Jean Baptiste Campeau (1711 - 1783)

Born 4 Aug 1711 in Montréal, Canada, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Husband of Catherine Perthuis — married 27 Jan 1737 in St-Anne, Fort Ponchartrain

Descendants

Died 12 Jun 1783 at age 71 in Detroit, Province of Québec

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Biography

Jean Baptiste Campeau was born in Montreal on 4 Aug 1711 and baptized the same day at Notre-Dame de Montreal to Jacques Campo and Cécile Catin ^[1]

Jean Baptiste Campeau, son of Jacques Campeau and Cecile Catin of the parish of Montreal married Catherine Perthius, daughter of Pierre Perthius and Catherine Mallet, residents of Detroit, on 27 Jan 1737 in Detroit ^{[2][3] [4]}

Jean Baptiste was Royal Notary and Justice of the Peace in Detroit^[4]

Jean Baptiste Campeau, widower of Louise Perthuis (sic Catherine died 20 years earlier so being mis-identified as Louise could be due to vague memory of her), age about 72 years, died 12 Jun 1783 and was buried the next day in the cemetery of Ste Anne du Detroit. ^[5][6]

In the early years of Ste. Anne Parish, its dead were buried either in the church or just outside the stockade, around Jefferson Avenue and Griswold Street. As the church moved (the one that burned in the Great Fire of 1805 was the sixth building) and the city grew, some remains were moved several times.

They were all relocated to their final resting place in a mass grave in Mount Elliott Cemetery in 1869.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Drouin Genealogical Institute Bapt. IGD
2. ↑ parish register of Ste Anne du Detroit FamilySearch, Marriage
3. ↑ Tanguay Vol 2 Page 532 - https://books.google.ca/books?id=97MNAAAAQAAJ&dq=tanguay%20deuxieme%20volume&hl=fr&pg=PA532#v=onepage&q&f=false
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Burton, Clarence Monroe. The City of Detroit, 1701-1922, Volume 4, p 139. CITY
5. ↑ parish register of Ste Anne du Detroit, FamilySearch
6. ↑ Tree: Find A Grave: Memorial #70942092
7. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55636702/ste_anne-de_detroit_monument

• Rev Christian Denissen, Genealogy of the French Families of the Detroit River Region (GFFDRR), 1987, Detroit Society for Genealogical Research, p 201, #13.

https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/163666/I67191/jeanbaptiste-campeau/individual

• Barnabas Campeau and his descendants, p. 2, 3