Marie-Angélique Chapacou.

Marriage to André Bouteillier.

Marie-Angélique Chapacou, 18, made a good match when she married André Bouteillier on 1 September 1686 in nearby Boucherville. He was 36, and a meunier or miller. Each community was served by a grist mill built by the seigneur where all the grain produced in the community would be ground. The 3-story circular tower was built with thick stone walls near a stream or river. The mill may be powered by a water wheel or turned by large canvas blades pushed by the wind. He had a parcel of land 2 arpens wide along the river by 20 arpens deep.

The couple's first child was born 2 months later in Longueuil. A total of eight were born over the course of their 13 year marriage.

Their son Jean-Baptiste drowned in 1706. Daughter Angélique sued Pierre Perthius for seduction in January 1709. She was pregnant with their child, and though marriage had been promised over the course of their courtship it had not been forthcoming. Pierre was at the time of the complaint a prisoner of the English. Her suit sought support for the infant of about 40 livres. Pierre died in Deerfield, and the child, Pierre, lived only six months.

André Bouteillier saw none of these tragedies; he died in Montréal on 16 May 1699.

Marriage to André Lamarre dit Saint-André.

Marie-Angélique, now 32, and widowed with seven children, remarried a year later. Her new husband was our ancestor André Lamarre dit Saint-André. Born about 1660, he hailed from outside Rouen, Normandie, the son of Robert de Lamarre and of Marguerite Daunet (or Dannet). The marriage took place in Longueuil around 8 June 1700.

Lamarre was a soldier in la compagnie de Longueuil, serving under Charles le Moyne de Longueuil, Baron de Longueuil. La grand paix de Montréal, an accord between the French and the First Nations was signed in August 1701. It put an end to hostilities, allowed trade and insured neutrality in conflicts between the French and English. This soon became important to the habitants as the two European nations clashed again, spilling into the colonies as Queen Anne's War.

Their Family.

Their first child was our ancestor Marie-Angélique born 15 April 1701. The couple had nine children in all. (From the time she was 18, Marie-Angélique Chapacou gave birth to 17 children, her last was born when she was 46 years old.)

In 1723 a census was taken of the area showing that Marie-Angélique Chapacou still held a parcel of land from her previous marriage. The land was later sold to her son André Lamarre. The house he built still stands, with some alterations. André (the father's) lot was 3 arpens by 20, "the last land before the village limits; the Saint-Antoine stream crossed it".

Charles Patenaude, daughter Marie-Angélique Lamarre's father-in-law was also a landowner in town.

Marie-Angélique Chapacou died at the age of 76 on 11 November 1746. André Lamarre lived a long life, passing on 11 July 1756 at the age of 96.