♂Simon Lefebvre

Simon Lefebvre (born about 1643) was a habitant^W of New France who settled with his wife, Marie Charlotte de Poitiers, at Pointe-aux-Trembles, now Neuville, on the St. Lawrence west of Québec, where their children came to be known as Lefebvre dit Angers. He was the sixth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his daughter Charlotte Lefebvre (1679–1755).

Marriage and family

Simon was the son of the late Simon Lefebvre and Marie Cousturier, of the parish of Saint-Éloi at Tracy-le-Bas, in the diocese of Noyon in Picardy. On 10 January 1667 Simon Lefebvre and Marie Charlotte de Poitiers, the widow of Joseph Hébert, made their marriage contract before the notary Gilles Rageot at Québec, and on 11 January 1667 they were married there. They had eight children between 1667 and 1685: Louis, Marie Françoise, Jean Baptiste, François, Marie Madeleine, Charlotte, Antoine and Simon.

Pointe-aux-Trembles

The elder children were probably baptized at Québec, as Jean Baptiste was on 3 April 1672, but by February 1679 the family had moved upriver to Dombourg, the seigneury^W at Pointe-aux-Trembles, and Charlotte was baptized in its chapel on 9 February. In the census of about 1681 the family was at Pointe-aux-Trembles: Simon, a habitant aged 38, and Marie Charlotte, aged 40, with six children, the eldest fourteen and the youngest two. Two more sons, Antoine and the younger Simon, were baptized there in 1681 and 1685. Three of their daughters married at Pointe-aux-Trembles between 1690 and 1699, Charlotte the last, to Pierre Hardy on 26 January 1699. Simon is said to have been buried there on 12 November 1722.

Notes

His origin and dates

The dictionary of Cyprien Tanguay^W gives Simon’s birth as 1642, his parents and his parish in Picardy, the church marriage at Québec on 11 January 1667 and his burial at Pointe-aux-Trembles on 12 November 1722; the census of about 1681, which gives his age as 38, points to about 1643. The Québec marriage record of 11 January 1667, in the Drouin Institute’s collection, names his father as the late Simon Lefebvre and his mother as Marie Cousturier, of Saint-Éloi at Tracy-le-Bas. The marriage contract of 10 January 1667 is listed in the inventory of the colony’s marriage contracts compiled by Pierre-Georges Roy^W. The records do not say when he came to Canada.

Tanguay places the baptisms of the six eldest children at Québec. The act for Charlotte in 1679 is entered in the Québec register, but it says that she was baptized in the chapel of Dombourg and that both of her parents lived there.

The name Angers

Simon is written Lefebvre Angers at his son Jean Baptiste’s baptism in 1672, Lefebvre Angez at Charlotte’s in 1679, and Lefevre Ange or Lefevbre Ange at his daughters’ weddings in 1690, 1697 and 1699. The inventory of marriage contracts lists his son Louis and his daughter Marie Madeleine, both in 1697, as Lefebvre dit Angers, and Charlotte was buried at Cap-Santé in 1755 under the name Angée. The records do not explain the name.