Jacques Esnoul de Livaudais

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Sieur de la Livaudais. La Livaudais is a small village near St. Jouan des Guerets, about five miles below Saint-Malo.

He was a sailor with letters of marque -- essentially, a royally-commissioned pirate for France. He died when his ship L'Entreprenant was lost at sea, and a memorial service was held for him at the cathedral of Saint-Malo on 14 Apr 1698.

Jacques married Marie Marguerite Guillamette Lajaloux du Verger on 18 Dec 1695 in Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France. Marie (daughter of Oliver le Jaloux and Guillemette Nicolas) was born in of St. Servan, Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jacques Julien Esnoul de Livaudais was born on 12 Sep 1696 in Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France; was christened on 2 Mar 1698 in Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France; died on 6 May 1773; was buried in St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Louisiana, New France.

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By around 1683 he was made Sieur des Croix, Croix being a place in Brittany. We don't have a death date for either Julien Esnoul or his wife Perrine Blanche, but their youngest child, Julien Hyacinthe Esnoul, was born 25 May 1687.

Gregory P. Livaudais (citation details below) believes that he was, like several of his ancestors and descendants, a sailor.

Julien married Perrine Blanche on 16 Jun 1668. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sieur de Longrais. Longrais is a spot on the map in Brittany.

Jacques married Perrine Sauvage after 22 Aug 1638. Perrine (daughter of Oliver Sauvage and Vician de la Guillemette Pommerel) was born on 6 May 1609. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Date of banns.

George married Urauman Bandeaux. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Urbaine, Ursumaine.

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Sieur de Pont-Robert. Pont-Robert is a hamlet in Saint-Malo, Brittany. He was a sailor. Gregory P. Livaudais (citation details below) speculates that his voyages took him to the South Seas, because that gaps between the birth dates of his four children are each about two years and a few months apart, just the amount of time to took to travel to and from the East Indies.

Briand married Marguerite Gousset on 7 Jul 1604. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Oliver married Vician de la Guillemette Pommerel. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He is the earliest Esnoul who can be established as a direct ancestor of the line of Esnouls who were almost entirely sailors, but the records of Paramé and Saint-Malo show other Esnouls in the 1400s who were probably related to these:

* Denis Esnoul, born 1426, was in 1488 an army officer in Saint-Malo.

* Olivier Esnoul was born in the 1440s and married Marie le Franc of Isle et Villaine in 1467.

* Olivier and Marie's son Guillaume Esnoul accompanied Jacques Cartier on his second (1535) expedition to what is now Canada -- as did Guillaume Sequart, brother of this François Esnoul's wife's father, Jehan de Sequart.

Also, this François Esnoul had a brother, also named Olivier Esnoul, who was born in 1525, and who married in 1565 Adrienne Apuril, whose father Betrand Apuril was also with Cartier on the 1535 expedition.

Cartier himself was from Saint-Malo, and his expeditions to Canada all set sail from there.

François married Jehanne de Sequart on 17 Sep 1559 in Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France. Jehanne (daughter of Jehan de Sequart) was born in 1522. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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His brother Guillaume Sequart was a companion of Jacques Cartier on Cartier's second (1535) trip to what is now Canada, during which they sailed up the St. Lawrence River, naming it, past where Québec City now stands, to the native village of Hochelaga, at which point Cartier climbed a nearby hill which he named Mont Réal.