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From: Denis Beauregard <>
Subject: Re: Pierre boucher's origin
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 20:15:13 GMT


In article <> Ann Nunn <> writes:
> > In reply to a query from Cindy Barclay:
> >
> >>> I can trace my ancestors back to Pierre Boucher (1622-1717). What I
> >>> can't find is his relationship to Marin Boucher. I have always thought
> >>> Marin was his father
> >
> > I don't believe anyone has found any connection between Marin and
> > Pierre
> > Boucher. You have to remember that Boucher is a very common French
> > surname,

Boucher is a name derived from an occupation (i.e. Butcher). So,
with no proof and no reason for thinking so, connecting 2 persons
just because they share a common family name is fiction, not genealogy.
Now, if there is some reasons (i.e. lived in the same area on both
sides of the sea, quoted in the same document frequently, one was
sponsor for the other, they are called "parents" in some record, etc.),
this is not fiction, but workable hypothesis for further works.

>The Canadian researcher Marcel Trudel in his Catalogue des Immigrants (1983),
>on pages 33, 43, 44, 45, gives the following information about BOUCHER:
>
>BOUCHER, Marin, frere de Gaspard (arrived in Canada in 1634 at) age 46, signed
>his name; he was a mason from Perche. His wife, Perrine Mallet, will come to
>join him in 1635. Marin Boucher is listed as one of the inhabitants of
Beaupre
>in 1641. He died and was buried at Chateau-Richer 29 March 1671.
>When Marin Boucher arrived in Canada in 1634, he brought with him his son by a
>former marriage, 17 year old Francois Boucher (who will marry Florence Gareman
>in 1641).
>
>Trudel does not give the parents of these Boucher brothers. He clearly
>believes though that Marin Boucher is the uncle of Pierre.

Since Trudel is not a Boucher specialist as far as we know, he probably
borrowed his belief somewhere else. So, it would be interesting to
find the original reference or to check in other data (like Parchemin or
PRDH for any record with both Boucher on them). Note that I did not
check myself in that book, so I just don't know the basis of his
assumption.

Nonetheless, a lot of works were made in Perche (like some books
by Mrs Pierre Montagne who died last year I think), so if no proven
link is yet known, such links are less and less likely.
Also, I remember of a link between 2 Gagnon (I think) families which
was by wives or mothers and not by the fathers (while the link to
a common Gagnon ancestor is possible, but not found in the
generation of the settlers).

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