Dancosse

also Dangosse, Dancause

The Dancosse family originates, like many others in early Québec, in the Aunis district of La Rochelle. We do not know the names of Pierre Dancosse's parents, only that he was born about 1664 (based on the age he later gave to census takers) and that he arrived in Québec city in 1675 and worked there as a wheelwright and carpenter. He married Marie-Madeleine Bouchard in December 1679; they lived at Rivière-Ouelle (above), where their nine children were born. (See Bouchard for more about her). Pierre died at the Hôtel-Dieu in Québec city on August 13, 1697.

The children: Marie-Madeleine (1680, married Pierre Boucher, brother of Joseph Arthur Martin's ancestor Denis Boucher, 11 children, and then Jean-Baptiste Maisonneuve, 4 children); Anne (1681, married Michel Dupéré dit Larivière, 4 children); Marie (1683, married Jean Raby); Catherine (1684, married Jean Brisson, 10 children); Pierre (1686, married Marie-Françoise Duval, 10 children); Geneviève (1687, married Pierre Bérubé, see below); Marie-Angélique (1689); Marie-Françoise (1690, married Joseph Lizot, 11 children); and Marie-Élisabeth (1693-1698).

Geneviève Dancosse was born on December 26, 1687 at Rivière-Ouelle and married Pierre Bérubé in the same town on January 8, 1708. She died there on February 6, 1745. See Bérubé for their fourteen children.