Dans un Petit Village

Carrying on from the last post about Francois Voyer and Delphine Faucher, I would like to start off with Joseph Claude Cresse de Courval. Courval was the parish priest who married Francois and Delphine. Joseph Claude Cresse de Courval (1762 - 1846) was much more than a parish priest. Joseph Claude Cresse de Courval was the son of Joseph Claude Paulin ( 1731 - 1785) and Genevieve Dumont. Joseph Claude Cresse de Courval was born on August 12, 1762. Joseph Claude Poulin, the seigneur of Nicolet, was the son of Claude Poulin (1700 - 1785) and Marie - Ann Lefebvre (1707 - 1785). Claude Poulin was, the seigneur of Nicolet and the son of Jean - Baptiste Poulin (1657 - 1727) and Louise Cresse (1675 - 1706). Jean - Baptiste was the prosecutor for the king and seigneur of Nicolet. Jean - Baptiste Poulin was the son of Maurice (Mauritius) Poulin de la Fontaine (1620 - 1727) and Jeanne Jallot (1622 - 1708). Maurice Poulin was the attorney general for the king in Trois Rivière. Maurice Poulin was

After spending more or less two months writing about the historical Parent family houses in Beauport, Quebec I think it is only fair that I write a post about François Voyer. This where I  left off before I went to Beauport, Quebec back in June of 2019.  The story about François Voyer will take a few posts because there seems to be much more that I can say about him. In one post. This post I will go from François' birth to his marriage. François Xavier Voyer was born on February 18, 1801 to François Voyer (1774 - 1851) and Madeleine Vandal ( 1779 - 1815). As was the custom, François was baptised the next day, February 19, 1801, in L'Ancienne Lorette at Notre - Dame - de - l'Annonciation. François' godfather was Joseph Voyer, his father's brother and his uncle. I had difficulty trying to make out the godmother's name. her first name was Marie but the second name was not clear. It looks like 'Gottin' or 'Godin'. I found references to both of th

La maison Étienne Parent is the last of the historical Parent family homes that we visited on our walk around historical Beauport. There were other houses that we could have visited but there was no more time. Besides, it is a reason to visit Beauport again some time in the future. It is a bit misleading to call this house, 'la maison Étienne Parent'. Yes, it is true that Étienne Parent was born in this house but he was such a remarkable student and his intelligence was readily apparent to his family that he was sent to the college of Nicolet for his secondary education. Nicolet college was one of the schools in Quebec at that time. Other than returning to his parents home during summer vacations to work on the family farm , Étienne never lived in this house again. Étienne Parent was without a doubt the most remarkable member of our family, if not one of the most remarkable men during 19th Century Quebec. He was a lawyer, a journalist, a philosopher, a politician but