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Marguerite Girard

French: Marguerite Forcier (Girard)
Also Known As: "Forcier", "Abraham-Desmarais-Courville"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Picardie,,, Boulogne Sur Mer, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France
Death: August 07, 1695 (51-52)
Quebec,,Quebec,, Quebec City, Communauté-Urbaine-de-Québec, QC, Canada
Place of Burial: Canada
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Nicholas Girard; Nicolas Girard; Renee Francoise Girard and Françoise Huon
Wife of René AbrahamDesmarest; Pierre Forcier, Sr. (I) and Rene Abraham Desmarais, Sr
Mother of Pierre Abraham Desmarais; Joseph-Pierre Forcier; Marie Marthe Forcier; Pierre Forcier, (II); Jacques Forcier and 4 others

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About Marguerite Girard

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MARGUERITE GIRARD was born 1649 in Bougogne or Boulogne, France, and died Aft. February 18, 1715/16 in Hotel Dieu, Quebec, Canada. She married (1) PIERRE FORCIER Abt. 1674 in Sorel, Richelieu, Quebec, Canada, son of GUILLAUME FORCIER and SEBASTIENNE GAULTIER. He was born Abt. 1648 in St-Aubin, Nantes (Loire-Atlantic, France, and died May 18, 1690 in St-Francois-du-Lac, slain by the Iroquois.

She married (2) RENE ABRAHAM-DESMARAIS November 30, 1690 in St-Francois-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada, son of JEAN ABRAHAM and JEANNE BRASSART. He was born 1645 in Secondigne, Delix Sevres, France, and died Aft. February 18, 1715/16.

Notes for PIERRE FORCIER: Massacred by the Iroquois, was the fate of Pierre Forcier. He was killed at St-Francois-du-Lac, May 18, 1690. At that time the Iroquois were attacking constantly. On August 5, 1689 the Lachine Massacre took place. Historian Freland in his Histoire du Canada, recounts all the Iroquois incursions against the inhabitants of St-Francois-du-Lac, Sorel and the surrounding parishes. He does not mention the names of all those killed then, but his information covers the last months of the life of Pierre Forcier.

"Meanwhile the Iroquois' war parties started again to overrun the Montreal government, they even made it to the Trois-Rivieres government. Many of the Iroquois' canoes were going downstream by the Prairies River as far as the Montreal Island. A surgeon named Jaliat, spotted them and gave the alarm. Twenty inhabitants of "La PointeaupTrembles conducted by the Sir de Colombez, old lieutenant, ambushed them and charged vigorously.

Twenty five Iroquois survived but the French lost twelve men, among them was their leader. "Another enemy party showed at the "Recancour" River and took the lives of fifteen or sixteen people, elderly, women and children." "To try to stop these runs on the south shore, Fronterac put two detachments to guard those areas. One headed by Commander M. "de Lamotte", reformed captain. He would go for Trois Rivieres to St-Francois-du-Lac; the other under adventurer "de Clermont" also reformed captain, would go from Montreal to Sorel. Near Sorel, M. de Clermont surprised a band of Indians with five children prisoners, killed a few men and took the children back."

It was in one of these attacks that Pierre Forcier was killed at St-Francois-du-Lac at the same time as Jacques Vacher. The interment was held the following day in the cemetery of the parish of St-Francois-du-Lac.

This information comes from the Dictionnaire National de Canadiens Fransais, Paptie Historique....Tome 111.

She was one of the Filles du roi: http://www.fillesduroi.org/src/Filles_list.htm

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Marguerite Girard's Timeline

1643
1643
Picardie,,, Boulogne Sur Mer, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France
1674
January 20, 1674
Sorel, New York, New York County, NY, United States
1675
February 10, 1675
Sorel,Richelieu,Quebec,Canada
1677
March 25, 1677
Saint-François-du-Lac, Nicolet-Yamaska Regional County Municipality, QC, Canada
1682
February 10, 1682
Sorel, Richelieu, Québec, Canada
1684
April 6, 1684
Quebec,, Sorel, Le Bas-Richelieu, QC, Canada
1687
February 9, 1687
Sorel, Pierre-De Saurel Regional County Municipality, QC, Canada
1689
April 3, 1689
Saint-François-du-Lac, Nicolet-Yamaska Regional County Municipality, QC, Canada