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Children of ANDRÉ PÉPIN and JEANNE CHEVALIER are:
Children of JEAN TESTE and JEANNE TALONNEAU are:
Child of JACQUES FONTAINE and JEANNE COLINET is:
Child of PIERRE CONILLE and MARIE GITON is:
2048. ANDRÉ PÉPIN, born between 1600-1610 in (?). Married 2049. JEANNE CHEVALIER, July 12, 1635 in Notre-Dame, Bourville, Le Hâvre; she was born about 1605 in (?) all in France. Daughter of 4098. JACQUES CHEVALIER and 4099. JEANNE LOUISE.
1027. i. MARIE CONILLE, born September 27, 1665 in Saint-Nicolas-de-la-Rochelle, Aunis, France; died July 01, 1737; married ÉTIENNE FONTAINE, February 08, 1683, both in Île d'Orléans, Québec, Canada.
2058. CLAUDE POULIN. Married 2059. JEANNE MERCIER.
Child of CLAUDE POULIN and JEANNE MERCIER is:
Children of ÉTIENNE RACINE and MARGUERITE-MARIE MARTIN DIT L'ÉCOSSAIS are:
Noël, gets married to Madeleine Racine. Madeleine's family was one of the oldest and most respected in New France. Her mother, the daughter of Abraham Martin, was the first French settler to be baptized on Canadian soil.
Their wedding, on Tuesday, November 22, 1661, was held at Château-Richer, where the presbytery and manor house for the seigneury were located.
Seventeen months later, their first child, Pierre, was born. Eighteen months after that, their second child, Noël, joined the family. In 1667, Noël Sr. and his father Pierre, made arrangements to take possession of Pierre Gibouin's land, who wants to finish his days in France. Unfortunately, they could not produce sufficient cash immediately to complete the purchase. But, they were in the good graces of Monsignor Laval, the first Bishop of Québec, who promised to help them with his own money if necessary.
Reassured, by the 16th of October, 1667, they formally took possession of Gibouin's estate. But Noël's family had grown quickly. His wife, Madeleine, only 30 years old, has already had nine children. With such a large family to support, Noël had trouble meeting the debt he contracted to purchase Gibouin's land. Fortunately, Monsignor Laval was a man of his word, and he lent the remaining money to the Simards to pay off their debt. In exchange, Noël and his wife agreed to go to Baie Saint-Paul to help Monsignor Laval make the lands there productive and profitable.
Pierre Simard, a grandfather now, remained with his two grandsons, Pierre and Noël, on the Beaupré land, while the rest of the family committed to work for five years on "the land from the Saint-François-Xavier coast of the Petite-Rivière to those which extend along the Rivière-Gouffre, except for that already being exploited by Claude Bouchard."
It was actually a very good deal for Nöel. Claude Bouchard, and some other pioneers, had already started to work on these lands. Noël would oversee the property and would be able to keep half of the animals born from the herd he maintained, with the remainder going to Monsignor Laval. While he had some buildings to build, the lumber mill and flour mill were already started. In short, the land was already well-equipped with the necessities for running a successful farm -- mills, livestock (a rooster and nine hens, six large oxen, three bulls, six cows with their calves, and six pigs), produce and grains (hay, corn, oats, barley and peas).
In 1679, Monsignor Laval sent Pierre Tremblay to assist Simard. That same year, Simard was granted his own land on the Petite-Rivière. The following year, Noël established his family at Baie Saint-Paul, close to Cap Maillaird (now called Petite-Rivière-Saint-François).
The Simard family flourished, growing to 14 children, and their own grandchildren. Some of Noël's children moved on to become the Seigneurs of their own lands up and down the Saint-Lawrence valley. One branch of his son Noël's family moved across the Saint-Lawrence to the Kamouraska area, and then across northern Maine to the Madawaska/Saint-John River area.
Tragedy struck in the summer of 1714, when an epidemic spread quickly up the coast. Noël Simard, 78 years old, succumbed to this plague and died in the arms of his wife. The following summer, the family met to conduct legal inventory of their father's possessions: titles and various papers, personal items, including an axe; a saw; a barrel of salted eel; 15 pounds of tin; a bag of tobacco. These clues tell us much about Noël's life -- that he was a laborer, a carpenter and sawyer, an eel fisherman, a farmer, perhaps even a tin smith -- a man who worked hard, met every challenge, and left a prosperous land for his children.
In 1726, Madeleine Racine, more than 80-years-old, passed away. Noël Simard's family would become one of the largest in Québec and would help colonize various parts of the country from Saguenay, Abitibi, and Témiscaminque, to the Rivière-la-Paix. In Baie-Saint-Paul, there is a monument to Noël Simard, Madeleine Racine and their daughter, Rosalie Simard, the first child of French origin born in Baie-Saint-Paul.
1064. v. FRANÇOIS RACINE, born July 16, 1649 in Québec City; died February 25, 1714 in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré; married MARIE BEAUCHER, October 29, 1676 in Île d'Orléans, all in Québec, Canada. vi. MARGUERITE RACINE, born March 08, 1652 in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré; died December 17, 1695; married JEAN GAGNON, November 06, 1667, both in Château-Richer; he was born May 03, 1643 in (?); died October 27, 1699 in Château-Richer, all in Québec, Canada. vii. PIERRE RACINE, born October 26, 1654 in Château-Richer; died March 12, 1729 in (?); married LOUISE GUYON, July 06, 1682 in Île d'Orléans; she was born January 15, 1660, died December 12, 1727 both in (?) all in Québec, Canada. viii. MARIE RACINE, born about 1657 in (?) in Québec, Canada. 1059. ix. JEANNE RACINE, born about 1660 in (?); married JEAN PARÉ, November 03, 1682 in Château-Richer, both in Québec, Canada. 1082. x. ÉTIENNE RACINE, born August 03, 1662 in Château-Richer; died January 03, 1722 in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré; married CATHERINE GUYON DIT DION, October 25, 1683 in Île d'Orléans, all in Québec, Canada.