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 1750 - Aft 1808 (> 59 years)
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| Name |
Etienne LaVoy |
| Born |
21 Sep 1750 |
Petite Riviere, Canada  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
Aft 1808 |
St-Philippe-de-la-Prairie |
| Person ID |
I00032 |
Tombeau Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
24 Feb 2007 |
| Father |
Francois LaVoy or de la Voye, I, b. 8 Apr 1709, Baie-St-Paul, Canada , d. Aft 1776, Baie-St-Paul, Canada (Age > 68 years) |
| Mother |
Madeleine Simard, b. 23 Feb 1718, Baie-St-Paul, Canada , d. 3 Nov 1760, Petite Riviere, Canada (Age 42 years) |
| Married |
25 Jun 1736 |
Petite Riviere, Canada |
| Family ID |
F0045 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Marie Amable or Louise Laroche, b. 4 Sep 1758, St-Philippe-de-la-Prairie , d. Aft 1808, St-Philippe-de-la-Prairie (Age > 51 years) |
| Married |
30 Jul 1776 |
St-Philippe-de-la-Prairie |
| Children |
| + | 1. Francois LaVoy, II, b. 30 Oct 1776, St-Philippe-de-la-Prairie , d. 13 Sep 1852, Erie, MI (Age 75 years) |
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| Family ID |
F0044 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Etienne LaVoy: The Fourth Generation
Etienne LaVoy was the son of Francois La Voye I and Madeleine Simard. It is Etienne in our branch of the family who for the first time travels west from the Quebec area where our immigrant ancestor, Rene de la Voye, landed.
Etienne was born 21 September 1750 at Petite Riviere. He was the great-grandson of the immigrant ancestor Rene and the father of the founder of the Monroe County LaVoy Family, Francois LaVoy II.
Etienne, whose name in English is Stephen, married at the age of 25 on 29 July 1776, a few weeks after the beginning of the American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence.
The marriage took place in a town near Montreal in the church at St. Philippe de la Prairie. He married Marie-Amable (or Louise) Laroche, the daughter of Joseph Laroche and Veronique Robert.
The bride was 17 at the time of her marriage, having been born in St. Philippe de la Prairie 4 September 1758.
The marriage took place none too soon for their first child, Francois was born exactly 3 months later on October 30, 1776.
Etienne and his wife Marie-Amable were still alive in 1808 when their son Francois was married in Detroit, MI. She would have been 49 and he 57 years old. They still resided in St. Philippe de la Prairie.
In the summer of 1994 the author of this history travelled to St.-Philippe-de-la-Prairie, just south of the St. Lawrence River, opposite the city of Montreal.
In the parish graveyard there were 2-3 stones with the name "LaVoie" on them, some of them of recent vintage. But there were no stones found dating to the late 1700's or early 1800's.
The town to this day is a cross-roads farming town with only a restaurant-bar, a convenience store, and a car repair garage to mark the center of town.
The old parish churches that succeeded one another have been torn down and a modern one replaces its predecessors.
The town was surrounded on all sides by miles of corn fields. There appeared to be no buildings in the area dating to before the present century. A central region in town had flowers growing in a numerical design to celebrate the town's 250th birthday (1744-1994). All in all it certainly is and was an area remarkably similar to Erie Township, MI., where Etienne's son, Francois LaVoy II, eventually settled.
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