Sources:
Michel Langlois
Les ancêtres beauportois (1634-1760)
1984, pp. 263-267.
Constance Rodrigue-Johnson
"Nos quelques rares ancêtres portugais"
in Mémoires de la Société généalogique
canadienne-française, volume 40, no 3, automne 1989,
pp 216-222
Descendants of JEAN RODRIGUE and
ANNE LE ROY of Portugal - Canada - U.S.A. (Louisiana)
compiled by Wilma Boudreaux
Boudreaux and Sandra Clark Henry
edited by Sandra Clark Henry
Houma, Louisiana, 1990
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Jean Rodrigue (or more exactly
João Rodrigues) was Portuguese. He was probably born in Lisbon,
in the São João parish, circa 1641. Later on, he identified
his parents as being Jean Rodrigue and Suzanne Lacroix; but we can easily
deduce that he has a French touch to his parents' names in order to be
better accepted in the French milieu of New France (he has also changed
his own name to Jean Rodrigue). In portuguese, his parent' names were
probably João Rodrigues and Susana da Cruz.
Jean Rodrigue was a sailor. So he probably was employed as such in
New France, even if he very early settled as a landowner. He arrived
in the colony towards 1668; his first property was acquired either that
same year or the year after, when Jean Juchereau grants him a land property
in Cap-Rouge. In the following years, he bought and sold many such small
properties.
He married in 1671 with a "fille du Roy" named Anne Le Roy, who came
from Paris; they settled in village St-Michel in Beauport, where they
lived the rest of their lives. They were never rich; Jean was hired
year after year for the sailing season; he even had to get hired in
the 1675 winter to serve a rich Québec merchant, Vivien Jean,
in order for him to get a more decent revenue.
When he became older, Jean Rodrigue started to sell his properties,
in order to increase his revenues, of course, but maybe also to give
his sons a property of their own. Finally, in the last years of his
life, he put himself and his wife under the care of his children.
He died in Beauport on 14 November 1720, at the age of about 80; his
wife, Anne Le Roy, had died in Hôtel-Dieu in Québec on
26 May 1715 at the age of 74.
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Chronology of the life of Jean Rodrigue
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| ca 1641 |
Jean Rodrigue is born, probably in the parish of São
João in Lisbon, Portugal (son of João Rodrigues and Susana
da Cruz) |
| ca 1668 |
He lands in Québec |
| ca 1668-1669 |
He is granted a piece of land by Jean Juchereau, sieur de
Maure, in Rivière-aux-Roches in Cap-Rouge |
| 14 July 1670 |
He sells this piece of land to Pierre Renaud dit Locat (contract
Becquet) |
| 20 July 1670 |
He buys from Isaac Harnois another piece of land located
in St-Ange du Cap-Rouge (contract Audouart); on the same day, and with
the same notary, he signs an IOU for a sum of 150 livres towards the same
Isaac Harnois |
| in 1670? |
He buys his neighbour's piece of land |
| 21 July 1671 |
He trades this last piece of land to François Savary
in exchange for another one that this Savary owns in the seigneurie of
the sieur de La Durantaye (contract Rageot) |
| 13 October 1671 |
He enters into a marriage contract in Beauport with Anne
Le Roy, a "fille du Roy" (daughter of François Le Roy and Anne
Bourdais, from the parish of St-Germain-l'Auxerrois in Paris) (contract
Becquet) |
| 28 October 1671 |
The wedding is celebrated in Notre-Dame de Québec |
| in 1673 |
The buying of Isaac Harnois's piece of land, made in 1671,
is nullified |
| 11 May 1673 |
He is hired by Pierre Niel (Québec merchant) from
the St-Jean-Baptiste (24 June) until the end of the sailing season (contract
Duquet) |
| 7 August 1673 |
Birth in Beauport of Marie-Anne Rodrigue, first child of
Jean and Anne |
| 16 August 1673 |
Marie-Anne is baptized in Beauport |
| 3 June 1674 |
Jean Rodrigue renews his job contract with Pierre Niel (contract
Duquet) |
| ca 1675 |
Birth of the second Rodrigue child, Suzanne, probably in
Beauport |
| 10 May 1675 |
Jean is hired by Bertrand Chenay, sieur de La Garenne (a
Québec merchant), for the period from 20 April until the end of
the sailing season (contract Duquet) |
| Fall 1675 |
At the end of the sailing season, he is hired by Vivien
Jean until the following Spring |
| 10 April 1677 |
He is again hired by Bertrand Chenay (contract Duquet) (we
can suppose that he was also hired by him in 1676, but we do not have
any record of that) |
| 28 July 1678 |
Birth of René Rodrigue in village St-Michel at Beauport |
| 29 July 1678 |
Baptism of René Rodrigue in Beauport |
| 9 August 1681 |
Birth of Vincent Rodrigue in village St-Michel at Beauport |
| 10 August 1681 |
Baptism of Vincent Rodrigue in Beauport |
| in 1681 |
Following the census of 1681, Jean Rodrigue and his family
are still in Beauport; it is indicated that he had four children, and
that he owned a piece of land measuring about ten acres |
| May 1685 |
Birth of Jacques Rodrigue in village St-Michel at Beauport |
| 27 May 1685 |
Baptism of Jacques Rodrigue in Beauport |
| 15 March 1686 |
Jean Rodrigue buys a piece of land from René Dubois
dit Brisebois (contract Vachon) |
| 18 February 1692 |
Wedding of Marie-Anne Rodrigue, daughter of Jean, with Jean
Moreau (son of Jean Moreau and Catherine Leroux), in Québec (contract
Genaple, 15 February 1692) |
| 26 October 1699 |
Wedding of Suzanne Rodrigue, daughter of Jean, with Vincent
Guillot (son of Vincent Guillot and Jeanne Sicard), in Québec (contract
Roger, 25 October 1699) |
| 19 April 1701 |
Jean sells a piece of land to René Toupin (contract
Duprac) |
| 10 August 1701 |
He sells another piece of land to his son-in-law Vincent
Guillot (contract Duprac) |
| 25 October 1701 |
He sells yet another piece of land to his son René
(contract Duprac) |
| 22 November 1703 |
Wedding of René Rodrigue, son of Jean, with Élisabeth
Dauphin (daughter of René Dauphin and Suzanne Gignard), in Beauport
(contract Duprac, 18 November 1703) |
| 7 January 1707 |
Wedding of Vincent Rodrigue, second son of Jean, with Marie-Angélique
Giroux (daughter of Toussaint Giroux and Thérèse Leblanc),
in Beauport (contract Duprac, 12 September 1706) |
| 30 January 1711 |
Jean donates his remaining possessions to his son Jacques,
under the condition that he provides housing and food to his parents until
their death |
| 9 June 1711 |
Death of Suzanne Rodrigue in Beauport (burial in Beauport
on 10 June), at the age of about 36; her widower Vincent Guillot will
marry Marie Prévost in Québec on 25 November 1711 |
| 25 April 1712 |
Jacques Rodrigue nullifies his father's donation of January
1711, probably feeling that it was too great of a burden for him to care
for his parents (contract LaCetière) |
| 7 February 1713 |
Probably under great financial stress, Jean Rodrigue donates
his remaining possessions to his sons René and Vincent, under the
condition that they house, feed and take care of, their parents until
their deaths |
| 22 March 1715 |
Death of René Rodrigue in Beauport (burial in Beauport
on 23 March), at the age of 37; his widow Élisabeth Dauphin mill
marry Ignace Lépinay in Beauport on 11 November 1715 |
| 26 May 1715 |
Death of Anne Le Roy, wife of Jean Rodrigue, in Hôtel-Dieu
de Québec, at the age of about 74 |
| 20 August 1715 |
Jean Rodrigue donates his remaining possessions to his son
Vincent and his daughter-in-law Élisabeth Dauphin |
| 1718 |
Wedding of Jacques Rodrigue, Jean's third son, with Geneviève
Caron (daughter of Jean Caron and Marguerite Gagnon, and widow of Jean
Bernier), in Cap-St-Ignace (contract Bernard de Larivière, 7 July
1718) |
| 14 November 1720 |
Death of Jean Rodrigue in Beauport (burial in Beauport on
15 November), at the age of about 80 |
