♂Mathurin Favreau

Mathurin Favreau (born about 1678) was a farmer’s son of Boucherville, who in January 1700 married Madeleine Emery dit Coderre, the stepdaughter of his own sister. He was a son of Pierre Favreau (1636–1708) and Marie Benoit (1653–1725), and the eighth great-grand-uncle of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the brother of Marie Anne Favreau dit Deslauriers (died 1737), Nancy Jane’s eighth great-grandmother.

Family and boyhood

His father was a soldier of the Carignan-Salières regiment^W who stayed in New France as a farmer, and his mother was one of the filles du roi^W. The family lived first around Sorel and Contrecoeur. By 1688 they were at Boucherville, farming land that belonged to the seigneur Pierre Boucher.

Marriage

In January 1700 the Boucherville register recorded Mathurin’s marriage to Madeleine Emery dit Coderre. The register names him as a son of Pierre Favreau and Marie Benoit, farmers of Mr Boucher’s island in the parish. Madeleine, whom a compiled genealogy gives as born 13 March 1678, was twenty-one, the daughter of Antoine Emery dit Coderre and of the late Marie Devault, so she was the stepdaughter of Mathurin’s sister Marie Anne, who had married her father in 1688, and her father became Mathurin’s father-in-law. His age in the act is given as about twenty-two, which puts his birth in 1677 or 1678. The tree records no children, death or burial for him.

Notes

Birth

The tree gives his birth as about 1678, which a compiled genealogy reckons from the age in his marriage act. Tanguay’s dictionary gives his baptism at Sorel on 28 March 1677, and the index of the colony’s parish registers lists a baptism at Sorel in 1677 for a son of Pierre Favreau named Mathurin. The two sources agree to within a year.