Contribution by Tim Smith, including historical data

On December 9, 1669, Jean Gibault and Marie Suzanne Benet, living in the town of Fargy, sold to Master Charles Turgeon, also a resident of the seigneurie of the said Beauport, 40 aprents of land, in the town of Saint-Joseph, with cabin and shed, bordered by Jean Lemarie and Pierre Lefebvre.  Charles paid 200 livres cash and 25 livres "in pots of wine" for the wife.

...looks like a wonderful place to live with three children.

The family arrived in New France, in the Summer of 1662; and was one of 300 original families emigrating to Quebec. Charles married Pasquiere Lefebvre in 1649,and before taking his family to the new world; Pasquiere bore him five children: Marie-Clare (1651), Jacques (1653), Francoise (1656), Anne (1658), and Michel (1661). Of the six children born at Saint-Jean de Mortagne, three survived and came to New France - Marie-Claire, Jacques and Anne.  In New France other children were born of this union - Zacharie (1664), Pierre (1666), and Jean (1670).  Pierre had two sons and Jean had 10 boys.  By the third generation, there were thirty-six children, recorded in the Canadian registries.

Charles Turgeon was baptized, on Saturday, September 3, 1627, at the church of Notre-Dame, in the city of Mortagne, now in Normandy, France and originally identified as being in the former province of Perch.  His parents were Jean and Sebastienne Liger (it wasn't until recent times when family surnames were passed down from one generation to the next).  He had one other brother, Giles, who was baptized in 1653; and three sisters - Charlotte, Jeanne and Anne.

Charles Turgeon was a difficult neighbor, somewhat quarrelsome.  He decided at one point to remove the survey stakes bordering property with Jacques Marie, and then gave "the offended party a number of blows, with a stick." He received a sentence of eight days in jail and 20 livres in fines.  In another instance, he received "expenses of the lawsuit and 10 to pay for bandages and medications...for his wounds."  It seems that he was always in trouble.  In 1691, Charles and Pasquiere returned to France; and returned before 1700.  By 1704 both Turgeon ancestors were deceased. 

Mary Turgeon Smith  (Dad's mom)

Birth Data:   19 Dec. 1883, 

Death Date:   Jul 1966

Social Security Number:  504-44-8715

State or Territory where number was issued -  South Dakota

Death Residence - Aurora Center, Aurora South Dakota,  Stickney, South Dakota