Pierre dit Le Grand Pierre Chauvin

Notes:

Emigrated in the 1653 Contingent.

Pierre married Marie Marthe Hauteux on 16 Sep 1658 in Montréal, Québec. Marie (daughter of René Hauteux and Françoise Lachamallie?re) was born about 1636 in Saint-Germain, Noyen-sur-Sarthe, Sarthe, Pays-de-la-Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Marie Marthe Chauvin.

Marie married Nicolas Baron dit Lupien on 16 Nov 1676 in Montréal, Québec. Nicolas (son of Lupien Baron and Jeanne Thiesson) was born before 17 Jun 1645; was christened on 17 Jun 1645 in Saint-Pierre et Paul, Villenauxe-la-Grande, Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France; died between 31 Oct 1697 and 11 May 1698 in Longue-Pointe, Montréal, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Barbe married Ignace Hubert dit Lacroix on 20 May 1687 in Boucherville, Québec. Ignace (son of Nicolas Hubert and Marguerite Landreau) was born on 14 Aug 1656; was christened on 14 Aug 1656 in Montréal, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Michelle married Jacques Neveu on 24 Oct 1695 in Montréal, Québec. Jacques (son of Philippe Neveu and Denise Sevestre) was born on 6 Mar 1663; was christened on 10 Mar 1663 in Québec City, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Denis Beauregard (citation details below) calls him "Jacques Chauvin de Charleville", but as noted below by the Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, no evidence sems to exist that he used a "dit" name.

From the Dictionary of Louisiana Biography (citation details below):

CHAUVIN, Jacques, colonial settler. Chauvin’s role in the early Louisiana colony was largely overshadowed by the contributions of three brothers. Baptized at Montreal, Canada, on May 17, 1672, Jacques and a younger brother Joseph Chauvin de Léry (q.v.) arrived in Louisiana with the second expedition of Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville (q.v.). Both appear to have been among those Canadians who accompanied Iberville to France to seek the king’s support for a second Le Moyne expedition, as their names appear on the roll of Canadians ordered by the king to embark on the Renommée at La Rochelle, October 17, 1699. The 1700 census of the garrison at Biloxi reports that Chauvin received an annual wage of 30 livres. After the colony’s site was transferred to Mobile Bay in 1702, he appears periodically in the records of governmental affairs -- sometimes with contemptuous references, made by political opponents, to his illiteracy and humble origins. In 1704, Chauvin was one of the several “private settlers” who shipped a small quantity of goods to Veracruz, Mexico, for black market sale, to boost the economy of the starving Mobile post. The circa 1706 map of Fort Louis de Mobile assigns “Chauvin, l’aîné” a lot on Le Marché Square, adjacent to his younger brother Nicolas Chauvin de La Frénière, who had come south from Montreal to join him. In 1708, Jacques was one of eight witnesses called to testify on behalf of Jean Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (q.v.), when that leader was accused of incompetency and mismanagement. (Chauvin’s testimony also reveals that, unlike his Louisiana brothers, he used no dit name (sobriquet) at the time; and no evidence of a dit for him has been found elsewhere.)

Beyond this point, Chauvin’s life is an enigma. In 1708, he sold a dwelling at the post and virtually disappears from colonial records. The meager subsequent facts that are known all center upon his marriage, for which no record is extant. That union, prior to 1715, made Chauvin the brother-in-law of the region’s wealthiest settler, Jean Baptiste Baudreau dit Graveline, a Canadian cattle rancher of Dauphin Island and subsequently Pascagoula. Their wives were sisters -- Chauvin marrying Marie Anne de la Vergne and Graveline marrying Marthe de la Vergne (a relationship known only because Chauvin’s son and daughter petitioned the Superior Council in 1747 to grant them financial control over their late aunt’s husband who was by then senile). This suggests that Chauvin may have followed Graveline to then-remote Pascagoula -- a supposition supported by the aberrational baptisms of Chauvin’s two children. His daughter Marie Anne was baptized at Mobile on January 13, 1715, at which time the child was said to have been born there on January 3, 1715; her godmother was the well-placed Marie Magdelaine de la Mothe, daughter of the colony’s governor Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (q.v.). However, under the date January 13, 1727, the Mobile registers record the baptism of a son born to Jacques and Marie Anne and cite the child’s birth on January 9, 1715; godparents were prominent residents of New Orleans. The possibility that both children were baptized on the same January 13 and that one of the records was later entered out of sequence seems nil; the 1715 godmother was not in the colony in 1727, and the 1727 godparents were not in the colony in 1715 (nor did the village of New Orleans then exist). The connection with Graveline --and by extension with his kinsman, Simon dit La Pointe of Canada and La Rochelle -- suggests that the de la Vergne sisters may have been part of the Canadian De la Vergne family which sent at least two sons to New Orleans by the 1720s (Jean de la Vergne, son of Pierre de la Vergne and Françoise Simon; and Louis de la Vergne, son of Louis de la Vergne and Marie Simon; Louis, Jr., witnessed Simon dit La Pointe’s 1723 marriage at New Orleans). Whatever the origins of Jacques Chauvin’s wife or the place of their residence, both he and she were dead by January 30, 1736, when their daughter wed for the second time.

Jacques married Marie Anne de Lavergne about 1714 in Mobile, New France (now Alabama). Marie died before 30 Jan 1736. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Suzanne married Bastien Vanasse dit Bastien on 7 Jan 1718 in Louiseville, Québec. Bastien (son of François Vanasse and Jeanne Fourier) was born on 27 Jan 1682; was christened on 2 Feb 1682 in Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Québec; died on 7 Mar 1755; was buried on 8 Mar 1755 in Maskinongé, Maskinongé, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jacques married Marie Catherine Neveu on 5 Apr 1728 in St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Louisiana, New France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marie married Jacques Hubert dit Bélair on 5 Apr 1728 in St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Louisiana, New France. Jacques (son of Ignace Hubert dit Lacroix and Barbe Chauvin) was born on 16 Nov 1696; was christened on 16 Nov 1696 in Montréal, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Find a Grave gives her parents as Joseph Chauvin (1674-1732) and Hyppolite Mercièr (1693-1726), but with no burial details or other substantiation. It appears to be incorrect; other and better sources agree that her parents were Jacques Chauvin and Marie Anne de Lavergne.

See the entry on her father for the fact that neither she nor he used the "dit" name "de Charleville".

Marie married Valentin Alexandre DeVince about 1731. Valentin was born in 1705; died on 23 Jun 1735 in Mobile, New France (now Alabama). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marie married Lt. Jean Grégoire Volant on 30 Jan 1736 in Mobile, New France (now Alabama). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jean married Élisabeth Sicard on 22 Apr 1751 in Maskinongé, Maskinongé, Québec. Élisabeth (daughter of Jean Sicard de Carufel and Geneviève Raté) was born about 1712; died on 9 Feb 1799; was buried on 11 Feb 1799 in Maskinongé, Maskinongé, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marie-Marthe married Louis Gérard Pellerin in 1757. Louis (son of Gérard Pellerin and Françoise Ruellan) was born about 1729; was christened on 2 Jan 1730 in New Orleans, Louisiana, New France; died about 9 Apr 1785; was buried in St. Louis Cemetery Number 1, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1737, Mobile, New France (now Alabama)

Marte married Pierre Antoine Bienvenue on 5 Jun 1754. Pierre (son of Philippe Bienvenue and Francoise Allaire) was born before 22 Mar 1702; was christened on 22 Mar 1702 in Plomeur, Bigouden, Finistère, Brittany, France; died on 13 Nov 1771; was buried in St. Bernard Memorial Gardens, Chalmette, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]