Charles
Rochon
aka Rocheron
Born in Notre Dame, Quebec, Canada
Ancestors 
Son of Simon Rocheron
and Mathurine Bisson
Brother of
Louis Pré [half], Nicolas Pré [half], Marguerite (Rocheron) Rochon, Estienne Rochon, Mathurine Rocheron, Geneviève Rocheron and Jean Charles Rochon
Husband of
Henriette Colon
— married
15 Aug 1712 in Mobile AL
Descendants 
Father of
Charles Rochon, Pierre Rochon, Marie-Josephe Rochon, Louis Augustin Augustus Rochon, Marie Therese Rochon, Jean Rochon, Marguerite Rochon, Marie Henriette (Rochon) Juzan and Olivier Rochon
Died
at age 59
in Mobile, Louisiana, New France
Profile last modified
| Created 10 Feb 2014
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Biography
- Ancestor of noted TV and news journalist Suzanne Malveaux[1]
- Alt dob 5 July 1673[1]
- 1673 baptised in the parish church of Notre Dame in Quebec City.[1]
- served as a parish priest in Fort Conde, Mobile[1]
- buried there with his wife, Henriette Colon[1]
Charles Rochon was born in 1673 in Quebec. He became a fur trapper and was associated with Henri de Tonti, accompanying him on many of his expeditions. In 1701 he came to colonial Louisiana, and he was a colonist at the settlement of Fort Louis De Mobile located at modern-day Axis, Alabama, an area of habitation that preceded the modern-day city of Mobile.
In 1706, along with Pierre LeBouef, Gilbert Dardenne and Claude Parent, Rochon left the settlement at Axis, moving down to a site at the mouth of the Mobile River, site of present-day Mobile. The success that the four had at this site was a contributing factor of the relocation of Mobile from the site at Axis to its present site in 1711.
After the city was moved to the Mobile River site, Charles Rochon again moved, this time to a site at the mouth of the Dog River, where he established a plantation that remained in the hands of his descendants until 1848. The plantation encompassed the majority of what is today known as Hollinger's Island. Rochon remained at this plantation until his death in 1733
Charles Rochon was married to Henriette Colon, the half-Indian (Kaskaskia) daughter of Old Mobile settler Jean Baptiste (dit "LaViolette") Colon, as well as being the goddaughter of Henri de Tonti. They had several children, but only two survived past 1733. Their son, Louis Augustus, established a plantation on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay that became a modern-day Spanish Fort.
Sources
0 @I02098@ INDI 2 1 NAME Charles /Rochon/ 3 2 SOUR @S05982@ 4 1 SEX M 5 1 BIRT 6 2 DATE 4 JUL 1673 7 2 PLAC Quebec, New France, Canada 8 1 DEAT 9 2 DATE 22 MAR 1733 10 2 PLAC Mobile, French Territory 11 1 FAMS @F0670@ 12 1 FAMC @F0989@
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Black Like Me," Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Season 4, Episode 6). PBS. 07 Nov 2017.
See also:
- Add sources here.
- Source: http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogy=Charles_Rochon&pid=4971&lng=en&partID=25165
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Charles by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Charles:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Charles by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Charles:
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~0.39%
Christa Cochran
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AncestryDNA, Ancestry member cacochranlaw321
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~0.39%
Ruthie (Barber) Davidson :
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~0.39%
Angela Trigg :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A778841 [compare], Ancestry member angplange
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~0.39%
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wouldn't these event qualify this profile as an Alabama Notables project profile, and Notables sticker? He seems to be the only one of the four who had recognizable descendants living into modernity. "In 1706, along with Pierre LeBouef, Gilbert Dardenne and Claude Parent, Rochon left the settlement at Axis, moving down to a site at the mouth of the Mobile River, site of present-day Mobile. The success that the four had at this site was a contributing factor of the relocation of Mobile from the site at Axis to its present site in 1711."