Jean Leclerc b. about 1615

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about 1615 birth: Anqueville, Dieppe, France

21 July 1630 marriage: St-Rémy de Dieppe, Normandie, ♀ Perette Caperon Brunet (Brunel) [Brunet]

1632 child birth: ♀ Marie Leclerc [Leclerc] b. 1632

1634 child birth: ♂ Nicholas Leclerc [Leclerc] b. 1634

24 August 1635 child birth: St-Rémi, Dieppe, Rouen Normandie, France, ♂ Jean Leclerc (le Boutelleau) [Leclerc] b. 24 August 1635 d. 13 April 1708

1637 child birth: ♀ Anne Leclerc [Leclerc] b. 1637

1638 child birth: ♀ Marie Leclerc [Leclerc] b. 1638

10 February 1639 child birth: St-Rémi-de-Dieppe (Normandie) Seine-Maritime 76217, /40, ♀ Marguerite Leclerc [Leclerc] b. 10 February 1639 d. about 24 January 1704

1645 child birth: ♀ Jeanne Leclerc [Leclerc] b. 1645

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Had name listed as Andre. Need to find the reference where that came from.

There are numerous branches of the LeClerc families of North America. Jette mentions at least 6 ancestors as coming from different parts of France, all carrying the name LeClerc. They arrived in new France between the years 1662 and 1680. During the 17th century, in the parish of Sainte-Famille on the Ile D`Orleans, there were two Jean LeClercs in residence. The one married to Marie Couet arrived in Canada in 1669. They had one daughter, named Genevieve, married to Thomas Asselin. It was this Jean LeClerc that was known as "Le Bouteleau". It is the second Jean LeClerc living at I.O. that is our ancestor. He was originally from Normandy and had a large family. Contrary to the great majority of immigrants from this period, our Jean came to Canada already married. His wife was Marie, the only daughter of Adrien Blanquet. They departed for New France from Dieppe arriving in 1662. Jean was listed as a cotton weaver in the census of 1666. We learn from this census that there were also 15 other weavers in the Colony. At a time when the total population did not exceed 2,000 people, this number seems ample. It did not take long for the habitants to learn that the soil was most favorable for the growing of flax and hemp. In 1663 the Gov. of Three Rivers recommended the cultivation of Grapes and flax. Talon even went so far as to restrict the importation of cloth, so as to promote self-sufficiency of the new colony. From clothmaker in 1666, we learn that by 1680 he was a master bootmaker, as we see in the marriage contract "Jacques Bouffard with Anne LeClerc, dau of master bootmaker Jean LeClerc and of Marie Blanquet, 25 Feb 1680. This couple had 9 children between 1658 and 1674. The first two were born in France and the remainder in Canada. They all settled down on the Ile, where even today the place abounds with their descendants. Jean died at the early age of 44 but a mystery surounds the place of his demise. When his daughter Anne was married in 1680, Jean was declared as "being absent in France." The year following the census of 1681 shows "Marie Blanquet, widow of Jean LeClerc." Did he die in France? At Sea? These questions are unanswered.

above from Our French-Canadian Ancestors by Laforest

JEAN LECLERC says Bouteleux The Norman one, from Dieppe, Jean Leclerc, passes to News-France with his wife, Marie Blanquet, known as the Fern, and very young son, Pierre Leclerc, towards 1662. Marie Blanquet is the girl of Andrien Blanquet, known as the fern, himself son of Andre Blanquet and Pérette Caperon, of the parish of Auqueville close to Dieppe. Andrien arrived widowed, perhaps at the country at the same time as his daughter and her son-in-law, but November 7 1663, he marries in Quebec, Anne LeMaître, widow of Louis LeRoy, Dieppe and mother of the ancestor Nicolas Roy, married to Jeanne Lelièvre. According to the file origin compiled by Marcel Baker and diffused by Denis Beauregard, Jean Leclerc, Bouteleux, is baptized on June 20 1646, with the church Our-Lady of Ternay, in the current department of Vienne:86269, son of Antoine Leclerc and Michelle Rubel. The couple is established in the Island of Orleans, in Sainte-Famille, and it is in this parish that are born eight different children, including four sons. New Leclerc, five have a relationship with this genealogy. Pierre Leclerc, the elder son, born in 1658, made with his parents, marries on February 7 1690, Élisabeth Rondeau, born into 1670, girl of the ancestor Thomas Rondeau and Andrée Remondière. Of the fourteen children, their son Jean Leclerc marries in 1720, Madeleine Gosselin, born into 1698, girl of Ignace Gosselin and Marie-Anne Raté. The other Leclerc son which ensures the descent of the name with ten children, Jean-Charles Leclerc, born into 1668, wife on March 5 1696, Marguerite Bauché, born in 1678, girl of the ancestor Guillaume Bauché, known as Morency and Marie Paradis. Then three girls of Jean Leclerc and Marie Blanquet, the elder one, Marguerite Leclerc was born on December 26 1660 and becomes the wife on November 22 1677, of the ancestor Clément Ruel, originating in St-Paul, in Paris. The second, Anne Leclerc, born on September 17 1664, wife in 1680, the ancestor Jacques Bouffard, of Rouen, in Normandy. Then, the third girl Leclerc, Marie-madeleine was born on July 9 1672 and marries into 1691, Rene Pelletier, born in Quebec, March 2 1659, son of Jean Pelletier, called LeGobloteur and of Anne Langlois. The first census made in News-France into 1666, informs us about the trade of the ancestor: Jean Leclerc, then 29 years old is Tisserand in fabric. This same census teaches us in addition, that fifteen other colonists are also tisserands. The total population of News-France at that time, hardly exceeds more than two thousand people, and the corporation of the tisserands thus is largely represented. In fact, the inhabitants realized of very good hour that the ground of their country is favourable with the culture of hemp and the flax. In 1663 Pierre Boucher, then Gouverneur of the Three-Rivers, is of opinion that it is time to put itself at another culture that that of the corn, which starts to be in abundance in the colony. He recommends the culture of the vine and the flax. The pioneers and their descendants must more and more think of living by themselves, by providing for all their needs essential, food, vestimentary and different. The Intendant Heel, devotes body and heart to the cause of News-France. Inter alia achievements, it did everything to popularize the culture of hemp and the flax. To this end, it even made low hand on all the imported sons of France, thus obliging the inhabitants to manufacture themselves of them. Heel also encourages the development of the science of weaving, and for this purpose, it makes distribute weaving looms in many particular houses. This policy had to succeed, because as of 1671, Talon can announce that within three years the inhabitants of News-France, could provide for their vestimentary needs.

A mystery planes on the place of death of the ancestor. Indeed, in 1680, at the time of the marriage of one of his daughters, Jean Leclerc, main bootmaker, is declared " missing now in France, " and the following year, with the census of 1681, it is supposément late, according to the bibliography on the ancestor, by the genealogist, Marielle Phaneuf. Did he die in France, it died at sea? The question remained until now without answer. What is certain it is that its act of burial is not in News-France. On page 674 of the dictionary of the Canadian Families of Jeté, the ancestor Jean Leclerc, known as LeBouteleux, is buried on April 13, 1703, in LaDurantaye. While Cyprien Tanguay registers it at the date of April 13, 1708, in St-Michel. The patronym comes from the name clerk, " clerk (tonsuré) enjoying the privilege of clergie ". With the passing of years and according to entendement of the priests and the notaries, the C-w communication of certain patronyms is modified. Spelling variants: Leclerc, LeClair, Leclair, Leclaire, Leclercq, Leclère, Clère.

translated from Robert Rachon`s website" Liste des Patronymes"

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