Gaspard Boucher^{[1, 2]}

Abt 1599 - 1666  (~ 63 years)

• Name	Gaspard Boucher
  Birth	Abt 1599	St-Langis-lès-Mortagne, Perche, France   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	master woodworker  [2]
  Property	1 Feb 1634	Mortagne, Perche, France   [2]
  	sold property
  Property	21 Mar 1646	Trois-Rivières, Québec, Nouvelle-France   [3]
  	received a land grant
  Property	1 Jun 1650	Trois-Rivières, Québec, Nouvelle-France   [3]
  	received a land grant
  Death	Between 20 May 1662 and 1666	Trois-Rivières, Québec, Nouvelle-France   [3]
  	Cause: in a house fire
  Person ID	I23420	Duane's Ancestors
  Last Modified	12 Apr 2012

  
  

  Father	Jacques Boucher
  Mother	Françoise Paigné
  Marriage	Y  [2]
  Family ID	F10568	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Nicole Lemaire,   b. Abt 1600, Mamers, Perche, France d. Between 19 Jun 1652 and 1666, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Nouvelle-France (Age ~ 52 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1619	Mortagne, Perche, France   [2]
  Children	1. Charles Boucher   2. Antoinette Boucher   d. young, France   3. Pierre Boucher   d. 19 Apr 1717, Boucherville, Quebec, Canada   4. Nicolas Boucher   d. 1649, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Nouvelle-France   5. Charles Boucher   d. young, France + 6. Marie Boucher,   b. 1629/30   bur. 30 Nov 1706 (Age ~ 76 years)   7. Marguerite Boucher   8. Madeleine Boucher,   b. Abt 1634   d. 1691, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Nouvelle-France (Age ~ 57 years)
  Family ID	F8031	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Apr 2020

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - Abt 1599 - St-Langis-lès-Mortagne, Perche, France Marriage - Abt 1619 - Mortagne, Perche, France Property - sold property - 1 Feb 1634 - Mortagne, Perche, France Property - received a land grant - 21 Mar 1646 - Trois-Rivières, Québec, Nouvelle-France Property - received a land grant - 1 Jun 1650 - Trois-Rivières, Québec, Nouvelle-France Death - Cause: in a house fire - Between 20 May 1662 and 1666 - Trois-Rivières, Québec, Nouvelle-France  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  From LaForest, French Canadian Ancestors: Gaspard came with his entire family in 1635. It was his son Pierre who accomplished feats of arms and had his name entered in history books. Their destiny was shaped by settling in Trois-Rivières. He was a master wood-worker, and farmer at Beauport. Gaspard was probably the son of Jacques Boucher and of Françoise Paigne. Married Nicole Lemaire when he was about 20. Had 8 children, five of whom crossed the seas with their parents. On 25 May 1633 Gaspard may not have intended to leave his homeland, because he acqured from Marie Gastrie, his mother in law, a plot of land and an orchard at Perruchet, in the parish of Saint-Hilaire. He sold this property on 1 Feb 1634, maybe because he had decided to leave, but he was not on the first ship. On the following 20 April 1634 we learn that Marie Gastire, abandoned wife of Pierre Delorme, her second husband, ensured her son in law and daughter a legacy superior to that of her other heirs because they had provided for her without recompense for eighteen months. His son stated he had been brought to New France by his father in 1635. On 19 March 1635, the Bouchers sold, left, ceded and transferred forever to Jeanne Desjouis, two parcels of plowed but unsown land at Charbonniers, adjoining the monastery of Val-Dieu. A few days after that the family receved the blessing of Cure Alexander Chevalier, traveled the forty leagues ( 160 km) by wagon (From Mortagne to Dieppe) and embarked on one of the ships commanded by Duplessis-Bouchart. Saint-Jacques, commanded by Roche-Jacquelin. Coming out of the English Channel, the convoy evaded a fleet of Turkish ships and made the transit, beset by the usual Atlantic storms. This voyage was longer than the one the previous year, but they finally reached land on 4 July. (Voyage must have taken just over three months.) A long-boat sent from Tadoussac announced their arrival at Québec eight days before they got there. Samuel Champlain, who died in December 1635, welcomed the new arrivals at Fort Saint-Louis. Gaspard himself asked Champlain for protection on is arrival at Québec. He then took advantage of this ot inform the Governor of an incident in which he was a victim. Thomas Giroust, a traveling companion to whom he had entrusted some personal effectgs, refused to return them. Chaplain ordered Giroust to return the property. Giroust pretended to obey but later swore that he would not. This affiar dragged on for three years. On 12 Sep 1638, Gaspard recounted that he had asked Giroust to take him from Mortagne to Dieppe, with baggage which contained among other things, two large salt cellars, two large flower vases, two large plates, six porridge bowls, all in a tin case, eight to ten plates, three small bows, two of pewter and one of tin, a ceramic bottle containing rosewater, two bushels of cooked pears and one bushel of cooked prunes. All of these items were put on board the ship and brought to Québec. It appears that for punishment for this theft, Giroust was obligated to sell his property and return to Québec. During the first 10 years of his stay in New France, it seems that Gaspard Boucher was a farmer for the Jesuits at Beauport. In 1644 he received a section of land at Trois-Rivières, probably granted by the governor. The Boucher family was well established by 1646 because in that year two of Gaspard`s teenaged daughters were listed as godmothers.

  
  

• Sources

  1.  [S803] Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Canadiennes, 5:78, 00799.  2.  [S893] French-Canadian Pioneers From Perche, 41, 00889.  3.  [S893] French-Canadian Pioneers From Perche, 42, 00889.