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Rene Joseph DuRocher (b. 07 Feb 1705/06, d. 1749)
Notes for Rene Joseph DuRocher:FRANCOIS LEPAILLERU ARCHIVES NATIONALES, MONTREAL
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Engagement, pour onze annees, de Louis Trunet dit Francoeur age de 7 ans fils dEtienne Trunet dit Francoeur de Ville-Marie, a Joseph Durocher et Louise Juillet, son epouse, a faire les travaux dont il sera capable (14 juillet 1733).
The engagement, for eleven years, of the said Louis Trunet Francoeur aged 7 years, son of Etienne Trunet Francoeur of Ville-Marie, to the daughter of Joseph Durocher and Louise Juillet, the spouse, when he reaches a competent age. (14 July 1733.)}
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Obligation par Amable Brugiere, fils de defunt Gabriel Brugiere, marchand mercier a Paris, a Joseph Durocher, me tailleur de Ville-Marie, pour la somme de 1000 livres en bonnes marchandises vendues et livrees (2 septembre 1733).
{The bone by Amable Brugiere, son of the deceased Gabriel Brugiere, merchant dealer ofParis, by Joseph Durocher, the tailor of Ville-Marie, for the sum of 1000 livres sterling and good merchandise sold dollars. (2 septembre 1733)}
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Vente d'un emplacement de 80 X 80 pieds sis au quartier St-Marie, a Ville-Marie, Par Joseph Durocher et Catherine Juillet son espouse, a Amable Brugiere (27 septembre 1733).
{The sale of open ground of 80 X 80 feet, situated in the district of Ste-Marie, on Ville-Marie, by Joseph Durocher and Catherine Juillet the wife, by Amable Brugiere (27 septembre 1733).}
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Echange et permutation entre Louis St-Ange, Charly, marcha d, de Ville-Marie, de 16 pieds de largeur sur 32 1/2 pieds de profondeur, au dit d'habits, de Ville-Marie et Catherine Louise Juillet, sa femme; par lequel echange le did Charly cede un terrain et une maison a deux etages sis a Ville-Marie, de pieds de largeur sur 32 1/2 pieds de profondeur, au dit Duroche' le dit Duroche cede en echange un emplacemnt sur la rue St-Joseph, de la contenance de 40 pieds de front sur 22 de profondeur, sur lequel terraine se trouve aussi une maison (14 avril 1739).
{The exchange and permutation between Louis St-Ange, Charly, merchant of Ville-Marie of 16 feet of width sure by 32 1/2 piet of depth, to the said cloth of Ville-Marie ehn Catherine Louise Juillet, the wife; by whom exchange the said Charly gave one piece of ground, and one house with 2 stories, situated on Ville-Marie, of 16 feet of widthd, sure, by 32 1/2 feet of depth, to the said Durocher;the said Durocher gave of his exchange one place sure there on street St-Joseph, of the countenance of 40 feet facing certain, 22 of depth, which ground one another found also one house (14 avril 1739).}
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8 avril 1747.Concession par Jacques-Rene Gaultier de Varennes a Joseph Durocher, negociant de Montreal, de deux emplacements situes a Varennes, chacun de 100 pieds de large sur 40 pieds de profondeur, Acte devand Simon Sanguinet.Expedition.L'original n'est plus au groffe de Sanguinet.
{ April 8, 1747.Priviledge of Jacques-Rene Gaultier of Varennes and Joseph Durocher, traded in Montreal, the two pieces of ground, situated at Varennes, each of 100 feet of width, and 50 feet of depth.Deed in front of Simon Sanguinet.Shipment.The original was not grafted by Sanguinet.}
DUROCHER, JOSEPH (baptized Rene-Joseph), merchant tailor; b. 2 July 1706 in Angers, France, son of Joseph Durocher, a tailor, and Marguerite Le Roy: d. sometime before 15 Sept. 1756.
Joseph Durocher's name appears for the first time in Canadian documents in 1730.On 6 May that year he married Marie-Louise-Catherine Juillet at Batiscan.in his marriage contract, signed on the preceding 19 February before the notary Nicholas-Auguste Guillet de Chaumont, it is stated that Durocher gave his wife the sum of "three thousand livres as stipulated jointure."On 24 June 1743, shortly after the death of his wife, who had borne him nine children in 13 years, Durocher remarried in Montreal; his second wife was Marguerite Gaude, the widow of Jean-Baptiste Jarry, a "merchant and voyageur" in Montreal.Having married with joint estate, Durocher brought his new wife "fifteen hundred livres as stipulated jointure."One child was born of this marrieage, but did not live.
Durocher was both a tailor and a merchant for a great part of his life.Only his commercial activities, however, are known to us.He had apparently an expansive business and multiplied his purchases of houses, land, and farms.He was also interested in the fur trade; it was in this connections that he hired five men in 1745 for the post at Michilimackinac.Two years later his business was, it seems, prosperous enough to allow him to hire for a year Jean-Baptiste Dumontet, dit Lagrandeur, and his wife "to serve him in all lawful and honest matters which will be ordered them."In the 1750s Durocher had dealings with the Quebec merchants Francois Havy and Jean Lefebvre; on 15 Jan. 1753 we find him before the Conseil Superieur in a lawsuit with the two men over three building sites.
The "merchant and tailor" had, however, over -reached himself; he was sued by his numerous creditors, who forced him to ssettles his accounts.The balance sheet of his personal fortune showed income in excess of expenditures by 35,408 livres 18 sols 3 deniers; but since he owed 60,398 livres 16 sols 7 deniers, he was judged to be bankrupt.Each of his creditors received
58 5/8 per cent of what was owing him.
Joseph Durocher probably died in Montreal in 1756;on 51 September that year his wife was called a widow in the contract for the auction of his belongings drawn up by the notary Louis-Claude Danre de Blanzy.
Robert Lahaise
Canadian Biographies Vol II
Joseph and Olivier Durocher
The sixth day of October 1705, 697 are cordially invited to attend the church Saint-Maurille of the city of Angers, to the marriage of Joseph Durocher, son of Francois and of Perrine LeFaucheur, andand Margaret Leroy of Daisy, daughter of Michel Leroy and Renee Pasquereau. The engaged is originally of the parish of Daze, city of Chateau-Gontier, which is the chief department of Mayenne of the French Revolution.The father and mother of the spouse will not be able to attend because of their infirmity andage.After the benediction Joseph Durocher and Leroy of Daisy, R. Pasquereau, Philippe Guittet, P. Branchu, P. Vaultier, P. Latay, Lery Denis, and Saulnier Trallon wil sign the register.
Joseph Durocher earned his living in Angers as a merchant.The number of his children is unknown.Two are known:Joseph and Olivier.The two borthers came to Canada.
JOSEPH DUROCHER
The groom, baptized July 2, 1706 under the forenames of Rene and Joseph, appears for the first time in Canadian documents during the winter of 1730.February 19, he signed his contractof marriage with Marie Louise Catherine Julliet, Nicolas August Guillet, of Chaumont, notary.Joseph does not go barefoot, since he gives his betrothed the sum of 300Livre.Louise Juillet daughter of Blaise Juilliet and Madeleine Fortier, who is the rear small girl of Anne-Antoinette Liercourt and ob Blaise Julliet, who drowned in the meadows of the ile of St. Paul, fleeing the Iroquois in April 1660.The marriage of Joseph and of Louise is celebrated May 6, 1730. at Batiscan.
TAILOR OF CLOTHES
The first years of the couple Juillet-Durocher are not easy to specify.As a tailor of clothes, he exercised his profession in Montreal.July 13, 1740, Joseph Durocher, merchant tailor of Villa Marie, received from Pierre Julian Trottier for received goods the sum of 740 livre.
May 25, 1743 Joseph Durocher had another business deal with the Gentlemen of the Company of the Indise, for gunpowder he received for the sum of 1,547 livre.Thus it seems that he lived the same as the life of his ancestors.
BREWER BUSINESS
The Brewer Business of Joseph Durocher multiplied the purchases of shares of houses and land.On July 27, 1730, two months after his marriage, he exchangesa piece of land of 4 pieds with his father-in-law, Juillet, for 20 arpents, that he possessed in the signory of Saint-Sulpice along the side of the river The Assomption.Joseph sells this new land January 24, 1732 to Francois Christin.The price 20 payable livres in wheat.Jacques Deneau, the baker of Leveille, October 24, 1734, declares to be obliged towards Joseph Durocher, tailor for the sum of 75 livres for good goods received.
July 21, 1735, Joseph abandons the site with the house, on St. JOseph St, near Francois Urban Moreau.In 1745, Joseph Durocher hires Michel Strand, Louis Lecuyer, Jena Baptist Hubert, Ignace Courville and Joseph Francois Lepage in order to go th Michilimakinac.Like others, Durocher has been tempted by the gain in dealing of the furs.
The continuous Saga.June 24, 1747, he hires Jean Baptist Dumanthiet, of LaGrandeur, and his wife, of Varennes, for one year and for him to serve in all that he will command.The 1st August of the year, Jean Baptist Daveluy promises to pay Durocher negotiating pension of 20 livres in Montreal until he reaches the sum of 400 livres.The facts brought back here gives an idea of what could be the life of Joseph Durocher, business man.
CHILDREN OF DUROCHER-JUILLET
In the space of a dozen years, came to liven this hometen children:Jean Baptist, Elisabeth, Marie Francois, Rene Amable, Marie Louise, Blaise Benjamin, Joseph Marie, Marie Daisy, and Jacques.Several died young.
Jean Baptist was a trader from Assomption, husband of Genevieve Butcher, and is buied at Nicolet, December 21, 1795.Anne Mauvide, daughter of a surgeon negotiating with Jean Lord, accepted as husband Rene-Amable.That is how in 1779, this last became Lord of the Isle of Orleans.Blaise Benjamin himself married Genevieve Marchesseau, in July 1765;then married Cecile Ledoux in 1807, reluctantly.He is burried at the church of Saint Antoine, at Saint-Antoine sur Richelieu, in 1821.As for Marie Daisy, she married Francois Louis Courtemanche, November 25, 1765 at Saint Antoine.
Louise Juillet died in Montreal, April 30, 1743.Joseph Durohcercontracted with Daisy Gode, widow of Jean Baptist Jarry, merchant traveler of Montreal, daughter of Jacques and the young daughter of pioneer Nicolas Gode, who was killed by the Iroquois October 25, 1657.The bride receeived the sum of 1500 livres from Joseph Durocher.Paul was theonly child born to this marriage, in February 1745, and died the following March 21.
More About Rene Joseph DuRocher and Marie Louise Catherine Juillet:
Marriage: 03 Jun 1730, Batiscan.
More About Rene Joseph DuRocher and Maruerite Gaudet:
Marriage: 24 Jun 1743, Montreal.
Children of Rene Joseph DuRocher and Marie Louise Catherine Juillet are:
- +Jean Baptiste DuRocher, b. 05 Nov 1732, Montreal, Quebec, d. 1795, Nicolet.
- Joseph DuRocher, b. 13 Dec 1730, Longue Pointe, Quebec, Canada, d. date unknown.
- Etienne DuRocher, b. 1732, Longue Pointe, Quebec, Canada, d. date unknown.
- Elisabeth DuRocher, b. 18 Oct 1734, La Prairie, d. date unknown.
- Marie-Francoise DuRocher, b. 21 Jun 1735, Montreal, d. date unknown.
- Rene-Amable DuRocher, b. 10 Jan 1736/37, d. date unknown.
- Marie Louise DuRocher, b. 06 Feb 1737/38, Montreal, d. 01 Aug 1738, Montreal.
- +Blaise Benjamin DuRocher, b. 20 Mar 1738/39, Longue-Pointe, d. 02 Oct 1821, St Antoine Richelieu.
- Marie Marguerite DuRocher, b. 22 Feb 1739/40, d. date unknown.
- Joseph-Marie DuRocher, b. 20 Mar 1739/40, Montreal, d. 10 Jul 1740.
- Jacques DuRocher, b. 07 Feb 1741/42, Montreal, d. 28 Jun 1742.
Children of Rene Joseph DuRocher and Maruerite Gaudet are:
- Paul DuRocher, b. 16 Feb 1744/45, d. date unknown.