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About Fiacre Pierre Ducharme dit Lafontaine
DUCHARME / LAFONTAINE, Fiacre 300021 Statut Marié Date de naissance Vers 1625 Lieu d'origine Paris (Seine) 75056 Parents Toussaint et Jacqueline Drouet Métier du père Compagnon menuisier Date de mariage des parents 00-06-1616 Lieu de mariage des parents Paris (75056) Date du contrat de mariage 02-06-1616 Notaire Me Jean Chapellain Première mention au pays 1653 Occupation à l'arrivée Engagé (ct Lafousse, 23-05-1653) Date de mariage 13-01-1659 Lieu du mariage Montréal Conjoint Marie Pacreau Décès ou inhumation Montréal, 17-03-1677
Remarques Le 27-07-1640, par contrat de Me De Troyes, Fiacre Ducharme, âgé de 15 ans, résidant sur la rue des Poiriers, impasse qui donnait sur la rue St-Jacques à l'emplacement actuel de la Sorbonne, a été placé comme apprenti menuisier chez Regnault Petit-Colot sur la rue des Augustin, paroisse St-André-des-Arts. Au mariage de ses parents à Paris en 1616, son père demeurait sur la rue St-Jacques, paroisse St-Benoît. Sa mère demeurait en la maison de Mlle de l'Étoile, rue des Augustins, paroisse St-André-des-Arts. En 1649, les frères Fiacre et Jean Ducharme résident avec leur mère, veuve depuis au moins 1640, sur la rue des Poiriers, dans la maison de Port-de-Salut chez les Docteurs de la Sorbonne. Ses grands-parents paternels sont Jean Ducharme, tonnelier, et Marguerite Faulqueur. Ses grands-parents maternels sont Jean Drouet, manouvrier à Jouy-en-Josas (78322), et Jeanne de Saint-Cyr. Fiacre Ducharme est l'oncle de Catherine Ducharme, fille du roi arrivée en 1671.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ducharme-248
From https://hoguegirardin.wordpress.com/tag/montreal/
Our story continues in Ville Marie (Montreal). By 1651, Maisonneuve’s dreams were not yet accomplished. Ville Marie had a very small population and was under constant threat from the Iroquois as I wrote about here. All the settlers, and the hospital founded by Jeanne Mance, were forced to move inside the fort for protection. Really, one would think these people would be tempted to go back to France! Some did, but obviously not our ancestors or I wouldn’t be writing this.
And so began the “Grande Recrue”. Jeanne Mance offered money from her French benefactor to Maisonneuve, so he could recruit more settlers in France. He was looking for young, strong men who had useful skills and, perhaps more importantly, could use firearms. The men would sign contracts agreeing to work for three to five years. About 100 men and 15 women made the voyage. The women included Marguerite Bourgeoys, who was coming to start a school in the colony.
The voyage in 1653 was not an easy one. The ship The Saint-Nicolas-de-Nantes left Saint-Nazaire on June 20, 1653. After a few days it became obvious the ship need major repairs and the decision was made to return to France.
From the website of Maison Saint-Gabriel we learn:
Marguerite Bourgeoys explained the events: “Sieur de Maisonneuve and all of his soldiers stopped on an island from which there was no escape. Otherwise, not a single one would have stayed. Some even set about swimming to save themselves since they were furious and believed they had been taken to perdition.” (Les Écrits de Mère Bourgeoys, p. 46).
Not an auspicious start to this adventure! The repaired ship, or perhaps a different one, finally left on July 20, 1653. Illness was rampant on the ship and eight men died. The ship finally arrived at Quebec City on September 22, 1653. They arrived in Montreal on November 16, 1653.
Five of the men and one woman who made this voyage are our ancestors. They were Girardin ancestors Fiacre Ducharme dit Fontaine, Louis Guertin dit Le Sabotier, and Jacques Milot Laval; Hogue ancestor Michel Theodore dit Gilles, as well as Toussaint Hunault dit Deschamps and Marie Lorgueil who would marry in 1654 and are both Girardin and Hogue ancestors. Of course there is a plaque commemorating this event, in Place de la Dauversière, Montreal.
By Jean Gagnon (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
By Jean Gagnon (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons The plaque says (my translation) “They saved the island of Montreal and all of Canada also”. Quite an accomplishment! Today’s post will talk about three of these men.
Fiacre Ducharme dit Fontaine was a master woodworker who married fille à marier Marie Pacreau in 1659. He also served as corporal the 18th squadron of Montreal’s Sainte-Famille militia.
As many of our Montreal ancestors served in this militia, I will offer some background on what it was. In 1663 Maisonneuve created this militia because there were not enough regular soldiers to protect Montreal from the Iroquois attacks.
The Loyal Edmonton Regiment Military Museum tells us that:
“The Soldats de la Sainte-Famille de Jésus, Marie et Joseph consisted of 20 squads of 7 men each. The force provided additional guards for workers in the fields and relieved the Montreal militia for nightly guard duty on the walls of the town. Following the arrival of French regular troops in 1665, Maisonneuve disbanded the Soldats de la Sainte-Famille de Jésus, Marie et Joseph in 1666. In three years, the unit lost only eight men to Iroquois war parties.”
Fiacre died in 1677 when the youngest of their seven children was only three years old. Marie married again.
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Fiacre Pierre Ducharme dit Lafontaine's Timeline
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1625
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St-Benoit De Paris, Ile De France
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August 23, 1660
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Montreal
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December 1, 1663
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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November 1668
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February 17, 1673
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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March 17, 1677
Age 52
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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March 17, 1677
Age 52
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Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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