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Jean-Baptiste Séguin dit Ladéroute
Born at Boucherville in 1688, Jean-Baptiste Séguin dit Ladéroute spent his working life on other men’s farms. Twelve notarial acts follow him through two half-profit tenancies, land bought with borrowed card money, a debt “for urgent necessities,” and a purchase he could never pay for, to his death at Montréal in 1728 and a widow “reduced to alms.” His ten children, among them our ancestor Marie Charlotte, carried the line to Vaudreuil and Oka.
Part of the Storyline Genealogy series: The Guilbault Line
Sainte-Famille de Boucherville
Sainte-Famille de Boucherville stands on land donated by Pierre Boucher himself — one of the most remarkable figures in early New France. On October 31, 1672, Carignan-Salières Regiment veteran François Séguin dit Ladéroute married Jeanne Petit in the original wooden chapel, just five years after the town was founded. Over the next two decades, the Séguin family filled the parish registers with baptisms and burials. Their son Jean-Baptiste, our direct ancestor, would carry the family name westward to the fur trade at Detroit.
Part of the Storyline Genealogy series : Sacred Places
Jeanne Petit: Founding Mother
Jeanne Petit was a young woman protected by the king, part of the contingent of 125 Filles du Roi who came to New France in 1671. At just 16 years old, already orphaned, she crossed the Atlantic to build a new life. She married François Séguin dit Ladéroute, a soldier turned weaver, and together they raised 8 children to adulthood at Boucherville. Today, her descendants number nearly 2 million people—a legacy built from nothing but hope and determination.
Part of the Storyline Genealogy series: Filles du Roi & Filles à Marier — The Women Who Built New France
François Séguin dit Ladéroute
Baptized in 1644 at Saint-Aubin-en-Bray in Picardy, the son of a parish clerk, François Séguin came to New France with the Carignan-Salières Regiment and settled at Boucherville, where he married the Fille du Roi Jeanne Petit in 1672. Thirteen signatures in his own hand trace him across thirty years of notarial acts. He died not in 1704, as the standard compilations have it, but between November 1700 and October 1701, leaving eleven children and a line now counted in the millions.
Part of the Storyline Genealogy series: The Guilbault Line