Étienne  VERON

VÉRON DE GRANDMESNIL, ÉTIENNE, militia captain, notary; b. 31 Oct. 1649 at Trois-Rivières, son of Jean Véron de Grandmesnil, who had come from Normandy, and of Marguerite Hayet; d. 18 May 1721 at Trois-Rivières.

Véron de Grandmesnil was only three years old when his father was killed by the Iroquois; his mother, who was Pierre-Esprit Radisson’s half-
Sister: , married shortly afterwards the famous Médard Chouart* Des Groseilliers. However, “as he was the cause of several quarrels and differences between his mother and his stepfather over the question of punishment, Étienne’s guardian, Étienne Seigneuret, assumed responsibility for him in return for 20 livres a year.” When he was old enough to study, the Jesuits were charged with taking him in as a boarder and teaching him “all the necessary subjects.”

In 1667 he was still at Trois-Rivières. The census of that year indicates that he was living there with his mother, his
Brother: Guillaume, his half-
Brother: Jean-Baptiste, and his