Ignace JUCHEREAU

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3 August 1658 , Québec, Canada, New France

Died

7 April 1715 , Beauport, Québec, Canada, New France

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Nicolas JUCHEREAU Marie-Thérèse GIFFARD

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Born: 3 August 1658 in Québec, Canada, New France

Father: Nicolas JUCHEREAU

Mother: Marie-Thérèse GIFFARD

Paternal grandparents: Jean JUCHEREAU , Marie-Catherine LANGLOIS

Maternal grandparents: Robert GIFFARD , Marie RENOUARD

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Ignace married Marie-Catherine PEUVRET 24 February 1683 in Beauport, Québec, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Catherine PEUVRET was born 13 January 1667 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City). Marie-Catherine died 15 February 1739 in Beauport, Québec, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité-de-Beauport). Marie-Catherine was the child of Jean-Baptiste PEUVRET and Marie-Catherine NAULT.

Ignace JUCHEREAU died 7 April 1715 in Beauport, Québec, Canada, New France .
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Recorded occupation: seigneur of Beauport

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 - The Seigneurial System (1627 - 1854)
The seigneurial system was a form of land settlement modeled on the French feudal system. It began in New France in 1627 with the formation of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés (or Company of 100 Associates), which was initially responsible for handing out land grants and seigneurial rights. The land was divided into five by 15 kilometer plots, usually along major rivers like the St. Lawrence. They were then further subdivided into narrow, but long lots for settlement. These lots were usually long enough to be suitable for faming, and they provided everyone who lived on them with equal access to neighbouring farms and the river. There were three main groups of people who lived off the land in this system: Seigneurs, Habitants and Engagés

Ignace JUCHEREAU was a seigneur.
Seigneurs were the most important colonists, as they were usually in the military or aristocracy prior to being a settler. These seigneurs then were charged with the task of subdividing large parcels of land into five by 15 kilometer concessions, then renting this land to a habitant. Under regulations set up by the French government in France, the seigneur could also set up a court of law, set up a mill on his land and organize a commune.

Source: Canada in the Making (www.canadiana.ca/citm/index_e.html)

The Definitive Guide for Researching Your French-Canadian Ancestors in 2025

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Ignace JUCHEREAU married

Marie-Catherine PEUVRET
Marriage date: 24 February 1683
Marriage place: Beauport, Québec, Canada, New France
Marie-Catherine PEUVRET was the child of Jean-Baptiste PEUVRET and Marie-Catherine NAULT

Children of Ignace JUCHEREAU and Marie-Catherine PEUVRET

Marie-Anne-Louise JUCHERERAU dite DUCHESNAY

Born: 15 October 1689, Beauport, Québec, Canada, New France
Died: ,

Married: Philippe DAMOUR (D'AMOURS) 29 March 1728 Place: Beauport, Québec, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité-de-Beauport)

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Birth — 1658
3 August 1658
Québec, Canada, New France

1658 Baptism
August 1658
Notre-Dame-de-Quebec
Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

Biography
JUCHEREAU DUCHESNAY, IGNACE (originally from Du Chesné-Vidame, department of Eure-et-Loir), seigneur of Beauport; b. 3 Aug. 1658; d. 7 April 1715, and was buried at Beauport the next day.

Juchereau Duchesnay was the third child of Nicolas Juchereau* and Marie-Thérèse Giffard. On 24 Feb. 1683, at Beauport, he married Marie-Catherine Peuvret, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Peuvret* Demesnu, chief clerk and secretary of the Conseil Souverain, and seigneur. By this marriage he had 17 children. Through him the name of the Juchereaus has been perpetuated in Canada.

On 17 Feb. 1683, the very day that his marriage contract was signed, Juchereau Duchesnay inherited the Beauport seigneury from his uncle Joseph Giffard; he did not, however, exercise his rights to it until 1689. He caused his domain to prosper, and it remained in his family until the end of the seigneurial régime. On 6 Oct. 1704, before the Canadian courts, he lost a lengthy action which he had brought against the Jesuits, with...Read full story

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

1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity

1683 Marriage / Partner
Ignace JUCHEREAU and Marie-Catherine PEUVRET 24 February 1683, Beauport, Québec, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité-de-Beauport)

He was 24 years old.

1689 Birth of Child
Marie-Anne-Louise JUCHERERAU dite DUCHESNAY was born 15 October 1689, Beauport, Québec, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité-de-Beauport)

Ignace was 31 years old.

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