Marie Madeleine Réaume
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Marie Madeleine Réaume (bef. 1714 - 1784)

Marie Madeleine Réaume aka Chevalier
Born before in Québec Indéterminé, Canada, Nouvelle-Francemap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 13 Sep 1731 in Michilimackinac, Michigan, Pays-d'en-Haut, Nouvelle-Francemap
Wife of — married 28 May 1752 [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died after age 70 in Varennes, Québec Provincemap
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Marie Madeleine Réaume lived
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Biography

  • Marie Rheaume”(Marie Magdeleine Réaume)in the St. Joseph Mission Baptismal Register during the winter of 1729 marks the first documented date of her (and her family’s) presence at the French/Métis post and Potawatomi/Miami village at Rivière St. Joseph.Marie Magdeleine had apparently moved to Rivière St. Joseph with her father and mother from their home at La Baye in late summer of 1728 at the time of the French abandonment and destruction of that post during the Second Mesquakie/Fox War. At that time, her father Jean Baptiste, besides being a trader and an interpreter of the Indian languages, was a scout and agent for French interests in the region, serving during the Mesquakie/Fox War as the King’s interpreter for Nicolas-Antoine Coulon de Villiers, Commandant at Rivière St. Joseph and commander of the French forces.
  • During her family’s stay at Rivière St. Joseph, a young Marie Magdeleine married aprominent post resident voyageur and merchant trader, Augustin L’Archevêque. When her parents and family moved back to La Baye after the war with the Mesquakie had ended (note: poste de la Baye was rebuilt and once again inhabited by the French in the summer of 1731),
  • Marie Magdeleine remained at Rivière St. Joseph with her new husband and their first child, Marie Catherine. (Note: This child was named after her godmother, Marie Catherine Ouekioukoue, a woman of the Illinois Nation who was also living at St. Joseph at this time. As noted above, Marie Magdeleine had earlier served as the godmother for Ouekioukoue’s son Joseph.)
  • After the 1729 recording of her name in the Baptismal Register, Marie Magdeleine is known to have lived at the Fench/Métis/Potawatomi settlement at Rivière St. Joseph for the next fifty-one years Thus far, no record has been found of a First Nation name for her in the early documents (a name which surely would have been given to her by her mother Ouaouagoukoué and her Native family)
    Marie Madeleine was Ojibwe.
  • In the years immediately and closely following her marriage to Augustin, her name was recorded in the St. Joseph Baptismal Register four more times during the decade of the 1730’s--each time being recorded simply as Marie Reaume.
  • It was not until April 25 of 1740 that her full name—Marie Magdeleine Reaume--was finally recorded for the very first time in the Register. This was also the first time that she signed her name as such.
  • While living at Rivière St. Joseph with her husband Augustin, Marie Magdeleine apparently gave birth to eight daughters and one son. She also appears to have had two sons (Louis and Amable with her second husband Louis Chevallier. Marie Magdeleine is mentioned quite often in the St. Joseph Mission Baptismal Register through the years as she appears as a godmother at the baptisms of five of her own grandchildren, of two Indian converts (Marie Jeanne/Panise and Therese/Potawatomi), and of several other children born to other French and Native/Métis “habitants” who lived at St. Joseph.
  • As did many Native/Potawatomi women in the St. Joseph Valley, Marie Magdeleine participated in the fur trade as a supplier of various food stuffs and other items for fur traders and voyageurs, as well as for the French soldiers living at the post. Shortly after her husband Augustin died, records from Fort St. Joseph show that Marie Magdeleine(referred to in the records as “the widow Larche”)

Marriage

Marie Madeleine married Augustin Larchevêque on 13 Sep 1731 at Fort Michilimackinac, Mackinac, Michigan, US [1][2]

Following the death of Augustin Larchevêque, Marie Madeleine married Louis Chevalier on 28 APR 1752 at Fort St. Joseph, Niles, Michigan. [3]

"There is no doubt that Marie Magdeleine would have continued her active participation in the fur trade after her 1752 marriage to the prominent Michilimackinac trader Louis Chevallier (he later became the post merchant and the principle personage at Fort St. Joseph), although in the ensuing years after her marriage to Chevallier, we find little specific mention of Marie Magdeleine in the surviving documents of the times, other than in the St. Joseph Mission Baptismal Register as mentioned above. However, she is mentioned in a letter written in December of 1772 by Henry Bassett, the British commandant at Detroit, to General Thomas Gage—but not by her name, instead simply as the “Squagh” (“squaw”) wife of Louis Chevallier (see Susan Sleeper-Smith/p. 58 and her reference to The Papers of Sir William Johnson, ed. Alexander C. Flick [Albany: The University of the State of New York, 1933], 8, 672-673). A copy of this referenced letter from The Papers of William Johnson (found at http://www.archive.org/details/papersofsirwilli82john)[4]

Burial

Marie Madeleine died on 19 Feb 1784 and buried the following day in Varennes, Québec Prov, Canada[5]


Information regarding Marie Madeleine's parents as entered by Richard Van Wasshnova:
Husband: Jean Baptiste Reaume
Wife: Symphorose Thomas Ouaouagoukoue
Marriage: Abt 1720 at Green Bay (Le Baye), Brown County, Wisconsin, United States[6][7]
Child: Marie Madeleine Reaume
Relationship to Father: Challenged[8]
Relationship to Mother: Challenged[9]
Child: Suzanne Reaume
Child: Judith Reaume
Child: Marie Josephe Reaume
Child: Jean Baptiste Reaume

Sources

  1. Source: #S7 Page: page 11 Quality or Certainty of Data: 3 Date: 4 Mar 2007 Object: Format: doc File: C:\Users\Richard\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\Media\v\Docs\biographys\The Chevalier Family.doc Note: page 11 Scrapbook: Y Primary or Preferred: Y Type: DOC
  2. Source: #S2 Page: Couple17743 Quality or Certainty of Data: 3 Date: 4 Mar 2007 Object: Format: htm File: C:\Users\Richard\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\Media\v\Docs\PRDH\Families new format\Couple17743.htm Title: Couple17743 Scrapbook: Y Primary or Preferred: Y Type: DOC
  3. The French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan. Original Marriage Certificate transcribed by Suzanne Boivin Sommerville
  4. Family descendants of Jean Baptiste Reaume as provided to Jim Paquette [1]
  5. Source: #S6 Page: page 2 Quality or Certainty of Data: 3 Date: 8 Mar 2007 Object: Format: C:\Users\Richard\ Documents\Legacy Family Tree\Media\v\Docs\Sue Sommerville Research\Descendants_of_Marie_Madeleine_ Réaume.doc Title: Descendants of Marie-Madeleine Réaume Scrapbook: Y Primary or Preferred: Y Type: DOC
  6. Source: #S2 Page: PRDH25594 famille & couple Quality or Certainty of Data: 3
  7. Source: #S2 Page: Family25594 Quality or Certainty of Data: 3 Date: 5 Mar 2007 Object: Format: htm File: C:\Users\Richard\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\Media\v\Docs\PRDH\Families new format\Family25594.htm Title: Family25594 Scrapbook: Y Primary or Preferred: Y Type: DOC
  8. Source: #S6 Page: Descendants of Marie-Madeleine Réaume Quality or Certainty of Data: 3 Date: 8 Mar 2007 Object: Format: doc File: C:\Users\Richard\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\Media\v\Docs\Sue Sommerville research\Descendants_of_Marie_Madeleine_Réaume.doc Title: Descendants of Marie-Madeleine Réaume Scrapbook: Y Primary or Preferred: Y Type: DOC
  9. Source: #S6 Page: Descendants of Marie-Madeleine Réaume Quality or Certainty of Data: 3 Date: 8 Mar 2007 Object:


Acknowledgements

  • Reaume-322 was created by Richard Van Wasshnova through the import of Reaume.ged on Jul 4, 2014.
  • Reaume-376 was created by Vivian Wylie through the import of Wylie_Blackwood.ged on Jan 23, 2015.




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Reaume-376 and Réaume-110 appear to represent the same person because: Same name, same birth year (PRDH says Indetermine, Montreal not supported with facts.

Same parents, same spouse Chevalier. Larcheveque is also correct per PRDH source.

Same death date and place.

posted by Cindy (Bourque) Cooper

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