The place of origin for Antoine Brassard and his wife Françoise Méry or Émery is not known, except for the fact that they were Normans. Most genealogists think they came from Tourouvre, like so many other pioneer Québec families, because there was a Méry family known to live there.

According to census records, Antoine must have been born in 1609, and his wife in 1620. Antoine died sometime between September 1668 and September 1669, and Françoise died in Québec city on December 12, 1671. They apparently both emigrated before getting married, because the marriage is recorded at Nôtre Dame de Québec (above) on January 14, 1637. Françoise may have come without her parents, as there is no record of them in Canada; but if so this is odd, as she was only sixteen when she married Antoine. Their first child was born in 1639. They appear to have lived at first in the city of Québec, where Antoine worked as a master stonemason; most of their children were born there, but they later owned a farm in Sillery.

They had ten children: Antoine (1639-1642); Alexandre (1640?-1688, apparently unmarried); Marie-Madeleine (1642-1712, married Louis Fontaine in 1653; he died in 1685; married Jean Normand as his second wife in 1703); Jeanne (1644?-1709, married Jacques Hédouin dit Laforge); Marguérite (1646-1709, married Jean Lemelin dit Tourangeau, see below); Guillaume (1647-a1715, married Catherine Louvet); Antoine (1648-1683, who worked as an Iroquois interpreter); Jean-Baptiste (1651-1715, married Jeanne Quelvé); Louis (1653-a1707, married Simone Maufay); and Dorothée (1656, married Pierre Richer dit Laflèche, 4 children).

Marguérite and Jean Lemelin were the parents of twelve children, including our ancestor Marguérite-Angélique - see Lemelin.