Marie-Anne Barrois

Extract from La médecine en Nouvelle-France: les chirurgiens de Montréal, 1642-1760 By Marcel J. Rheault

The book looks at Antoine Barrois and his family, in French. A translation is as follows, and corrects a great deal of misinformation derived from an error in a genealogy produced by Tanguay.

"At the time of the 1681 census, the family consists of Antoine Barrois, father, surgeon, aged 40, Anne Leber, mother, aged 22 years and five children, Philip, born September 13, 1672 Catherine, born May 26, 1674, Francis, born March 9, 1676, Charles, born May 3, 1678 and Marie-Anne, born 1st January 1680."

“A question yesterday about a Barrois daughter who became a nun in the Congrégation de Notre-Dame de Montréal, Sister Saint-Charles, appears to have disappeared. She does not appear in the PRDH-IGD list of Barrois children. Here is the correct source for her birth, along with some other details, from my long work on the Couc / Montour family, pages 130-31.

Because of the Catholic belief that an individual can be baptized only once, Protestants who had been baptized in their own denominations also received “supplied” rites when they embraced Catholicism.

[131] Many examples of this practice exist, including an entry at the parish of Saint François Xavier in La Prairie de La Magdeleine on 26 July 1699. Father Louis de Lafaye of the seminary of Ville Marie first certified having conferred (interestingly this word “conferé” is crossed out) and then wrote supplied (suppléees) the holy ceremonies of baptism for Antoine Barrois, son of Antoine Barrois and Anne Le Ber, age about 15 (19?), who had been baptized among the Dutch of New York, aux flamans.364 His sister Anne, who later became a nun in the Congrégation de Notre-Dame de Montréal, Sister Saint-Charles, had been baptized at Albany Dutch Church 3 May 1685.365 It is relevant to note that two of this Antoine’s half-brothers, also born among the Dutch, were given supplied baptism ceremonies in this year that their parents returned to New France, and one of them was definitely a witness for the marriage of Isabelle’s son Michel Germaneau in 1717. Anne Le Ber, member of a prominent French merchant family, had remarried to Hillebrand Lootman at the Albany Dutch Church on 20 December 1689. Her children from her second marriage are recorded at their formal baptisms under the names Barrois and Lootman (with spelling variations), as well as “Albrin,” a French version of Hillebrand.366 Another person returning to New France with his family in 1699 was Jean Baptiste de Poitiers, sieur du Buisson, a former Carignan soldier who had been an interpreter of English and Dutch in New York. His son, Louis de Poitiers du Buisson, born 7 December 1696 at Esopus, not far from Albany, en La Nouvelle Angleterre, received baptism on 15 November 1699 at Nôtre-Dame de Montréal, in whose registers it is written that he had been given lay baptism by the minister of Orange and named Louis at that time, ondoyé par le ministre d’Orange et nommé pour lors Loüis.367

Footnotes:

364 FHL #1288833, photocopy of this record. See also “jean baptiste Lotman, cy devant [nomm%C3%A9 Herbrand, in the margin] de la nouvelle holande aage de trente sept ans” at Montréal, 8 November 1699. FHL #0375840. Godfather: Jean Baptiste de Poitiers, sieur du Buisson, who obviously gave “Herbrand” his baptismal name; godmother, Agathe de Saint Père, who would attend the Massé daughters’ weddings. (See Part 8.) Jean-Baptiste de Poitiers was a Carignan veteran who had been an interpreter of English and Dutch in New York, 1674-1699. One of his sons, Guillaume, would marry an Indian, Marie Apecke8rata, at Kaskaskia before 1720. Jetté. The priest providing the supplemental rites would usually include the phrase, "...if you are not already baptized." 365 1685 May 3. Anna, of Antoine Barroa. Wit.: father, Albert Rykman. By Jannetje Crygier. <http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/albany/> 366 See James L. Hansen, “The Lootman/Barrois Families of Canada, New York, and Points West,” The American Genealogist, Vol. 66, No. 1, January 1991, pp. 1-9; No. 2, April 1991, pp. 88-92; No. 3, July 1991, pp. 169- 175. As Anne Le Ber’s second marriage appears on the Web: 1689 Dec. 20. Hillebrant Lootman, y.m., and Anna Elbur, wid. of Antoine Barroa, both l. under the jurisdiction of N.A. <http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/albany/> 367 FHL #0375840, photocopy. “. Suzanne Sommerville