Jean (Boursier) Boursier dit Lavigne
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Jean (Boursier) Boursier dit Lavigne (abt. 1644 - abt. 1689)

Jean Boursier dit Lavigne formerly Boursier aka Bourcier, Lavigne
Born about in Saint-Seurin-d'Uzet, Saintonge, Francemap
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Husband of — married 9 Apr 1673 in Notre-Dame de Montréal, Canada, Nouvelle-Francemap
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Died about at about age 45 in Lachine, Canada, Nouvelle-Francemap
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Biography

JEAN BOURSIER dit LAVIGNE Status : Immigrant

Birth : circa 1644 St-Seurin-d'Uzet (auj. Chenac-St-Seurin-d'Uzet), ev. Saintes, Saintonge (ar. saintes, charente-maritime)[1]

Jean Boursier was born on 1644 in St-Seurin-d'Uzet, Saintes diocese, Saintonge (Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes), France to Pierre Boursier & Marie Mouchet. according to Tanguay. He had two known siblings David 1701 and Marie.[citation needed]

Jean departs France between 1664 and 1672 for the North shore the St Lawrence River at Montreal, Canada. He shall settle in the little village of Lachine 4 miles west of the City in the woods and prairies of the Iroquois Indian wilderness on Lac St-Louis.

He immigrates to Montreal Canada about 1671, age 23, two years before Jacques Marquette is exploring the shores of Lake Michigan and finds his way down the Fox River to the Illinois River to the Mississippi and returns. Fishing, trapping and trading with the Iroquois Indians was the business of the times.

Jean marries Marie Marthe Thibodeaut when she is 12 year old. It is worth noting that he is 29 years old as he marries; a new arrival in Canada with his parents and family back in France. He is truly on his own in the midst of these French and Iroquois Indian villages near current day Montreal. It is the age of exploration and he is willing to undertake its dangers and opportunities.

Jean marries Marie-Marthe Thibodeau in Montreal that same year of 1673 on April 13th.

On 9 April 1673 Jean Boursier Lavigne and Marie Marthe Thibodeau were married at Notre-Dame de Montréal. [2] Jean's profession is described as: Vivant Marinier" or a "Batelier" meaning a person who conducts a ship on a river. [3]

The suffix "dit LaVigne" attached to Jean's name could indicate he came from an area of "vines" on the Central East Atlantic Coastal region of France. His Father, Pierre, was born in St-Seurin-d'Uzet, again, also an Atlantic region on a major coastal bay of France. The area would have had a long and significant fishing history as a village near a bay. Vineyards probably dotted the flat countryside along the coast.

Killed by the Iroquois in the Lachine Massacre of Aug 5, 1689

1689, August 5th Jean Boursier dit La Vigne, his wife and children killed by Iroquois Indians. During the early morning hours of August 5th, 1689, Iroquois Indians, under cover of a severe thunderstorm, canoe along the south bank of the St. Laurence River and cross to the small French settlement at LaChine, P/Quebec, Canada at the mouth of Lac Louis where the St Lawrence flows into the Lac........

Encouraged by the British, they hate the French and seek retribution for the French destruction of the Seneca Indians largest village.......

Fifteen Hundred (1,500) Mohawk, one of the six tribes of the Iroquois Nation, surround the 77 buildings containing the 375 French settlers....... The signal to attack is given and doors and windows are broken and French men women and children dragged out into the rain filled night.......

The Jean Boursier dit LaVigne homestead was one of those houses........

Jean and his wife Marie Marthe Thibodeau Boursier are asleep with their son Jean and two daughters, Marie Elizabeth and Madeleine. Jean is 44, Marie 28 years of age, daughter Elizabeth and mother's helper 9 years of age, little brother Jean was 3, and baby Madeleine 11 months. They shall not survive the day.......

Alexandre, 15, Marguerite, 13, Barbe, 11, Anne, 7, and Jeanne Catherine, 5 shall escape the carnage.

Fifty-six (56) of the homes and buildings are set afire. Those families barricading themselves within their homes are burned to death. The screaming is unimmaginable........

Baby Marie-Madeline Boursier, 11 months old, is drowned by a vengfull [sic] Iroquois. Her little body will be found on the banks of Lake St-Louis and she will be buried on the land........

Madeleine's Mother Marie, her Father Jean, and sister Elizabeth shall never be seen again or indentified among the dead........

The nearest help was 8 miles east in Montreal and might as well have been on the moon........

Lachine Massacre Plaque

The carnage is awful. Twenty-four of the villagers are hacked to death. Ninety are captured, 42 of whom will never be seen again. Sixty six of the captured will be slaughtered by burning at the stake, and drowning. It was over within the hour and the decapitated and dismembered dead were left as they fell........ It was a scene of horror for Son Alexandre, age 15, when he returned home to the carnage.days later...........

A very saddened small Boursier family. [4]

BOURSIER- Madeleine Boursier, eleven month old child was thrown into the riverby the Iroquois, d/o Jean and Marthe Thibodeau. It is believed that Jean and Marthe Thibodeau were taken prisonners and died later in captivity. [5]

Image of Plaque of the Lachine Massacre [1]

JEAN BOURSIER DIT LAVIGNE. [6][7][8]

Born 1644 La Rochelle, Charente-Maritim, Saintonge, France. [9][10] 1644 Saintes, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France. Map: Latitude: N45.75. Longitude: W0.6333. [11] Found multiple copies of birth date. Using 1644

Died Lachine Massacre. 5 AUG 1689. Lachine, Ile De Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [12][13] Victim of the Lachine Massacre. Killed by Mohawk Indians along with wife and 3 of their children. 5 AUG 1689. Lachine, Québec, Canada. [14] Found multiple copies of death date. Using 5 AUG 1689

Baptism: 1644[15]

Marriage Husband @I37635@. Wife @I37638@. Child: @I15568@. Marriage 9 APR 1673. Montréal, Quebec, Canada. [16][17]

JEAN BOURSIER DIT LAVIGNE. [18][19][20]

Born 1644 La Rochelle, Charente-Maritim, Saintonge, France. [21][22] 1644 Saintes, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France. Map: Latitude: N45.75. Longitude: W0.6333. [23] Found multiple copies of birth date. Using 1644

Died Lachine Massacre. 5 AUG 1689. Lachine, Ile De Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [24][25] Victim of the Lachine Massacre. Killed by Mohawk Indians along with wife and 3 of their children. 5 AUG 1689. Lachine, Québec, Canada. [26] Found multiple copies of death date. Using 5 AUG 1689

Baptism: 1644[27]

Marriage Husband @I37635@. Wife @I37638@. Child: @I15568@. Marriage 9 APR 1673. Montréal, Quebec, Canada. [28][29]

Sources

  1. ↑ Pionniers PRDH
  2. ↑ Genealogie Québec, database, images, (https://www.genealogiequebec.com/en/: 10 Jan 2016), Marriage entry for Jean Boursier Lavigne and Marie Marthe Thibodeau, 9 Apr 1673, Acte # 47388, Image # blank, Drouin Institute.
  3. ↑ Jean-Claude Bourcier, 22 December 2007
  4. ↑ Mann_Gretchen originally shared this to Brendel Family Tree. http://trees.ancestry.ca/tree/2819231/storyx/7123f019-9828-4e54-8ada-5c3a730f3d9a
  5. ↑ kaprimeau originally shared this to Wilson_Primeau Family Tree1
  6. ↑ Source: #S273 Database online. Record for Jean Boursier dit Lavigne Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=6847478427&indiv=try
  7. ↑ Source: #S273 Database online. Record for JEAN BOURSIER DIT LAVIGNE Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=27782629445&indiv=try
  8. ↑ Source: #S273 Database online. Record for Pierre Boursier 8GGF** Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=44050226858&indiv=try
  9. ↑ Source: #S273 Database online. Record for JEAN BOURSIER DIT LAVIGNE Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=27782629445&indiv=try
  10. ↑ Source: #S273 Database online. Record for Pierre Boursier 8GGF** Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=44050226858&indiv=try
  11. ↑ Source: #S273 Database online. Record for Jean Boursier dit Lavigne Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=6847478427&indiv=try
  12. ↑ Source: #S273 Database online. Record for JEAN BOURSIER DIT LAVIGNE Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=27782629445&indiv=try
  13. ↑ Source: #S273 Database online. Record for Pierre Boursier 8GGF** Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=44050226858&indiv=try
  14. ↑ Source: #S273 Database online. Record for Jean Boursier dit Lavigne Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=6847478427&indiv=try
  15. ↑ Source: #S273 Database online. Record for Jean Boursier dit Lavigne Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=6847478427&indiv=try
  16. ↑ Source: #S273 Database online. Record for Jean Boursier dit Lavigne Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=6847478427&indiv=try
  17. ↑ Source: #S273 Database online. Record for JEAN BOURSIER DIT LAVIGNE Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=27782629445&indiv=try
  18. ↑ Source: #S273 Database online. Record for Jean Boursier dit Lavigne Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=6847478427&indiv=try
  19. ↑ Source: #S273 Database online. Record for JEAN BOURSIER DIT LAVIGNE Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=27782629445&indiv=try
  20. ↑ Source: #S273 Database online. Record for Pierre Boursier 8GGF** Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=44050226858&indiv=try
  21. ↑ Source: #S273 Database online. Record for JEAN BOURSIER DIT LAVIGNE Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=27782629445&indiv=try
  22. ↑ Source: #S273 Database online. Record for Pierre Boursier 8GGF** Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=44050226858&indiv=try
  23. ↑ Source: #S273 Database online. Record for Jean Boursier dit Lavigne Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=6847478427&indiv=try
  24. ↑ Source: #S273 Database online. Record for JEAN BOURSIER DIT LAVIGNE Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=27782629445&indiv=try
  25. ↑ Source: #S273 Database online. Record for Pierre Boursier 8GGF** Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=44050226858&indiv=try
  26. ↑ Source: #S273 Database online. Record for Jean Boursier dit Lavigne Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=6847478427&indiv=try
  27. ↑ Source: #S273 Database online. Record for Jean Boursier dit Lavigne Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=6847478427&indiv=try
  28. ↑ Source: #S273 Database online. Record for Jean Boursier dit Lavigne Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=6847478427&indiv=try
  29. ↑ Source: #S273 Database online. Record for JEAN BOURSIER DIT LAVIGNE Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=27782629445&indiv=try
Name: Jean Boursier
Death Date: 5 Aug 1689
City: Lachine
Country: Canada
Source Information: Edmund West, comp.. "Family Data Collection - Deaths [database on-line]". Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.

[2]

  • Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968
1770 1 May - Les Cedres, St-Joseph-de-Soulanges (a grandson???)
Jean Boursier dit LaVigne, aged 48 yrs, widower of late Marie-Anne Bourbeau of this parish of Chateauguay
Marie-Catherine d'Aoust , dtr of Guillaume & Marie-Catherine Haimart of this parish
Witnesses: for Groom Joseph Lefebvre, Pierre Haimart, Jean-Baptiste ____ ; for bride: ______ , Guillaume d'____ _______ ,Jean-Baptiste Deschamps, & many others
Source Information: Ancestry.com. "Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968 [database on-line]". Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2008.
Original data: Gabriel Drouin, comp. "Drouin Collection". Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin.
http://search.ancestry.ca/search/db.aspx?dbid=1091
  • "Le vieux Lachine: et le massacre du 5 t 1689: conférence donnée devant la paroisse de Lachine, le 6 août 1889"
p 40 of 56
[3]
  • Lachine Massacre Aug 05 1689: Image

MJenkinsPender originally shared this to Pender Family Tree [4]

  • Weblink: For more on the Lachine Massacre, see Wikipedia [5]
  • Weblink: For more on the Lachine massacre: Le Canada: A People's History - Une Histoire Populaire; The Lachine Massacre. [6]
  • Weblink: The Lachine Massacre August 5, 1689 (including a list of some of those lost [7]
  • Weblink: Franco-American History and the Lachine Massacre; An excerpt from Here To Stay, a historical memoir by Denis Ledoux,on April 2, 2013:

The Memoir Network [8]

  • Weblink: The Lachine Massacre: Genealogy, Rootsweb, Ancestry.com;[9]




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