Pierre BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE)

(b. abt. 1626 , France d. 8 August 1687 , La Durantaye, Canada, New France )

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Pierre BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE) was born abt. 1626 in France

Pierre BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE) was the child of ? and ?

Pierre was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1660.

Immigration to New France: Shaping the Roots of Canada

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

Pierre married Mathurine DESBORDES 3 May 1660 in Montréal, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Mathurine DESBORDES was born abt. 1633 in France. Mathurine died 22 October 1698 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul).

Pierre married (2) Marie DALLON (DAILLON) 9 October 1668 in Québec, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 7 children.
Marie DALLON (DAILLON) was born abt. 1646 in Saint-Pierre-d'Oleron, Saintonge, France. Marie died 7 July 1716 in Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse, Québec, Canada.

Pierre BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE) died 8 August 1687 in La Durantaye, Canada, New France.
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Occupation

Pierre BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE) was a Meunier.
The meunier, or miller, was a person who owned and/or operated a mill — a machine used to grind a cereal crop to make flour. He oversaw all the operations that went into milling grain. Then, he bagged the flour, weighed it, stored it as needed, and collected revenue from it.
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.

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Family and Children of Pierre BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE)

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Pierre BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE) married

Mathurine DESBORDES-- Date: 3 May 1660 Place: Montréal, Canada, New France
"SIXTEEN MONTHS LATER, PIERRE FOUND HIMSELF PERFECTLY AT HOME IN HIS NEW ENVIRONMENT. HE HAD MADE MANY FRIENDS AT VILLE MARIE, PARTICULARLY ONE FRIEND WHO PLEASED HIM A LOT: MATHURINE DES BORDES, THE WIDOW OF PIERRE GUIBERGE... THEREFORE, ON 24 APRIL 1660, PIERRE BISSONNET BROUGHT MATHURINE TO THE HOME OF HIS FRIEND, THE NOTARY BASSET, TO HAVE HIM DRAW UP A MARRIAGE CONTRACT. ON 3 MAY IN THE PARISH CHURCH OF VILLE-MARIE THE PROMISE BECAME A REALITY..."

"...ONE DAY, NEW COLONISTS CAME TO 'CLEAR' THE LAND... ONE OF THEM KNEW BISSONNET AND WAS ASTONISHED TO FIND HIM MARRIED, SINCE HE ALREADY HAD 'A WIFE LIVING IN FRANCE'. EVEN THAT SHE WAS NAMED MARIE ALLAIRE AND THAT SHE LIVED AT POIRE-SUR-VIE, IN THE VENDEE. THIS KIND OF NEWS TRAVELS LIKE A LIGHTED POWDER TRAIN. BISSONNET WAS SOON ACCUSED OF BIGAMY... BISSONNET TOOK OFF AND LEFT..."

"WHAT HAPPENED THEN TO THE POOR WIDOW WHOSE SECOND HUSBAND DISAPPEARED IN A LESS OFFICIAL WAY THAN THE FIRST?... AT THE TIME WHEN SHE DENOUNCED HER SECOND HUSBAND, MATHURINE DES BORDES KEPT HER INTENTIONS VERY SECRET: SHE WAS ALREADY IN LOVE WITH ANOTHER YOUNG MAN AND SHE WAS READY TO REMARRY. AND THIS SHE DIED ON 16 AUGUST BY MARRYING MICHEL BOUVIER... THE MARRIAGE OF 1660 TO PIERRE BISSONNET HAD BEEN DECLARED NULL BY AN ORDER OF THE BISHOP OF QUEBEC AND THAT MATHURINE HAD OBTAINED PERMISSION TO REMARRY WHOMEVER SHE PLEASED."

THOMAS J. LAFOREST
OUR FRENCH-CANADIAN ANCESTORS : VOLUME XIII, PAGE 61

Children of Pierre BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE) and Mathurine DESBORDES:

Jacques BISSONNET dit LA FAVRY (b.28 April 1661, Montréal, Canada, New France d. 20 April 1743, Québec, Canada, New France )
m. Perrine LEPELE 22 January 1691 in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

Pierre BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE) married

Marie DALLON (DAILLON)-- Date: 9 October 1668 Place: Québec, Canada, New France

See marriage record for Pierre BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE) and Marie DALLON (DAILLON)
ACCORDING TO PRDH, THERE WAS A 1668 MARRIAGE BETWEEN PIERRE BISSONNETTE AND MARIE DALONE AT NOTRE-DAME-DE-QUEBEC, QUEBEC, CANADA.

"THE YEAR 1668 WAS ALSO THE ONE IN WHICH OUR ANCESTOR ESTABLISHED A HOME. WHAT HAD BECOME OF MARIE ALLAIRE WHOM HE HAD MARRIED EIGHTEEN YEARS EARLIER AND WHO HAD REMAINED IN FRANCE. HE HAD CALLED HER A WITCH AND BY NOW SHE HAD GONE TO REJOIN HER FELLOW SPIRITS. THIS IS WHAT THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT, DRAWN UP BY NOTARY BECQUET INDICATES. HIS NEW CHOICE WAS MARIE D'AULONNE, DAUGHTER OF THE LATE MICHEL AND OF MARGUREITE VERONNE, FROM THE PARISH OF SAINT-PIERRE, ON THE ILE D'OLERON (CHARENTE-MARITIME)... (SHE WAS A 'DAUGHTER OF THE KING')... THE RELIGIOUS CEREMONY TOOK PLACE AT QUEBEC ON 9 OCTOBER..."

THOMAS J. LAFOREST
OUR FRENCH-CANADIAN ANCESTORS : VOLUME XIII, PAGE 65

Children of Pierre BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE) and Marie DALLON (DAILLON):

Jean BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE) (b.24 July 1669, Québec, Canada, New France d. 15 May 1715, Québec, Canada, New France )
m. Marie-Charlotte DAVENNE 1692 in Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse, Québec, Canada
m. Marie-Jeanne LEBLANC dite JOLICOEUR 11 January 1709 in , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Marie-Madeleine BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE) (b.9 August 1671, Sillery, Québec, Canada, New France d. 12 April 1715, Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse, Canada, New France)
m. Michel GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE 19 November 1686 in La Durantaye, Québec, Canada

Pierre BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE) (b.12 August 1674, Sainte-Famille-de-l'île-d'Orléans, Canada, New France d. 13 August 1699, Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse, Canada, New France)
m. Marie BALAN dite LACOMBE 27 February 1691 in Lauzon, Lévis, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-de-Lévy)

Marie BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE) (b.11 March 1677, Sainte-Famille-de-l'île-d'Orléans, Canada, New France d. 6 April 1754, Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse, Canada, New France)
m. Joseph FORGUES 15 February 1695 in Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse, Québec, Canada
m. Jean OUIMET 8 January 1705 in Beaumont, Québec, Canada (Saint-Étienne-de-Beaumont)

Anne-Françoise BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE) (b.7 June 1679, Sainte-Famille-de-l'île-d'Orléans, Canada, New France d. 12 January 1747, Saint-Vallier, Canada, New France)
m. Joseph BONNEAU dit LABÉCASSE 5 March 1696 in Sainte-Famille-de-l'île-d'Orléans, Québec, Canada
m. Martin LEBLONDE (LEBLOND) 24 November 1704 in Beaumont, Québec, Canada (Saint-Étienne-de-Beaumont)

Andre BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE) (b.11 June 1681, Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Canada, New France d. 1 April 1715, Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse, Canada, New France)
m. Françoise GUILLEMET 20 February 1702 in Saint-Jean-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean)

Jacques BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE) (b.6 June 1687, Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Canada, New France d. 9 April 1715, Beaumont, Canada, New France )
m. Marie VENDETTE (VANDET) dite POITEVIN 15 April 1709 in Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse, Québec, Canada

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

'If the walls of the old mills have retained a few secrets, those in which the voice of Pierre Bissonnet was heard must have had ears. The historian Robert-Lionel Seguin, who must have studied well this ancestor to have analyzed the darkest period of his life, says to those who want to hear it that Bissonnet did not shine by his discretion. He was 'always too chatty'. About 1661, at the home of the boiler maker Lauzon he said that he was married in France eleven years earlier, that he lived only one month with his wife and 'that he had left her because she had the reputation of being a witch'.

Gossip had it that Pierre came to this side of the Atlantic with the evident aim of rebuilding his life. However, it seems that he had neglected to mention a small detail in swearing fidelity to a new wife - he already had taken one the year before in France!

The pioneer of the Bissonnet families of the Quebec region crossed the ocean at the latest in 1658.'

Thomas J. Laforest
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1660 Marriage / Partner
Pierre BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE) and Mathurine DESBORDES 3 May 1660, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

1661 Birth of Child
Jacques BISSONNET dit LA FAVRY was born 28 April 1661, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

'If the bigamy of Pierre Bissonnet was known in 1661, at least according to the testimony of Lauzon, the affair simmered for three long years before being brought to the attention of the Sovereign Council of New France. On Wednesday, 3 September 1664, the King's prosecutor declared that he had received from Montreal information according to which the miller Pierre Bissonnet was accused of being married in France and at Montreal at one and the same time... If Pierre Bissonnet must face the rigors of the law, how did this bigamy affair end? The official reports of the Council are silent on this subject. What is certain is that the slippery path where the ancestor had ventured did not lead to an impasse. In any case, if he remained in jail, it was not for a very long time. It would not be surprising either if he had been quite simply fined.'

Thomas J. Laforest
Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume XIII, Page 63

1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity

1668 Marriage / Partner
Pierre BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE) and Marie DALLON (DAILLON) 9 October 1668, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1669 Birth of Child
Jean BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE) was born 24 July 1669, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1671 Birth of Child
Marie-Madeleine BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE) was born 9 August 1671, Sillery, Québec, Québec, Canada (Mission Saint-Joseph-de-Sillery) (Saint-Colomb-de-Sillery)

1674 Birth of Child
Pierre BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE) was born 12 August 1674, Sainte-Famille-de-l'île-d'Orléans, Québec, Canada

1677 Birth of Child
Marie BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE) was born 11 March 1677, Sainte-Famille-de-l'île-d'Orléans, Québec, Canada

1679 Birth of Child
Anne-Françoise BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE) was born 7 June 1679, Sainte-Famille-de-l'île-d'Orléans, Québec, Canada

1681 Canadian Census Comte de St.-Laurent
Pierre Bissonet, 55
Marie Dalone, sa femme, 35
enfants:
Jean, 12
Marie, 10
Pierre, 7
Marie, 5
Anne, 2
Andre, 4 mois

Source: Histoire des Canadiens-Francais 1608-1880 by Benjamin Sulte, Montreal, 1882

1681 Birth of Child
Andre BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE) was born 11 June 1681, Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Québec, Canada

1686 Marriage of Child
Marie-Madeleine BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE) married 19 November 1686, La Durantaye, Québec, Canada to Michel GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE

'About the middle of 1687, he moved for the last time... La Durantaye was his swan song... One month later, the pioneer was quite unexpectedly brought to La Durantaye and buried the next day in the local cemetery. The act says that he died at the age of sixty-six.'

Thomas J. Laforest
Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume XIII, Page 68-69