Marin Boucher b. 15 Apr 1589 St. Langis-Martagnes, Sees, Perche, France d. 25 Mar 1671 Chateau Richer, Quebec, Canada

1589 - 1671 (81 years)

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Name	Marin Boucher
Born	15 Apr 1589	St. Langis-Martagnes, Sees, Perche, France
Gender	Male
Died	25 Mar 1671	Chateau Richer, Quebec, Canada
Person ID	I10116	Tombeau Family Tree
Last Modified	24 Feb 2007

Father	Jacques-Jean Boucher, b. Abt 1547, Mortagne, Chartres, Perche,France , d. Bef 30 Jul 1611, Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, France (Age < 64 years)
Mother	Francoise Paigne, b. Abt 1560, LeMans,Mmaine, France , d. Nov 1611, St. Langis, Martagne, Sees, Perche, France (Age 51 years)
Married	4 Jul 1582	Mortagne-au-Perche, France
Family ID	F3824	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Julienne Baril, b. Abt 1590, St. Langis, Mortagne, Sees, Perche,France , d. 15 Dec 1627, Saint-Langis-les-Mortagnes, France (Age 37 years)

Married 7 Feb 1611 St. Jean, Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, France

Children

+	1. Francois Boucher, I, b. 22 Nov 1617, Saint-Langis-les-Mortagnes, France , d. 26 May 1672, Sillery, Quebec, Canada (Age 54 years)

Family ID F3795 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes

For a biography of Marin Boucher (his name in French is translated "Sailor Butcher"), see Thomas J. LaForest, "Our French Cnandian Ancestors", Vol. IV, Chap. 7, pp. 60-67.

Genealogy of French in North America

The family of Marin BOUCHER and Julienne BARIL
[22] BOUCHER, Marin (.. & .. [87102]), maçon, born about 1587 (rec-1666), 1589 (rec-1666), 1587 (rec-1667) Mortagne-au-Perche (Orne: 610293), France, died 1671-03-25, buried Château-Richer (Québec)
* married 1611-02-07 Mortagne-au-Perche (St-Jean) (Orne: 610293), France
BARIL, Julienne (Jean & Raoulline CRESTE [125767]), died 1627-12-15, buried 1627-12-16 St-Langis-lès-Mortagne (Orne: 610414), France

A Look Backward: http://www.delmars.com/family/perrault/684.htm

Marin Boucher 2
Born: 15 Apr 1589, St-Langis-lès-Mortagne, Sées, Perche, France
Marriage: (1): Julienne du Baril 7 Feb 1610/11, St-Jean de Mortagne, ev. Sees, Perche, France 1
Marriage: (2): Perrinne Mallet 29 Mar 1629, St-Langis-lès-Mortagne, Sées, Perche, France 2
Died: 25 Mar 1671, Château-Richer, Montmorency, Québec, Canada at age 81

General Notes:

IMMIGRATION: 1634; immigrated to New France with Robert Giffard and Nöel Juchereau. Settled with family first on the Rivière Saint-Charles before receiving land grant at Château-Richer.

Marin married Julienne du Baril on 7 Feb 1610/11 in St-Jean de Mortagne, ev. Sees, Perche, France.1 (Julienne du Baril was born about 1590 in St-Langis, Mortagne, Perche, France and died on 15 Dec 1627 in St-Langis, Mortagne, Perche, France.)

Marriage Notes:

Tanguay, vol 1 pg 71, shows marriage year as 1625

Marin next married Perrinne Mallet, daughter of Pierre Mallet and Jacqueline Liger, on 29 Mar 1629 in St-Langis-lès-Mortagne, Sées, Perche, France.2 (Perrinne Mallet was born in 1606 in Mortagne, Perche (Orne), France and died on 24 Aug 1687 in Château-Richer, Montmorency, Québec, Canada.)

Sources

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1 Institut Drouin, Dictionnaire National des Canadiens Français 1608-1760 (AFGS 1968), page 154.

2 Caron, Denise Helen, GEDCOM File: Caron-Braun Family.

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From Wikipedia: http://www.answers.com/topic/marin-boucher

Marin Boucher
Marin Boucher (1587 or 1589-1671), was a pioneer of early New France and one of the most prolific ancestors of French Canada, being the ancestor of most of the Bouchers of North America, particularly in the Province of Quebec, Northern New Brunswick, Ontario and Western Canada. Estimates of the number of families in Canada and the United States descended from Marin Boucher run as high as 350,000, although most of them do not bear the name Boucher today because Marin's line produced more daughters than sons.

Biography
Marin Boucher was born in St-Langey-les-Mortagnes, Perche, Mortagne, Normandy, France in either 1587 or 1589, and died in Canada in 1671.

He married twice, first to Julienne Baril (died 1627) in 1611, and then to Perrine Mailet (1604-1687) about 1627. He had seven children by Julienne, not all of whom traveled to Canada, and seven more by Perrine, five of whom were born in Canada.

The Bouchers were stone masons and carpenters, skills which were valuable in the early colony. Because of some work done for Samuel de Champlain, the Founder of the colony, Marin Boucher was mentionned in Champlain's will. He was also a witness in a dispute over stolen property in which his relation Gaspard Boucher was the plaintiff.

Family History
Marin Boucher's sister, Jeanne Boucher, married a Hayot (spellings vary: Hayot; Ayot; Ayotte, etc.) who was also an early settler and founder of a distinguished Quebec family.

Another close relation who emigrated to New France, believed by some researchers to have been Marin's brother, Gaspard Boucher, is father of Pierre Boucher, Seigneur of Boucherville, and founder of the parish and township of Boucherville, across the Saint Lawrence River from Montreal. Pierre Boucher became Governor of Trois-Rivières and a Royal Judge, was ennobled, and settled on his seigneurie, where he founded a model seigneurie, village and Parish which is now a suburban satellite of Montreal.

The Bouchers arrived as part of the Percheron Immigration, a small group of families and some single men from the region of Perche, in the Province of Normandy, brought over to New France in 1634 to colonize Beauport, a seigneurie granted to Robert Giffard, physician to the colony. Marin Boucher and his family came over aboard the ship, St. Jehan under the command of Captain Pierre Nesle, which arrived in Quebec on June 4 1634.

The colonists were temporarily housed in the Habitation (Fort Saint Louis), the fort and residence built by Samuel de Champlain at Quebec in 1608, before moving to their land concessions at Beauport, a short distance down river from Quebec.

Gaspard Boucher may have arrived with his family separately in 1635 according to the memoires of his son, Sieur Pierre Boucher de Boucherville.

Marin Boucher and his family subsequently moved to the South Shore where they were pioneers of the town of Rivière-Ouelle. The town was attacked during King William's War by a party led by Sir William Phips in October 1690, and Marin's son, Jean-Galleran was among the 39 "Heroes of Rivière-Ouelle" who defended the town. Phips, whose troops had been pillaging along the coast of the St-Laurent on their way to lay siege to Québec City, was repulsed by the ambush, and later was unsuccessful in his attack on Québec.

Genealogy
Genealogical information on the Bouchers can be found in the works of Abbé Cyprien Tanguay; Abbé Archange Godbout; René Jetté; and other standard reference works on French Canadian genealogy.

One of the best family trees on the web can be found at the following site: http://www.grandesfamilles.org/, which is in French with some of the text translated in English.
See Tanguay, Genealogical Dictionary, Vol. 1, p. 71. Tanguay records Marin Boucher's birth date and place as 1589, Langy, Diocese of Mortagne, France.

Boucher Family : http://www.grandesfamilles.org/Boucher/01.html

Two early settlers of Acadia are believed to be descended from Marin Boucher of New France, but there is also a Simon Boucher who first settled on Isle Royale (now Cape Breton Island)so not all Acadian Bouchers are descended from Marin Boucher. Indeed, there are several other lines of Bouchers, including that of Jean Boucher, even in Quebec. Nonetheless there are Bouchers descended from Marin Boucher in Louisiana, either of Acadian (Cadien or Cadjin)descent or more directly descended from the Canadian (Quebec) lines.

Monuments
With the other early pioneers, Marin Boucher and his wife are commemorated by a plaque in Quebec City.

Pierre Boucher is commemorated by a statue on the Assemblée Nationale, the Provincial Legislature Building in Quebec City, and in a stained glass window in a church in Mortagne, Perche.

A number of places and streets are named after various members of the Boucher family.

References
Thomas LaForest, Our French Canadian Ancestors, Volume 4 Chapter 7 "Marin Boucher"

Father Cyprien Tanguay, Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Canadiennes, Volume 1 (1871)

Marcel Trudel, Catalogue des immigrants, 1983

Caron, Denise Helen, GEDCOM File: Caron-Braun Family
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Information for this entry come from the following source: A Look Backward: Caron, Denise Helen, GEDCOM File: Caron-Braun Family: http://www.delmars.com/family/perrault/634.htm

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Marin Boucher

Ancestor on the Clement, Madore, Pitt and Presse lines: http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/madore/bio/Marin_Boucher.html

One of the founders of New France.

Marin played a prominent role in the establishment of the town of Beauport. He was a mason by trade and was responsible for the building of the town.

Marin Boucher was born in the town of Mortagne, France. He married twice before coming to “Nouvelle-France” (Canada). His first wife was Julienne Baril. She died in 1627 after giving her husband seven children. In 1629, at the age of 42, Marin married 23 year-old Perrine Mallet in Mortagne. After the birth of their second child in 1634, they came to Kebec (the Indian word for the place at the narrowing of the river). They arrived with all nine of Marin’s children on August 9 1634. Samuel de Champlain invited them to stay at his house at the Fort of Quebec. This compound was located on the rocky bank of the Saint Laurence River, just below the high cliffs which make up the pallisades of Quebec.

Marin immediately opted for a lot on the St. Charles River on land belonging to the Recollects.

We know almost nothing about the first four years of Marin Boucher and his family in New France, except that the pioneer is mentioned in Champlain's will. In Champlain's will---a will whose validity was to be contested---in which a man called Marin was mentioned, and it concerns, we believe, Marin, relative of Gaspard: 'I give to Marin, mason, living near the house of the Recollet Fathers, the last suit that I had made from material that I got at the store,' wrote Champlain.

Marin Boucher must have greatly appreciated this legacy from Champlain, because we know how much our ancestors, who were for the most part very poor, attached importance to any clothing, be it also threadbare and worn out.

On August 24, 1688, Marin was called to give testimony on the circumstances of the voyage of Gaspard Boucher “his relative” who also arrived in 1634. We know that Marin first worked a piece of land that the Recollects had abandoned in 1629, following the surrender of Quebec to the Kirke brothers. Later he took a farm, with his brother-in-law, Thomas Hayot, on land of the Jesuits at Beauport.

On June 11, 1648, reports the Jesuit journal, the 2 farmers separated. Hayot kept the farm and Boucher took a concession next to that of Olivier Le Tardif.

Later, Boucher and his family lived on the Beaupre coast. Marin then sold his former farm of 3 arpents in frontage on the St. Charles River “from the stream which separates the cleared field of the Reverend Fathers Recollets from the deserted property formerly of Jacques Caumont.” Marin claimed to have received the land from the Company of New France, but the Recollects claimed this land as belinging to them, when they returned to Canada in 1670.

On March 6, 1656, Boucher signed a note for 176 livres, for the Fabrique de Quebec, an old debt contracted from the Compagnie des Habitants. “Meanwhile our mason farmer, wrote Father Godbout, advanced in age. Little by little, he gave up his concessions: he gave one and a half arpents in frontage to his son-in-law, Louis Houde, which was returned to Marin on Sept 13, 1655. He then gave 2 arpents to another son-in-law, Jean Plante, on April 15, 1656, which a receipt was signed for on February 7, 1659; an increase of 8 perches on July 8 and right of passage on Sept 27, 1668. He gave another 2 arpents to his son Jean-Galleran on April 30, 1656 and added an increase of 7 and a half perches on Dec. 15, 1652. He made a similar gift to his son Guillaume on July 29, 1670.

In 1666 he's in I.O. (Ile d'Orleans) and Beauport.

In 1667 he’s in Beaupre (Chateau-Richer) as a mason. He had reached the age of 80 and was listed with 8 head of cattle and 20 arpents under cultivation.

His epitaph in the registry of Chateau-Richer, dated March 29, 1671, reads as follows:

In the year of Our Lord Jesus Christ 1671, on the 29th of March died Marin Boucher after having lived as a good Christian and received the Holy sacraments of eucharist, penance, and the last rights of extreme unction, was buried in the cemetary of Chateau-Richer by Monsieur Morel, accompanied by the Reverend Father Nouvelle and by me doing priestly functions for them on the coast of Beaupre. (signed) F. Fillion, missionary priest.

A monument to Louis Hebert and the original Quebec settlers honors among others, Marin Boucher and his wife Perrine Mallet. This monument of Louis Hebert was sculpted by Alfred Laliberte and it is in the Park Montmorency behind the Quebec basilica, about 300 meters to the north of the Chateau Frontenac.