François CHAGNON dit LAROSE
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François CHAGNON (1640 - ca 1693) — Catherine CHARRON (1666 - 1746)

Pioneer François Chagnon was baptized this day, July 8th, 1640, at La Haye-Descartes, France.
François Chagnon dit Larose arrived in New France around 1665. He married the much younger Catherine Charron in 1679. On the 1681 census François is identified as a cardeur (wool-carder).

Catherine was the eldest daughter of Pierre Charron and Catherine Pillat (Pillard). Pillat was a fille-du-roi with a most unusual DNA (mtDNA) signature. Some early researches suggested she was of Native American descent, but most now believe "she was descended from a woman brought [to Europe] from Siberia."

François and Catherine had six children. François was deceased when their last child (Raymond) was born. Daughter Angélique married François Benoît dit Livernois in 1711; Benoît had been a participant in Cadillac's 1701 convoy to Détroit.
The late Québécois businessman André Chagnon, founder of Vidéotron, is a descendant. Country singer/ songwriter "Marcel", who was baptized Marcel François Chagnon in Grosse Pointe in 1975, is most likely another.

Among the long list of their other notable descendants are Ricky Gervais, Ryan Gosling, Shania Twain, Christopher Meloni and Alex Trebek. (Some descendants adopted the spelling Chaillon.)

[Sources: PRDH; Fichier-Origine [ID# 240770]; "The mitochondrial DNA haplotype of Catherine PILLARD" Jacques P. Beaugrand, Ph.D.; Les anciennes familles du Québec, Brasserie Labatt limitée, La Brasserie, Québec, Franklin ("Archie") Arbuckle (illustrator), p.22]

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