Three Generations of Women | ||||||||||||||||
The Sauvageau Family | ||||||||||||||||
In the early days of New France, three generations of women became early pioneers. The eldest, Anne Dupuis, was the wife of Jean Sauvageau, a barrister and Chief Prosecutor, employed with the Company of 100 Associates. Anne was from a Hugenot family, born about 1590 in Vecut La Rochelle. Their daughter Jeanne was born about 1614, also in Vecut, and married Guillaume Benassis on July 9, 1634; in Marennes, Saintonge, France. They had a daughter Madeleine who was also born in France, but settled at Trois Rivieres. She married Etienne Seigneuret on November 13, 1647, and they had a daughter Marguerite who would marry Louis Godefroy. The family was not poor, but came from the wealthy Bourgeois class; many of whom had a vested interest in the affairs of the French Colony. When Jeanne's husband died in 1652, she married Elie Borbeau, Sieur de Villeneuve; which tied her to another family of early settlers, at the Jesuit community; the Amyots. Anne Dupuis died March 11, 1686 at Trois Rivieres; Jeanne on March 28, 1704 and Madeleine on December 3, 1716. |
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