Pierre Beaulieu and Marie Gobeil
Pierre Beaulieu, son of Jean Hudon-dit-Beaulieu and Francoise Durand, was born 1648 Notre-Dame-de-Chemille, Angers, Anjou, France, and he died 23 Apr 1710, at Riviere Ouelle, Kamouraska Co., Quebec. He married 13 Jul 1676, at Ville de Quebec, Quebec, to Marie Jeanne Gobeil, daughter of Jean Gobeil and Jeanne Guiet, having been born 25 Jan 1655, at St. Andre Niort, Poitiers, Poitou France, and having died 25 Nov 1736, at Riviere Ouelle. Their children were as follows:
1-Marie Gertrude Beaulieu, born 20 May 1677, at Riviere-Ouelle, and died in Quebec City some time after 1733. She married 4 Jul 1697, at Riviere-Ouelle to Pierre Julien Fortin, son of Julien Fortin and Marie Geneveive Gamache, who was born 21 May 1669, at Beaupre, Montmorency Co., Quebec, and who died 1833 in Riviere-Ouelle. Follow the link to view this family.
2-Pierre Beaulieu, born 11 May 1679, at Riviere-Ouelle, where he died 24 Jan 1748. He married 1 Aug 1707, at Saint-Pierre-de-Ile-d'Orleans, Ile d'Orleans Co., Quebec, to Marie Claire Paradis, daughter of Pierre Paradis and Jeanne Milloir who was born 17 Aug 1685, at Isle d'Orleans, Quebec, and died 14 Oct 1741, at Kamouraska, Kamouraska Co. Follow the link to view this family.
3-Catherine Marguerite Beaulieu, born 4 May 1681, at Riviere-Ouelle, where she died 24 Jan 1754. She married 6 Jun 1701, at Riviere-Ouelle to Guillaume Paradis, son of Jacques Paradis and Jeanne Milloir, who was born 4 Apr 1677, at St. Famille, Isle d'Orleans, Quebec, and who died before 1726 at Kamouraska, Kamouraska Co., Quebec. Follow the link to view this family.
4-Jeanne Beaulieu, born 1693 in Riviere-Ouelle. She married 6 Jun 1701, at Riviere-Ouelle to Guillaume Paradis, son of Guillaume Paradis and Geneveive Milloir who was born 1676 in Quebec.
5-Joseph Beaulieu, born 21 Apr 1685, at Riviere-Ouelle, where he died 11 Dec 1711. He married on 28 Jul 1711, at L'Islet, L'Islet Co., Quebec, to Geneveive Gamache, daughter of Nicholas Gamache and Elisabeth Ursule Cloutier who was born 5 Oct 1692, at Pointe-aux-Trembles, Montreal, Quebec, and who died Mar 1736 in Riviere-Ouelle. Geneveive married after Joseph's death to Jean Gagnon. Follow the link to view this family.
6-Jean Baptiste Beaulieu, born 22 Apr 1687, at Quebec City, and died 4 May 1754, at Riviere-Ouelle. He married 9 Jan 1713, at Riviere-Ouelle to Marie Angelique Gagnon, daughter of Jean Gagnon and Jeanne Loignon who was born 23 Dec 1692, at Sainte-Famille, L'Ile-d'Orleans Co., Quebec, and who died 10 Nov 1762, at Riviere-Ouelle. Follow the link to view this individual.
7-Francois Beaulieu, born 5 Apr 1689, at Riviere-Ouelle and died 28 Nov 1755, at Saint-Ours, Richelieu Co., Quebec. He married first on 23 Mar 1719, at Kamouraska, Kamouraska Co., to Geneveive Paradis, daughter of Pierre Paradis and Jeanne Milloir who was born 14 Oct 1700, at L'Ile-d'Orleans Co., Quebec, where she died 8 Oct 1728. Francois Beaulieu married second on 5 Feb 1722, at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere, Kamouraska Co., to Marie Angelique Emond, daughter of Pierre Emond and Marie Agnes Grondin who was born 25 Aug 1695, at Riviere-Ouelle. Follow the link to view this family.
8-Nicolas Beaulieu, born May 1691, at Riviere-Ouelle, where he died 11 Sep 1756. He married 27 Nov 1713, at Riviere-Ouelle to Marie Madeleine Bouchard, who was born 24 May 1698, at Riviere-Ouelle, where she died 13 Sep 1756. Follow the link to view this family.
9-Jean Bernard Beaulieu, born 1 Feb 1694, at Riviere-Ouelle, where he died 18 Nov 1759. He married 13 Jun 1718, at Riviere-Ouelle to Marie Charlotte Gagnon, daughter of Jean Gagnon and Jeanne Loignon who was born 26 May 1695, at Riviere-Ouelle, where she died 31 May 1771. Follow the link to view this family.
10-Marie Francoise Beaulieu, born 26 Mar 1696, at Riviere-Ouelle, and died Mar 1762, at Kamouraska, Kamouraska Co. She married 25 Apr 1718, at Riviere-Ouelle to Jean Baptiste Paradis, son of Guillaume Paradis and Geneveive Milloir who was born 10 Feb 1692, at Saint-Laurent, Isle d'Orleans Co., and who died Feb 1760 at Kamouraska, Kamouraska Co. Follow the link to view this family.
11-Louis Charles Beaulieu (our direct line ancestor), born 5 Dec 1697, at Riviere-Ouelle, where he died 25 Apr 1751. He married 30 Aug 1723, at Riviere-Ouelle to Geneveive Angelique Levesque, daughter of Pierre Joachim Levesque and Angelique Letarte who was born 12 May 1707, at Riviere-Ouelle, where she died 12 May 1770. Follow the link to view this family.
12-Alexis Beaulieu, born 1 Aug 1700, at Riviere-Ouelle, where he died 1 Apr 1720. Follow the link to view personal information about Alexis.
Notes for Pierre Beaulieu, son of Jean Hudon-dit-Beaulieu and Francoise Durand
Album Historique et Paroissial de Notre-Dame-du-Portage,
1723-1940, by Edm. Pelletier
Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Canadiennes, by Cyprien
Tanguay: vol. 1, pg. 312
Your Ancient Canadian Family Ties by Reginald L. Olivier: pg. 165
Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles du Quebec by Rene Jette: pg.
578
French Canadian History and Genealogy, site address: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/lwjones/french-c.htm
Pierre Hudon dit Beaulieu was born in Angers, Anjou, France circa
1647. He married Marie Gobeil in 1676. The Hudon genealogy page is
about 232K and 3965 people, last updated August 20, 1998.
Pierre Beaulieu arrived in Canada on August 17, 1665, a soldier in
the Compagnie de Grandfontaine of the Regimen de Carignan
1666 Census of Ville de Quebec: Pierre Beaulieu, age 18
1681 Census of Riviere-Ouelle: Pierre Beaulieu, age 32
He may have been a baker by trade
Information from Dr. Roger Beaulieu at RogerRfb@aol.com on June 17,
2001. He gives his lineage as Pierre Hudon dit Beaulieu, Pierre
Beaulieu, Jean-Bernard Beaulieu, Francois Beaulieu, Marcel Beaulieu,
Simon Beaulieu, Ubald Beaulieu, and himself, Roger F. Beaulieu.
Pierre Hudon dit Beaulieu (1648 - 1710) (http://marchif.crosswinds.net/texte/16/16133.html):
He was born about 1648 in the parish Our-Lady of Chemillé de Cholet,
Angers, the Maine-and-Loire, France. He immigrated to New France
August 17, 1665, and in 1666 was living in Quebec, Quebec, Canada,
where he was a baker. He was soldier of the company of Grandfontaine
to the regiment of Carignan. He was a farmer. The marriage contract
of Pierre Hudon says Beaulieu and Marie Gobeil was signed on July
12, 1676 by Sieur Pierre Duquet of Chenaye (daughter of Jean Gobeil
and Jeanne Guyet), and on July 13, 1676, at the parish of Our-Lady
of Quebec, Pierre and Marie wed. Pierre died on April 24, 1710, at
River-Ouelle, Quebec, age 63 years. He was buried on April 25, 1710,
at the parish Our-Lady-of-Jubilation at River-Ouelle.
Ships to America (http://www.geocities.com/genwhiz/ships.html):
Pierre Hudon dit Beaulieu, on troop ship L'Aigle D'Or (with Carnigan
Regiment) from LaRochelle to Quebec, August 17, 1665.
List compiled by Marcel Fournier, coordinator for Fichier Origine,
and put on the Web by Denis Beauregard, Webmaster, for Fédération
québécoise des sociétés de généalogie and Fédération française de
généalogie (http://www.genealogie.com/cgi-bin/fo/afficher.cgi?20020828el1952):
Fisch No. 85135: HUDON / BEAULIEU, Pierre: Born about 1648 Chemillé
(St-Pierre) (Maine-et-Loire : 49092), Married, Son of François and
Françoise Durand; Arrival or first appearance in a record after
arrival
1664. Volontaire. Remark(s)- Catholic. Sa sur Jeanne est décédée à
Chemillé (St-Pierre) le 14-08-1669.
Reference DGFQ, p. 578, Source of the information Jean-Marie Germe,
OEDML, p. 12.
The Beaulieu Families
Beaulieu is more of a surname than a patronym. It evokes the land
and countryside, a place where the living was easy. For the Beaulieu
family, like the Martins, the Lefebvres, and the Gauthiers, there
are many lines of descent, no doubt because they were touched by the
beauty of the countryside in New France and chose to keep their
impression alive with the name they passed down to their
descendants. Cyprien Tanguay lists the patronyms that, at one time
or another, were coupled with this surname: Albert, Diers, Dufresne,
Hudon, Lebel, Martin dit Montpellier, Palmier, Philippe de Beaulieu,
and Thomas. He could have added to these the Goudreaus and other
families who dropped the surname for their original patronym. The
most extensive lines of the Beaulieus descend from the Martin, Hudon,
and Thomas families.
Benjamin Suilte has identified Antoine Martin as a soldier and
cobbler. Originally from Montpellier, in Languedoc, he was born on
an unknown date, to Jean Martin and Isabelle Cost? In 1646, he was
living in the region of Quebec, where his level of education and
flair for business brought him to the ranks of its first settlers
and administrators. His name appeared for the first time in the
religious registries when he married Marie-Denyse Sevestre, daughter
of Charles Sevestre and Marie Pichon. The young woman, who was 14
years old at the time, was born in France and was only about two or
three when she crossed the Atlantic. Research conducted by Marielle
Laroche-Montpetit reveals that the Martins dit Montpellier lived in
Quebec, on the Grande-All? After 1649, they also acquired a piece of
land located in Cap Rouge. In this particularly dangerous
settlement, the habitants had to follow definite rules in order to
survive. April 19, 1654, found them at a meeting in Fort
Saint-Louis, promising to follow the orders of their commander, the
cobbler Antoine Martin dit Montpellier. He was awarded the
responsibility of determining fines and confiscations, authorizing
arrivals and departures, and certain business transactions, by the
Pinel, Blondeau, Archambault, Gauthier, Boisverdun, BOUCHER, and
Mezeray families. As of May 1, 1654, the residents were obliged to
abide by the law of community of interests. Antoine Martin dit
Montpellier, also surnamed Beaulieu, died on May 11, 1659. He was
buried that same day in the Notre-Dame de Quebec church, next to his
father-in-law.
The summer had not yet come to a close and Marie-Denyse, who had
brought four children into the world, was preparing to marry again.
Before notary Guillaume Audouart, on July 20, she promised to marry
Philippe Nepveu, the son of Pasquier Nepveu and Philippe Haudebrand,
who were originally from Chartres, in the Orleans region. The young
woman's second husband passed his name down to 11 children, in
addition to the well-known Buttes-Neveu, in Quebec. The couple's
life together was not always happy, judging by the text of the last
document signed by Marie-Denyse, who disowned her husband, from whom
she was, voluntarily and by mutual consent, living a separate and
financially independent life.Signed on March 6, 1694, six years
prior to her death, the will was contested and overruled on May 2,
1701. One line of the Martin family is related, through Marie-Denyse,
to one line of the Beaulieu family, and both are related to the
Neveu family. The descendants of Antoine Martin dropped the surname
Montpellier.
Pierre Hudon, the ancestor of the Hudon families and one of the
Beaulieu lines, was born around 1648 in Notre-Dame de Chemill?in
Anjou. He was the son of Jean Hudon and Francoise Durand. This
ancestor had the glory of being a member of the Carignan Regiment
companies. In fact, two Beaulieus were enrolled in 1668 and, the
name of baker Pierre Hudon was found on a list dated two years
earlier of non-resident volunteers living in Quebec. Pierre Hudon
dit Beaulieu would settle in the Bouteillerie seigneury, at
Riviere-Ouelle, which he left temporarily in July 1676 to find a
wife in Quebec. He was engaged to Marie, the daughter of Jean Gobeil
and Jeanne Guillet, on July 12, and their wedding was celebrated the
next day. Together, the couple had 11 children. In 1690, Pierre
Hudon dit Beaulieu and his eldest sons played a part in the defeat
of the Phips attack at Riviere-Ouelle. Pierre Hudon died in 1710,
and his wife in 1736. Their numerous descendants go by the names of
Hudon and Beaulieu.
A third line of the Beaulieu family put down roots in Acadia.
According to Yvonne Corbeil-Beaulieu, Claude Thomas, who was
baptized in Lannion, Brittany, on March 9, 1654, was the son of
Martin Thomas and Francoise Hend? Second in a family of at least 12
children, he may have been a fisherman or a sailor. In 1689, he was
living in Placentia, on the island of Newfoundland, where he married
Madeleine Seau, daughter of Francois Seau and Marie Aubert.
Madeleine Seau's mother, Marie, was the widow of Jean Diers and had
another child named Pierre. Pierre Diers, writes Madame Corbeil-Beaulieu,
was raised by his father-in-law and often used the name Beaulieu.
His descendants would bear the name Beaulieu and lived mainly in the
counties of Bellechasse and Dorchester. Because of the ongoing
conflict between England and France, the children of Claude Thomas
dit Beaulieu and Madeleine Seau left Acadia after the Treaty of
Utrecht was signed in 1713. Pierre Diers was the first to move to
Quebec, where he signed a marriage contract on December 22, 1713.
Fourteen years later, in July 1727, a document certifying Marie-Anne
Thomas' engagement to Georges Mabille, tells us that his parents
lived in Brest, in Brittany. Two years later, in January, the double
marriage of Louis and Francois Thomas dit Beaulieu to the sisters
Jeanne and Madeleine Labrecque indicates that the parents had gone
back to live in Quebec. On April 16, 1729, Claude Thomas dit
Beaulieu died suddenly. Four of the five children born of his
marriage to Madeleine Seau married, and of these four, Louis would
be the only one to have children and keep the name Beaulieu. As for
Madeleine Seau, she is, oddly enough, the ancestor of two branches
of the Beaulieu family through her son Pierre Diers.
Information taken from (Civilizations.ca), Our Ancestors of European
Origin: Genealogy and Family History, January 5, 2003 - web site
http://collections.civilisations.ca/gene/indexe.html
Text by Helene-Andree Bizier
Civilizations.ca, Our Ancestors of European Origin: Genealogy and
Family History, January 5, 2003 - web site http://collections.civilisations.ca/gene/indexe.html
- Matrimonial History - GOBEIL, Marie, [[née et baptisée le 25
janvier 1655]] [Jean et Jeanne Guyet] acte de mariage 13 juillet
1676 Québec (contrat de mariage 12 Pierre Duquet) Pierre Hudon dit
BEAULIEU
PLACE OF ORIGIN - SAINT-LIGUAIRE - Description Deux-Sèvres,
arrondissement, canton et perception de Niort. Commune supprimée et
fusionnée avec Niort. En Poitou, diocèse et intendance de Poitiers,
parlement de Paris, élection de Niort, 153 feux.
Hudon — text by Robert Prévost, Éditions Libre Expression:
HUDON AND BEAULIEU: family names left as a legacy by a soldier of
the Carignan Regiment
As is often the case in genealogy, most of Quebec's Beaulieus carry
a family name which began as a nickname. They could just as easily
have called themselves Martin or Hudon.
At Quebec City in 1646, the soldier Antoine Martin dit Montpellier —
a nickname which identified his hometown in Languedoc — son of Jean
Martin and Isabelle Côté, married Denise Sevestre, daughter of
Charles Sevestre and Marie Pichon. He died prematurely in 1659,
leaving four children. One of these, who is of particular interest,
was also named Antoine, and founded a family in 1690 with Jeanne,
daughter of Charles Cadieux de Courville and Madeleine Macard. This
Antoine took the name of BEAULIEU and had three children in his
first marriage, then ten more in a second marriage, contracted in
1699, with Marie Bonnet, daughter of Mélaine Bonnet and Marie Bisson.
How many descendants does Antoine Martin have with the name
BEAULIEU? It is hard to say, since the genealogist Tanguay cites a
good thirty nicknames which are attached to the Martin family name!
Next comes Pierre Hudon dit BEAULIEU, who arrived at Quebec City on
August 17, 1665, as a soldier of the Company of Grandfontaine of the
Carignan Regiment. The son of Jean Hudon and Françoise Durand, he
was originally from Chemillé in Anjou. The church of Notre-Dame
where he was undoubtedly baptized still exists, and the fonts of the
original chapel are preserved there. During the Second World War,
the Germans used the church as a munitions depot, but it has since
been restored to use as a church. From Angers, the N160 arrives at
Chemillé to the southwest, in a little over 30 km.
At Quebec City, in July 1676, Pierre Hudon dit BEAULIEU married
Marie Gobeil, daughter of Jean Gobeil and Jeanne Guyet. Some weeks
later, Jean-Baptiste-François Deschamps — to whom Intendant Talon
had granted the seigneury of Bouteillerie in 1672 — granted Pierre a
plot of land with eight acres of frontage, by 42 acres in depth.
Samuel de Champlain had given the name Houel to the river which fed
this seigneury, in homage to the inspector of the salt marshes of
Brouage, who had helped Champlain to attract Recollet Friars to New
France. It was thus that the small village of Bouteillerie came to
have the name Rivière-Ouelle: a municipality located immediately
downstream from La Pocatière, where Hudon dit BEAULIEU became one of
the area's pioneers.
Pierre and Marie went on to have 12 children. Astonishing for the
period, not one died at birth; 11 founded households! Only one —
Alexis, who was the youngest, died unmarried, at the age of 19. All
of the children were born at Rivière-Ouelle. When census-takers
arrived in 1681, the family included three children, cultivated 10
acres, and possessed two head of cattle.
Eleven Hudon children, as we have mentioned, married; in addition,
five of these chose companions with the name Paradis! We will
enumerate the marriages in their chronological order.
In 1697, Marie-Gertrude married Pierre Fortin (14 children);
Catherine-Marguerite, in 1701, Guillaume Paradis (four children);
Jeanne, in 1701, Guillaume Paradis (five children). It is worth
noting that Catherine-Marguerite and Jeanne married on the same day,
at Rivière-Ouelle, and that the two Guillaumes were cousins. To
continue with the list: in 1707, Pierre married Claire Paradis,
sister of one of the Guillaumes (seven children); in 1711, Joseph
married Geneviève Gamache, but the union remained childless; then,
in 1713, Jean-Baptiste married Marie-Angélique Gagnon (ten
children). The same year, Nicolas married Marie-Madeleine Bouchard
(16 children).
Two other marriages occurred in 1718: Marie-Françoise succumbed to
the charms of another Paradis, named Jean-Baptiste (two children),
and Jean-Bernard chose as his companion Marie-Charlotte Gagnon, the
sister of Angélique (ten children). François married Geneviève
Paradis around 1720 (no children) then, in 1722, he married Marie-Angélique
Émond (seven children). It is Louis-Charles who closes out this
series of marriages in 1723, when he chose Geneviève Lévesque as his
life's companion (16 children). The genealogist Paul-Henri Hudon
notes that the five Paradis sons and daughters who married into the
Hudon dit BEAULIEU clan were the grandchildren of Pierre Paradis,
who married Barbe Guyon in 1632 — a couple which themselves had 11
children; a chapter is devoted to this cutler from
Mortagne-au-Perche in the first volume of Généalogie.
The children of Pierre and Marie contributed generously to the
development of the Lower St. Lawrence region, since ten of the
eleven children established themselves not just at Rivière-Ouelle,
but also at Kamouraska, at La Pocatière and at Cap-Saint-Ignace.
They gave the region nearly a hundred grandchildren in total.
It is likely that, in 1690, Pierre Hudon dit BEAULIEU fought against
the English who, under the command of Admiral Phipps, were
attempting to make landfall at Rivière-Ouelle. The Abbé Pierre de
Francheville incited the settlers to take up arms in defence of the
colony. According to the Annales de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Phipps
lost half of the 150 men engaged in this action.
Before finishing, we should note also that Charles BEAULIEU, son of
a lawyer of Bayonne, married Marie-Barbe Auger dite Baron at
Montreal in 1726. The genealogist Tanguay mentions eight children
born to the couple, of whom at least three died at a young age. Only
one of the sons, Joseph, married.
Now to return to the family of Rivière-Ouelle: the patriarch Pierre
died in 1710, no doubt surrounded by most of his children. His widow
survived him by 26 years, and died an octogenarian. According to
Paul-Henri Hudon, quoted above, 48 of the grandchildren were boys,
and 23 of these married, perpetuating the name of Hudon dit
BEAULIEU. It isn't surprising, perhaps, that a member of the
Association of the Descendants of Pierre Hudon dit BEAULIEU has
already listed on computer the names of nearly 7,000 individuals who
bear the family name of this prolific pioneer.
Robert Prévost, Éditions Libre Expression
Hudon and Beaulieu - text by Jacques Lacoursière -
civilizations.ca
Hudon and BEAULIEU
Pierre Hudon dit (called) BEAULIEU was the son of Jean Hudon dit
BEAULIEU and Françoise Durand; he was born in the late 1640s at
Notre-Dame-de-Chemillé in the diocese of Anger in Anjou. In 1665, he
was at Québec where, as a volunteer, he joined the Andigné company
of the Carignan-Salières regiment. The following year's census
records him as a baker and volunteer but not as an habitant
(landholder). A few years later, he was living on a piece of land at
La Bouteillerie, i.e., Rivière-Ouelle. We know little else of him
until his marriage to Marie Gobeil, daughter of Jean Gobeil and
Jeanne Guyet. Marie would have arrived in the colony with her
parents in 1665; she came from Poitiers. The wedding took place at
Québec on 13 July 1676; the couple had signed a marriage contract
before notary Pierre Duquet the day before.
Exactly one year after their wedding, the couple, living at
Rivière-Ouelle, had their first child; the girl, christened
Marie-Gertrude, would marry Pierre Fortin at Québec in 1699. Eleven
more children followed, only one of whom did not marry—this was the
youngest, Alexis, possibly born in August 1690, certainly died
unmarried in April 1720. Some of the boys would be known only by the
name Hudon; others would be called Hudon dit BEAULIEU.
According to both René Jetté's Dictionnaire généalogique des
familles du Québec and the Institut Drouin's Dictionnaire national
des Canadiens-français, two of Pierre's daughters, other than
Marie-Gertrude, were married at Rivière-Ouelle on the same day (6
June 1701) to the same person, Guillaume Paradis—an obvious error
that will require proper research. The third daughter,
Marie-Françoise, married Jean Paradis in 1718.
Pierre and François both married Paradis girls. The former was
married at Québec in 1707 to Claire, daughter of Pierre Paradis and
Jeanne Milloir. François was married in 1720 to Geneviève, daughter
of Gabriel Paradis and Geneviève Lemieux. Pierre settled at
Kamouraska. As for François, his wife died childless and he was
remarried to Marie-Angélique Emond, who bore him three children. The
couple lived at La Pocatière. Joseph, the fifth of the children, was
married at L'Islet on 28 July 1711 to Geneviève Gamache, daughter of
Nicolas Gamache and Elisabeth-Ursule Cloutier. Joseph died in
mid-December of the same year and his widow was remarried two years
later to Jean Gagnon. Joseph had no descendants.
On 9 January 1713, Jean-Baptiste married Marie-Angélique Gagnon,
daughter of Jean. The couple settled at Rivière-Ouelle, where they
had eight children. Jean-Bernard married Marie-Charlotte Gagnon, a
sister-in-law, in 1718; they had seven children. Nicolas married
Marie-Madeleine Bouchard in 1713 and they had eleven children, all
at Rivière-Ouelle. Finally, Louis-Charles, another citizen of
Rivière-Ouelle, married Geneviève Lévesque and he also had
descendants.
In 1690, Pierre Hudon dit BEAULIEU had been one of the band of
Rivière-Ouelle men who, led by their parish priest, had tried to
keep Phips' soldiers from landing on the south shore of the Saint
Lawrence. Pierre died at Rivière-Ouelle on 24 April 1710 while his
widow lived until 1736.
Antoine Martin dit Montpellier, also sometimes called BEAULIEU, came
from the municipality of Boussagues in the diocese of Béziers in
Languedoc; his parents were Jean Martin and Isabelle Côté. On 18
June 1646, he was married in Québec City to Marie-Denyse Sevestre,
daughter of Charles Sevestre and Marie Pichon. At the time, Sevestre
was a clerk in the Compagnie des Habitants warehouse. At the
wedding, five soldiers performed a kind of ballet, according to
historian Benjamin Sulte. Six children were born of the marriage.
Charles died on 11 May 1659. His widow was remarried on the
following 4 August to Philippe Nepveu, who came from Chartres. This
Nepveu left his name to the Butte-à-Nepveu in the Upper Town of
Québec City. Some descendants of Antoine Martin and Marie-Denyse
Sevestre adopted the surname BEAULIEU.
Claude Thomas was born in Brittany in 1654, the second in a family
of twelve. He was probably a fisherman or sailor. In 1684, he
married Madeleine Seau, from Brest, a city in Brittany. The couple
lived at Plaisance (Placentia) in Newfoundland. Madeleine was the
widow of Pierre Diers, by whom she had had a son named Pierre.
According to genealogist Yvonne Corbeil-BEAULIEU, this Pierre Diers,
who was raised by his stepfather, often used the name BEAULIEU. His
descendants, also called BEAULIEU, are often to be found in
Bellechasse and Dorchester Counties. Moreover, direct descendants of
Claude Thomas and Madeleine Seau have also adopted the name. This
indicates that there are two distinct branches of Beaulieus, both
emerging from Madeleine Seau. After the treaty of Utrecht—through
which the French part of Newfoundland was ceded to Britain—she and
her husband spent about two years at Brest before settling in Québec
City.
A certain Jean-Jérôme Le Gay dit BEAULIEU lived in Montréal in 1685.
His son, bearing the same given names, signed his name as “LeGay-D.
BEAULIEU”. One Pierre Lehait, who signed “Lehec de BEAULIEU”, died
at Québec in 1697. Then there was a serge weaver from Bayonne named
Charles BEAULIEU; he was married in March 1726 at Montréal to Marie-Barbe
Auger dit Baron, daughter of Jean Auger and Charlotte Glory. The
couple had eight children. Finally, a Claude de BEAULIEU was a
captain of the guard of the King's farms in Canada in Québec City in
1699.
History has recorded the name of François BEAULIEU, son of Jacques
BEAULIEU and an Amerindian woman of the Montagnais (Ilnu) tribe. His
biography has been published in volume 10 of the Dictionary of
Canadian Biography. Raised among the Native peoples of the far
Northwest, he became a Yellowknife chief. Explorer John Franklin
hired BEAULIEU as guide and interpreter on his second expedition to
the Arctic. He settled down near the Slave River and traded with the
Hudson's Bay Company. He was said to live like a sultan with his
three wives and, according to historian Leslie Neatby, he was not
averse to casual love affairs. In 1848, he decided to become a
Catholic and was baptized by Oblate Father Alexandre-Antonin Taché,
the future bishop of Saint-Boniface. He was then 77 years old. He
was said to still be hunting at the age of 85, and he died at 100.
His son, Etienne BEAULIEU, served as guide to the American explorer
Warburton Pike. Another BEAULIEU with a talent for exploring was
Olivier, one of the French Canadians who accompanied American
General John Charles Frémont (born of a Québécois father) on his
expeditions through the Rocky Mountains in the middle of the
nineteenth century. And Jean-Baptiste BEAULIEU, who died at Lévis in
1874, was among the pioneers who made winter crossings between
Québec and Lévis by steamboat.
Jacques Lacoursière Translated by Michel Thibault. Revision: Paul
Don
Civilizations.ca, Our Ancestors of European Origin: Genealogy and
Family History, January 5, 2003 - web site http://collections.civilisations.ca/gene/indexe.html
- Matrimonial History - HUDON dit BEAULIEU, Pierre, [feu Jean et
feue Françoise Durand] acte de mariage 13 juillet 1676 Québec (contrat
de mariage 12 Pierre Duquet) Marie Gobeil
PLACE OF ORIGIN - CHÉMILLÉ - Description Maine-et-Loire,
arrondissement de Cholet, chef-lieu de canton, perception, 1 633
(30) logements, 5 128 (3 990) habitants. En Anjou, diocèse et
élection d'Angers, parlement de Paris, intendance de Tours, 275 feux.
Notes for Marie Gobeil, daughter
of Jean Gobeil
and Jeanne Guiet
Album Historique et Paroissial de Notre-Dame-du-Portage,
1723-1940, by Edm. Pelletier
Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Canadiennes, by Cyprien
Tanguay: vol. 1, pg. 272
Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles du Quebec by Rene Jette: pg.
506
French Canadian History and Genealogy, site address: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/lwjones/french-c.htm
Pierre Hudon dit Beaulieu was born in Angers, Anjou, France circa
1647. He married Marie Gobeil in 1676. The Hudon genealogy page is
about 232K and 3965 people, last updated August 20, 1998.
1666 Quebec Census Index: HABITTANS DE BEAUPRÉ
Jean Gobeil .................................42 habittant
Jeanne Guyet ................................32 sa femme
Marie gobeil ................................11 fille
Francoise gobeil ............................10 fille
Marie gobeil .................................7 fille
Jeanne gobeil ................................3 fille
Et Catherine gobeil ..........................1 fille
Civilizations.ca, Our Ancestors of European Origin: Genealogy and
Family History, January 5, 2003 - web site http://collections.civilisations.ca/gene/indexe.html
- Matrimonial History - GOBEIL, Marie, [[née et baptisée le 25
janvier 1655]] [Jean et Jeanne Guyet] acte de mariage 13 juillet
1676 Québec (contrat de mariage 12 Pierre Duquet) Pierre Hudon dit
BEAULIEU
PLACE OF ORIGIN - SAINT-LIGUAIRE - Description Deux-Sèvres,
arrondissement, canton et perception de Niort. Commune supprimée et
fusionnée avec Niort. En Poitou, diocèse et intendance de Poitiers,
parlement de Paris, élection de Niort, 153 feux.
Hudon - text by Robert Prévost, Éditions Libre Expression
HUDON AND BEAULIEU: family names left as a legacy by a soldier of
the Carignan Regiment
As is often the case in genealogy, most of Quebec's Beaulieus carry
a family name which began as a nickname. They could just as easily
have called themselves Martin or Hudon.
At Quebec City in 1646, the soldier Antoine Martin dit Montpellier —
a nickname which identified his hometown in Languedoc — son of Jean
Martin and Isabelle Côté, married Denise Sevestre, daughter of
Charles Sevestre and Marie Pichon. He died prematurely in 1659,
leaving four children. One of these, who is of particular interest,
was also named Antoine, and founded a family in 1690 with Jeanne,
daughter of Charles Cadieux de Courville and Madeleine Macard. This
Antoine took the name of BEAULIEU and had three children in his
first marriage, then ten more in a second marriage, contracted in
1699, with Marie Bonnet, daughter of Mélaine Bonnet and Marie Bisson.
How many descendants does Antoine Martin have with the name
BEAULIEU? It is hard to say, since the genealogist Tanguay cites a
good thirty nicknames which are attached to the Martin family name!
Next comes Pierre Hudon dit BEAULIEU, who arrived at Quebec City on
August 17, 1665, as a soldier of the Company of Grandfontaine of the
Carignan Regiment. The son of Jean Hudon and Françoise Durand, he
was originally from Chemillé in Anjou. The church of Notre-Dame
where he was undoubtedly baptized still exists, and the fonts of the
original chapel are preserved there. During the Second World War,
the Germans used the church as a munitions depot, but it has since
been restored to use as a church. From Angers, the N160 arrives at
Chemillé to the southwest, in a little over 30 km.
At Quebec City, in July 1676, Pierre Hudon dit BEAULIEU married
Marie Gobeil, daughter of Jean Gobeil and Jeanne Guyet. Some weeks
later, Jean-Baptiste-François Deschamps — to whom Intendant Talon
had granted the seigneury of Bouteillerie in 1672 — granted Pierre a
plot of land with eight acres of frontage, by 42 acres in depth.
Samuel de Champlain had given the name Houel to the river which fed
this seigneury, in homage to the inspector of the salt marshes of
Brouage, who had helped Champlain to attract Recollet Friars to New
France. It was thus that the small village of Bouteillerie came to
have the name Rivière-Ouelle: a municipality located immediately
downstream from La Pocatière, where Hudon dit BEAULIEU became one of
the area's pioneers.
Pierre and Marie went on to have 12 children. Astonishing for the
period, not one died at birth; 11 founded households! Only one —
Alexis, who was the youngest, died unmarried, at the age of 19. All
of the children were born at Rivière-Ouelle. When census-takers
arrived in 1681, the family included three children, cultivated 10
acres, and possessed two head of cattle.
Eleven Hudon children, as we have mentioned, married; in addition,
five of these chose companions with the name Paradis! We will
enumerate the marriages in their chronological order.
In 1697, Marie-Gertrude married Pierre Fortin (14 children);
Catherine-Marguerite, in 1701, Guillaume Paradis (four children);
Jeanne, in 1701, Guillaume Paradis (five children). It is worth
noting that Catherine-Marguerite and Jeanne married on the same day,
at Rivière-Ouelle, and that the two Guillaumes were cousins. To
continue with the list: in 1707, Pierre married Claire Paradis,
sister of one of the Guillaumes (seven children); in 1711, Joseph
married Geneviève Gamache, but the union remained childless; then,
in 1713, Jean-Baptiste married Marie-Angélique Gagnon (ten
children). The same year, Nicolas married Marie-Madeleine Bouchard
(16 children).
Two other marriages occurred in 1718: Marie-Françoise succumbed to
the charms of another Paradis, named Jean-Baptiste (two children),
and Jean-Bernard chose as his companion Marie-Charlotte Gagnon, the
sister of Angélique (ten children). François married Geneviève
Paradis around 1720 (no children) then, in 1722, he married Marie-Angélique
Émond (seven children). It is Louis-Charles who closes out this
series of marriages in 1723, when he chose Geneviève Lévesque as his
life's companion (16 children). The genealogist Paul-Henri Hudon
notes that the five Paradis sons and daughters who married into the
Hudon dit BEAULIEU clan were the grandchildren of Pierre Paradis,
who married Barbe Guyon in 1632 — a couple which themselves had 11
children; a chapter is devoted to this cutler from
Mortagne-au-Perche in the first volume of Généalogie.
The children of Pierre and Marie contributed generously to the
development of the Lower St. Lawrence region, since ten of the
eleven children established themselves not just at Rivière-Ouelle,
but also at Kamouraska, at La Pocatière and at Cap-Saint-Ignace.
They gave the region nearly a hundred grandchildren in total.
It is likely that, in 1690, Pierre Hudon dit BEAULIEU fought against
the English who, under the command of Admiral Phipps, were
attempting to make landfall at Rivière-Ouelle. The Abbé Pierre de
Francheville incited the settlers to take up arms in defence of the
colony. According to the Annales de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Phipps
lost half of the 150 men engaged in this action.
Before finishing, we should note also that Charles BEAULIEU, son of
a lawyer of Bayonne, married Marie-Barbe Auger dite Baron at
Montreal in 1726. The genealogist Tanguay mentions eight children
born to the couple, of whom at least three died at a young age. Only
one of the sons, Joseph, married.
Now to return to the family of Rivière-Ouelle: the patriarch Pierre
died in 1710, no doubt surrounded by most of his children. His widow
survived him by 26 years, and died an octogenarian. According to
Paul-Henri Hudon, quoted above, 48 of the grandchildren were boys,
and 23 of these married, perpetuating the name of Hudon dit
BEAULIEU. It isn't surprising, perhaps, that a member of the
Association of the Descendants of Pierre Hudon dit BEAULIEU has
already listed on computer the names of nearly 7,000 individuals who
bear the family name of this prolific pioneer.
Robert Prévost, Éditions Libre Expression
Hudon and Beaulieu - text by Jacques Lacoursière -
civilizations.ca
Hudon and BEAULIEU
Pierre Hudon dit (called) BEAULIEU was the son of Jean Hudon dit
BEAULIEU and Françoise Durand; he was born in the late 1640s at
Notre-Dame-de-Chemillé in the diocese of Anger in Anjou. In 1665, he
was at Québec where, as a volunteer, he joined the Andigné company
of the Carignan-Salières regiment. The following year's census
records him as a baker and volunteer but not as an habitant
(landholder). A few years later, he was living on a piece of land at
La Bouteillerie, i.e., Rivière-Ouelle. We know little else of him
until his marriage to Marie Gobeil, daughter of Jean Gobeil and
Jeanne Guyet. Marie would have arrived in the colony with her
parents in 1665; she came from Poitiers. The wedding took place at
Québec on 13 July 1676; the couple had signed a marriage contract
before notary Pierre Duquet the day before.
Exactly one year after their wedding, the couple, living at
Rivière-Ouelle, had their first child; the girl, christened
Marie-Gertrude, would marry Pierre Fortin at Québec in 1699. Eleven
more children followed, only one of whom did not marry—this was the
youngest, Alexis, possibly born in August 1690, certainly died
unmarried in April 1720. Some of the boys would be known only by the
name Hudon; others would be called Hudon dit BEAULIEU.
According to both René Jetté's Dictionnaire généalogique des
familles du Québec and the Institut Drouin's Dictionnaire national
des Canadiens-français, two of Pierre's daughters, other than
Marie-Gertrude, were married at Rivière-Ouelle on the same day (6
June 1701) to the same person, Guillaume Paradis—an obvious error
that will require proper research. The third daughter,
Marie-Françoise, married Jean Paradis in 1718.
Pierre and François both married Paradis girls. The former was
married at Québec in 1707 to Claire, daughter of Pierre Paradis and
Jeanne Milloir. François was married in 1720 to Geneviève, daughter
of Gabriel Paradis and Geneviève Lemieux. Pierre settled at
Kamouraska. As for François, his wife died childless and he was
remarried to Marie-Angélique Emond, who bore him three children. The
couple lived at La Pocatière. Joseph, the fifth of the children, was
married at L'Islet on 28 July 1711 to Geneviève Gamache, daughter of
Nicolas Gamache and Elisabeth-Ursule Cloutier. Joseph died in
mid-December of the same year and his widow was remarried two years
later to Jean Gagnon. Joseph had no descendants.
On 9 January 1713, Jean-Baptiste married Marie-Angélique Gagnon,
daughter of Jean. The couple settled at Rivière-Ouelle, where they
had eight children. Jean-Bernard married Marie-Charlotte Gagnon, a
sister-in-law, in 1718; they had seven children. Nicolas married
Marie-Madeleine Bouchard in 1713 and they had eleven children, all
at Rivière-Ouelle. Finally, Louis-Charles, another citizen of
Rivière-Ouelle, married Geneviève Lévesque and he also had
descendants.
In 1690, Pierre Hudon dit BEAULIEU had been one of the band of
Rivière-Ouelle men who, led by their parish priest, had tried to
keep Phips' soldiers from landing on the south shore of the Saint
Lawrence. Pierre died at Rivière-Ouelle on 24 April 1710 while his
widow lived until 1736.
Antoine Martin dit Montpellier, also sometimes called BEAULIEU, came
from the municipality of Boussagues in the diocese of Béziers in
Languedoc; his parents were Jean Martin and Isabelle Côté. On 18
June 1646, he was married in Québec City to Marie-Denyse Sevestre,
daughter of Charles Sevestre and Marie Pichon. At the time, Sevestre
was a clerk in the Compagnie des Habitants warehouse. At the
wedding, five soldiers performed a kind of ballet, according to
historian Benjamin Sulte. Six children were born of the marriage.
Charles died on 11 May 1659. His widow was remarried on the
following 4 August to Philippe Nepveu, who came from Chartres. This
Nepveu left his name to the Butte-à-Nepveu in the Upper Town of
Québec City. Some descendants of Antoine Martin and Marie-Denyse
Sevestre adopted the surname BEAULIEU.
Claude Thomas was born in Brittany in 1654, the second in a family
of twelve. He was probably a fisherman or sailor. In 1684, he
married Madeleine Seau, from Brest, a city in Brittany. The couple
lived at Plaisance (Placentia) in Newfoundland. Madeleine was the
widow of Pierre Diers, by whom she had had a son named Pierre.
According to genealogist Yvonne Corbeil-BEAULIEU, this Pierre Diers,
who was raised by his stepfather, often used the name BEAULIEU. His
descendants, also called BEAULIEU, are often to be found in
Bellechasse and Dorchester Counties. Moreover, direct descendants of
Claude Thomas and Madeleine Seau have also adopted the name. This
indicates that there are two distinct branches of Beaulieus, both
emerging from Madeleine Seau. After the treaty of Utrecht—through
which the French part of Newfoundland was ceded to Britain—she and
her husband spent about two years at Brest before settling in Québec
City.
A certain Jean-Jérôme Le Gay dit BEAULIEU lived in Montréal in 1685.
His son, bearing the same given names, signed his name as “LeGay-D.
BEAULIEU”. One Pierre Lehait, who signed “Lehec de BEAULIEU”, died
at Québec in 1697. Then there was a serge weaver from Bayonne named
Charles BEAULIEU; he was married in March 1726 at Montréal to Marie-Barbe
Auger dit Baron, daughter of Jean Auger and Charlotte Glory. The
couple had eight children. Finally, a Claude de BEAULIEU was a
captain of the guard of the King's farms in Canada in Québec City in
1699.
History has recorded the name of François BEAULIEU, son of Jacques
BEAULIEU and an Amerindian woman of the Montagnais (Ilnu) tribe. His
biography has been published in volume 10 of the Dictionary of
Canadian Biography. Raised among the Native peoples of the far
Northwest, he became a Yellowknife chief. Explorer John Franklin
hired BEAULIEU as guide and interpreter on his second expedition to
the Arctic. He settled down near the Slave River and traded with the
Hudson's Bay Company. He was said to live like a sultan with his
three wives and, according to historian Leslie Neatby, he was not
averse to casual love affairs. In 1848, he decided to become a
Catholic and was baptized by Oblate Father Alexandre-Antonin Taché,
the future bishop of Saint-Boniface. He was then 77 years old. He
was said to still be hunting at the age of 85, and he died at 100.
His son, Etienne BEAULIEU, served as guide to the American explorer
Warburton Pike. Another BEAULIEU with a talent for exploring was
Olivier, one of the French Canadians who accompanied American
General John Charles Frémont (born of a Québécois father) on his
expeditions through the Rocky Mountains in the middle of the
nineteenth century. And Jean-Baptiste BEAULIEU, who died at Lévis in
1874, was among the pioneers who made winter crossings between
Québec and Lévis by steamboat.
Jacques Lacoursière Translated by Michel Thibault. Revision: Paul
Don.
Marie Gobeil originated from SAINT-LIGUAIRE, France.
According to Marcel Fournier, Niort, ville d'origine de la famille
Gobeil (http://planete.qc.ca/histoire/villages/villages-141997-24037.html).
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