Brazeau · ◉ direct ancestor

♂Nicolas Brazeau

Dates not yet known.

Nicolas Brazeau (living in 1661) was a wheelwright of the Marais in Paris, living in the rue de la Cerisaie in the parish of Saint-Paul, whose son and grandchildren emigrated from Paris to Montréal in New France about 1681. He was the ninth great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his son Nicolas Brazeau (1636).

He is known from the marriage contract of his son Nicolas, a minor, with Perrette (Perrine) Billard, signed in Paris on 4 September 1661 before the notary Laurent de Monhenault, as reported by the Fichier Origine, a register of French emigrants to Canada, and by an article of Rémi Tougas. The contract names him as a charron, a wheelwright, of the rue de la Cerisaie, and records that his wife, Marie Regnard, was already dead. His son followed the same trade, raised three children in Paris, and took the family to Montréal about 1681.

Notes

No record of his birth, marriage or death has been found. The parish registers of Paris from before 1860 were destroyed by fire in 1871, and the partial reconstitution holds no Brazeau marriage.

Family time line

◉ Nicolas Brazeau

◉ Marie Regnard –bef 1661

No marriage recorded

◉ Nicolas Brazeau abt 1636–bef 1705

Recorded events

Event	When	Where	Evidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet
Living at charron, rue de la Cerisaie, paroisse Saint-Paul (the Marais), at his son's marriage contract	4 Sep 1661	Paris, Département de Paris, Île-de-France, France	from a compiled source
Occupation charron (wheelwright), rue de la Cerisaie, paroisse Saint-Paul, Paris, at his son's marriage contract, 4 Sep 1661		Paris, Département de Paris, Île-de-France, France	on record

Sources

Tougas, Rémi, 'Marie Brazeau - Femme en Nouvelle-France', Mémoires de la Société généalogique canadienne-française 58(2), cahier 252 (été 2007), 140-142 - as quoted on Yves Brazeau's Geneanet fiche — Living at, Occupation, about this person
Fichier Origine, fiche No. 300013 - BRAZEAU, Nicolas (fils), migrant of Paris, arrived 1681: parents Nicolas Brazeau x Perrette Billard, cm 4 Sep 1661 Paris — Occupation, about this person

Borders as they stood about 1650, from the historical-basemaps project, the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (states and territories, 1783 on) and Natural Earth; the colonies and provinces are drawn along today's lines.

Line of descent

Descendants

Nicolas Brazeau abt 1636–bef 1705
1. Marie Brazeau 1663–1735 ⚭
  1. Marie Guerin 1680–
  2. Raphaël Guerin 1686–
  3. Antoine Guerin 1688–1759
    1. Marie Francoise Laneuville Guerin 1713–1745
    2. Agnès Guerin 1726–1758
  4. Antoine Beaujean 1691–1691 ✧
  5. Joseph Beaujean 1693–
  6. Guillaume Tougas dit Laviolette Jr. 1699–1756 ⚭
    1. Marie-Françoise Tougas dit Laviolette 1728–
    2. Charlotte Tougas dit Laviolette 1731–
    3. Thérèse-Amable Tougas dit Laviolette 1733–1734 ✧
    4. Marie Anne Tougas dit Laviolette 1740–
    5. Augustin Tougas dit Laviolette 1742–1742 ✧
    6. Joseph Seraphin Tougas dit Laviolette 1743–1793
    7. Suzanne Tougas dit Laviolette 1745–
    8. Marie Charlotte Tougas dit Laviolette 1747–1747 ✧
    9. Veronique Tougas dit Laviolette 1748–1748 ✧
    10. Angelique Tougas dit Laviolette 1749–1750 ✧
    11. Jean Tougas dit Laviolette 1752–
    12. Marie Tougas dit Laviolette 1754–1754 ✧
    13. Marie Tougas dit Laviolette 1754–1755 ✧
    14. Augustin Tougas dit Laviolette 1756–1756 ✧
    15. Apolline Tougas dit Laviolette 1757–
  7. Marie-Anne Tougas dit Laviolette 1701–1719
  8. Marie Tougas dit Laviolette 1703–
    1. Elisabeth Cadieux 1733–
  9. Gabriel Tougas dit Laviolette 1704–
  10. Charles Tougas dit Laviolette 1706–1743 ⚭
  11. Pelagie Tougas dit Laviolette 1708–
    1. Pierre Leduc 1732–1815
2. Nicolas Brazeau abt 1670–
3. Charles Brazeau abt 1672–