GILLEBERT Andree

Family/Spouse: (Bressard) Jean Brillard. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Clemence married BOUCHARD Clement on 29 Oct 1632 in Andilly Les Marais, LaRochelle, Aunis, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Michel married TROTINNE Marie on 02 Dec 1662 in Chateau-Richer, PQ, Canada. Marie (daughter of TROTINNE Jean and BLANCHARD Madeleine) was born about 1646 in Bournezeau, LaRoche Sur Yon, Poitou, France; died before 27 Oct 1682 in Riviere-Quelle, PQ, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

THREATS FROM THE SEA

In 1690, bad omens came from the sea. Charles, the brother of Marie-
Madeleine Bouchard had married Marie-Madeleine Dube on 4 April 1690.
On Wednesday, the 26th of the same month, the tide carried him away.
He was buried the following Sunday, at Riviere-Ouelle.

That same summer the anxious inhabitants of Riviere-Ouelle watched
the waves coming from the east. They carried the unpleasant odor of
battle.

Sir William Phips, the British Admiral in command of 32 ships and
2,000 militiamen, appeared on the river opposite Riviere-Ouelle at
the beginning of October. The inhabitants were scattered all -along
the Coast and seemed easy prey to capture. At high tide Phips
debarked six boats loaded with 25 men each.

Without the seigneur, the local priest, Father de Francheville,
mobilized the available men, thirty all told, including Pierre
Dancause. The improvised soldiers took cover in the brush along the
river bank, each having a musket, some powder and a handful of
bullets. At the opportune moment, at the thunderous command of their
leader, they fired three times, so well that each volley sent several
of the attackers to meet his maker, while several others were
wounded. Quickly, the aggressors retreated to their ships. Riviere-
Ouelle was saved. And life continued as usual along the river.

Charles married DUBE Marie Madeleine in 1690. Marie (daughter of DUBE Mathurin and CAMPION Marie) was born on 17 Sep 1673 in Ste-Famille, I'le D'Orleans, PQ, Canada; died before 25 Dec 1747 in Riviere Quelle, Kamouraska, PQ, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Etienne married MEUSNIER Marie Madeleine on 22 Oct 1692 in Quebec, PQ, Canada. Marie (daughter of MEUSNIER Julien "Dit LaFramboise" and FRO Louise) was born on 21 Nov 1671 in Sillery, PQ, Canada; died on 24 Dec 1747 in Riviere-Quelle, PQ, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Marie-Madeleine Bouchard was born at Chateau-Richer on the Beaupre
Coast, on 31 May 1665, and was baptized in her native parish on 2
June of the same year, by the missionary priest Thomas Morel. It
appears that her father Michel Bouchard, in Canada since 1657, first
lived in the territory of Chateau-Richer, then at Sainte-Anne until
1674. Michel was a native of Andilly-les-Marais, canton of Marans,
arrondissement of La Rochelle. His wife Marie Trotin, daughter of the
late Jean, a weaver, and the late Madeleine Blanchard, was born at
Poitou.

The Bouchard family moved to Riviere-Ouelle about 1675. It was there
that Pierre Dancause met Marie-Madeleine Bouchard. She became his
wife in the summer of 1679. Alas! the act was lost. A first child was
born to them on the feast day of St-Jean in 1680.


NEW CHALLENGE

After more than a half-century of life, ancestor Pierre Dancause
felt his strength ebbing. He went to seek help at the Hotel-Dieu in
the summer of 1697. There he died and was buried at Quebec on
Tuesday, 13 August. The witnesses recorded in the registry were
Jacques Michelon dit Lorange, master nailsmith, and Jean Dubreuil,
inhabitant of the Ile d'Orleans.

The thirty-two year old Marie-Madeleine Bouchard must now take on a
new challenge, that of bringing her children to maturity. The
question of inheritance could have spoiled the sauce but, on 19
August 1697, a very generous arrangement was made. Jean Raby and his
wife Marie Dancause renounced their claim in the presence of notary
Genaple, at Quebec. The reasons put forth were the following: When
Madame Dancause was married, there were only four arpents of cleared
land on the homestead at Riviere-Ouelle. Whatever they owned had been
gained during the lifetime of their mother and mother-in-law.
Therefore, she would keep the family property for her use, according
to the costume of Paris. It appears that Pierre Dancause and Marie-
Madeleine Bouchard had been married without a contract.

In 1699, Francois Deserre, son of Antoine and of Mathurine Belanger,
an audacious twenty-one year old gentleman, proposed marriage to her
on 22 September, in the presence of the notary. Later, Marie-
Madeleine thought it over and courageously decided that it was wiser
to bear his natural child than to ruin her whole life.

Marie-Anne was baptized on the day of her birth, 18 June 1700. This
surprise gift became the wife of Pierre Roy dit Desjardins on 7 June
1717 at Riviere-Ouelle

Jean-Francois Gauvin, son of Jean and of Anne Magnan, fell in love
with Marie-Madeleine Bouchard in 1702. It was at
Riviere-Ouelle that her second wedding was celebrated on 29 May. On
the following 15 June, a marriage contract was signed before
Chambalon at Quebec. There were no children.

During the same period, the widow Dancause had a house built. A
notarized act informs USA that on 24 October 1702, she owed 160
livres to Pierre Soucy de la Grande Anse, "for framework of a house
which the said Soucy had previously built for her." On the first of
October 1713, the widow Dancause decided to have an official paper
drawn up by the notary Janneau. She simply declared that her
surviving children: Madeleine, Genevieve, Catherine, Francoise and
Pierre had right to the inheritance left by their late father. Marie-
Madeleine Bouchard was still going to live a long-time.

Marie married (Dancause) Pierre Dancosse in 1679 in Riviere-Quelle, PQ, Canada. Pierre was born in 1641 in LaRochelle, Aunis, France; died on 13 Aug 1697 in Quebec, QC. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]