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Antoine Brassard, maître maçon.[1][2][3]
Antoine Brassard est né vers 1609 en Normandie.[4]
Champlain revient en Nouvelle-France en 1633 après le sac de Québec par les Frères Kirks en 1629 et la signature du Traité de Saint-Germain en Laye. Il est probable qu’Antoine fasse partie du voyage. En effet selon l’habitude du temps, les ouvriers signaient des contrats de trois ans pour payer leur voyage. Or Antoine se marie en 1637 ce qui fait remonter son arrivée à 1633[5]
Certains croient qu'il serait arrivé avec Charles Du Plessis-Bochart, qui fit plusieurs voyages vers la colonie entre 1633 et 1636.[6] Il est fort probable que ce soit le cas.
La première présence d'Antoine Brassard dans la colonie relevée dans les registres par contre est son mariage avec Françoise Méry.
Mariage
Le 14 janvier 1637 à Notre-Dame-de-la-Recouvrance[7][8], Antoine Brassart, maçon, épousa Françoise Méry en présence de M. François Dere et de Nicolas Pivert, Charles Lallemant, jésuite, célébrant.[9][10][11] Ce mariage était parmi les dix premiers célébrés dans la colonie.
Le couple fit un voyage en France à La Rochelle, leurs 2 premiers enfants y seraient nés, Jeanne et Antoine.[12]
Enfants connus du couple
Recensement 1666: FAMlLLES DES HABITANTS, QUÉBEC, HAUTE ET BASSE-VILLE
Antoine Brassard, 57, maçon, habitant ; Francoise Mery, 45, sa femme ; Guillaume, 18 ; Antoine, 16 ; Jean-Baptiste, 14 ; Louis, 12 ; Dorothée, 9.[13]
Recensement 1667: À SILLERY
Antoine Brassard, 58 ; François(e) Mery, sa femme, 54 ; Guillaume, 20 ; Antoine, 18 ; Jean, 16 ; Louis, 14 ; Dorothée, 12 ; 3 bestiaux, 27 arpents en valeur.[13]
Les filles d'Antoine et de Françoise étudieront avec les Ursulines un court temps, toujours c'est Monseigneur de Laval qui paie pour elles:
Les terres d'Antoine : Association des Brassard d'Amérique: La Maçonne vol 5 no 1 pg 10-11, celle de Québec Association des Brassard d'Amérique: La Maçonne vol 5 no 2 pg 11-15, Grande Allée et Sillery
Le fils Antoine, coureur des bois et compagnon de Cavelier de La Salle Association des Brassard d'Amérique: La Maçonne vol 6 no 2 pg 19-21, Antoine, coureur des bois
Décès
Antoine Brassard décède entre la quittance qu'il donne à Robert Mossion le 5 février 1669 et l'inventaire après décès du 20 juillet 1669 par le notaire Romain Becquet, présumément à Sillery. Aucune sépulture n'a été identifiée comme la sienne.
Antoine Brassard was born around 1609 in Normandie[4]
Antoine Brassard & Françoise Méry
1636, Françoise living in her own house on the Grande-Allée in Québec city.
1/14/1637 in Notre-Dame-de-la-Recouvrance church of Québec, Antoine, a mason, married Francoise. Attending: Francois Derre, Nicolas Pivert.
1639, Antoine and Françoise returned to France [where 2 children were born – the son dying young.]
6/1641, Antoine, Françoise and daughter Jeanne, age 3 months, arrived back in Trois-Rivières.
10/4/1642 at Fort St-Louis, Antoine and Françoise contracted to work for Guillaume Couillard, husband of Guillemette Hebert, under a 1-year contract. They received board and 144 livres in wages.
2/14/1647, Antoine received a concession from the Governor of 40 acres on the Grand-Allée, which linked Québec city and Cap-Rouge.
Antoine and Françoise lived in their house in the Grande Allée [today St-Louis], in Quebec City.
6/19/1650, Antoine leased 4 arpents to Louis Houde for 6 years.
1655, Antoine qualified as a master mason.
1659, Antoine lived in the upper part of the old town near the convent of the Ursulines.
1662, Guillaume Fournier bought an arpent frontage between the Grande Allée and the river, between the lands of Antoine Brassard and Denys Duquet.
10/19/1663, Antoine divided 18 arpents equally among his 3 sons-in-laws.
12/10/1665, Antoine acquired 30 arpents in “terres des Sauvages” [Sillery].
1666 Census, Antoine, 57 and mason habitant, and Francoise 45, in high-town of Québec city; Guillaume 18, Antoine 16, Jean Baptiste 14, Louis 12, Dorothée 9.
12/8/1666, Antoine acquired land in “terres des Sauvages” [Sillery].
1667 Census, Antoine 58, and Françoise 54, in Sillery; Guillaume 20, Antoine 18, Jean Baptiste 16, Louis 14, Dorothée 12; 27 arpents of cleared land, 3 cattle.
12/12/1667, Antoine appearing before the West Indies Company had lost his concession document but declared to have an official survey; he owned a lot in the Upper town with a house with a heated room, cellar, and attic.
4/5/1668 at the house of widow Lalime in Québec, Antoine sold his Haute ville property [Uppertown lot and house] for 250 livres to Robert Mossion dit Lamouche; to be delivered upon completion of payments over multiple years.
9/20/1668, Antoine and Françoise divided part of their land “located at the place called Grande Allée” among their 3 sons-in-law, Louis Fontaine, Jacques Hedouin, and Jean Lemelin.
12/30/1668, Antoine acquired land in “terres des Sauvages” [Sillery].
2/5/1669, Antoine received a 86 livres and 10 sols payment on the sale of his Upper town lot.
Bef. 5/26/1669, Antoine, age 60, died in Sillery (St-Joseph parish).
7/9/1669, Antoine’s estate inventoried: 3 bulls, a cow, a calf, 10 chickens, a rooster, a plow, 15 livres in cash, furniture, 12 pounds of wheat.
7/21/1669, Antoine’s possessions auctioned. [A 2nd auction a few days later.] Total receipts of 945 livres.
9/6/1669, Antoine’s estate sale finalized with a total of 1773 livres, 19 sols, 6 deniers.
4/11/1670, Jacques Hedouin, acting for the minor children and Françoise, received the final payment from Robert Mossion on the lot and house. [He apparently arranged to rent Françoise the house in which she still lived.]
7/11/1671, Françoise, age 50, died “a sudden death” in the house on Grande-Allée, Québec city; buried the next day.
Family notes: • The “Mery” families are well document as living in Tourouvre. There are several baptisms of the name of Francoise, any of which could be this person.
Children of Antoine and Francoise:
i. Jeanne Brassard, born 3/1641 in La Rochelle, France. 2/7/1656 in Quebec, Jeanne married Jacques Hedouin, s/o Romain, an edge-tool maker. 12/20/1709, Jeanne, age 68, died in Quebec.
ii. Marie Madeleine Brassard (3887), born 6/1/1642 in Quebec, Canada.
iii. Alexandre Brassard, born 1640 in . [Died age 48.] see notes
iv. Marie Marguerite Brassard (2043), born 1/23/1646 in Quebec City, Canada.
v. Guillaume Brassard, born 12/14/1647 in Quebec, Canada. 2/15/1672 in Quebec, Guillaume married Catherine, d/o Abraham Louvet & Marie David. Bef. 2/8/1715, Guillaume, age 68, died.
vi. Antoine Brassard, born 10/13/1649 in Quebec, Canada. Antoine, an interpreter of the Iroquois language. Aft. 9/1/1683, Antoine died in Quebec. [La Salle wrote to him from Chicago.]
vii. Jean Baptiste Brassard, born 9/18/1651 in Quebec, Canada. 4/26/1672 in Quebec, Jean married Jeanne, d/o Jean Quelve & Marie Camus. 2/21/1715, Jean died in Quebec.
viii. Louis Brassard, born 8/3/1653 in Quebec, Canada. 1/28/1680 in Ancienne Lorette, Louis married Simone, d/o Pierre Maufay & Marie Duval. Bef. 1707, Louis, age 54, died.
ix. Dorothée Brassard, born 7/30/1656 in Quebec, Canada. 10/5/1671 in Quebec, Dorothée married Pierre Richer dit Laflèche. 11/7/1738, Dorothée, age 82, died in St-Augustin.
Antoine Brassard was laid to rest sometime around the end of the winter or early spring (before 26 May 1669) in the Mission St-Joseph de Sillery. His wife, Françoise Mery, died 2 years later on July 11, 1671 in the house on the Grand Allée. She was buried the next day in the same parish (Notre-Dame).
I have a detailed account of his life, here is a quick summary: Antoine Brassard was born in 1609 in (Rouen?) Normandie. [His birthplace is uncertain because the original registers were destroyed in the fire of both the chapel and the rectory of the Notre-Dame-de-la-Recouvrance in Quebec on June 15, 1640] He arrived in Trois-Rivières on June 11, 1636 in a flotilla consisting of 3 or 4 ships under the command of DuPlessis-Bochart.
The flotilla consisted of a carrier ship of 45 people commanded by Savinien Coupon and two or three other ships. One of the ships was called the “Saint Joseph” and was commanded by Lieutenant Nicholas Trevet of Longuejoue.One of the passengers was a Jesuit priest, Francoise Ragueneau. Among the 100 passengers were 91 immigrants.Detailed descriptions of the immigrants are provided in Marcel Trudel’s “Catalogue of Immigrants”. The following information was given for Antoine Brassard:
Antoine Brassard, Age 27, no signature (illiterate?), from Normandy, first appearance in Quebec, qualified mason; obtained “land of time” (land grant?) from Charles Hault De Montmagny, governor.
Antoine wed Francoise Mery, age 19 (16? Born in 1621?), on January 14, 1637 in the chapel Notre dame de La Recouvrance in Quebec.The marriage was performed by Father Charles Lallement, a Jesuit pastor.Francoise Mery was probably from Tourouvre in Perche, France ( Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne) and was living at her home on Grand-Allee (Great Road) in Quebec at the time of her marriage.
The couple returned to France in 1639. While in France, Francoise gave birth to two children: Antoine in December?, 1639 and Jeanne in March, 1641.Both children were born in LaRochelle, France in the Aunis region. Antoine and Francoise returned to New France in 1641.
Antoine, Francoise, and their two children arrived in Three Rivers, Quebec in June, 1641 in a flotilla consisting of 4 ships.One was the Gaston, 100 tons, commanded by Captain G. Joubert.Another, the “Rene”, 120 tons, was commanded by Captain N. Pernet.Among the 100 passengers, 57 were immigrants and 14 were to settle Montreal.Charles Hault De Montmagny, governor of New France, age 50.
Antoine and Francoise began working for Guillaume Coulliart on October 4, 1642.Guillaume was a carpenter/farmer who inherited large landholdings through his marriage,Antoinne qualified as a master mason in 1655.Guillaume hired them for one year, as hired help.He provides the pension and offers them decent wages.The contract was signed at Fort Saint-Louis in the presence of Guillaume Troquet, a future notary.Antoine and Francoise were unable to sign and simply wrote some individual sign at the bottom of the contract.
On February 14, 1647, Antoine is called to the Governor’s residence, in Fort St. Louis, in order to receive in due form, a concession from de Montigny (Montmagny?) himself.The act is signed by Henri Bancheron of the registry office.The amount of farmland attributed was estimated at 40 acres and situated on the border of the Great Road (Grand Allee) joining Quebec and Cap Rouge.
According to Marcel Trudel, the land consisted of two farms situated in the outskirts of Quebec.The first situated between the Grand Allee and the river comprised of 3 acres, 2 rods, and 9 feet extending up to the cliff.The second situated between the Signuery St. Jean and the upper city with 3 acres on the Grand Allee, at a depth of 3 acres extending up to the property of Henri Pinguet and Nicolas Masolet, at the end of the knoll.The two farms must have belonged to Jean Paul Godfroy who relinquished them and them lost them completely as a result of a decision made against him on December 30, 1651.
Antoine lends 4 acres to Louis Houle
Antoine obtains lot in the city (haute ville)
Antoine acquires 30 acres of farmland in de Sillery
Antoine mentioned in 1666 and 1667 census; resides in Sillery
In 1668 Antoine sells hauteville property for 250 livres, 86 of which were paid to Antoine on Feb 5, 1669
Antoine dies in late winter or early spring
July 9, 1869 inventory of estate: including 3 bulls, a cow, a calf, 10 chickens and a rooster, a plow, 15 pounds in cash, furniture, 12 pounds of wheat
July 21 auction includes above and a pig and some chests.Another auction on the 25th includes tools, guns, and farm equipment, and one on the 20th to sell the grains harvested in Quebec and Sillery.Total receipts are 761 pounds + 184 pounds for the furniture.Other assets bring the total to 1773 pounds.
Like other ancestors, the death of Antoine Brassard was a mystery because we don't know the date or the circumstances.His was laid to rest sometime around the end of the winter or early spring in (before 26 May 1669) in the Mission St Joseph de Sillery. His wife, Francoise Mery, died 2 years later on July 11, 1671 in the house of the Grand Allee. She was buried the next day in the same parish (Notre-Dame).
above from https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/brassard/78/
The parents previously attached to this profile, Antoine Brassard and Marie Fourment, have been detached. There is NO evidence to support their being listed as his parents, who are unknown. His marriage record names no parents.
Les parents précédemment rattachés à ce profil, Antoine Brassard et Marie Fourment, ont été détachés. Il n'y a aucune preuve qui supporte leur inclusion comme ses parents, qui sont inconnus. Son acte de mariage ne nomme aucun parent.
Antoine Brassard, arrival 1636, age 27 in Quebec, Canada (born abt 1609) from Normandie, France; occupation qualified mason; marries 14 Jan 1637 Francoise Mery in Quebec; obtains land from Hauault of Montmagny; returns to France in 1639 and returns to Quebec in 1641 (calculated on the birth of two children born in France); he is in the service of Guillaume Couillard in 1642; master mason in 1655 Source: Marcel Trudel Catalogue of Immigrants; page 52 Brassard tree
Les terres d'Antoine /Antoine's lands (FR): Association des Brassard d'Amérique: La Maçonne vol 5 no 1 pg 10-11, celle de Québec Association des Brassard d'Amérique: La Maçonne vol 5 no 2 pg 11-15, Grande Allée et Sillery
Alexandre Brassard est inclus par beaucoup d'auteurs comme fils d'Antoine et de Françoise Méry[2][3][1]. Il apparait pour la première fois dans les registres de la colonie le 31 janvier 1687 à Saint-François de l'île d'Orléans, étant parrain d'Alexandre Dompierre, fils de Charles.[19] Il apparaît ensuite dans 5 actes de sépulture au même endroit comme témoin entre septembre 1687 et janvier 1688, il ne sait pas signer.[20] Il est inhumé le 14 janvier 1688 à Sainte-Famille de l'île d'Orléans, l'acte lui donnant 48 ans.[21] Il n'apparaît dans aucun acte notarial inventorié, ni dans aucun des recensements. L'âge au décès qu'on lui donne met sa naissance vers 1640.
On trouve cet acte qui concerne tous les héritiers d'Antoine Brassard et Françoise Emery le 26 avril 1675 devant le notaire Romain Becquet:
:Transaction entre Guillaume Brassard et les cohéritiers en les successions d’Antoine Brassard et de Françoise Emery, leur père et mère (28 avril 1675).
Guillaume Brassard et ses co-héritiers, qui sont nommés sur l'acte: Pierre Richer dit Laflèche comme ayant épousé Dorothée Brassard, Anthoine Brassard, Jean Baptiste Brassard, Louis Brassard, Louis Fontaine et sa femme Marie Magdeleine Brassard, Jacques Hedouin et sa femme Jeanne Brassard, Jean Lemelin et sa femme Marguerite Brassard.[22] Il n'y a aucune mention d'un Alexandre. La conclusion s'impose: Alexandre Brassard n'est pas fils d'Antoine et de Françoise Méry.
:Transaction between Guillaume Brassard and the coheirs in the successions of Antoine Brassard and of Françoise Emery, their father and mother (28 April 1675).
Guillaume Brassard and his co-heirs, who are named on the act: Pierre Richer dit Laflèche as having married Dorothée Brassard, Anthoine Brassard, Jean Baptiste Brassard, Louis Brassard, Louis Fontaine and his wife Marie Magdeleine Brassard, Jacques Hedouin and his wife Jeanne Brassard, Jean Lemelin and his wife Marguerite Brassard.[22] There is NO mention of an Alexandre. The conclusion imposes itself: Alexandre Brassard is not the son of Antoine and of Françoise Méry.
Notaire Martial Piraube[23]
Notaire Guillaume Audouart[23]
Notaire Romain Becquet[23]
Notaire Gilles Rageot[23]
Notaire Jean Lecomte[23]
BAnQ documents (most have original documents viewable at source/la plupart ont les documents originaux visibles à la source)
Déclaration faite au papier terrier de la Compagnie des Indes occidentales par Antoine Brassard, laquelle déclaration étant relative à un emplacement sis sur la Grande-Allée, en la Haute-Ville de Québec, sur lequel il y a une maison; 3 décembre 1667
Déclaration faite devant Louis-Théandre Chartier, écuyer, seigneur de Lotbinière, conseiller du Roi en ses conseils, lieutenant général civil et criminel à Québec, par Antoine Brassard pour un emplacement et une maison sis sur la Grande Allée en la Haute-Ville de Québec, et fixation des redevances dues pour lesdites propriétés . - 3 décembre 1667 (ter)[26]
Déclaration faite au papier terrier de la Compagnie des Indes occidentales par Antoine Brassard, laquelle déclaration étant relative à un emplacement sis sur la Grande-Allée, en la Haute-Ville de Québec, sur lequel il y a une maison . - 3 décembre 1667
Déclaration faite au papier terrier de la Compagnie des Indes occidentales par Antoine Brassard, laquelle déclaration étant relative à une terre de vingt-cinq arpents sise en la banlieue de Québec, sur laquelle il y a une maison, une grange et une étable . - 3 décembre 1667 (bis)
Déclaration faite au papier terrier de la Compagnie des Indes occidentales par Louis Fontaine, laquelle déclaration étant relative à six arpents de terre défrichée, bornés d'un côté par les Religieuses Ursulines et d'un bout par la Grande-Allée, sis et situés en la banlieue de Québec, sur lesquels il y a une maison . - 10 décembre 1667
Contrat de vente par Antoine Brassard, maître maçon de Québec, et Françoise Marie, sa femme, à Robert Mossion (Moussion) dit Lamouche, maître tailleur d'habits de Québec, d'une maison sise sur le chemin de la Grande Allée en la Haute-Ville de Québec (Notaire Jean Lecomte) . - 3 avril 1668[30]
Déclaration faite au papier terrier de la Compagnie des Indes occidentales par Jacques Hédouin, laquelle déclaration étant relative à une terre en nature de labours de six arpents bornée d'un bout par la Grande-Allée en la banlieue de la ville de Québec, sur laquelle il y a une maison . - 2 juillet 1668
Déclaration faite au papier terrier de la Compagnie des Indes occidentales par Jean Lemelin, laquelle déclaration étant relative à une terre en nature de labours de six arpents sise sur la Grande-Allée et bornée d'un côté par les Religieuses Hospitalières, en la Haute-Ville de Québec . - 21 juillet 1668
Tutelle aux mineurs et inventaire des biens et effets de feu Antoine Brassard, habitant, de la rivière Saint-Charles, et de Françoise Méry . - 9 juillet 1669 - 15 juillet 1669[33]
Jugement de l'intendant Claude Bouteroue, rendu dans le procès entre Jacques Hédouin dit Laforge et Romain Becquet, à propos de la succession de Antoine Brassard . - 30 août 1669 - 6 septembre 1669
Lettres d'amortissement par le Roi en faveur des Religieuses Ursulines de Québec de plusieurs terres, à savoir 21 perches de terre près de leur couvent, lesquelles ayant été acquises par elles de la veuve Pierre de Joybert de Marson le 3 octobre 1679, puis deux arpents et dix perches, joignant aussi leur couvent, puis un arpent et demi de terre de front sur douze de profondeur ou environ situé sur la Grande Allée et tenant d'un coté aux terres acquises par elles des Brassard et de l'autre à celles de Nicolas Dupont, représentant Gervais Normand, acquises par elles de Noël Pinguet et Madeleine Dupont, sa femme, le 20 avril 1678, et enfin 25 arpents de terre acquises par elles des enfants et héritiers de feu Antoine Brassard et Françoise Emmery (Émery, Méry), sa femme, le 28 avril 1675, lesquels arpents tenant d'un côté aux terres desdites religieuses, comme ayant acquis celles dudit Pinguet et sa femme, et de l'autre à celle des héritiers de feu Gauthier la Chesnaye (LaChesnaye) . - 7 juin 1680[35]
Association des Brassard d'Amérique: La Maçonne vol 5 no 2 pg 2-5, bio
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