TWELFTH GENERATION
3546. Étienne RACINE was born around 1601 in the parish of Saint-Germain of Fumichon, department of Lisieux (Calvados), France. He appeared in New France in 1637. He married Marguerite Marie MARTIN dit LESCOSSOIS, daughter of Abraham MARTIN on 22 May 1638 in Québec. The marriage contract was signed by Guital on 16 Nov 1637. He was a carpenter. In 1650, they settled on a piece of land of seven arpents on the Beaupré estate on the Chiens River. They had nine children of whom eight married. One of them became a Hospitaler at Montréal. The four boys are the source of the family name RACINE. There was a letter from Fr. Paul RAGUENEAU to Marguerite, dated 18 Dec 1669 from Paris. He was buried on 24 Apr 1689 under the altar of the first church in Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré. (1)(2)(3)(5)(9)
3547. Marguerite MARTIN was baptized 4 Jan 1624 in Québec. She died 25 Nov 1679 in Château-Richer, Quebec.
First Canadian Ancestors - Martin
Children were:
1773 iv. Madeleine RACINE was born 25 Jun 1646 in Québec. She married Noël SIMARD dit LOMBRETTE on 22 Nov 1661 in Château-Richer. She died 3 Dec 1726 in Baie-St-Paul. This link with lead to Cyrille Bélanger, this author's maternal great-grandfather. (3)(4)(9)
Index RACINE
Index MARTIN
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(1) PRDH, Certificat de famille No. 285.
(2) Ibid., Certificat de mariage No. 66333.
(3) Ibid., Certificat de famille No.297.
(4) Ibid., Certificat de mariage No. 30116.
(5) Biographical Dictionary for The Jesuit Missions in Acadia and New France: 1602-1654, Lucien Campeau, S.J., translated by William Lonc, S.J. & George Topp, S.J., summer 2001, p. 364.
(6) PRDH, Certificat de mariage No. 32670.
(7) Ibid., Certificat de famille 5202.
(8) Ibid., Certificat de mariage No. 32641.
(9) Recueil de généalogie des comtés de Beauce, Dorchester, Frontena 1625-1946, Frère Éloi Gérard, Mariste, pp. 185-189.