Philippe Destroismaisons dit Picard

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]

1. Marie-Madeleine Destroismaisons was born in 1672; was christened on 2 Jun 1672 in Chateau-Richer, Montmorency, Québec, Canada; died in 1757 in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada.

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]

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]