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Descendants of Guillaume Langlois

Generation No. 2

2. MARGUERITE² LANGLOIS (GUILLAUME¹)¹² was born Abt. 1600 in France, and died 17 December 1665 in Quebec ^13,¹⁴. She married (1) ABRAHAM MARTIN, DIT L'ECOSSAIS 24 October 1621 in Ville-de-Quebec, Quebec, Canada ^15,¹⁶, son of JEAN MARTIN. He was born 1587 in Scotland ¹⁷, and died 08 September 1664 in Quebec¹⁷. She married (2) RENE BRANCHE 17 February 1665/66 in Quebec, Quebec ^18,¹⁹, son of JEAN BRANCHE and JEANNE BARDON. He died Deceased in Quebec, PQ, Canada.

Notes for MARGUERITE LANGLOIS:
4-11-1997

Phyllis:

This is what I have for Marguerite Langlois ca 1592.

Marguerite m Abraham Martin dit L'ECossais she died 17 Dec 1665 in Quebec. Her parents were ?Guillaume Langlois b 1566 in Normandy, Orne, France. m bef 1606 to Jeanne Millet b 1570 Normandy, Orne, France, Guillaume died bef 25 July 1634.....Jette page 778 Abraham Martin dit L'Ecossais m vers 1620 France Langlois, Marguerite(...) d'origine inconnue; d: 17s19-12-1665 Quebec; soeur de Francoise m Pierre Desportes; re. 1665 Rene Branche.
!(BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: Renee Jette, "Dictionnaire Genealogique des Famillies du Quebec" 1983, University of Montreal, Page 778.

According to Jack Langlois of Harbor Springs, MI (e-mail doryl@freeway.net) Marguerite may well be the daughter of Nicolas Langlois and his wife Nicole Blondel. Nicolas was the conseiller et echevin de Dieppe and he was a member of the compagnie des Cent-Associes, which was formed to manage Nouvelle France. They were made up of merchants and individuals who were mostly interested in the profits of the fur trade. As her origin is from Lisieux, Normandie, France. Both Tanguay and Jette say that Francoise Langlois who married Pierre DesPortes the baker, and Marguerite were sisters. He also believes that Marie Langlois who married Jean Juchereau is Noel's sister and not Marguerite as Marie arrived on the same ship with her family as Noel in 1634 to Quebec. From documented sources in his possession, Noel Juchereau who witnessed Noel Langlois marriage to Francois Grenier, is the brother-in-law of Marie.

!MARRIAGE: (Two Mariages) First Marriage: Information in Jette, Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles du Quebec, page 778; Montreal, University of Montreal Press,(1983); available at the Library of Congress, Local History and Genealogy room, open stacks area, call number CS88.Q4J47 (1983) (gives m vers 1620 year and says marriage was in France).
Second Marriage: Jette, Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles du Quebec, page 163; University of Montreal Press, 1983; available at the Library of Congress, Local History and Genealogy room, open stacks area, call number CS88.Q4J47 (1983)(gives m 17-02-1665 Quebc (ct 11-01 Duquet) and says marriage was in France).

!DEATH: Information from Jette, Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles du Quebec, page 163; University of Montreal Press, 1983; available at the Library of Congress, Local History and Genealogy room, open stacks area, call number CS88.Q4J47 (1983). Says she remarried Rene Branche on 17 Feb 1665 in Quebec. d: 17 s 19-12-1665 Quebec Sans Posterite (means no descendants from this marriage.) The marriage contract was notarized by Duquet on 11 Jan 1665. She was the widow of Abraham Martin.

More About MARGUERITE LANGLOIS:
Burial: 19 December 1665, Buried Quebec, Quebec, Canada ²⁰
Fact 4: Name inscribed on Louis-Herbert Monument in Quebec City as one of first settlers ²¹
Fact 5: 1622, Mother of first male child born to European parents in Canada²¹
Fact 6: 1614, Came to Canada with Abraham Martin²¹
Fact 7: Probably related to Noel Langlois²¹
Fact 8: Sister of Francoise Langlois (wife of Pierre Desportes)²¹
Fact 9: Received half of Jean Cote's property at his death, other half to 6 children²¹

Notes for ABRAHAM MARTIN, DIT L'ECOSSAIS:
Notes for Abraham Martin dit L'ECossais:

!DEATH: "Ancestral File"-Computer based, CD-ROM collection Property of the Mormon Church, Family History Center, Portsmouth, NH Person ID#8WRB-CR

!COMMENT-BIRTH-LANDGRANT-DEATH MARRIAGE-BURIAL: From Joanne Meade"s Records; Born in Scotland in 1587. He arrived on the sailboat LeSallemandie at Tadoussac on 30 Aug 1620. He received a concession of ground that formed the plateau the Wolf and Montcalm fought, Plains of Abraham. It is said that his father was devoted to the cause of Mary Queen of Scotts. He was involved in a plot to free her from the English. The plot failed and he had to flee to France. He was said to be 75 years at his death. Renee Jette, "Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles du Quebec", 1983. Publ. University of Montreal. Covering years 1608 to 1730, Page 778.

!Also from "Your Ancient Canadian Family ties" Abraham Martin died on 8 Sept 1664, surnamed the "Scotchman" arrived from France on the sailboat "le Sallemande" at Tadoussac on 30 Aug 1620. He was accompanied by his wife (not named) and his daughter, Anne. He received a concession of ground that formed the plateau where Wolfe and Montcalm fought the battle of Quebec. This battle ground is still known as "Les Plaines d'Abraham", after the death of his first wife, he married Marguerite Langlois on 24 Oct 1621, a son of Abraham and of Marguerite Langlois was baptized under the name of Eustache.

! "Searching through the old records of New France" Families and settlers residing in Quebec after the surrender of 1629 (received the following from Dolores Grau 1 Sept 1998) Abraham Martin and his wife, Marguerite Langlois, and their children Anne, 25 years old; Marguerite, 5 years old; and Helene, 2 years old.

! From the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Vol 1:

Abraham Martin (dit l'Ecossais or Maitre Abraham), Pilot, was born in 1589 in France and died in Quebec on September 8, 1664. Martin arrived in New France with his wife, Marquerite Langlois, her sister Francoise and brother-in-law Pierre Desportes (the parents of Helene Desportes) about 1620. Martin may have been of Scottish descent or he might have used the sobriquet if he had been enrolled in military service or had been a member of an illegal organization: such names were used to avoid detection by officials looking for deserted soldiers or in case the records of an illegal organization were siezed. It is also possible that he acquired the name because he had made several voyages to Scotland as a young man. There is some question as to whether Martin was really an official pilot or not, although he was referred to as "King's pilot" in his own day. However, he did fish well down into the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

It is presumed that the Plains (or Heights) of Abraham are named after Martin. It is picturesquely said that the "Cote d'Abraham" was the path that Martin used to descend tot he St. Charles River to water his animals. His property amounted to 32 acres in all, 12 received from the Compagnie de la Nouvelle France in 1635 and 20 as a gift from Sieut Adrien Du Chense, ships surgeon to Pierre Legaedeur de Repentigny in1645. This land was sold by the Martin family to the Ursulines in 1667. It is possible that this is the same Martin who was employed by Jean de Biencourt and Du Gua de Monts as navigator on the coast of Acadia, although he would have been very young at the time. When David Kirke captured Quebec in 1629 and left his brother Lewis as governor until 1632, Martin and his family stayed on. In his later years, Martin fell in the estimation of his fellow citizens when he was accused of improper conduct with regard to a young girl in Quebec. He was imprisoned for this on February 15, 1649.

As far as can be found from the records, Abraham Martin and Marguerite Langlois had nine or ten children. Eustache, baptised October 24, 1621 and the godson of Eustache Boule, was the first child born in Canada. Marguerite, born January 4, 1624 and married May 22, 1638 to Etienne Racine, had many descendants including the two bishops Racine. Helene, born June 21, 1627, was goddaughter of explorer Samuel de Champlain. She married first Claude Etienne and then Medard Chouart Des Groseilliers. Charles Amador, born March 7. 1648, the godson of Charles de Saint Etienne de La Tour, was the second Canadian born priest. It is possible that Brother Dominique Scot, spoken of in the Jesuit Relation as having gone to the Huron Country as a young man, was also a son. It is also possible that a young man who is mentioned as having been in the Huron country at the same time (1634-35) was Eustache Martin.

ABRAHAM MARTIN

Abraham Martin, dit l'Ecossais of unknown origin, was born in France, in 1589. He arrived in this new country, 1620, with his wife Marguerite Langlois, Sister of Françoise Langlois, wife of Pierre Desportes (parents of Helen Desportes). After the hold of Quebec by Kirke, July 24, 1629, they returned in France, then returned to Quebec, in 1633.

Abraham was with Louis Hébert one of the first Canadian colonists. This famous colonist, royal pilot and pilot of ship of the Saint-Laurent, are the source of our national marine. It is he that throws elements of the first map of the stream.
The land of Martin Abraham, Headland Diamonds, receives the name of Abraham Plains, name then extended to the neighboring tray, on which is delivered the famous battle between Wolfe and Montcalm. A picturesque anecdote brings back that the Coast of Abraham was the trail borrowed by Martin, to descend to the Saint-Charles river to water his animals.
He was plowman and fisherman in the Saint-Laurent gulf, sometimes a pilot, that a drop of blood flows in veins of all French descendants.
His companion, Marguerite Langlois, gave him nine children, of which the one of Martin Eustache, the first son of a French, born in New France. It is the first baptism that is written down on the register of Our Lady of Quebec, on date of October 21, 1621. Eustache Martin, died very young.
Abraham Martin let by his girls, a very numerous posterity, of which three have a tie in this genealogy.
The second baptism that takes place in Quebec, is the one of Marguertie Martin, sister of Martin Eustache. His birth is recorded to the date of January 4, 1624. Marguerite Martin becomes, May 22, 1638, the wife of Étienne Racine, son of René Racine and Marie Loisel, of Fumichon, in Normandy,.

Three of the Racine children create ties with us, of which a son, Noel Racine, born in 1643. He married in 1667, Marguerite Gravel, born in 1651, daughter of Joseph-Masse Gravel, dit Brindelière, originally of St-savior of Dinan, in Brittany and Marguerite Travernier, originally of Saint-Madeleine of Ventrouze, in Randonnay.
Then a daughter, Marie-Madeleine Racine, born in 1646, married in 1661, Noel Simard, born in 1636, originally of Puymoyen in Charente, in France, son of Pierre Simard,dit Lombrette and Suzanne Durand.
The third is Jeanne Racine, born in 1660. She married in 1682, Jean Paré, born in 1656, sons of the forebears Robert Paré and Françoise Lehouxes. Their sons Thimothé Paré, born in 1700, married in 1725, Geneviève Barette, born in 1705.
The second Martin daughter, Marie, born in 1635, married Jean Cloutier, born in 1620, in St-Jean of Mortagne, in France, son of the forebears Zacharie Cloutiers and Xainte Dupont.
Three children Cloutier create ties, of which a son, Jean Cloutier, born in 1652. He married in 1679, Louise Bélanger, born in 1657, daughter of, François Bélanger and Marie Guyon.
Then, a daughter, Marie Cloutier, born in 1655, married in 1671, Jean-François Bélanger, born in 1648, brother of Louise.
Another Cloutier daughter, Xainte, born in 1661, married in 1681, Charles Fortin, born in 1656, son of Julian Fortin and Geneviève Gamache.
Then, the third Martin daughter, named Anne, born in 1645, married Jacques Raté, born toward 1631, originally of Laleu, in LaRochelle, in Aunis, France.
Three of the Raté children also establish ties that concern us. A first daughter, Marie-Anne, born in 1665, wife in 1683, Ignace Gosselin, been born in 1655, sons of forebears, Gabriel Gosselin and Françoise LeLièvres.
A boy, Pierre Raté, born in 1675, married in 1702, Jeanne Nolin, born in 1685, daughter of, Jacques Nolin, dit Deschatelets and of Françoise Chalifou.
Then finally, another daughter Louise, born in 1680, married in 1700, Louis Martin, born in 1671, son of another Martin pioneer, Joachin and of Anne-Charlotte Small.
Abraham Martin, dit L'Ecossais is buried in Quebec, September 8, 1664, at the age of 75 years. His widow, Marguerite Langlois, married February 17, 1665, René Branche, and is buried December 17, during the same year.

More About ABRAHAM MARTIN, DIT L'ECOSSAIS:
Fact 1: 30 August 1620, Arrived at Tadoussac by sailboat "LeSallemandie"

Children of MARGUERITE LANGLOIS and ABRAHAM MARTIN are:

EUSTACHE³ MARTIN, b. October 1621; d. Deceased.

More About EUSTACHE MARTIN:
Baptism: 24 October 1621, New France, Canada ²²

5.	ii.		MARGUERITE MARTIN, b. 04 January 1624/25, Notre Dame, Quebec, Quebec; d. 25 November 1679, La Visitation, Chateau Richer, Montmorency, Quebec.
	iii.		HELENE MARTIN, b. 21 June 1627, Quebec; d. Deceased; m. (1) CLAUD ETIENNE, 22 October 1640, Quebec, Quebec; d. Bef. September 1647; m. (2) MEDARD CLOUART, DES GROSELLIERS, 03 September 1647, Quebec.

More About MEDARD CLOUART, DES GROSELLIERS:
Fact 4: sieur Desgroseillers ²³

6.	iv.	MARIE-ANNE MARTIN, b. 10 April 1635, Notre Dame, Ville de Quebec, Quebec, Canada; d. 25 April 1699, La Visitation, Chateau-Richer, Montmorency, Quebec, Canada.
	v.	FATHER ADRIEN MARTIN, b. 22 November 1638, Quebec²³; d. Deceased.
7.	vi.	MADELEINE MARTIN, b. 13 September 1640, Notre Dame, Quebec, Quebec; d. 21 February 1687/88, St. Charles, Lachenaie, L'Assomption, Quebec.
	vii.	BARBE MARTIN, b. 04 January 1643/44, Notre Dame, Quebec, Quebec; d. 04 October 1660, Notre Dame, Quebec, Quebec; m. PIERRE BIRON, 12 January 1654/55, Notre Dame, Quebec, Quebec; d. Deceased.
8.	viii.	ANNE MARTIN, b. 23 March 1645/46, Notre Dame, Quebec, Quebec; d. 14 January 1717/18, St. Pierre, St. Pierre, Ile Orleans, Quebec.
	ix.	CHARLES-AMADOR MARTIN, b. 06 March 1648/49, Quebec²³; d. 19 June 1711, Ste-Foy, Ile d'Orleans, Quebec, Canada²³.

3. FRANCOISE² LANGLOIS (GUILLAUME¹)²⁴ was born Abt. 1600 in France ²⁵, and died Aft. 18 May 1629 in France²⁵. She married PIERRE DESPORTES Aft. 1620 in Diocese de Lisieux, Normandie, France ²⁶. He died Deceased.

Notes for FRANCOISE LANGLOIS:
!INFORMATION: from Jack Langlois Feb 1998 According to Drouin Abraham Martin married Marguerite & Pierre DesPortes married Francoise. Both married in France Tanguay & Jette say that the two women were sisters.

More About FRANCOISE LANGLOIS:
Fact 4: August 1620, Mother of first French child (Helene) born in New France ²⁷
Fact 5: Sister to Marguerite Langlois (wife of Abraham Martin)²⁷
Fact 6: Probably related to Noel²⁷
Fact 7: Abt. 1620, Came to New France²⁷

Notes for PIERRE DESPORTES:
!OCCUPATION: Baker

!Listed on the monument to Louis Hebert; Pierre Desportes and his spouse Francoise Langlois.

Child of FRANCOISE LANGLOIS and PIERRE DESPORTES is:

HELENE³ DESPORTES, b. August 1620, Quebec, Canada; d. Deceased.

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