Biography
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'Jeanne Badeau and Pierre Parent crossed the Atlantic Ocean to come to New -France. A few years before Pierre, Jeanne arrived with her parents and the family in 1647. She was among the women who were themselves responsible for the instructi on and the education of the children and who supported their hard working men. Pierre Parent and Jeanne Badeau were married at Beauport (Québec) on 9 February 1654. Jeanne, who came from La Rochelle (France), was the daughte r of Jacques Badeau who came to New France in 1647, with his whole family to work as a rent farmer/ sharecropper for the Jésuits at the Notre-Dame-des-Anges Seigneurie. Pierre, who was a native of Mortagne-sur-Gironde in Charente-Maritime (France), was the son of André Parent and Marie Coudr ey. As was customary at that time, he hired himself out for a period of three years and reached Beauport around 1650. The husband and wife had 18
Biography
PARANT/ PARENT - From the Old French 'paren' which means father, a nickname to distinguish the father from a son of the same first name. Or, implicitly disappeared which means 'father of'. 1) Pierre Parent was born around 1610 in Mortagne-sur-Gironde in Saintonge, France. Son of André Parent and Marie Coudré, he married Jeanne Badeau (15), daughter of Jacques Badeau and Anne Ardouin, on February 9, 1654 in Beauport. From their union were born 18 children. He arrived in the country around 1652, and settled on the Beaupré coast, then in Quebec. He was a butcher and operated a butchery in Quebec from 1662. In 1667, he owned 3 horned animals and 15 arpents of land. In 1681, he owned 4 rifles, 1 pistol, 18 cattle, 24 sheep, and 100 acres of land. He has several servants at home. He died on August 5, 1698 in Beauport. 2) Gabriel-Antoine Parant was born on November 7, 1723 in Mesnil-Gilbert, Manche, France. Son of Jean Parant and Jeanne Jardin, he married Marguerite Boucher, widow of Pierre
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'The son of Andre Parent and of Marie Coudret was born at Mortagne-sur-Gironde, today an important community in the canton of Cozes, arrondissement of Saintes, in the Charente-Maritime, in the former province of Saintonge or the land of the Santones... Pierre Parent was born about 1638. he did not know how to write, but he signed his name by drawing a dagger.'
Thomas J. Laforest
Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume XIX, Page 197
Arrival in New France
'Pierre Parent very probably arrived in New France in 1650, perhaps in 1649...'
Thomas J. Laforest
Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume XIX, Page 198
1654 Marriage / PartnerPierre PARENT and Jeanne BADEAU (BADAULT) 9 February 1654, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
1655 Birth of ChildMarie PARENT was born 25 November 1655 , Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
1657 Birth of ChildJacques PARENT was born 15 November 1657 , Beauport, Québec, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité-de-Beauport)
1660 Birth of ChildPierre PARENT was born 1 October 1660 , Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
1662 Birth of ChildAndre PARENT was born 4 December 1662 , Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
1665 Birth of ChildJean-François PARENT was born 9 February 1665 , Beauport, Québec, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité-de-Beauport)
1667 Birth of ChildFrançois PARENT was born 29 March 1667 , Beauport, Québec, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité-de-Beauport)
1669 Birth of ChildJoseph PARENT was born 25 January 1669 , Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
1670 Birth of ChildGeneviève PARENT was born 27 February 1670, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
1670 Marriage of ChildMarie PARENT married 25 November 1670, Québec, Canada, New France to David CORBIN
1671 Birth of ChildMichel PARENT was born 21 December 1671, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
1673 Birth of ChildMarie-Jeanne-Thérèse PARENT was born 28 October 1673 , Beauport, Québec, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité-de-Beauport)
1676 Birth of ChildCharles PARENT was born 13 November 1676 , Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
1677 Marriage of ChildJacques PARENT married 1 February 1677, Beauport, Québec, Canada, New France to Louise-Geneviève CHEVALIER
1681 Canadian Census Seigneurie de Beauport
Pierre Parent, boucher, 55
Jeanne Badault, sa femme, 43
enfants:
Pierre, 22
Andre, 20
Jean, 18
Joseph, 15
Genevieve, 12
Michel, 10
Therese, 8
Joseph, Jean et Etienne (jumeaux), 7
Charles, 6
Claude, 4
Charlotte, 3
domestiques:
Mathurin Cardin, 55
Clement Maugol (Mauger), 38
Elie Clarouin, 26
Jacques Delaunay, 38
Source: Histoire des Canadiens-Francais 1608-1880 by Benjamin Sulte, Montreal, 1882
1681 Birth of ChildCharles PARENT was born 17 February 1681, Beauport, Québec, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité-de-Beauport)
1683 Birth of ChildAntoine PARENT was born 3 September 1683 , Beauport, Québec, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité-de-Beauport)
1683 Marriage of ChildPierre PARENT married 23 November 1683, Beauport, Québec, Canada, New France to Marguerite BAUGIS
1685 Marriage of ChildMarie PARENT married 5 February 1685, Beauport, Québec, Canada, New France to Joseph RANCOURT
1686 Marriage of ChildGeneviève PARENT married 2 December 1686, Beauport, Québec, Canada, New France to Noel LANGLOIS dit TRAVERSY
1687 Marriage of ChildJean-François PARENT married 10 February 1687, Beauport, Québec, Canada, New France to Marie VALLEE
1689 Marriage of ChildMarie-Jeanne-Thérèse PARENT married 11 January 1689, Beauport, Québec, Canada, New France to Jean BAUGIS
1690 Marriage of ChildJoseph PARENT married 31 January 1690, Beauport, Québec, Canada, New France to Marie-Madeleine MARETTE dite LEPINE
1692 Marriage of ChildAndre PARENT married 29 October 1692, Saint-Pierre-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Canada, New France to Marguerite COTE
1692 Marriage of ChildMichel PARENT married 24 November 1692, Beauport, Québec, Canada, New France to Jeanne CHEVALIER
1695 Marriage of ChildCharlotte PARENT married 10 January 1695 , Beauport, Québec, Canada, New France to Michel CHEVALIER
1695 Marriage of ChildGeneviève PARENT married 10 January 1695, Beauport, Québec, Canada, New France to Jacques AVICE
1696 Marriage of ChildJean PARENT married 11 February 1696 , Beauport, Québec, Canada, New France to Marie-Françoise BELANGER
1696 Marriage of ChildÉtienne PARENT married 12 February 1696 , Beauport, Québec, Canada, New France to Marie-Thérèse CHEVALIER
1696 Marriage of ChildJoseph PARENT married 12 February 1696, Beauport, Québec, Canada, New France to Marie-Josephe BELANGER
1698 Death
'...On Monday, 5 August 1698, Pierre Parent, after having received the last sacraments of the Holy Church, left the banks of Beauport. The funeral was the next day, in the presence of a whole crowd of grieving people. Noel and Vincent Vachon signed the registry as witnesses...'
Thomas J. Laforest
Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume XIX, Page 204
Pierre
PARENT
Jeanne BADEAU (BADAULT)
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