Jean LEVASSEUR dit LAVIGNE

(b. abt. 1622 , Paris, France d. 31 August 1686 , Québec, Canada, New France )

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Jean LEVASSEUR dit LAVIGNE was born abt. 1622 in Paris, France

Jean LEVASSEUR dit LAVIGNE was the child of ? and ?

Jean was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1652.

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Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Jean married Marguerite RICHARD 23 April 1646 in Paris, France . The couple had (at least) 9 children.
Marguerite RICHARD was born abt. 1626 in Paris, France. Marguerite died 23 April 1708 in L'Ancienne Lorette, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation).

Jean LEVASSEUR dit LAVIGNE died 31 August 1686 in Québec, Canada, New France .

son of Noel Levasseur and Genevieve Gauge

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Occupation

Jean LEVASSEUR dit LAVIGNE was a “master joiner of Paris,” first court officer of the Conseil Souverain.
The menuisier, or joiner, was an artisan who built things by joining pieces of wood, particularly lighter and more ornamental work than that done by a carpenter. He was primarily responsible for the manufacture of small works, as opposed to large works. The joiner made small wooden works, furniture and other objects intended for domestic use (doors, tables, cabinets, etc.). His main tools were the plane, the galley, the grooving/plow plane, the handsaw and the mallet.
Source: tfcq.ca

Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

Québec Généalogie - What is a 'dit/dite' name? When the first settlers came to Québec from France it was a custom to add a 'dit' nickname to the surname. The English translation of 'dit' is 'said'. The Colonists of Nouvelle France added 'dit' names as distinguishers. A settler might have wanted to differentiate their family from their siblings by taking a 'dit' name that described the locale to which they had relocated. The acquiring of a 'dit' name might also be the result of a casual adoption, whereby the person wanted to honor the family who had raised them. Another reason was also to distinguish themselves by taking as a 'dit' name the town or village in France from which they originated. This custom ended around 1900 when people began using only one name, either the 'dit' nickname or their original surname.

Source: American-French Genealogical Society, Woonsocket, Rhode Island (www.afgs.org/ditnames/index1.html)

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Family and Children of Jean LEVASSEUR dit LAVIGNE

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Jean LEVASSEUR dit LAVIGNE married

Marguerite RICHARD-- Date: 23 April 1646 Place: Paris, France

Children of Jean LEVASSEUR dit LAVIGNE and Marguerite RICHARD:

Louis LEVASSEUR (b.abt. 1650, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

Anne LEVASSEUR (b.22 July 1652, Québec, Canada, New France d. , )

Jean-François LEVASSEUR (b.20 December 1654, Québec, Canada, New France d. , )

Noel LEVASSEUR dit LAVIGNE (b.20 December 1654, Québec, Canada, New France d. 7 March 1731, Québec, Canada, New France )
m. Marguerite GUAY 30 October 1679 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
m. Marie-Anne MAILLOUX (MAILLOU) 10 January 1711 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Ursule LEVASSEUR (b.25 February 1657, Québec, Canada, New France d. 20 March 1708, Québec, Canada, New France )
m. Guillaume ROGER 6 January 1672 in , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Marie-Thérèse LEVASSEUR (b.abt. 1659, , Québec Province, Canada d. 25 March 1731, L'Ancienne Lorette, Canada, New France )
m. Nicolas BONHOMME 14 January 1676 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Angélique LEVASSEUR (b.9 June 1661, Québec, Canada, New France d. 14 May 1740, Sainte-Foy, Québec, Canada, New France )
m. Charles HAMEL 1682 in , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Charles LEVASSEUR (b.abt. 1665, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

Anne-Félicité LEVASSEUR (b.22 April 1667, Québec, Canada, New France d. 24 September 1748, L'Ancienne Lorette, Canada, New France )
m. Jean-François HAMEL 23 April 1685 in L'Ancienne Lorette, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation)

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Biography
LEVASSEUR, dit Lavigne, JEAN, “master joiner of Paris,” first court officer of the Conseil Souverain; b. 1622, son of Noël Levasseur and Geneviève Grange; buried 31 Aug. 1686 at Quebec. He was the grandfather of the woodcarver Noël Levasseur* and one of the founders of the Confrérie de Sainte-Anne, at the parish church of Quebec.

In 1648, in Paris, he married Marguerite Richard, daughter of a master lapidary and of Jeanne Bonnet. He probably arrived at Quebec in 1651, with Governor Jean de Lauson. On 13 Aug. 1654, Father Jérôme Lalemant and the churchwardens of Notre-Dame entrusted to Jean Levasseur the upkeep of the parish church, particularly of the casement windows of the edifice, “providing him with the paper and the oil,” and paying him a daily wage of 30 sols.

In 1655, Louis d’Ailleboust made him two grants of land: one in the censive of Quebec, the other in the seigneury of Coulonge. Three years later, d’Ailleboust granted him more land, this time on the north slope of...Read MORE...

Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003

1646 Marriage / Partner
Jean LEVASSEUR dit LAVIGNE and Marguerite RICHARD 23 April 1646, Paris, France

1652 Birth of Child
Anne LEVASSEUR was born 22 July 1652, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1654 Birth of Child
Jean-François LEVASSEUR was born 20 December 1654, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1654 Birth of Child
Noel LEVASSEUR dit LAVIGNE was born 20 December 1654, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1656 - The pendulum clock is invented (Christiaan Huygens, Netherlands)

1657 Birth of Child
Ursule LEVASSEUR was born 25 February 1657, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1661 Birth of Child
Angélique LEVASSEUR was born 9 June 1661, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity

1666 Quebec
Jean le Vasseur .............................44 premier huissier au conel.
Marguerite Richard ..........................36 sa femme
Louis le Vasseur ............................16 fils
Anne le Vasseur .............................14 fils
Jean Francois & Noël le Vasseur .............11 freres jumeaux fils
Charles le Vasseur .....................10 mois fils
Ursulle le Vasseur ...........................9 fille
Tereze Le Vasseur ............................7 fille
Angelique le Vasseur .........................5 fille
Et françois Thibaut .........................35 domestique Engaigé
The first census of New France (1666)
The French In North America: 1500-1783

1667 Birth of Child
Anne-Félicité LEVASSEUR was born 22 April 1667, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1672 Marriage of Child
Ursule LEVASSEUR married 6 January 1672, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec) to Guillaume ROGER

1676 Marriage of Child
Marie-Thérèse LEVASSEUR married 14 January 1676, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City) to Nicolas BONHOMME

1679 Marriage of Child
Noel LEVASSEUR dit LAVIGNE married 30 October 1679, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City) to Marguerite GUAY

1685 Marriage of Child
Anne-Félicité LEVASSEUR married 23 April 1685, L'Ancienne Lorette, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation) to Jean-François HAMEL