Antoine Roy dit Desjardins

Bef 1635 - 1684  (> 49 years)

• Name	Antoine Roy dit Desjardins
  Birth	Bef 23 Mar 1635  [1, 2]
  Baptism	23 Mar 1635	Saint-Jean, Joigny, Yonne, France   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	10 Jul 1684	Lachine, Québec   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I32078	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2023

  
  

  Father	Olivier Roy,   b. Bef 2 Oct 1604   d. Bef 6 Dec 1661 (Age < 57 years)
  Mother	Catherine Baudard,   b. Bef 14 Feb 1602   d. Bef 20 Dec 1659 (Age < 57 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1635	Saint-Jean, Joigny, Yonne, France   [1]
  Family ID	F19027	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Marie Major,   b. Bef 26 Feb 1637   d. 8 Dec 1689 (Age > 52 years)
  Marriage	11 Sep 1668	Québec City, Québec   [1, 2]
  Children	+ 1. Pierre Roy,   b. Between 1669 and 1684   d. 29 Apr 1734 (Age ~ 65 years)
  Family ID	F19026	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Jan 2023

  
  

• Notes

  He was a soldier in the Froment company of the regiment of Carignan. He was murdered by his landlord, Julien Talua, after Tulua came home to find Roy in bed with his wife. After being convicted of murder and sentenced to death, Talua escaped and was never seen or heard from again. He was long thought to have abandoned his family in France in order to come to Quebec, but in 2017 Gail Moreau-DesHarnais published evidence that his two sons by his first wife, Catherine Byot, both died in France in 1661, during a famine, before Antoine Roy emigrated, and it seems likely that Catherine died around the same time as well.

  
  

• Sources

  [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2024. [S6781] Gail Moreau-DesHarnais, "Antoine Roy dit Desjardins: A Notorious Ancestor with Many French-Canadian and American Descendants." Michigan's Habitant Heritage 37:153, July 2016.