In 1693, Michel de Vaux married Marie-Madeleine Martin (widow) in Beaubassin, Acadie. It is through their children that all Acadian Deveau families descend (including all variants of spelling of the name). They are my 9th-generation grandparents. That is as far back as I have been able to trace my Deveau line. Marie-Madeleine Martin was born in 1666, in a rural farming area called Cap Rouge, in the seigneury of Maure, just outside Quebec City. She was baptised in the nearby Jesuit mission at Sillery, which was a mission to the Algonquin natives settled there, since there was not yet any closer church to Cap Rouge. More details at this website: genealogiequebec.info/testphp/info.php?no=63208 In 1635, the first seigneury was granted on the territory of Cap-Rouge, but revoked the following year by the Company of One Hundred Associates. However by 1638 Paul Le Jeune, a missionary Jesuit, noted in The Jesuit Relations the presence of some families in the valley. Between 1647 and 1652, the seigneuries of Maure, on the West, and Gaudarville, in the East, were established on the territory. From that moment, based on taxable citizens, the settlement on the lands of Cap-Rouge are established. The village formed was later served by the parishes of Ancienne-Lorette in (1678) to the north; of Saint-Augustin in (1691) on the West; and of Sainte-Foy (1698) in the East. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap-Rouge,_Quebec_City There is a lot of information about the Jesuit mission at Sillery, where Marie-Madeleine Martin was baptised, in this document: bonjourquebec/fr/pdf/museum-interpretation-centre-historic-site-maison-des-jesuites-de-sillery-241028947.pdf Curiously, the 1667 census shows the family to have been settled and farming in two places, the Cap-Rouge site described above, and also at petit Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Mauricie, which is close to Trois-Rivères. The 1681 census, however, just shows the family at the Cap Rouge, seigneury of Maure, location. Marie-Madeleine Martin married her first husband, Guyon Denis Chiasson (dit Lavallée), on October 7, 1683, at his sisters home in Notre-Dame, Québec City. She was 17, he was 45. He already had children just a year or two younger than his new wife. They went immediately to his farm near Tintamarre, Acadie (within the Beaubassin census district). She was widowed 10 years later, having given birth to 4 of his children, and a stepmother to 7 more from his first wife. chiasson.chebucto.org/Guyon02163801.html
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