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Pierre Micheau
who came from France in 1656 and married Marie Ancelin in 1667, christened
their first son Pierre, which was not unusual. Pierre (the elder)
was enjoying good health and was growing normally when the fifth child
in the family was born on February 2, 1681. This new-born child was
also christened Pierre (...the younger) seven days after his birth,
at the time of the visit of missionary Thomas Morel. What was then
the idea to use the same first name for the second time ? Unfortunately,
our ancestor did not leave any information to explain that. Pierre
"dit
le cadet" (so-called the younger), which is the first name he will always
be known by, will be the last of Pierre Micheau's children to be born in
l'Ile-aux-Grues.
In 1692, when
the family finally settled in its last place of residence, Pierre (the
younger) was eleven years old; Pierre (the elder) who was now twenty
and two other brothers, Jean and Joseph, were about to start
on their own. Since his sister, Marie-Anne, married to Pierre
Boucher, had decided to settle even further, in l'Islet-du-Portage (today
Saint-André), Pierre (the younger) joined her after his marriage
with Madeleine Cadieu (Quebec city, October 20, 1704). Madeleine
was the daughter of Jean-Charles Cadieu and the late Madeleine Nepveu (passed
away in 1697).
Pierre
the younger was never received any granted land from the Lord of the domain
of Kamouraska, just like his sister Marie-Anne. On the 8th of September
of 1705, about one year after his marriage, he was granted by Anne de
Grandville de Soulanges, Lord of the domain of L'Islet-du-Portage,
a nine acre piece of land fronting St. Lawrence river. Title-deeds were
found in his son Etienne's personnal papers disclosed by Gérard-Yvan
Michaud from Saint-André. All the children of Pierre
and Madeleine Cadieu were baptized in Kamouraska where there was
a resident priest. They gave birth to seven sons and six daughters,
born between 1706 and 1730 or so. Despite the death of five of his
children, Pierre the younger had numerous descendants by four of
his sons who got married: Pierre fils (so-called Pierre son)
and his two wives Anne Dupéré and Charlotte Miville
had fourteen children; Dorothée and Jean-Baptiste
Moreau, eleven children; Geneviève and Toussaint
Délorier, ten children; Jean-Baptiste and Françoise
Chassey, eight children; Charlotte and her two husbands Gabriel
Paradis and Jean Hyard, nine children; Étienne
and Marie Nadeau, six children; Marie-Ursule and Pierre
Morin, seven children.
Madeleine
Cadieu will be buried in Kamouraska on April 6, 1770 having survived
her husband ten years. . Pierre le cadet was buried
on April 18, 1760, in the church beneath his pew, in the presence of Alexandre
Michaud, his son and of Joseph Michaud, his nephew.
