Marie-Madeleine Marie Matou dite Labrie

On Rene Deniau and his marriage to the widow: Madeleine Matou Deniau...

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by Mike Nyquist of Scottsdale, Arizona

Jean Haudecoeur, born 1655, was the son of Jean Haudecoeur and Marie Boursier of St. Germain, Paris, France. He married Madeleine Matou, born 1665, second of ten children of Philippe and Marguerite Doucinet, on October 5, 1682 in Montréal. They settled in Boucherville, Québec, where Jean acquired the property of fifty arpents [an arpent is a unit of land equal to about 0.85 acre] of Pierre Goislard dit Dupuy. He also acquired a place in the village paid in part in beaver pelts. At this time Boucherville was an advance post for Montréal, located on the south side of the river. Jean and Madeline had four children:

1. Marie, b. July 3, 1685, at Boucherville, Québec; m. Jean Quenneville July 5, 1704, at Lachine, Québec; bur. December 31, 1753

2. Pierre-Louis, b. September 16, 1686, at Boucherville; m. Catherine Thunay at Lachine 1716; bur. April 13, 1754, at Lachine

3. Noël, b. May 27, 1688, at Boucherville; found at Lachine in 1719; voyager

4. Marie-Jeanne, b. August 25, 1689, at Boucherville, m. Raymond Quesnel 1718

Jean was accused of murdering fifty-four-year-old Montréal merchant François Poignet in 1690. The motive is unknown. Jean was condemned to death, and was to be broken at the wheel. His punishment was to have “his right fist cut off before the door of the victim, and after six beatings to the legs, put on a wheel facing the sky waiting his death.”

In this type of death sentence, the condemned was typically placed naked on the wheel and his body repeatedly beaten with iron bars in a manner designed to prolong suffering and postpone death. Jean was tried three times. On May 27, 1690, the Sovereign Council modified his sentence to allow him to be strangled prior to receiving the blows. The sentence was carried out at Québec sometime prior to April 9, 1691, and his corpse was exposed on the wheel for twenty-four hours before being secretly inhumed somewhere between Montréal and Québec.

The property of Jean and all his worldly goods were confiscated, and his land was purchased by Pierre Sauchet dit Larigueur. The family was left with nothing. On October 29, 1692, widow Madeleine remarried René Deniau, at Boucherville. He was born ca. 1665, the eldest child of Jean and Hélène Daudin, who were massacred at their farm at Boucherville on August 12, 1695, by the Iroquois. René had already been engaged on an expedition to the west in 1688. Of an adventurous spirit, he did not hesitate to marry the widow of a murderer and mother of four children. René and Madeleine had:

Nicolas, b. September 15, 1693, at Boucherville; bur. May 23, 1694, at Boucherville

Ursule, b. December 25, 1694, at Boucherville; d. September 12, 1729, at l’Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal

Jean-Baptiste, b. June 24, 1697, at Montréal; m (1) Marie Primeau November 27, 1724, m(2) Catherine Rufiange dite Laviolette, widow of Simon Couillard, at Châteauguay, Québec, April 30, 1736

Anonyme, sex unknown, b. and d. July 15,1699, Lachine, Québec

The four children of Jean Haudecoeur all assumed the name of Deniau. Madeleine died while giving birth to her ninth child, who also died at birth on July 15, 1699 at Lachine [some sources list the father as unknown]. She was buried on July 15, 1699, at Lachine. René married a native of Illinois, Anastasie, ca. 1705. It is presumed that after Madeleine’s death he returned to his wandering life. Anastasie died May 19, 1715, at Ste. Anne de Détroit. René was buried on July 13, 1730, at Détroit, Québec, at the age of sixty-five.

Godfather Denis Masse

Godmother Francoise Hebert

Fact: 1682 Declared not being able to sign

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@R100388797@ Family Data Collection - Births Edmund West, comp. Ancestry.com Operations Inc 1,5769::0

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Madeleines 1st marriage was by contract (ct 29 Sep 1682 Maugue) Montreal, 2nd by contract also (ct 29 Oct 1692 Moreau) Boucherville. 4 children in 1st marriage, 3 in 2nd. Marriage 2 René Deniau b: 18 JAN 1665 in Montréal,Ile de Montréal,Québec,Canada