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NAME:  Francois Xavier BOUVETTE  b. 1796 French Speaker  and  Voyageur      Amurier-Forgeron (Gunsmith-Blacksmith) If  YOU  have Additional Information, Photographic Images, or Documentation..Consider sharing here with others in our family. Please, send us an E-MAIL BIRTH:  March 01, 1796   Montréal, Québec, Canada BAPTISM:  March 01, 1796  Notre-Dame, Montréal, Québec MOTHER:   PERRAULT, Marie Marthe   approx 1775 FATHER:   BOUVET, Francois   b 1770 (BOUVETTE) SIBLINGS:  BOUVET, Marie Adelaide  b Mar. 19, 1797  bpt. Mar. 20, 1797        d. July 19, 1797  buried July 20, "in the cemetery near the fort"(?) BOUVET, Marie Esther  b June 08, 1798   bpt. June 10, 1798 BOUVET, Mary Anne   b Dec. 21, 1799    bpt. Dec. 22, 1799 BOUVET, Eleonore born after 1799   Note:   These first 4 are baptism records for the children of Francois Bouvet &  Marie-Marthe Perrault, at Notre-Dame de Montreal.. There may be additional entries from the year 1800 and later, but the database used ends on December 31st 1799.  In order to find all the records, you will have to consult microfilms in Montreal or through the LDS library.  Be aware however, that these are all in French. MARRIAGE:  November 04, 1833 ~ Saint-Boniface, Manitoba Francois Bouvet, adult son of Francois Bouvet and the deceased Marie Perreault, the father and mother from Montreal, married 4 November 1833, Marguerite Marchand, minor daughter of Benjamin Marchand and Marguerite Nadeau. Present: Pierre Leblanc (signed) and Benjamin Marchand, C. E.Poire priest.  (It seems he did not know his Father b1770 had also passed away.) NOTE: FIRST MARRIAGE: STEPHENSON, Eulalie Child: BOUVETTE, Francois (male)                    Birth: 1826 (?)                    Death: May 31,1834 Saint-Boniface, Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada SPOUSE: MARCHAND, Marguerite   b. 1815 RR Metis ~ 1/4 RED LAKE CHIPPEWA CHILDREN:  All RR Metis ~ 1/8 RED LAKE CHIPPEWA (Maternal line) BOUVETTE, Francois   b1834 BOUVETTE, Marie   b1837 BOUVETTE, Charles Emile   b1838  Charles HBC# 475 BOUVETTE, Helene Marie  b1843 BOUVETTE, Benjamin  b1846 BOUVETTE, Esther  b1848 BOUVETTE, Amable    b1851 BOUVETTE, Caroline  b1852 BOUVETTE, Louis   b1856 LIFE EVENTS: HBC #476 Francois Bouvet 1815  Entered Service of  Fur Company age 19 1820  Hired on with NorthWest Fur Co. as gunsmith & blacksmith to serve 3 years in the NordWest 1820  Hired on with the Hudson Bay Company 1821  The Hudson Bay Company and             the NotherWest Fur Company MERGED. 1824-26  HBCo Blacksmith - assigned to York Factory District 1826-28  HBCo Blacksmith -  assigned to Columbia District (13 Forts were in that district, Among them is Fort Kootenay, and Among the Principals there is WIlliam Kittson) 1833  Married in Red River  age 37 1838  Enumerated in HBCo Census - Red River 1842  Enumerated in HBCo Census - Red River 1861  Witness: Marriage of his Son Francois at St. Boniface Severe drought occurred throughout the 1860s. Grasshoppers infested the settlement, the crops were destroyed in 1862. 1862  End of Life age 66  QUESTIONS & NOTES: He may have had children with Suzanne LUSSIER/LUCIER. 1821 was an important date in the northwest: the merger of the NWCo and HBCo. Only half as many fur-trade posts were needed, and those required less man-power. So many, many men, lost their jobs, if not right away, then as soon as their contracts ran out. DEATH: March 01, 1862 BURIAL: March 04, 1862  ~  Saint-Boniface, Point Douglas RELATED LINKS:

(See full image of NWCo contract here)

INFO FROM HUDSON BAY COMPANY ARCHIVES
Filename:  Bouvet, Francois (b. 1798) (fl. 1824-1828) MD 11/10/95  ;  May/99/mhd

NAME:  BOUVET, FRANCOIS	b. 1798	PARISH:  MONTREAL	ENTERED SERVICE:  1815
Outfit Year	Position:	District:	HBCA Reference:
1824-1826	Blacksmith	York Factory	B.239/g/4,5
1826-1828	Blacksmith	Columbia	B.239/g/6 fo.30;B.223/g/l fo.3d.

Note: An Outfit year ran from 1 June to 31 May

The information below was obtained at the ARCHIVES NATIONALES DU QUEBEC, in Montreal
and also from the ARCHIVES NATIONALES DU CANADA, in Ottawa.

First, here is his Voyageur engagement:

Francis Bouvet, 1796, from Montréal, is hired in the capacity of armurier-forgeron (gunsmith & blacksmith),to proceed to the Nord-West territories, to winter for 3 years, by Pierre de Rastel de Rocheblave, an agent for McTavish McGillivray & Co., (NWCo), for total wages of 3600ff (livres ancien cours, which means the old French currency), passed on 03-01-1820, in front of the notary Beek J.G. in Montreal; Francois signed his engagement. One pound Halifax currency was equal to twenty-four livres ancien cours, so Francois' wages for 3 years was £150 Halifax.   This appears to be the engagement for Francois Bouvet b1797, who married Marguerite Marchand in St-Boniface, Red River (Manitoba) on November 4th 1833.   (See full image of NWCo contract here)

FORT WILLIAM c1810, WHERE FRANCOIS BOUVET b 1796 likely served as Blacksmith

Tutelles & Curatelles, District de Montreal

On June 14th 1830, a CURATELLE A L'ABSENCE is prepared and filed by the court in Montreal for Francois Bouvet. The document, numbered #954, states that Francois Bouvet b1796, the son of the late Francois Bouvet and of the late Marie-Marthe Perrault, is absent from Lower Canada.  This type of document was required in order to name a CURATEUR, a person who would look after the interests and belongings of the absent person until such time when that person would return to Lower Canada.

In the same document it is also stated that Eleonore Bouvet, Francois' sister, is also absent from Lower Canada.

It should also be noted that when Francois married Marguerite Marchand in St-Boniface, three years later, on November 4th 1833, the priest noted that Marie Perrault was deceased but not Francois senior.  This seems to indicate that Francois junior (b1796) was unaware of his father's (b c1770) death which had occured in 1830 or earlier.

The HBCo carried out several censuses at Red River during the nineteeth century. 
Francois Bouvet is listed in a least two of them.

1838 - Francois Bouvette, 42 years old, (born in 1796).

1842 - Francois Bouvet, Red River, 48 years old (born in 1798).

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