Tessier

♂Urbain Tessier

Born 1661, Montréal, New France. Died 1685, Montréal, New France.

Urbain Tessier (born 24 May 1661) was born at Montréal in New France, a son of the settler Urbain Tessier dit Lavigne and Marie Archambault, and bore his father’s name. He was the ninth great-grand-uncle of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the brother of Agnes Tessier (born 1659), Nancy Jane’s ninth great-grandmother.

Childhood

He was born two years after his sister Agnes and two years before his brother Jean, one of at least thirteen children of the household. His father, a long-sawyer from Anjou, had come to New France in 1648 and was by then one of its older settlers. A family genealogy of 1891, following the historian Faillon, says that Governor Maisonneuve gave the redoubt of the Enfant-Jésus, standing at one end of Tessier’s land, to Tessier, Jacques Archambault and François Bailly.

Death

Tanguay’s dictionary gives his burial at Montréal on 24 March 1685, when he was nearly twenty-four years old. Its list of the family records no marriage or children for him.

Family time line

◉ Urbain Tessier dit Lavigne abt 1626–1689

◉ Marie Archambault 1636–1719

Married 28 Sep 1648, Québec, New France

○ Paul Tessier abt 1651–

○ Madeleine Tessier 1653–

○ Laurent Tessier 1655–

○ Louise Tessier 1657–

◉ Agnes Tessier 1659–1733 ⚭

○ Urbain Tessier 1661–1685

○ Jean Tessier 1663–

○ Claude Tessier 1665–

○ Jacques Tessier 1668–1670 ✧

○ Pétronille Tessier 1670–

○ Jean-Baptiste Tessier 1672–

○ Pierre Tessier 1674–1674 ✧

○ Jacques Tessier 1675–

○ Ignace Tessier 1677–

○ Nicolas Tessier 1679–

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
Birth	24 May 1661	Montréal, New France	on record
Burial	24 Mar 1685	Montréal, New France	from a compiled source

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Sources

Tanguay, Dictionnaire genealogique des familles canadiennes, printed p.561 - TESSIER: Urbain (b 1624, eveche d'Angers; s 21 Mar 1689 Montreal) x Marie Archambault, m. 28 Sep 1648 Quebec; thirteen children incl. Agnes b 23 Mar 1659, m 20 Nov 1675 Guillaume Richard — Birth, Burial, about this person
Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH) — Birth, about this person

Borders as they stood about 1650 (they follow the event under the mouse), 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

Urbain Tessier dit Lavigne abt 1626–1689
1. Arthur Tessier abt 1595–
2. Jeanne Mesme abt 1600–1648
Marie Archambault 1636–1719
1. Jacques Archambault abt 1605–1688
  1. Antoine Archambault
  2. Renée Ouvrard
2. Françoise Tourault abt 1600–1663
  1. François Tourault
  2. Marthe Noire