Friends: we have two parents, four grand-parents, eight great-grand-parents, etc.

Each of them has a story or is part of a story ruled by the odds of surviving: in truth , they are a mighty army.

Their lives still breathe, not only thru our inherited physical bodies, but also thru our memories; more than that, whatever they accomplished, we can also do!

NICOLAS MARSOLET (1587-1677)

Once upon a time, long ago, in a castle of France, was born a little boy who would later live in the wilderness of the New World, with his friends, the Montagnais of Tadoussac.

He was going to have many children, some with the Montagnais women and seven children from a French wife. He loved and took care of all his children. In those days when 35 was considered old, he would manage to live to the unheard age of 90, having experienced three totally different slices of life.

His name was Nicolas Marsolet de St-Aignan.

He was born in Rouen in 1587 and was raised at the Court of the King of France because his Father was "l'Ecuyer de Monsieur, le frere du Roi", the personal retainer of the brother of the King.

He was chosen to be an Interpreter in the New World and sailed with Champlain in 1608. They never got along well together and Nicolas was ordered to remain in Tadoussac while Samuel de Champlain established Quebec city.

Nicolas lived with the imposed restriction quite easily.

He was not a war-monger individual and knew the value of peace, so it did help him to stay out of the rivalries which existed; he refused to get drawn into the many squirmishes which occured; he officiated at peace treaties, not at war efforts. He lived happily within the Montagnais Nation for 27 years going back to Europe for the summer every 3rd or 4th year.

"Nous etions la! Racines quebecoises, canadiennes, americaines, amerindiennes, europeennes et acadiennes - Une genealogie" par Danielle Duval

BLAIS

BOUCHARD*

BOUCHER*

BOURASSA

BRABANT

CASAVANT

CATALOGNE

CHAGNON

CHAPUT

CHAREST

CHARTRAND

CHOUTEAU

COTE

CYR

DAMOURS

DEMERS

DION

DORVAL

DROUIN

DUVAL

GODBOUT

GUYON

LAPOINTE

LEMIRE

LESAGE

MARSOLET

MATHIEU

MIREAULT

PAPIN

PAPINEAU

PARIZEAU

PELLETIER

PHILIE

ROUSSIN

TOUCHETTE

TURCOTTE

TREMBLAY

TREPANIER

VEZINA

I should also be interested in receiving feedback on the surnames Tippey and Rebman

CHOUTEAU / PAPIN

(St.Louis, Missouri)

This story of the CHOUTEAU / PAPIN of St.Louis touches the families

Atchison, Baronet, Besnard, Bourgjoly, Bourgeoys, Brazeau, Carignan, Carrière, Cerré, Chaperon, Chauvin, Chouteau, de Maisonneuve, Duchouquet, Dupré, Guèvremont, Guichard, Haye, Jetté, Lafayette, Lagneau, Larkin, LaSonde, Lavignon, Leduc, Loisel, Loysel, Masure, Papin, Pare, Pelletier, Pépin, Racette, Vasquez, Villeray.

These were people living in Quebec & St-Louis circa 1650-1800)

Between the years 1740 to 1800, when St-Louis, on the Mississippi, was still a French settlement of "la Nouvelle-France" (New-France), many French Canadians from Quebec chose to emigrate to this city rather than swear allegiance to England.

The personal story of some of them can thrill our hearts. Our traumas and beliefs are often the same as theirs were; who does not identify with Evangeline, a true story which Longfellow immortalized, undauntingly searching the continent for the one she loved? Is not her courage also ours?

Nowadays, many search for their roots in the past. Though I believe that, in the end, we are all close family, I also spend some of my time in this pursuit. A little further, I have a query which some people might have an answer for.

Marie-Louise Chouteau, born in St-Louis, was the sister of Rene Auguste Chouteau who was one of the "Founders of St.Louis"

Marie-Louise married in 1779 Joseph-Marie(2) Papin born in 1741.

The Chouteau children, Rene-Auguste, Pierre, Marie-Louise had a remarquable and courageous woman for a Mother: on a raft, on the Mississipi, she came alone with Pierre, while pregnant with all the way from New-Orleans to rejoin her oldest son after he started to build St.Louis in 1761.

At the end of this article is the list of the names of the thirteen children of Joseph-Marie Papin and Marie-Louise Chouteau.

Joseph-Marie(2) Papin (baptized in Montreal on November 10, 1741) was the son of Joseph(1) Papin (born in Montreal around 1713) and Marguerite Pépin, who was from Saint Louis; they were married in 1740 and lived in the vicinity of St.Louis, which was not as yet existant.

An interesting fact is that Joseph(1) had a niece living in Saint Louis: Marie-Julie Baronet-Papin, baptized in Montreal on September 4, 1754 who married Benoit Vasquez ( from St Louis Mo.) in 1774. She was the 13th/out of 16 children of Pierre Papin, dit Baronet, born in 1709 and married in 1737 to Catherine Guichard (daughter of Jean Guichard, dit La Sonde).

Pierre was the 5th child, and Joseph(1) was the 6th child of Gilles Papin [Gilles was baptized on March 4 1669 in Mtl, son of Pierre Papin (b.1631 in La Fleche, France) and Anne Pelletier (daughter of Mathurin Pelletier et Catherine Lagneau, both living c. 1600 in St-Pierre de Dreux, in France)] and his first wife Marie-Francoise Chaperon, daughter of Pierre Chaperon of Rouen, France, and Noelle Guèvremont from St-Denis, Evêché de Paris ( both born c. 1645) .

Pierre Papin (b.1631) was the son of Francois Papin & Michelle Lagneau, both living at St-Nicolas-du-Sable, Maine, La Fleche, France. At the age of 22, in 1653, he was accepted as one of the "recrue de cent hommes pour l'oeuvre de Ville-Marie", namely as one of the 100 men chosen to colonize Ville-Marie. ( the Founding of Montreal) .

He was on the same ship and was known by both M. de Maisonneuve, the founder of Montreal, & Marguerite Bourgeoys who was the founder of the Congregation Notre-Dame and who also created the "Couvent des Soeurs de la Congrégation Notre-Dame", the school for girls. For over three generations the demoiselles Papin would be given preferential treatment if attending any of the C.N.D. schools ( in Montreal, Boucherville, Pointe-aux-Trembles) , because of the directives left by Marguerite Bourgeoys on their behalf. It was a "gage" (measure) of her respect for Pierre Papin.

In 1653, on the ship, the Notary Belliotte "assermented" Pierre and he received 107£ as payment for his future services to the colony.

In 1655, M. de Maisonneuve, in the name of the "Compagnie Notre-Dame de Montreal", gave him land near "la Pointe-aux-Trembles" (in Montreal). In 1665, twelve years after his arrival, he married Anne Pelletier, 19 years old, and they had 8 surviving children, but after their Mother died in December 1686, four died before reaching their teens. Marie-Anne, the eldest of these (14 yrs old), drowned while swimming in June 1687. The smaller kids died the next year. Pierre's eldest son, also named Pierre(24 yrs old), was killed in a combat against the English on October 2nd 1690. His daughter Suzanne passed away at 9 years of age in December 1993, seven years, almost to the day, after her Mother. By then Pierre had only 3 children left from his previous 8:

- Gilles (b.1669)
- Elisabeth, b.1671, dame Charles Dumay ( DeMetz)
- Francois (1676)

For Gilles Papin, the second son, the tragedy of losing his Mother, at 17, and later his siblings must have had an impact on his future choices. For one thing we know that when he was left with six children, widowed from Marie-Francoise Chaperon, he was re-married within two years, in 1715, to Marie-Josephe Besnard, and this second wife gave him another 9 children which were ill-fated also.(see further down)

Just to be clear, here is a ladder following the Papin line:

1. Francois Papin (b. c.1600) & Michelle Lagneau ( La Flèche, France)

2. Pierre Papin (b.1631) & Anne Pelletier (Montreal, PQ)

3. Gilles Papin (b.1669) & 1st wife: Marie-Francoise Chaperon (Montreal, PQ)

4. Joseph(1) Papin (c.1713) & Marguerite Pepin (St Louis,MO)

5. Joseph-Marie(2)Papin (b.1741) & Marie-Louise Chouteau (St Louis, MO)

6. Théodore Papin (b.1799) & Céleste Duchouquet (St Louis, MO)

7. Marie Papin (b.1823) & Georges W. Atchison (St. Louis, MO)

A ladder showing the parents of the wife of Pierre:

1. Mathurin Pelletier (b.c.1620) & Catherine Lagneau (St-Pierre de Dreux, France)

2. Anne Pelletier (b.1646) & Pierre Papin (Montreal, PQ)

3. Gilles Papin (b.1669) & 1st wife: Marie-Francoise Chaperon (Montreal, PQ)

4. Joseph(1) Papin (c.1713) & Marguerite Pépin (St Louis,MO)

5. Joseph-Marie(2)Papin (b.1741) & Marie-Louise Chouteau (St Louis, MO)

6. Hyppolite Papin (b.1788) & Joséphine Loysel (St Louis, MO)

7. Louise-Anne Papin (b.1817) & Eugène-Charles Dupré (St Louis, MO)

Ladder showing the parents of the 1st wife of Gilles:

1. Pierre Chaperon (b. c.1645) & Noelle Guevremont (Paris, France)

2. Marie-Francoise Chaperon & Gilles Papin (Montreal, PQ)

3. Joseph(1) Papin (c.1713) & Marguerite Pépin (St Louis,MO)

4. Joseph-Marie(2)Papin (b.1741) & Marie-Louise Chouteau (St Louis, MO)

5. Sylvestre Papin (b.1794) & Clémentine Loisel (St Louis, MO)

6. Clémentine S.Villeray Papin (b.1818) & Léopo I would welcome your genealogical in-put, whether in general, or on your early family ,to include any pertinent fact here. :)

We are part of our ancestors, as they are part of us.

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