Louis Houde dit Desrochers
(1 July 1617 - abt. 1712)

Louis Houde dit Desrochers  (1 July 1617,  Chartres, France  - abt. 1712,  Sainte-Croix, Québec, Canada )   -- Age: 95
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From Rootsweb.com -- "Note: Louis Houde, son of Noel Houde and Anne Lefebvre was born in 1617 in Manou, diocese of Chartres in the county of Perche, now the department of Eure et Loire. He arrived in New France in 1647 and worked for at least three years in the household of the Seigneur Noel Juchereau de Chastelles. He quickly acquired land in Saint-Augustin, in Québec City (where the Grand-Allee is now) and in the Seigneury of Sillery. He married Madeleine Boucher on January 12, 1655 in her father's home at Chateau-Richer. Madeleine--daughter of Marin Boucher and Perrine Mallet--was fourteen years old. Within the next two years Louis acquired new farms in Beaupré and on the Ile d'Orleans. In 1658, the family was established on land with a frontage of four arpents (about 767 feet) along the river and extending into the island. They remained there over the twenty four years that saw the birth of thirteen of their fourteen children. (For most of the history of French Canada, land was held by "Seigneurs" or land-lords who received rents from those who held leases which were bought, sold and passed to heirs much like deeds.) As the children began to establish their own homesteads, the farm was obviously too small. Consequently, the family moved to Sainte-Croix de Lotbiniere (above Québec on the south bank of the Saint Lawrence) on a huge holding acquired from the Ursuline of Québec. The sons each had their own holding and some of them took surnames reflecting the characteristics of their land: Desrochers (stony), Desruisseaux (with brooks), Bellefeuille (with trees). Louis Houde was obviously successful in his business dealings and by way of philanthropy donated the land for the first church of Sainte-Croix. Although all records are lost, it is thought that Louis Houde died in 1712 at the age of 95. (His wife lived on to an equally venerable age.) The descendants of Louis Houde and Madeleine Boucher are now found throughout Canada and in many areas of the United States. (Gerard Houde, Woonsocket, RI) Information on deaths, births and marriages for this family is taken from PRDH Certificate # 917."

Isle d'Orleans The first census of New France (1666) http://www.afhs.ab.ca/data/census/1666  Louis houde - 49 habittant Marie Magdelaine Boucher - 24 sa femme Jean houde - 7 fils Louis houde - 2 fils gervais houde - 14 mois fils Et florant, le febvre - 24 domestique Engaigé

1681 Canadian Census Comte de St.-Laurent   Louis Houde, macon, 57 Madelaine Boucher, sa femme, 40 enfants: Louis, 19 Gervais, 17 Jacques, 14 Marie, 12 Claude, 10 Louise, 8 Louis, 6 Joseph, 3 Simon, 1 Source: Histoire des Canadiens-Francais 1608-1880 by Benjamin Sulte, Montreal, 1882

"In 1712 when he was brought to his final rest, ancestor Louis Houde missed a century of life by very little. 'He knew, from the crest of his ninety-five years, seventy-five grandchildren, of whom thirty-one grandsons bore the name of Houde,' claims Father Julien Deziel on this subject. Few of our pioneers can boast of having done better." "...On 29 October 1709, Louis Houde and Madeleine Boucher took an inventory of their wealth. This venerable elderly gentleman, by now an nonagenarian, died sometime during the year 1712. The registries of Sainte-Croix were destroyed for this era and no document exists to verify the exact date of his demise." Thomas J. Laforest Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume VII, Pages 116-121

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

married Madeleine Boucher -- Date: 12 Jan 1654 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 DICTIONNAIRE GÉNÉALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES CANADIENNES DEPUIS LA FONDATION DE LA COLONIE DICTIONNAIRE GÉNÉALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES CANADIENNES DEPUIS LA FONDATION DE LA COLONIE, CYPRIEN TANGUAY AUTHOR CYPRIEN TANGUAY PUBLISHED 1871 ORIGINAL FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY DIGITIZED JUN 9, 2006 PAGE 309 "MADELEINE (1641), THE ANCESTRESS OF THE HOUDE (AND HOULE) FAMILIES, BY HERE MARRIAGE TO LOUISE HOUDE IN 1660." THOMAS J. LAFOREST OUR FRENCH-CANADIAN ANCESTORS : VOLUME IV, PAGE 64 "...SOME TWO YEARS LATER OUR ANCESTOR, WHO WAS APPROACHING FORTY, HAD HAD ENOUGH OF BACHELORHOOD. HE WAS READY FOR MARRIAGE, AND IN ***ORDER*** TO MAKE UP FOR LOST TIME, HE FIXED HIS SIGHTS ON A YOUNG GIRL OF THIRTEEN, MADELEINE BOUCHER. THE NUPTIAL CEREMONY TOOK PLACE ON 12 JANUARY 1655, IN HER FATHER'S HOUSE AT CHATEAU-RICHER." THOMAS J. LAFOREST OUR FRENCH-CANADIAN ANCESTORS : VOLUME VII, PAGE 118 SOURCE: TITLE LES VIEILLES FAMILLES D'YAMACHICHE ... VOLUMES 1-2 OF LES VIEILLES FAMILLES D'YAMACHICHE, FRANÇOIS PIERRE SÉVÈRE LESIEUR DESAULNIERS PUBLISHER C. O. BEAUCHEMIN & FILS, 1898 ORIGINAL FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DIGITIZED FEB 20, 2008 PAGE 121

Family Group Record for Louis Houde dit Desrochers and Madeleine Boucher

Children: Jean Baptiste Houde dit Desruisseau (14 Mar 1658, Quebec, Canada - 29 March 1701, Saint-Nicolas, Québec, Canada) Françoise Houde (1660, Château-Richer, Québec, Canada - 26 Apr 1665, Château-Richer, Québec, Canada) Louis Houde (28 Sep 1662, Château-Richer, Québec, Canada - , ) Gervais Houde (23 Dec 1664, Château-Richer, Québec, Canada - , ) Jacques Houde dit Desruisseaux (24 Mar 1667, Sainte-Famille, Québec, Canada - 24 Mar 1748, Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Québec, Canada) Marie Houde (10 Aug 1669, Sainte-Famille, Québec, Canada - , ) Claude Houde (20 JUN 1672, Sainte-Famille, Québec, Canada - bef. 12 January 1728, ) Marie Anne Houde (25 Dec 1674, Sainte-Famille, Québec, Canada - 5 Jan 1675, Sainte-Famille, Québec, Canada) Louis Houde (23 Dec 1675, Sainte-Famille, Québec, Canada - 20 Apr 1729, Sainte-Croix, Québec, Canada) Louise Houde (23 DEC 1675, Sainte-Famille, Québec, Canada - 15 APR 1713 , Sainte-Croix, Québec, Canada) Joseph Houde (25 Jun 1678, Sainte-Famille, Québec, Canada - , ) Simon Houde (31 May 1680, Sainte-Famille, Québec, Canada - , ) Etienne Houde (4 APR 1682, Sainte-Famille, Québec, Canada - 27 Aug 1750, Sainte-Louis, Lotbiniere, Quebec, Canada) Angelique Houde (abt. 1684, Sainte-Famille, Québec, Canada - , )

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