Turgeon Maternal Genealogy
Huot Family Line:
Origin: English or French. Spelling variations include Hewitt, Hewett, Hewatt, Hewet, Hewit, Hewat and others. This name was first found in Dorset where they were seated from early times. They were granted lands by Duke William of Normandy, their liege Lord, for their distinguished assistance at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 A.D.
John William Smith
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Mary (Smith) Turgeon
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Phileas Turgeon
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Cesaire Turgeon
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Francois Xavier Turgeon
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Dorothee Baucher-Morency ---- Spouse: Antoine Turgeon
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Genevieve Huot (Mother)
Born: 11 Sept 1715 – L’Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Quebec
Died: Dec 1776 – Beaumont, Bellechasse, Quebec
Spouse: Joseph Baucher-Morency
Born: 19 May 1715 – Sainte-Famille, I.O., Montmorency, Quebec
Died: April 1781 – Beaumont, Bellechasse, Quebec
Married: 27 August 1737 – L’Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Quebec
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Jacques Huot-Saint-Laurent
Born: 4 April 1687 – L’Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Quebec
Married: 23 Nov 1711 – L’Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Quebec
Died: June 1766 – Chateau-Richer, Montmorency, Quebec
Spouse: Angelique Trudel
Died: Unknown
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Mathurin (ancestral) Huot
Born: 1643, France
Married: 1671
Died: 1707, Quebec
Spouse: Marie Letartre
Born: 1655, France
Died: 1716, Quebec
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Rene Huot
Born: Unknown
Died: Unknown
Spouse: Renee Fortier
Born: Unknown
Died: Unknown
Huot Family History
I could not find much information regarding this family. There is one historical reference dated May 27, 1683. This reference states that Mathurin Huot along with Rene Dutertre and Jacques Guyon participated in the burial of their friend, Nicolas Quentin in L’Ange Gardien.
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Trudel Family Line
Trudel
Family Crest
Origin: French. Spelling variations include: Trudelle, Trudel, Trudan, Trudaine, Trutelle, Trutel, Trudaile, Trudell, Trutell, Troudelle, Troutelle, Troudel, Trudele and many more. First found in Champagne, where the family has been prominent for centuries, they were seated with lands and manor. Some of the first settlers in Quebec were our ancestor, Jean Trudel who arrived in Quebec in 1855.
John William Smith
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Mary (Smith) Turgeon
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Phileas Turgeon
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Cesaire Turgeon
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Francois Xavier Turgeon
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Dorothee Baucher-Morency ----------- Spouse, Antoine Turgeon
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Genevieve Huot (Mother)
Born: 11 Sept 1715 – L’Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Quebec
Died: Dec 1776 – Beaumont, Bellechasse, Quebec
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Angelique Trudel
Born: 3 Aug 1682, L’Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Quebec
Married: 1711
Died: 1766 Quebec
Spouse: Jacques Huot-Saint-Laurent
Born: 1687, Quebec
Married: 1711
Died: 1766, Quebec
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Pierre Trudel
Born: 6 Dec 1657 – L’Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Quebec
Married: 26 Feb 1680 – Chateau-Richer, Montmorency, Quebec
Died: Unknown
Spouse: Francoise Lefrancois
Born: Unknown
Died: Dec 1701 – L’Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Quebec
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Jean Trudel
Born: about 1629 – Mortagne, Perche, France
Married: 14 Nov 1655 – Quebec, Quebec
Died: 25 Nov 1699, L-Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Quebec
Spouse: Marguerite Thomas - 1634, Liege, Belgium
Died: 30 Aug 1695, L’Ange, Montmorency, Quebec
Trudel Family History
When Jean Trudel arrived at Quebec in 1645 he was just 16 years old, a weaver by trade, and poor. In his first ten years in New France he worked for an apothecary, tilled the soil, and fought Indians. When he learned all the tricks necessary for survival in a frontier land, he was given the traditional 30 arpents of land (one arpent is approximately one and a half acres), and he was on his own. He cleared away the forest, built a house, and then married a Netherlander named Marguerite Thomas.
Quebec's records tell the rest. The 1681 census disclosed that Jean and Marguerite owned two guns, 30 arpents of land, eight cattle, and had four children at home. Church records reveal that practically every other year for more than 30, they became either parents or grandparents. All told, they had eleven children, who produced 60 grandchildren, who in turn produced 226 great grandchildren. One Trudel son had 16 children, ten of whom married. The ten children had no less than ten children each, and one child had 21. It is no wonder they have so many descendents today.
In St. Augustin de Portneuf there is a farm that has been tilled continually by Trudels for 200 years. Scores of Trudels became priests or nuns, and a few were bishops. Trudels fought the Americans in 1812, the Boers in 1899-1902, and the Germans in 1914-18. There were 300 Trudels in Canada's armed services in World War II, and probably almost as many in U.S. uniforms. One Trudel, Anselme, was a Canadian Senator (1873-90). Another, George, was a recent mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire. The Trudels even have their own Paul Bunyan -- Daniel, who lived in Berthier County and whose knack for playfully hoisting horses into trees is a Trudel legend.
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LeFrancais Family Line
Origin: French. Spelling variations include: Lefrancois, Francois, Francais, Lefrancais, Francoise and many more. This family was first found in Poitou, where the family was seated since ancient times.
John William Smith
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Mary (Smith) Turgeon
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Phileas Turgeon
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Cesaire Turgeon
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Francois Xavier Turgeon
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Dorothee Baucher-Morency -------- Antoine Turgeon
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Genevieve Huot (Mother)
Born: 11 Sept 1715 – L’Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Quebec
Died: Dec 1776 – Beaumont, Bellechasse, Quebec
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Angelique Trudel
Born: 3 Aug 1682, L’Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Quebec
Married: 1711
Died: 1766 Quebec
Spouse: Jacques Huot-Saint-Laurent
Born: 1687, Quebec
Married: 1711
Died: 1766, Quebec
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Francois Lefrancais
Born: Unknown
Married: 26 Feb 1680 – Chateu-Richer, Montmorency, Quebec
Died: Dec 1701 – L’Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Quebec
Pierre Trudel
Born: 6 Dec 1657 – L’Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Quebec
Married: 26 Feb 1680 – Chateau-Richer, Montmorency, Quebec
Died: Unknown
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Charles Lefrancais
Born: Mar 1626 – St-Pierre-de Muchedent, Dieppe, France
Married: 10 Sept 1658 – Quebec, Quebec
Died: 14 June 1700 – Chateu-Richer, Montmorency, Quebec
Spouse: Marie- Madeleine Triot
Died: 1701 – Chateau-Richer, Montmorency, Quebec
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Charles Lefrancais
Born: Unknown
Married: Unknown
Died: Unknown
Spouse: Suzanne Montigny
Born: Unknown
Died: Unknown
Lefrancais Family History
Our ancestor, Charles Lefrancais, was baptized on March 9, 1626 in Muchedent, a canton of Logueville-sur-Scie, district of Dieppe, in the department of the Maritime of Seine, in the province of Normandy. The Varenne River follows alongside Muchedent. His parents were Charles Lefrancais and Suzanne Montigny. In 1622 his parents were married at Muchedent in the Saint Pierre Church. We know Charles (the younger) was educated because he could sign his name and count. He was approximately 30 years old when he immigrated to New France. It is possible he worked on a ship, the Ste Sebastien, for his passage to New France. Charles had a childhood friend, Romain Trepanier, who was in the New World living in Cote de Beaupre.
Charles Lefrancais (the younger) first appears in the Canadian civil archives on September 19, 1657, in Quebec. He appears as one of the main witnesses for a prenuptial agreement between Pierre Tremblay and Ozanne Achon. The nuptials were presided over by Notary Claude Auber.
On August 25, 1658, Charles accompanied his fiancée, Madelein Triot, to the hotel Senecausee. He was preparing for his upcoming marriage. There was nothing special about the marriage contract except that Marie Madeleine gave Charles a 50 pound dowry.
Marie Madeline was the daughter of Jacques Triot and Catherine Guichart of Saint-Nicolas de Champ of Paris, France. She was a serious young woman at the age of 18 and had never seen the French colony previously. The wedding was presided over by a Jesuit priest, Claude Dablon. It wasn’t until February 2, 1660, that Charles was actually confirmed at Chateau-Richer by Monsignor de Laval. Apparently, his wife wanted to make sure poor Charles got plenty of religion!
In January 26, 1659, Charles Lefrancais and his friend, Romain Trepanier, received land in the township of Lotinville. Charles received approximately 3 acres of land adjoining the Sieur River and 6 acres to the west of the Petis-Pre River. Charles worked hard and in the summer of 1663 he owned a stone house, perhaps the first such in the township. The house measured 37 feet long and 22 feet wide and had two chimneys, one of which was for a brick oven. He also had a barn 25 x 18 feet in dimension.
A merchant from France, Antoine Berson, was astonished at what he saw. He offered 1,100 pounds for the Lefrancais house and 5 pounds for the wine they had produced. Charles sold his home on August 29, 1663.
So where did the Lefrançais family live? They may have lived in the farm house of Pierre Legardeur in Chateau Richer, between the properties of Jacques Goulet and Louis Dumonville. On November 14, 1667, Charles purchased 3 acres of land from the widow Legardeur for 350 pounds. On April 29, 1668, Charles purchased the Goulet property for 350 pounds.
According to the 1667 census, Charles Lefrancais owned 30 acres with 13 cows. By 1681 he had cleared 20 acres of cultivated land and owned 14 cows, one mare and 2 rifles. His neighbors were Louis Dumoulin and Charles Belanger.
Charles Lefrançais held many duties in his community. By August 12, 1666, he acted as an appraiser for Charles Berson’s widow as she held him in high confidence for his honesty.
After a disagreement between the Belanger and Chenay families, Charles Lefrançais and Pierre Tremblay were invited January 24, 1671, to estimate the value of the livestock at the Seigneuries of Lotinville. In the winter of 1672 Charles Lefrancais appraised the value of other farmers’ livestock, including those owned by Francois Nau, Pierre Grenon and Bertrand Chenay.
On April 9, 1683, he inspected a barn of the Seigneurie of Lotinville and deemed it ruined and irreparable. Nearby, the Andrieu family could not bear the life of being a colonist and returned home to France. Before they left they sold their land to Charles Lefrancais for 1 bull and six bushels of wheat. Later, Charles sold this same parcel of land to his father-in-law, Pierre Trudel, on April 7, 1680 for 800 pounds.
Charles and his wife had 13 children: Marie, Catherine, Francois, Marguerite, Charles, Anne, Louis, Barbe, Joseph, Alexis, Nicolas, Pierre and Genevieve. Catherine died before the 1681 census. Louis died March 1692 at the age of 22. Marie was baptized at Côte de Beaupré by Jesuit Paul Pagueneau. Marie married Pierre Roberge on April 10, 1684, and she died on February 26, 1722.
Francoise married Pierre Trudel on February 26, 1680, and they had 11 children. She died on December 29, 1701, during childbirth. She was only 38 years old. Francoise was our great ancestress.
Marguerite married Louis Belanger on November 3, 1682, who became Seigneur de Bonsecours de I’Islet. She bore 13 children also and died October 1, 1724 at I’Islet. She was 59 years old at the time of her death.
Charles was the first born son of Charles and Marie-Madeleine Lefrancais. Charles the younger married Barbe Belanger on August 6, 1691. They had one daughter and one son. Charles the younger acquired the Seigneurie de Lotinville but unfortunately this didn’t last long for he died soon after on March 16, 1696 at L’Ange Gardien. He was 29.
If you recall, Charles the elder had a childhood friend from France living in this new country. His name was Romain Trepanier. Romaine’s son, Francois, married Charles Lefrancais’s daughter, Anne, on February 1, 1689. She had 15 children.
On October 13, 1698, Barbe Lefrancais married a soldier and surgeon named Julien Leonard. Barbe gave birth to only one child. She died on August 1, 1700, and was only 27 years old. She died a few months after her own father had died. Joseph married into the Caron family at Saint-Anne. Anne Caron gave birth to one son named Charles, Joseph was the last of his generation when he died in May 1755 at the age of 81.
Another son, Alexis, died mysteriously at the age of 25.
Nicolas traveled to Newfoundland and married Marie Madelein Lefebvre in Charlesbourg on April 24, 1702. They had 14 children. He was buried on December 9, 1749, and was 73 years old.
The youngest child of this family, Genevieve, married Jean-Francois Godin on June 8, 1705. She had 12 children and died on August 19, 1745. She was 61 years old when she was buried in the Ecureuils Parish graveyard.
The girls of this first generation of Lefrançais-Triot legacy gave birth to 58 grandchildren, and the males brought into the fold 17 children.
In 1699 Charles and Marie Madeleine drafted their last will and testament. On June 13, 1700, the parish priest was summoned to Charles Lefrancais’s deathbed. Father Guillaume Gautheir gave him the last rites and communion for Charles had been a faithful parishioner for 75 years. The next day Charles was buried. Marie Madeleine died on November 18, 1701, at the age of 60 years.
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Letartre Family Line
Historical Note: At this time the French colonists rarely bathe, believing a bath would cause colic, headaches and vertigo.
John William Smith
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Mary (Smith) Turgeon
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Phileas Turgeon
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Cesaire Turgeon
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Francois Xavier Turgeon
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Dorothee Baucher-Morency ------- Spouse: Antoine Turgeon
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Genevieve Huot (Mother)
Born: 11 Sept 1715 – L’Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Quebec
Died: Dec 1776 – Beaumont, Bellechasse, Quebec
Spouse: Joseph Baucher-Morency
Born: 19 May 1715 – Sainte-Famille, I.O., Montmorency, Quebec
Died: April 1781 – Beaumont, Bellechasse, Quebec
Married: 27 August 1737 – L’Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Quebec
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Jacques Huot-Saint-Laurent
Born: 4 April 1687 – L’Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Quebec
Married: 23 Nov 1711 – L’Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Quebec
Died: June 1766 – Chateau-Richer, Montmorency, Quebec
Spouse: Angelique Trudel
Died: Unknown
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Marie Letartre
Born: 1655 – La Potteries, Perche, France
Died: 21 Dec 1716 – L’Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Quebec
Spouse: Mathurin Huot
Married: 25 Nov 1671 – L’Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Quebec
Died: 15 Nov 1707 – L’Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Quebec
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Rene Letartre
Born: 1626, La Potteries, Perche, France
Married: 1654 – La Poterie, Perche, France
Died: 1699, L’Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Quebec
Spouse: Louise-Anne Goulet
Born: 26 Aug 1628, Tourouvre, Perche, France
Died: 2 Sept 1699, L’Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Quebec
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History of Letartre Family
(II)-Charles Letartre (b-1657) married Marie Maheu born 1663 and also living here (I)-Mathurin Huot (b-1646) married 1671 Marie Letartre (b-1653) farming 2 arpent
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Asselin Family Line
Origins: English and French. First found in Nottinghamshire, where they were seated from ancient times. Spelling variations include Aslin, Aslen, Aslan, Assllin, Aslein, Ascelin, Asselin, Asselyn, Astlen, Aslyn, Asling and many more.
Asselin
Family Crest
John William Smith
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Mary (Smith) Turgeon
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Phileas Turgeon
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Cesaire Turgeon
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Francois Xavier Turgeon
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Dorothee Baucher-Morency ------- Spouse: Antoine
Turgeon
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Joseph Baucher-Morency (Father)
Born: 19 May 1715 – Sainte-Famille, I.O., Montmorency, Quebec
Married: 27 Aug 1737 – L’Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Quebec
Died: April 1781 – Beaumont, Bellechasse, Quebec
Spouse: Genevieve Huot
Born: 11 Sept 1715 – L’Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Quebec
Died: Dec 1776 – Beaumont, Bellechasse, Quebec
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Marie-Madeline-Asselin
Born: 25 Aug 1679, Sainte-Famille, I.O., MontmorencyQuebec,
Died: 15 Aug 1715, Sainte-Famille, I.O., Montmorency, Quebec
Spouse: Guillaume Baucher-Morency
Born: 1666, Quebec
Married: 1694
Died: 1717, Quebec
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Jacques Asselin
Born: About 1629 – France
Married: 29 July 1662 – Chateau-Richer, Montmorency, Quebec
Died: 24 Jan 1713 – Quebec, Quebec
Spouse: Louise Roussin
Born: 11 Mar 1642 – Tourouvre, Perche, France
Died: 12 Dec 1700 – Ste-Famille, I.O., Montmorency, Quebec
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Jacques Asselin
Born: 1595
Died: Unknown
Spouse: Cecile Olivier
Born: 1600
Died: Unknown
Asselin Family History
Celine Dion is descended from the Jacques Asselin family line. I could not find any historical references for this family.
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Colonists’ Monument in Quebec
On November 24, 1909, some members of the Trudel family met to discuss the creation of a memorial on the site where our ancestor, Jean Trudel lived. While excavating for the base of the monument, they dug into the very foundation of the house where Jean Trudel lived. All the stones found were used for the monument. The family name sometimes appears as ‘Trudel’ and other times as ‘Trudelle’. Both are correct.
The monument is 30 feet tall and weighs about 32 tons. The monument displays different symbols. The cross symbolizes faith, the axe symbolizes the colonist, and the scythe symbolizes the harvest. The sheaf symbolizes abundance. The date shown, 1645, is the year Jean Trudel arrived in Canada as one of the first colonists to New France. The motto ‘AD Sum’ is the currency of the Trudel family. The chalice symbolizes the first mass celebrated in L'Ange-Gardien in 1664. The blazon represents the armorial bearings of the family for Adrien Trudelle who was made a Noble in France in 1686. The helmet symbolizes a gentlemen.
This is a monument to the first French colonists who settled around 1645 in L'Ange-Gardien, Quebec, Canada, which is located 10 miles (15 kilometers) northeast of Quebec City on the north side of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Do you see the Trudel Family motto, ‘AD SUM’ on this monument? It also shows Jean Trudelle (Trudel), who is our ancestor. Other early colonists, who are also relatives, include: Nicolas LeRoy, Charles Lefrancais, Mathurin Huot, Rene Letartre, and Pierre Roussin. These names also appear on this monument and our also our grand ancestors. What this means is that all our ancestors knew each other. It also means we can claim ties to many of the founding fathers of New France.
Rene Letartre married Louise-Anne Goulet in France. It is quite possible that the name ‘J. Goulet’ is also related to these families.
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