Born ‎ 1620 La Rochelle, Aunis, France, died ‎ Jul 8, 1656 Hotel-Dieu, Quebec, Pq‎, 35 or 36 years
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!DEATH-BURIAL-MARRIAGE-COMMENT: Renee Jette, "Dictionnaire Genealogiquedes
Familles du Quebec" 1983, University of Montreal, Page 199.
Died at the hospital after receiving the sacrements. A Land clearingfamily,
he suffered under the barbersim of the savages. Their eldest daughterMarie
was kidnapped by the Hurons on 4 JUL, 1660. He was cited as being inQuebec on
30 NOV 1636. Fire in Montreal destroyed all records of Robert Caron'sparents.

!COMMENT-TIMELINE: "Gleanings" from Genealogie Des Caron D'Amerique, TheStory
of Robert Caron. An Except from "The List of Immigrants", by MarcelTrudel.
- Robert Caron does not sign at Saintonge.
- November 30, 1636 Makes first appreance as a witness.
- October 25, 1637 Marries Marie Crevet.
- 1649 Obtains land.
- July 8, 1656 Dies at the Hotel-Dieu (Hospital) at Quebec.
- July 8, 1656 Buried.

!COMMENT: Excerpt from "The History of New-France", Vol. III, "TheEvents", by
the same author.
"The fleet of 1636, under the command of DuPlessis-Bochart and havingarrived
on June 11th, appears to be the most impressive in these first years of
immigration by social level of the families which landed or by thedynaism that
these new colonists displayed. Two knights of Malta were on board: Charles
Huault de Montmagny, the successor to Champlain, and his lieutenant,Achille
Brebault de L'Isle; two Jesuits; Noel Juchereau des Chastelet andJean-Paul
Godefroy, who entered the country. Amongst the great number of familieswhich
it brought over were in particular, ancestors from Normandy who soon willplay
an important role in the economy, the Legardeur and LeNeuf Families.Pierre
Legardeur de Repentigny, with his mother, wife and three children; hisbrother
Charles Legardeur de Tilly; their brother-in-law, Jacques LeNeuf de LaPoterie,
accompanied by his mother, wife and daughter; Michel LeNeuf du Herisson,
brother of Jacques with his daughter; two sisters of LeNeuf, MArie and
Madeleine, the latter arriving with her husband, Jean Pinterel duColombier,
and four sons. Father Le Jeune estimates these families alone consist of45
people aparently counting the servants and contract workers. Along withthese
families came the Sevestre family from Paris, which also becameimportant. It
was in 1636 probably that the wives and children of the Lods Gyion andCloutier
arrived. We should mention other families at a lesser level, those of Jean
Cochon, of Nicolas Pelletier, of the widow Pinel, of Pierre Gadois, of the
carpenter Antoine Arnoux, of the brewer Pierre Blondel, of ChristopheCrevier
dit Lamesle; or individuals such as Francois Belanger, James Bourguignondit Le
Patron, Antoine Brassard, Robert Caron, the brothers Jacques and Robert
Caumont, the clerk Pierre de la Porte, Guillaume Isabelle, the notaryJean de
Lespinasse, Claude Poulin, among others. We identify two marriageabledaughters
Claire Morin (who will marry Bourguignon on November 30, 1636, RobertCaron
will be present at their marriage), and Francoise Mery. At least twoimmigrants
are Huguenots. In total we recognize 98 people, including 11 couples and 2
women who came to join their husbands. The fleet left at the end ofAugust with
two Jesuits, te commander Laviolette, Nicolas Marsolet, the Perche native
Charles Pierre and some amerindians."

!ORIGINS: Excerpt from "Robert Caron and His Family", by Ivanhoe Caron,Pg. 3.
"Some authors have maintained the Robert Caron came from Normandy, othershave
said that he was a Breton (We read in the "Ursulines of Trois-Riviere",Vol
III, page 272: The Carons are natives of the Artois, but one of them hadhis
family in Britanny. Today his descendants are established in Rennes, inDol and
other areas in Ile and Vilaine. Robert left Renne for Canada towards 1640and
settled at Ste-Anne-de-Beaupre.) Strong presumptive evidence favors thefirst
opinion. It apprears that Robert Caron would have been part of the first
recruits sent to Canada by the Company of One Hundred Associates, made up
mainly of people from Normandy, such as the LeGardeur, LeNeuf de laPoterie,
and Herisson families. A close examination of the conditions imposed onthe
One Hundred Associates permits us to conclude that they could recuit their
colonists from different areas and in fact, they recruited them from allover
the provinces of France. The more we study the origins of the firstcolonists
of Canada, the more we become convinced that that they had among thosewho came
to New France, from 1630 to 1640, a large proportion of folk fromSaintonge and
Aunis. We believe that Robert Caron was neither a Norman or a Breton, butthat
he came from Saintonge and that he embarked at LaRochelle for Canada. It
appears that he disembarked at Quebec in the summer of 1636 becasue he is
present at the marriage of Jamen Bourguignon and Claire Morin on November30,
1636. In the month of February 1660, Monsignor de Laval travelled to
Chateau-Richer and administered the sacrament of confirmation to animposing
group of inhabitants on the Beaupre coast: Marie Crevet is among theconfirmed;
it is said that she hails from the diocese of Bayeux. At the same timeMarie
Caron is confirmed -- the young wife of Jean Picard. The odd thing is that
Marie is mentioned as coming from the diocese of LaRochelle. In ouropinion,
there is proof which strongly militates in favor of the opinion stated atthe
beginning of this work, that Robert came from LaRochelle or it's environs.
Marie Caron having heard her father say that he was from LaRochelle,concluded
that she should say she was a native of that area; otherwise why not saythat
she came from the diocese of Bayeaux, like her mother, or simply declarethat
she was born at Quebec. We can even ask if she wasn't born at LaRochelle,
during a trip Robert Caron and his wife could have made there after their
marriage." The registers of Notre-Dame de Rocouvrance were destroyed byfire in
June 1640. Those records probably would have told us of Robert Caron'sorigin.

!COMMENT: Reginald Olivier, "Your Ancient Canadian Family Ties", c. 1972,Page
49. "...settled on the hill of Beaupre, and married at Quebec...they hadseven
children that left a very large lineage. This land clearing familysuffered
under the barbarism of the savages; Marie, the oldest was kidnapped by the
Hurons on 4 July, 1660.


Facts about this person:

Burial July 08, 1666
Quebec, PQ, Canada