Charles DELAUNAY

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31 May 1648 , Québec, Canada, New France

Died

26 February 1737 , Montréal, Canada, New France

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Pierre DELAUNAY Françoise PINGUET

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Born: 31 May 1648 in Québec, Canada, New France

Father: Pierre DELAUNAY

Mother: Françoise PINGUET

Maternal grandparents: Henri PINGUET , Louise LOUSCHE

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Charles married Marie-Anne LEGRAS 12 December 1695 in Montréal, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Marie-Anne LEGRAS was born 22 September 1678 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul). Marie-Anne died 8 April 1755 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul). Marie-Anne was the child of Jean LEGRAS and Marie-Geneviève MALLET.

Charles DELAUNAY died 26 February 1737 in Montréal, Canada, New France .
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WORK & OCCUPATION

Occupation

Recorded occupation: coureur de bois, tanner

A tanneur, or tanner, prepared the skins of animals with tan or tannin (tree bark powder), in order to produce leather by hand. A tannery was where the tanner worked. Tanning was considered a noxious or 'odoriferous trade' and relegated to the outskirts of town and near a river or stream, usually amongst the poor. In other words, tanneries smelled horrible.
Source: tfcq.ca

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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.

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Spouse & Children of Charles DELAUNAY

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Charles DELAUNAY married

Marie-Anne LEGRAS
Marriage date: 12 December 1695
Marriage place: Montréal, Canada, New France
Marie-Anne LEGRAS was the child of Jean LEGRAS and Marie-Geneviève MALLET

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Children:

Josephte Delaunay 1697-

Marguerite Delaunay 1699-

Charles Delaunay 1704-1728

Michel-Daniel Delaunay 1705-1770

François DeLaunay 1707-

Françoise-Michelle Delaunay 1709-

Louis Delaunay 1711-

Joseph Delaunay 1712-1793

Angélique Delaunay 1717-

Children of Charles DELAUNAY and Marie-Anne LEGRAS

Marguerite DELAUNAY

Born: 28 June 1699, Montréal, Canada, New France
Died: 30 July 1776 , Montréal, Province of Québec, Canada

Married: Pierre LEBEAU dit LAJEUNESSE 23 May 1724 Place: Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

Michel-Daniel DELAUNAY

Born: 10 August 1705, Montréal, Canada, New France
Died: 30 March 1770, Terrebonne, Province of Québec, Canada

Married: Jeanne TOURNOIS 1 September 1749 Place: Terrebonne, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-Terrebonne)

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Birth — 1648
31 May 1648
Québec, Canada, New France

Baptism
Charles de Launay
31 May 1648
Notre-Dame-de-Quebec
Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

Biography
DELAUNAY, CHARLES, coureur de bois, tanner., b. in Quebec, 30 May 1648; d. in Montreal, 26 Feb. 1737.

Pierre Delaunay, the father of Charles, was born in Fresnay-le-Boesme in Maine in 1616. He came to Canada in 1635 as a clerk of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés and married Françoise Pinguet in Quebec on 7 Nov. 1645. He was killed by the Iroquois on 28 Nov. 1654.

Like many other Canadians, Charles was initially attracted to the life of the coureur de bois. He was a member of the party which Henri Tonty led to the Gulf of Mexico in 1686 in an unsuccessful attempt to rescue the ill-fated expedition of Cavelier* de La Salle. Following his marriage in 1695 to Marie-Anne Legras (by whom he was to have 13 children) he settled in Montreal. There he opened a tannery with Gérard Barsalou in 1700. When the two men dissolved their partnership six years later Jacques Raudot decreed by an ordinance that they would be the only two tanners authorized to ply their trade in Montreal and he laid...Read full story

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

1648 Baptism

Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

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

1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity

1666 Quebec
Vincent Poyrier .............................38 habittant
Catherine Renaudeau .. ......................36 sa femme en secondes nopces
Anne poyrier ................................10 fille
Thereze poyrier ..............................8 fille
Enfans de la première femme dud. poyrier
Charles de launay ...........................19
Louis de Launay .............................16
Henry de launay .............................14
Et Jean Pettit 21 domestique Engaigé
The first census of New France (1666)
The French In North America: 1500-1783

1695 Marriage / Partner
Charles DELAUNAY and Marie-Anne LEGRAS 12 December 1695, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

He was 47 years old.

1698 - The steam engine is invented (Thomas Savery, England)

1699 Birth of Child
Marguerite DELAUNAY was born 28 June 1699, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

Charles was 51 years old.

1705 Birth of Child
Michel-Daniel DELAUNAY was born 10 August 1705, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

Charles was 57 years old.

1715 - September 1 - Louis XV becomes King of France

1720 - June 10 - Mrs Clements of England markets first paste-style mustard

1724 Marriage of Child
Marguerite DELAUNAY married 23 May 1724, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul) to Pierre LEBEAU dit LAJEUNESSE