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- ! <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~villandra/RenoP/1538.html>Cristophe CREVIER DIT LAMESLEEBorn: 17 Feb 1611, St Cande Le Jeune, Rouen, Normandy, FranceMarriage: Jeanne ENARD on 6 Nov 1633 in St Cande Le Jeune, Rouen, France- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -When the Bellerives came to Canada their name was Crevier. Christophe Crevier came from Rouen in 1639. His son, ancestor Nicolas3, becamethe seigneur of Bellerive (on the south shore of the St.Lawrence riveracross from Trois Rivi?res), after which the family name gradually changed to Bellerive. His wife Louise Lecoutre was a fille du Roy.He is described varously as a banker, a baker, and a merchant in 1652 in Trois Rivers. I don'tknow how he could have been a banker. He was also a fur trader.He arrived in Canada before 7 Dec 1639, listed as gofather of a little Algonquin child. His son Jean was kidnapped by Iroquois in 1639 and died in Albany. His son Antoine was alsokidnapped and died from knife wounds. He origininated from St. Jean, diocese of La Rochelle.Information on this family comes mostly from Rootsweb World Connect pages with info that looks mainly taken from World Connect and familysearch files.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- -From LaForestChristophe Crevier ditLameslee``First it was called Ile du Milieu because it was in the middle of the river of Trois Rivieres, where it flowed into the Saint-Lawrence. Then it was known as IleaPepin bcause in 1647 it was given to Guillaume Pepin and his partners PierreLefebvre, Guillaume Isabel and Sebastien clodier. Finally in 1655, the Jesuits divided it into seven parts,wo of which were assigned to Christopher Crevier dit Lameslee. From that time it was simply called Saint-Cristophe, and so it is knowntoday.According to Father Godbout, Christophe Crevier was one of the earliest and best known inhabitants of Trois Rivieres. In 1639, he became godfather to a youngIndian boy. In 1640, Jean __, wife of the baker Crevier, was godmother to a small Indian girl. On 14 May 1640, Crhistophe and Jean had their son baptized.Father Godbout wrote of the Crevier antecedents in the area of Rouen, France.Robert Creviermarried Jeanne Dauphin. He was a baker who died about 1583. They had two sons.Vincent was a baker like his father and lived at Saint-Cande-le-Vieil.Hughes married about 1560 Helene Levasseur. They lived in a house known as ``la Teste noire``(the Black Head), in the parish of Sainte-Croix-Saint-Ouen. Like hisfather and grandfather before him, Hughes was a baker. They had atleast one daughter and five sons, of whom:Nicolas was baptized at Sainte-Croix-Saint-Ouen on 19 Apr 1581.He was also a baker and married Anne Bazinet about 1607. They lived atSaint-Cande-le-Bieil-Jeune and had atleastfour children, one of whom:Christophe was baptized at Sainte-Cande-le-Jeune, Rouen, France, on 17 Feb 1611. He grew up in Rouen, where he metand married Jeanne Lenard or Enard. He was 22 and his bride was 14. They spent a few years at La Rochelle before embarking by 1639 at the latest, for New France. They arrived with a family of three, daughter Jeanne having been bornin France about 1636, and settled at Trois-Rivieres,where Christophe worked asa baker, but probably earned more as a fur trader.Sometime between 1642 and 1645 the family returned to France. We do not know why, but probably he madethis decision when his work contract ended. They must have stayed in Canada for atleast four hearsbecausefour sons were born there; Antoine, Francois, Nicolas and Jean. They lived at La Rochelle where Christophe wroked as a merchant. They hadfivemore children at yearly intervals. Christophe attended the marriage ofBarthelemy Gaudin at LaRochelle in 20 Jan 1647.However, on 1 Nov 1650,he was back in Canada, and bought a lot in the town of quebec, with 80feet of frontage onthenorth-west side of Rue Saint-Louis. It was a good lcoatoin, with the Palace of the Senechausee on one sideand the houseof Charles Phelippeaux on the other. Nevertheless it was resuld to Antone Leboheme dit Lalime for 600 livres, on 13 Jul1657.On 1 Nov 1650, Christophe sailed for France on the ship Le Chasseur. Back in La Rochelle, on 8 Jul 1651, the merchant Christophe Crevier paid a debt of 42 livres 14 sols to Marie Capin, wdow of Martin Poirier. The family returned to Quebec on one of the three ships that arrived there in Oct 1651.The family settled in the seigneurie noted above, near Beauport. On 19 Nov 1651,Christophe bought a piece of frontage, 4 by 24 arpents, from Mathurin Francetot, for 430 livres. In 1653, he ceded one arpent to Pierre Loignon, then in 1654 two more arpents to Pierre Paradis. In 1652, he obtained seven arpents of fronatge in thesame seigneurie, near the river known as Cabne-aux-Taupiers, from the Jesuits. This land was also resold in 1654 to Nicolas Le Vieux de Hauteville for 2500 livres because it had a house, barn and stable.His daughter Jeanne married Pierre Boucher in 1652.Cristophe had three sons killed by the Iroquois; the first on 25 May 1653, anotherin1664,and Jean in 1663. Something about Antoine being killed with knife blows as they hunted him down after he had become their servant.On9 Mar1655, Christophe received two parcels of land, each of two by five arpents, on the Ile Saint-Cirstophe, fromthe Jesuits, alont with Jacques Bertrand, Jacques Brisset, Pierre Dandonneau and Michel Lemay, all inhabitants of Trois-Rivieres. During the ensuing years Crevier bought out the shares of his neighbors, and the land became known as the``FiefSt-Cristophe``. IOn 20 Aug 1656, his son in law, Pierre Boucher, accepted these lots in trade for aa much larger piece whichwas washed by the waters of the Faverel River at Cap-de-la-Madeleine. Christophe Creiver acquiredother lands,chieflyinthe neighborhood of Trois-Rivieres and in the commune of Lac Saint-Pierre, in addition to woning his homestead in Trois-Rivieres, on the present day ocrner of rues Notre-Dame and des Casernes. At the end of his life he was ceded aseigneurie on the Gaspe peninsula, but he was too old to work it.``In June 1655, Benjamin Sulte reported that the first hearings of the newly established court of Trois-Rivieres opened with the Crevier-Laframboise case:Jeanne Enard, plaintiff, versus Marie Sedillot, defendant wife of Bertrand Fafard dit Laframboise, involving the care ofa calf by Enard on behalf of Sedillot. In payment, Jeanne Enard wanted half thecalf when it wasslaughtered. Judge Pierre Bouchard, faced by his complaining motherin law, rendered a judgment worthy of Solomon himself: The amount of the claim would be paid in kind to the plaintiff when the calf was kiled, specifically, some of the veal would be given to her. This resulted in an awared considerably less than desired by the plaintiff, thus reinforcing the reputation of Pierre Bouchard for bravery in the line of duty!``On 3 Nov 1657, Christophe was cited in the JournaldesJesuites as haivng led Iroqouis prisoners form Trois-Rivieresto Quebec. This resultedform an incident in which Christophe brought five Mohawk prisoners to the governor for questioning concerning the murder of three colonists at Montreal.Jean Christophe died between1 Dec 1662, when he made his will, and Nov 1663, when documents attest that he had died.Jeanne Enard lived several more years - active in business at least until 1675, and dealt in the fur trade and ``in conjuntion with her sonsand sons-in-law,in thelesshonorablebusinessof eau-de-vie (booze).`` This was one of the rasons for the exasperation and departure of Pierre Boucher from Trois-Rivieres to his Edeon on the Iles Percees (Boucherville).On 17 Apr 1675, Jeanne Enard gave Louis Gaulthierdela Venrendrye a homestead upriver from Trois-Rivieres, the same property in the commune of Lac Saint-Pierre ceded to Christopher Crevier in 1658. In the 1681 census, Jeanne Enard, age 62, lived in the region of Montreal, probably at the home ofherdaugher, Marguerite, widow of surgeon Michel Gamelin dit Lafontaine. Mentioned with her are her grandhilcren Marguerite and Jean Gamelin.
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