Saint-Yves Family.

Origins in France.

Michel Saint-Yves and Anne Noël were married in église Saint-Maclou in Rouen, Normandie on 28 October 1646. The Gothic church was built centuries before in the Flamboyant style with a spire rising over 270 feet (83 meters) above the city.

Our ancestor Jacques Saint-Yves was born six years after the wedding and baptized in the same church on 5 February 1652.

Later variations of the family name include Saint-Agne and Hogue.

To New France.

Jacques first appears in Canadian records in a business transaction recorded by the notaire Benigne Basset on 5 May 1672 when he bought a land concession east of Montréal from Jacques Jenfroy. He agreed to pay six livres and five sols to Basset for his services and 18 minots of wheat to Jenfroy. Each year he would pay six cens for each arpent of land he owned, and two minots (comparable to 2 bushels) of wheat per arpent of width.

Subsequent land transactions are found over the next decade as he continues to rent, work, buy and sell farmland.

He lived in Bois-Brûlé (burnt wood). On 30 March 1680 he stood as parrain to the son of Pierre Coguet and Marie Chaperon in Pointe-aux-Trembles at the eastern end of Île-de-Montréal.