Joseph Bonneau dit La Bécasse

Notes

• Lieux info: Poitou, France (naissance), La Sainte-Famille, Isle d'Orléans (mariage), Saint-François-de-Sales (Isle d'Orléans) (mariage,décès); habitait la Sillery (1667)
• Pionnier de la Nouvelle-France. Arrive au Québec en c1665.
• Il était habitant et maçon de métier. Il a servi comme domestique pour Noël Jérémie.

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JOSEPH BONNEAU known as LaBécasse

Joseph Bonneau, known as LaBécasse, son of Pierre Bonneau and Marie Lambert, was born, towards 1649, in Vernoux-on-Buttons, Poitou. It is because Joseph drives out the snipe, that the ancestor carries this nickname, LaBécasse (translates Woodcock), according to the tradition. With the census of winter 1667, we find Joseph Bonneau, then 18 years old, who works like farm hand on theSaint-Ignace coast, in Sillery. In 1670, the king of France is generous in sends towards News-France of strong, good and generous girls. One hundred thirty four future wives go down in the wearing of Quebec, that year. Fifty three of them come from the area of Paris, one of which is Marie-Anne Lelong. Marie-Anne, born towards 1652, daughter of Jacques Lelong and Marguerite Coarse, native of theSaint-Pierre-aux-Boeufs parish. Following 16 September, she promise marital fidelity. Marie-Anne dies, February 13 1684. Joseph thus marries in second wedding, April 11 1684, to Marie-madeleine Duchesne, born towards 1666, in the island of Orleans. This marriage is the first registered voter in the registers of Saint-François. She is 17 years old the day of her marriage and is the elder girl of the ancestor Pierre Duchesne, known as Lapierre and of Catherine Rivet. The second Bonneau brood counts nine children, of which two concern us.

The elder one, Jean Bonneau contracts two unions. The first in 1708 with Gained Élisabeth and the second in 1717, with Marie-Charlotte Labadie, girl of the ancestor François Labadie of St-Leger of évêché Holy in Saintonge, married on April 28 1671, with Jeanne Hébert. This Jeanne, born in in Quebec towards 1658, is the girl of the ancestor François Hébert, known as LeCompte and of Anne Fauconnier of Saint-Aignan on Ry, in Dieppe, in Normandy. They arrived married, of October 5 1644, with the Mount-with-Patients in France. Then, of the three girls of the Bonneau/Duchesne couple, one dies as a young person, another, Marie Bonneau, is mother of two natural children. Then, the third, that which concerns us, the benjamine, Madeleine Bonneau, born in 1697, wife on June 25, 1715, of Louis Tremblay, born in 1695, son of Pierre Tremblay and Marie Roussin. Three Tremblay/Bonneau children, wove links to us. The first, Jean Tremblay, born in 1719, married Marie-Charlotte Bissonnet, born in 1723, daughter of Jean Bissonnet and Marie Lavoie. The second, Marie-Genevieve Tremblay, born in 1720, married in 1743, to Joseph-Christmas Simard, born in 1707, son of Joseph Simard, known as Lombrette and of Marie Boivin. Then the third, François Tremblay, born in 1721, married Marie-madeleine Perron, born in 1724, daughter of Antoine Perron and Marie-madeleine Simard. The ancestor, Joseph Bonneau, known as LaBécasse, 52 years, was buried on November 30, 1701. His widow, Marie-madeleine Duchesne remarie in 1705 with Nicolas Veilleux.

- Translated from the web page of Robert Rochon, "Index des Patronymes".

From the Bonneau web-site:

The Bonneau/Goodwater family of North America have mainly two ancestors that came from France, one : Joseph BONNEAU surnamed Labécasse originally from St-Joseph de Vernoux (Vernoux-sur-Boutonne), bishop palace of Poitiers, Poitou, son of Pierre and Marie LAMBERT and two : Pierre BONNEAU surnamed Lajeunesse, originally from Tours in Touraine, son of Isaïe and Jeanne SIMONEAU.

Joseph BONNEAU arrived in Nouvelle-France (Quebec) in 1667, at the probable age of 18 year, as an employee of Noël JÉRÉMIE from Sillery. On 16th September 1670, he married at the parish of Ste-Famille, Orleans Island, Marie-Anne LELONG, «a King's daughter », daughter of late Jacques and Marguerite GROSSIER of Saint-Pierre-aux-Bœufs, Paris. On 18th October of the same year, he bought a land in the West part of the « Seigneurie d'Argentenay » located in the East end of the Orleans Island. The story has it that on this land located in front of Mont-Ste-Anne (now a famous ski resort) and near the reef of Cape Tourmente, Joseph loved hunting the sandpipers …Labécasse ! After giving birth to six (6) children, Marie-Anne die at the age of 31 years old, on 13th February 1684. None of her children would have any descendants. On 11th April 1684, Joseph remarried a second time at St-François of Orleans Island with Marie-Madeleine DUCHESNE, born around 1666, daughter of Pierre and Catherine RIVET. From this second marriage, nine (9) children were born, three (3) daughters and six (6) sons. Four (4) of the sons : JEAN, AUGUSTIN, DOMINIQUE and JACQUES had numerous descendants and are, in fact, the largest Bonneau dynasty of North America. Unfortunately one of the sons, BASILE lost all his children at a young age. Joseph BONNEAU Labécasse, exercised the trade of mason and sawyer, often associated with his faithful companion Maurice ARRIVÉ. He died 30th November 1701 and was buried the same day at St-François Orleans Island. His widow remarried, around 1705, with Nicolas VERIEUL (VEILLEUX) and give birth to five (5) more children.

from Bibeau Family history

BONNEAU, FAMILY PIONNIÈRE FROM Saint-François, ISLAND Of ORLEANS

L has majority of our Bonneau of old stock, if not all, have as an ancestor a mason originating in Poitou. It is the only pioneer carrying this patronym which was fixed in News-France during the XVIIe century.

Son of Pierre and Marie Lambert, Joseph Bonneau was of Vernoux-on-Buttons, not far from Niort. Buttons is an affluent of Charente. It begins close to Chief-Buttons, department of Two-Sevres, and sprinkles Saint-Jean-in Angély. It is a river as calm as picturesque, and which makes the joy of the estivants.

It is not easy to locate Vernoux-on-Buttons, a small commune of hardly 200 inhabitants. It is reproduced only on the large-scale maps. Let us take for starting point Niort, the prefecture of Two-Sevres. There D 740 begins: south-eastern direction, it leads to Vernoux in a little less than 30 km, right before its crossing with D 950.

Many are our ancestors whose one recalls the presence in the colony at the time of the census carried out on the initiative of the Talon intendant. Thus in 1667, one notes that Joseph Bonneau, then 18 years old, works like farm hand on the coast Saint-Ignace (Sillery). It is with the use of one grouillant character, Noël Jérémie says Lamontagne, just as another volunteer, Pierre Pelletier. However, the owner emphasizes yet only eight arpents and has only two animals with horns. It is that Noël Jérémie has been just established, being up to that point devoted to the draft of the furs at Papinachois and "other nations of north". Joseph Bonneau carried a curious nickname: he was known as the Woodcock. Was it fond of delicacies of hunting? At least two of its sons born of a second marriage, Jean and Augustin, adopted it too. In 1670, several girls of the king arrived to Quebec, of which Marie-Anne Lelong, girl of fire Jacques and Marguerite Grossier, theSaint-Pierre-aux-Boeufs parish, in Paris, whose church was demolished in 1837. One can nowadays see the gate of this one: deposited stone by stone, it decorates the entry of theSaint-Séverin church.

Joseph threw his reserved on the Parisienne young person. The couple signed its marriage contract on August 31, 1670 in front of the notary Romain Becquet and accepted the bridal blessing on September 16 in the church of Sainte-Famille, island of Orleans. It is besides in this island that it had decided to be established. The bride had brought goods evaluated to 200 pounds, and it profited from a royal dowry of 50 books.

In 1652, Jean de Lauzon, become governor of News-France to replace Louis d' Ailleboust de Coulonge, had conceded with this last, in the name of the Company of the Hundred-Associates, the stronghold of Argentenay, had located at the end is island of Orleans. Little after having become widowed, Mrs. d' Ailleboust conceded to with it a ground of three arpents face in Pierre Lelat and his wife, Francoise Crepel (Crépeau). The colonist lived there until 1670 and built there a hut, a hangar and a furnace. However, October 18 of this year, Joseph Bonneau became from there purchaser in front of the notary Paul Vachon, less than two months after his marriage.

Joseph Bonneau passed the remainder of his existence on his ground of the island of Orleans. Six children were born with the Bonneau/Lelong couple, including four wire, but two of those died at the beginning of the score, apparently single people. One knows nothing elder, Jean, except that it was hospitalized with the Hospital of Quebec in May 1697. The second wire, Joseph, born in 1673, married in Sainte-Famille, March 16, 1696, Anne-Francoise Bissonnet, girl of Pierre and Marie Dallon. The couple settled in the seigniory of Durantaye, on southern bank of the river, downstream from Lévis. But the father died prematurely, in 1703, leaving two wire which followed it the same year in the tomb.

At the time of the census of 1681, Joseph cultivates seven arpents and has three animals with horns. Nothing enables to foresee the mourning which will strike it. In February 1684, it loses his wife, who leaves it with infants. Two months later, it contracts one second union with Marie-madeleine Duchesne, girl of Pierre and Catherine Rivet. Our Bonneau families thus go down from wire resulting from this marriage.

The Bonneau/Duchesne couple had nine children including six wire. The youngest child, Jerome, died with the cradle; the five others founded in their turn of the hearths. The elder one, Jean, contracted two unions: the first in 1708 with Gained Élisabeth, girl of Olivier and Élisabeth Pip (three wire and a girl), and the second in 1717 with Marie-Charlotte Labadie, girl of François and Jeanne Hébert (a son and three girls).

In 1713, Augustin led to the furnace bridge his sister-in-law, Genevieve Gagné, who gave him ten wire and three girls; five of wire were to marry in their turn.

Domenica chooses for partner of life, in 1716, Francoise-Agnes Gingras; she was the girl of Sebastien and Marie-Genevieve Guillebourg and had been the wife of François Jérémie, sior of Voisy and says Lamontagne, to which she had given three children (of which twins) in two years of marriage. The sior of Voisy was the son of Noël Jérémie, the former owner of Joseph. Domenica was father of a son and two girls.

Just like the elder one, Jacques Maria twice; first of all in 1723 with Louise Bouchard, girl of François and Marguerite Simard, and widow of Joseph Amiot says Villeneuve; then, in 1736 with Marie-Catherine Laforest known as Labranche, girl of Jean and Marie-Francoise Rancourt. The two marriages respectively took place in the Bay-Saint-Paul and the island in Coudres. Two wire and four girls were born from the first, and a son and three girls of the second. Jacques had fixed himself in the area of Charlevoix.

Lastly, in 1727, Basile links its intended for that of Marie-madeleine Parent, girl of Jean and Marie-Francoise Bélanger and widow of Vincent Vachon (eight wire and four girls). Of the three girls of the Bonneau/Duchesne couple, one died any young person, another, Marie, was mother of two natural children and the benjamine married Louis Tremblay in 1716.

Extrait de: Portraits de familles pionnières de Robert Prévo

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