Desrosiers

dit Dutremble

Antoine Desrosiers and his wife Sophie Trou lived in Lyons, where they were married in about 1619. Another Antoine Desrosiers and his wife Sylvie lived in the town of Renaison in the Loire valley. Different sources claim both sets of parents for our Antoine Desrosiers, who was baptized in either 1617 or 1619 and emigrated to Québec in 1647, where he worked for a time for Jesuit missionaries. He settled at Trois-Rivières and married Anne Leneuf Du Hérisson (daughter of Michel and a mistress, name unknown) there in November 1647. She died at Champlain in October 1711; he died there in August 1691. The town's arms are pictured above.

Antoine Desrosiers and Anne were the parents of at least eight children, including Marie (1650, married Alexandre Raux in 1664); Michel (1652-1734, married Marie Latour dit Harteau); Joseph (1655, died young?); Marie-Anne (1661, married Jacques Turcot); Antoine (1664, married Marie Renée Desmarais dit Lepellé); Pierre (1667?, married Marguérite Aubuchon); Jeanne (1672?, married Claude Drouet, Sieur de Richardville) and Jean-Baptiste (September 1657-February 1704), who married Françoise-Marie-Perrine Dandonneau dit Lajeunesse (1665-1711) in Trois-Rivières in January 1682 (eleven children). When Antoine died, his widow married Henri Levasseur (1669-1740) but had no further children.

Pierre Desrosiers and Marguérite Aubuchon were married in April 1693 in Champlain, and had five children: Marie-Jeanne (married François Benoit dit Laforest and François Lamontagne); Jean-Baptiste (married Marie-Anne Lesage); Marie-Françoise (married first Joseph Bellegarde, then Claude Georgeteau dit Jolicoeur-Host in February 1727); Louise-Marguerite (married Honoré Georgeteau); and Marie-Angélique (married Louis Cottenoir). See Jolicoeur for descendants.