Renee Gagnon, Wife of Jean Houymet and Her Family
Ref. - From Volume XIX, no. 1, Jan. 2009, Les Descendants De Jean Quimet, written in Canada.
The marriage of the parents of Renee Gagnon was held on the farm of cap Tourmente on July 29, 1640. Marriages were only celebrated in private homes when it was absolutely necessary. In fact, there wasn't yet a chapel at the cote de Beaupre, which only accounted for some fifteen censitaires and their families. As Quebec was located about 50 km from cap Tourmente, missionairies provided religious services in the area. Furthermore, hardly one month before the marriage, the church that Champlain had erected near the fort in 1633, under the title Notre-Dame-de-Recouvrance, had burned down with the rectory and the records. The marriage of Jean Gagnon at the Cote-de- Beaupre, on July 29, 1640, is the first place we have of his presence in New France.
At the time of the birth of Renee in 1643, her parents had already settled at the Cote-de- Beaupre for a few years. Her fther, Jean Gagnon, was originally from Tourouvre, in Perche, and her mother, Marguerite Cauchon, from Dieppe in Normandie.
Renee Gagnon married Jean Houymet at Chateau-Richer in the fall of 1660. When Jean left the region of Champagne in France, his parents had died, and we do not know if he had any brothers or sisters. If he had any, they never came to settle in New France. It is therefore easy to imagine the important place that the Gagnon family would have had in his life and the lives of his children.
Renee Gagnon, Wife of Jean Houymet and Her Family
Ref. - From Volume XIX, no. 1, Jan. 2009, Les Descendants De Jean Quimet, written in Canada.
The marriage of the parents of Renee Gagnon was held on the farm of cap Tourmente on July 29, 1640. Marriages were only celebrated in private homes when it was absolutely necessary. In fact, there wasn't yet a chapel at the cote de Beaupre, which only accounted for some fifteen censitaires and their families. As Quebec was located about 50 km from cap Tourmente, missionairies provided religious services in the area. Furthermore, hardly one month before the marriage, the church that Champlain had erected near the fort in 1633, under the title Notre-Dame-de-Recouvrance, had burned down with the rectory and the records. The marriage of Jean Gagnon at the Cote-de- Beaupre, on July 29, 1640, is the first place we have of his presence in New France.
At the time of the birth of Renee in 1643, her parents had already settled at the Cote-de- Beaupre for a few years. Her fther, Jean Gagnon, was originally from Tourouvre, in Perche, and her mother, Marguerite Cauchon, from Dieppe in Normandie.
Renee Gagnon married Jean Houymet at Chateau-Richer in the fall of 1660. When Jean left the region of Champagne in France, his parents had died, and we do not know if he had any brothers or sisters. If he had any, they never came to settle in New France. It is therefore easy to imagine the important place that the Gagnon family would have had in his life and the lives of his children.
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