Honoré Louis Tesson (1685 - 1754)

Born 1685 in Beaulieu-sous-la-Roche, Bas-Poitou, France

Husband of Marie-Euphrosine Debluche — married 13 Oct 1732 in Longueuil, Montreal, Canada, New France

Descendants

Died 29 Jan 1754 at about age 69 in Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Canada, Nouvelle-France

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Honoré Louis Tesson lived
in Canada, Nouvelle-France.

Honoré Louis Tesson migrated from France to New France.

Biography

Honoré-Louis Tesson is the son of Honoré Tesson and Catherine Bordin Savinier of Beaulieu, Sur-La-Roche, France. Louis was born in the year the Edict of Fontainebleau (22 October 1685) was issued by Louis XIV of France. The edict revoked the Edict of Nantes (1598), by which Henry IV of France had granted the Huguenots the right to practice their religion without persecution from the state. A large number of Protestants — estimates range from 210,000 to 900,000 — left France over the next two decades. ^[1]

Honoré-Louis emigrated from the port of La Rochelle, France on April 9, 1720 to establish a mill in Montréal, Canada, New France. Arrangements were made in France, and notarized by Charles De Fleury Deschambault at René-François Desbarres, giving Honoré-Louis a salary of £ 100 a year with a year received in advance, and a helping of brandy every morning.

Honoré-Louis is accompanied on the same contractual act of his friend Pierre Gaultier also miller, a native of Poire Sur La Roche in Poitou, aged 21 or thereabouts.

It is in Montreal that Honoré-Louis meets and marries Montreal born Marie-Catherine Euphrosine Debluche, who is twenty or more years his junior. They are married on October 13, 1732, in Longueuil, Montreal, ^[2] and become the parents of a large family with thirteen children.

Honoré Tesson died January 29, 1754, and was buried January 30, 1754, at Hôtel-Dieu de Québec.^[3][4]

Baptism:

• Beaulieu-sur-la-roche^[5]
• Roche, Cornwall, England.^[5]

Died 29 JAN 1754. Hotel Dieu, Quebec ^[6]

Buried Quebec (Urban Agglomeration), Quebec, Canada.^[6]

Residence Cher, Centre, France. ^[7] 1807 Louisiana, USA.^[8]

FSFTID: LHVM-GKM.

Marriage Husband Honoré-Louis Tesson. Wife Marie-Euphrosine Debluche. Child: Joseph Tesson. Child: Pierre Tesson D Honore. Marriage 13 OCT 1732. Chambly, 1654490, Quebec, Canada.^[5][9][10]

Sources

1. ↑ (see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Fontainebleau
2. ↑ "Canada Marriages, 1661-1949", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F2KG-3DV : 1 February 2020), Catherine Bordin-Savinier in entry for Honore Tesson, 1732.
3. ↑ "Québec, registres paroissiaux catholiques, 1621-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L993-DHXW?cc=1321742&wc=9RL6-829%3A17585101%2C17992601%2C18065701 : 16 July 2014), Québec > Hôtel-Dieu de Québec > Sépultures 1723-1857 > image 156 of 632; nos paroisses de Église Catholique, Quebec (Catholic Church parishes, Quebec).
4. ↑ PRDH: Research Programme in Historical Demography (membership): acte: 254914 Burial . PRDH-IGD.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Ancestry.com. Quebec, Genealogical Dictionary of Canadian Families (Tanguay Collection), 1608-1890. Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011. Volume: Vol. 7 Sect. 1 : Rob-Tra; Page: 283
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Ancestry.com. Quebec, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967. Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2008;
7. ↑ Ancestry.com. Upper Berry, France Marriages, 1561-1907. Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
8. ↑ Ancestry.com. Louisiana, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1791-1890. Ancestry.com Operations Inc.
9. ↑ Genealogical Research Library, Ontario, Canada. Canadian Genealogy Index, 1600s-1900s. Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;
10. ↑ Source: #S1760 Birth year: 1713; Birth city: Montreal; Birth state: Pq