Thérèse THERESE (Thérèse) Ménard dite LaFontaine, , pc#6-13, 7X GGM Beauvais line; 6X GGM Lecuyer line; 1st husban

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Therese Menard, born 02 October 16763629; died Bef. 17553630; married (1) Jean-Baptiste Deniau 11 February 1697 in Boucherville, Quebec3631; born 02 November 1673 in Montreal, Quebec3632; died 03 November 1708 in Boucherville, Quebec3633; married (2) Jean (Desmarais) Desnoyers 1709 in Longueuil, Chambly, Quebec ("maries a la gaumine- See;"Notes")3634; born Unknown in Origin Unknown.

	Marriage Notes for Therese Menard and Jean-Baptiste Deniau:

Here is an article on Le Mariage à la Gaumine" it's quite interesting.

Busy with the liturgy of the Mass, the priest failed to notice the

foursome sitting close to one another in the rear pew. The young lady gazed

at the youth beside her in rapt adoration, hardly aware of thecelebrant at

the altar. from time to time her companion gave her hand a reassuring

squeeze. Unbeknown to the priest and those around them, the young couple

were being married in a rite known a " le mariage a la Gaumine".

Long before the Catholic settlement in Canada the church had been

plagued by the practice of those who, for some reason or another, could not

be married within the laws of the Church. The problem of clandestine

marriages caused the Council of Trent to declare that a marriage could be

valid only when reformed by a priest in the presence of two witnesses. The

requirements of the Council were enacted into civil law by the DeBlois

ordonnance of 1579 and by the legal decree of Tametsi. The passage of the

law and the enforcement of it are two different things, the decrees make

little impression on those who wished to sidestep them. They quickly found

ways to evade the restrictions.

The most popular form of evasion was to marry "a la Gaumine",

so-called after a certain Mr. Gaumin who had devised the ruse to circumvent

both church and legal procedures.

Using this method, the engaged couple and their two witnesses would

meet at church and, during the Mass, would make their marital commitment to

one another in the presence of the two witnesses, but without the knowledge

of the priest.

The custom of the marriage "a la Gaumine" came to New France with the

immigrants and there were those who, in their homeland, resorted to the

irregular and illegal ceremony for various reasons. The practice persisted

despite the fact that church and legal authorities used every kind of tactic

to prevent it. It became such a vogue that in 1717 the Bishop of quebec

issued a mandate to anyone contracting a marriage "a la Gaumine" would be

subject to excommunication. He cited flouting of church authority,

desecration of the church's sacred ceremonies and a side-stepping of

parental permission. To add emphasis to his order, he warned that witnesses

to such marriages would also face excommunication.

In some dictionaries, such as Tanguay etc. and in some historical

reportings one will find recorded accounts of such marriages "a la Gaumine".

At Boucherville, the marriage of Jean Desnoyers and Therese Menard was

celebrated. A few years previously, unknown to their missionary, Rev. de

Francheville, who was celebrating Mass, they had married themselves "a la

Gaumine". In 1727, while the pastor of Batiscan celebrated the Mass, a

Daniel Portail and Antoinette Langy became husband and wife "a la Gaumine".

At St.Jean Port-Joli a young couple who had been refused a

dispensation took the matter in their own hands. They erected a makeshift

altar at home and while a friend impersinated a priest celebrating Mass,

they married one another in a mock ceremony. The repercussions were swift

and drastic. The erring couple were excommunicated as were those who acted

as witnesses to the affair.

Twenty days the couple repented and returned to the embrace of the

church and its legal requirements. This episode marked the end of the

"marriage a la Gaumine" and the custom became a quaint bit of history; the

year was 1774....

Ref: "The Genealogist", The American-Canadian Genealigist, Manchester, N.H.

done by Edwin J. Allard, a retired N.Y. columnist who now writes on a

freelance basis. His wife, Mary, is a retired teacher and researching

Desjardins genealogy.

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