Laurent

also St-Laurent

Simon Laurent and his wife Françoise (last name unknown) were both probably born around 1650 in the southern city of Nîmes. When their son married in 1692, he reported that both were deceased. Gilles St-Laurent was born in the early 1670s; we do not know why or when he came to Québec. His first appearance in the records is his marriage to the widowed Anne LaBrecque Julien on January 24, 1692 at the church of St-Laurent on the Île d'Orléans (the present church is shown above).

They had six daughters, all apparently born in the Île d'Orléans, but later lived in St-François-du-Lac: Angélique (1693?-1738, married Ignace Bresa dit Lafleur); Madeleine (died 1736, married Jean-Baptiste Brouillard); Marguérite (1694-p1735, married Pierre-Louis Parenteau); Marie-Anne (died 1714, married Mathurin Berthelot); Marie Louise (married Joseph Cantara); and Marie-Gabrielle (1705?-1750, married René Gagné).

Pierre-Louis Parenteau and Marguérite were the parents of Joseph Parenteau, a great-great-grandfather of Joseph Arthur Martin. See Parenteau.