Jacques LaBrecque and his wife Jeanne Baron (both born about 1600-1605) lived in the parish of St-Jacques in the port of Dieppe - the church was painted by Jean Renoir (above). Jacques was a sailor who evidently crossed the Atlantic several times. We do not know whether he brought his wife and family to the Île d'Orléans, but at least two of their children were there by the 1650s: Jean (1634-1673, married Jeanne Baillargeon and had three children; and Pierre (died in the Île d'Orléans in 1694, married Jeanne Chotard). Jacques died in the parish of his birth in 1663, so he did not settle permanently in Nouvelle-France. Jeanne was still living in 1663.

Pierre and Jeanne LaBrecque were the parents of Mathurin (1663-1736, married Marie-Marthe Lemieux in 1693 at Lauzon, lived in Beaumont); Anne (1667, married first Jacques Julien dit le Dragon, who was killed in 1689 at St-François-du-Lac in an Iroquois attack; and then Gilles Laurent dit Saint-Laurent in 1692 on the Île d'Orléans); Pierre (1668, married Marie-Marthe Coulombe); and Catherine (married Pierre Garand as his second wife in 1684; eight children).

See St-Laurent for the descendants of Anne LaBrecque and Gilles Laurent.