Urbain Tessier dit Lavigne

Bef 1626 - Bef 1689  (< 63 years)

• Name	Urbain Tessier dit Lavigne
  Birth	Bef 10 Feb 1626  [1]
  Baptism	10 Feb 1626	Breil, Maine-et-Loire, France   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 21 Mar 1689  [1]
  Burial	21 Mar 1689	Montréal, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I6045	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	4 Dec 2019

  
  

  Father	Arthur Tessier,   b. France d. France
  Mother	Jeanne Meine,   b. France d. Bef 13 Mar 1648
  Marriage	Bef 1626  [1]
  Family ID	F3868	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Marie Archambault,   b. Bef 24 Feb 1636   d. Bef 16 Aug 1719 (Age < 83 years)
  Marriage	28 Sep 1648	Québec City, Québec   [1, 2]
  Children	1. Agnès Tessier,   b. Bef 23 Mar 1659   d. Bef 24 Jan 1733 (Age < 73 years)
  Family ID	F3821	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Mar 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Born about 1624 (census 1666) or 1619 (burial 1689). He was a sawyer. His 1651 grant of land in what became Montréal appears to have included portions of the Place d'Armes and of the Palais des Congrès de Montréal, site of the 2009 World Science Fiction Convention. From his Wikitree page, citing a Rootsweb page that appears to no longer exist: Urbain Tessier received a land grant in Montreal January 10, 1648, from M. de Maisonneuve. He was also one of the first five colonists to have a child baptized in Montreal. He also received a later grant. The following inscription is found sculptured into a building block of the facade of The Royal Trust Company, Rue St-Jacques in Montreal, Canada: THIS BUILDING IS ERECTED ON PART OF THE ORIGINAL CONCESSION TO URBAIN TESSIER DIT LAVIGNE BEING THE 8th GRANT MADE TO AN INDIVIDUAL IN THE ISLAND OF MONTREAL. Urbain Tessier was taken prisoner by the Iroquois March 24, 1661, along with others, and for some time the family did not know if he was alive or dead. Some of these prisoners were tortured and killed; Urbain Tessier lost a finger. He was finally liberated, through negotiations, along with the other last eight prisoners, by Père Simon Lemoine on August 31, 1661. Urbain Tessier dit Lavigne = Marie Archambault Paul Tessier = Marie-Madeleine Cloutier Marie Tessier = Paul Baudreau dit Graveline Marie-Josèphe Beaudreau dite Graveline = Pierre-Joseph Trudeau Jean-Louis Trudeau = Marie-Anne Larchevêque Louis Michel Trudeau = Marguerite Gagné Louis Trudeau = Marie-Louise Dupuis Joseph Louis Trudeau = Marguerite-Malvina Cardinal Charles Émile Trudeau = Grace Elliott Pierre Trudeau = Margaret Joan Sinclair Justin Trudeau

  
  

• Sources

  [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2024. [S376] Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy.