Our Fournier AncestorsOur Fournier Ancestors
According to our researches up to this day,
24 persons named Fournier crossed the Atlantic Ocean from 1650 to 1800. Most of these Fournier contracted marriage after their arrival in New-France. Of these 24 Fournier, 10 are considered first ancestors, leaving lines of descendants traceable to the present.--9 others left descendants for 2, 3 or 4 generations before becoming extinct, because the me had no male descendants or had only daughters who married. Three other Fournier did not have descendants and two other Fournier remained celibate.
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It appears that the first of our ancestors having come to New-France would be Guillaume Fournier. The date of his arrival is uncertain, because we have found no documents proving his arrival in this country before his marriage to Françoise Hébert, in Quebec, on November 20th 1651. Guillaume Fournier and Françoise Hébert left the most numerous line of descendants.
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The second Fournier to arrive in this country was Jacques Fournier de la Ville. He married Marguerite Crevier in Three-Rivers, on May 1657. This marriage nullified a few years later. There was no child from this marriage. Jacques Fournier's second marriage was to Hélène du Figuier, in Quebec, on October 24th 1663. Several children were born from this marriage. However, we have not traced descendants after the third generation bearing the name Fournier.
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The third Fournier is another Guillaume, who married to Marie Hallé, having signed a contract of marriage on July 26th 1664, before the notary Duquet. (Cf. inventory of marriage coantracts of the French Regime, in the Judicial Archives of Quebec). We have found no baptism of a child for this marriage, nor any trace of signature.
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- Nicolas Fournier reached New-France in 1664, on a ship named the "Noir de Hollande". He worked as a male servant before his marriage. Nicolas married Marie Hubert, in Quebec, on July 30th, 1670. They left the second most important line of descendants in Canada and New-England.
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On the same ship, the "Noir de Hollande", also brought another Fournier in 1664, Jean dit des Forges. We find the signature of this Jean notably as a witness at the occasion of a mariage contract. However, this Jean seems to have remained celibate.We have no trace of a possible marriage.
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The next Fournier who married in New-France is Jean Fournier dit Robert. The date of his marriage with Marie Crispin, is noted as being 1667 and the place is unknown. It seems that they had no children.
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The seventh Fournier to establish himself in New-France is Claude Fournier. He married Jeanne Renault, in Château-Richer, on November 11th, 1681. We trace their descendance down to five generations.
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Another Fournier who established himself in an other region, was Antoine Fournier dit Préfontaine, who married Marie Roncelay, in Boucherville, on February 11th 1688. He married again, on July 16th 1696, Marie-Madeleine Ozannes, in Notre-Dame Church, Montreal. Antoine Fournier and Marie Ronceley left descendants bearing sometimes the name of Fournier and sometimes the name of Prefontaine from 1800, to finaly bear almost uniquely the name of Prefontaine from 1925 on, with a few exceptions.
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On April 30th 1690, we find the marriage of Jean Fournier to Anne Massard. The marriage contract was signed in the presence of Gilles Rageot, Notary. We have traced no descendants of this couple.
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Later Jules Le Fournier Du Vivier, who married Madeleine-Thérèse Gadbois, on August 16th 1692, in Montreal. He had descendants for two or three generations, mostly named Du Vivier.
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The next Fournier marriage was that of Pierre Fournier De Belval, in Quebec, to Marie Ancellin, on July 30th 1693. Their descendants established themselves in the region of the Richelieu and Sorel. Pierre Fournier and Marie Ancellin left descendants up to our days, bearing mostly the name of Belval from 1800, with a few exceptions.
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About thirty years passed before we find trace of another Fournier who established himself in our country. Lyvrain Fournier dit Liévain married Marie-Suzanne Fauteux, on April 6th 1728, in Pointe-aux-Trembles. Their descendants established themselves in the regions of Sorel and Portneuf; after four generations, we loose track of them.
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A Fournier whose the date of arrival in this country and the date and place of his marriage are unknown is Joseph Fournier, married to Marie Jolliet. However, their descendants are found for four generations in the regions of Montreal and l'Acadie, in St-Jean county.
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Between 1740 and 1750, three other Fournier came, took root and married in this country. Pierre Fournier married Françoise Couture, in Beaumont, on February 5th 1743, and established himself in Montmagny. Pierre and Françoise Couture left an important descendance up to our days.
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In 1747, a young soldier of the "La Marinière" Compagny, Louis Fournier des Carrières, married Marie-Anne Couillard, on July 3rd 1747, in Beauport. Louis And Marie-Anne left descendants on three generations.
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At the end of that decade, another soldier, "Caporal de Lanaudière", Pierre Fournier dit Brisefer married Marie-Louise Liénard, in Quebec, on September 29th 1749. We trace their descendants for two generations.
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The next one reaching Quebec was Eméry Amiens, who, after arriving in this country, took the name of his mother: Fournier, and, later, the family bore the name of Fournier dit Larose. Eméry married, Marguerite Guénet, in Quebec on February 14th 1757. Eméry and Marguerite Guénet left descendants bearing, from the beginning of the 19th Century, either the name of Fournier or that of Larose.
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Coming from Brittany, Pierre Fournier dit Lapierre, another soldier, who married firstly Catherine Audon-Rochefort, on May 18th 1757, in Lachine. He married secondly Suzanne Campagnac on April 25th 1763, in Montreal. Of these two marriages, we have found trace of only two daughters.
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Several Fournier, soldiers or civilians, establish themselves in New-France after the Seven Years War. Maurice Fournier, gunner-bomber, married Marie-Josephte Forget/LeNormand, in Varennes, on February 18th 1760. He established himself later in Levis. We find his descendants for two generations.
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Joseph Fournier, coming from "Franche-Comté" marries Françoise Carlos, on January 26th 1761, in Cap-St-Ignace where they established themselves. Joseph Fournier and Françoise Carlos did not had a great number of descendants but there are a number of them up to our time.
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Another Fournier, Pierre, whose origin is unknown,, married Marie-Josephte De LaVoye, in St-Joachim, on May 31st 1762. As yet, we have not traced any descendants of this marriage.
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A soldier in the Queen's Regiment, Augustin Fournier dit La Grenade married, Thérèse Demers after the war, in Chambly, on November 24th 1760. Even if their line is not very numerous, we can follow it up to our days.
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The last soldier of this war, Claude Fournier dit L'Esprit, born in Languedoc, married Marie-Anne Besset on June 30th 1772, in Chambly. Claude and Marie-Anne Besset left a large line of descendants in the Outaouais Region and elsewhere.
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The last name on this list of Fournier Ancestors is Étienne Fournier, who married Denise Debron. We know little about this ancestor. We find Baptism registrations in 1789, in L'Assomption. The descendance of Etienne Fournier and Denise Debron is the smallest, transmitted by three sons that we can follow this line up to our days.
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