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Hello Edward,
A lot of people seem to confuse the surname Desroches with Desrochers. Even though I would love to help out with the later, I started this forum to talk about the Desroches family. And I am happy to report that you are a descendant of this family!
Here is what I could find on your branch:
1. Charles Desroches
married Oct. 17, 1893 in St-Paul-d'Abbotsford, Quebec
2. Alphonsine Chaput
3. Paul Desroches
married Jan. 12, 1852 in St-Pie, Quebec
4. Tharsille Daigneault
5. Basile Chaput
6. Eugénie Archambault
7. Paul Desroches
married Jan. 31, 1826 in St-Jean-Baptiste, Quebec
8. Catherine Metté (today written Méthé)
9. Jean-Baptiste Dagneau
10. Marie Deslandes (whose family can probably be traced back to Jean Des Landes dit Champigny, from Champigny, Paris, France)
15. Paul Desroches (1768-1848)
married Oct. 8, 1792 in St-Mathias, Quebec
16. Marie Josephte Perron
17. Nicolas Mété
18. Marguerite Clermont
31. Pierre-Antoine Desroches (1730-1793)
married Sept. 8, 1761 in St-Mathias
32. Marie-Louise Hade (born 1742 in Quebec City)
33. Joseph Perron
34. Josephte Grisé
63. Jean-Baptiste Desroches (born 1699)
married Nov. 23, 1722 in Pointe-aux-Trembles, Quebec
64. Marie-Catherine Bricault (1701-bef. 1753)
65. François Hade (from Anjou, France)
married Aug. 15, 1741 in Lévis, Quebec
66. Marie-Louise Albert (born 1714)
127. Nicolas Desroches (1652-1737)
married Nov. 22, 1688 in Pointe-aux-Trembles
128. Jeanne Perthuis (born 1673)
129. Jean Bricault (died 1726)
married Nov. 12, 1674 in Montreal
130. Marie Chénier (born 1660)
255. Jean Desroches (1621?-1684)
married Nov. 18, 1647 in Montreal
256. Françoise Godé (died 1715)
257. Pierre Perthuis (died 1708)
married Dec. 10, 1668 in Montreal
258. Claude Damisé (died 1681)
Wow! I hope that's not too much all at once. Your ancestor Paul Desroches was the brother of my wife's ancestor Joseph Desroches (1781-1865).
The first member of that family to come to Canada, Jean Desroches (or des Roches), was a pioneer of Montreal. He was the father of the first White baby boy to be baptised in Montreal in January 1649. Remember that Montreal was founded in 1642!
Jean Desroches was long believed to have immigrated from Normandy because the earliest documents on him mention he was from Ste-Lucie ad Sylvam, Augustudunum (which was interpreted to be Bayeux). Later on, in the 1990s, a genealogist suggested it could rather be Lucie-le-Bois in Bourgogne, knowing that "sylvam" is the latin word for "wood" or "forest", thus "bois" in French. But I have read more recently that Jean Desroches' place of origin may in fact be Lucy-le-Bris, near Avallon, in Bourgogne. A mystery I will have to look into some day!
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