♂Louis Emery dit Coderre

Louis Emery dit Coderre was a habitant of the Montreal district who, in March 1697, was still counted a minor at twenty-three (by the petition’s approximate reckoning) and placed under his father’s guardianship. He was the half-seventh great-grand-uncle of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the half-brother of Francois Emery dit Codere (1700–1755), Nancy Jane’s seventh great-grandfather.

Early life

Louis was, a compiled genealogy gives, baptized at Sorel, a son of Antoine Emery dit Coderre and Marie Devault. A FamilySearch index of the Sorel register gives the day as 14 March 1674; Tanguay’s dictionary gives 4 March. Tanguay’s dictionary gives his mother’s burial in December 1687, when Louis was thirteen, and his father married again in June 1688.

A minor at twenty-three

On 22 March 1697 his father, then living at the Isles de Monsieur Boucher, petitioned the court at Montreal about the children of his first marriage and gave Louis’s age as twenty-three. At the family council the next day, Louis was listed with his sisters Madeleine, Marguerite and Francoise, aged sixteen, fourteen and twelve, as one of the minors. His brother Pierre was among the relatives who attended, and the court ordered that Antoine remain the wards’ guardian. All the ages were given as approximate.

Marriage and family

Tanguay’s dictionary gives Louis’s marriage to Marie Madeleine Leclerc on 2 May 1697 at Pointe-aux-Trembles, about six weeks after the council. In January 1700 the parish priest of Boucherville baptized a son named Louis, born that day to Louis Emery dit Coderre and Marie Le Clerc, his wife, who were living on the land of Monsieur de Grosbois; the godmother was Marie Favreau, wife of Antoine Emery dit Coderre. That is probably this Louis: the wife’s name matches, and the godmother was Louis’s stepmother. An index gives a daughter, Marie Madeleine, baptized on 12 August 1698, and Tanguay’s dictionary gives a son Antoine, born on 27 May 1702 at Contrecoeur.

Death

Tanguay’s dictionary gives Louis’s burial at Varennes on 10 May 1703, when he was about twenty-nine. By 30 March 1705 the court at Montreal had before it the guardianship of his three children by Madeleine Leclerc, and the court catalogue names his brother Pierre as their guardian and paternal uncle.

Notes

Two men named Louis

Antoine’s second marriage produced another Louis, baptized on 1 June 1694, who was twenty in 1715. He is not the man of the 1697 council or the Boucherville household. A later reference to a “brother Louis” in a record of 1737 could mean either.

Dates and names

The index gives the baptism of the child Louis at Boucherville as 25 February 1700; the register act of January 1700 gives a day in mid-January. The wife is written Marie Madeleine Leclerc by Tanguay, Marie Le Clerc in the register and Madeleine Leclerc in the court catalogue. A 1715 recital lists a receipt of 22 January 1699 from “Pierre et Louis Aymerie” to “their late father” for their share of the movables; Antoine lived until about 1713, and the records do not explain the wording.