Person:Jeanne Rousseliere (1)

!BIRTH-PARENTS-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES: Peter J. Gagné, BEFORE THE KING'S DAUGHTERS: THE Filles à Marier, 1634-1662; 2002; pp. 274-275. The town of Moëze was in the arrondissement of Rochefort. Jeanne arrived in New France in 1754, and on 28 Sep 1654 made contract of marriage drawn up by notary Lambert CLOSSE; her husband-to-be could sign, she could not. On 14 Oct 1654 in Montreal she married master carpenter Pierre GODIN dit Châtillon, ceremony celebrated by Father Pierre PIJART, SJ. They had nine children, all baptized at Montéal but the 7th, Pierre (in Québec in 1667). In 1672 her husband and oldest son were tried for beating a neighbor (Pierre BOUTONNE dit La Ramée) after he allegedly slapped the 3rd child, daughter Catherine, then about age 13, whom he claimed had stolen bread from him. Jeanne also allegedly went to BOUTONNE's home with a sword, "which she passed though [sic] the stones in his wall while calling for his death." On 30 Aug 1672 BOUTONNE agreed to pay the costs of pursuing the trial.

    The family immigrated to Port-Royal, Acadia between 7 Jun 1676 and 11 Jun 1677, where Pierre's experience as a carpenter was needed. 

!BIRTH-PARENTS-CENSUS-MARRIAGES: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; pp. 741 & 1424; own copy.

!CENSUS: 1666, Charlesbourg, age 30 years.

!CENSUS: 1686, Port Royal, Acadia, age 60 years [sic]. Widow of -- GODIN [dit Chatillon], with her 3 children. No land or animals listed.

!CENSUS: 1693, age 56 years.

!CENSUS: 1700, age 63 years.

!CENSUS: 1701, age 66 years.

!RESIDENCES-MARRIAGE: Arrived in Montreal in 1653 at the age of 17, she was espoused to Piere GODIN on 13 Oct 1654. [Was she what is called a "Casket Girl?" Among the earlier girls called "Before the King's Daughters."]

!PARENTS-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES: Peter J. Godin, "HISTORY*HERALDRY & GENEALOGY OF OUR FAMILY SURNAME GODIN;" 1650-1967; author [1967]; p. 4; sent by his great-niece Karen Grant in Sep 1996. Jeanne ROUSSELIERE, daughter of Louis & Isabelle PARISE of Moeze near the city of Brouage, France. On 27 Sep 1654 Pierre GODIN signed a contract promising to marry her, signed by 10 witnesses (supplement, p. 2). Jeanne was one of a group of young girls brought over from France by the Ursuline Sisters of Quebec, and trained for married life for one year [sic] by Sister BOUGEOYS. The actual marriage was performed by Father PIJART on 13 Oct 1654 at Montreal (see Supplement, p. 3).

1. ↑ Programme de recherche en démographie historique.

   Born before 1636, daughter of Louis ROUSSELIERE & Isabelle PARISET.

2. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
   p. 1424.

   Jeanne ROUSSELIERE, born 1637, daughter of Louis & Isabelle PARISÉ of Moëze, Diocese of Saintes in Saintonge, France.