 1603 - 1683 (80 years)
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| Name |
Nicolas Bonhomme |
| Birth |
1603 [3] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
7 Aug 1683 |
Québec, Nouvelle-France  [4] |
| Person ID |
I22414 |
Duane's Ancestors |
| Last Modified |
21 Jul 2004 |
| Family |
Catherine Goujet, b. 1616 d. 9 Apr 1679, Québec, Nouvelle-France (Age 63 years) |
| Marriage |
2 Sep 1640 [3] |
| Children |
| | 1. Marie-Madeleine Bonhomme, b. 24 Nov 1641, Québec, Nouvelle-France bur. 23 Nov 1642, Québec, Nouvelle-France (Age ~ 0 years) |
| + | 2. Guillaume Bonhomme, b. Abt 1642/3 d. 14 Mar 1710, Ste-Foy, Québec, Nouvelle-France (Age ~ 67 years) |
| + | 3. Ignace Bonhomme, b. Abt 1645 d. 22 Apr 1711, Ste-Foy, Québec, Nouvelle-France (Age ~ 66 years) |
| | 4. Marie Bonhomme, b. 15 Feb 1648, Québec, Nouvelle-France d. Aft 15 Mar 1714 (Age > 66 years) |
| | 5. Pierre Bonhomme, b. 23 Apr 1650, Québec, Nouvelle-France d. 3 Jan 1670, Québec, Nouvelle-France (Age 19 years) |
| + | 6. Nicolas Bonhomme, b. 5 Feb 1653, Québec, Nouvelle-France d. 17 Mar 1711, l'Ancienne Lorrette, Quebec, British America (Age 58 years) |
| | 7. Catherine Bonhomme, b. 21 Sep 1655, Québec, Nouvelle-France d. 1711/2 (Age 56 years) |
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| Family ID |
F7771 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
4 Apr 2020 |
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| Notes |
Nicolas Bonhomme was born between 1603 and 1611 in Sainte-Croix de Fécamp, Seine-Maritime, in Normandy. He came to New France in the summer of 1637, his name first appearing in Trois-Rivières, September 2, 1640, when he married Catherine Gouget, daughter of Léonard Goujet and Catherine DuFrançois, of Thury-Harcourt.
The couple spent the winter to Québec. On January 7, 1641, he went before the court of Martial Piraube to have his marriage upheld. On Sunday, November 24, 1641, his first child was baptized by the Jesuit missionary, Jacques de Laplace, of Miscou en Acadie - Marie-Madeleine before her godfather Pierre Legardeur de Repentigny and her godmother, Marie Barber of Marsolet. She did not survive and was buried in Québec on March 23, 1642. That same year, Catherine and Nicolas returned to France. Their son Guillaume deposed some years later, that he had been born in La Rochelle, which leads us to believe that Bonhomme lived for a while in La Rochelle. No one knows how they earned their living. They also had a second child born to them there.
In the summer or the fall of 1645, the Bonhomme family, the father, mother and of two young children, were back in Québec.
On May 12, 1646, Nicolas Bonhomme received a land grant on the Grande Allée de Québec. This site of "20 'toises'* on Saint-Louis street and 126 feet deep" extended to the street.
Other than some family events, things were quiet until March 2, 1652, when Nicolas says he received 80 pounds from Noël Morin, who sued. Charles Sevestre, Jacques Maheu and Louis Sédillot were also implicated in the suit.
On April 14, 1655, the Cent-Associés, ratified Bonhomme's 1646 land grant.
We also learn that Nicolas, of Côte Sainte-Geneviève, bought land on I5 March 1655 measuring 15 "toises"* of frontage, close to his first property. He had bought it from Robert Charon. On January 30, 1656, he sold this piece of land and the house with the Fabrique de Québec for the sum of 400 pounds. After 18 years, the Bonhomme family sells their uptown property to Nicolas Marsolet for 200 pounds on October 12, 1664.
In the 1667 census, the Bonhomme family lived at Côte Sainte-Geneviève where they had 5 cows and 40 acres of farmland. Thomas Gondouin, from Normandy, 18 years old, is their servant. On October 18, 1668. Nicolas owed 50 pounds to Pierre Normand. The court records of Rageot confirmed that the Bonhomme family lived "en la coste St Jean", and therefore were probably located there the previous year. In the morning on December 23, 1667, Nicolas Bonhomme is brought before the tax prosecutor and of the members of the Western Indies Company.He declared then his assets land: 40 acres at Côte Sainte-Genevière obtained from the old company on March 29, 1649, then previously from Montmagny, May 12, 1646. This land, he states, almost totally cleared, has a house with room, cellar and attic, and a barn. At the same time, he stated he had another 20 acres square at côteau Sainte-Geneviève that he bought in July 1651 and upheld on July 5, 1656; finally, approximately 30 acres between Claude Larchevêque et Poirier bought on January 20, 1646. Thus, the slightly complicated description of the land possessions of the Bonhomme family as it appears at the end of December 1667.
On February 28, 1672, he concedes 40 acres of ground in surface "to take three on the banks on the St. Charles River in Côte Ste- Genevieve ".
In 1681, Nicolas Bonhomme, 74 years, is listed at the Côte Saint Michel, in the parish of Sillery. He has 1 cow and 20 acres of farmland. His sone, Ignace Bonhomme, his neighbor, declares 1 rifle, 8 cows, 15 acres in value. The family of Nicolas Bonhomme and Catherine Gouget has 7 members: Marie-Madeleine, Guillaume, Ignace, Marie, Pierre, Nicolas and Catherine. We know that Marie-Madeleine died in childhood. Pierre, godson of Pierre Delaunay who was killed by Iroquois in November 1654, died on January 2, 1670, in Québec. He was 19 years old.
The Breton Jean Nault, called Saint Crespin, took as his wife, July 21, 1661, Marie Bonhomme, who was 13 years old. The couple lived childless in Côte Saint-Jean et Saint-François, near Quebec. Marie became a midwife. The younger Catherine Bonhomme was married to Jacques Berthiaume, in Saint-Bénin, a town in Thury Harcourt, on November 5, 1667. They later renewed their vows on this side of the Atlantic. The Berthiaume family lived in and around Sillery with their 5 children. At the time of the marriage of his daughter on August 15, 1678, he attested before the court whom his daughter will have right to her right share of heritage after her death.
Three boys passed on the current surnames Bonhomme, Beaupré and Dulac. Guillaume, born in France, was known around Côtes Saint-Jean et Saint-François and Saint-Michel de Sillery. He was a lieutenant in the militia and a captain. He became even lord seigniory Bonhomme or Belair, behind Saint-Augustin. Françoise Huché, a daughter of the king of Saint-Eustache of Paris, brought a dowry estimated at 500 pounds at the time of her marriage to Guillaume on October 30, 1664. They had a dozen children. The descendants bear the names of Beaupré and of Dulac.
As for Ignace Bonhomme, he married the widow of Nicolas Gaudry, Agnès Morin, she bore 8 Gaudry children, and bore 9 Beaupré kids. After the death of its wife, Ignace married Anne Poirier, the widow of Jacques Gaudry, the head of a family of 7.
Nicolas, the son, baptized on February 9, 1653, also had for his godfather, Jean LeSueur de Saint Sauvor, a priest from Thury-Harcourt, the small hometown of Catherine Gouget. On January 14, 1676, the priest of the cathedral of Quebec, joined in marriage Nicolas and of MarieThérèse Levasseur, daughter of Jean and Marie Richard. Their family, consisting of 13 members, lived in L'Ancienne-Lorette. Their descendants preferred the Bonhomme surname. In the court records, the first name of the son Nicolas becomes confusing with that of his father.
With the third generation Bonhomme, also known as Beaupré, 45 people could stand up and say: here! here!
Catherine Gouget died on April 9, 1679, at the house of her son Wilfrid Marin and Jeannette Beaupré.
It seems Nicolas had lived in L'ancienne Lorette. Nicolas died on August 7, 1683, at the home of his daughter, Marie, in Sillery. The funeral was held the following day, on Thursday, with the church Notre-Dame de Quebec, by the priest Henri de Bernières. It was also at the cathedral of Quebec that the abbot of Bernières presided, the next day, a Saturday. The register shows us following attendees: Jean Nault, Ignace and Nicolas Bonhomme, Jacques Berthiaume.
Collection "Our Ancestors", by Gerard Lebel and Jacques Saintonge.
translated using Systran from http://sites.rapidus.net/gaegauth/biographie nicolas bonhomme.htm
* - toise is an Old French land measure equal to 6.3945 English feet.
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| Sources |
- 1. [S805] French Canadian & Acadian Genealogical Rev. VI, 171, 00801.
- 2. [S803] Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Canadiennes, 2:348, 00799.
- 3. [S805] French Canadian & Acadian Genealogical Rev. VI, 172, 00801.
- 4. [S805] French Canadian & Acadian Genealogical Rev. VI, 176, 00801.
- 5. [S805] French Canadian & Acadian Genealogical Rev. VI, 170, 00801.
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