♂Louis Emery dit Coderre

Louis Emery dit Coderre (born about 1694) was a man of Contrecoeur, Montréal, New France, the third of the ten children whom a former soldier of the Carignan-Salières Regiment^W, Antoine Emery dit Coderre, left minors when he died about 1713. He was the seventh great-grand-uncle of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the brother of Francois Emery dit Codere (1700–1755), Nancy Jane’s seventh great-grandfather.

Early life

Louis was the son of Antoine Emery dit Coderre (died by 1715) and his second wife, Marie Anne Favreau dit Deslauriers (died by 1737). An index to the Quebec parish registers gives his baptism on 1 June 1694 at Sainte-Famille, Boucherville; Tanguay’s dictionary gives 23 May. His father held land at Contrecoeur and had children by an earlier marriage. Tanguay’s dictionary lists an older half-brother with the same name, Louis, born in 1674 to Antoine’s first wife, who married in 1697 and died at Varennes in 1703, so for the first nine years of his life there were two Louis Emerys in the family.

When his mother petitioned the royal court at Montréal on 5 April 1715 for guardians for her ten minor children, she gave Louis’s age as twenty. The next day relatives and friends named her their guardian and Pierre Emery dit Coderre deputy guardian. On 27 September 1715 the court shared the father’s land between the children of his two marriages. In 1730, by an ordinance dated 20 July, Gilles Hocquart allowed Jean-Louis de La Corne to sell the land of their father’s heirs in his seigneurie of La Corne to pay the rents and dues owing on it.

Marriage and family

Tanguay’s dictionary gives his marriage on 10 November 1719 at Verchères to Elizabeth Mesnard. The parish-register index shows him as father of six children, among them a daughter named Ursule Marie; those rows do not name their mother. It gives his burial at Saint-Ours on 14 April 1763, naming his wife as Elisabeth Menard.

His brother François

On 19 July 1737 the royal court at Montréal named a curator for François, who was then in the Illinois Country and could not appear to share out the estates of their dead parents. The relatives and friends who gave their advice chose a Louis Emery, whom the act calls François’s brother, and on 27 July he attended the closing of the parents’ inventory as curator, declaring that he could not sign his name. The acts do not say which Louis this was. Tanguay’s dictionary has the older half-brother of that name dead in 1703, which would leave the Louis born in 1694.

Notes

Birth and baptism

The tree places his birth at the family’s habitation at Contrecoeur, from the petition of 1715. The baptism index places the baptism at Boucherville and gives the father’s name as “Antoine Emery dit Conder”. The petition’s age of twenty is a year under the age the baptism gives.