TWELFTH GENERATION
2294. Christophe CREVIER-GRENIER was born in St-Jean,La Rochelle. He was also known as Sieur de LaMeslée, also as Christophe GRENIER and also as Christophe CRENIER-BELLERIVE. He first appeared as a baker at the Trois-Rivières fort in 1639. He married Jeanne ÉNARD on 6 Nov 1633 in France. Christophe and Jeanne returned to France with three children in 1642. In 1649, the reappear in Québec. The Jesuits gave them land at Notre-Dame-des-Anges in 1651. The family returned to Trois-Rivières. Two of the children François & Antoine were killed by the Iroquois on 28 May 1653. Christophe was seized by the Iroquois in June 1658 but freed the following September. He obtained a seigneurie in 1662. He died before 16 May 1663. (1)(4)
2295. Jeanne ÉNARD was born around 1618 St-Cande-le-Jeune, diocese of Rouen, Normandy, Seine-Maritime, France. (2)
Children were:
691 i. Marguerite CREVIER-CRENIER married François RENOU on 21 Aug 1683 in Boucherville, Montréal.
She was also known as Marguerite CRENIER-CREVIER . She married Michel GAMELIN on 10 Oct 1661. She had first married Jacques FOURNIER, on 14 May 1657.(1)(3)
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(1) PRDH, Certificat de famille No. 210.
(2) Ibid.,Certificat d'individu No. 41094.
(3) Ibid., Certificat de mariage No. 94203.
(4) Biographical Dictionary for The Jesuit Missions in Acadia and New France: 1602-1654, Lucien Campeau, S.J., translated by William Lonc, S.J. & George Topp, S.J., summer 2001, p. 131.