Antoine Trottier dit Desruisseaux

Notes

• Connu sous les noms Trottier, Desruisseaux, et Belcourt. Il fut baptisé « Gilles » mais il a été connu « Antoine ».
• Lieux info: Perche, France (naissance), Cap-de-la-Madeleine (mariage), Saint-François-Xavier-de-Batiscan (décès)
• Pionnier de la Nouvelle-France. Arrive au Québec avec sa famille le 23 septembre 1646 à bord du Cardinal.
• Contrat de mariage entre Antoine Trottier et Catherine Lefebvre le 2 septembre 1663 par notaire Ameau.
• Il fut un commerçant. Achète la seigneur de l'Île-aux-Hérons avec son fils Pierre le 1 juillet 1698. Antoine Trottier donne à Pierre sa moitié de la seigneurie pour le mariage de ce dernier le 31 octobre 1699.

Notes à nettoyer

Antoine Trottier was born in Jan 1640 in Igé, Perche, France. He died on 5 Dec 1706 in Batiscan, Champlain, QC. He was a Sieur Desruisseaux. Antoine Trottier and Catherine Lefebvre were married on 2 Sep 1663 in Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Champlain, QC. They were married on 2 Sep 1663. Catherine Lefebvre (daughter of Pierre-Michel Lefebvre and Jeanne Aunois) was born on 4 Dec 1648 in Trois-Rivières, St-Maurice, QC. Antoine Trottier and Catherine Lefebvre had the following children:

+9 i. Joseph Trottier (born about 1668). +10 ii. Pierre Trottier-Desaulniers (born in 1672). +11 iii. Noël Trottier (born about 1674). +12 iv. Michel-Louis Trottier-Beaubien (born in 1675). +13 v. Catherine Trottier (born in 1676). +14 vi. François-Marie Trottier (born in 1679). +15 vii. Antoine Trottier-Pombert (born on 11 Jan 1681). +16 viii. Marie-Anne Trottier (born on 22 Apr 1682). 17 ix. Jean-Baptiste Trottier was born on 22 Apr 1685 in Batiscan, Champlain, QC. +18 x. Julien Trottier-Desrivières (born in 1687). 19 xi. Alexis Trottier was born on 20 Oct 1688 in Champlain, Champlain, QC. 20 xii. Paul Trottier was born on 30 Sep 1692 in Champlain, Champlain, QC. 21 xiii. Joseph-Amable Trottier was born about 1695. 22 xiv. Joséphine Trottier was born about 1696.

SEE:https://hoguegirardin.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/the-trottier-family/ We descend from two of their sons. The first is Antoine:

1-Jules “Gilles” TROTTIER (abt 1591-1655) +Catherine LOISEAU (abt 1601-1656) 2-Antoine TROTTIER Sieur DesRuisseaux (1640-1706) +Marie Catherine LEFEBVRE (1648-1705) 3-Antoine TROTTIER DESRUISSEAUX dit POMBERT (1681-1733) +Marie Charlotte MERCEREAU dite LASAVANE (1685-1715) 4-Marie Catherine TROTTIER DESRUISSEAUX dite POMBERT (1708-1788) +Louis SICARD CARUFEL dit DERIVE (1705-1783) 5-Genevieve SICARD DERIVE (1728-1798) +Pierre LESIEUR (1700-1761) 6-Madeleine LESIEUR (1756-1841) +Joseph LESIEUR dit LAPIERRE (1751-1813) 7-Josephte LESIEUR (1778-1864) +Charles GIRARDIN (1773-1853) 8-Paul GIRARDIN (1801-1878) +Marie Louise BERNARDIN (1824-1912) 9-Napoleon GIRARDIN (1851-1929) +Onesime ALLARD ( 1852-1896) 10-Marie Emma GIRARDIN (1878-1979)

In 1660 Antoine was one of a small group of coureur de bois who accompanied Father Rene Menard into what is now Wisconsin. The priest was going as a missionary, the others were going to trade furs. Louise Phelps Kellogg in her book The French Regime in Wisconsin and the Northwest refers to Antoine as

“the leader among the traders, who later settled at Batiscan, where he lived until 1706.”

It would be three years before the traders would return to Quebec, and Menard would not be with them, having died. Antoine would then marry Catherine Lefebvre, whose father and mother I talked about here. Two of Catherine’s brothers married two of Antoine’s nieces.

In Our French-Canadian Ancestors, Vol VII by Thomas Laforest (page 211) we learn that:

“Antoine dit Desruisseaux was one of the most important merchants of his time in the colony” and that he “formed fur trading associations and became very rich.”

I have found a reference in another book that indicates Antoine was able to afford a private tutor for his children. Schooling in Transition: Readings in Canadian History of Education tells us that:

“In a contract of 1681, Pierre Bertrand, who reportedly had attended the University of Paris, agreed to serve as tutor to the family of the military figure Joseph-Francois Hertel of Trois-Rivieres, for a period of a year. Bertrand promised to join the Hertel household upon completion of his teaching duties with the family of Antoine Trottier Des Ruisseaux of the same town.”

Several of Antoine’s sons would continue in the fur trade. Heather Devine writes in The People who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis in a Canadian Family about one of Antoine’s sons, Michel Trottier dit Beaubien, that :

“While Michel Trottier chose to purchase and develop a parcel of land as a seigneur, three of his brothers worked for various periods in the fur trade. Although two of the brothers began as lowly engagés, they eventually became merchants in their own right, establishing a firm foothold in the business community for the Trottier family. By the mid-eighteenth century, five of Michel Trottier’s nephews numbered among the largest outfitters in Montreal.”

Antoine’s sons were very fond of taking dit names, so we find their descendants named DesRuisseaux, Pombert, Desaulniers, Desrivieres, and more.

Antoine’s son, also named Antoine, and our direct ancestor, apparently did not enter the fur trade. He married twice (his first wife Marie Charlotte Mercereau died at the age of 30, after having three children.) With his second wife he would have another nine children.

Surprisingly, Antoine died November 11, 1733 within 12 days of the death of three of his children, one an infant, one aged 11 and one aged 23. This led me to research if there was an epidemic of some type occurring that year. Turns out there was an influenza pandemic from 1729-1733.

I checked a bit more and discovered that Antoine also buried a ten-month old son in 1730, and a 6 day-old daughter in 1731. Antoine’s widow remarried in 1734, and had 3 more children, one of whom she buried as an infant.

GEDCOM Source

@R1050710867@ Quebec, Genealogical Dictionary of Canadian Families (Tanguay Collection), 1608-1890 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 1,2177::0

GEDCOM Source

Volume: Vol. 1 Sect. 2 : Hem-Zap; Page: 573 1,2177::131416

GEDCOM Source

@R1050710867@ Quebec, Genealogical Dictionary of Canadian Families (Tanguay Collection), 1608-1890 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 1,2177::0

GEDCOM Source

Volume: Vol. 1 Sect. 2 : Hem-Zap; Page: 573 1,2177::131416