Jean le Normand (1638 – 1706) and Anne le Laboureur (abt. 1630 – 1700)

The Normand descendants in North America come from three different branches. The first, oldest and most numerous branch is that founded by Jean le Normand and Anne le Laboureur. Jean le Normand was born in 1638 at Igé, Bellême, Perche, Normandie, France. He was the first of that family in Canada and came from Perche, the French province which provided so many of the early immigrants to New-France. He was the son of Gervais le Normand and Léonarde Jouault (sometimes referred to as Leonore Janet) who had married in Igé on 6 March 1636. Gervais also came to Québec where he died on 23 April 1666.

St. Martin Church of Igé, France, ancestral church of the Normand family

In the 1600s a Seignior, i.e., a landed noble, had recruited families good morals and of high work ethics from Igé to go to Canada to work on their plantation. Two plaques hang on the wall above the baptism font in the Igé church. One names several pioneers to Canada, including Jean LeNormand. The other was left by the Normand family association of Québec and names Jean Normand as having come from Igé.

The book Nos Origines en France, des Débuts à 1825, Volume 7, “Normandie et Perche”  lists the people from Igé (and other areas), apparently taken from Jetté's book. The people from Igé in Québec include:
Jacques BEAUVAIS dit St. Jemme, born 1623 Igé, died 1691 Montréal
Marie BELHOMME
Catherine (daughter) and Sebastien (father) DODIER
Pierre and Roberte GADOIS
Pierre, Louis (father) and Louise (daughter) GAGNE
Francois, Francoise, Nicolas, and Mathurine GOODE, children of Nicolas GOODE and Francoise GADOISE
Eloi JARRY dit Lahaye
Jean LEDUC
Simon LEREAU
Gervais and Jean NORMAND
Julien and Pierre TROTTIER
 

Jean le Normand arrived in New-France in 1647 and married Anne le Laboureur on 18 July 1656 at the Notre-Dame parish in Québec City. Anne le Laboureur was the daughter of Thomas le Laboureur and Marguerite Bardin, from Caen, Normandie, France. The couple settled in the Seigneurie Notre-Dame-des-Anges, on a land concession on the Canardière in the Limoilou area of Québec City. Twelve children were born out of this union, of whom three boys and four girls assured the survival of their line. Their eighth child was Suzanne Normand (1666-1738) and she is our link through her marriage in February 1686 to Jacques Huppé (1661-1731).

The Normands from this branch are spread throughout Québec, in the other Canadian provinces, in several New England states and in the southern USA, particularly Louisiana and Texas. For example, a grandson, Jean Pierre Normand (born 1744), migrated first to the German Coast of Louisiana and then on to the Avoyelles Prairie about the 1790s. His brother, Daniel Normand dit Gaspard, dropped the Normand part of his name and began the Gaspard family of Avoyelles Parish. For more details, Germaine Normand relates the history of the first century of this branch in North America in her book, Fonder foyer en Nouvelle-France, Les Normand du Perche. Les Éditions du Trille. Ste-Foy, Québec: Éditions Multimonde, 1999, 324 pages, ISBN 2-921146-90-8.

ORIGINAL IMMIGRANTS TO NEW FRANCE
by Robert E. Chenard

GROOM	FROM/BORN	BRIDE fille-du-roi*	FROM/BORN	DATE & PLACE MARRIED
NORMAND, Jean le	Igé, FR	1-Le LABOUREUR, Anne 2-BRASSARD, M.-Madeleine	Caën, FR Québec	18-07-1656 Québec city 02-05-1703 Québec city

Jean Normand, le Normand or Lenormand

(parents: Guillaume Normand & Léonarde Joinault).

Born: 1638, Igé, Bellême, Perche, Normandie, France [1].

Census: In the 1666 and 1667 censuses at Notre-Dame-des-Anges or at Charlesbourg with the occupation of a carpenter; in the 1681 census at Petite Auvergne in Charlesbourg.

Died: La Canardière, Québec City, 25 July 1706 (age 70 years) [4].

Buried: Québec City, 25 July 1706.

Married First Wife: 18 July 1656, Québec [2, 3]; (marriage contract: 08 July 1656 Audouart)

First Wife: Anne Lelaboureur or le Laboureur

(parents: Thomas le Laboureur & Marguerite Bardin or Charadin)

Born: abt. 1630, Caen, Calvados, Normandie, France [1]

Census: 36 years old in the censuses of 1666 and 1667; 52 years in 1681
Died and buried: Québec City, 11 December 1700 (age 70 years) [4]

Married Second Wife: 02 May 1703, Québec [3, 4] (marriage contract: 01 May 1703, Genaple)

Second Wife: Marie-Madeleine Brassard [4] (parents: Antoine Brassard & Françoise Méry)

Died: Québec City, 21 September 1712.

Buried: Québec City, 22 September 1712.

Her first marriage: 29 October 1656 in Québec to Louis Fontaine (parents: Louis Fontaine & Marie Nion). Fontaine was from Dieppe, Normandie, France. Censuses: 33 years old in 1666, at Québec; 38 years old in 1667, at Sillery; 44 years old in 1681, in Petite-Rivière St-Charles in Québec; city 03 August 1653, Québec; sailor in 1661; pilot in 1666. Died: Petite-Rivière on 04 September 1685. Buried: Québec City on 05 September 1685 (48 years old).

1. Tanguay, L'Abbe Cyprien. Dictionnaire Geanologique des Familles Canadienne. Québec, Canada: Eusebe Senecal, 1991 Reprint. Volume 1, page 382.
2. Tanguay. Volume 1, page 382.

3. Robert E. Chenard, Original Immigrants to New France
4. Jette, Rene. Dictionnaire Genealogique des Famillies du Québec. Montréal, Québec, Canada: Les Presses de l'Universite de Montréal, 1983, page 853.

Children of Jean le Normand and Anne le Laboureur:

1. Marie
Born: 02 July 1657, Québec
Died and buried: 07 July 1657, Québec

2. Marie
Born and baptized: 27 July 1658, Québec
Died: 12 June 1712

Buried: 13 June 1712, St-Nicolas
Married: 04 March 1680, Québec (contract: 04 February 1680, Duquet)

Husband: Pierre Lambert (parents: Jacques Lambert & Perrette Bachelet)

3. Anne
Born: 25 January 1660, Québec

Died: 26 January 1660, Québec

Buried: 2 February 1660, Québec

4. Jean
Born and baptized: 23 January 1661, Québec
Died: 11 February 1691, Hôtel-Dieu, Québec
Married: 06 June 1686, Québec (contract: 03 April 1686, Duquet)
Wife: Anne Chalifou (parents: Paul & Jacquette Archambault)

5. Charles
Born: 30 October 1663, Québec

Baptized: 01 November 1663, Québec
Died 21 March 1715, Québec

Buried: 22 March 1715, Québec
Married First Wife: 20 November 1691, Québec (contract: 19 November 1691, Genaple)
First Wife: Marie Dionne (parents: Antoine Dionne & Catherine Ivory)
Married Second Wife: 13 March1703, Québec (contract: 12 March 1703, LaCetière)
Second Wife: Françoise-Monique Jean (parents: Denis Jean & Marie Pelletier)

6. Jacques
Born and baptized: 26 February 1664, Québec
Confirmed: 07 April 1681, Québec
Died after the 1881 census

7. Jacques-François
Born: 01 June 1665, Québec

Baptized: 02 June 1665, Québec
city 21 February 1717 Québec

8. Suzanne or Marie-Suzanne
Born: 16 December 1666

Baptized: 19 December 1666, Québec
Married: 05 February 1686, Québec
Husband: Jacques Huppé dit Lagroix (parents: Michel Huppé & Madeleine Roussin)

Jacques Huppé born: 28 April 1661, Québec; Baptized: 08 May 1661, Québec

9. Joseph
Born: 10 January 1669, Québec

Baptized: 13 January 1669, Québec

10. Jeanne-Françoise
Born 06 April 1670, Québec

Baptized: 07 April 1670, Québec
Buried 26 December 1702, Québec
Married: 13 November 1690, Québec (contract: 07 November 1690, Gilles Rageot)
Husband: Joseph Lemire (parents: Jean Lemire & Louise Marsolet)

11. Geneviève
Born and baptized: 19 August 1672, Québec
Married First Husband: 05 February 1691, Québec (contract: 05 February 1691, Gilles Rageot)
First Husband: François Trefflé dit Rotot (parents: François Trefflé & Catherine Mathieu)
Married Second Husband: 04 February 1704, Québec (contract: 29 January 1704, LaCetière)
Second Husband: François-Xavier Larue (parents: Jean Larue & Jacqueline Pain)

12. Louis
Born: 17 September 1674, La Canardière

Baptized: 18 September 1674, Québec
Died after the census of 1681

The Association des Normand d’Amérique, founded in 1994, organizes gatherings and publishes a newsletter, Le Normand, three times a year. For more information about the Association or membership in it, consult the Web site:

www.genealogie.org/famille/normand/

Source: http://www.maisonsaint-gabriel.qc.ca/en/b/page_b_5a_c3_2.html

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