Bourré

also Bourret? Bouvré?

Another mystery: Joseph Bourré and his wife Josephte Lafleur appear in no records anywhere that I can find in Québec, but when Marie-Louise Bourré married Louis Boucher in November 1796 at St-Charles-sur-Richelieu, these are the names she gave as her parents. There are a few scattered families named Bourré or Bourret, but not in St-Charles, and mostly not before 1800. There was a Bourré family in Québec in the mid-seventeenth century, which also spelled its name Bouvré; but I find no trace of them after 1700. None of these three names can be found in the exhaustive "Fichier Origine" list of immigrants; there is one Lafleur, Pierre, who came from Brittany in 1702 and left many descendants; see Lafleur for more speculation on this line.

Marie-Louise Bourré was the paternal grandmother of Louise Boucher, Joseph Arthur Martin's mother.