Vincente (Devarieux) Des Varieux & Pierre Gagnon

Vincente Des Varieux (1624 – 1695)

Variants: Desvrieux, De Varieux, Devanier

Parents

She was the daughter of Jean (Desvarieux) Des Varieux (1600-after 1642) and Marie (Chevalier) Devarieux (1600-1695) (Source 1).

Birth

She was born around 1624 in Saint-Vincent-d’Aubermail, Pays de Caux, Seine-Maritime, France.

Marriage

On September 14, 1642, at Notre-Dame Parish in Quebec, Canada, Vincente Des Varieux, aged approximately 18 years, married Pierre Gagnon, aged 30 years, son of Pierre Gaignon (c.1572-1633) and Renée Roger (c.1580-after 1647) (also known as Renée Madeleine Roger) (Source 2, 3).

Children of Pierre Gagnon & Vincente Desvarieux (Source 4)

Census Records

1666 Census: Pierre Gagnon, 50, merchant; Vincente des Varieux, 42, his wife; Jean, 22; Pierre, 20; Paul, 16; Joseph, 14; Marie, 11; Raphaël, 8; Noël, 6; Frs Lacroix, 25, indentured servant. They lived in Beaupré, Canada.

1667 Census: Pierre Gaignon, 52; Vincente Desvarieux, his wife, 45; Jean, 13; Pierre, 21; Pierre Paul, 18; Joseph, 15; Marie, 12; Raphaël, 9; Noël, 7; servants: Francois de la Croix, 26; Pierre Poupard, 27; Sanson Auger, 25; 17 livestock, 30 arpents of developed land. They lived on the coast of Beaupré, Canada.

1681 Census: Pierre Gagnon, 70; Vincente Devanier (Desvarieux), his wife, 60; Noël, their son, 22; servants: Jean Savard, 24; Pierre, 17; Noël Chapelier, 14; Marie Chapelier, 12; 2 guns; 22 horned animals; 40 arpents of developed land. They lived in the Seigneurie of Beaupré, Canada.

Death

On January 2, 1695, at about 71 years of age, Vincente des Varieux died and was buried on January 3, 1695, at La-Visitation-de-Notre-Dame Parish, ChĂąteau-Richer, Canada (Source 5).

Pierre GAGNON [Gaingnon, Gangnon, and Gaignon] (1612 – 1699)

(Source 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)

Parents

He was the son of Pierre Gagnon and Renée Roger.

Baptism

Pierre Gagnon was baptized on February 14, 1612, in the Sainte-Madeleine Church of La Ventrouze, located in the diocese of Chartres and the former province of Perche (Source 13, 14, 15).

Migration to New France

He migrated to Canada with his brothers, Mathurin and Jean, around 1640 (Source 16). He is first mentioned at a marriage on September 14, 1642, in Quebec. He could not sign his name and obtained land before 1641 (Source 11, 17).

The following additional family members joined them in Canada around 1643: his mother Renée Roger, his brother-in-law Eloi Tavernier, his sister Marguerite, and his nieces Marthe Gagnon, and Marguerite and Marie Tavernier.

From 1640 at the latest until 1646, the Beaupré Company had leased the Saint-Charles domain to the brothers Mathurin, Pierre, and Jean Gagnon (Source 18). The three brothers settled in Beaupré on the following lands (Source 19):

Marriage

On September 14, 1642, at Notre-Dame Parish in Quebec, Canada, Pierre Gagnon, aged 30, married Vincente Desvarieux, aged approximately 18, daughter of Jean Desvarieux and Marie Chevalier, originally from Aubermail in Normandy (Source 20).

Children of Pierre Gagnon & Vincente Desvarieux (Source 21)

Confirmation

On August 10, 1659, Pierre Gagnon was confirmed in the Catholic faith at Notre-Dame Church in Quebec by Monseigneur de Laval (Source 22, 23).

Census Records

Pierre Gagnon’s family appears in the BeauprĂ© enumerations of the 1666 (Source 24), 1667 (Source 25), and 1681 (Source 26) censuses.

Death

On April 17, 1699, at the age of 87, Pierre Gagnon died and was buried the following day in the cemetery of La-Visitation-de-Notre-Dame Parish in ChĂąteau-Richer (Source 27). He had 218 descendants by 1729 (Source 28).

Surnames

Other Gagnon family surnames: Belisle, Belzile, Belzils, Le Sauvage (Source 29, 30).

Name Origin

Credits and Licensing

Compiled by Mark Rabideau, Opa & Professional Genealogist.

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Sources

  1. Burial – Vincente des Varieux – FamilySearch.
  2. Tanguay – vol. 1 p. 246 – 1642, Gagnon Pierre – Vincente Desvarieux daughter of Jean and Marie Chevalier.
  3. Marriage – Pierre Gagnon & Vincente Du Varieux.
  4. Pierre Gagnon – Vincente Des Varieux – Fichier origine 241625
  5. Généalogie Québec 629
  6. Fichier Origine 241625: Pierre Gagnon, son of Pierre Gagnon
  7. PRDH: Research Programme in Historical Demography (free): Pioneer: 31801 PRDH Pioneer 31801: Pierre Gagnon
  8. Nos Origines 1645: Pierre Gagnon
  9. Généalogie Québec 629: Pierre Gagnon, orthographic variant, Gaignon
  10. Research in the online database Our Roots: Gagnon, 86 titles; Gaignon, 3 titles
  11. Carpin 1999, Appendix D, p. 572
  12. Numbered #57 in Carpin’s list and in the list that can be seen on the Percheron Immigration Category page.
  13. Fichier Origine 241625
  14. PRDH: Research Programme in Historical Demography (free): Pioneer: 31801 PRDH Pioneer 31801
  15. Historical and modern geography of the birthplace: La Ventrouze (INSEE 61500) is today known as the French commune located in the Mortagne-au-Perche district of the Orne department in the Normandy region; and place of baptism according to PRDH: Date – 1612-02-14. Place – ste-madeleine de la ventrouze, diocese of chartres, perche (district of mortagne, orne).
  16. Ships come in new france seafarers and passenger, Canadian Websites, Arrival of Gagnon family, 1640, Mathurin, his daughter Martha, his brothers Jean and Pierre, and mother Renée Rogers. https://www.naviresnouvellefrance.net/html/vaisseaux2/autrespassagers/autrespassagersFreGal.html#gagnonpierre
  17. Lesperance 2002 citing JettĂ© 1983, p. 451: “GAGNON, Jean and brothers Pierre & Mathurin (sons of Pierre & Renee ROGER) departed La Ventrouze 1635.”
  18. Gariépy (1974), p. 50
  19. Gariépy (1974), p. 24: The numbering of lands was as established by Gariépy in this book.
  20. Marriage – Pierre Gagnon & Vincente Du Varieux.
  21. Généalogie Québec 629
  22. Confirmation Pierre Gagnon.
  23. Francogene Pierre Gagnon – Vincente Desvarieux.
  24. Senécal, Census of 1666
  25. Senécal, Census of 1667
  26. Senécal, Census of 1681
  27. Burial – Pierre Gagnon – FamilySearch.
  28. La Mémoire du Québec, Pierre Gagnon
  29. Tanguay
  30. PRDH Name-Nickname Associations: Bellesisles (110), Belisle (10), Chartrand (4), Rondin (3), Castonguay, DelagrĂšve, Dutilly, Gaillard, Lachaplau & Ste-Marie (2 each), 21 other nicknames (1 each)
  31. Picard (2007), p. 10: “First, this strangely isolates Gagnon from GagnĂ©, which comes from the old French gaaigne ‘arable land’, as well as from its numerous derivatives, most of which mean ‘plowman’. Morlet cites Gagnant, GagnĂ©, Gagnaire, Ga(i)gneux, Gagneur, Gagneor, Ga(i)gnoux, Gagnadour, Gagnedour, Ga(i)gn(i)er, Gagneron, Gagneret, Ga(i)gnerot, Gagnereau, Gagneraud, Gagnot, Ga(i)gnet, Gagneau, Gaigneaud, Gagnault, Gagn(i)Ăšre, Gagnerie, and there are surely others. . . . the first Gagnons were from Lower Normandy, the same region where the GagnĂ©s came from, which seems to indicate that both surnames were originally nicknames for plowmen.”
  32. According to Norm Gagnon.