Family of Francois Remillard & Marie Gaboury

 

GENERATION II

Francois² Rouillard; Guillaume¹; (Guillaume ROUMIHAT and Marie TESTARD or TETARD); Francois was baptized 24 November 1647 at Chateau-Ponsac, Bellac, Limoges, France (Jette, Page 973) and died 4 April and was buried 5 April 1700 at LaDurantaye, Quebec. He married Anne Gaboury, daughter of Louis Gabury and Nicole Souillard on 7 May 1681 at L’Islet. Nicole Souillard, mother of Anne Gaboury, was a “Filles du Roi”, one of approximately 1000 young women brought to New France as a plan to populate the colony. Anne was baptized on July 27, 1668 at Ste. Famille Parish, Ile d’Orleans, Quebec. Francois died on 4 April 1700 at St. Michel de Bellechasse. Anne Gaboury, widow of Francois Remillard then married (2) Pierre Corriveau at St. Michel on 6 February 1702. Anne Gaboury died in 1740.

Francois Remillard and Anne Gaboury had five children of which we have record of four;

1.      Marie-Francoise Remillard, born 1692; married (1) 10 November 1709; Guillaume Corriveau ; married (2) 3 May 1719 to Ignace Querignon at St.Valier ; married (3) on 11 November 1727 to Hilaire Martin; she was buried 28 September 1767.

2.      Francois Rémillard, born 12 May 1694; married Francoise Helie on 6 February 1720 at St. Valier.

3.      Antoine Rémillard, born 30 March and baptized 1 April 1698 at St-Michel-de-Bellechasse, Quebec; married to Marie-Marguerite Lemarie on 6 June 1728 at Quebec City; buried 31 October 1757 at St. Valier;

4.      Etienne Rémillard (Rouillard), baptized 5 April 1700; buried 9 June 1756 at St. Valier; married Marie-Anne Bolduc at Quebec on 29 July 1725.

Bellac, Haute Vienne, Limousin		Water wheel to mill grain at Bellac		Location of Haute Vienne
McAndrews	Jordan		Fox		Klein

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