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 1639 - 1713 (65 years)
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| Name |
Rene LeDuc |
| Born |
1639 |
Breze, Maine et Loire, diocese of Angers, Anjou, France  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
Between 1704 and 1713 |
Quebec City, Canada or Lauzon, Canada. |
| Person ID |
I10349 |
Tombeau Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
24 Feb 2007 |
| Family |
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 |
| Children |
| + | 1. Guillaume LeDuc, b. 19 Feb 1669, Quebec City, Canada , d. 2 Dec 1749, Quebec City, Canada (Age 80 years) |
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| Family ID |
F3933 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Tanguay, Genealogical Dictionary, Vol. 1, p.364
Rene LeDuc's wife, Anne Gentreau/Gendreau, was a fille du roi. See Peter J. Gagne' "King's Daughters ands Founding Mothers: The Fille du Ry, 1663-1673", p. 266. The following is a summary of that entry:
Anne Gendreau or Gentreau was born about 1642 in the parish of St. Nicolas in Les Sables d'Olonne, diocese of Lucon, Poitou, France. she was the daughter of Nicolas Gendreau and Perrine Buette. She came to Canada in 1663, age 21. A year later she reieved the Sacrament of Confirmation in the city of Quebec.
She married Rene LeDuc on 28 October 1664 in Quebec City. Neither were able to sign their names to the marriage contract. Rene was born about 1641 in Breze, arrondissement of Saumur, diocese of Angers, Anjou, France. He was the son of Vincent LeDuc and Urbaine Renoult/Renoux. Rene Le Duc and Anne Gendreau settled in Quebec City from 1664-1673, then at Lauzon from 1674 to at least the 1681 census after which they died. Rene's death is not recorded, but he died between 18 November 1704 and 22 August 1713 and Marie Gendreau, his wife, died September 11, 1721 at the Hotel-Dieu of Quebec City. They had ten children from 1665-1680, a space of 15 years.
Two of their daughters, Madeleine and Francoise, became nuns at the Hotel Dieu in Quebec where their mother died. Not withstanding that she had raised two daughters who became nuns, Anne Gendreau was brought before the Provost of Quebec to answer charges that she had slandered Jeanne Redie', wife of Jean Dumets. Anne was ordered to make a "reparation of honor", that is, a public apology to the grievant and to refrain from insulting her in the future.
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:
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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