Migneron

dit Lajeunesse

Pierre Migneron and his wife Marie Guilminet lived in the town of Mougon, which is in Poitou near Niort and not far west of La Rochelle. They married probably in the 1630s, and had a son, Jean Migneron, whose marriage to Marie Pavié is recorded at Québec in 1667. The Mignerons appear to have been Huguenots, belonging to the "temple calviniste" which still stands in Mougon (photo).

Marie Pavié was the daughter of Christophe Pavié and Madeleine Audet, and was born in Le-Château-d'Oléron, Île d'Oléron. There is no evidence that her parents emigrated, but she was certainly in Québec city by August 1657, when she married Jean Migneron. (This is too early for her to have been a "fille du roi.") She was 21 at the time of the 1659 census, and he was 22. She died in the Hôtel-Dieu in Québec in 1696, age 58. Jean died in 1700 at Ste-Foy, age 72.

Children of Jean Migneron and Marie Pavié: Marguérite (1658, married François Meunier, who died in less than a year, and then Louis Balard dit Latour; 9 children); Élisabeth (1660, married Étienne Magnan, see below); Marie-Anne (1703-1725, married Pierre Legrand but before that had an illegitimate son Pierre; later she also married Jean Bredel dit Duchesnay, Simon Brière and Jacques Morel dit Lafontaine before she died in 1719); Marie-Angélique (1664, died young); Jean-François (1666, married Marie Brisson); Sébastien (1668, married Catherine Tru); and Geneviève (1670).

Élisabeth and Étienne Magnan were the parents of twelve children, including Marie-Thérèse (1676-1710), married Claude Bourgouin.