Dupille and Lagou

Nor would life have been easy for Anne's 42 year old bachelor neighbor, Remy Dupille. Frontier living is highly dependent on resourceful, self-sufficient individuals, but a partner would ease so many burdens.

A Mutual Solution.

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Remy and Anne were wed on 8 January 1682 in Neuville. Their neighbors and friends, Jean-Pierre Juneau, Jean Rasset who signed, Pierre Girard, and Michel Thibau, stood as witnesses.

Their first-born was our ancestor, Jeanne-Angélique [called Marie-Renée in some records]. She was born 29 November 1683 on the côte Saint-Ange at Saint-Augustin, and baptized about 7 miles west in Neuville on December 1st. Likely, that was the location of the nearest priest. She was the first of their seven children, all girls except for the sixth, Augustin, born in 1695.

Anne gave birth to a daughter, Françoise, in 1687 which was the same year her 11-year-old daughter Marie-Madeleine Vallière gave birth to a child, the father was "unknown". Marie-Madeleine did get married when she was 20, to Robert Petit.

Duty Calls.

Habitants were required to help defend the colony by participating in the militia. Remy had indicated he did not have a gun in the 1681 census, so when called to serve in King William's War (1688-1697) he would show up armed with a pitchfork or ax.

Until the End.

Remy lived to age 60. He died and was buried on 7 December 1700. His youngest child, Thérèse, was only 1½ years old. Anne was once again left with a house full of small children from her 18 year marriage.

Our ancestor Jeanne-Angélique wed Jacques Vermet dit LaForme in 1706. Anne continued to live on the property, likely with Jeanne and Jacques, but there was an agreement reached in 1707 that the parcel be returned to her oldest sons (from her marriage to Vallière) upon her death, after they paid Jacques a sum of money.

Anne Lagou lived to the age of 76, passing on 16 December 1728 and was buried the next day in Saint-Augustine-de-Desmaures. The young woman who left France to help build a nation had, in all, 13 children to help the cause.