Alexis Fournier dit Prefontaine

1791 -

• Name	Alexis Fournier dit Prefontaine  [1]
  Birth	20 Aug 1791	Longueuil, Québec   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I33128	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Étienne Fournier dit Prefontaine,   b. Abt 1758, Chambly, Québec d. 25 Jan 1831, Longueuil, Québec (Age ~ 73 years)
  Mother	Marie Josèphe Viau dit l'Esperance,   b. Abt 1762   d. 3 May 1796 (Age ~ 34 years)
  Marriage	30 Sep 1782	Saint-Antoine-de-Pade, Longueuil, Québec   [2, 3]
  Family ID	F19614	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Marie-Louise Patenaude,   b. 9 Jan 1798, Longueuil, Québec d. 14 Aug 1871, Chateauguay, Québec (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	30 Oct 1815	Saint-Antoine-de-Pade, Longueuil, Québec   [2, 3]
  Children	+ 1. Wilfred Prefontaine,   b. Bef 28 Jun 1834   d. Aft 2 Sep 1895, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon (Age > 61 years)
  Family ID	F19559	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Denis Beauregard (citation details below) has the Alexis Fournier who married Marie Patenaude in Longueuil on 30 Oct 1815 as a separate individual from the Alexis Fournier dit Préfontaine who married Marie Vincent nearly three years earlier at the same place, on 18 Jan 1813. He gives Marie Patenaud's husband the parents "Simon & Josette Viau dit l'Esperance", with no further information about Simon and Josette, and he gives Marie Vincent's husband the parents Étienne Fournier dit Préfontaine and Marie Josèphe Viau dit l'Esperance. But it would appear the two Alexis Fourniers are the same person. Marie Vincent died on 9 Feb 1814 at Longueuil, and Alexis Fournier dit Prefontaine's parents were indeed Étienne (not Simon) Fournier dit Préfontaine and Marie Josèphe Viau dit l'Esperance. The handwritten record, in the online Drouin Collection, of Alexis Fournier dit Préfontaine's 30 Oct 1815 marriage to Marie Patenaude is extremely hard to read, but nothing it it looks like the name Simon, whereas on line 17 of the right-hand page there is writing that can easily be made out to read "Etienne Fournier," and on the next line we can see "Viau dit L'esperance".

  
  

• Sources

  [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2025. [S5199] Genealogy of Canada site. [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2025., date and town only.