had in front of them this gem of early Canadian heritage.  It was built around 1708. It belonged to the order of the Sulpiciens between 1710 and 1837. The Sulpiciens were the Seigneur of the Island of Montreal. The Colony operated under the Seigniorial regime. The wind mill was used to grind the wheat ot the famers along Lake St-Louis. Louis Laroque was also a miller and it is not impossible he may have operated this mill. It ceased operation about 1860. Around 1900 the wings and the conical roof was gone. It was then used as an observation tower and a metal propeller was installed to pump water for the convent. In 1967 it was decided to restore this old mill to the state we now see it. 

Children of Louis Laroque and Madeleine Sabourin


Baptism, Marriage, Burrials of the children of Louis Larocquebrune and Madeleine Sabourin  (from the WEB site of Marcel Larocque)

Louis 1718 on 21 février  B. (Baptême) in Ste-Anne-du-Bout-de-l`Île,
(Copy of Louis Baptismal papers )

Louis married Marguerite St-Julien dit Le Dragon daughter of Jacques Julien & Marie Barbe Dupont in Ste-Anne-du-Bout de l'Île on January 26 1739. They lived on Isle Perrot. Marguerite St-Julien died at 99 years of age despite the death act stating that she was « about 106 years of age ».
Click here to see Marguerite Baptism act. (In French)
Click here to see the death act. (In French)
Louis and Marguerite had 11 children. They are my ancestors.

Jean-Baptiste, on February 21 1720 B. in Pointe-Claire. (Copy of Jean Baptiste Baptismal papers )

Marriage in Oka on January 27 1744 with Marie-Charlotte Séguin (Jean-Bapt. & Geneviève Barbeau). The couple had at least 7 children. 

Marie Marguerite (Josephte) Was born on December 31, 1721 and was baptised in Pointe Claire the same day.
(Copie de l'acte de Baptême)

 She married Jacques Poirier on February 25,1743 in Ste-Anne-du-Bout-de-l'Île. Jacques Poirier was the son of Joseph and Marie Gauthier. He was born about 1724 and was enterred in Saint-Eustache on Novembre 11, 1798 aged 74. Marie Marquerite died the following year on June 30 1799 and enterred also in Saint-Eustache.

Pierre,  le 3 juillet 1723 B. à Ste-Anne. (Le père dit Vachignac.)

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Marie-Madeleine, on April 12 1725. B. in Ste-Anne. ( The father is said to be miller)

Baptism paper

She married  first Pierre-Germain Duplanty (armourer) in Oka. on March 21 1746. On her second wedding once widdow she married  Pierre Borne on November 24 1760. 

Marie-Josephe, born Dec 29, 1726 and bapt. on January 12 1727, in Ste-Anne. (The father is said to live on Isle Perrot). 
Baptism paper

She married Thomas Proulx in Oka May 15, 1747. They had at least 5 children.

Catherine, on August 22, 1729 B. in Ste-Anne. (Parents live at Isle Perrot)
Baptism paper

Antoine,  on July 15 1731 B. in Ste-Anne. (Parents live at Isle Perrot)
Baptism paper

He married in Ste-Anne, Marie-Anne Poirier dit Desloges. Antoine is farming in Vaudreuil. He died in Vaudreuil S. 29  of October 1802 age 75. They had 13 children from 1754 and 1768. 

Françoise-Amable, on May 17 1733  B. in Ste-Anne. (Parents live at Isle Perrot)
Baptism paper

She is buried in  Oka August 4th 1746 (13 years old)

François-Marie,  on April 6th 1735,
(Parents live at Isle Perrot)

Living in Ste-Anne in 1754. He married Marie Jeanne Pilon (Jacques & M.-Jeanne Messaquier) in Oka on October 21 1754. From this marriage nine children were born from 1755 to 1768.  They were living in Vaudreuil in 1762.

Angélique, on September 9th 1736.

Burried in  Ste Anne September 16 1736 ( 17 days old).
burial paper

Hyacinthe  on March 10 1738 (The father known as Gachignac from Isle Perrot).
Baptism paper

Burried in Ste-Anne September 10 1738 
(6 months)

Joseph Mathieu  on September 21 1739.
Baptism paper

Il married in  Ste Anne February 20  1764 Marie-Joseph Sauvé ( Pierre & Marie-Louise Ranger) of Ste Anne. Tey add four children between  1765 and 1770. They were living in Vaudreuil in 1765. 

Pierre (2nd) on May 12 1741.
Baptism paper

He married Catherine Séguin in Oka 
September 14 1761. 

Genealogy of Madeleine Sabourin wife of Louis Laroque


 

Madeleine Sabourin was from a family of 6 children. 

She was the daughter of Pierre Sabourin (Jean & Mathurine Renou) and Madeleine Perrier (Jean & Marie Gaillard). While Madeleine was born in Canada, Pierre was born in France in 1666 or 1667 and immigrated to Canada with his parents (See below).  Pierre and Madeleine Perrier were married in Montréal on May 24th1688. A mariage contract was passed two month prior to their actual religious marriage on March 27th 1688.Madeleine Perrier was the daughter of Jean and Marie Gaillard. (See below) After the death of Pierre Sabourin, Madeleine remarries with René Fortin.  Children of Pierre Sabourin and Madeleine Perrier are in order of birth;

  1. Jean-Baptiste baptized in Montréal on September 24 th1692. He died a few days later  on October 10th 1692. 

  2. Pierre was born on May 19th  1694 and was baptized the next day in Montréal. He married Barbe Charlotte Séguin in 1716. He enlist in the Compagnie du Nord-Ouest le 23 mai 1714. 

  3. Jean-Baptiste was born and baptized in Montréal on July the 6th 1696. 

  4. Marie-Madeleine wife of Louis Larocque was born and baptized in Lachine on January 26th 1699. 

  5. Jean Baptiste was born October 6th 1701 and was baptized the 8th in Lachine.  He had a son named Pierre born out of wedlock and baptized March 16th 1719 in Ste-Anne-du-Bout-de-l'Île.  The boy's mother was Marie Josèphe Ouatagamie, a native woman, likely of the Outagami (Fox) tribe and servant of Sieur Paul Guillet for whom Jean-Baptiste Sabourin worked.   He then married Sarah Hanson (Ennson) from New England on 29 July 1727.  She had been captured by the French and the Indians and brought to New France.   

  6. Jacques born February 15th 1705 and baptized the next day in Ste-Anne-du-Bout-de-l’Île. He married Marie-Jeanne Aumay in 1726. 


  7. Geneviève born December 9, 1709 in Lachine. She married Charles Julien dit Dragon in 1735 at Pointe Claire. 

 

 

Jean Sabourin was born about 1641 (son of Jean and de Antoinette/Thoinette Pinaud) probably in the village of Montalembert in the vicinity of  Niort (Diocese of Poitiers) in the Poitou province now the departement of Deux-Sèvres). Il se marie en France April 29, 1665 at La Rochelle (chapelle Sainte-Marguerite) with Mathurine Renou, daughter of Silvestre Renou and Judith Lauberthe (or Laubertre). Jean, is said to be a farmer and a widower of the village of Roncet (now Rompsay, outside La Rochelle) and Mathurine was of the village of Rié (now probably Notre-Dame de Riez in Vendée). The first mention or their presence in New France is dated February 20, 1670. At the 1681 census at the village St-Claude in Charlebourg Jean says that he is 40 years old and she said to be 38. Mathurine was confirmed in Québec City April 8th 1670. Jean died September 28th 1721 in Pointe-Claire and Mathurine died in Montréal April 14th 1681 probabebly just a few days after the census. Jean and Mathurine had 6 children. 

  1. Pierre born about 1667 in Montréal. He is a servant for the congregation of the sisters of Notre-Dame. He married Madeleine Perrier. They are Louis Larocque in laws. 

  2. Françoise born and baptized July 3rd 1670 in Québec City. She married Claude de Lamothe in 1685. 

  3. Marie-Madeleine was born August 31st 1672 and baptized the next day. In 1688 she married Jean Picard. 

  4. Jean was born September 23rd 1674 at the village of  St-Claude in Charlebourg and baptized  the next day in Québec.  He and Angélique Gibault signed a marriag contract before notaire Basset on October 27 1697. (The contract was anulled as the marriage was not celebrated). He married Catherine Chartier in 1698 then a secondly he married Françoise Venne in 1701 and finally a thrid marriage to Catherine Chartier in 1735. When Jean reached theage of 50 years, he started to use the name Chaunière dit Sabourin.  He is the only child of this familly to do so.  Jean is the patriarch of those who will later be known under the family name of Choinière . 

  5. Jeanne was born July 1st 1676 at the village of St-Claude in Charlebourg. She was baptized the next day in Québec City. She married Nicolas Périllard in 1695. 

  6. Guillaume né vers 1678 . Il a trois ans au recensement de 1681.

After the death of  Mathurine Renou in 1681, Jean married Marie Gaillard the widow of Jean Perrier.If you remember, Jean Perrier and Marie Gaillard were the parents of Madeleine Perrier, the mother in law of Louis Larocque. Jean and Marie Gaillard were married in Beauport  September 22nd  1682 (Marriage contract in front of notaire Vachon September 27th 1684). They had no children. 

 

 

Jean Perrier dit Lafleur was born about 1641 in France. He was the son of Jean and Marie Dervié of Pau (Diocese of Bayonne) in the  Béarn Province (now the departement of Pyrénées-Altlantiques). He declares to be 25 year old at the 1666 census at Côte St-Jean or St-François near Québec. He is a hired servant for Monsieur Jean Nault. At the 1681 census he says to be 35 years of age. He arrives in Canada June 30th juin 1665 as a soldier of the Company de LaBrisardière in the Régiment d’Orléans (Carignan). His is a weaver by trade. 

Jean married Marie Gaillard in Québec October 6th 1669 and in front of Notaire Becquet  pass a contract September 22nd  of the same year.Marie Gaillard's parents were  Pierre Gaillard and Marie Martin of Clermont des Ste-Croix (Archdiocese of Rouen), Normandy. She is  34 ans at the 1681 census. Jean Perrier died before September 22nd 1682. 

Jean Perrier and Marie Gaillard had 6 children. 

  1. Marthe born August 21st 1670 in Beauport and baptized the next day in Québec. She married Jean Charlebois in 1686. She is the twin of Marie who follows. 

  2. Marie born August 21st 1670 in Beauport and baptized the next day in Québec.  She married Guillaume Loret in 1683 and Jean Brunet dit Lestang in 1694. She is Marthe's twin. 

  3. Jacques born in Beauport et baptized December 10th  1672 in Québec. He married Marie Marguerite Paré in 1711. He enlisted in the Compagnie du Nord-Ouest (The North West Co .) August 9th 1700. Some sources say he was the first to hold the position of captain of the militia in Pointe Claire. (Source; Les capitairenes de milices  -  Mémoire de généalogie canadienne française, Montréal  ) 

  4. Madeleine our ancestor was born in Beauport. In 1688 she married  Pierre Sabourin. 

  5. Marguerite was born about 1677. She is 4 at the 1681 census . In 1692 she married Jacques Thomelet. 

  6. François-Madeleine was born February 21st 1680 in Beauport. He enlist in the Compagnie du Nord-Ouest/(The North West Co .)  August 9th 1700 with his brother Jacques.