Claude Laspron - b. 1679
  Claude was the of the Laspron family to start using the dit name
  of Lampron, and also the name of Lacharite.

 

Claude Laspron b. abt 1679 - Nicolet, Nicolet, Québec, Canada      

Claude Laspron

Claude, son of Jean Baptiste Laspron dit Lacharité and Anne Michelle Renaud, was born on 21 Jun 1679 and baptized the same day. The marginal entry in the actual baptismal transcript records his name as Claude Laspron while the actual text records the name as Claude Lapron. In many of the records regarding his children, he is invariably referred to as Claude Lampron dit Lacharité or Claude Lacharité. The following is an actual transcript from the church records: The transcript is written in French:

Bap. Claude Laspron - Je soussigné certifie avoir encore inséré le soubscript [souscrit] baptistaire fait par le même père Georges susdit: Claude Lapron, fils légitime de Jean Lapron et d'Anne Renault, a été baptisé à Nicolet, le vingt et unième Juin 1679, il y a eu pour parrain Claude Pothier et pour marraine Charlotte Denys. - (signé) J. Riste Le Tac Ricolet Sud - Registre de la paroisse Immaculée - Conception, Trois Rivières 1674-1699.

A literal translation of the church record from the Nicolet Parish reads:

Baptism Claude Laspron: I the undersigned certify having again inserted the subscribed baptism carried out by the same Father Georges described below: Claude Lapron, legitimate son of Jean Lapron and Anne Renault, was baptised at Nicolet, 21 June 1679, He godfather is Claude Pothier and his godmother, Charlotte Denys. (Signed) Fr. Riste le Tac , Recolet, Ind

The record was also later transcribed into the parish register for Trois-Rivières, albeit in an abbreviated form.

Early Settler

Claude is the second son of Jean Baptise Laspron dit Lacharité. Claude must have left his father's farm, which was in the region of the Nicolet River, some time around 1700-1712 (about age 21-32). He moved to Maskinongé which is just a few kilometers from Trois-Rivières. He was the first of our ancestors to settle outside the Nicolet area and thus began the inextricable migration of the Lampron/Lacharite clan. He married Marie Charlotte Bruneau dit Jolicoeur, daughter of René Bruneau dit Jolicoeur and Anne Poitreau, on 7 Jan 1712 at Trois-Rivières, Saint-Maurice, Québec, Canada. The following partial transcript (the original transcript is difficult to decipher) is taken from the church records (again, note the name variations):

Marriage de Claude Lapron avec Marie Charlotte Bruno (dit la Parisienne): L'an mil sept cent douze le septieme de Janvier apres avoir publie trois ...le sixieme de Janvier, entre Claude Lapron habitant de Maskinongé fils de ... Jean Lapron sieur de Lacharité et de Marie Anne Renaud les père et mère de cette paroisse, et Marie Charlotte, fille de Jean René Bruno et de Marie Poitreau ses pere et mère ... de cette paroisse. Je soussigneé missionaire de la paroise de la Riviére du Loup ai reçu leur mutuel ... leur ai donné .. nuptiale ... des témoines ci-dessus.

Family Life

Family was another institution in the daily life of New France. Families were usually large. For example, close to one out of every five eighteenth century families had ten children or more. This was both to provide more hands to divide up the labor on the farm, as well as to provide security for the parents in their old age. Although they may not have been as intimate as the romanticized view depicted in later eighteenth century Cornelius Kriegoff paintings, habitant families were tightly knitted and self-sustaining.

Families were self-sufficient. From the wheat they grew, they produced their own bread that was the staple of their diet. Because they were engaged in hard, physically demanding labor, they needed a diet that would provide them with energy. On average, each person ate about a full kilogram (about two full modern loaves) of bread daily. Resource: http://www.ottres.ca Milk, cheese, and other dairy products came from their cows while their chickens kept them supplied with eggs. They obtained protein from pigs and cows that they butchered as well as from wild game, such as rabbit, they hunted or fish they caught. Peas and corn were the most popular vegetables.

They were self-sufficient in other ways beside just their diet. The wife and her daughters made all the family's clothing, which tended to practical and hard-wearing. They also made a long list of necessary household items, such as curtains, blankets, towels, rugs, soap, and candles.

Following Marie Charlotte's death somewhere between 1717 and 1720, he married Marguerite Foucault, daughter of Denis Foucault and Catherine Pelletier, on 24 Sep 1720 at Nicolet, Nicolet, Québec, Canada. There were 13 children from the two marriages.

There were eight children from the first marriage were:
  1. Louis Lacharité
  2. François Lampron
  3. Basile-Prisque Lacharité
  4. Augustine Laspron
  5. Marie Catherine Lacharité
  6. Pierre Lacharité
  7. Marie Genevieve Lacharité     
  8. Marie Anne Lacharité

Of the eight children from his first marriage, Pierre Lacharité was born about 1730 at Maskinongé, Maskinongé, Québec, Canada.

Claude died sometime before 1757 at Maskinongé, Maskinongé, Québec, Canada.
 

Next: The story of Pierre Lacharité b. 1730
He would be our next ancestor in our ancestry line of decent.

Jehan Laspron - b. 1570 

     Jean Laspron - b. 1611   

          Jean Baptiste Laspron, dit Lacharité -  b. 1645         

               Claude Laspron Lampron - b. 1679 

                    Pierre Lacharite - b. 1730

 

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