Tanguary records as many as ten Alard families in seventeenth-century Québec, but the records seem to confirm that this line is the correct one for us:

Jean-François Alard was born about 1642 in Blacqueville, a village on the Seine near Rouen. His parents' names were Jacques Alard and Jacqueline Frérot. He emigrated in the late 1660s and settled in Charlesbourg (pictured above), where in November 1671 he married Jeanne L'Anguille (1647-1711), daughter of Michel Anguille and Etiennette Toucheraine (natives of Artannes-sur-Indre near Tours). They were the parents of a large family: André (1672-1735); Marie-Renée (1683-1684); Anne (died 1714); another Jean-François (our ancestor, see below); Jean (1676); Georges (1680); Thomas (1687-1742); and Marie (1678). All those who reached adulthood married, and have descendants.

Jean-François Alard was born at Charlesbourg in August 1674 and married Ursule Tardif there in November 1698. But she appears to have had no children, and died sometime before 1711, when Jean-François married Geneviève Dauphin (from Beauport, daughter of René Dauphin and Marie-Suzanne Gignard). They had six children: Geneviève (1712), Gabriel (1714), André (1716), Marie-Louise (1720); Marie-Catherine (1722), and Joseph (1734?).

Marie-Louise Alard married Joseph Couturier dit Labonté in St-François-du-Lac in August 1741. Their granddaughter married the first Joseph Martin.