♂Jean Baptiste Emery dit Coderre

Jean Baptiste Emery dit Coderre (born about 1672) was a son of a soldier of the Carignan-Salières Regiment and one of the filles du roi. He was the half-seventh great-grand-uncle of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the half-brother of Nancy Jane’s seventh great-grandfather Francois Emery dit Codere (1700–1755). Like a sister Marie baptized in 1676, he is not named in his father’s petition of 1697, and nothing says what became of him.

A compiled genealogy gives his parents as Antoine Emery dit Coderre and Marie Devault. His father had come to Canada as a soldier of the Carignan-Salières Regiment^W and stayed to farm at Contrecoeur; his mother had crossed as one of the filles du roi^W. A FamilySearch index of the Quebec parish registers gives his baptism as 2 April 1672, while Tanguay’s dictionary of Canadian families gives his birth as 27 April 1672. The baptismal index of the parish of Boucherville lists an “Emery J. Bte” among the baptisms of 1672. He was one of the couple’s eleven children.

The petition of 1697

On 22 March 1697 Antoine, by then living on the Isles de Monsieur Boucher, asked the royal court at Montréal to name a guardian and deputy guardian for his children. Marie Devault had died about nine years earlier, and he had remarried. The petition names six children of the first marriage: Pierre, aged 27; Marie, 24, married to Nicolas Bonin; Louis, 23; Madeleine, 16; Marguerite, 14; and Francoise, 12. The notary gave every age as approximate. Jean Baptiste, who would have been about twenty-four, is not among them.

Tanguay’s dictionary lists him with a birth date and no marriage or death. The records do not say why he is absent from the petition.

Notes

The baptism date

The index date of 2 April 1672 and Tanguay’s 27 April differ by about three weeks, and the date in the baptism act itself is not known. The parish kept its registers in duplicate and triplicate, so copies may differ. Both sources agree on April 1672.

His absence from the petition

The petition lists six children, and the age for each is approximate. Jean Baptiste is not named, and neither is a sister Marie baptized in 1676. That may mean they had died before 1697, but no burial is recorded for either, and a father listing children for a guardianship could omit one for reasons the document does not give.