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About Maurice Louis Alexandre Louis Lebrice Kérouac dit Lebrice
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Notes for Maurice-Louis-Alexandre LeBrice dit De Keroack: [isyl020101.GED]
Some Genealogical Notes on Jack Kerouac's Paternal Ancestry by Paul R. Keroack #157: -Maurice-Louis had come to Canada from Brittany about 1730, and first settled at Kamouraska. On October 22, 1732, at Cap-St.-Ignace, he married Louise Bernier. He was about twenty-six, and she twenty. She was the daughter of Jean Bernier and Genevieve Caron.
Maurice-Louis was a merchant of trader and while preparing to go to a business voyage to France, he was stricken ill and died in Kamouraska on March 6, 1736. He left two other sons, Louis-Gabriel, whose descendants form the other branch of the Kirouacs (from where I {Paul} descend), and Jacques, about whom nothing else is known.
Maurice-Louis' use of "de Keroack" after the original family name of LeBrice indicates a claim of noble origin. In France at that time, a title of nobility was dependent on the lane owned, rather than being the personal possession of the individual. Thus, a Seigneur, the lowest noble rank, was the lord of at least one village or parish. Of course, any noble family residing in the poor province of Brittany in the days of the glittering court at Versailles was of minor nobility indeed. Nevertheless, noble origin, however minor, was a great status symbol in New France. Titles were even assumed by ambitious individuals without the slightest right to them. Although no documentary evidence has been found, the circumstantial evidence suggests that Maurice-Louis was of the origin he claimed. His marriage to the daughter of the leading land-owner of the area indicates his acceptance as a gentleman.
He was literate, not a norm of the day, and signed his name as "Keroack," or "Keroak," rather than "LeBrice," and was buried as "Alexandre Keroak." His occupation as a merchant was not in contradiction to possible nobility. The King in 1685 had allowed nobles in Canada to engage in trade, the fur trade being by far a more lucrative source of income than the small rents paid by tenants in a country of vast, unclaimed acreage. As his young widow burned many of his papers, little is known for sure about his family in France. It is not even clear from what part of Brittany he came. Kerien, Berien, and Beriel are mentioned, all near the coast of the westernmost tip of the Breton peninsula. Plougar is also mentioned, since his uncle Charles LeBrice, brother of his father Francois-Hyacinthe, moved to that town. Charles was the abbot of a monastery, and a noted Breton poet of that era.
Some Genealogical Notes on Jack Kerouac's Paternal Ancestry by Paul R. Keroack #157: -Maurice-Louis had come to Canada from Brittany about 1730, and first settled at Kamouraska. On October 22, 1732, at Cap-St.-Ignace, he married Louise Bernier. He was about twenty-six, and she twenty. She was the daughter of Jean Bernier and Genevieve Caron.
GEDCOM Note
Category:French Immigrants to New France 
Biography ==LEBRICE / KIROUAC, Louis-Alexandre ( n : Urbain-François Le Bihan de Kervoac )
:Date de naissance: Vers 1702:Lieu d'origine: Huelgoat (St-Yves), autrefois trève de St-Pierre de Berrien (Finistère) 29081
:Parents: François-Joachim Le Bihan de K'voach et Catherine Bizien
:Métier du père: Notaire :Date de mariage des parents: 15-07-1687 :Lieu de mariage des parents: Huelgoat (St-Yves) (29081)
:Première mention au pays: 1726 :Occupation à l'arrivée: Voyageur commerçant :Date de mariage: 22-10-1732 :Lieu du mariage: Cap-St-Ignace :Conjointe: Marie-Louise Bernier :Décès ou inhumation: Kamouraska, 05-03-1736 Remarques: Dans son acte de mariage à Cap-St-Ignance, l'ancêtre des Kirouac donne le nom de Maurice Louis Le Bris de K' voach. Dans cet acte, il déclare que ses parents sont François-Hyacinthe Lebrice de Karouack et Madeleine-Véronique DeSevillac. Des recherches récentes dePatricia Dagier dans les archives notariales prouvent la filiation entre le pionnier canadien et ses parents. Ses grands-parents sont Laurent Le Bihan de Kervoach et Anne Calaix. Au moins douze frère et soeurs ont été baptisés à Huelgoat (St-Yves) entre 1688 et 1711 dont Gilles le 08-05-1688 et Guillaume le 13-11-1711. Une plaque commémorative a été apposée à Huelgoat, le 9 juillet 2000 par l'Association des familles Kirouac.
Inhumé sous le nom d'Alexandre Keroac. L'acte de mariage ajoute: "et ayant eu un enfant avant ledit mariage, ils l'ont légitimé en presence des Sieurs Francois Guimont, majeur de la cote du Sud, Pierre Bouchard et Nicolas Kervedo."
Cet enfant avait été nommé Louis
Autres enfants du couple Kirouac/Bernier selon PRDH: . SImon N 25-2-1732 Cap St-Ignace . Jacques N 16-11-1733 Cap St-Ignace
Famille Kirouac/Bernier au complet (4 enfants) vérifiée avec PRDH
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Maurice Louis Alexandre Louis Lebrice Kérouac dit Lebrice's Timeline
| 1706 |
1706
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Beriel, Cornouailles, Bretagne, France
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| 1732 |
February 25, 1732
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Cap St.-Ignace, Montmagny, Quebec, Canada
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| 1733 |
November 16, 1733
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Cap-Saint-Ignace, Montmagny Regional County Municipality, Québec, Canada
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| 1735 |
May 24, 1735
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Cap St-Ignace, Montmagny, Canada, Nouvelle-France
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| 1736 |
March 5, 1736
Age 30
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Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada
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