Other Events:

• Name: Louis Brassar
• _UID: 825021D9296144519E9EB626ACA328148E7C
• Census: 1666, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
• Census: 1667, Sillery, Quebec, Canada

Notes:

Census:

Antoine Brassard, 57 years, macon, habitant
Francoise Mery, 45 years
Guillaume, 18 years
Antoine, 16 years
Jean Baptiste, 14 years
Louis, 12 years
Dorthee, 9 years

Census:

Antoine Brassard, habitant, 58 years
Francoise Mery, 54 years
Guillaume Brassard, 20 years
Antoine Brassard, 18 years
Jean Brassard, 16 years
Louis Brassard, 14 years
Dorothee Brassard, 12 years

Louis married Simone Maufay in Jan 1679/80. Simone and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Marriage Contract:
Notary Pierre Duquet drew up the contract.

Other Events:

• Name: Antoine Brassar
• Name: Antoine Brassart
• Reference Number: 2562
• _UID: FDC8D6CD88144214B041F5815FCD37E70BEB
• Immigration: 1636, Normandy, France
• Travel: 1639
• Census: 1639-1640
• Employment: 4 Oct 1642, Fort St. Louis, Quebec, Canada
• Land: 14 Feb 1646/47, Fort St. Louis, Quebec, Canada
• Land: Bef 1648
• Land: 19 Oct 1663
• Land: Between 1665 and 1668, Sillery, Quebec, Canada
• Census: 1666, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
• Census: 1667, Sillery, Quebec, Canada
• Inventory of assets: 9 Jul 1669, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
• Legal Matter: 6 Sep 1669

Notes:

(Research):Histoire des Canadiens-Francais, Benjamin Sulte, Vol. 2, page 76 (3/31/1984)
1636 - 1640
Antoine Brassard, macon, ne 1609, Normandie, epouse a Quebec, 14 Jan 1637, Francoise Mery, nee 1621, demeurant dans a maison de la Grande-Allee, a present rue Saint Louis, leur descendance a ete, pendant plus d'un siecle, tres nombreuse a Quebec, on la retrouve dans les gouvernments des Trois-Rivieres et de Montreal, sous les noms de Brassard et Deschenaux; elle a Fourni plusiers religieuses et six pretres, dont un est le fondateur du seminarie de Nicolet. M. Freland, de qui nous empruntons ces notes, ajoute que Deschenaux, employe Longtemps dans les bureaux des intendants Hocquart et Bigot, etait de cette famille; c'est le meme qui, apres 1760, se trouvant a la tete fortune considerable, acheta plusierus seigneuries. Son fils fut juge aux Trois-Rivieres.

Vol. 2, page 91
La liste qui suit donne le nom des habitants connus de Canada, annees 1639-1640.
Normandie:
Antoine Brassard
Francoise Mery
Antoine

Immigration:
Antoine arrived in Canada in 1636. He came from Normandy. He married in 1637 to Francoise Mery.

Travel:
Antoine and Francoise returned to France. Their first two children were born at La Rochelle, France.

Census:

Antoine Brassard (married in Canada)
Francoise Mery
Antoine (born in Canada)

Employment:
Antoine and Francoise were hired by Guillaume Couillard as domestique servants. A contract was drawn up by notary Martial Piraube. They were paid 144 livres and given board. Neither spouse could sign the contract but made their marks. Present was Guillaume Tronquet.

Land:
Antoine was given a concession of a few arpents that was located on the border of the road that linked Quebec and Cap-Rouge. The land consisted of two plots situated in the neighborhood of Quebec. The first, three arpents, two perches and nine feet, was located between the Grande-Allee and the river, extending as far as the cliff. The second, three arpents of frontage to a depth of six arpents, was between the seigneurie Saint-Jean and the Upper-Town on the Grande-Allee. This act was signed by notary Henry Bancheron.

Land:
Antoine obtained a plot in Upper-Town which he must have used to practice his trade of master mason. This plot consisted of nine toises in width (54feet) on Rue Saint-Louis, to a depth of thirty-nine toises (234 feet) running as far as the road from Mont-Carmel, between the lots of Charles Palentin de Lapointe and Jean Lemelin dit Tourangeau.

Land:
Antoine divided his land between his sons-in-law. Jean Lemelin, Jacques Hedouin and Louise Fontaine recieved six arpents each.

Land:
Listed in inventory drawn up after Antoine's death were lands he owned in Sillery. The land consisted of thirty arpents, two of them frontage, and was assigned in 1665.

Census:

Antoine Brassard, 57 years, macon, habitant
Francoise Mery, 45 years
Guillaume, 18 years
Antoine, 16 years
Jean Baptiste, 14 years
Louis, 12 years
Dorthee, 9 years

Living in Upper-Town

Census:

Antoine Brassard, habitant, 58 years
Francoise Mery, 54 years
Guillaume Brassard, 20 years
Antoine Brassard, 18 years
Jean Brassard, 16 years
Louis Brassard, 14 years
Dorothee Brassard, 12 years

They owned three head of cattle and had twenty-seven arpents of land under cultivation.

Inventory of assets:
Notary Becquet drew up the official inventory report. The list of property included twelve minots of wheat found in the attic of the house, three oxen, one milk cow, a year-old bull, a plow with its plowshare and chain, a sled and chain, fifteen livres and five sols in silver, ten hens and one rooster, etc.

Legal Matter:
From the property of Antoine, furnishing and animals, notary Becquet declared to have deposited 761 livres, 19 sols and 6 deniers to the estate. Jacques Hedouin, agent for widow Francoise, was given guardianship of the minor children, received monies and all fees were paid.

Antoine married Francoise Mery on 14 Jan 1636/37 in Quebec (Notre Dame), Quebec, Canada. Francoise was born in 1621; died on 11 Jul 1671 in Quebec, Quebec, Canada; was buried on 12 Jul 1671 in Quebec, Quebec, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Francoise Nery
• Reference Number: 2563
• _UID: DFD3EF791A2240DCB689F56B7B0F5FE4DE6D
• Alt. Birth: 1617, Tourouvre, Perche, France
• Immigration: 1636
• Travel: 1639
• Employment: 4 Oct 1642, Fort St. Louis, Quebec, Canada
• Census: 1666, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
• Census: 1667, Sillery, Quebec, Canada

Notes:

fille a marier

Birth:
Francoise was possibly from Tourouvre, Perche, where there were other Merys about the same time.

Alt. Birth:
She possibly came from Tourouvre, Perche, where there were other Merys about the same time.

Immigration:
She came to Canada in 1636.

Travel:
Antoine and Francoise returned to France. Their first two children were born at La Rochelle, France.

Employment:
Antoine and Francoise were hired by Guillaume Couillard as domestique servants. A contract was drawn up by notary Martial Piraube. They were paid 144 livres and given board. Neither spouse could sign the contract but made their marks. Present was Guillaume Tronquet.

Census:

Antoine Brassard, 57 years, macon, habitant
Francoise Mery, 45 years
Guillaume, 18 years
Antoine, 16 years
Jean Baptiste, 14 years
Louis, 12 years
Dorthee, 9 years

Census:

Antoine Brassard, habitant, 58 years
Francoise Mery, 54 years
Guillaume Brassard, 20 years
Antoine Brassard, 18 years
Jean Brassard, 16 years
Louis Brassard, 14 years
Dorothee Brassard, 12 years

Died:
Noted in register:
"The eleventh day of July in the year one thousand six hundred seventy one Francoise Mery widow of the late Anthoine Brassard died suddenly in the house on grande-allee, her body was buried the day after in the cemetery of this parish".

Notes:

Marriage:
The marriage act reads as follows:
"On 14 July 1637, the banns were made as usual and there being found no legitimate impediment, Father Charles Lallemant, Jesuit, acting as curate at Quebec, after having questioned, heard and listened to the mutual consent, solemnly married and joined in bonds of holy matrimony Antoine Brassart, mason, and Francoise Mery in the presence of M. Francois Derre and Nicolas Pivert".
This was entered from memory because the original register was destroyed in a fire on 15 June 1640.

Marriage Ceremony:
Present at the ceremony were Francois Dere and Nicolas Pivert.