Descendants of Étienne de Nevers in direct paternal line

1. Étienne de Nevers, sieur de Brantigny (PRDH21742), born 1627 (PRDH fiche 97016) in

Epinay, Champagne, France, son of Ètienne de Nevers and Agnes Luobisec; died 1678

near Cap Rouge, Québec. Literate, educated. Arrived in Nouvelle France in late 1649,

possibly in the employ of the Jesuits. Traveled with Jesuit companion Pierre Bailloquet

to Algonquin village of Metabéroutine/Trois Rivières; stood as godfather there Jan.

15, 1650 to Amerindian baby Étienne, son of Kaouboukouchich and

Kouekassouekoue. Betrothed 1650 to Anne Hayot (or Ayotte), 10-year-old daughter

of Thomas Hayot (Ayotte) and Jeanne Boucher; married 1652 at Sillery church,

Québec’s Notre Dame parish, by Fr. Bailloquet with Admonis Conny, René Mesere dit

Nopce, Jacqyes Archambault and Charles Gandier signing as witnesses. Raised family

at Jesuit Amerindian mission base of Sillery, then at Cap Rouge and Lotbinière. Bought

and sold lands and goods; traded with Jesuits, Ursulines, French merchants and

Amerindians; chartered commercial expedition to Acadie; did commercial fishing and

farming; tutored colonial family’s sons. Renounced by (lost) contract in 1671 his claim

to his father’s estate in France. Children with Anne Hayot:

i. Guilliaume, b. 1654 at Sillery; m. 1671 to Louise Vitard dit Vital (~1649-1715), fille

du roi arrived 1671, daughter of Robert + Louise Paveret of Paris. Guillaume 1681

became royal notary of Lotbinière; died 17??.

ii. Jean Daniel, b. 1656 Sillery; m. 1691 at Pointe aux Trembles to Madeleine Girard,

daughter born at Quebec city 1674 to Pierre and Susanne de Lavoye; d. 1729 at

Lotbinière

iii. Elisabeth Ursule, b. 1658 Sillery; m. 1672 to Jacques Gauthier, son of Simon and

Marie Aubé of St. Vivier, Rouen.

iv. Étienne, b. 1660 or 1661 Sillery (PRDH21724, 97575); m. 1688 au lieu indeterminé

to Marie-Jeanne Lemay of Trois Rivières, daughter of Michel and Marie Michelle

Dutost (PRDH89045); d. 1731 at Ste. Croix, Lotbinière.

v. Simon-Jean, b. Dec. 27, 1667 Sillery (PRDH fiche 74771); m. 16?? to Madeleine

Tousignant, daughter of Pierre + Marie-Madeleine Philippe; d. 1742 at Lacheneye.

vi. (*a possible sixth child?) Pierre de Brentigny, b. 16??; m. Marie Françoise de

Godefroy de Linctot. (PRDH also documents a Marie-Anne de Brentigny as a

daughter of Jean de Brentigny and Anne Dechamps. She married Denis Leclerc.)

Second Generation

2. Étienne de Nevers dit Boisverd [1.iv.] (PRDH21724, 97575), b. 1660 or 1661 au lieu

indeterminé, son of Etienne and Anne Ayotte (Hayot) ; d. 1731. In 1684 m. au lieu

indetérminé (PRDH5376) Marie Jeanne Lemay (1672?/66?-1741), daughter of Michel

Lemay dit Le Poudrier and Marie Michelle Dutost (Duteau) (PRDH89045) of Sillery

and Trois Rivières. Both husband and wife buried at Ste. Croix parish cemetery of

Lotbinière with Joseph Boisvert and François Buison witnessing Étienne’s burial act by

Father Angers. No baptismal certificates for their eight children born between 1684

and 1725:

i. M.-Ursule, b. 1686?; m. 1708 to Étienne Houde.

ii. Étienne, b. 1689; m. 1720 to M.-Anne Pichet-Dupré; d. 1759 at Trois Rivières.

iii. Joseph, b 169?; m. 1720 to M.-Angèlique Pichet-Dupré

iv. François, b. 1699; m. 1722 at Lotbinière to Marie-Madeleine Pichet-Dupré dit

Lamusette, daughter of Pierre and Marie-Anne Sylvestre.

v. M. Marguerite, b. ????. d. ????

vi. Jean, b. 17??; m. 1. 1725 to Marie Benoit at Deschambault; m 2. 1730 to Thérése

Desnoyers at Cap Santé; m. 3. 1751 to Gèneviève Arcand.

vii. Louis, b. 17??; m. 1. 1729 to M.-Catherine Pichet-Dupré; (son Antoine m.

Josephte Coté); m. 2. 17??; to Marguerite Terion-Desroches.

viii. Michel, b. 17??; m. 1731 to Jeanne De Nevers, daughter of François and Marie-

Anne Marcot, at Ste. Croix (i.e. married the daughter of his cousin [2a.ii.]).

---informatively, collateral family line---

2a. Guillaume de Nevers Boisverd [1.i.] (Etienne [1.]+ A. Hayot) b. 1654 Sillery; m.

1671 Sainte Croix to fille du roi (arrived from St. Sulpice, Paris, 1671) Louise Vitard dit

Vital, daughter born ~1649 to Robert Vitard and Louise Paveret. Edits et Ordonnances,

Vol. III, p. 137, held at Archives Nationales du Canada, shows that Louise obtained on Oct.

16, 1707 an order of separation of goods from her husband, who was compelled to pay

her 400 livre. She died 1715 at Lotbinière; Guillaume died 17??. Their children:

(i) Anne-Catherine, b, 1672 at Sillery; m. 1689 to Gervais Houde, son of Louis and

Madeleine Boucher, at Cap Santé.

(ii) François, b. 1674; m. 1698 to M.-Anne Marcot, daughter of Jacques and

Elisabeth Salé (or, Isabelle Labbé?) ; died 1753 at Lotbinière. Daughter, Jeanne

de Nevers married her cousin, Michel, son of Etienne. A son was named

François (and was apparently confused by F.L. Desaulniers with 2.iv.)

(iii) Louis, b. 1677 at Québec.

(iv) Jacques-Alexandre, b. 1679.

(v) Guillaume, b. 1682.

Third Generation

3. François de Nevers Boisverd [2.iv.] (Étienne [2., 1.iv.] + M.-Jeanne Lemay) b.

1699; m. 1722 Lotbinière (PRDH14035) to Marie-Madeleine Pichet DuPré dit

Lamusette (Pierre + Anne Sylvestre); d. ~1763 or 1756. Children, including two sons

born 20 years apart, both named François (l’ainé et le cadet):

i. Madeleine, b. 1723; m. 1739 at Trois Rivières to Pierre Labonne (Gerbert +

Madeleine Berton); d. 1754.

ii. Pierre-Joseph, b. 17??; m.1749 to Therésé Lafrance.

iii. Joseph, b. 17??; married 1750 to Catherine Grondin (Jean + Genevieve Ouellet).

iv. Angelique, b. 1727 Sainte Croix; married 1751 to François Bourneville (François +

Anne Gosselin).

v. François, b. 1730; m. 1. 1755 (PRDH31979) at Forges du St. Maurice to Françoise-

Madeleine Hostain Marineau, daughter of Louis and Genevieve Martin dit

Ladouceur; m. 2. 1763 to Françoise Baudet, daughter of Jacques and Angelique

Lemay.

vi. Josephte, b. 1732; m. 1. 1747 to Jean Pernin (Henri + Antoinette Labranché); m. 2.

1751 to Françoise Lemay.

vii. Jean-Baptiste , b. 1735?; m. 1768 Yamachiche to Madeleine Garceau (Daniel and

Anne Doucet) of Acadia; died before 1795.

viii. Pierre, b. 1739; m. 1770 to Madeleine Desaulniers (Charles + Josephte Villemure).

ix. Louis, b. 1742; m. 1773 Terrebonne to Marie Courval, (Louis and Marie Dupré).

x. Marie, b. 1744; m. 1. 1769 to Jean Garceau (Daniel and Anne Doucet) of Acadia;

m 2. 1792 to Jean-Baptiste Durand, widower of Ursule Jeanbard; d. 1800.

xi. Marie-Thérése, b. 1745; m. 1784 to Jean-Baptiste Pitard (François + Marie-Louise

Lapierre).

xii. François, b. 1750; m. 1779 (PRDH55195) Yamachiche to Françoise Gailloux

(Joseph + Françoise Rouillard dit St. Cyr.)

xiii. Jean, b. 1748.

xiv. Michel, b. 17??; m. 1783 to Augustine Gauthier (Gabriel + Augustine Duval).

---informatively, referencing collateral lines---

3a. François de Nevers Boisverd [2a.ii] (Guillaume [2a, 1.i] + L. Vitard) b. 1674; m.

1698 at Cap Santé to M.-Anne Marcot ( Jacques + Elisabeth Salé of Pointe aux Tremblés);

d. 1753 Lotbinière. Male line of this family seems to have ended with the children:

i. M.-Anne, b. 1704; m. 1728 to François Rondeau at Ste. Croix; d. 1729 at St.-

Antoine de Tilly.

ii. Jacques, b. 1706; d. 1729

iii. Ursule, b. 17??; m. 1. 1728 to Louis Jodoin at Champlain; m. 2. 1734 to André

Content.

iv. M.Jeanne, b. 17??; m. 1731 to kinsman Michel De Nevers [2.viii.]

v. M.-Josephte, b. 1709; m. 1. 1732 to Michel Rognon; m. 2. 1748 to Jacques Hamel;

d. 1787 at Chambly.

3b. Michel Boisvert [2.viii.](Etienne [2., 1.iv.]+ Marie-Jeanne Lemay) b. 17??; m. 1731 Ste.

Croix to cousin Jeanne de Nevers [3.a.iv.], daughter of François [3.a., 2.a.ii.] + Marie-Anne

Marcot). Children:

i. Marie-Anne, b. 1732; m. 1751 to Louis Tousignant (Jean-Baptiste Noël +

Charlotte Méthot)

ii. Jean-Baptiste, b. 1734, m. ~1763 to Angelique Fréchette; d. 1826 Yamachiche.

iii. Marguerite, b. 1750; m. 1772 to Michel Grenier (François + Josephte Gélinas)

Fourth Generation

4. François Boisverd (l’ainé)[3.v.] (François [3., 2.iv.] + M. Pichet-Dupré) b.

1730, d. 1803 Yamachiche. In 1755 first married (PRDH151654) at Trois Rivières to

Françoise Hostain dite Lefebvre dite Marineau (1738-1757) (PRDH180568), daughter

of the couple (PRDH19216) Louis (PRDH89280) and Gèneviève Martin Ladouceur

(PRDH89281) of des Forges du St. Maurice. Hostain died in 1757, four months after

giving birth to a son named after the father. (François may then have briefly been

remarried to M.-Josephte Grènier-Larimer, who gave birth 1761 to M-Angèlique

Boisvert de Nevers – source: F. Bournival). François remarried (PRDH39970) Jan. 10,

1763 at Trois Rivières (act recorded by Fr. Augustin Quintal, witnessed by Claude

Aubry, Pierre Beaudet, Joseph Michelin) with church consanguinity dispensation (T-R

grand vicar Msgr. J. Serrau) to cousin Françoise Baudet (1735-1812), daughter of

Jacques and Angèlique Lemay. PRDH traced this family in the parish registry of Rivière

du Loup from 1764 until 1824. François’ children (PRDH39970), of which first three

with Hostain, others Baudet:

i. Marie-Françoise, born and died 1755.

ii. M.-Françoise, b. and d. 1756

iii. François, b. Aug. 25, 1757; m. “inconnu” place and date to Catherine Gerbeau

dite Bellegarde (Jean-Baptiste Gerbeau Bellegarde + M. Anne Martineau St.

Onge); d. Feb. 26, 1824, aged 67, in Rivière du Loup. Catherine Gerbeau died

1802 in Rivière du Loup.

iv. Marie, b. 1766; d. 1787.

v. Joseph, b. 1766 Rivière du Loup; m. 1. 1793 to Charlotte Isabelle (Joseph +

Marguerite Boucher); m. 2. 1803 to Marguerite Rivard-Laglanderie (Joseph +

Louise Lamothe).

vi. Angelique, b. 1768? Rivière du Loup.

vii. Claude, b. 1770 Trois Rivières; m. 1. 1795 to Marie-Gèneviève Bourassa (François

+ Marie Boucher); m. 2. 1815 to Louise Plante (Pierre and Marie Vuvier); d. 1837

St. Barnabé.

viii. Antoine, b. 1772 Trois Rivières; m. 1803 to Josephte St. Pierre (Antoine +

Josephte Blais).

ix. François Xavier, b. 1775 Yamachiche; m. 1799 to Marie-Anne Rousseau,

daughter born and baptized April 30, 1783 at Yamachiche to Joseph and Marie

Blais of Rivière du Loup; d. 1855 Yamachiche, age 86. M.-Anne Rousseau (or

Rousseault) died Dec. 15, 1844 in Yamachiche.

x. Jean-Baptiste, b. 1779 Yamachiche; m. 1. 1800 to Françoise Rousseau (Joseph and

M.-Françoise Blais); m. 2. 1846 to Marguerite Gélinas (Étienne + Thérése

Mineau), widow of François Martin; d. ~1839.

---Informatively, collateral family lines---

4a. François (le cadet)[3.xii.] (François [3, 2.iv.] + M. Pichet-DuPré) b. 1750; m.

1779 (PRDH55195) to M. Françoise Gailloux, daughter of Joseph and Françoise Rouillard

dit St. Cyr. (N.B.: Joseph Gailloux, 1729-1790, supposedly survived only by three

daughters, was a Rivard on his maternal side, a line going back to Pierre Lefebvre, 1623-

1697. The wife of that man, Jeanne Auneau (Oneau) , was possibly Amerindian. A man

named Joseph Gailloux was employed by the Northwest Company in Oregon territory in

1813.) The new couple had nine children born at Yamachiche:

i. Joseph, b. 1785; m. ?1807 to Marguerite Corriveau

ii. Jean Baptiste, b. 1785; m. 1807 to Marie Lamothe

iii. Francoise, b. ????; m. 1806 to Jean-Baptiste Lesieur

iv. Julie, b. ????; m. 1818 to Louis Houde

v. François, b. 1795 at Yamachiche (PRDH558380) (PRDH512915); m. 1813 to

Josephte Bastarache. (Possibly confused with 5.iv., possibly the two are identical.)

vi. Augustin, b. 1787; m. 1813 to Marie Giguère, daughter born 1792 to Michel +

Elisabeth Perrault. (A man by the name of Augustin Boisvert lived with his

Amerindian wife at Fort Astoria, Oregon Territory, where he served as an

interpreter, says state historical society.) Augustin supposedly became the

Algonquin chief of Trois-Rivières in the 1820s, according to Ste. Anne

d’Yamachiche parish acts compiled in 1993 by Yvette Lavergne-Giguère and

Marcel Dupont.

4b.Jean-Baptiste Boisvert [3b.ii.](Michel [3b., 2.iv.]+ Marie Jeanne de Nevers) b. 1734; m.

1763 Yamachiche to Angèlique Fréchette (? + ?); d. 1826. Children:

iv. Jean-Baptiste-Henri, b. 1764; m. 1792 toAngèlique Branchard (François + M.-

Anne Desrochers) of Rivière du loup

v. François, b. 17?? at Deschambault; m. 1790 to Françoise Champoux (widow of

J-.B. Caron) in Maskinongé.

vi. Alexis, b. 1771

vii. M-Rose, b. 1772; m. 1796 to Charles-L. Boulanger (Charles + M.-Françoise

Bellemare)

viii. M.-Josephte, b. 1774.

ix. Louis, b. 1766; m. 1802 to Madeleine Fortier (Charles + Charlotte Barabé)

x. Pierre, b. 1783; m. 1810 to Rose Bastien (Joseph + Françoise Vincent)

xi. Michel, b. 17??; m. 1798 to M.-Anne Gélinas (Etienne +Therése Mineau)

xii. Joseph, b. 17??; m. 1793 to Marguerite Arvisais (J.-B. + Genevieve Gauthier)

(Family may have moved to Kankakee or Bourbonnaise, Illinois?)

Fifth Generation

5. François Xavier Boisvert [4.ix.](PRDH249895), son of François [4., 3.v.] and F. Baudet;

born 1775 Yamachiche; married April 22, 1799 at Ste. Anne d’Yamachiche (PRDH81277 &

357397) to Marie Anne Rousseau (1783-1844), daughter of Joseph + Marie Blais of

Rivière du Loup (marriage certificate by Fr. Thurber, witnessed by Pierre Gelinas for

groom and Pierre Grenier for bride); died age 85 at Yamachiche (buried Dec. 31, 1855,

Louis Boisvert and Augustin Garceau witnessing, act record by Fr. F.H. Donon). Spouse

died Dec. 15, 1844 at Yamachiche (Dec. 17, 1844 death certificate by Fr. A. Milette,

witnessed by Francois Gelinas and Onésime Labonté) Children:

i. Marie-Anne, b. 1800.

ii. Marie, b. 1802.

iii. Ester, b. 1803; m. 1829 to Augustin Garceau (Charles + Marie Dutremble).

iv. François, b. sometime between 1797 and 1807; m. July 2, 1832 at Ste. Anne

d’Yamachiche to Pélagie Carbonneau (Jean-Baptiste + Angèlique Soucy). (This

son’s age and family circumstances might fit profile of Snake chief, Boisvert,

described in frontier tale in Ernest Gagnon’s 1898 book, Choses d’Autrefois)

v. Alexandre, b. 1808; m. 1834 St. Barnabé to Marguerite Desère (François +

Marguerite Lemay).

vi. Louis, b. 1817; m. 1837 Julie Garceau (Charles + Marie Dutremble).

vii. Ursule*, b.????; m. 1833 Yamachiche to François Lafrance.

viii. Marie Anne*, b. ????; (possibly identical to ii above); m. 1830 Yamachiche to

Jean-Baptiste Bourassa.

ix. Therese*, b. ????; m. 1836 Yamachiche to Antoine Bourassa.

(*N.B.: Starred entries from marriage registry of Claude Jutras, which does not

include Alexandre, but does include Ester, François and Louis. Others from PRDH and

F.-S. Lesieur Desaulnier.)

---informatively, collateral family lines---

5a. Jean-Baptiste Boisvert [4.x.] (François [4., 3.v.] + F. Baudet) b. 1779, m.

1. 1800 Yamachiche to Françoise Rousseau (Joseph + M.-Françoise Blais); m. 2. 1846

Yamachiche to Marguerite Gélinas (Etienne + Thèrése Mineau), widow of François

Martin. Children:

i. Jean-Baptiste, b. 1801; m. 1826 to Scholastique Ferron (Claude + Therese

Noël).

ii. Marie, b. 18??; m. Joseph Blais (J.-B. + Sophie?/M. Josephte Dessaint dit St.

Pierre), widower of Julie Isabel; daughter named Elisabeth.

iii. Josephte, b. 18??; m. 1824 to Augustin Bourassa (Joseph + Madeleine

Richard).

iv. Regis, b. 18??; m. 1830 Pointe du Lac to Josephte Pothier (Pierre + Josephte

Bourassa); son named Edouard (1839-1920).

v. Charlotte, b. 18??; m. 1832 Yamachiche to François Garceau (Charles +

Therése Desrosiers); daughter named Aurélie, an ancestor of Canadian Prime

Minister Jean Chretien.

vi. Hyacinthe, b. ???; m. 1835 to Marguerite Hudon Beaulieu (Jean + Angelique

Blais).

vii. Emérence, b. ???; m. 1840 St. Barnabé to François Houle (François + Véronique

Bourassa).

5b [4.v.] Joseph Boisvert (Francois [4., 3.v.] + F. Baudet) b. 1766 Rivière du

Loup; m. 1. 1793 to Charlotte Isabelle, daughter of Joseph and Marguerite Boucher; m. 2.

1803 to Marguerite Rivard-Laglanderie, daughter of Joseph and Louise Lamothe. (This

family probably left the region because there is no subsequent trace of it in Desaulniers’

genealogies.) Children:

i. Jean-Baptiste, b. 1795.

ii. ??

5c. Claude [4.vii.] (François [4., 3.v.] +F. Baudet); b. 1772; m. 1. 1795 at

Yamachiche to Marie-Genevieve Bourassa (François + Marie Boucher); m. 2. 1815 to

Louise Plante (Pierre + Marie Vuvier); died 1837 in St. Barnabé. Eight children of first

marriage, two from second:

i. M.-Angèle, born and died April 1796.

ii. François, b. March 1,1797 at Yamachiche. (A local man with the same name

and birth date married Therese Desjarlais (b. 1796 Maskinongé) and raised

family at Illinois mission parish of Ste. Anne in Kankakee)

iii. M.-Angèle, born Feb. 3, 1799; m. 1826 to Jean St-Pierre (Michel + Ann

England).

iv. M. -Anne, b. 1801.

v. François, born and died August 1803.

vi. Michel, b. Oct. 18, 1804; m. 18?? Félicité St-Pierre.

vii. Josephte, b. ~1808; d. 1825 at age 17.

viii. Pierre, b. 18??; m. 1833 to Françoise Gagnon (Jean-Baptiste + Marie

Vaillancourt).

ix. Julie, b. 1821; m. 1840 at St. Barnabé to Louis Gagnon (Etienne + Thérèse

Robida).

x. M -Louise, b. 18??; m. 1835 to Alexis Marchand (Joseph + Christine Collin du

Cap).

5d .Antoine [4.viii.] (François [4., 3.v]+ F. Baudet) b. 1772 in Trois-Rivières; m. 1. 1803 Yamachiche to Josephte St. Pierre (Antoine + Josephte Blais, widow of Joseph J.-Bte. Blais;.m. 2. 1813, (1 janv.) Yamachiche. Known children:

i. Antoine, b. ~1803; m. 1840 Emerence Corriveau (b. 1820) at Rivière du Loup. Children: Emilie, Agnes, Elzir, Hercule, Caroline, Marie (b. 1840), Pierre (b. 1840, Gregoire (b. 1859), Celine (b. 1860).

ii. Therése, b. 18??; m. 1828 Yamachiche to Paul Aubry (Jacques + Madeline Richard);

5x. François Boisvert [4.iii.] (François [4., 3.v.] + F. Hostin Marineau) b. Aug. 25,

1757 Rivière du Loup; m. before April 26, 1780 lieu inconnu (PRDH56446) to M. Catherine

Gerbeau dite Bellegarde (1763-1802, b.+ d. in Rivière du Loup), daughter of Jean-Baptiste

Gerbeau Bellegarde and M. Anne Martineau St. Onge. François diedFeb. 26, 1824 in

Rivière du Loup. The couple (PRDH56446) between 1780 and 1799 had 11 children, 10

baptized at (?) Rivière du Loup, one at Yamachiche, 3 girls, 8 boys, of which:

i. François Charles, b. 1783.

ii. Joseph, b. 1784.

iii. Louis, b. 1787; d. 1789.

iv. Pierre, b. 1789; m. 1815 to Angèle Heroux dit Hubert. (son Francois, 1815-

1881, said by C. Hubert/R. Savard to have been Amerindian chief in Montana

in 1849.)

v. François, b. 1795; d. 1796.

vi. Jean-Baptiste, b. 1798.

vii. Michel, b. 1799 (PRDH489613)

5k. Jean-Baptiste Boisvert [4a.ii] (François [4a., 3.xii.] + Françoise Gailloux) b. 1785; m. 1807 Yamachiche to Marie Lamothe (Louis + Catherine Gignac). Children:

i. Louis, b 1808; godparents Louis Lamotte and Marguerite Boisvert; d. 1820. ii. Joseph dit Poulet, b 1809; m. 1834 to Lucie Lampron, daughter of Claude

and Ursule Grandbois of Nicolet; d. 1904 at Yamachiche. iii. Marie, b. 18??; m. to X?X Plante of Rivière du Loup. iv. Julie, b 1816; m. to X?X Mainguy. v. Emilie, b. 18??; m. to Georges Crochetière; “réside à Sherbrooke” vi. Raphaël, b. 1825 ; “longtemps résidé dans le Montana, E.-U.” ; d. ???? in

Yamachiche. vii. Étienne, b 1826; d. young. viii. Pierre, b. 1826; d. young. ix. Monique, b. 18?? ; m. 1850 to Joseph Lacerte at Yamachiche

5l. Joseph Boisvert [4a.i.] (François [4a., 3.xii.] + M-F. Gailloux) b. 1785; m. 1823 Yamachiche to Marguerite Corriveau; d. 1875. Children with Corriveau:

i. Marguerite, b. ????; m. 1845 to Joseph Lesieur (Joseph + Marguerite Gignac). ii. Louis, b 1826; married in United States. iii. Guillaume, b 1830; m 1856 to Philomène Comeau (Etienne + Sophie Bélanger). iv. Delphine, b 1831, m. 1856 to Joseph Comeau (Etienne + Saphir Bélanger of Pointe-

du-Lac). v. Alexis, b. ???; m. 1852, à Lucie Samson (François + Rosalie Ricard). vi. Pierre, b 1837; m. at St-Étienne.

5m. Augustin Boisvert [4a.vi.] . (François [4a, 3.xii.] + F. Gailloux) b. 1792; m. 1813? Marie Giguère (1792-????); d. 1863. Children:

i. Damase, b 1814; m. ???? to Marie Thérault of Forges St. Maurice. ii. Armésime, b. 1816; d. single. iii. Nathalie, b. 1818; m. ???? to Joseph Thibault. iv. Jean-Baptiste, b. 1819; d. 1840. v. Augustin, b. ????; d. celibate. vi. Alexis, b. ????; m. ???? to Adèle Gauthier of Ste. Flore.

vii. François, b. Dec. 1, 1820 Yamachiche (baptized by Fr. Provencher Dec. 2; godparents François Boisvert [4a.v.] + Josephte Bastarache, who could not sign their names); m. 1846 to Luce Bellemare (Jean-Marie + Marie Vaillancourt) of St.-Barnabé. (This François is Desaulniers’ pick for the Montana chief as the father of Marguerite, who married Philippe Blais).

viii. Marie, b. 18??; m. ~1856 to Israël Bourassa (Jérémie + Rosalie Grenier). ix. Toussaint, b. 1827. x. Thimothé, b. 1829; m. Marie Gignère of Ste. Ursule.

5n. François Boisvert [4b.v.] (Jean-Baptiste [4b., 3b.ii.] + Angèlique Fréchette), b. 1768

Deschambault; m. 1790 Yamachiche to Françoise Champoux (widow of J-.B. Caron and

daughter of Louis Champoux and Françoise Provencher of Cap de la Madeleine. Charlotte

Crevier dite Bellerive, the maternal grandmother of Françoise Champoux, was métise,

according to D. Garneau). Children:

i. Michel, b. & d. 1792.

ii. Joseph, b. 1795.

iii. M.-Josephte, b. 1797; m. 1816 to Charles Ferron (Claude +Therése Noël)

iv. Louis, b. 1798.

v. Paul, b. 1809; m. 1878 to M.-Louise Lavesque (Joseph + M.Louise Deneau).

vi. Antoine, b.& d. 1804.

Sixth Generation

6. François Boisvert [5.iv.] (François Xavier [5., 4.v.] + M.-Anne Rousseau) born

sometime between 1797 and 1807; married July 2, 1832 at Sainte Anne d’Yamachiche to

Pélagie Carbonneau, daughter born 1806 to Jean-Baptiste and Angelique Soucy of

Rivière du Loup; died after 1880. Children listed by Desaulniers with dates only for first

three:

i. Félix, b. Sept. 2, 1833 Yamachiche, godfather: his grandfather F.X. Boisvert; m. M-

Frances Guertin(?) of Vermont; emigrated ~1856, worked as sawyer and pulp

grinder at mill in Glens Falls, Warren County, N.Y., under the name Felix

Greenwood. Family lived at Glens Falls and Fortsville, Saratoga County, N.Y., in

census data from 1880 to 1900. At least four children, several grandchildren. Died

late November 1908; funeral at St. Alphonsus, Glens Falls.

ii. Emilie, b. July 22, 1835 Yamachiche, godparents Augustin Carbonneau and Marie

Boisvert, Fr. P. Pouliot presiding; [possible 1. m. Trois Rivières Feb. 11, 1852 to

Joseph Carbonneau (b. 1823), son of Jean-Baptiste and Amable Milot and

grandson of Pelagie’s parents. Possible 2. m. to X? Deguire, a family name

strongly linked to Emilie.] 3.? m. to George DeVoe. This documented family with

children and Emilie’s father, (aka) Frank Greenwood in residence 1880, lived in

Glens Falls, according to census information and newspaper notices. Emilie died

late January 1906, funeral St. Alphonsus on Jan. 30.

iii. Marcelline, b. June 11, 1838 Yamachiche, baptized June 12 (Drouin

d8p2529a0316) at Ste. Anne d’Yamachiche by Father Lemieux, who created two

different records, one showing godparents Joseph Bourassa and Adelaide

Carbonneau (or born ~1842 by son’s recollection); m. 1. Aug. 8 or Aug 25, 1857

(Drouin d8p25941188, LDS: two certificates with different dates) to Gabriel

Dupont at la Visitation parish Pointe du Lac, witnesses François and Moyse

Carbonneau, Fr. Paradis presiding or (.. or 1867, family journal); m. 2. ~1870 to

François Roberge (Desaulniers and family story). Lived, after 1857 with Dupont,

after 1870 with Roberge, in Pointe du Lac; after ~1891, with Frank Roby aka

François Roberge at Town of Queensbury, Warren County, N.Y., after ~1898 in

Town of Moreau, Fortsville hamlet, Saratoga County, N.Y.; had four sons with

Frank Roby, who died 1903. [possible m.3. at Pointe du Lac to Eusebe Rouette;

probably last m. to X? Roi, aka King, of Pointe du Lac.] Died age 87 as Marcelline

Roby-King in August 1924 at Fortsville, Aug. 9 funeral mass by Frs. Harvey

Bissette, Francis Lize and George Lize at St. Alphonsus church, her four Roby sons

as pall bearers, burial at St. Alphonsus cemetery.

iv. Caroline, b. 1842 Trois Rivières, probably in Pointe du Lac; m. Paul Beaudin

(Beaudoin), Québec emigré 1863 to Glens Falls. Five children: Peter, Moses,

Napoleon (to N.Y.C.), George (to Illinois), Cecelia (m. Frank Hebert). Beaudin

family lived in Glens Falls. Paul Beaudin, grocery store proprietor, died 1890;

Caroline died late October 1908, Oct. 26 funeral and burial, St. Alphonsus.

v. Aurélie, b. June 15, 1844 Ste Anne d’Yamachiche, godparents Louis Boisvert and

Victoire Boisvert, Fr. Hugo Milette presiding; d. ?

vi. Leonie, b. 18??; m. A.J. “John” Beaudet, Quebec emigré 1868 to Glens Falls; d.

probably before 1800 in Glens Falls.

NB: Six children of François and Pélagie were listed by F.L. Desaulniers, with baptismal

dates for only first three, spouses only for Marcelline, Caroline and Leonie. Desaulniers

named only two of Marcelline’s husbands, provided only surnames for spouses of

Caroline and Leonie and mentioned the family’s later migration to Glens Falls, N.Y. A

woman named Emilie Boisvert wed a nephew of Pélagie, Joseph Carbonneau, in Trois

Rivières in 1850 (and this couple the following year were godparents to a son of Godfroy

Milot, 1837-38 Yamachiche uprising patriot, and Emilie Bellemare, born 1807, whose

godparents had been Charles Gélinas and Pélagie Carbonneau, an eponymous older

cousin of our great-great grandmother). An elderly widow named Pélagie Charbonneau

(sic) was enumerated at St. Hyacinthe parish southwest of Montreal in 1891. The same

woman appeared alone on the 1851 in Pointe du Lac. François Boisvert was apparently

living separately as Frank Greenwood in 1880 with his daughter Emily’s family at Glens

Falls. Marcelline’s children believed their mother and a sister had been orphaned in

youth, a circumstance that could fit E. Gagnon’s description of the 1849 Snake chief. But

the François Boisvert mentioned in the records of Ft. Shaw mission, Cascade, Montana,

could be a different person. He and his Amerindian wife, Marie, presented a son and a

daughter for baptism there in the 1850s. This Boisvert’s identity remains a matter of

conjecture.

--- Informatively, collateral family lines ---

6a. Louis [5.vi.] (François Xavier [5., 4.ix.] + M.Anne Rousseau) b. 1817 at

Yamachiche; m. 1837? at Yamachiche to Julie Garceau, daughter born in Yamachiche in

1821 to Charles and Thèrése Dutremble Desrossiers of Rivière du Loup; d. 1887 at St.

Etienne des Grés. Children:

i. Onesime, b. 1841 Yamachiche

ii. Ellemire, b. 1846 Yamachiche.

iii. Marcelline, b. 1848 at Yamachiche; m. 1867 at Ste. Étienne des Grés to Thomas

Regnière, baptized 1843 at Yamachiche. Marriage bans read at Ste. Anne

d’Yamachiche, nuptials recorded at St. Etienne des Grés. (Couple moved to

Warwick County, Woonsockett, Rhode Island, where widowed mother Julie

Garceau also died in 1869. One daughter of couple married E. Robillion in Rhode

Island. Thomas died 1923.

iv. Celina, b. after 1852; m. 1874 Ferdinand Blais (Narcisse +Delphine Adeline

Boisvert); d. around 1877.

6x. Pierre [5x.iv] (François [5x., 4.iii] + C. Gerbeau Bellegarde) b. 1789; m. 1815

Yamachiche to Angèlique Héroux dit Hubert.

i. François, b. 1815; m. Nov. 11, 1867 Yamachiche to Marguerite Lajoie, daughter of

Yamachiche farm couple Jean-Baptiste + Marguerite Boucher. (This François

became the Shoshone chief, according to C. Hubert/R. Savard. Their book,

Algonquins de Trois-Rivières, asserts that this man was previously married in

Rivière du Loup parish, where he sired and orphaned two unknown girls with an

unknown wife, and subsequently married an Amerindian woman named

Marguerite Laperche in Montana and sired four more children. Records of Ft.

Shaw mission, Cascade, Montana, record belated baptisms of a son and daughter

to a François Boisvert and his Amerindian wife, Marie, in the 1850s.)

ii. Edouard, b. 18?? ;(best man at 1867 Yamachiche wedding of brother François.

The name Edouard Boisvert also appears in mid-century fur company records.)

6m. François Boisvert [5m.vii.] (Augustin [5m., 4a.vi.] + M. Giguère) b. 1820; m. 1846

Yamachiche to Luce Bellemare. Children:

i. Elisabeth, b.1857; m. 1875 Jean-Baptiste Castonguay

ii. Suzanne, b. 1860; m. 1881 Olivier Clermont

iii. Marie, b. 18??; m. 1884 Joseph Giguère

iv. Agnes, b. 1858, m.1886 J.-B. Castonguay

v. Marguerite, b. 18??; m. 1889 Philippe Blais. (F.L. Desaulniers commented in his

genealogy book, Les Vieilles Familles d’Yamachiche, on Philippe Blais’ marriage

with Marguerite Boisvert to the effect that her father, François, had married an

Amerindian in Montana. Desaulniers also gave this information to Ernest Gagnon,

who included it in his book, Chose d’Autrefois, as a footnote to his second-hand

tale of a wild western encounter with the Shoshone chief, Boisvert in 1849,

identifying the chief as a Boisvert from Rivière du Loup. The absence of his

children’s birth dates could mean that they were born in the West and it can be

assumed that the father, François Boisvert, spent time in Montana. But there is no

record of a first marriage for this man and his age and family circumstances do

not seem to match the profile of the Shoshone chief in Gagnon’s tale.)

- and informatively --

6y. François Boisvert (Louis Boisvert +Marie Demers), unknown birth date and place,

married Géneviève Lemay (Pierre Lemay + Françoise Lemay, m. 1765 in Yamachiche) on

Oct. 27, 1817 at Saint-Jean Deschaillons.

Seventh Generation

7. Marcelline Boisvert [6.iii.] (François [6., 5.iv.] + Pélagie Carbonneau) baptized

June 12, 1838 (Drouin, Desaulniers) at Ste. Anne d’Yamachiche, godparents Joseph

Bourassa and Adelaide Carbonneau, Fr Lemieux presiding (or, born ~1842 and orphaned:

son Edouard’s journal); 1. m. Aug. 8 or Aug. 25, 1857 (Desaulniers, Drouin, two

certificates with different dates exist) to Gabriel Dupont (1834-1869) at la Visitation

parish Pointe du Lac, witnesses Francois Carbonneau and Moyse Carbonneau, Fr. D.

Paradis presiding(or, 1.m. to “Depoint”, 1867: son’s recollection) ; daughter Odile Dupont

b. 1868, d. February 1869; 2. m. ~1870 to widower François Roberge (aka Frank Roby),

who had two grown children, Louis and Ceanne, to an unknown first wife and died at

Moreau (Fortsville), Saratoga County, in April 1903. Marcelline died August 1924, buried

at St. Alphonsus cemetery, Glens Falls, N.Y. Children of second (?) marriage for both

François and Marcelline:

i. Jeorge (George), born 1873 (USA? Pointe du Lac?), married at Glens Falls, New York,

to Isabelle B. Hartnett (1876-1947); died 1955, buried with Isabelle (1876-1947) in St.

Mary’s Cemetery, Town of Moreau, South Glens Falls, Saratoga County, N.Y.

ii. Moïse (Moses), born 1876 (USA? Pointe du Lac?); married ~1900 (Pointe du Lac?

Glens Falls?) to X?X; one child: Eva (?); died ~1940.

iii. Edouard (Edward B.), born 1879 (USA? Pointe du Lac?); married 1905 to Mary Ellen

(aka Mae) Dwyer, daughter of William Dwyer and Maria (aka Moira, Moriah?) Troy,

at Troy, New York; died 1946 in Bronx, N.Y. Mae died 1964 at Cohoes, N.Y. (Edward

and Mae buried at St. Peter’s Cemetery, Troy, N.Y.)

iv. Joseph, b. 1883 in Pointe du Lac; m. Vena A. X?; lived in Glens Falls, N.Y.; d. ~1940.

--Informatively, concurrent family lines--

7a. Félix Boisvert aka Greenwood [6.i.] (François [6., 5.iv.] + Pélagie Carbonneau)

baptized Sept. 2, 1833 at Ste. Anne d’Yamachiche by Fr. Desisle?, godparents

François Xavier Boisvert (grandfather) and Marie Ethieure? Maude?; m. 18?? Mary

Frances Guertin? of Vermont; died at Fortsville, Saratoga County, or Glens Falls, Warren

County, Nov. 25, 1908; funeral and burial at St. Alphonsus parish, Glens Falls. Félix came

to Warren County, N.Y. in or before 1867 naturalization; worked possibly as early as 1854

as sawyer and pulp grinder at mill in Glens Falls, Warren County, under the name Felix

Greenwood. Family lived at Glens Falls and nearby Fortsville, Moreau, Saratoga County,

in recorded data (U.S. censuses 1870, 1880, 1890; N.Y. censuses 1892, 1905 and LDS

family search). Felix and Mary Frances (probably Marie Françoise) had at least five

children and there were apparently grandchildren with names Henry,Charles, Grace and

possibly John, William and Michael. Felix’ known children were:

i. Franklin, born 1862, m.(possibly confused with Fred below) Minnetta Mamblo;

children: Henry, Charles, Grace

ii. William, b. 1864; m. Lillian X.?; worked as machinist; several children

iii. Mary Jane, b. 1866; m. E.T. Patterson

iv. Nellie, b. 1870, d. ?

v. Frederick, b. 1872. m.(possibly confused with Frank above) Minnetta Mamblo;

children: Henry, Charles, Grace

7b. Emilie Boisvert [6.ii.] (François [6., 5.iv.] + Pélagie Carbonneau) baptized July 22,

1835 by Fr. Dumoulin at Ste. Anne d’Yamachiche, godparents Augustin Carbonneau and

Marie Boisvert. Emilie may have initially married a man named Deguire, a family name

strongly linked to Emilie’s in Glens Falls newspaper notices. We know that at some point

she married George DeVoe, who moved from Québec to Glens Falls. This documented

family with children lived in Glens Falls, according to census information and newspaper

items. Emilie died late January 1906, her funeral held at St. Alphonsus on Jan. 30. Names

of her children are unknown. U.S. census data for 1880 lists the household of George

DeVoe and wife Emily, with DeVoe’s father-in-law, an elderly Frank Greenwood, in

residence at Glens Falls, Warren County, N.Y. The pall bearers at the 1906 funeral of

Emilie Boisvert, wife of George DeVoe, were Moses Beaudin, Fred Deguire, Frank Deguire,

George Roby, Joseph Roby, and Fred Greenwood. Since the Roby, Beaudin and

Greenwood men were nephews, an equally close relationship is implied for the two

Deguire men. If they were not Emilie’s sons from a previous marriage, they may have

been sons of sister Léonie or sister Aurélie. There is a possibility of an earlier marriage for

Emilie in Québec, although this could have been a cousin with the same name and age.

The marriage of an Emilie Boisvert to Joseph Carbonneau was recorded in Trois Rivières

on Feb. 11, 1850. The following year the same couple stood as godparents to Isaac Milot

of the Yamachiche family which had sent at least three men to the Montana territory.

This godson’s parents were Emilie Bellemare and Godfroy Milot, a Yamachiche 1837-38

uprising patriot, and the mother’s own godparents in 1807 had been Charles Gélinas and

Pélagie Carbonneau, an eponymous older cousin of our great-great grandmother.

Moreover, the 1850 bridegroom, Joseph Carbonneau, was the son of Jean-Baptiste

Carbonneau and Amable Milot, and therefore was a nephew our great-great

grandmother, Pélagie Carbonneau. But the record says the Boisvert woman he married

was a daughter of Jean-Baptiste Boisvert and Julie Verret. If our Emilie Boisvert had been

an orphan like her sister Marcelline, however, it seems possible she was raised by foster

parents.

7c. Caroline Boisvert [6.iv.] (François [6., 5.iv.] + Pélagie Carbonneau) born 1842

Trois Rivières, possibly in Pointe du Lac; m. Paul Beaudin (or Beaudoin), La Prairie,

Québec, immigrant 1863 to Glens Fall, N.Y. Caroline died late October 1908, Oct. 26

funeral and burial, St. Alphonsus parish. Beaudin was a grocery store proprietor, who

died 1890. The family lived in Glens Falls and had five children:

i. Peter, b. 18x?; listed as Peter Beaudoin of Glens Falls in the address book of

Edward B. Roby; had son named Paul, who was in contact with his cousin, P.

Hebert, as recently as 1929.

ii. Moses, b. 18??; became policeman in Glens Falls

iii. Napoleon, b. 18??, moved to New York City

iv. George, b. 18??; moved to Evanston, Illinois; started family

v. Cecelia, b. 1883; m.1. Frank Hebert(1886-1914) at Glens Falls. Issue: Peter,

Paul, Beatrice: m.2. 1916 in Glens Falls to Napoleon Fred Lambert; d. 1928 in

New Jersey.

7d. Aurélie Boisvert [6.v.] (François [6., 5.iv.] + Pélagie Carbonneau) baptized

June 15, 1844 at Ste. Anne d’Yamachiche, godparents Louis Boisvert and Victoire

Boisvert, act signed by Fr. Hugo Milette; m. ? ; d. ? apparently before the publication of

Desaulniers’ Boisvert genealogies.

7d. Léonie Boisvert [6.vi.] (François [6., 5.iv.] + Pélagie Carbonneau) born ~1850;

married a Beaudet, the name supplied by Desaulniers, who went by the name John

Beaudet in U.S. records. This couple seems to have raised a family in Glens Falls, N.Y.,

where the family erected a large tombstone at St. Alphonsus cemetery. Names and dates

of Léonie’s children are unknown.

NOTE: This information is compiled from multiple, sometimes conflicting,

sources. Those include mainly genealogical data of PRDH, F. L. Desaulniers,

Drouin Collection (ACGS), journal of Edward B. Roby, family registers

published by F. Bournival, C. Jutras, R. Jetté, websites of several Canadien

family associations, LDS Ancestry/family search, authors C. Hubert/R.

Savard, Quebec parish registries, historical societies of Warren and

Saratoga counties, New York.