♂Jacques Boucher

Jacques Boucher was the father of Gaspard Boucher, a joiner born about 1599 at Mortagne-au-Perche, in the Perche^W region of France, who went to New France in 1634 and whose son Pierre Boucher^W became governor of Trois-Rivières. He was the eleventh great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his son Gaspard Boucher (about 1599–1663).

Jacques Boucher and Françoise Paigné are said to have been Gaspard’s parents; when and where they married, and when they were born and died, is not known. Some genealogists also give the couple an older son, Marin Boucher^W, born in 1589, who settled on the Saint-Charles River at Québec, though one historian made Marin only Gaspard’s cousin.

Notes

Parentage

The Fichier Origine, an index of the French origins of settlers in New France, names Gaspard Boucher’s parents as Jacques Boucher and Françoise Paigne, citing published genealogical dictionaries. It gives no copy of a register entry naming them, and no baptism, marriage or burial of either parent is known.

Marin Boucher

Christian Denissen’s genealogy of the French families of the Detroit River region names “Jacques Boucher and Francoise Paigne” as the parents of Marin Boucher, born in 1589 in the parish of Langy, diocese of Mortagne, and buried at Château-Richer on 29 March 1671. Tanguay’s dictionary calls Gaspard and Marin brothers; Benjamin Sulte called the two men cousins, and gave Langy rather than Mortagne as Gaspard’s birthplace.

Dates

An online family tree gives Jacques as born about 1560 at Mortagne and dying there on 30 July 1611. No source stands behind those dates, and they are not used here.