♀Ursule Emery dit Coderre

Ursule Emery dit Coderre (born about 1711) was the youngest of the ten children whom a former soldier of the Carignan-Salières Regiment^W, Antoine Emery dit Coderre, left minors at Contrecoeur, Montréal, New France, when he died about 1713. She was the seventh great-grand-aunt of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the sister of Francois Emery dit Codere (1700–1755), Nancy Jane’s seventh great-grandfather.

Childhood

Her parents were Antoine Emery dit Coderre (died by 1715) and his second wife, Marie Anne Favreau dit Deslauriers (died by 1737). Ursule was born at the family’s habitation at Contrecoeur and was about two when her father died. When her mother petitioned the royal court at Montréal on 5 April 1715 for guardians for the ten minor children, she gave Ursule’s age as four. The next day relatives and friends named the widow 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, those of Ursule’s mother and those of his first wife, Marie Devault. 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.

Notes

Her birth year and death

Online family trees carry a Marie Ursule in this sibship, born about 1709 or 1710 and dead in 1744. The tree keeps about 1711, the year the petition’s age of four gives. For most of her brothers and sisters with a baptism on record, the petition’s age runs a year under the baptism year, so she may have been born a year or two earlier.