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Admin : andy@aprevost.comFamille -- Charron -- Family Louis Dit Gasnier Gagné
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- Gender : male
- Birth : 13 September 1612 (St. Martin, Igé, Perche (Orne), France)
- Death : about 1661 (St. Anne DE Beaupré, Québec, Canada)
Individual notes- A miller by trade, emigrated to New France in 1644.
On October 27, 1646 Louis and Marie leased a farm on the Saint Lawrence River at Cap Tourmante near the town of Saint Joachim. The farm was known as La Ferme Saint-Charles or La Grande Ferme.
The owner was the "Company of New France."
Its local representative was Olivier LeTardif, who on March 27, 1647 served as godfather for Louis and Marie's son, Pierre.
On October 20, 1650 the Company of Beaupre granted him a concession for lot number 96 on the coast of the St. Lawrence River.
He was required to build a house on the property not later than the following year.
The original house measured 24 by 22 feet including walls two feet thick.
There are no official records of the death and burial of Louis Gasnier. There is much circumstantial evidence about the manner of his death.
On July 14, 1661, there was, "by verbal order of Monsieur the Governor" an official "inventory of the property and possessions remaining after the decease of the late Louis Gasnier."
The inventory was witnessed by the notary Auber, and was signed with an "X" by the "said widow," Marie Michel.
She would have been 41 years old and the mother of 8 living children at that time.
It is said that Louis was among eight persons captured and killed by the Mohawks at Auriesville, New York.
Auriesville today is the site of the Shrine of the North American Martyrs northwest of Albany at Thruway Exit 28.
A neighbor, Louis Guimont, was killed at Auriesville according to a letter dated June 8, 1661 in the Jesuit Relations, a multivolume history of the missionaries of that era.
A similar postmortem inventory was done on the goods of Louis Guimont on the same date as that of Louis Gasnier,
July 14, 1661, leading one to believe that the circumstances of their deaths were similar.
ParentsSpouse- Marie Michel - Wedding : 11 June 1638 (St. Martin Du Vieux Bell?me, Perche (Orne), France)
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