♂Jean Roy

Jean Roy was a man of the parish of the Saints-Anges at Lachine, near Montréal in New France, whose son Jean married Marie Anne Bouchard at Montréal in 1690. He was the ninth great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his son Jean Roy.

Marriage and children

His wife was Françoise Bouet. Their son Jean married Marie Anne Bouchard at Notre-Dame de Montréal on 6 February 1690, and the marriage record names the groom’s parents as Jean Roy and Françoise Bouet, both of the Saints-Anges at Lachine. The record calls the bride’s father deceased but does not say the same of Jean Roy, so the record and Tanguay’s dictionary do not agree on whether he was living in 1690.

The couple had seven children in all, and their son Jean was the second of them. The six others were baptized at Notre-Dame de Montréal between 1660 and 1675.

Birth and death

He was probably born in 1633 in the parish of Saint-Étienne at Marans, a town near La Rochelle, the son of André Leroy and Marie Dubois. Tanguay’s genealogical dictionary, a compiled work, gives Jean Roy’s birth about 1633 and his burial at Lachine on 1 November 1676. It also gives Françoise Bouet’s birth about 1630, spelt Bouer there, dates their marriage to 1659, and lists the children born from 1660 to 1675. Françoise was baptized at Marans, in the parish church of Saint-Étienne, on 4 October 1624. Tanguay says that Françoise, as his widow, married Alexis Buet at Lachine, in 1677 in one entry and in 1678 in another. A family chart compiled in 1994 gives the same years of birth and a burial at Lachine in November 1676.

Notes

The parentage

André Leroy and Marie Dubois are named only in the Fichier Origine, a file of the French origins of Québec’s settlers kept by the Quebec Federation of Genealogical Societies, in its entry for their son. The entry gives Jean Roy’s birth in 1633 at Marans, in the parish of Saint-Étienne, in what is now the Charente-Maritime department, names his parents as André Leroy and Marie Dubois, and names his wife as Françoise Bouet, written Bouhet there. No baptism naming Jean is known, and the Montréal records of his life do not name his parents, so the parentage rests on the file alone; it is given on this page as probable. Jean’s age in the Montréal census of 1666, 33, agrees with the year of birth the file gives. The file writes the father’s surname Leroy and the son’s Roy, and this page follows the same spelling.

The baptism of 1624

The parish register of Saint-Étienne at Marans has the entry for 4 October 1624, naming the child as Françoise, daughter of Pierre Bouet and Catherine Catelle. The Fichier Origine entry for Françoise, written Bouhet, gives the same baptism and parents. Tanguay’s genealogical dictionary, a compiled work, gives her birth as about 1630, six years after the register entry; this page follows the register.