Bergeron

dit Courchesne

Charles Bergeron and his wife Marie Pernelle (both born in the 1620s) lived in Poitou, probably in the parish of St-Hilaire in Luçon. This town is about 15 miles north of La Rochelle, and is the site of a 7th-century monastery (above). Their son François was in Québec by 1667, when he was living in Beaupré, Montmorency, age 18, as a domestic servant for the Marc Bareau family. He married Étiennette Leclerc (daughter of Florent Leclerc and Marie Gendre) on November 3, 1667 at Trois-Rivières, and died in 1726 in Louiseville, Maskinonge. There are seven other Bergeron families in Québec, but only one is from the Poitou.

There were eight children: Marie-Marguérite (died 1734, see below); Marie-Jeanne (married Nicolas Vanasse, brother of our ancestor Catherine Vanasse Patry); François (1682, died young); Marie-Claire (1686, married Charles Lacerte dit Vacher); Pierre (1691, married Marie-Madeleine Giguère); Maurice (1694-1728, unmarried); Marie-Charlotte (1696, married Maurice Gélinas dit Bellemare); and Marie-Françoise (1699, died young).

Marie-Marguérite Bergeron married Jean-Baptiste Foucault on February 6, 1708 at Trois-Rivières; see Foucault for their descendants.