History of Jean Baril

The father of Marie Catherine Baril, Jean Baril probably came from Saintonge, France since in 1659, it is the departure from La Rochelle, France of the Ship" Saint-Andrew " and the French-speaking institute of Genealogy and History, La Rochelle Card-index identity IFGH N, M37 Jean BARREL born between l644 and 1649 in Saintonge (Charente-Maritime). Deceased 09/02/1724 in Batiscan (Canada). It is believed that he sailed to Quebec around 1665. He was in the new world on 20 Nov 1667 since he was a witness in a contract signed at Cap-de-la-Madeleine. The next time that his name appears is in a contract dated 20 Feb 1670 to obtain a piece of land along the St-Anne river in the seigniory of the same name. First married Marie, seventh child of Pierre Guillet. Marie, Jeans wife, was born on October 13, 1658. Following 27 October, it is the Father Rene Ménard, the apostle of Outaouais, which baptised Marie.

 

The bridal ceremony sealing the union of Jean and Marie happened at the place of residence of Guillet. At sixteen years, the teenager accepted Jean as her companion of life, a young man of ten years her elder. This household will hardly last more than seven years because Marie will die a few days after having celebrated her 23rd anniversary of birth; She was buried in Champlain on October 20, 1681. The same year, the Baril had been listed in Batiscan. The head of family is known as 35 years old; his children are then MARIE-CATHERINE, 6 years (who will marry JACQUES MASSICOT, pioneer of Ste-Genevieve de Batiscan). Louis, born in 1678 and Jean, born in 1680 and married in 1704 to Judith Blanchet. In 1661 the Baril have a rifle, five animals with horns and twenty arpents in value.

Second marriage. Following 24 May, 1684, the notary François Genaple writes his marriage contract with Elisabeth Gagnon girl of Robert and Marie Parenteau. The marriage takes place the following day in the parish church of Sainte-Famille, ële of Orleans. This second union will last nearly twenty years and seven other kids will be born.

Third marriage. March 1, 1703, Jean buries his second wife and, following 28 July, he makes draw up a new inventory of its goods. The majority of his children still remain with him; he must thus find a new mother to them. This time he will not have to seek apart from the parish. Catherine Dessureau, born in 1675 and who has more than one quarter century less than Jean, is ready to take up the challenge. The marriage contract is signed in front of the notary Daniel Normandin on April 19, 1704 and the ceremony with the church proceeds in Batiscan three days later. Catherine raises the children of Elisabeth Gagnon. Last act of the Trotain notary, April 20, 1719, the Trotain notary writes the will of Jean Baril, but the ancestor will live almost five more years. It is on February 9, 1724 that one will bury his body with Batiscan. Jean had intensely lived at least three quarter centuries.