♂Antoine Emery dit Coderre

Antoine Emery dit Coderre (born about 1690) was a man of Contrecoeur, Montréal, New France, the eldest of the ten children whom his father and namesake, a former soldier of the Carignan-Salières Regiment^W, left minors when he died about 1713. He was the seventh great-grand-uncle of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the brother of Francois Emery dit Codere (1700–1755), Nancy Jane’s seventh great-grandfather.

Early life

Antoine was the son of Antoine Emery dit Coderre (died by 1715) and his second wife, Marie Anne Favreau dit Deslauriers (died by 1737). An index to the Quebec parish registers gives his baptism on 4 June 1690 at Sainte-Famille, Boucherville. The tree places his birth at the family’s habitation at Contrecoeur.

When his mother petitioned the royal court at Montréal on 5 April 1715 for guardians for her ten minor children, she gave Antoine’s age as twenty-four, the eldest of them. The next day relatives and friends named her their guardian and Pierre Emery dit Coderre deputy guardian. On 27 September 1715 the court shared the father’s land between the children of his two marriages. In 1730, by an ordinance dated 20 July, Gilles Hocquart allowed Jean-Louis de La Corne to sell the land of their father’s heirs in his seigneurie of La Corne to pay the rents and dues owing on it.

Marriage and death

Antoine married Marguerite Brunet dit Lasablonnière; an archive catalogue describes court records of the 1730s and 1740s as concerning Antoine Emery dit Coderre, husband of Marguerite Brunet. The parish-register index records the burial of a child of Antoine and Marguerite Brunet at Contrecoeur on 7 August 1734. The same index gives the burial of an Antoine Emery at Contrecoeur on 29 February 1736, which fits his death, for on 16 July 1737 the court was appointing guardians for his minor children. Three days later it named a curator for his brother François, then in the Illinois Country, to divide their parents’ estates. A catalogue entry of 1742 names his widow as married a second time, to François Bourgault.

Notes

A name easy to confuse

His father bore the same name. Tanguay’s dictionary lists the father’s second marriage, to Marie Anne Favreau, under a separate “Antoine II”, a son of Antoine I. The marriage contract of 5 June 1688 describes the groom as a widower of Marie Deveaux and names his son-in-law Nicolas Bonin, so the two entries are one man, the father. Records of the 1730s that call an Antoine Emery dit Coderre the husband of Marguerite Brunet belong to the son.