•LE MARIAGE DE SES PARENTS, MICHEL CHAUVAIN ET ANNE ARCHAMBAULT, A ÉTÉ ANNULÉ POUR CAUSE DE BIGAMIE, L'ÉPOUX ÉTANT DÉJÀ MARIÉ EN FRANCE. DE CE FAIT, SA NAISSSANCE EST DEVENUE ILLÉGITIME.
The marriage of her parents, Michel Chauvain and Anne Archambault, was annulled due to bigamy, her father being already married in France to a still living wife, thus she became illegitimate.
She is listed as having thereafter been adopted by her mother's husband Jean Gervaise
Enfants connus du couple/known children of the couple
-Jean Baptiste, born and bapt 12 Jun 1666 Montréal; died and buried 2 Jul 1690 Pointe-aux-Trembles
-Anne Baudouin, born and bapt 3 Jul 1669 Montréal; married Jean Lescarbot 22 Nov 1683 Pointe-aux-Trembles
-Guillaume, born and bapt 7 Jun 1672; died and buried 10 Jun 1672 Montréal
-Guillaume, born and bap 11 Jun 1673 Montréal; married Marie Anne Baudreau 11 Nov 1697 at 24, Notre-Dame de Montréal
-Jacques, born and bapt 28 Oct 1675 Pointe-aux-Trembles; married Marie Rivière 17 Nov 1700 Repentigny
-François, born and bapt 30 Jan 1678 Pointe-aux-Trembles; married Anne Grenet 12 Jun 1702 St-François-de-Sales (Île-Jésus)
-Cécile, born and bapt 7 Apr 1680 Montréal
-Jeanne, born and bapt 8 Aug 1682 Pointe-aux-Trembles; married Jean Baptiste Forget 22 Nov 1700 Repentigny
-Louis, born and bapt 22 Aug 1684 ; died and buried 3 Sept 1684 Pointe-aux-Trembles
-nameless girl, born and bapt 26 Sept 1685 (name simply left blank on record); Marie Madeleine married Germain Touin/Thouin 26 Jan 1704 Pointe-aux-Trembles
-Barbe Charlotte, born and bapt 9 May 1688 Pointe-aux-Trembles; Charlotte marries Claude Brem 8 Jan 1714 Pointe-aux-Trembles
-Jean Baptiste, born and bapt 8 Oct 1691 Pointe-aux-Trembles; Jean married Marie Josephe Gloria 9 Jan 1713 Repentigny[4]
Jean Beaudouin, 29 ; Charlotte Chauvin, sa femme, 16 ; Jean-Baptiste, 1,[5]
Recensement 1681 Census: Ville de Montréal
Jean Baudouin 42 ; Charlotte Chauvin, sa femme, 32 ; enfants : Jean 15, Anne 12, Guillaume 9, Jacques 7, François 5, Cécile 2 ; 1 fusil ; 8 bêtes à cornes ; 8 arpents en valeur.[5]
Death & Burial
31 Oct 1718, Pointe-aux-Trembles, Montréal island[6], she was listed as Charlotte Gervais on this record, widow of Jean Beaudoin.
↑ Quebec, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1997 - Drouin IGD
↑ 5.05.1Recensements de 1666-1667-1681 en Nouvelle-France, référant au chapitre IV du livre Histoire des Canadiens Français de Benjamin Sulte, compilés par Jean-Guy Sénécal (senecal@gel.ulaval.ca) le 17 mars 1998
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