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 1669 - 1749 (80 years)
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| Name |
Guillaume LeDuc |
| Born |
19 Feb 1669 |
Quebec City, Canada  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
2 Dec 1749 |
Quebec City, Canada |
| Buried |
3 Dec 1749 |
Quebec City, Canada |
| Person ID |
I10347 |
Tombeau Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
24 Feb 2007 |
| Father |
Rene LeDuc, b. 1639, Breze, Maine et Loire, diocese of Angers, Anjou, France , d. Between 1704 and 1713, Quebec City, Canada or Lauzon, Canada. (Age 65 years) |
| Mother |
Anne Gentreau\Gendreau, b. Between 1640 and 1643, St. Nicolas, Sables d'Olonne, France , d. 11 Sep 1721, Hotel Dieu, Quebec, Canda (Age 81 years) |
| Married |
28 Oct 1664 |
Quebec City, Canada |
| Family ID |
F3933 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Elizabeth Drouin, b. 12 Jan 1686, Quebec City, Canada , d. 31 Oct 1749, Quebec City, Canada (Age 63 years) |
| Married |
18 Nov 1704 |
Ste-Famille, Ile d'Orleans, Quebec, Canada |
| Children |
| + | 1. Elizabeth LeDuc, b. Between 1704 and 1705, Sainte-Famille, Isle d'Orleans (?) , d. 11 Oct 1754, Berthier-en-Haut, Quebec, Canada (Age 50 years) |
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| Family ID |
F3932 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Tanguay, Genealogical Dictionary, Vol. 1, p.364
A biography of Rene LeDuc appeared in the francophone LeDuc Journal, vol. 7, #4 (Autumn, 1995), published by the Association des Familles Leduc, Inc. written by Jocelyne Leduc Gauvin. It may be found at the following website: www.geocities.com/Heartland/5063/rene_e.htm?200627.
The following is a summary of this article which also includes informaion on Rene's son Guillaume Le Duc from whom we descend:
There were four immigrants to New France with the name LeDuc. Rene Duc's name had the misfortune to be "daughtered out" by the third generation of this family leaving most of his Canadian and American descendants unaware his existence. As noted above he married the fille du Roi Anne Gentreau/Gendreau. (See her entry for a summary of her life and a dsecription of the filles du roi.)
Land records for Lauzon and Quebec City indicate that they sold and exchanged many grants of land on the shore of the St. Lawrence River, as well as on the Quai of the Cul-de-Sac in the lower town of Quebec City. These llands became part of their children's inheritance.
Besides land speculation, Rene LeDuc also was a voyageur, a man who contract to work with a crew of other men in a canoe to transport goods up and down the St. Lawrence River. In 1702 Rene, age 61, contracted to be a voyageur with for the Compagnie de la Colonie.
His son and our direct ancestor, Guillaume Le Duc, like his father took up the trade of voyageur. Contracts appear to have bveen drawn up for his services as early as 1690, when Guillaume woudl have been 21 years old, with a trip to Acadie. Succeeding contracts indicate this occupation of voyageur was a side line for Guillaume LeDuc as these contracts refer to hims as being a farmer, merchant, trader, and a prospering citizen of Quebec (bourgeois). He had a two storey stone house built on Cul de Sac Street at the Place Royale in Quebec in 1725. This house still exists in the place described.
Guillaume and his wife Elizabeth Drouin have 16 children, but infant mortaility was high in this household, as 12 died before the age of two years. Their child, Marie-Catherine LeDuc, according to the author of this article, was the only one to have a family after marrying Pierre Marcoux, son of Jean Baptiste Marcoux. However this is an error as another daughter from whom we are descended, Elizabeth LeDuc married Henri Crete thorugh whose daughter Marie-Louise Crete we descend. Marie Louise died somewhere in the Detroit area, either in the city or in Monroe County, Michigan.
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