Pierre LEVASSEUR dit LESPÉRANCE

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abt. 1629 , France

Died

12 March 1694 , Québec, Canada, New France

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Born: abt. 1629 in France

Father: Unknown

Mother: Unknown

Pierre was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1655.

Immigration to New France: Shaping the Roots of Canada

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Pierre married Jeanne CHAVERLANGE 23 October 1655 in Québec, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 5 children.
Jeanne CHAVERLANGE was born abt. 1637 in France. Jeanne died abt. 1681 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec).

Pierre LEVASSEUR dit LESPÉRANCE died 12 March 1694 in Québec, Canada, New France .

son of Noël Levasseur and Geneviève Gaucher

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Recorded occupation: Menuisier (Joiner)

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)

A Glimpse into 17th-Century New France: Life of the Average Man

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Jeanne CHAVERLANGE
Marriage date: 23 October 1655
Marriage place: Québec, Canada, New France

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Children of Pierre LEVASSEUR dit LESPÉRANCE and Jeanne CHAVERLANGE

Madeleine-Françoise LEVASSEUR

Born: 23 July 1656, Québec, Canada, New France
Died: ,

Married: Jean-Baptiste GOSSET 10 June 1677 Place: Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Married: Pierre BUISSON 28 April 1689 Place: Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

Marguerite LEVASSEUR

Born: 22 December 1658, Québec, Canada, New France
Died: ,

Pierre LEVASSEUR dit LESPÉRANCE

Born: 30 April 1661, Québec, Canada, New France
Died: 2 March 1731, Québec, Canada, New France

Married: Madeleine CHAPEAU 28 November 1686 Place: Sillery, Québec, Québec, Canada (Mission Saint-Joseph-de-Sillery) (Saint-Colomb-de-Sillery)

Married: Marie-Anne MÉNAGE (MESNAGE) 18 March 1696 Place: Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Jeanne LEVASSEUR

Born: 20 March 1664, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 18 June 1711, , Québec Province, Canada

Married: Jean ROUILLARD 4 November 1685 Place: Sillery, Québec, Québec, Canada (Mission Saint-Joseph-de-Sillery) (Saint-Colomb-de-Sillery)

Felicite LEVASSEUR

Born: 20 March 1667, Québec, Canada, New France
Died: 14 May 1740, Sainte-Foy, Québec, Canada, New France

Married: Pierre HAMEL 17 October 1688 Place: , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

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Biography
LEVASSEUR, dit L’Espérance, PIERRE, joiner; b. 1629, son of Noël Levasseur and Geneviève Grange; d. some time after 1681, Brother of Jean Levasseur and grandfather of the woodcarver Pierre-Noël Levasseur*.

On 23 Oct. 1655, at Quebec, he married Joanne de Chaverlange, daughter of Antoine de Chaverlange and Marthe Guérin, from Saint-Oursin (near Bourges). The couple had eight children.

Levasseur was one of the founders of the Confrérie de Sainte-Anne, at the parish church of Quebec.

On 4 March 1657 he purchased a piece of land situated in the censive of the Messieurs de la Nouvelle-France.

Around 1661, even before securing title to the property, he built a house and outbuildings on a piece of land belonging to the Argentenay seigneury, on the Île d’Orléans; but as “he has not had an opportunity to accustom himself to the said place, by reason of inconveniences which exist there both for himself and his family,” he waived his rights in favour of Vincent Chrétien, for the sum...Read full story

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1655 Marriage / Partner
Pierre LEVASSEUR dit LESPÉRANCE and Jeanne CHAVERLANGE 23 October 1655, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

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

1656 Birth of Child
Madeleine-Françoise LEVASSEUR was born 23 July 1656, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1658 Birth of Child
Marguerite LEVASSEUR was born 22 December 1658, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1661 Birth of Child
Pierre LEVASSEUR dit LESPÉRANCE was born 30 April 1661, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1664 Birth of Child
Jeanne LEVASSEUR was born 20 March 1664, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity

1667 Birth of Child
Felicite LEVASSEUR was born 20 March 1667, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1677 Marriage of Child
Madeleine-Françoise LEVASSEUR married 10 June 1677, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City) to Jean-Baptiste GOSSET

1685 Marriage of Child
Jeanne LEVASSEUR married 4 November 1685, Sillery, Québec, Québec, Canada (Mission Saint-Joseph-de-Sillery) (Saint-Colomb-de-Sillery) to Jean ROUILLARD

1686 Marriage of Child
Pierre LEVASSEUR dit LESPÉRANCE married 28 November 1686, Sillery, Québec, Québec, Canada (Mission Saint-Joseph-de-Sillery) (Saint-Colomb-de-Sillery) to Madeleine CHAPEAU

1688 Marriage of Child
Felicite LEVASSEUR married 17 October 1688 , , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec) to Pierre HAMEL

1689 Marriage of Child
Madeleine-Françoise LEVASSEUR married 28 April 1689, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul) to Pierre BUISSON