The above photo is of the Original layout of old Mobile and Fort Louis in 1704. Jean Baptiste Saucier resided on his property in the village outside the fort's boundary near the river. Fort is in middle at bottom of picture. Each plot of land assigned to a settler in the village has the name of its owner inscribed in the plot layout on the map. The circled land plot on the right of the map is the plot of land allotted to our ancestor Jean Baptiste Saucier with his name inscribed within his plot as Jean Saucie.
CHARLES SAUCIER, of Saint Eustache, Paris, France, the patriarch of the present day Saucier Family in both Canada and the United States, according to all available and previously known information, was an organist/musician and is listed in the directory of Medieval Musicians of France in the early 1600’s. He was the organist at Saint Eustache Catholic Church in Paris, France in the court of King Louis XIV. His was a well respected position within the church of which he received a decent but modest compensation. He married Charlotte Clairet in about 1624 in Paris, France. Charles Saucier and Charlotte Clairet had four known children, Charlotte Saucier born 25 Jun 1625, Jean Baptiste Saucier born 24 Jun 1626, Charles Saucier born in 1630 and Louis Saucier born on 4 December 1634. Other children could have possibly been born to Charles and Charlotte. No information has been found other than the birth date for sons Jean Saucier and Charles Saucier, and no additional information has been found on daughter Charlotte Saucier, leaving researchers to believe that they possibly died at an early age. Their youngest known son, Louis Saucier, emigrated from France to Canada and thus begins the Saucier Family legacy.
LOUIS SAUCIER, born on December 4, 1634 in France, was the son of Charles Saucier and Charlotte Clairet, he is shown at age 32 in the Canadian census of 1666, as a resident (boarder) in the home of widower Etienne Dumay in Sillery, Quebec, Canada. Louis was a native of St Eustache, Paris, France, and he entered a contract of marriage on 27 Nov 1670. He married on 12 January 1671 in Quebec, Canada, Marguerite Gaillard dit Duplessis, a “Fille du Roi” (Daughters of the King). Marguerite was born in 1637, a native of Picardy, France, daughter of Jean Baptiste Gaillard and Catherine DeLomelle, widow of (1) Hercule Duperon, widow of (2) Francois Provost whom she married on 25 July 1664 after arriving in Quebec, Canada from France. The three children from the Provost marriage are: Anne Provost, Claude Provost, and Francois Michel Provost residents of St Michel, now Ste Foye, Quebec, Canada.
The Saucier/Gaillard marriage, the first marriage for Louis and the third marriage for Marguerite, was performed by Henry de Bernieres, cure of the parish of Notre Dame of Quebec. Rene-Louis Charles de Lotbinere, son of the lieutenant-general of Quebec witnessed their marriage, along with Louis La Haye, Huron Simon and Thomas Langlois. According to family researcher Walter Saucier, the groom signed the marriage documents "Louis Saucie" with the flourish of a practiced hand and Marguerite signed the documents by making her mark, although other researchers say she signed with her signature. After Louis Saucier died in 1677, some sources give death date as 1675, Marguerite Gaillard was married a fourth time in 1678 to Michel Nicolas LeGardeur dit Sansoucy, their three Children are: Jean LeGardeur, Michel LeGardeur, and Marguerite Margaret LeGardeur; all residents of St Michel (now Ste Foye), Quebec, Canada.
The Louis Saucier family was the "sole" Saucier family in 17th century Canada. All the Saucier Families in the United States and Canada are the direct descendants of the two sons of Louis Saucier and Marguerite Gaillard.
The two sons of Louis Saucier and Marguerite Gaillard were:
Their oldest son:
Charles Saucier was born 31 Aug 1672 and baptized on 1 Sept 1672, in Quebec, Canada. Charles died on June 11, 1723, in La Pocatiere, Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada, Charles was married a total of three times, first on October 6, 1697 in Quebec to Marie Ann Bisson, daughter of Gervais Bisson and Marie Madeline Boutet, on June 25, 1714, Charles married his second wife, Magdeline St. Denis, in Montmagny, Chaudiere Appalches, Quebec, Canada, she was the daughter of Pierre St. Denis and Marie Madeline Thibierge, and on June 3, 1720, again widowed, he married for the third time to Marie Francoise Lebel in Notre Dame Liesse, Riviere Quelle, Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada, daughter of Jean Lebel and Marie Anne Soucy. By these three wives, Charles Saucier had 14 children and left many descendants in Canada and along the East Coast of the United States.
Charles Saucier remained in Canada his entire life. Charles’ first wife, Marie Ann Bisson, was buried at St-Ignace, Cap-St-Ignace, Montmagny, Quebec, Canada and his second wife, Magdeline St. Denis, was buried at Sainte-Anne-de-la Pocatiere, in Quebec, Canada. Charles Saucier and his third wife, Marie Francoise Lebel, are both buried at the Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière Cemetery, Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere, Bas-Saint-Laurent Region, Quebec, Canada. Charles Francois Saucier, a son from Charles’ first marriage to Marie Anne Bisson, along with Charles Francois’ wife, Rosalie Bouchard, are also buried at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere Cemetery in Quebec, Canada. Charles' daughter, Madeleine Saucier, from his third marriage and her husband Jean-Bernard Hudon are both buried in the Rivière-Ouelle Cemetery, Rivière-Ouelle, Bas-Saint-Laurent Region, Quebec, Canada, one of their sons, Jean Moïse Hudon and his family are also buried at La Pocatière Cemetery, La Pocatière, Bas-Saint-Laurent Region, Quebec, Canada. Many descendants of Charles Saucier (brother of Jean Baptiste) and his wives immigrated to the United States, settling and raising their families in the State of Maine and the other New England States and many still reside there today.
And their youngest son:
Jean Baptiste Saucier was born and baptized on 4 Dec 1674 in Sillery, Quebec, Canada. He was baptized by Henry DeBernieres, the cure of the parish of Notre Dame in Quebec. He was recruited at the age of 23 on July 6, 1697 from several hundred recruits to serve with Pierre Lemoyne D’Iberville in the Hudson Bay Expedition, from September through November 1697. He took part in the land and sea victories of Iberville over the British and the recapture of Fort Bourbon at Plaisance, Hudson Bay. Jean Baptiste participated in the 1699 Biloxi and Gulf Coast Expedition which established the Louisiana Colony. In the early spring of 1699, Jean Baptiste was one of the 60 French settlers who sailed to Rochefort, France with Iberville on the ship La Badine, returning aboard the Renomme to the Louisiana Colony on January 8, 1700. Jean Baptiste Saucier sailed on the ship as a Sergeant and pay master during Iberville’s second expedition to the French settlement at Fort Maurepas, near Biloxi, which is the present day location of Ocean Springs, Mississippi. The Biloxi settlement was later abandoned and moved to Mobile.
He settled at Mobile in 1702. He was a merchant who achieved some prosperity and had some importance in the new colony at Mobile as he was awarded one of the larger plots of land. He was married on Sept 4, 1704 at Mobile to Marie Gabrielle (Savarit) Savary, a native of St. Denis, Paris, France, a “Pelican girl”. At the time of their marriage Jean Baptiste was thirty years of age, ten years older than Marie Gabrielle who was twenty years of age. Jean Baptiste Saucier was particularly noted, among the Canadians for his energetic efforts to establish farming in the colony. He was one of the first to establish a profitable plantation, supplying fresh produce to other French colonists, and in exchange for Spanish silver, to Spanish colonists in Pensacola, Havana and Vera Cruz.
Jean Baptiste Saucier died in 1716 in Mobile, Alabama. Mobile records show Marie Gabrielle in December of 1716 as a widow living in the Colony there, so his death was sometime before the month of December. Jean Baptiste Saucier remained in the Louisiana Colony until his death. He never returned to Canada. Contrary to some articles, Jean Baptiste never ventured further from Mobile than the colony outposts located in what is now the Mississippi Gulf Coast. He never ventured as far as the settlement of New Orleans as his children in later years did.
Marie Gabrielle Savary remarried twice after Jean Baptiste Saucier’s death. In about 1717, she married her second husband, Pierre Vifvarenne at Mobile; they had a son, Jean Baptiste Vifarenne, who grew up with his Saucier half brothers in New Orleans. After Pierre Vifarenne’s death she married her third husband, Jean Baptiste Sansot in about 1720 at Mobile, and they had one daughter Jeanne Gabrielle Sansot, who died at a young age.
Marie Gabrielle after the death of her third husband, Jean Baptiste Sansot, moved from Mobile, Alabama to New Orleans, Louisiana, where in 1726 she lived on Rue St. Pierre Street (now St. Peter) and in 1727 on Royale Street with her five children and servants. The Family owned land in New Orleans and later a plantation and farm up river from New Orleans until her death in 1735. Marie Gabrielle was known in New Orleans as the widow Saucier, supported herself and children as a midwife, and operated what would have been New Orleans first flea market, selling her second-hand goods, possibly in the area of the present day New Orleans French Market. Marie Gabrielle knew about her Canadian brother-in-law, Charles, but never had the opportunity to meet him or any member of his family, as she never ventured any further than New Orleans and the surrounding area after moving from Mobile.
LOUIS SAUCIER, born on December 4, 1634 in France, was the son of Charles Saucier and Charlotte Clairet, he is shown at age 32 in the Canadian census of 1666, as a resident (boarder) in the home of widower Etienne Dumay in Sillery, Quebec, Canada. Louis was a native of St Eustache, Paris, France, and he entered a contract of marriage on 27 Nov 1670. He married on 12 January 1671 in Quebec, Canada, Marguerite Gaillard dit Duplessis, a “Fille du Roi” (Daughters of the King). Marguerite was born in 1637, a native of Picardy, France, daughter of Jean Baptiste Gaillard and Catherine DeLomelle, widow of (1) Hercule Duperon, widow of (2) Francois Provost whom she married on 25 July 1664 after arriving in Quebec, Canada from France. The three children from the Provost marriage are: Anne Provost, Claude Provost, and Francois Michel Provost residents of St Michel, now Ste Foye, Quebec, Canada.
The Saucier/Gaillard marriage, the first marriage for Louis and the third marriage for Marguerite, was performed by Henry de Bernieres, cure of the parish of Notre Dame of Quebec. Rene-Louis Charles de Lotbinere, son of the lieutenant-general of Quebec witnessed their marriage, along with Louis La Haye, Huron Simon and Thomas Langlois. According to family researcher Walter Saucier, the groom signed the marriage documents "Louis Saucie" with the flourish of a practiced hand and Marguerite signed the documents by making her mark, although other researchers say she signed with her signature. After Louis Saucier died in 1677, some sources give death date as 1675, Marguerite Gaillard was married a fourth time in 1678 to Michel Nicolas LeGardeur dit Sansoucy, their three Children are: Jean LeGardeur, Michel LeGardeur, and Marguerite Margaret LeGardeur; all residents of St Michel (now Ste Foye), Quebec, Canada.
The Louis Saucier family was the "sole" Saucier family in 17th century Canada. All the Saucier Families in the United States and Canada are the direct descendants of the two sons of Louis Saucier and Marguerite Gaillard.
The two sons of Louis Saucier and Marguerite Gaillard were:
Their oldest son:
Charles Saucier was born 31 Aug 1672 and baptized on 1 Sept 1672, in Quebec, Canada. Charles died on June 11, 1723, in La Pocatiere, Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada, Charles was married a total of three times, first on October 6, 1697 in Quebec to Marie Ann Bisson, daughter of Gervais Bisson and Marie Madeline Boutet, on June 25, 1714, Charles married his second wife, Magdeline St. Denis, in Montmagny, Chaudiere Appalches, Quebec, Canada, she was the daughter of Pierre St. Denis and Marie Madeline Thibierge, and on June 3, 1720, again widowed, he married for the third time to Marie Francoise Lebel in Notre Dame Liesse, Riviere Quelle, Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada, daughter of Jean Lebel and Marie Anne Soucy. By these three wives, Charles Saucier had 14 children and left many descendants in Canada and along the East Coast of the United States.
Charles Saucier remained in Canada his entire life. Charles’ first wife, Marie Ann Bisson, was buried at St-Ignace, Cap-St-Ignace, Montmagny, Quebec, Canada and his second wife, Magdeline St. Denis, was buried at Sainte-Anne-de-la Pocatiere, in Quebec, Canada. Charles Saucier and his third wife, Marie Francoise Lebel, are both buried at the Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière Cemetery, Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere, Bas-Saint-Laurent Region, Quebec, Canada. Charles Francois Saucier, a son from Charles’ first marriage to Marie Anne Bisson, along with Charles Francois’ wife, Rosalie Bouchard, are also buried at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere Cemetery in Quebec, Canada. Charles' daughter, Madeleine Saucier, from his third marriage and her husband Jean-Bernard Hudon are both buried in the Rivière-Ouelle Cemetery, Rivière-Ouelle, Bas-Saint-Laurent Region, Quebec, Canada, one of their sons, Jean Moïse Hudon and his family are also buried at La Pocatière Cemetery, La Pocatière, Bas-Saint-Laurent Region, Quebec, Canada. Many descendants of Charles Saucier (brother of Jean Baptiste) and his wives immigrated to the United States, settling and raising their families in the State of Maine and the other New England States and many still reside there today.
And their youngest son:
Jean Baptiste Saucier was born and baptized on 4 Dec 1674 in Sillery, Quebec, Canada. He was baptized by Henry DeBernieres, the cure of the parish of Notre Dame in Quebec. He was recruited at the age of 23 on July 6, 1697 from several hundred recruits to serve with Pierre Lemoyne D’Iberville in the Hudson Bay Expedition, from September through November 1697. He took part in the land and sea victories of Iberville over the British and the recapture of Fort Bourbon at Plaisance, Hudson Bay. Jean Baptiste participated in the 1699 Biloxi and Gulf Coast Expedition which established the Louisiana Colony. In the early spring of 1699, Jean Baptiste was one of the 60 French settlers who sailed to Rochefort, France with Iberville on the ship La Badine, returning aboard the Renomme to the Louisiana Colony on January 8, 1700. Jean Baptiste Saucier sailed on the ship as a Sergeant and pay master during Iberville’s second expedition to the French settlement at Fort Maurepas, near Biloxi, which is the present day location of Ocean Springs, Mississippi. The Biloxi settlement was later abandoned and moved to Mobile.
He settled at Mobile in 1702. He was a merchant who achieved some prosperity and had some importance in the new colony at Mobile as he was awarded one of the larger plots of land. He was married on Sept 4, 1704 at Mobile to Marie Gabrielle (Savarit) Savary, a native of St. Denis, Paris, France, a “Pelican girl”. At the time of their marriage Jean Baptiste was thirty years of age, ten years older than Marie Gabrielle who was twenty years of age. Jean Baptiste Saucier was particularly noted, among the Canadians for his energetic efforts to establish farming in the colony. He was one of the first to establish a profitable plantation, supplying fresh produce to other French colonists, and in exchange for Spanish silver, to Spanish colonists in Pensacola, Havana and Vera Cruz.
Jean Baptiste Saucier died in 1716 in Mobile, Alabama. Mobile records show Marie Gabrielle in December of 1716 as a widow living in the Colony there, so his death was sometime before the month of December. Jean Baptiste Saucier remained in the Louisiana Colony until his death. He never returned to Canada. Contrary to some articles, Jean Baptiste never ventured further from Mobile than the colony outposts located in what is now the Mississippi Gulf Coast. He never ventured as far as the settlement of New Orleans as his children in later years did.
Marie Gabrielle Savary remarried twice after Jean Baptiste Saucier’s death. In about 1717, she married her second husband, Pierre Vifvarenne at Mobile; they had a son, Jean Baptiste Vifarenne, who grew up with his Saucier half brothers in New Orleans. After Pierre Vifarenne’s death she married her third husband, Jean Baptiste Sansot in about 1720 at Mobile, and they had one daughter Jeanne Gabrielle Sansot, who died at a young age.
Marie Gabrielle after the death of her third husband, Jean Baptiste Sansot, moved from Mobile, Alabama to New Orleans, Louisiana, where in 1726 she lived on Rue St. Pierre Street (now St. Peter) and in 1727 on Royale Street with her five children and servants. The Family owned land in New Orleans and later a plantation and farm up river from New Orleans until her death in 1735. Marie Gabrielle was known in New Orleans as the widow Saucier, supported herself and children as a midwife, and operated what would have been New Orleans first flea market, selling her second-hand goods, possibly in the area of the present day New Orleans French Market. Marie Gabrielle knew about her Canadian brother-in-law, Charles, but never had the opportunity to meet him or any member of his family, as she never ventured any further than New Orleans and the surrounding area after moving from Mobile.
Today, over 315 years later, the many descendants of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Marie Gabrielle (Savarit) Savary reside heavily in the states of Mississippi and Louisiana, but are also scattered throughout the states of Texas, Alabama, Illinois, Missouri and the entire United States.
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