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Personal data Guillaume Dit Lachapelle Renaud 

• He was born on January 20, 1644 in Bruneval, St Jouin Sur Mer, Le Havre, Normandie, France.
• He was christened about 1675 in France.
• He was baptized on April 11, 1645 in Saint-Jouin-sur-Mer, Archev. de Rouen, Normandie (Seine-Maritime), France.
• Occupations:
• Soldat, officier ou sous-officier de la Compagnie Colonelle au Régiment de Carignan.
• Soldat (1665) au Régiment de Carignan-Salières, cie de Colonelle..
• (Alternate Birth) on April 11, 1645 in St-Jouin-Sur-Mer, Rouen, France.
• (Alternate Death) on January 5, 1709 in Charlesbourg, Quebec, Canada.
• (Baptême) on April 11, 1645 in St-Jouin-sur-Mer, Le Havre, Rouen, Normandie, Fran.
• (Reference Number - wikitree.privacy) : 60.
• (Reference Number - wikitree.user_id) : 8002453.
• He died on January 5, 1709 in St-Bernard, Charlesbourg, Canada, Nouvelle-France, he was 64 years old.
• He is buried on January 6, 1709 in Charlesbourg, Québec, Canada.
• A child of Guillaume Renaud

Household of Guillaume Dit Lachapelle Renaud

(1) He is married to Marie de la Mare.

They got married on November 27, 1668 at Québec, Canada, he was 24 years old.

Spouse: Guillaume Renaud

Child(ren):

1. Louis Rénaud  1669-1735 
2. Jean-Bernard Renaud  1671-1715 
3. Marie-Anne Renaud  1673-1703
4. Marie-Louise Renaud  1676-1708 
5. Pierre Renaud  1679-1721
6. Marie-Jeanne-Elisabeth Renaud  1682-> 1723
7. Marie Marguerite Renaud  1685-1767 
8. Joseph Renaud  1687-1689
9. Marie Therese Renaud  1689-1748
10. Joseph Renaud  1692-1737
11. Joseph Renaud  1692-1737

Child(ren):

1. Jean Baptiste Pierre Renaud  1707-1765

Notes about Guillaume Dit Lachapelle Renaud

Guillaume Renaud is especially noteworthy because of his astonishing and rapid rise up the social ladder. Having arrived in Canada in August, 1665 as a simple soldier in Carignan's regiment, in which he was a member of Colonelle's company, he was let go in 1667.

He first obtained a job as a domestic worker in the home of Leandre Chartier de Lothiniere, who was the civil and criminal lieutenant general [lieutenant-general civil et criminel] of the senelchalsy [seneschal's jurisdiction] of Quebec. Chartier de Lothiniere owned a large tract of land, of which Guillaume Renaud became the tenant farmer. However, the attraction of the land and the desire to become someone were evidently irresistible for your ancestor. In 1668, he married Marie de la Mare and settled in the village of Saint-Bernard in Charlesbourg.

The early years seem to have been quite difficult, since in 1681, after thirteen years of clearing and planting, your ancestor had only eight arpents [one arpent equals roughly one acre] under cultivation and two animals with horns.

Guillaume Renaud was not without education. He probably spelled phonetically like most of his contemporaries, but he had nice handwriting, as we can tell from his signature in contemporary documents. Sometimes he wrote his name "Renaut," and sometimes "Renaugt".

Guillaume Renaud was respected by his contemporaries. Thus, he became churchwarden in Charlesbourg, a position he occupied from 1683 to 1686. Somewhat later, in 1704, the Jesuits, who were lords of Notre-Dames-des Anges, needed a financial prosecutor [procureur fiscal] in order to administer justice in their domain, and conferred this responsibility on your ancestor, Guillaume Renaud. He must not have exercised this responsibility for long, for he died in Charlesbourg five years later.

In my reading, I have yet to find a definitive statement of the meaning of this name. It appears both as a first and surname in French cultures. One has to notice the similarity to the French word for fox "renard". There are tales of people from Germany, whose name meant fox, having it changed to "Renaud" or a variant.

Origin:

As stated above, the name appears to be of French origin. My ancestor, Guillaume Renaud, came from France to New France (Québec) in 1665 as a soldier to secure the new settlements from attacks from the Iroquois. His descendants account for many of the Renauds who lived and still in the Detroit River region of Ontario, Canada and Michigan. In addition to Guillaume, there appears to have been two other Renauds, Jean Renault, and Pierre-Andre Renoud. If you have information about this, please send us information.

More About Guillaume Regnault and Marie de La Mare:

Marriage: November 27, 1668, Our Lady of Quebec.

Marriage Fact: Married by F. Fillion.

Children of Guillaume Regnault and Marie de La Mare are:

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