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Marie Marguerite Verdon

Female 1677 - 1757  (80 years)


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  • Name Marie Marguerite Verdon  [1] 
    Born 10 Jan 1676/77  LaPrairie, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Christened 10 Jan 1676/77  LaPrairie, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Gender Female 
    Godparents 10 Jan 1676/77  LaPrairie, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    • Her godparents were Pierre Poupar and Marie Mothier.
    Adopted 24 Jun 1679  [4] 
    • Marie Marguerite's father's death left his family without resources. On 17 June 1679 the following act of adoption was signed by Claude Maugue.

      The year one thousand six hundred seventy-nine the seventeenth day of June appeared in our study in our presense Jean Baptiste Migeon bailiff of the island of Montreal, Mathurin Le Lievre of the upper island of Montreal and resident of the upper Island on his concession, who is motivated and driven by Christian and charitable desire, stated to us that because he saw Marie-Marguerite Verdon, daughter of the late Jean Verdon resident of the coast of Saint-Lambert belonging to Laprairie de la Magdeleine a young orphan being only about three years old and abandoned and relinquished by her mother in flight and nearly all others and having little property is in the care of Jean Magnan who has had the said minor at his home for five or six months, came to us to complain that he could neither feed her nor support her not having any sous and that he himself had a rather large family, that he was in the process of adopting her and keeping her in his house as if she were his own daughter permitting us to take care of raising her feeding and supporting and instructing her in our Catholic apostolic and roman religion and even if he could to send her to school in order to give her the best education that will be possible for her and that through this charity and also when she will have been separated from their care by marriage or otherwise to continue to provide for her so favorably that he will advance to her the old clothes and this as his own daughter and to treat her in this capacity until the said time since God did not give him any children for the three years that he is committed in the marriage and that he believes that his wife will not have any.
      One week later, Marguerite Jasselin, thirty years old and wife of Mathurin Le Lievre, came to ratify the act of adoption herself and promised that she would take good care of Marguerite Verdon who until that day was in the care of the tailor Jean Magnan.
    Additonal information Lachine, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    • Marie Marguerite was living in Lachine, never having followed her adoptive parents to Bout-de-l'Isle (Saint-Anne-de-Bellevue). Her adopted father, Mathurin Lievre, died in 1683 and her adopted mother, Marguerite Jasselin, had remarried in 1684 to Nicolas Lemoine.
    _UID 01EC6ABE510D4388A0C47577AB7572C0E033 
    Died 17 Feb 1757  Hopital General de Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6] 
    • noted age 88 years
    Buried 18 Feb 1757  Hopital General de Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6] 
    Person ID I5858  Lirette Family Tree
    Last Modified 4 Aug 2020 

    Father Jean Verdon,   b. Abt 1642, Souvigne, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 20 Dec 1678  (Age 36 years) 
    Mother Marguerite Richer,   b. Abt 1650, Saint Martin sur Renelle, Rouen, Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1700  (Age 49 years) 
    Marriage Contract 10 Sep 1672  Quebec, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 7] 
    • Neither spouse could sign the contract drawn up by notary Duquet. Jean gave is bride 300 livres, while she brought property valued at 200 livres. Pierre Pricher, Pierre Caille, and the witnesses Jean Baptiste Gosset and Nicolas Durand signed the record with the notary.
    Married 19 Sep 1672  Quebec, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 7, 8] 
    Marriage Ceremony 19 Sep 1672  Quebec, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    • Present at the ceremony were Pierre Richer, Pierre Caille dit LaRochelle, Jacques Doublet, Nicolas Durand and Gabriel Berard.
    Family ID F2406  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Jean Desforges dit St. Maurice,   b. Abt 1654,   bur. 26 Nov 1734, Montreal (Basilique Notre Dame), Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 80 years) 
    Marriage Contract 13 Feb 1688/89  Lachine, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    • Notary Jean Baptiste Pottier drew up a contract between Marguerite and Jean Desforges dit Saint Maurice, a soldier in the Company of Captain de Lorimier.
      "Marguerite was said to be the daughter of the late Jean Verdon and of Marguerite Richer, during their lifetime residents of the prairie St Lambert, her natural father and mother who having left her at an early age was adopted by the late Mathurin Lelievre, during his lifetime resident of Bout de l'isle and Marguerite Jasselin his wife as it appears in the act of adoption on the date of 17 June 1679 here-attached by virtue of the adoption, the said Jasselin remarried in a second marriage to Nicolas Lemoyne considering the said Verdon as his own daughter the he authorized for the purpose of the document in the presence and with the consent of the relatives and friends named below..."
    Married 14 Feb 1688/89  Lachine, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 10] 
    Marriage Ceremony 14 Feb 1688/89  Lachine, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    • Present at the ceremony were Marguerite Jasselin, adoptive mother of Marguerite and wife of Mathurin Lelievre, Nicolas Lemoyne, Jean Fournier, Aime Cherier dit Laroze, Pierre Jamme, Pierre Barbary, Jean Baptiste Pottier, notaire, Marie Beauvais, wife of Pottier, Jean Michau and Francois Michau.
    Children 
     1. Marie Genevieve Desforges,   c. 9 Nov 1691, Champlain, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Anne Celeste Desforges,   b. 1 Oct 1694, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Jul 1773, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years)
     3. Jean Desforges dit St. Maurice,   b. 5 Oct 1696, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Jan 1768, St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years)
     4. Marie Francoise Desforges,   b. 19 Jul 1698, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Oct 1698, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)
     5. Pierre Desforges,   c. 31 Jul 1699, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Aug 1699, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 0 years)
     6. Jean Baptiste Desforges,   c. 6 Jul 1700, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Oct 1726, Hotel Dieu de Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 26 years)
     7. Alexis Desforges,   b. 7 Apr 1702, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 28 Nov 1714, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 12 years)
     8. Paul Desforges dit St. Maurice,   b. 7 Jan 1703/04, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Apr 1769, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years)
     9. Marie Josephe Desforges,   b. 31 Oct 1705, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Oct 1776, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years)
     10. Madeleine Desforges dit St. Maurice,   b. 6 Jul 1707, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 May 1791, L'Assomption, L'Assomption, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years)
     11. Genevieve Desforges,   b. 15 Feb 1708/09, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Apr 1738, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 29 years)
     12. Pierre Desforges dit St. Maurice,   c. 7 Oct 1710, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Dec 1788, Pointe Claire, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 78 years)
     13. Louis Desforges,   b. 29 Jun 1713, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 17 Nov 1714, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 1 years)
     14. Jean Marie Desforges dit St. Maurice,   b. 18 May 1715, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Mar 1781, St. Eustache, Deux Montagnes, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years)
     15. Joseph Desforges,   c. 16 Jun 1717, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     16. Marie Josephe Desforges,   b. 29 Jun 1719, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Jul 1719, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)
    Last Modified 6 May 2014 
    Family ID F2405  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
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