Marie-Madeleine Destroismaisons

Marie-Madeleine married Jean-Baptiste Rousseau on 22 Jun 1699 in Cap-Saint-Ignace, Montmagny, Québec, Canada. Jean-Baptiste (son of Jean Rousseau and Marie Bigot) was born in cir 1660 in Sepalier, Saintonge, France; died on 14 Jan 1713 in Riviere du Sud, Québec, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Marie-Madeleine Rousseau was born in cir 1702; died in 1774.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: cobbler

Notes:

Philippe Destroismaisons crossed the Atlantic sometime before 1666 (he appears in the census for that year) and apparently worked as a house or farm servant on the estate of Bertrand Chesnay de la Garenne, sieur de Lothainville. He and his wife later owned a farm across the St. Lawrence at Rivière-du-Sud, where Philippe also worked as a shoemaker.

Philippe married Marie-Martine Cronier on 18 Nov 1669 in L'Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Québec, Canada. Marie-Martine (daughter of Pierre Cronier and Jeanne Rotreau) was born in cir 1645 in Fontaine-leBourg, Rouen, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Marie-Martine Crosnier

Notes:

Marie-Martine Cronier, a "Fille du Roi", left France for Canada in 1669, bringing with her goods worth an estimated 200 livres for her dowry. Upon her marriage, she received the KIng's Gift of 50 livres.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: master musket smith

Notes:

Adrien Destroismaisons was a master gunsmith, selling arquebuses and other weapons from a shop on the rue Pot d'Estain in Montreuil, France.

Adrien married Antoinette Le Roux before 1636. Antoinette was born in cir 1610. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Pierre + Jeanne Rotreau. Jeanne was born in cir 1620. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

There was once a village in Picardy called "Trois Maisons" (three houses) near Bazinghem, not far from Boulogne; but it no longer exists. Several French-Canadian genealogists point to it as the probable home of this family (American descendants in the male line are now mostly named Picard). In the fifteenth century, minor nobles called Jehan and Bertaut des Troismaisons possessed fiefs in the area, but there is no proof of a relationship. A Jehanne des Troismaisons married Marc Hamerel about 1525, and a Jacques married Massette Coupelle about 1540. They had daughters Antoinette and Marguérite whose three marriages are also recorded. Antoine Destroismaisons and Jeanne Lacherer apparently moved to the large town of Amiens, and then later to Montreuil, some 35 miles north of Amiens near the coast. There they lived in the parish of Nôtre Dame de Montreuil-sur-Mer.

Antoine married Jeanne Lacherer in cir 1592. Jeanne (daughter of François Lacherer and Jeanne Leroy) was born in cir 1570. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

François + Jeanne Leroy. Jeanne was born in cir 1540. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]