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1	www.genealogy.umontreal.ca Acte de Mariage -- Trois Rivieres #309429 1764-06-25 Amable SIQUART DECARIFELLE and Antoinette MARCHAND. Also listed JEAN SIQUARD CARIFELLE and Angelique LUPIEN, parents of groom. Pierre MARCHAND and Marie SAUVAGE, parents of bride. Priest: Hyancinthe AMIOT	Family: F60
2	Died in Civil War	Hannibal Hamlin Leighton
3	Died in Infancy	Warren Leighton
4	Marie Antonine MARCHAND was born to Pierre MARCHAND and Marie SAUVAGE and baptised in the presence of Jean AUBRY, Charbonnier and Antoinette SAUVAGE by Augustin QUINTAL, priest	Marie-Antoinette Marchand
5	(Medical):Death Certificate # 6602438	Isa Mae Perry
6	Genevieve's baptism was attended by her parrents: Jacques Rate & Anne Martin; Martin Coste; and Genevieve Miloue and her spouse Guillaume Paradis. The presiding priest was FLAMY. Her burial in Maskinonge was attended by her husband, Jean SICARD DECARUFFEL, Esquire [Ecuyer], Officer of the troops; Jean Baptiste COURCHESNE, Jean Baptiste PETIT BRUNO and Salvien BOUCHER, missionary/priest. DGFC Vol 7 Rob-Zi pg 176, 1694, (27 nov.) St-Pierre, I.O. I-- SICARD (1) Jean, fils de Pierrre et de Marie De Gargues, de Castres, Languedoc RATE, Genevieve, [dau of Jacques] b 1678 [Their children were] --Ursule b 18 Sep 1695 --Marie-Anne b 1698; 1st m: Antoine TROTTIER in la Riviere-du-Lopu; 2nd m: 5 Jul to Etienne-Charles AUGE --Jean b 12 Jun 1700 1st m: 1719 to Elisabeth LEGARDEUR; 2nd m: Angelique BARON-LUPIEN --Louis b 5 Mar 1705 in Trois-Rivieres 1st m: 13 Nov 1727 to Catherine TROTIER, 2nd m: 1757 to Charlotte LEMAITRE- AUGE --Agather b 20 Nov 1706 m: Joseph PETIT BRUNO --Genevieve-Michelle b 11 Jan 1709 --Francois-Xavier b 29 Apr 1711 Antoine b 1712 m: 1730 to Madeleine ABEL-BARBE --Marie-Elisabeth b... s 17 Oct 1714 --Pierre-Amador b 18 Oct 1716, m: 1714 to Marie-Charlotte BELLEVILLE --Marie-Madeleine b 13 Jul 1718 It is believed that the marriage of Genevieve's son Jean to Elizabeth LEGARDEUR and of her son Antoine to Madeleine ABEL-BARBE are erroneous. Elizabeth LEGARDEUR was married three times. The record for her marriage to Louis JARED BEAUREGARD, widow of Marguerite St Aubin and son of Andre JARED and Marguerite ANTIOME (both deceased) indicates Elisabeth LEGARDEUR was the widow of Jean Sicard, and also the widow of Joseph Abel. NOTE: Need to check, believed Jean Sicard was son of Jean-Baptiste and Catherine LAUZON and that he drowned in July 1712] At the time of his marriage, Antoine SICARD, age24, (declared unable to sign) was a resident of Riviere-des- Prairies. The record indicates he was originally from St-Francois-Xavieres-de-Vercheres (son of Jean-Baptiste SICARD (deceased) and Isabelle LEGARDEUR, both residents of Rivieres-des-Prairies)	Genevieve Rate
7	(Medical):Death Certificate # 8910986	Clyde Clayton Secord, Sr.
8	The officiant at Jean's baptism was the priest, DAURIC. Present were his father, Jean, a Sergent living in St-Pierre, his mother Genevieve, Pierre RATTE, and Genevieve CREPEAU. On 4 May 1745 Master Sicard was appointed Capt, second in command of the Militia Company of Maskinonge. COMMENT regarding discrepancy in records: The DGFC indicates that Jean, son of John I, born about 1700 married first Isabelle LEGARDEUR and second Angelique BARON-LUPIEN, daughter of Pierre. The footnote in the DGFC indicates Jean Baptiste was a De Carufel. The marriage record for Isabelle LEGARDEUR to Louis JARED BEAUREGARD in 1735 indicates she was the widow of Jean Sicard, and also the widow of Joseph Abel. Jean SICARD DE CARUFEL and his wife Marie-Angelique last son was conceived in 1752, this makes it unlikely he was the deceased spouse of Isabelle LEGARDEUR. We have kept Jean SICARD the spouse of Isabelle with the SICARD/BOBINE line and Jean SICARD de CARUFEL spouse of Marie-Angelique LUPIEN BARON, with the SICARD de CARUFEL branch. A record for the "2ieme mariage Baron-Lupien, Angelique" (daughter of Pierre II) includes the following children: Jean, Amable, Joseph and Marthe. The PRDH citation for the Family: Jean SICARD CARUFEL & Marie Angelique LUPIEN BARON - lists children born before 1766: Jean-Baptiste, Marie, Marie-Angelique, Marie-Anne, Marie-Madeleine, Marie- Marthe, Joseph, Amable, Agathe, Genevieve	Jean Sicard De Carufel
9	Jean Sicar, son of Jean Sicar deCaruffel, Ecuyer residing in Maskinonge, and Angelique Lupien was baptised by the missionary priest Cherubin Deniau in the presence of Jean Sicar DeCaruffel, Ecuyer, Officier dans les troupes de ce pays and Marie Chauvin. At his funeral were Jean Tetar and Claude Lacharite.	Jean-Baptiste Sicard De Carufel
10	READ: Thomas Laforest's series, Our French-Canadian Ancestors, Vol V. pg227. At the age of 19, Jean-Baptiste [Pierre and Marie de Fargue's son] joined the Marine Troops under the command of Capitan [Écuyer ] Francois-Marie-Renaud d'Avesne des Meloizes. The Company, recruited by the new governor, Jacques-René Brisay de Denonville, was integrated into the 500-man detachment that left the port of LaRochelle in 1685. During the Atlantic crossing scurvy and typhoid claimed 60 victims. Eighty more soldiers were hospitalised at the Hotel-Dieu -- already overcrowed with 300 fever patients -- upon their arrival in Quebec on August 1, 1685. [In 1685 The population of New France was 10,725 French and 1,538 settled savages.] After only a few weeks rest, Denonville and his men left for Fort Frontenac (Kingston). The Governor found the colony in terrible disarray, hundreds of colonists had abandoned their land to become coureurs de bois. In addition to the challenge of social reform, the English surrounding the French possessions and Iroquois were ever-present dangers. The first mention of Jean's presence in New France is the act in the Notre-Dame de Quebec church register dated 20 January 1686 in which the young nobleman renounced his faith. According to the "Acte d'Abjuration", Jean SICARD, native of the parish of St. Jacques in the city of Castres-d'Albigeois in Haut-Languedoc, a sergent in the regiment of Renaud d'Avesnes des Meloizes recanted from the pretended reformed religion [a fait abjuration de la religion pretendue reformee] before Jean Baptiste DE LACROIX DE ST VALLIER, Bishop of Quebec. Witnesses were: Jacques DEBRISAY DE DENONVILLE, Governor, Lieutenant General of the Army, Quebec and his wife Catherine COURTIN. [The fact that Jean recanted his faith would support the notion he was not Catholic and it is likely his family suffered religious persecution in France.] On June 13, 1687, at the head of 832 marine troops, more than 900 militiamen and 400 indigenious allies, Denonville headed up-river resolved to crush the Tsonnontouans who, with arms furnished by the New York English, were harassing the colony in the southern Lake Ontario/Niagara region. (Fort Denonville was built "on the same side as Fort Conti, which is today the site of Fort Niagara, USA, opposite Niagara -on-the-Lake.") Before returning to Montreal, Governor Denonville, left about 100 men under the command of Raymond Blaise des Bergeres de Rigauville. Scurvy and the Iroquois wiped out all but Blaise and twelve men. [Although not documented, it is probable that the young Sicard de Carufel took part in the manoeuvres as Capitan Raymond Blaise was his commanding officer and among the twelve who survived the winter of 1687-88.] From 1690 to 1720 the fort was abandoned. Towards the end of 1688, shortly after returning to Montreal, Raymond Blaise des Bergeres replaced Captain Francois Lefebvre-Duplessis-Faber as the head of the troops stationed at Fort Louis in Chambly. A duel between the two men on July 15, 1689 landed both in prison. They were tried the next day in Montreal. On November 16, the Souvereign Council absolved them and ordered Lefebvre to pay Blaise 600 pounds in damages. According to the transcript, Jean Sicard de Carufel, first sergeant in the Company was called to care for Blaise des Bergeres' wound. On August 4 of that year, August 4, one thousand five hundred Iroquois attacked Lachine down river from the mission of Mont Royal [Montreal] killing 400. A marriage contract prepared by the notary, Etienne Jacob and signed 25 November 1694, states that, at the time, the Jean was a sergeant in the Company of Michel Leneuf de la Valliere. Two days later, Sergeant Jean Sicard de Carufel, married Genevieve, daughter of Jacques Ratte and Anne Martin [grand-daughter of Abraham Martin dit l'Ecossais, a royal pilot. The land of Martin, called the Plains of Abraham, adjoined the famous plateau where Wolfe and Montcalm battled.] The ceremony in the parish of Saint Pierre de l'Ile d'Orleans was officiated by the Abby Dauric and witnessed by the widow of Genevieve Ratte & groom's father - Pierre Sicard; Jacques Ratte and his wife, Anne Martin (the bride's parents), Jacques Gosselin, (Jacques Ratte's brother-in-law or step-brother) andPierre Roberge. In addition to the dispensation of two bans, due to Sicard's military career he had to seek permission from the Governor-general to wed. Jean returned to France in 1696 and, on May 22, in a ceremony held before a notary in Castres, the noble Jean Sicard, lord of Farguettes, officer in the Marine Troops in Canada, declared his loyalty and respect for his father, Pierre Sicard, and, in addition to words of affection and courtesy by Pierre, was emancipated and declared free to make his own decisions. There are indications that Jean bore arms with "de geules, au paon rouant d'or, au chef cousu d'azur charge de trois etoiles d'argent." -- registered to the St. Maurice de Coudols family. [Correspondence with the Armouries of France, Jean-Jacques Lartigue 18 Jun 2000 stated that there is no indication that, following the Sicards being declared nobles at the Montpellier tribunal of 1669, the family registered their own coat of arms] Jean returned to Nouvelle France and, on March 18 1704 after living ten years in Saint-Pierre d'Orleans, had the sale of property to his brother-in-law, Pierre Ratte notarised by Etienne Jacob. At the time of the birth of their fifth child, Louis, in March 1705, Jean and Genevieve were living in Maskinonge in the seigneurie des Legardeur de Repentigny. The Governor, Marquis Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil (1703-1726) and the intendant Francois de Beauharnois officially granted Jean Sicard the fief de Carufel on April 21, 1705 in an "Acte de concesson". (Acte de concession de Philippe de Rigaud Marquis de Vaudreuil et Francois de Beauharnois governeur et intendant de la Nouvelle-France a Jean Sicard, sieur de Carufel, de l'espace ce terre qui reste dans la riviere Maskinonge dans le lac St-Pierre, depuis celle qui a este-cy-devant concedee au sieur Le Gardeur jusqu'au premier sault de la dite riviere, ce qui contient deux lieues ou environ front sur pareille profondeur. En titre de Fief et seigneurie, haute, moyen, et basse justice.) The domain, two leagues [a "lieue" is an old unit of measure about 4 km] across by the same depth was in the area now known as Saint Justin. In return, Jean, an officer in the troops of the marine detachment, made an act of faith and hommage for the fief and seigneurie to de Vaudreuil et de Beauharnois. ("Act de foi et hommage de Jean Sicrd de Carufel, officier dans les troupes du detachement de la marine, pour le fief et seigneurie lui accorde par MM de Vaudreuil de Beauharnois le 21 avril 1705") Under the French seigneurial regime, seigneurs were duty-bound to promote colonization by providing "immigrants with favourable conditions for the settlement and agricultural development ..." [Translated] "From the time he took possession of his fief," wrote l'abbe Hermann Plante, "the lord of Carufel attempted to establish himself; but the timing was not good. In 1705, it was difficult to move away from the Saint Lawrence River. The clearing of the seigneurie in Maskinonge wasn't advanced enough to provide for colonisation... fear of the Iroquois still existed. The peace treaty signed four years earlier in Montreal between the French and the savages buried the hatchet but the Indians hypocritical temperment made attracting settlers difficult. The 1701 treaty, still unproven and providing no guarantees, did little to aid the lord of Carufel in attracting settlers to move far from the river... But the lord was aging," adds l'abbe Plante, "he didn't want to die before realising the profits from his land." After vain attempts to attract his companions to follow him, around 1720 Jean (who would have been about 54 years old) travelled up the Maskinonge River, the only route at the time, and, with his sons, began working on the south-west side about a quarter of a league from the Maskinonge fief. In a statement/ennumeration of 19 February 1723, Jean declared a sixteen foot square house enclosed by a pallisade and three acres of workable land. Few seigneurs could afford to live off their annual rents and, unless a seigneurie has 25-50 settled families, maintenance costs generally surpassed revenues. That same year, Jean, who continued his military career while clearing the land, was promoted to the rank of Ensign of the Troops of the colony. It is believed that he continued to work his land for another nine years -- at least until 1732. There are also several transactions recorded in the minutes of Pierre Petit including an agreement August 16, 1728 with the Ursulines of Trois-Rivieres ending a land boundary dispute. The 27 January 1737, the land-clearing septuagenarian made his testament in favour of his children. Four years later, in 1741, Jean Sicard de Carufel witnessed the sale of portions of his land as his children sold their share to their brother-in-law, Jean-Francois Baril-Duchesny, spouse of Genevieve. The old officer-colonist-lord descended from the French aristocracy did not survive long afterwards. He died in August 1743 at the age of 77. It is interesting to note that although Jean-Baptiste and Genevieve would not have benefited from Louis XIV's King's gift for males who married before age twenty and females before sixteen, they would have likely received the three hundred livres to those with ten children. [Fathers of twelve children received four hundred livres.] Eight of Jean's ten children married before their father's death; the others married in 1745 and 1751.	Sieur Jean-Baptiste Sicard De Carufel
11	Marie SICARD, daughter of Jean SICARD & Angelique BARON, was baptised in the presence of her parents; Joseph BRUNO and Genevieve SICARD by Salvien BOUCHER missionary/priest. Antoine COURCHAINE, the widow of Francoise LACOURSE, married Marie SICARD, daughter of Jean SICARD, captain, and Angelique LUPIEND. The ceremony was performed by GUAY before Francois SICARD and Charles DUPUIT le pere, the bride's uncles; Pierre LACHARITE; and Charles DUPUIT. The notary RIGAUD drew up the marriage contract between Antoine COURCHAINE and Marie SICARD DECARUFEL the 21 year-old daughter of Jean SICARD DECARUFEL Captain, Commander of the Militia, and Angelique Lupien.	Marie Sicard De Carufel
12	Some sources indicate Jean and Marthe's son, Pierre, was born around 1646; others around 1631. We do not know at this point whether or not Pierre SICARD de CARUFEL came to Canada but there is a record in the University de Montreal -- P.R.D.H. - Programme de Recherche en Demographie Historique database for a "Pierre SICARD born around 1631 in France Indeterminee (undetermined place in France) Status: Immigrant. Died outside of Quebec." There is no indication that this was Jean & Marthe's son. It is more likely he is the unwed Pierre SICARD mentioned in the 1681 Census for Montreal, aged 50, occupation: "domestique du seminaire" A P.R.D.H. burial record for a "Pierre SICARD - Status Immigrant born around 1645 France indeterninee who died 1687- 11-27 St-Joachim (Civil Archives) and was buried 28 Nov. In attendance were Antoine Baillon, Julien Fortin and the priest Louis Soumandre. the 1667 Census for Beauport has a Pierre SICAR age 22 [born abt 1645] listed with 35-year- old Michel FILLION, Royal Notary for Beauport and his wife Marguerite AUBER aged 48, Urbain Dosmont 23, Elie Voysin 28. This may be an ancestor of the BOBINE [aka VOISINE] - SICARD line and/or it may be the unwed, 35-year-old Pierre SICARD who was also a seminary "domestique" in Montreal in 1681. Pierre married Marie de Fargues daughter of Jacques, seigneur de Farguettes in 1663. PRDH indicates that he was married "before 1683-12-31" other sources give the date as December 5, 1683. On May 11, 1664, Marthe de Saint-Paul made her testament in favour of her husband and two sons, Pierre, sieur de Carufel, a Parisien parliamentary lawyer, and Charles. Two years later [1666] Pierre and Marie de Fargues' son, Jean, was born. [According to military documents, Jean was 66 in 1732] Following the 1664 to 1667 ordinances revising titles of nobility, Sicard appeared before the Montpellier tribunal and on September 5, 1669, he and his descendants were declared nobles. The act also mentions the fief of Carufel. By October 1685, Louis XIV, who had been hounding the Huguenots for five years, revoked the Edict of Nantes and huge waves of Huguenot refugees fled France. Many of the Protestants who remained in France converted to Catholicism. As the first mention of his son Jean in New France is his recantation dated 20 January 1686. Although we know Jean was not Catholic, we have not yet determined whether the young man -- and his family -- were Protestant, Huguenots or Albigeois Cathares. It is interesting to note that more than 200 years after Pierre's marriage, the community of Fauch had 769 inhabitants in 1876 and consisted of 54 "lieu dits", farms and hamlets. The following list indicates first the number of houses in each principle place and second the number of inhabitants: l'Albière, 1 [house], 6 [people]; Barthille, 1, 10; Besclaux, 3, 14; la Bixasse, la Bonayde, 1, 10; la Borie Grande , 2, 13; Bouteillé, 10, 48; le Bouyssou, 7, 28; las Bouyssoniès, Campagnac, Cantelause, Capoulun, 2, 12; Carufel, 2 [houses], 12 [people]; les Cazelles, 2, 7; les Clauzes, 8, 36; Combe del Trivalou, la Coste del pountil, 1, 3; le Coural, 2, 11; Cournillou, 1, 4; le Devez, 1, 7; le Duc, la Fage, 2, 6; la Ferronière, les Fontariès, 1, 3; la Granayrié, 5, 28; la Janade, 4, 17; Jardel, 1, 8; Jeanevert, 1, 4; la Lande, Lestivé, la Marinié, 15, 61; Mas Courrèges, Masplo, 6, 36; le Moulinet, 1, 2; le Moulin-vieux, 4, 19; Palandran, 1, 6; las Plantades, Puech Long, 1, 3; Puech Mège, 1, 4; Puech Miséry, 1, 4; Puech Nocoffe, 4, 17; Puechourial, Puech Sicardou, Ramier, Riguier, Ritournel, la Séguinié, 4, 15; las Taillades, las Trémoulados, le Trivalou, 3, 18; lous Vignals, la Vignasse, Villetourne, l'Ysarnarié, 4, 20; Puech Franc, 2, 6. (TRANIER, Dict.hist., passim).	Sieur Pierre Sicard De Carufel
13	(Medical):Death Certificate # 8903502	Anna Elizabeth Wade