Michel LEFEBVRE

(b. 3 March 1654 , Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France d. 21 October 1708 , Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France )

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Michel LEFEBVRE was born 3 March 1654 in Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France

Michel LEFEBVRE was the child of Pierre-Michel LEFEBVRE dit DESCOTEAUX and Jeanne AUNEAU (AUNOIS)

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Michel married Catherine TROTTIER 3 November 1683 in Batiscan, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 10 children.
Catherine TROTTIER was born abt. 1670 in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers). Catherine died 1 March 1723 in Champlain, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation). Catherine was the child of Pierre TROTTIER and Suzanne MIGAUD (MICHAUD).

Michel LEFEBVRE died 21 October 1708 in Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France .
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Occupation

Michel LEFEBVRE was a master-mason, land-surveyor and builder.
The maçon, or mason, was a person who worked in stone or brick construction. Also known as a brick mason, stone mason or bricklayer, the mason was a craftsman who laid bricks to construct brickwork, or who laid any combination of stones, bricks, cinder blocks, or similar pieces.
Source: tfcq.ca

A Journey Through Time: Life as a Maçon in 18th Century New France

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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Family and Children of Michel LEFEBVRE

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Michel LEFEBVRE married

Catherine TROTTIER-- Date: 3 November 1683 Place: Batiscan, Canada, New France
Catherine TROTTIER was the child of Pierre TROTTIER and Suzanne MIGAUD (MICHAUD)

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Children of Michel LEFEBVRE and Catherine TROTTIER:

Marguerite LEFEBVRE dite LACISERAYE (b.26 September 1686, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France d. 4 May 1724, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France )
m. Jean-François LAGUERCE 29 May 1713 in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

Pierre LEFEBVRE dit LACISERAYE (b.26 December 1689, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France d. 17 September 1760, Trois-Rivières, Canada )
m. Catherine LECLERC 9 November 1716 in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

Marguerite-Suzanne LEFEBVRE dite LACISERAYE (b.11 March 1692, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France d. 28 September 1773, Les Cèdres, Province of Québec, Canada )
m. Pierre HUNAULT (HUNEAULT) dit DESCHAMPS 17 May 1711 in Pointe-aux-Trembles, Montréal, Québec, Canada* (L'Enfant-Jésus-de-la-Pointe-aux-Trembles)

Joseph LEFEBVRE dit LACISERAYE (b.28 February 1694, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France d. 19 April 1751, Pointe-Claire, Montréal, Canada, New France )
m. Barbe ST DENIS 30 January 1718 in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Marie-Catherine LEFEBVRE (b.18 March 1696, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France d. 20 May 1765, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Montréal, Province of Québec, Canada)
m. Antoine HUNAULT (HUNEAULT) dit DESCHAMPS 17 May 1716 in Pointe-aux-Trembles, Montréal, Québec, Canada* (L'Enfant-Jésus-de-la-Pointe-aux-Trembles)

Michel LEFEBVRE (b.4 June 1698, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France d. 7 January 1775, Pointe-Claire, Montréal, Province of Québec, Canada )
m. Françoise DENIS 14 February 1724 in Pointe-Claire, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joachim-de-la-Pointe-Claire)

Noël LEFEBVRE dit LACISERAYE (b.4 July 1700, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France d. , )
m. Marie-Anne GERVAIS 6 August 1722 in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Marie-Louise LEFEBVRE (b.14 September 1702, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France d. 27 September 1702, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France )

Francoise-Veronique LEFEBVRE (b.1 September 1703, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France d. 10 December 1703, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France )

Marie-Anne LEFEBVRE dite LACISERAYE (b.25 June 1705, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France d. 9 May 1777, Trois-Rivières, Province of Québec, Canada )
m. Jacques-Charles ALAVOINE 27 April 1722 in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

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1654 - Birth
'Michel dit La Cerisaye (or Cisseraye) (1654-1708), married in 1683 to Catherine Trottier.'

Thomas J. Laforest
Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume VI, Page 139

Biography
LEFEBVRE, dit Laciseraye, MICHEL, master-mason, land-surveyor and builder; born at Trois-Rivières in 1654, son of Pierre Lefebvre and of Jeanne Aunois; married Catherine Trottier of Champlain on 3 Nov. 1683, and had eight children; buried at Trois-Rivières 21 Oct. 1708.

Presumably this typical artisan-builder followed the normal practice of his kind and day, travelling about the colony to work on various buildings as opportunity afforded; occasionally too he surveyed land in the vicinity of Trois-Rivières. His only recorded activity as an artisan, however, is on the second parish church of Trois-Rivières in 1682–83, and on the first parish church of Lachine in 1702–3. A contract for the Trois-Rivières church exists, made between the Recollets under whose aegis it was built, and René Pelletier, carpenter; and there is also a notation in the greffe of Severin Ameau giving Lefebvre the task of sheathing the building with boards and shingles for which the parish council gave him 350...Read MORE...

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

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

1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity

1666 Canadian Census - Trois Rivieres
Pierre lefebvre - 50 habitant

Jeanne Aunois - 45 sa femme

Jacques lefebvre - 19 fils

Michel lefebvre - 12 fils

Ignace lefebvre - 10 fils

Ange lefebvre - 7 fils

pierre lefebvre - 5 fils

Noel Charpentier - 19

Jean ledue - 19

Et Jean Vinconneau - 36 domestique

The first census of New France (1666)
The French In North America: 1500-1783

1683 Marriage / Partner
Michel LEFEBVRE and Catherine TROTTIER 3 November 1683, Batiscan, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan) (Saint-François-Xavier)

He was 29 years old.

1686 Birth of Child
Marguerite LEFEBVRE dite LACISERAYE was born 26 September 1686, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

Michel was 32 years old.

1689 Birth of Child
Pierre LEFEBVRE dit LACISERAYE was born 26 December 1689, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

Michel was 35 years old.

1692 Birth of Child
Marguerite-Suzanne LEFEBVRE dite LACISERAYE was born 11 March 1692, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

Michel was 38 years old.

1694 Birth of Child
Joseph LEFEBVRE dit LACISERAYE was born 28 February 1694, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

Michel was 40 years old.

1696 Birth of Child
Marie-Catherine LEFEBVRE was born 18 March 1696, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

Michel was 42 years old.

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

1698 Birth of Child
Michel LEFEBVRE was born 4 June 1698, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

Michel was 44 years old.

1700 Birth of Child
Noël LEFEBVRE dit LACISERAYE was born 4 July 1700, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

Michel was 46 years old.

1702 Birth of Child
Marie-Louise LEFEBVRE was born 14 September 1702, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

Michel was 48 years old.

1703 Birth of Child
Francoise-Veronique LEFEBVRE was born 1 September 1703, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

Michel was 49 years old.

1705 Birth of Child
Marie-Anne LEFEBVRE dite LACISERAYE was born 25 June 1705, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

Michel was 51 years old.