Jean  TRUDEL (TRUDELLE)

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TRUDEL - derived from Touroude via Tr(o)ude, from the Germanic name Turold, from 'tur' meaning 'giant' or Thor the God of thunder, and 'wald' meaning 'power, authority'. Jean Trudel was born around 1629 in Parfondeval in Perche. Son of Jean Trudel and Marguerite Noyer, he was in the country in 1655. He married Marguerite Thomas, daughter of Jean Thomas and Marguerite Fredry, in 1655 in Quebec. From their union were born 11 children. He is a plowman and weaver of canvas. In 1657, he settled in Ange-Gardien. In 1667, he owns 9 cattle and 30 acres of land in value. In 1681, he owns 2 guns, 8 cattle and 30 acres of land in value. He died on November 25, 1699 at Ange-Gardien.
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'The first mass celebrated at L'Ange Gardien was in the house of your ancestor Jean Trudel. A pioneer of the parish of L'Ange Gardien, Jean Trudel settled on the coast of Beaupré, near Québec, in 1655. His farm was approximately a mile and a half on the side of the Montmorency Falls. In 1911, a monument commemorating Jean Trudel was erected by his descendants on the site of his original house which still had visible foundations at that time.

At the beginning of colonization, up until the time that churches and chapels were built, services were held in a settler's home by missionnary priests. At L'Ange Gardien, these services were held in the house of Jean Trudel. This is noted in an act of 1664 whose subject was the election of marguilliers (?).

It is interesting to note that ducing the census of 1666, Jean Trudel was identified as 'canvas weaver'. For many generations, one of our national industries was this weaving and your ancestor Jean Trudel was one of those who...Read MORE...

1655 Marriage / Partner
Jean TRUDEL (TRUDELLE) and Marguerite THOMAS 4 November 1655, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1656 Birth of Child
Marie-Jeanne TRUDEL was born 22 July 1656, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1657 Birth of Child
Pierre TRUDEL was born 6 December 1657, L'Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Québec, Canada

1659 Birth of Child
Marie-Madeleine TRUDEL was born 15 June 1659, L'Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Québec, Canada

1662 Birth of Child
Nicolas TRUDEL was born 4 April 1662, Château-Richer, Québec, Canada (La Visitation-de-Notre-Dame de Chateau-Richer)

1663 Birth of Child
Antoine TRUDEL was born 15 September 1663, Château-Richer, Québec, Canada (La Visitation-de-Notre-Dame de Chateau-Richer)

Histoire de la paroisse de l'Ange-Gardien
'L'an 1664, le dix-huitième jour d'octobre, à l'issue de la messe célébrée dans la maison de Jean Trudelle, en conséquence de la convo cation par deux fois réitérée par M. des Maize- rets y faisant pour lors les fonctions curiales, par l'ordre de Monseigneur l'illustrissime révé- rendissime Evêque de Pétrée, Vicaire Aposto lique en la Nouvelle-France, et nommé par le Roy, premier évesque dudit pays, tendante à ce que les habitants eussent à s'assembler pour procéder à la nomination et élection de trois marguilliers pour la première fois ; lesdits habi tants étant restés au nombre de vingt-deux des plus considérables, savoir : Raymond Pagez dit Quercy, Pierre Maheu dit des Hazards, Jacques Goulet, Jean Trudel, Michel Hénault, Pierre Tremblay, Pierre Gendreau, Louis Garneau, Louis Saucier, Jacques Nourry, Jacques Ma- rette dit Lépine, François Hébert, Robert de la Berge, René Brisson, Laurent Gignard, Antoine Andrieux, Antoine Gaboury, Jacques Jacquereau, Jean Clément, Louis Lesage, An...Read MORE...

'In the spring of 1655, two linen weavers arrived from Perche, two inseparable friends: Jean Trudel and Pierre Maheust dit des Hasards.'

Thomas J. Laforest
Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume VIII, Page 210

1665 Birth of Child
Jean-Pierre TRUDEL was born 12 March 1665, Château-Richer, Québec, Canada (La Visitation-de-Notre-Dame de Chateau-Richer)

1666 Habittans de Beauport
Jean Trudel - 37 Tisseran en Toille

Margueritte Thomas - 32 sa femme

Jeanne Trudel - 10 fille

pierre Trudel - 8 fils

Magdelaine Trudel - 7 fille

Nicolas Trudel - 4 fils

Anthoine Trudel - 2 fils

Et Michel Bigot - 24 domestique engaigé
The first census of New France (1666)
The French In North America: 1500-1783

1667 Birth of Child
Philippe TRUDEL was born 26 March 1667, Château-Richer, Québec, Canada (La Visitation-de-Notre-Dame de Chateau-Richer)

1667 Marriage of Child
Marie-Jeanne TRUDEL married 12 September 1667, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec) to Jean JACQUET ST-AMAND dit GERLAISE

1669 Birth of Child
Jean TRUDEL was born 28 June 1669, L'Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Québec, Canada

1671 Birth of Child
Marguerite TRUDEL was born 19 April 1671, L'Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Québec, Canada

1673 Birth of Child
François TRUDEL was born 14 April 1673, L'Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Québec, Canada

1674 Marriage of Child
Marie-Madeleine TRUDEL married 11 October 1674 , Charlesbourg, Québec, Québec, Canada (Bourg Royal) to Pierre LEFEBVRE

1676 Birth of Child
Joseph TRUDEL was born 9 January 1676, L'Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Québec, Canada

1680 Marriage of Child
Pierre TRUDEL married 26 February 1680, Château-Richer, Québec, Canada (La Visitation-de-Notre-Dame de Chateau-Richer) to Françoise LEFRANCOIS

1681 Canadian Census Seigneurie de Beaupre
Jean Trudelle, 50
Marguerite Thomas, sa femme, 48
enfants:
Nicolas, 19
Philippe, 14
Jean, 13
Marguerite, 10
Francois, 8

Source: Histoire des Canadiens-Francais 1608-1880 by Benjamin Sulte, Montreal, 1882

1684 Marriage of Child
Nicolas TRUDEL married 7 January 1684 , L'Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Québec, Canada to Barbe LETARTRE (LETARTE)

1685 Death of Child
François TRUDEL died 4 November 1685, L'Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Québec, Canada

1689 Marriage of Child
Marguerite TRUDEL married 10 January 1689, L'Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Québec, Canada to Joseph BLONDEAU dit LAFRANCHISE

1691 Marriage of Child
Jean TRUDEL married 8 January 1691 , L'Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Québec, Canada to Louise MATHIEU

1691 Marriage of Child
Antoine TRUDEL married 19 February 1691, L'Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Québec, Canada to Marie-Magdeleine GARIEPY

1693 Marriage of Child
Joseph TRUDEL married 23 November 1693, L'Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Québec, Canada to Marie-Catherine OSSANT (AUSSAN)

1695 Death of Spouse/Partner
Marguerite THOMAS died 30 August 1695, L'Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Québec, Canada

1696 Marriage of Child
Philippe TRUDEL married 28 January 1696, L'Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Québec, Canada to Catherine GARIEPY

1696 Marriage of Child
Antoine TRUDEL married 30 April 1696, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul) to Jeanne THUILLIER

1695
'MARGUERITE THOMAS LIVED JUST LONG ENOUGH TO WITNESS THE LAST TRANSACTION WITH HER SON JEAN. ON 30 AUGUST 1695, SHE GAVE UP HER SOUL AT THE AGE OF 62... FOUR YEARS LATER, THE REGISTRY OF L'ANGE-GARDIEN REPORTED THE DEATH OF OUR ANCESTOR ON 25 NOVEMBER 1699.'

THOMAS J. LAFOREST
OUR FRENCH-CANADIAN ANCESTORS : VOLUME VIII, PAGE 213

Death
Name: Jean Trudel
Gender: Male
Burial Date: 26 Nov 1699
Burial Place: L'Ange Gardien, Montmorency I, Quebec
Death Date: 25 Nov 1699
Death Place: L'Ange Gardien, Montmorency I, Quebec
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B03769-7
System Origin: Canada-EASy
GS Film number: 1018044
Reference ID: p 3 bur 7

'Canada Deaths and Burials, 1664-1955,' index, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ ark:/ 61903/ 1:1:F2P1-MZR : accessed 10 June 2015), Jean Trudel, 25 Nov 1699; citing Cemetery, L'Ange Gardien, Montmorency I, Quebec, reference p 3 bur 7; FHL microfilm 1,018,044.
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