Gaussin dit St-Germain

also Gossain and Gaucin

Jean Gaussin and his wife Jacquette Angounelle (or maybe Gengonelle) lived in the parish of St-Germain in the major port city of Bordeaux (above) in the mid-seventeenth century. (Several reputable sources say this, but I cannot find such a parish in the city.) Their son, our immigrant ancestor, was born there in December 1665: Jean Gaussin, who after emigrating and settling in Trois-Rivières about 1710, was known as "Gaussin dit St-Germain." He married Jeanne Banliard (also Banliac) in June 1711, daughter of François Banliard dit Lamontagne and Marie-Angélique Pelletier dit Antaya. As she was born in 1692, Jean probably had had a wife in France who died before he emigrated. The couple produced two children that we know of: Joseph-Michel in August 1712, and Étienne in 1725 - if this is correct, his father would have been 60, and his mother 33. Étienne married Rose-Anne Theroux in 1753. Jean died at Rivière-du-Loup on February 18, 1728.

Joseph-Michel St-Germain (he dropped the Gaussin), also known as Michel, married Marie-Madeleine Foucault dit Courchesne (daughter of Jean-Baptiste Foucault and Marguérite Bergeron) on June 6, 1747 at Trois-Rivières. We know of three sons: Michel, who married Catherine Azure in 1773; Joseph, who married Catherine Dupont in 1778; and Jean-Baptiste, who married Madeleine Couturier in 1773.

Jean-Baptiste St-Germain and Madeleine were the parents of Marie-Marguérite St-Germain, who married Joseph-Arthur Martin on April 20, 1795 at St-Michel d'Yamaska; their great-grandson was our great-grandfather Joseph Arthur Martin.