Jean
LEVASSEUR dit LAVIGNE
(b.
abt. 1622
,
Paris, France
d.
31 August 1686
,
Québec, Canada, New France
)
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LEVASSEUR dit LAVIGNE Genealogy
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.
Marriage(s) and Child(ren):
He 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. She 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 .
Occupation: “master joiner of Paris,” first court officer of the Conseil Souverain
son of Noel Levasseur and Genevieve Gauge
Details of the family tree of Jean appear below.
Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changesFrom 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 MacDonald for providing this information.
Québec Généalogie - Did you know? To occupy their free time, the inhabitants of New France held soirées, when they would gather to...Read MORE...Virtual Museum of New France. For more information visit www.historymuseum.ca/ virtual-museum-of-new-france
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)
- 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...Read MORE...
www.biographi.ca 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) - 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 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...Read MORE...
The first census of New France (1666) www.afhs.ab.ca/data/census/1666
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