Marié

or Marier

"Marié" means "married" in French, and seems an unlikely surname; "Marier" is probably more correct, but the first spelling is usually found in Canada.

Jacques Marié was born about 1621 in Angoulême, and married Marie Morin there about 1652; she was born about 1624 but we known nothing about her background. Their birthdates are calculated from ages recorded in later censuses, in Québec. They evidently had a child (Michel) in 1653 in Angoulême, who probably died young; sometime after that they came to Beauport, where most of their other nine children were born.

The children: Thomas (1661, see below); Charles (1662); Jacques (1664-1687); Nicolas (1666); Marie-Madeleine (1667-1668); Jean (1669-1687); Élisabeth (1671, married Denis Brière); Robert (1672-1681?); and Antoine (1674).

Thomas Marié was born in April 1661, probably at Beauport; later in life he was "dit Lemarié." In March 1685 at Sillery he married Louise Sédilot, daughter of Étienne Sédilot and Madeleine Carbonnet. They had ten children; when Louise died, Thomas married Jeanne Labadie and fathered nine more.

Children by Louise Sédilot: Jacques (1687, see below); Michel (1690?, married Catherine Limoges); Madeleine (1694-1762, married Germain Paquet); Joseph (1695?-1714); Anne Felicité (1696-1703); François (1697-1703); Louise (born and died 1698); Angélique (1698); and Marie Louise (1699-1715). They must have moved to the parish of Sainte-Foy around 1700, because the children who died young were buried there. Children by Jeanne Labadie: Pierre (1701); Thomas (1702-1703); Marie-Charlotte (1704, married Jacques Venne); Élisabeth (1706); Jeanne (1708-1713); Joseph (1709); François (1711-1714); Marie-Thérèse (1713, married Pierre Robin); and Flavien (1716).

Jacques Marié, the eldest of these nineteen children, was born at Neuville in July 1687. He married Marie-Angélique Desroches in Rivière-des-Prairies (near Montréal) in January 1721. They were probably married in the church pictured above, sketched in 1910. I have been able to identify only two children: our ancestor Marguérite (c1734-1814, who married Jacques Roy); and Marie (c1726), who married (perhaps as her second husband?) Pierre-Sebastian Daumay-Laviolette, at St-Charles-sur-Richelieu in 1760. Though she was 44 and he was 48, they did have a child, François, who fathered a large family in southern Québec and in Vermont, variously spelled Dome, Daume, Daumay, Domais, etc.

See Roy for Marguérite's descendants. Some of Michel Marié and Catherine Limoges' descendants married Roys as well, and many of them are now found around Detroit.