♀Francoise Emery dit Coderre

Francoise Emery dit Coderre was a daughter of the Contrecoeur settler Antoine Emery dit Coderre and his first wife, Marie Devault (1647–1688). She was the half-seventh great-grand-aunt of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the half-sister of Francois Emery dit Codere (1700–1755), Nancy Jane’s seventh great-grandfather.

Childhood

Tanguay’s dictionary gives her birth as 16 October 1682. Tanguay’s dictionary gives her mother’s burial in December 1687, when Francoise was five, and her father married Marie Anne Favreau in June 1688. In March 1697 Antoine, living at the Isles de Monsieur Boucher, petitioned the court at Montreal about the children of his first marriage and gave Francoise’s age as twelve; Tanguay’s date makes her fourteen. At the family council of 23 March she was counted among four minors. The court ordered that her father remain their guardian, with her brother-in-law Nicolas Bonin as his deputy, and both men declared that they could not sign their names. An inventory of the goods of Marie Devault was drawn up on 15 April 1697.

Marriage

In January 1700, aged seventeen, Francoise, a parish-register index gives, married Jean Baptiste La Perche at Boucherville. The register act names her father among those present, with the seigneur of Boucherville.

Her marriage contract bears the margin date 18 January 1700. In it the groom’s name is written Laperche, and he is called the son of Jacques Laperche, a laborer of the parish of Saint-Martin in the Agenais, in Gascony, and of Marguerite. The contract also calls Marie Devault a native of Nogent, in the diocese of Chartres in the Beauce. Her father promised Francoise 200 livres, owed to her from her late mother’s goods under the inventory made after her death, 100 livres within three months and the rest within two years, and the marriage was made under the Custom of Paris^W. A recital in the 1715 judgment gives a receipt from Laperche to Antoine for 107 livres, dated March 1705 with the year uncertain, on account of what he was owed from the estate of Marie Devault.

Laforest’s Our French-Canadian Ancestors places the couple at Saint-Sulpice and gives them twelve children; no record naming any child of the couple is known.

Notes

The husband’s origin

Tanguay’s dictionary gives Jean Baptiste Laperche as born in 1674, the son of Jean-Baptiste and Marguerite Cousino, from Saint-Martin in the diocese of Loudun, Poitou. The contract gives his father as Jacques and his parish as in Gascony, and that is the version given above.

Dates

The wedding is given as 11 January 1700 by Tanguay’s dictionary; the register act shows only “January”, and the contract’s margin date is a week later. The records do not explain the order. The year of the 1705 receipt is uncertain in the recital that preserves it.