Why blame it on Sophie and Marg ?
Most Brosseau's in this northern area are direct descendants of Marguerite Rapidieux dit Lamer, and or of her step daughter Sophie Laurin.
This blog is entirely about the pioneering days of Chelmsford and cannot be complete without mentioning the Brosseau clans.
Why ?
Source - Wikimedia commons Grand Pré was established 1680 be Pierre Mellanson who left Port Royal, Acadia where Pierre Dugua had established the original Acadian settlement |
Toussaint Brosseau, the son, married Sophie Laurin at St Eustache sometime between 1837 and 1839. These were the years when the Patriote Party of Papineau, Pierre Stanislaus Bedard and others, were defending the French Canadian against the mighty empirical English who were fast populating Upper Canada under agents such as John Colborne.
You can't blame it all on Sophie and Marg. They were the girls behind the Brosseau name which reaches well further into Canadian history with the ancestors of Toussaint and Toussaint.
If my genealogical studies are correct......
Matthieu Brosseau or Brazeau was born around 1665 and married Jeanne Bellemare at a date unknown. Matthieu had been born in France and entered New France ( Canada ) at Port Royal ( Nova Scotia ). He later moved to the new settlement of Grand Pre, Acadia ( Nova Scotia ).
Claude Brosseau or Brazeau was born of their marriage in 1722 in Grand Pre. Claude Brosseau would marry Marguerite Bertrand in 1746 in Beaubassin, Acadie ( border of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick ). Their son Joseph Brosseau was born in Beaubassin in 1749. At some point Claude moved his family to St Therese, Lower Canada ( Montreal, Quebec ).
Joseph Brosseau met Marie Rose Ouimet and they married in 1775 at St Francois de Sales parish in Laval. It looks as though Joseph and Marie Rose Brosseau spent some time in St Genevieve where Toussaint Brosseau was born in 1789.
Toussaint Brosseau met and married Marguerite Rapidieux at St Genevieve Pierrefonds in 1811 and the story of how most Brosseau's around Chelmsford and Larchwood can blame it on Sophie and Marg continues from there.......
December 14, 1837... Battle of St Eustache
Toussaint Brosseau married Sophie Laurin at St Eustache sometime between 1837 and 1839
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