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Born between
his brother, Pierre, the youngest, and his sister Élisabeth,
Louis
saw the light of day at the end of 1683 or at the beginning of 1684.
Since 1672, his mother Marie Ancelin, had given birth to a child
every two years, without ever going beyond an interval of 35 months.
At this time, missionnaries who moved on both shores of the St. Lawrence
river temporarily registered the baptisms on memories to retranscribe them
thereafter in the registers of Quebec. It is supposed that some were
lost. No trace either of the birth of this child.
Since 1682,
the family had left l'Ile-aux-Grues and had settled on the south shore
of the St. Lawrence river. On the 24 January 1683 took place a gathering
of settlers to consider the building of the church of Cap-Saint-Ignace.
Pierre Micheau promises to contribute four days of work, to supply
200 stakes to enclose the cemetary and in addition five rough planks which
would ensure, with others, the preservation of the building. On October
18, 1704, Marie Ancelin hands over to her son, Louis,
a piece of land of four arpents and 7 1/2 perches, situated in Greater
Kamouraska, east of her own holdings. A few lots had been granted
to her to enable to settle her last two sons. Louis is then
ready to seek a wife whom he finds on Lauzon. Françoise
Levasseur accepts to leave her father, Laurent, and Marie
Marchand, her mother, on October 22, 1708. The young husband,
in the presence of the notary Janneau, who draws up the marriage contract,
declares his age : he is 24 years old. His wife, Françoise,
baptized on the december 2, 1691, is in her seventeenth year.
Louis
and Françoise will be happy parents of three children : André
unfortunately deceased at the age of eighteen and buried in the cemetary
in Kamouraska on June 12, 1730. André's baptismal records
as well of those of his brother, Louis, and his sister, Élisabeth,
disappeared in the fire which destroyed the Kamouraska registers for 1709
to 1727. On February 4, 1717, because of his family connection with
his nephew, Louis is a witness to the guardianship agreement of
Antoine, son of his brother Joseph, widowed after the death of Catherine
Dionne, his first wife. This is, we believe, the last appearance
of Louis because on May 31, 1719, Françoise Levasseur
appears before notary Janneau who draws up the marriage contract of a new
union with François Autin.
Louis,
deceased probably in 1718 at the age of 34, is the first of Pierre and
Marie's
children to disappear so young. The date of his burial was lost among
the burned registers. On November 15, 1734, Louis, son of
the late Louis and Françoise Levasseur, married
Geneviève,
daughter of Pierre Albert and Louise Grondin, in the church in Kamouraska.
Ten children will be born of this wedlock. Three sons, Louis-Jean,
baptized in 1744 will be buried in 1745 in the Kamouraska cemetary;
Jean-Baptiste, baptized in 1746, will live only 10 years, buried on 1756;
finally, Louis, the last son, baptized in 1752, will be buried three years
later in 1755. The descendants of Louis Michaud, fifth son
of Pierre and Marie Ancelin, are all women. Élisabeth,
daughter of Louis and
Françoise Levasseur, marries
in 1738, Jean-Bernard Lévesque, son of Pierre-Joachim and Angélique
Letartre. Their five children were all baptized in Rivière-Ouelle.
