Re: Denis Brosseau Notes
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Re: Denis Brosseau Notes
Thomas Bauerle 11/06/00
Impressed by all the information that Tom Bauerle posted here, I make my part in building the family history.
Some people may say that Jetté is very reliable but others say the contrary, to my knowledge his book is full of whatever he found, he didn't make all the research himself. In many cases he made assumptions of what were the most plausible. Don't take anything for granted, from anybody. In genealogy there is passion and interpretation, even from me ! What follows is the best of my interpretation.
BROSSEAU Ancestors in Nouvelle-France and the first generations
There are two ancestors having the surname Brosseau that came from France. They both arrived in the region of Trois-Rivières, Québec. Both of them had a trade when they crossed the ocean, so they were not was we usually do call "engaged to work for three years" for a settler. The first was named Julien Brosseau dit Laverdure, the other Denys Brosseau.
Julien Brosseau was Master clothier, he came from the parish of Sainte-Croix from the city of Nantes. Julien B., was born in 1631 (mar. 1668) or in 1637 (cens. 1681) in the parish of Sainte-Croix in the city of Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), from the marriage of Damien Brosseau and Marguerite Omelet. Julien Brosseau is already in Nouvelle-France in 1663 (procuration Nov. 20th 1663, contract notary Ameau), he is present at Trois-Rivières in 1664. Julien B. has made many commercial transactions, he is mentioned in many contracts.
Julien B. married in Québec on the 28th of October 1668 with Simone Chalifour (born in 1655), she was one of the daughters of the ancestor Paul Chalifour and of Jacquette Archambault (cont. Vachon, 29-10-1668). At that time, Julien Brosseau came to install in Québec. And in 1681, they reside at the Cap-de-la-Madeleine. Afterwards, we find them at Sorel from 1684 to 1687. After the death of his wife, Julien Brosseau returns in the region of Québec and installs himself in Charlesbourg. On the 15th of March 1698, Julien Brosseau had obtained a concession from the Jesuits Fathers (cont. Genaple). On the 9th of February 1699, in Charlesbourg he got married for the second time, with Elisabeth (Isabelle) Bédard (born in 1673), daughter of Jacques Bédard and Isabelle Doucinet (cont. J.R.Duprac, 16-01-1699). On the 13th of January 1713, Julien Brosseau is buried in the parish of Charlesbourg. Eight children are born from his first marriage with Simone Chalifour. (DGFC, vol.1 p.91) (BRH, vol. 15, p.28). His descendance perpetuates in the region of Québec and on the North shore of the Saint-Laurent River. At the third generation, his children bear the surname Brousseau in the Québec region and those of their descendance who established in the region of Lanoraie and l'Assomption did maintain their surname Brosseau.
Denys Brosseau was born in 1641 (70 at burial) or 1644 (37 years at 1681 census), he was a miller, he was from Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire, a place located at some ten kilometers upstream of Nantes on the Loire River. Denys Brosseau does not appear in the 1666 or 1667 census, on account of that, the Genealogist Gabriel Drouin has him emigrate in 1668. In his marriage contract with Madeleine-Louise Hubert, he declared being the son of Jean Brosseau and Perrine Godin, from Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire parish, canton of Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), the religious marriage act is lost, they had eleven children. He passed that marriage contract at Trois-Rivières on the 15th of October 1670 with Madeleine-Louise Hubert (born in 1650), she arrived in Nouvelle-France as a "fille du Roi" in 1670, the orphan of Guillaume Huber and Marguerite Meunier of Notre-Dame of Nantes (Ameau contr. 15-10-1670). Denis B. had passed a first marriage contract with another "fille du roi" Jeanne Aubert, on November the 6th, 1669, that contract was annulated afterwards.
They first lived in the region of Trois-Rivières, where one daughter (Gertrude) was born on the 28th of January 1672, they come down to Québec after 1672, where this girl died on the 11th of July 1673, then Renée was born on the 30th of December 1673. Miller for the Jesuits Fathers, Denis Brosseau obtained a concession from them at Batiscan (contr. Ameau, 16-10-1674) where they go to live for some years, in the house with grooved stakes. He sold that concession to Charles LeSieur on the 28th of January 1681, (text follows). It is probably there that the son Pierre B. (next paragraph) was born (8 years, cen. 1681) (66 years at his death in 1741), Marie and Marguerite afterwards, after that we find them at Pointe-aux-Trembles of Montréal in 1680, he became miller for the Jesuits Fathers at Ville-Marie (Montréal), then, their son Denis is baptized on the 13th of March 1680, they appear on the census in Notre-Dame of Montréal in 1681, they are established in Ville-Marie, in charge of the mill situated on the hill of the Bonsecours church, until 1689. They went to live at Laprairie where Louise was born on the 24th of January 1692, then he has got a new concession from the Jesuits at Laprairie on the 17th of September 1692. He passed a transaction with Jean Boucher, sieur de Montbrun on the 7th of October 1704. Denis Brosseau dies at Trois-Rivières and he is buried there on the 27th of October 1711, at the age of 70 years, probably on a visit at one of his daughters, Marie-Anne B. married to Jean Truillier, she had just given birth to Claude (11th of October). The couple had given life to eleven children. (DGFC, vol. 1, p.92) (MSGCF, vol. 24, p. 20 ff.) (FRNF, p.172 & 257).
Pierre B. married to Barbe Bourbon, daughter of the ancestor Jean Bourbon and of Marie-Anne Benoît dite Livernois, is the only son of Denys B. who has descendants, nevertheless on this second generation, 19 children are born, and among them three sons will perpetuate the name, one of them will get married twice. It is at Laprairie that the family makes its root and from there covers the surrounding region and after 1800 goes to the West of Canada and the United States and down the Saint-Laurent River after 1900.
Cyprien Tanguay in his Dictionnaire des familles canadiennes-françaises mentions that the first daughter of Denis, Marie-Gertrude would be born in Trois-Rivières on the 28th of January 1671. With the incident of the first marriage contract which was annulated and that birth only three months after the marriage, it nearly called for a conspicuous situation…, however everything became regular when a cousin from Saint-Hyacinthe aware of that, went to verify the birth date in the church register itself, it was in 1672 instead of 1671.
DGFCDictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes-françaises
MSGCF Mémoires de la Société généalogique canadienne-française
FRNFFilles du Roy en Nouvelle-France
BRHBulletin des recherches historiques
By Gaston Brosseau, last revision March 1998.
Batiscan, January 29, 1681
Denys Brosseau sells a piece of land of two "arpents" (about an acre an a half by "arpent") by forty, with a house with grooved stakes on it, to Charles LeSieur whose origin was Osseville, Basse Normandie, bishopric of Coutance, France. Baptized in 1647 to the name of Charles, he married on the 11th of October 1671 at Cap-de-la-Madeleine (Québec), Françoise Lafond, daughter of Étienne Lafond and Marie Boucher, a sister of Pierre Boucher ; Charles LeSieur became by his marriage the nephew of the late Governor of Trois-Rivières and the cousin of Lambert Boucher, Sieur de Grand-Pré. In 1681, he went to install in Batiscan with his family. He died in 1692. He obtained the function of fiscal solicitor for the Batiscan seignory until his death.
Gaston 2000-11-13
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