Robert Rivard dit Loranger
Fourteen years after his arrival in New France, Nicolas Rivard dit Lavigne, well established Cap-de-la-Madeleine and already the father of five children, will have the great pleasure to welcome her younger brother Robert told The Row or Loranger. This will pioneer and cultivate land for more than a quarter century. Then, suddenly, when he has crossed the threshold of middle age, it will take to the woods, going to the lakes and Abitibi Témiscamingue order to make the fur trade with the nations Outaouais.
Son of Peter and Jeanne RIVARD Mullard, Robert was baptized in Tourouvre July 10, 1638. Upon the departure of Nicolas in 1648, he was still a child. In 1660 or about that year, the oldest find in his younger brother a young and full of enthusiasm to get ready for work. Hard worker, Robert manage to kill two acres of forest per year to convert as many acres of farmland, which is not commonplace at the time.
The arrival of most of our pioneers is an enigma in size to genealogists, whether they are competent. The answers, if there is yet to be discovered, may lie across the Atlantic in these notarized contracts that did not stop stripping. The historian Robert Rivard. Mrs. J. Loranger-Paquette (1), failed, it no longer, to clarify this detail. She alluded to the 200 people who have embarked at La Rochelle in 1659, also to the hundreds of men has recruited Peter Boucher in 1662, and of which only 67 have managed to reach our shores safe. Other smaller groups arrived in 1661 and 1663.
Research by the notary André Dufresne prove the presence of Robert Rivard at Cap-de-la-Madeleine December 28, 1662. I believe that Robert Dufresne arrived October 28, 1662, recruited by Pierre Boucher.
First concession at Cap-de-la-Madeleine
What is certain is that December 28, 1662, Robert Rivard is made here, since it is
witnessed the will that made Sauvaget Joan, wife of Elijah Bourbeau, the day before the notary Louis Laurent du Portail.Puis before the notary Claude Herlin, this ancestor received on 28 July 1663 a concession of the Father C. Allouez, acting on behalf of the lords Jesuits. The plot of land is located within the Cap-de-la-Madeleine. February 16, 1664, Robert signed with François Brunet and agricultural leases for land fronting on the river and owned by Claude Houssart, the second husband of Madeleine Couteau, stepmother of Nicolas Rivard dit Lavigne. May 1 after Bishop Laval happening at Cap-de-la-Madeleine and Robert took advantage back to confirm.
Robert wife Madeleine
rush events. On 28 October the same year, the notary Jacques de la Tousche prepare articles of the marriage contract of Robert and Madeleine Guillet, aged fourteen, daughter of Pierre Guillet dit Lajeunesse and Joan Pope. Are present in this contract Nicolas Rivard and Catherine Pope, uncle and aunt of the bride, Claude and Madeleine Houssart Knife, his grandmother, as Mathurin Guillet, brother of Madeleine. The religious ceremony must have taken place in Cap-de-la-Madeleine, in the small chapel had been built Pierre Boucher in 1659, but records prior to 1673 are unfortunately lost. It is almost certain that the young couple stayed a while in Cape Town.
He settled in Batiscan
February 8, 1666 (2), Robert Pierre Prou sold his concession of the Saint-Marc (3). On 22 March (4). Father Jacques Fremin, counsel for the Jesuits at Cap-de-la-madeleine, he had two houses of two acres each in front and side Batiscan St. Eloy, almost at the same time as OBTAINED Houssard Claude and Nicolas Rivard. Fifteen years later, Robert has managed to clear and make arable thirty acres: it will therefore exceptionally hard.
In Confession and enumeration of 1677 (5), it is said that the ancestor has 160 acres of land in Batiscan, four out of forty arpents in depth, the burden of paying for each year audict area a bushel of wheat French and two capons seigneurialle pension funds with four hundred of laying lods and annuities, fines and referrals following the said custom, and perform other terms and conditions laid by the concession contract quy in him hath been given before the dict passed by the notary Tousche the twenty second day of March one thousand six hundred sixty six.
in 1681. the census says that Robert is 43 and that Madeleine has 31 spring: their children are then Claude. 16; Mathurin, 11: Madeleine, age 9, Mary, age 7: Francis. 4 years, and Charlotte, 18 months, and Rivard have two rifles and five cattle (6).
For lakes and Abitibi Témiscamingue
is January 22, 1689, Robert decided to try the great adventure of the fur trade. At the notary Gilles Rageot, he signed a lease with the Northern Railway Company, to come to the Lakes and Abitibi Témiscamingue, for three consecutive years. The profits of this trade will be shared between the company's a half, Mr. Loranger and the notary Michel Roy said Chatellerault for the other half. The latter two will have to pay more-René Alexandre Lemoyne, another team member.
Like father, like son: August 31, 1691, and Nicolas Mathurin commit to Illinois before the notary Antoine Adhemar, for the account of Captain Francois de la Forest. In 1692, the eldest son, Claude, will hold its own journey with Mercure Francis said Villeneuve, in the Ottawa country.
Local Company Royal
On 13 June 1695 (7), Robert signed a new contract covers a duration three years, having joined this time with some relatives and friends: Jean Crevier, Louis Guillet, Jean Trottier, Jean Baribeau and Jean Desrosiers. This company will be known as the Royal Society and the deed will be signed by notaries and Claude Basset Benign Maugue Montreal. Several trips are well organized, until 1707. "The commitments will continue many years in the family Rivard writes Ms. Loranger-Paquette (8). Sometimes it is Nicolas who undertakes the journey to the Illinois country (1701), while Claude and Mathurin Rivard, company with François Frigon said the Spaniard. Alexis and Jacques Le Moyne, Jean-Baptiste and Louis Gatineau, all travelers, to undertake the journey from Detroit. New trip to Detroit the following year (1702) Mathurin Rivard and his friend François Frigon. In 1703, François Dumontier, son of Robert Rivard, who organizes his own journey to Fort Frontenac while Mathurin Rivard, Etienne Volant, Sieur de Radisson, plus 42 other comrades go to Lake Erie for the gentlemen of the Colony of Canada . Robert Rivard, son, wait at April 23, 1704 to enter the circle. At that time, he committed to his brother-François Dumontier for the trip to Fort Pontchartrain Lake Erie. He made at least four trips, including one from 1705, with Joseph Moreau, son of Francis Frigon. "
Madeleine died 37 years after her husband
probably worn out by too heavy labor he had imposed during his forty years in the Canadian Army, Robert Rivard will not be there at the dawn of promising eighteenth century. He will be buried in Batiscan May 11, 1699 at the age of 61. Madeleine Guillet him survive nearly 37 years since planting in turn April 27, 1736 at the respectable age of 86. Exactly two months later (9), his heirs will share the rest of his possessions.
Six son were passengers
The couple Rivard-Guillet had raised a beautiful family of thirteen children, all of whose son, but Alexis Rene were travelers like their father said Loranger
Claude (1665-1736), married in 1696 to Catherine Roy said Chatellerault. Claude lived with his stepfather after his marriage, He traveled to Ottawa and Detroit. He was buried in the parish of Sainte-Genevieve, similar to that of Batiscan;
Feuilleverte said Mathurin (1667-1737), married successively to Françoise Trottier (1700) and Jeanne Frlgon (1710). He traveled to Illinois, Detroit and Lake Erie. He died in Batiscan;
Nicolas (1670-1733), married in 1721 to Anne Desrosiers. He has made at least two trips to Illinois. This couple Batiscan had no children;
Mary Magdalene (1671-1744), married in 1698 to John Trottier, who died in Grondines where this family was established;
Marie-Anne (1674-1750), married In 1696 Sergeant Francois Dumontier. The latter was part of the company and Vaudreuil had abjured Protestantism in 1691. After his marriage, Frank has lived with his stepfather. In 1703 he went to Fort Frontenac. In 1708, Vaudreuil and Intendant Raudot granted him a major stronghold of a mile and a half in front by three deep Yamachiche. Mary Anne gave fealty to the fief in 1723, she was buried in Grondines;
Francis, born in 1677, married Marie-Jeanne Hamelin 1710;
Marie-Charlotte (1681-1744), married in 1700 to Charles Julien Lesieur says Duchaine. The latter was lord of Yamaska and Yamachiche. Marie-Charlotte was buried in the latter parish
Robert (1682-1709) remained unmarried. He made three trips to Fort Pontchartrain Lake Erie in 1704, 1705 and 1707. He was buried in Batiscan;
Francis said Montendre (1684-1756), engageur to the west, married in 1710 to Marie-Joseph Hamelin. This family was established Grondines;
Louis-Joseph said Bellefeuille (1685-1740), married in 1717 in Françoise Lesieur. This family is considered one of the oldest Yamachiche;
Mary Catherine (1689-1716), married in 1715 to the merchant Pierre Lefebvre of Quebec. The couple, whose life together lasted only a few months, had no children;
Alexis Rene said Loranger-Maisonville (1691-1757), married in 1727 to Marie-Charlotte Lafond. This family lived in Batiscan, Marie-Francoise, born in 1694 and married in 1716 to Jean Lafond said Mongrain, procurator fiscal in Sainte Genevieve Batiscan.
Descendants of Robert Rivard Madeleine Guillet and dispersed throughout the country and even the United States, which are attached a large number of offspring of Rene-Alexis.
Citations
(1) June 10, 1959. Ms. Loranger Paquette gave a talk on her ancestor Robert Rivard, M. Loranger, on the occasion of the 16th annual meeting of French-Canadian Genealogical Society. His text was published in the Memoirs of the society (Volume X. 1959. Pages 116 to 128).
(2) Idem. page 121.
(3) The coast St. Mark's was located in the Lordship of
Jesuits, near Champlain.
(4) of the Registry of Jacques Tousche.
(5) Memories of SGCF, volume X, page 121.
(6) Following Benjamin, History of French Canadians, Volume V, p. 61c.
(7) Act Benign Basset.
(8) City Paper. page 124.
(9) Registry of Arnold-Balthazar Pollet, June 27, 1736.
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