Re: Cd-Rom Tanguay genealogy dictionnary
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Cd-Rom Tanguay genealogy dictionnary
6/26/00
4 ancestors of the name of Maheu came to Nouvelle-France :
1- Zacharie Maheu born in 1602 from Mortagne-au-Perche FRANCE arrived in Nouvelle-France sometimes between 1628 and 1654. He married three times, first to Marguerite Berthelet at Mortagne FRANCE in 1624, they only 1 daugther that stayed in France. Marguerite died early.Zacharie then married in 1628 Léonarde Foucquet again at Mortagne FRANCE, they hade 1 daugther & 2 sons which the youngest, René, followed his father to the new world. Léonarde died in 1667.Zacharie signed a wedding contract in 1665 while he was still married to Léonarde.This 3rd wedding was cancelled in 1666.René married in 1657 Jeanne Garnier from Île d'Oléron Saintonge QC, then died leaving only 1 son also named René who in 1682 married Barbe Boucher (daugther of Pierre boucher & Marie-Anne Saint-Denis). They too had only 1 son, named René (again).
2- Pierre Maheu (Sieur des Hazards) son of Jean Maheux & Michelle Chauvin from Perche FRANCE.He was born in 1630 and was 29 when he arrived in Nouvelle-France.He married Jeanne Drouin, daugther of Robert Drouin & Anne Cloutier, on Nov. 10th, 1659.She was only 12 years old. Her mother Anne was 11 years old when she married.Pierre & Jeanne started their family in 1659 in Ange Gardien QC, with 5 children : Marie, Charles, Pierre, Jeanne-Angélique and Jeanne.the oldest Charles married in 1688 Marie-Charlotte Garnier, daugther of Charles Garnier & Louise Vézina, and had 7 children, 5 of them had children. Pierre the 3rd silblings married Marie-Louise Garnier, sister of Marie-Charlotte, and they had 6 children, 4 of them married & had children.Pierre died in 1701.
The 3 daugthers, Marie, Jeanne-Angélique, Jeanne had much more children than their brothers.Marie married Charles Letartre in 1678 and had 18 children all baptised in Ange Gardien QC.Jeanne-Angélique married Charles Garnier (yer you guessed it, brother of Marie-Charlotte & Marie-Louise Garnier who married the Maheux brothers) in 1691 and had 10 children all baptised in Beauport except the oldest.Finally Jeanne chosed another Garnier (yes from the same family) to share her life with, Joseph they had only 3 children.Joseph died and she remarried Paul Bélanger in 1704 and had 6 other children with him.
3- René, who had 1 son named René, came to Acadie in 1610 married Marguerite Corriveau in 1648 in La Rochelle later moved to Québec City. The couple had 2 sons : Jean-Paul and Louis.Jean-Paul married Marguerite Tesson in 1669, they had 1 son who didn't have sons.Louis married in 11673 but never had children.
4- Nicholas Maheu, from Meaux FRANCE, died accidently 2 years after his marriage, leaving 1 son who also died early.