♂Jean Perodeau

Jean Perodeau (born 2 August 1702) was a Frenchman from the parish of Montchaude, in the diocese of Saintes^W, who married Angélique Gallien at Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, on the island of Montréal in New France, in 1731, and raised a family there and at Pointe-Claire and Pierrefonds. He was the sixth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his daughter Marguerite Perrodeaux (1736–1800).

Origin and arrival

The Fichier Origine, the Québec federation’s register-checked file of immigrants, records him under the names Perodeau and Lafleur, as Jean-Baptiste, called Jean at birth. It gives his birth as 2 August 1702 and his baptism as 6 August 1702 at Montchaude (parish of St-Cybard), in what is now the department of Charente, and names his parents as Jean Perodeau and Antoinette Besis. It places his arrival in Canada about 1727 and his death after 4 October 1756. It names no grandparents. In February 1727 and February 1728 he is named in the registers of St-Joachim at Pointe-Claire: on 25 February 1727 he stood godfather to Jean Baptiste Fraye, son of Andre Fraye and Marie Louise Bigras, and on 3 February 1728 he witnessed the marriage of Alexis Bigras and Marie Presau.

Marriage

On 22 January 1731, at Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Jean Perodeau married Angélique Gallien. The act names him Jean Baptiste Perodeau, single, of the “PAROISSE DE MONCHAUDE, DIOCESE DE SAINTES EN FRANCE”, son of the late Jean Baptiste Perodeau and of Antoinette Besis, and names her Marie Angélique Galien, single, daughter of Pierre Galien and Marie Mourier. The witnesses were Jacques Arrivé, “capitaine du Haut-de-l’Île”, Jacques Charbonnier and Philippe Lachenay, and the priest was Desenclaves. The act gives no date of birth or arrival.

Family

Their son Jean Baptiste was baptized at Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue in 1732, when the family lived at the Côte du Buisson; his godparents were Pierre Gallien and Marie Barbe Rapin, and he was buried the next year aged eleven months. Joseph followed in 1734, Marguerite Amable at Pointe-Claire on 8 April 1736, a second Jean Baptiste in 1740 and François Amable at Pierrefonds in 1742. A son Gabriel, five months old, was buried at Montréal in 1755, the register naming his parents as Jean Peraudeau Lafleur and Angélique Gallien; the family also used the name Lafleur, a dit name of the kind common in New France.

Their daughter Marguerite married Francois Mollere, written François Molère “dit Lasonde” in the act, at Les Cèdres on 9 February 1756, and Jean Perodo, as the act writes her father, was one of the witnesses. She later lived at Ascension in Spanish Louisiana, where she was buried in 1800.

Soulanges and land

By April 1744 Jean was living in the seigneurie of Soulanges. On 21 April 1744, before the notary François Comparet, Jean Perodeau dit Lafleur engaged his son Joseph, then ten, to M. de Langloiserie, seigneur of Île Sainte-Thérèse, until Joseph should reach sixteen.

According to a Montréal notarial record of 24 October 1754, the Chevalier de Longueuil granted him land by a contract of concession drawn up before the notary Thomas Vuatier. The record does not say where the land lay.

Notes

Soulanges, 1744

Antoine Roy, Inventaire des greffes des notaires du régime français, vol. XIV, p. 190: the act of 21 April 1744 before the notary François Comparet, in which Jean Perodeau dit Lafleur, “of the seigneurie de Soulanges”, engages his son Joseph, aged 10, to M. de Langloiserie until he reaches 16. Grade: record.

Concession, 1754

Quebec, Canada, Notarial Records, 1637–1935 (Ancestry, 61062): a contract of concession dated 24 October 1754, from the Chevalier de Longueuil to Jean Perodeau, notary Thomas Vuatier, Montréal, no. 104. The summary does not name the land, so no place is given. Grade: compiled, from an online summary only.