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Descendants of Marguerite Girard

Generation No. 1

1. MARGUERITE¹ GIRARD was born 1649 in Bougogne or Boulogne, France, and died Aft. February 18, 1715/16 in Hotel Dieu, Quebec, Canada. She married (1) PIERRE FORCIER Abt. 1674 in Sorel, Richelieu, Quebec, Canada, son of GUILLAUME FORCIER and SEBASTIENNE GAULTIER. He was born Abt. 1648 in St-Aubin, Nantes (Loire-Atlantic, France, and died May 18, 1690 in St-Francois-du-Lac, slain by the Iroquois. She married (2) RENE ABRAHAM-DESMARAIS November 30, 1690 in St-Francois-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada, son of JEAN ABRAHAM and JEANNE BRASSART. He was born 1645 in Secondigne, Delix Sevres, France, and died Aft. February 18, 1715/16.

Notes for PIERRE FORCIER:
Massacred by the Iroquois, was the fate of Pierre Forcier. He was killed at St-Francois-du-Lac, May 18, 1690. At that time the Iroquois were ttacking constantly. On August 5, 1689 the Lachine Massacre took place.

Historian Freland in his Histoire du Canada, recounts all the Iroquois incursions against the habitants of St-Francois-du-Lac, Sorel and the surrounding parishes. he does not mention the names of all those killed then, but his information covers the last months of the life of Pierre Forcier.

"Meanwhile the Iroquois' war parties started again to overrun the Montreal government, they even made it to the Trois-Rivieres government. Many of the Iroquois' canoes were going downstream by the Prairies River as far as the Montreal Island. A surgeon named Jaliat, spotted them and gave the alarm. Twenty habitants of "La Pointe-aupTrembles conducted by the Sir de Colombez, old lieutenant, ambushed them and charged vigorously. Twenty-five Iroquois survived but the French lost twelve men, among them was their leader."

"Another enemy party showed at the "Recancour" River and took the lives of fifteen or sixteen people, elderly, women and children."

"To try to stop these runs on the south shore, Fronterac put two detachents to guard those areas. One headed by Commander M. "de Lamotte", reformed captain. He would go for Trois Rivieres to St-Francois-du-Lac; the other under adventurer "de Clermont" also reformed captain, would go from Montreal to Sorel. Near Sorel, M. de Clermont surprised a band of Indians with five children prisoners, killed a few men and took the children back."

It was in one of thes attacks that Pierre Forcier was killed at St-Francois-du-Lac at the same time as Jacques Vacher. The interment was held the following day in the cemetery of the parish of St-Francois-du-Lac.

This information comes from the Dictionnaire National de Canadiens Fransais, Paptie Historique....Tome 111.

Children of MARGUERITE GIRARD and PIERRE FORCIER are:

	i.	MARIE-MARTHE² FORCIER, b. February 10, 1674/75, St-Francois-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada; d. February 25, 1702/03, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; m. PIERRE BILLERON-LAFATIQUE, October 08, 1691, Sorel, Richelieu, Quebec, Canada; b. 1666, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada; d. April 29, 1733, Montreal, QC.
2.	ii.	JOSEPH FORCIER, b. January 20, 1676/77, St-Francois-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada; d. May 06, 1741, St-Francois-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada.
	iii.	PIERRE FORCIER, b. March 25, 1680, Sorel, Richelieu, Quebec, Canada; d. January 01, 1688/89, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
3.	iv.	JACQUES-JACASSE FORCIER, b. February 10, 1681/82, St-Francois-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada; d. June 06, 1750, St-Michel-de-Yamaska, Quebec, Canada.
4.	v.	MARGUERITE FORCIER, b. April 06, 1684, Sorel, Richelieu, Quebec, Canada; d. May 03, 1761, St-Michel, Yamaska, Quebec.
	vi.	JEAN-BAPTISTE FORCIER, b. February 09, 1686/87, Sorel, Richelieu, Quebec, Canada; d. January 09, 1688/89, Yamaska, St-Francois-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada.
	vii.	CHARLOTTE FORCIER, b. April 03, 1689, St-Francois-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada; d. Unknown, Yamaska, St-Francois-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada.

Children of MARGUERITE GIRARD and RENE ABRAHAM-DESMARAIS are:

5.	viii.		PIERRE² ABRAHAM-DESMARAIS, b. May 21, 1691, St-Francois-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada; d. Unknown.
	ix.		JEAN-BAPTISTE ABRAHAM-DESMARAIS, b. Abt. 1696; d. Unknown; m. (1) CATHERINE PERINAULT, February 19, 1715/16, Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; d. Unknown; m. (2) MARIE-FRANCOISE DANIS, November 16, 1722, Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; b. September 29, 1695, Lachine, Quebec; d. Unknown.

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