Jean Bourasseau
(1634 - 20 Jan 1718)

Jean Bourasseau  (1634,  Saint-Fulgent, France  - 20 Jan 1718,  Lauzon, Levis, Québec, Canada )  
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Ancestor's Life Events

"...our ancestor, Jean Bourasseau, then a young man of 23, went to the port town of La Rochelle to sign up for work in New France. On 5 April 1657... he agreed to a three year contract at a salary of 90 livres a year... Once his period of servitude was ended, Jean became a farmer." Thomas J. Laforest Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume VIII, Pages 41-42

1681 Census - Lauzon   "Jean was 50 years old and his wife was 40, so it was written. Their children were Francois, Pierre, Jeanne, Jean, Marc, Madeleine, Catherine and Marie-Anne. In actual fact, Marc and Catherine were those of Isabel. The family owned a gun, three head of cattle and worked fifteen arpents of land." Thomas J. Laforest Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume VIII, Page 44

Ancestor's Marriage(s) and Child(ren)

married Perrette Marie Vallee -- Date: 20 Oct 1665 Place:  Québec City, Québec, Canada Source:  Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) [database on-line]. Original data: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin.  Notre-Dame-de-Quebec, Quebec, Canada Source: Title Historire de la seigneurie de Lauzon, Volume 1 Historire de la Seigneurie de Lauzon, Joseph-Edmond Roy Author Joseph-Edmond Roy Published 1897 Original from Columbia University Digitized Dec 7, 2009 Source: Les Vieilles Families D'Yamahiche, Vingt-Cinq Genealogies by F. L. Desaulniers, Montreal, 1900 "...on 5 October 1665, before Notary Pierre Duquet, Jean, son of the late Jacques Bourasseau and of Francois Fauchard, from Saint-Fulgent, diocese of Lucon, promised to marry Perrette Vallee, daughter of Nicolas and of Madeleine Major, from Chalons in Champagne... Fifteen days later, ancestor Jean married the beautiful girl from Champagne before God and man." Thomas J. Laforest Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume VIII, Page 42

Family Group Record for Jean Bourasseau and Perrette Marie Vallee

Children: Francois Bourassa (13 Apr 1667, Québec City, Québec, Canada - abt. 1681, Lauzon, Levis, Québec, Canada) Pierre Bourassa (11 Feb 1669, Québec City, Québec, Canada - , ) Jean Bourassa (24 MAY 1671, Québec City, Québec, Canada - 5 Jun 1746, Lauzon, Levis, Québec, Canada) Marie Madeleine Bourassa (13 Sep 1673, Lauzon, Levis, Québec, Canada - 9 Mar 1742, Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Québec, Canada)

married Catherine Poitevin -- Date: 4 Nov 1676 Place:  Sainte-Famille, Québec, Canada Source:  Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) [database on-line]. Original data: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin.  He is listed as the widower of Marie Vallee "A man usually does not remain single with so many young children to raise without trying to find them a new mother. That is just what Jean died on 5 November of the same year in Quebec, when he married another King's daughter, Catherine Poitevin. She was the daughter of Guillaume and of Francoise Macre, from the parish of Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs in Paris. The contract had been made by notary Rageot on 25 October." Thomas J. Laforest Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume VIII, Page 43

Family Group Record for Jean Bourasseau and Catherine Poitevin

Children: Rene Bourassa (27 Apr 1678, Québec City, Québec, Canada - 29 Sep 1678, Québec City, Québec, Canada) Marie Anne Bourassa (1680,  - 5 Nov 1733, Berthier-sur-Mer, Québec, Canada) Marie Jeanne Bourassa (1 Jul 1682, Cap-Saint-Ignace, Québec, Canada - , ) Francois Bourassa (2 May 1687, Québec City, Québec, Canada - , )

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