Jean Baptiste Parisien (1784 - 1885)

Born 14 Apr 1784 in Vaudreuil, Province of Quebec

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Descendants

Died 13 Aug 1885 at age 101 in Papineauville, Papineau, Quebec, Canada

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Biography

Jean Baptiste Leger dit Parisien was the son of Jean Baptiste Leger and Marie Angélique Prejean. He was born on April 14, 1784 and baptized the next day in Vaudreuil, Province of Quebec. ^[1]

He married Lisette Louise Bercier in 1826.

He entered the service of the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1803. HBC records indicate he served as a middleman in 1824-1825 on the Athabasca River; and as a middleman and assistant trader between 1827 and 1832 in Saskatchewan.^[2]

Residence

Residence:

Date: 1852; Place: Ottawa County, Canada East (Quebec), Canada

Date: 1861; Ottawa, Canada East, Canada.

Marriage

Husband Jean Baptiste Parisien.

Wife Lisette Bercier.

1826 ^{[citation needed]}

Father: Jean-Baptiste Leger dit Parisien

Mother: Marie Angelique Pregent Loeillet Prejean

Child: Jean Baptiste dit Leger Parisien

Child: Perinne dit Leger Parisien

Child: Charles Leger Parisien

Child: Antoine Léger

Child: Marie-Angelique dit Leger Parisien

Marriage: Contrat Soupras

Date: 02 FEB 1799

Jean Baptiste died when he was shot by an unknown man while buffalo hunting.

Jean-Baptiste was born about 1782. He passed away about 1855.

Sources

1. ↑ "Canada, Québec, registres paroissiaux catholiques, 1621-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-899S-LK29?cc=1321742&wc=HZ2S-HZ9%3A25112001%2C25112002%2C26450601 : 16 July 2014), Vaudreuil > Saint-Michel-de-Vaudreuil > Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures, index 1783-1785 > image 30 of 95; Archives Nationales du Quebec (National Archives of Quebec), Montreal.
2. ↑ Parisien, Jean Baptiste Sr. (b.ca.1783) (fl. 1824-1832) CO Sept. 2002 Revised PC March 2004.

See also:

• The genealogy of the first Metis nation : the development and dispersal of the Red River Settlement, 1820-1900; Frye, R. P. personal, Sprague, D. N. (Douglas N.).; University of Calgary, Digital Collection.
• Mothers of the Resistance 1869-1870, A Nexus of Trans-oceanic, Trans-border, and Trans-cultural Family Networks: the Parisiens of Red River https://resistancemothers.wordpress.com/about/parisien/
• Birth of daughter, Euphemina (sp?): http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_h1344/3008?r=0&s=1
• 1851; Census Place: Petite Nation, Ottawa County, Canada East (Quebec); Schedule: A; Roll: C_1132; Page: 53; Line: 14
• Library and Archives Canada; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Census Returns For 1861; Roll: C-1304
• Canadian Genealogy Index, 1600s-1900s Genealogical Research Library, Ontario, Canada Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc
• Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
• Ontario, Canada, Catholic Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1802-1967 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
• The genealogy of the first Metis Nation; D.N. Sprague and R.P. Frye; Winnipeg - Pemmican Publications 1983; Table 1, Image 107

Note N359From Jerry Miller

Subject:Re: descendant of Pierre Leger and Jeanne Boilard

Date:Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:16:29 -0700

Further to my email of yesterday, I tried another computer, and opened your attachment with ease. Yes, I can see where we are related, where Jean-Baptiste Parisian marries Louise Bercier. As I said, I do not have the genealogical charts with me anymore, but next time I go to see my sister I will try to get copies of the

I cannot remember whose family tree I was looking at, but it takes the Leger family back to France quite a ways. I do hope you can get hold of that information, because it is quite interesting.

I read somewhere that the first Leger dit Parisan (Parisien?) to come to Canada was a wily wheeler-dealer who left Paris because he was wanted by the police for various scams he was running. He took the name Parisien (as our family history spells it) as a pseudonym to stay one step ahead of the law. Was that Pierre Leger? Unfortunately I cannot remember. Just as an amusing sidelight, this is not confirmed, but when one of my ancestors came to Canada with Samuel Champlain, he already had the "dit" Canada. One of his ancestors had also come over with Jacques Cartier in the 1500's, and it was he who was insultingly called Canada as a nickname. I do not know if you know the story of how Canada got it's name, but a French translator made the mistake of translating the Indian word for "village", ka-na-ta, as the name for the whole country, and he spelled it Canada. It makes sense to me that it could very easily have been my ancestor, Pierre Henault (pronounced Eno) who made this mistake, and thereby got his nickname.

Seems my ancestors were a bunch of screw-ups, lol!

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