Magri Family Lines:Information about Jeanne Beauchamp
Jeanne Beauchamp (b. July 30, 1663, d. December 20, 1711)
Notes for Jeanne Beauchamp:Cont...from Germain Gauthier dit Germain
The Succession of Germain Gauthier and Jeanne Beauchamp
The settlement of the succession of Germain Gauthier and Jeanne Beauchamp could not be differed much longer especially because of the three minors for whom guardianship had to be ensured. Thus, it was decided to proceed with the inventory of the goods of the community of the deceased before the notary Tailhandier on Nov. 16, 1719 at the request of Jean Gauthier and Pierre Botquin. The document, the original of which is in the Quebec National Archives in Montreal, enumerates, according to the accustomed formula:
"... all and each movable and Real good, cattle and other Effects, titles, papers and other Things remaining after the death of the said deceased And which were held in Common Between them on the day of Their death and being In the house of the said deceased located in the borough of boucherville And on their concession of the Côte de St-Joseph".
This list shows us, across the years, by means of the details it contains, intimate details of the home and the everyday life of the ancestor. We have the impression, upon reading it, of a country museum with its antiquities or to have made a great jump behind in time.
The same document also tells us that Denise remained with the minors of whom she took care, in the house on Notre-Dame street, and that François lived at the Côte de St-Joseph on the paternal concession which he worked as a farmer for half profit. Thus it was only natural that the inventoried material was left:
"... what was at the house in the borough to the capacity And guard of the said Denise Gautier dit St-Amour And what was in the buildings which are on said Concession to the capacity and guard of the said François Gautier Who promised good guardianship...until such times and for whom it will belong". (gr.Tailhandier)
And, with the inventory, a convention was added between the heirs under which the paternal land was not shared for the moment and that François would temporarily continue to work the farm as farmer at half profit with his brothers and sisters.
The sharing of the goods and the house in the borough of the last years of the ancestor took place in this place on January 22, 1720 in the presence of the interested parties. The distribution was done in the following way. Denise bought from her brothers and sisters their share of the house on Notre-Dame street and she agreed to take care of her two young brothers Jacques and Joseph as well as her sister Agnès. The text of the notary Tailhandier relating to this article is representative of the spirit which animated the parties; witness:
"... the parties wishing to sell and Yield the said house and Site to one of them because the said house will deteriorate and would thereafter not be easily sold at the value estimated in Their Inventory, have by the present said persons: Pierre, Jean and François Gautier and bottequin, sold, yielded and transported to the said Denise Gautier, their sister, the said land with the said house and dependencies for the price And sum of One hundred Fifty "livres"(pounds) And in consideration of the good care that the said Denise Gautier always Had And promises to have for the said Minor children, her brothers and sisters".
As for the things which remained as much in the house in the village as on the farm on the Côte de St-Joseph, and which had been, at the inventory, estimated at the modest sum of 544 "livres" (pounds) 16 sols, a value of 68 Livres, 2 sols remained for each heir. And, continues the text of the act of sharing:
"... not wanting to draw lots, the parties agree to take Each one what he wants And that those which have taken state their reasons to the others in presence of the said notary and witness it at the bottom of the Inventory (gr. Tailhandier, No 800)."
Thus was regulated the succession of Germain Gauthier and Jeanne Beauchamp with the exception of the paternal land that François continued to work as agreed at the time of the inventory in the preceding year, in a convention which was made on the following day, November 17, for a lease in good form, between the tutor and the surrogate guardian and François Gauthier.
On March 1, 1720, the Sieur Pierre Raimbault, advisor to the king and his prosecutor, in the jurisdiction of Montreal, declared the inventory of the goods closed, he approved the act of sharing and declared the community of Germain Gauthier with Jeanne Beauchamp dissolved.
And thus finished the first chapter of the history of the Gauthier dit St-Germain... but life was going to continue and people to multiply. So that among the innumerable Gauthiers that one meets today everywhere in North America along with the Landreville, Larouche, Saguingoira, Larose, etc, etc, there are legions of St-Germain.
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The children of Germain Gauthier I dit St-Germain and Jeanne Beauchamp.
1. - Denise, born in 1679; married in Boucherville on 8 Nov. 1700 (contract Tailhandier, 7 Nov. 1700) with Philippe Payet dit St-Amour, son of Pierre Payet and Louise Tessier. Buried in Boucherville on 5 August 1749.
2. - Anonymous, baptized privately and buried in Repentigny on 4 March 1681.
3. - Jean, baptized in Repentigny on 10 January 1682; married in Boucherville on 26 November 1708 (contract Tailhandier, 26 November 1708) with Marie Storer, daughter of Joseph Storer and Ann Hill, from New England. Buried in Montreal, 17 April 1765.
4. - Pierre, baptized. in Repentigny on 10 November 1684; 1st marriage in Notre-Dame church, Montreal, on 15 May 1707 (contract M. Lapailleur, 28 May 1707) with Marie-Anne Tessier, daughter of Laurent Tessier and Anne-Geneviève Lemire; 2nd marriage in Notre-Dame church, Montreal on 19 August 1726 (contract M. Lapailleur, 19 August 1726) with Élizabeth Paillé, widow of Charles Lemay and daughter of Léonard Paillard and Louise Vachon; 3rd marriage in Boucherville on 3 April 1750 (contract A. Loiseau, 27 July 1750) with Angélique Véronneau, widow of Thomas Houilem and daughter of Denis Véronneau and Catherine Guertin. Buried in Boucherville, 13 September 1761.
5. - Marie-Françoise, baptized in Boucherville on 13 June 1687; 1st marriage in the same place, on 24 September. 1708 (contract Tailhandier, 20 September 1708) with Pierre Botquin dit St-André, son of Pierre Botquin and Marie-Claude Bourgoin, from Angers, France; 2nd mar. in Notre-Dame church, Montreal, on 30 June 1733 (contract
Chaumont, 28 June 1733) with Jean-Baptiste Rondeau dit Ladouceur, from La Rochelle, son of Bernard Rondata and Jeanne Borderon; 3rd mar. in Boucherville on 5 February 1745 (contact A. Loiseau, 25 January 1745) with Antoine Daunay, widower of Madeleine Richaume and son of Antoine Daunay and Marie Richard. buried in Montreal, 27 November 1771.
6. - François, baptized in Boucherville on 14 March 1681; marriage in Notre-Dame church, Montreal. on 20 October 1718 (contract M. Lepailleur, 23 October 1718) with Magdeleine Tessier, daughter of Paul Tessier and Magdeleine Cloutier. Buried in Boucherville, on 11 November 1765.
7. - Joseph, baptized in Boucherville on 9 January 1694, drowned accidentally and buried at the same place, on 1 July 1700.
8. - Jacques, baptized in Boucherville on 5 December 1696; 1st marriage in Notre-Dame church, Montreal. on 17 November 1721 (contract M. Lepailleur, 16 November 1721) with Marie-Louise Tessier, daughter of Paul Tessier and Magdeleine Cloutier; 2nd marriage in Chambly on 28 October 1743 (contract Hodiesne, 28 October 1743) with Marie-Josèphe Benoit dit Livernois, widow of Louis Quenneville and daughter of Étienne Benoit and Jeanne Campeau. Buried in Chambly on 11 September 1760.
9. - Michel, baptized in Boucherville on 1 March 1699; Buried in Notre-Dame church, Montreatl on 22 November 1711.
10. - Agnès, baptized in Boucherville on 4 November 1701; marriage at the same place on 3 September 1724 (contract Tailhandier, 3 September 1724) with Jean-Baptiste Pinned, son of Jean-Baptiste Pinned and Ursule Pépin. Buried in Contrecoeur on 1 March 1779.
11. - Joseph, baptized in Boucherville on 29 June 1704; marriage at the same place on 3 March 1734 (contract Tailhandier, 9 May 1734) with Marie-Josèphe Louvois, daughter of Jacques Louvois and Barbe César dit La Gardelette. Buried in Boucherville, on 4 May 1752.
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NOTES
(1) Bray is a small green agricultural area at the boundary of Normandy, Picardy and the Île de France whose inhabitants raise cattle and horses.
(2) Or Viellard.
(3) The Regiment of Carignan, 1665-1668, page 88. According to a personal communication of Mr. G-Robert Gareau (588), Germain Gauthier dit St-Germain was with the third contingent of the Regiment of Carignan, company of St-Ours, not that of Contrecoeur. Mr. Gareau made this assertion based on the fact that Germain Gauthier was confirmed on 21 September, 1665, at Notre-Dame de Quebec, page 41 of the register. Michel Langlois confirms it in his " Biographical Dictionary of the Ancestors Québécois " 1608-1700 Tome II (source AAQ RC 21-09-1665).
(4) The list of soldiers of the regiment of Carignan who remained in Canada.
(5) She was only eighteen, having been born on July 30 1663.
(6) B. Sulte, " Histoire des canadiens-français ", Tome V, p.65.
(7) Report of Gédéon de Catalogne on the situation of the seigniories of the government of Quebec, Trois-Rivières and Montreal.
(8) The principal part of this concession, the 4 acres in width by 25 acres in depth, included the building as indicated by number 86 in the cadrastal map and the book of official reference of the parish of Boucherville. The point of the Island of the Ashes, called later the Island of Picardy, made up the south-eastern part of building number 16.
(9) It is on September 29 1695 that Christophe Février dit Lacroix, whose house was close to that of the Gauthiers at the Côte de St-Joseph, fell under the blows of the Iroquois while he was working in the fields.
(10) She had a girl, baptized Agathe, on April 28, 1703, but the child hardly lived more than a year. She was buried in Pointe-aux-Trembles, on July 2, 1703.
Text by Armand Gauthier. Published in the "Mémoires de la Société Généalogique Canadienne-Française" vol.XXX-No Jan-Feb-Mar 1979.
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According to Michel Langlois in his "Dictionnaire Biographique des Ancêtres Québecois", 1608-1700, Tome II
(i) Germain arrives in the New France on September 13 1665, aboard the ship "La Justice" (AAQ RC 21-09-1665)
(ii) Leger Baron sells him a land of two acres frontage by forty acres in depth in Champlain, on September 8, 1668, at the price of 40 "livres"(pounds). On June 1, 1669, he buys from Gilles Duffaut, for the sum of 200 "livres"(pounds), land of two acres frontage by forty acres in depth in the future seigniory of Sorel, on the downwardbank of Fort Saint-Louis. (ANQ GN Larue 08-09-1668 and 01-06-1669)
(iii) He makes transfers his rights with the Sieur Pierre Perthuis for the sum of 300 "livres"(pounds) which Bourdelais still owes him, on the 22 november (1688). On February 10, 1690. he owes to Pierre Perthuis 235 "livres"(pounds) 15 "sols" and 10 "deniers", for goods and the balance of all their accounts. (ANQ GN Adhémar 10-02-1690)
(iv) On October 25, 1700, Jean-Baptiste Lafond and Denis Veronneau transfer to him transport, for nine years, half of their communal rights in Boucherville, on condition that he gives nine working days per year to the Sieur Boucher, and a quarterof wheat. (ANQ GN Adhémar 25-10-1700)
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Marriage: July 19, 1677, Pte Trebles, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Children of Jeanne Beauchamp and Germain Gautier-St Germain are:
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