Pierre Dulignon, sieur de Lamirande

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The material below is taken from Histoire de Louiseville, November 1965. A book written by Germain Lasage, O.M.I. The material was sent to Br. Raymond Dufresne by Cecile de LaMirande of Montreal. The translation is by Br. Raymond Dufresne, C.S.C. A Noble (Pierre Dulignon de la Mirande)

Besides the founder of Louiseville, Charles du Jay, Lord of Manereuil, we find in its (Louiseville's) history only one family possessing a title of nobility. It is that of Dulignon-Chevalier-Lamirande.

The Canadian ancestor is Pierre Dulignon, knight, coming from "de la Mirande," near La Rochefoucauld in the Diocese of Angoulême.

Pierre is the eldest of a Protestant family annobled by King Henry IV. Pierre's grandfather was Jacques Dulignon and his grandmother was Catherine Croys. In about 1654, Pierre's father Theodore married Marthe Pacquet, daughter of Denis Pacquet, squire, Lord of Lagebâton, and Marie Marignier. The three sons of Theodore and Marthe were Pierre, baptized 20 January 1655, Jean, baptized 16 June 1657, and Theodore, baptized 26 February 1660. All three were baptized in the Protestant temple of La Rochefoucauld.

Pierre Dulignon, a Sargent in the company of Joseph de Jardy, Lord of Cabanac, probably arrived in New France with his lieutenant and a recruit of five hundred men. They left from La Rochelle in June 1685. Joseph (Jordy) de Cabanac and his nephew, François, were on the ship La Diligente with the officers, the Governor of Denoville and Bishop of Saint-Vallier. The enlisted soldiers were on the ships Le Fourgon and Le Mulet. Pierre Dulignon, because of his nobility, was probably on the first ship. They arrived at Québec during the month of July.

Pierre had come to join his younger brother, Jean, who had come to the country on 9 October 1670 and who had married Marie Testard of Folleville, daughter of Charles and Anne La Marque, in Montréal.

The soldiers of Pierre de la Mirand's contingent wintered fin the towns and seigneuries along the St. Lawrence. In the following year they began the Iroquois War which lasted for years. Beginning in 1689, the De Jordys and their troups fought against the English. In 1690, they were defending Québec against Phipps. In 1691 and 1692, François de Jordy participated in some battles against the Iroquois. …

At the end of the Iroquois War, the knight Pierre Dulignon, Lord of La Mirande, settled at La Rivière-du-Loup. On 10 December 1700, he obtained from Seigneur Jean Lachasseur the former land of Joachim Germane located between the two rivers to the north of the commune.

On 27 July 1703, l'abbé Léonard Chaigneau, Sulpician, wrote the marriage contract of Pierre Dulignon with Marguerite de Gerlais, daughter of Jean de Gerlais, dit Saint-Amand, one of the first founders of the seigneurie. The marriage took place at the same time at Rivière-du-Loup.

Since Jean, his brother, had only one son who had the same name and who had no male descendants, it is from Pierre that all the Dulignons and Lamirandes of America and also the Chevaliers of the region of Louiseville have their heritage. At this same period there is another family Chevalier in the Montreal area.

Pierre Dulignon and Marguerite de Gerlais had 11 children. Their names and dates of baptism are as follows:

1. Jacques, 21 September 1705 2. Marie- Françoise, 13 March 1707 3. Marie-Therese, 13 January 1709 4. Michel, 8 July 1710 [ancestor to our Grace Emma Lamirand] 5. Claude, 2 May 1712 6. Marie-Anne, 26 July 1714 7. Marguerite, 16 October 1716 8. Pierre, 5 November 1717 9. Jean-Baptiste, 12 June 1724 10. François, 8 September 1726 11. Gabriel, 10 September 1729

The father was 74 years old at the birth of the last son. Pierre Dulignon died six years later. [this would leave Jean Baptiste, Francois, and Gabriel home and under age 12] In the parish register of Rivière-du-Loup we read: "On the 24th day of February of the year 1736 was buried in the cemetery of this parish by M. Cardin, missionary priest of Nicolet the body of Pierre du Lignon, Lord of la Mirande, about 80 years of age. Witnesses were Jean-François de Gerlais, St-Amand, etc." Signed by C. Pocqueleau, missionary priest.

At the time of this writing (1965) Pierre Dulignon has 11 generations of descendants. Nearly all the old families of Masinongé can trace to him some of their branches.

In the records of the siegneurie of Rivière-du-Loup of 1724, it is recorded that Sieur Pierre de la Mirande possessed to the north of the commune [meaning Louiseville?], between the two rivers, a concession of land five acres of frontage which went to "La Petite Rivière-du-Loup" and on the property was found a house, a barn, a stable and thirty acres of arable land.

Since the ancestral land was too small and exposed to the spring floods, it was left shortly after the death of Pierre, around the year 1736. His wife and children moved to a new property acquired at "Haut-de-la-Rivière."

Of the eleven children of the ancestor de La Mirande, seven were sons and we know that five married. Jacques married on 13 June 1738 to Catherine Paillé and in a second marriage on 17 February 1744 to Catherine Trottier dit Valcourt, niece of the late Seigneur Michel Trottier dit Beaubien.

Michel [our ancestor] married on 18 February 1738 to Catherine Déziel-Labrèche.

Claude married at Rivière-du-Loup on 20 January 1735 Josephte Trottier dit Valcourt, sister of Catherine. It is Claude who took the name Chevalier which was passed on to his descendants. This doubling of names in the same family was common during this period…The name Chevalier, taken by Claude, was derived from the title "Chevalier" carried by the father [meaning Theodore or Theodore and Pierre? In la Mirande, France]..

Jean-Baptiste, ninth child of the family, married Marie-Josephte Lemaîtrre-Bellenoix.

François married Josephte Saint-Yves.

We know that three of the daughters had a family: Marie-Françoise married Jean-Baptiste Fleury on 17 October 1728, Marie-Therese married Joseph Laurent Bertrand on 8 November 1741 in Montreal, and Marguerite married Antoine Saint-Romain on 30 September 1737 a Rivière-du-Loup.

The successive generations of the Chevalier and LaMirande families settled on farms. However, the men of the first generation generally made an apprenticeship to "des Pays d'en Jaut" (the upper country). Between 1734 and 1811 we find at least thirty-four contracts of members of the family for trips to Michimilakinac, "la Mer de l'Ouest: or " la Baie Verte."

At the beginning of the English regime, a statement on the Canadian nobility mentioned that only the family Dulignon de la Mirande at Rivière-du-Loup had a right to the title of nobility.

The Contemporaries:

It is impossible to mention all the actual descendants of Pierre Dulignon and Marguerite de Gerlais. Let us note that two centuries after the acquisition of the land of Haut de la Rivière we still find descendants of the family.

Georges-Alphonse left the land in 1939 to reside in the town. Georges-Alphonse de la Mirande is a descendant of Pierre by Jaques and by Jacques' son Pierre who married Madeleine Declaut. Another Pierre of this latter marriage married Louise Dubord-Clairmont who had among other children a son Jospeh-Hilaire. This latter married Rosalie Houde. Their son Joseph-Geoges married Henriette Fortier, daughter of notary Louis-Theodore of Montreal, and is the father of Georges-Alphonse.

This Georges-Alphonse, baptized 6 October 1872, married on 17 June 1895 to Marie-Sophie Gagnon of Saint-Leon. Near the ancestral farm he owned a small house where in the summer of 1915 resided the future Prime Minister Jean Lesage, then three years old. This little house was called by the Lesage family the "Chateau des Lamirande." It was surrounded by a wooden white-washed fence, by pig pines, by lilacs, by a hedge of raspberries and gooseberries, all of which nearly hid the house to the passerby. Around 1917, the "Chateau des Lamirande" [the little house] was sold to Arsene Laurendeau, a neighbor on the right, who had it moved to his property. It was a difficult task. Placed on big wheels, it took three days to cross the acre which separated it from its new foundation. This residence belongs to Gilles Caron. The actual former family property of the Lamirande family is owned by Jean-Marie Caron. (This is in 1965).

An extract from the register of baptisms, marriages, and burials of the parish of St. Anthony of Padua of Louiseville, Diocese of Trois Rivières, for the year 1736:

"The 14th day of February of the year 1736 was buried in the cemetery of this parish by M. Cardin, missionary priest of Nicolet, the body of Pierre du Lignon, squire, lord of Lamirande, aged of about 84 years. As witnesses were Jean-François Desjarlais and Antonine St Amans, both brothers-in-law of the deceased, who declared unable to sign their names to the act. C. Pocqueleau, pêtre."

__From Robbie Gries....this book has maps showing where Pierre's land was in Louiseville (formerly Riviere du Loup), and I was able to see that land when I visited the area last year with my 5th cousin, whom I met there, Cecile DeLamirande.

Followups:

Re: Part of "Histoire of Louiseville" transl Rita Chevalier Ainslie 10/29/00 Re: Part of "Histoire of Louiseville" transl Rosemarie Beaubien Richards 8/10/00 Re: Part of "Histoire of Louiseville" transl Lyle A Trottier 11/05/00 Re: Part of "Histoire of Louiseville" transl Lorna (Laurendeau) Peterson 7/17/00 Re: Part of "Histoire of Louiseville" transl Johanne Lamirande 8/10/99 (0) Re: Part of "Histoire of Louiseville" transl Alain de Lamirande 7/06/00 Re: Part of "Histoire of Louiseville" transl Jaclyn Majer 7/21/07 Re: Part of "Histoire of Louiseville" transl Mike Van Wasshnova 7/07/00 Re: Part of "Histoire of Louiseville" transl Alain de Lamirande 7/07/00 Re: Part of "Histoire of Louiseville" transl Guylain Lamirande 10/06/06 Re: Part of "Histoire of Louiseville" transl marc fortin 5/29/00 Re: Part of "Histoire of Louiseville" transl Heather Devine 4/14/99 (1) Re: Part of "Histoire of Louiseville" transl Robert Bailey 7/28/99 (0)

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