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 Antoine
LaRocque writer for the King of France was the son of Philippe
LaRocque, consul of the town of Trie, and Madeleine de Boisjoly, of the
town of Notre-Dame de Trie. This village is in the Diocese of Auch in what
is now know as the Pyrenee Atlantique in the old province of Languedoc.
Antoine LaRocque married Catherine Guillemot in Quebec City on December 2nd 1752. Catherine Guillemot, was the daughter of Mathurin Guillemot and Marguerite Maret. She was born in 1716. Catherine Guillemot married in first wedding Alexis Sauvageau.. Madame La Rocque had among her ancestor, Marguerite Martin, daughter of Abraham Martin ( who left his nam to the plains of Abraham) and who was baptized January 4th1624, was the first Canadian to be born in this Canada. Antoine and Catherine Guillemot had 4 children all
born in François-Antoine
b.
on 23 Sept 1753.
Only
François-Antoine will live to become an adult.
François-Antoine
La Rocque became one of L'Assomption's most flourishing inhabitant.
It was one of the oldest village and most prosperous on the St-Lawrence
River North Shore. M. La Rocque died there in 1790 at
the age 70. When he died the "Quebec Herald" wrote
that « There were more then 30 horse drawn carriages at his
funerals, the most important ever seen in L'Assomption. »
François Antoine
followed his parent to L'Assomption; and was also a marchant.
He married Angélique Leroux, April 23rd 1781, daughter
of Germain Leroux marchant in the same place and Catherine Vallée
(or Lavallée). The marriage contract was donne in the study of notaire
Courvile on the 15 th of April. The witness at the wedding were
Toussaint Potier and Jean-Joseph Taupin. Also present was, Nicolas Massue,
his uncle, Benjamin Leroux, brother, and Joseph Vigneau, friend and witness
of the bride. The bride's parents give her as a wedding gift six thousand
shelling and the groom three thousand. On July 17th 1786, François
Antoine bought from Louis Ganion, of Saint-Roch, a part of land located
on River l'Achigan. This piece of land cost him 800 shelling paid cash.
He will be elected to the Legislative Assembly to represent the county
of Leinster June 11th 1792 but he died in l'Assomption
on the following October 31st before he could attend any
cession of the gouvernment. His son also named François-Antoine
was an Explorer ot the American North West. He can read the story of his
adventure in "Journal of LaRoque from the Assiniboine to the Yellowstone".
The state of Wyoming describes him as the first Europeen to have seet foot
in this state.
Here is the line of this family starting with Philippe Larroque in France. 1. PHILIPPE LARROQUE-Born in Trie-sur-Baise, on July 19 1662.-Married to Magdeleine De Boisjoly, on February 18 1697. We know two sons and one daughter from this union. i. Antoine ii. Jeanne-Marie iii. Jean-Antoine ANTOINE LARROQUE-Born in Trie, May 18 1698.-He was the god father of his brother Jean-Antoine Larroque. 2. JEAN-ANTOINE LARROQUE (The Canadian Ancestor)-Born in Trie, on March 24 1718. His God Father was his brother Antoine and his God Mother his sister Jeanne-Marie.-He arrives in Québec City in 1750 as writer of the King (notaire). -He married Catherine Guillemot, daughter of Mathurin Guillemot and Marguerite Maret, in Québec City on December 2 1752.(See the marriage act) -He became a trader/dealer in Saint-Pierre-du-Portage (now L'Assomption Qc) in 1768. -Jean-Antoine died on September 7 1790 -4 children were born from this union and only one survived, François-Antoine La Rocque.
Article copied from Tanguay Dictionnairy of French Canadian.3. FRANÇOIS-ANTOINE LA ROCQUE-Born in Québec City and baptized at Notre-Dame cathedral on September 23 1753. Like his father he went into business. He acquired a farm on L'Achigan River and in 1786 he is granted 200 acres of land in the township of Rawdon north of Montreal.-He married Angélique Leroux (daughter of Germain Leroux d'Esneval and Catherine Lavallée) in L'Assomption, on April 23 1781. -He was a negociant (trader/dealer), like his father. -On June 11 1792, he is elected as member of parlement for the county of Leinster (Now L'Assomption), during the first election for the Parliament of Lower-Canada. -Sick he died in L'Assomption on October 31 1792, at age 39 before he could sit at the parliament. -They had 3 children: i. Joseph-Félix, Voyageur and fur trader, died in Ottawa December first 1866 without descendance. read more on Joseph-Félix LaRocque ii. Sophie, died on April 19 1845 and iii. François-Antoine.(follows)
-Born in L'Assomption on August 19, 1784.
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FRANÇOIS-ANTOINE LA ROCQUE
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FRANÇOIS-ALFRED-CHARTIER LA ROCQUE
6. ALFRED LA ROCQUE