Verieul

also Vérieu, Veilleux

Like many French-Canadian families, this one originated in the seaport city of Dieppe in Normandy. Nicolas Verieul married Colette Roussel sometime around 1630; we know of two sons: Jean, who married Madeleine Blondel in 1656, and the immigrant Nicolas Verieul. He was born October 17, 1632 and baptized the same day at the church of St-Jacques. He was in Canada by 1657, when he was working as a laborer at Château-Richer. He married a fille du roi, Marguérite Hyardin, there on October 5, 1665. (She was the daughter of René Hiardin or Hyardin and Jeanne Serré of the parish of Nôtre Dame de Joinville, and was born August 30, 1645, died May 29, 1720 at St-François on the Île d'Orléans, pictured above).

They had six children: Angélique (c1669-1743, married Claude Landry, not one of the Acadian Landrys); Joseph (married Marguérite Buteau, see below); Madeleine (married Pierre Fugère); Marguérite (c1668-1753, married Jacques Baudon and Hippolyte Lehoux); Marie (married Antoine Dandurand); and Nicolas (married Marie-Anne Mesny and Marie-Madeleine Duchesne).

Joseph Verieul was born in Château-Richer about 1670, and married Marguérite Buteau or Butor on June 30, 1710. She may have been a second wife, as she was some twenty years younger than her husband. They had five children: Charles (married Geneviève Perrault); Jean-Baptiste (married Marie-Madeleine Lacroix); Louis (married Thérèse Labécasse); Marie (died June 10, 1759 at Trois-Rivières; married Jean-Baptiste Turcotte); and Marie-Marthe (married Denis Gagné and Jean Plante).

See Turcotte for descendants.