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ANCESTOR JEAN LEMIRE
1626-1684

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FAMILY BIOGRAPHY OF LEMIRE AND OTHERS
by Danielle Duval LeMyre
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LEMIRE

In the days of Cardinal Richelieu, when
in the name of the King Louis XIV he formed the new "Company of the 100 Associates" ("Compagnie des Cent Associes"),
there were two Lemire: Claude Lemire et Didier Lemire, bourgeois, de Paris. There are no records of either Claude or Didier passing over to New France to inspect the New World first hand. After all, it took sturdy hearts to not only spend 8-15 weeks to cross the Ocean, but also to face the uncertainties of ennemy attacks and, closer to home, the rumors about the uncomfortable dwellings of the villages were not conducive to chose this spot as a holiday destination.

The first Lemire on record in the New World, was Jean LeMire, the husband of Louise Marsolet de St-Aignan which he married on October 20, 1653. Jean was born in 1626 in St-Vivier de Rouen, son of Mathurin Lemire et Jeanne Bouvier, Vauvier or Vanier.

Copy of Jean Lemire's original baptism certificate from the Website of the Lemire Family Association of AMERICA.

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Jean was the syndic for his town, Quebec, often working as a carpenter, and was a right hand to Nicholas Marsolet who relied more on him than his other sons-in-law, Mathieu D'Amours, François Guyon des Prés, Michel Guyon du Rouvray, or his own son Jean Marsolet, born late in 1651.
Jean Lemire & Louise Marsolet had sixteen children, of which seven died in infancy. Nine would establish themselves in the world, six girls (Jeanne-Elisabeth, Marie-Madeleine, Anne, Louise, Catherine & Marie-Anne ) and three boys ( Joseph, Jean-François & Jean II). Because there were no male Marsolet to continue that name (Jean Marsolet (1651) was married twice without male issue), and since it was felt it was an important name because of what Nicolas had accomplished during his lifetime, two sons of Louise Marsolet and Jean LeMire added the Marsolet name to their Lemire one, Jean Francois Marsolet LeMire Marsolet and Jean II (Marsolais) Lemire.

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CHILDREN OF JEAN LEMIRE & LOUISE MARSOLET

* * * * Joseph Lemire * * * *

Joseph, 1st son of Louise & Jean, baptised in Quebec on March 6 1662.
When Nicolas Marsolet died in 1677, Joseph was already 15 years old.
Joseph who married twice, had only daughters and grand-daughters.
JOSEPH LEMIRE first married the year after his Father died, on April 1st 1685 to ANNE KEDOUIN
Joseph married again on November 14 1690 JEANNE LE NORMAND
The daughters and grand daughters of his two marriages were allied to the families of Choret, Brien, Paquet, Carrier, Parant, Maillou, Chevalier, Colard, Gourdeau, Garneau and Chalifour.

* * * * Jean-Françcois Lemire-Marsolet * * * *

JEAN-FRANCOIS LEMIRE-MARSOLET, the second son of Jean and Louise, was baptised on July 2nd 1675, in Quebec and married Francoise Foucault on February 5th 1701.
They were the head of the Lemire of Three Rivers. Their eight surviving children were Jean-Francois (1701), Marie-Anne (1703), Joseph (1705), Jean-Baptiste (1707), Marguerite (1710 - 1711), René (1712), Alexis (1708) & Pierre (1716). See Foucault file

* * * * Jean II LeMire * * * *

Jean II LeMire was the third of Jean Lemire & Louise Marsolet son's.
He was baptised September 6 1676 in Quebec.
JEAN II married ELISABETH BARROIS-LEBER in Montreal on July 30 1703.
His Mother-in-law had been married to Jean Barreau (or Barrois) who was killed by the Iroquois in 1690 and she re-married Joachim LeBer of Laprairie in 1692.
Jean II LeMire had one son, Jean-Baptiste Lemire, who in 1737 married a third cousin, LOUISE GUYON DES PRES, a descendant of Madeleine Marsolet.
Jean II and Elisabeth had many daughters who married in the families of the Bissonnet, Auge, Lefebvre, Guyon des Pres (Jacques).

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SIX DAUGHTERS of Jean Lemire and Louise Marsolet:

* * * * Jeanne-Elisabeth Lemire * * * *

1A-- Jeanne-Elisabeth baptised in Quebec on June 14 1658, married Pierre de Gaumont (ou Lyaumont) dit Beauregard, from St-Jean d'Angely, eveche de Xaintes, France.
Mr. Gaumont married again in 1708 with Jeanne Bourgeois, from Paris.

* * * * Marie-Madeleine Lemire* * * *

2A--Marie, baptised on February 3rd 1660, married on November 27 1677 Pierre Moreau, sieur de la Taupine (Faussine) from St-Eric de Massa, Xaintes, France.
They had thirteen (13) children but many died young.

CHILDREN OF PIERRE MOREAU & MARIE MADELEINE LEMIRE

1B--Pierre Moreau, b. in 1677, clerk in the King's store (commis au magasin du Roi), died in Montreal in 1703.

2B--M.Madeleine Moreau, baptised in 1684, married twice: 1. Francois Roland 2. Jean Bonneau

3B--Marie-Charlotte Moreau baptised in 1687 married Pierre Maillou. When Pierre became a widower he married Angelique de Trepagny

4B--M.Angelique Moreau baptised in 1689, married Jacques Tessier;
when she died she was interred in the Eglise de Quebec in 1756.

5B-- Louise Elisabeth Moreau baptised in 1691, married on September 8, 1717, Jourdain Lajoix (Lajus) Chief of the Doctors in Bearn, France (major des medecins de Nay en Bearn). Jourdain Lajus was witness in a donation/legacy between Antoine Bordeleau and his son Antoine Bordeleau and a renunciation by his son-in-law Courtaut which was a Guillaume Roger Contract, of October 4 1700
His son Louis Francois Lajus a surgeon, married 1. Marguerite Bailleul de Pierrecot 2. Angelique Jeanne Hubert was the Father of Jeanne-Francoise Louise Luce Lajus married in 1796 to a Judge in Three-Rivers Pierre-Stanislas Bedard ( juge des Trois Rivieres) and of two priests MM. Lajus: Jean Bte Nidore Lajus ptr, who died in Three-Rivers in 1836 & Rene-Flavien who died at St-Pierre, Ile d'Orleans in 1839.

The BEDARD LEMIRE LAJUS Connection

The husband of J-F-Louise Luce Lajus, Pierre Stanislas, juge Bedard, was brother to Mr. Thomas Bedard who went to live at l'Assomption, to Mr. Joseph Bedardand to the three priests MM. Bedard of which one, Charles, was at the St.Sulpice Seminary, and the two others, Louis & Jean-Bte were "cures", one at St-Denis and the other at Baie de Fevre. Their two sisters were Mrs. Bruneau & Mrs Pratt.

6B--Therese Moreau, baptised in 1693, married Jean Gaultier-Landreville

7B--Genevieve Moreau, baptised in 1698, married Noel Voyer, merchant in the city of Quebec; she was interred at "l'Eglise des Ursulines" March 12 1764.

* * * * Anne Lemire * * * *

(continued:) CHILDREN OF JEAN LEMIRE & LOUISE MARSOLET:

3A--Anne, baptised in Quebec on March 16, was married three times.
Her younger sister, Louise Lemire and herself were married on the same day, October 20 1681. Anne married Laurent (Archambault) Tessier dit Duchateau, bourgeois and chaudronnier, of Montreal, son of Urbain Tessier ou Texier dit Lavigne (fils d'Arthur & Jeanne Même ou Meine) and Marie Archambault
Anne was widowed from Laurent Tessier ( June 3 1655 -Sept.27 )
In 1689 Anne married the legendary "Chevalier Pierre Jean Antoine d'Au-Jolliet" and soon after his wedding he was sent on a Mission as Ambassador to the Iroquois (Mohawks), as is documented in a 1690 letter sent to the King's Minister:
Letter below is in French: it is the story, as it was witnessed, of the kidnapping of Chevalier Pierre Jean d'Au-Jolliet, Sieur de Lachauvignerie, Sieur Labeausiere and the Interpretor Colin

Labeausiere and Colin were burnt at the stake and the other two were eventually brought back to Quebec:

ORIGINAL FRENCH TEXT OF THE STORY:
"Monsieur de Frontenac envoya le Sieur Chevalier d'Au (d'Eau) en ambassade, menant avec lui le Sieur de Lachauvignerie, le fils de Bonat, le Sieur Labeausière et l'interprète Colin. Les colliers présentés, on n'y fit point d'attention; on voulut mettre l'ambassadeur au poteau pour le brûler; les Flamands l'enlevèrent et l'emmenèrent à Orange (N.Y.). Lachauvignerie fut donné aux Onneyyouche. LaBeausière et Colin furent brûlés et le fils de Bonat mourut de la petite vérole. Voila leurs destinées".

In the Jesuit's "Relation de 1692" is related the story of the liberation of the chevalier D'Au-Jolliet:
"Mr. de Frontenac, très affligé de la captivité de son ambassadeur, fit des offres bienveillantes aux Iroquois, dans le but d'obtenir qu'ils le remirent en liberté. Enfin, reconnaissants des gracieusetés de Mr. le Gouverneur Frontenac, ils députèrent trois chefs qui ramenèrent nombre de prisonniers, entre autre le sieur de la Chauvignerie et Mr. le Chevalier d'Au (d'Eau). On ne saurait exprimer la joie de Mr. Le Gouverneur en les revoyant: les chefs sauvages n'eurent d'autre table que celle du Gouverneur...."
Mr. le chevalier d'Au-Jolliet died in Montreal in 1694 and was buried in the Recollets' Church on April 10. His widow remarried. They had had a daughter, Madeleine born on December 15, 1690 in Montréal who died one month later on January 28 1691 in Pointe-aux-Trembles.

Anne married a third time on November 9 1694, to Antoine de Rupalley, sieur Des Jardins, son of Jean Bte de Rupalley, "1er Ecuyer de la fauconnerie du Roi" & Anne de Gonneville, from Madry, eveche de Bayeux.

There is another mention of her in the "Deliberations du Conseil Souverain" : Madame de Rupalley, 3 fevrier 1698; "Conge a damoiselle Anne Lemire, veuve Laurent Tessier (veuve d'Au-Jolliet), a present Madame de Rupalley, femme du Sieur de Rupalley officier dans les troupes que le Roi entretient dans ce pays." (C'etait au sujet de locations de maisons, contre Charles Chartier, locataire de ladite Anne Lemire, lequel fut condamne a payer vingt livres)

Anne Lemire had a son from Sieur de Rupalley, named Henri-Charles, Sieur de Gonneville who married Charlotte Leriger in 1731 and became Father to Pierre-Antoine de Gonneville (de Rupalley) baptised in Montreal in 1740.

Madame de Rupalley, mere, (Anne Lemire) was interred in Montreal on June 22nd 1750.

* * * * Louise Lemire * * * *

4A-- Louise Lemire, baptised in Quebec on May 10 1666, got married on the same day as her sister Anne, on October 20 1681, with Pierre Pépin, dit Laforce, son of Guillaume Pépin-Tranchemontagne (Louise and Pierre were established in Trois-Rivières on the piece of land where today we find the Ursulines Sisters). Pierre was syndic of the city of Trois-Rivières, then judge for the Seigneurie of Champlain. Louise Lemire was fifteen years old when she got married.

To the signing of her marriage contract we can see:
Intendant Duchesneau;
Jean Pepin du Cardonnet, brother of the groom;
Joseph LeMire, brother of the bride;
Jeanne Elisabeth Lemire(dame Pierre Gaumont);
Madeleine LeMire (dame Pierre Moreau de la Taupine) sisters of the bride.

Louise LeMire (dame Pepin-Laforce) was one of the major benefactors to the Ursulines Sisters of the Trois-Rivieres monastary, leaving them much property: "son acte de donation (disent les Mères Ursulines) font ressortir la beauté morale de la société du temps":

"Monsieur Pierre Pépin-Laforce et Dame Louise Lemire, sa femme, considérant que rien n'est plus agréable à Dieu que de lui donner des marques de reconnaissance des biens qu'ils ont reçus de Lui, par l'établissement et fondation des sacrifices offerts en mémoire de Celui qu'Il a établi par Son Fils, Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, par celui de la Sainte Messe, ont reconnu avoir donné à la Communauté des Révérendes Mères Ursulines des Trois Rivières trois arpents de terres et quelques chainées; à la charge par les dites Révérendes Dames Ursulines ceptants, et à celles qui leur succéderont, de faire oui et célébrer à l'intention des dits donateurs, pour attirer sur eux les grâces et les bénédictions du ciel, sur leurs entreprises et leur famille, durant leur vivant: trois messes basses à chaque année, à perpetuité, savoir une le jour et fête de Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens, premier jour d'août, une autre le 31 du même mois, jour de la fête de Sainte Louise, patronne de la dite donatrice et la troisième dans l'octave de la mémoire des morts pour le soulagement des âmes auxquelles on pense le moins, et en état d'être délivrées des flammes du purgatoire, au moyen de ce Saint Sacrifice.
Bien entendu toutefois qu'après la mort des dits donateurs les deux premières messes seront changées au jour de leur décès, pour être dites à perpétuité à pareil jour, ainsi qu'il sera marqué sur un catalogue que les dites Dames Ursulines promettent et s'obligent à mettre en évidence dans leur monastère.
Fait et signé devant Jean Bte Pothier, Notaire Royal, le 6 février 1703"

Pierre Pepin died in Trois-Rivieres on April 2nd 1722; Louise LeMire, died in Montreal on June 22 1727.

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Children of Louise Lemire & Pierre Pepin-Tranchemontagne:
-Pierre, m. in 1714 to Michelle LeBer (cousine de Sr Leber, recluse) aïeul maternel de Mgr Langevin et de (Sir Hector) (?)
-M.Louise, m. in 1719 a Claude Payet, dit St-Amour
-Madeleine, 1st m. in 1719 Jean Bte St Marc; 2nd m. in 1726 to Charles Tessier-Lavigne; 3rd mariage 1730 to Philippe Leduc
-Marie-Anne, married Jacques Arrive, Boucherville ( brother of Sister St.Alexis C.N.D.)
-M.Josephte, m. Jean Bte Robidas-Manseau, whose children were allied to the families of Courchene and Lefebvre-Senneville, of la Baie du Febvre.

* * * * Catherine Lemire * * * *

5A-- The Fifth daughter of Jean Lemire & Louise Marsolet was named Catherine. She was baptised March 21st in Quebec and got married on November 4th 1686, in Quebec with Jean Raymond-Bellegarde. He is mentioned in a letter to the King: "Daniel Greysolon Du Luth, parti de Montreal le 1er septembre 1678 avec les Francois:Bellegarde, Lemaitre, Masson, Pepin, se rendit au pays des Sioux dans le desseinde nouer des rapports avec ces peuples".

M. Raymond Bellegarde was dead in 1704, as can be observed while reading the Extracts of Minutes to the Conseil Souverain where they refer to her as being "widow": Deliberations du Conseil Souverain, April 7 1704 when Louis Hubert parait dant une affaire d'argent, en opposition avec Catherine LeMire, veuve de Jean Raymond-Bellegarde, vivant habitant de la Riviere St-Charles.
Madame Catherine Lemire Raymond-Bellegarde married again in Montreal September 11 1707 to Louis Le Cavelier. She was interred in Montreal on May 20 1749.

* * * * Marie-Anne Lemire * * * *

(continued:) CHILDREN OF JEAN LEMIRE & LOUISE MARSOLET:

The sixth daughter of Jean LeMire and Louise Marsolet was Marie-Anne LeMire was baptized May 26th 1669, and for GodMother she had Marie-Anne de Lauzon, daughter of "le Grand Senechal" standing-in for Madame de la Peltrie.
On August 11th 1690, Marie-Anne Lemire married Gedeon de Catalorgne. They had 14 children out of which 5 daughters and 1 son survived.

Surviving daughters:
Marie-Genevieve de Catalorgne,
dame Louis D'Amours de Louvieres


Elisabeth de Catalorgne,
dame Michel de Gannes


Jeanne-Elisabeth de Catalorgne,
dame Guillaume Pothier du Buisson

Charlotte-Julie de Catalorgne,
dame Michel Gamelin


Hortense de Catalorgne,
Madame de Landriere

Surviving son:
Joseph de Catalorgne born in 1694 was married in 1733 to Charlotte Renaud du Buisson. He received the famed French St.Louis Cross and was given a seat at l'Academie des Sciences of Paris for writing a Treaty on l'aiguille aimante.
Their son, LOUIS-CHARLES FRANCOIS GEDEON DE CATALORGNE fought the 1759 battle of Quebec and was wounded. Refusing to sign the British fealty oath Francois moved to St-Domingue with his wife, a third cousin, Marie-Louise Guyon des Pres (Despres), daughter of Jacques Guyon and Marie-Anne Lemire (daughter of Jean II LeMire), grand-daughter of Joseph des Pres. Francois died there in 1781. See Catalorgne for his descendants.

The first Catalorgne to come to New France was Gedeon, a French nobleman, second son, born in the BEARN,(and he must have known Vincent de St-Castin also from the Bearn and Jourdain Lajoix (Lajus), Chief of the Doctors in Bearn, France (major des medecins de Nay en Bearn) who was married to the daughter of his sister-in-law, Marie LeMire, dame Pierre Moreau, namely to Louise Elisabeth Moreau, baptised in 1691, the year after Gedeon and Marie-Anne got married. Gedeon de Catalorgne was Cartographer and Ingeneer to the King. Being a Huguenot he left France during the religious persecutions, was shipwrecked, abdjured his faith in favour of Catholicism, married Marie-Anne.
He was responsible for the plans and the building of the early Canal Lachine and the Louisbourg fortifications. He died there in 1710, during one of the squirmishes with the British.

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OTHER EARLY LEMIRE ARRIVALS in NEW FRANCE, not all related to Jean Lemyre. We find:
Jacques-Isaac Lemire who married Helene Damours of Batiscan. His parents were Nicolas Lemire and Jeanne LeCompte. Some descendants adopted the Meyre epellation of Lemire.
Charles Lemire married Elisabeth Choret of St-Antoine du Tilly
Louis-François Lemire married Madeleine Gautier of St-.Philippe
René Lemire mariried Marguerite Cadoret from Quebec

Augustin de Galimard married on June 19 1700 Marie-Françoise Ursule Godefroy, widow of de Bretigny, in Trois-Rivieres. Agustin was the son of Nicolas de Galimard and Anne Lemire, Saint Florentin, diocese of Sens, France.

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