DUMAIS
Pierre Dumais dit Rossignol was the son of Jean and Marguerite Richard, from Auvergne. Pierre came in our region
to get married in the Saint-Louis church, on April 26th 1745, with Anne Chamberland, daughter of Simon and
Thérèse Ouimet. Three children were born in this marriage, but Anne died and was buried in the parish cemetery on
April 14th 1755. On August 25th of the same year, Pierre got married again, with Catherine Michaud, daughter of
Jean and Cécile Ouellet. Five other children were born in this second marriage.
Three sons of the ancestor Pierre, named Vincent, Louis and Pierre, ensured the following of seven generations in
the Saint-Louis parish.
GUERÊT dit DUMONT
This family set up in Kamouraska since six generations, descends from Jacques Guérêt dit Dumont, born on March
8th 1665, in Normandy. Jacques was the son of René Guerey and Françoise Montmirel, daughter of the lord Jean de
Méhérenc du Montmirel. Arrived in New France in 1690, he got married with Jacques Tardif's daughter, Anne, on
April 18th 1674. They had triplets on October 6th 1708 : Catherine, Michel and Joseph-Simon.
In 1711, the Dumont family moved in Gaspésie, but they came back in Beauport in 1713. After, they lived in
Rivière-du-Loup, L'Isle-Verte and, finally, in Kamouraska, where Jacques was buried on April 15th 1739. Anne
Tardif was buried on February 18th 1752.
Between Jean's children who lived in Kamouraska, there are his seven sons : Jean, Simon, Jacques, Jean-Baptiste,
Michel, Pierre and Prisque, who all got married in Saint-Louis of Kamouraska.
LAVOIE
Augustin Lavoie, son of Joseph, son of René got married on January 28th 1729, with Marguerite Michaud, daughter
of Jean Michaud and Françoise Dupille. Later, he set up in Kamouraska, and after, in the Bras-Saint-Nicolas. His
children were christened in Rivière-Ouelle and in La Pocatière, and five of his sons got married in the Saint-Louis of
Kamouraska church, where Augustin was buried on October 16th 1770.
Between the eight generations of Lavoie who lived in Kamouraska, Madeleine Lavoie, wife of François Thibault,
was buried under the church floor on March 15th 1839.
The ancestor René de Lavoye, son of René de Lavoye and Isabeau Bellenger, from Normandy, got married on April
14th 1656, in the Sainte-Anne chapel on the Beaupré Coast, with Anne Godin, daughter of Elie Godin and Esther
Ramage. He lived in Sainte-Anne, where he was buried about 1699. His son Jean set up in Rivière-Ouelle, but
Joseph, the father of Augustin, stayed on the Beaupré Coast.
LE BLANC
Louis-Joseph Le Blanc, son of Désiré Le Blanc and Victoire Comeau, was the first member of this family in
Saint-Louis of Kamouraska. On July 22nd 1835, Joseph got married with Edith-Estelle Raymond, daughter of Régis
Raymond and Rose Miville-Deschènes. His daughter, Aglaé, and his two sons, Narcisse and Régis, got married in
Kamouraska. Five generations of Le Blanc lived in Kamouraska.
Régis Le Blanc married Clara Chouinard, in the Saint-Louis church, on November 27th 1860. They had eleven
children. Clara was buried in the parish cemetery on April 20th 1917, and Régis was buried on April 26th 1929.
(My family descends from Daniel LeBlanc) -
The ancestor Daniel Le Blanc, born in 1626, was from the Poitou. Married in France with Françoise Gaudet, widow
of Jehan Mercier from France, François set up on the North Coast of the Port-Royal River, and died between 1693
and 1698. Françoise Gaudet, born in 1623, died in her son Pierre's house, between 1698 and 1700.
LEVESQUE
Jean Lévesque was the first of his family to set up in Kamouraska. Married with Angélique Pelletier, daughter of
Jean-François Pelletier and Madeleine DeLavoye, on April 27th 1739, he left Rivière-Ouelle on this date. All his
children were christened in Saint-Louis. Later, at the beginning of the 19th century, Athanase and Prosper set up in
Kamouraska. Eight generations followed one another in Kamouraska, where this family still lives.
The ancestor Robert Lévesque, christened in 1641, was the son of Pierre Lévesque and Marie Caumont from
Normandy. Since his marriage, in the L'Ange-Gardien church, on April 22nd 1679, with Jeanne Chevalier, daughter
of Jean Chevalier and Marguerite Romian, from Normandy, Robert set up in l'Islet, and after in Rivière-Ouelle, in
1685.
Jean Narcisse has still descendants today. He is the only one who had descendants in Saint-Louis since his marriage
with Thècle Lavoie, on November 20th 1826.
MARQUIS
Charles-François Marquis set up in the Portage. Married with Anne Boucher, daughter of Pierre Galeran and Anne
Michaud, Charles-François had nine children. His sons Joseph and François always lived in the Portage. Married
with the two sisters Côté, Françoise and Agnès, daughters of Prisque Côté and Ursule Bernier, Joseph and François
made christen, marry and bury their children in Saint-Louis of Kamouraska.
The ancestor Charles Le Marquis, from Quebec, was the son of Charles Le Marquis and Jeanne Bignon, from
Mortagne-Poitou.
RAYMOND PHOCAS
Romain Phocas o DeFogas, son of Renaud Phocas and Catherine Daguspart, from Gascogne, was the ancestor of
the Raymond families of the Kamouraska region. Romain got married on January 21st 1709 with Angélique Ouellet,
daughter of Mathurin-René Ouellet and Angélique Lebel from Saint-Louis. They got married in the
Notre-Dame-de-Liesse church in Rivière-Ouelle and they set up in the Cap-au-Diable in 1709. Romain got married
for the second time with Thérèse Saint-Pierre, daughter of Pierre Saint-Pierre and Marie Gerbert, about 1725.
Romain was buried in the Berceau cemetery on January 9th 1762. Eight generations of this family lived in
Kamouraska and still live there.