The Crevier family

Robert Crevier, of France, was a baker and married Jeanne Dauphin. He died about 1583 after they had two sons, Hughes and Vincent. Vincent was a baker like his father and lived at Saint-Cande-le-Vieil. His brother Hughes married about 1560 to Helene Levasseur. They lived in a house known as "la Teste noire" (the Black Head), in the Parish of Saint-Croix-Saint-Ouen. Like his father and grandfather before him, Hughes was a baker. Hughes and Helene had at least one daughter and five sons, one of whom was Nicholas. Nicholas was baptized at Sait-Croix-Saint-ouen on 19 April 1581. He was also a baker and married Anne Bazinet about 1607. They lived at Saint-Cande-le-Vieil-Jeune and had at least four children. One of these sons, Christophe, was baptized at Saint-Cande- le-Jeune, Rouen, France on 17 February 1611. He grew up in Rouen where he met and married Jeanne Lenard or Enard. He was twenty-two and his bride was fourteen. They spent a few years at Rochelle before embarking, at the latest, in 1639 for New France (Canada). They arrived as a family of three , daughter Jenne having been born in France about 1636 and settled at Trois-Rivieres where Christophe worked as a baker, but, probably earned more as a fur trader.

Sometime between 1642 and 1651 the family twice went to France only to return to canada. On their first return to Canada they bought a lot in the town of Quebec on the northwest side of Rue Saint-Louis, with the Palace of The Senechaussee on one side and the house of Charles Phelippeaux on the other. On their next return they settled near the same area, near Beauport, but in a few years returned to Trois-Riviers. On 9 March 1655 Christophe, along with four other inhabitants, bought, from the Jesuits, each two by five arpents, on the Ile Saint-Christophe. In the ensuing years , Crevier bought out his neighbors and this land became known as Fief St-Christophe". It is still called St-Christophe today. He acquired other lands, chiefly in the neighborhood of Trois-Riviers and in the commune of Lac Saint-Pierre, in addition to his homestead in Trois-Riviers, on the present day corner of Rues Notre Dame and Des Casernes.

Christophe and Jenne had ten Children, three daughters and seven sons. One, Jeanne (1638-1727) married in 1652 to Pierre Boucher de Grosbois, future governor of Trois-Riveries and a founder of Boucherville. Antoine dit Lameslee (1638-1652) and Francois dit Lameslee (1640-1653) were murdered by the Iroquois Indians, both, within a year. Nicholas dit Bellerive (b. 1641) married Louise Le Coustre (Le Loutre) in 1665 and lived in Cap-de-la-Madelene and Batiscan. Jean dit Bellerive et Saint--Francois (1642-1693) married Marguerite Hertel de la Fresniere in 1663. As the seigneur of Saint-Francois du Lac, he was harvesting, with several of his inhabitants when they were set upon and captured by the Iqroquois. After being taken to their base near Albany he was tortured, but on hearing the news, Colonel Peter Schuyler, commander of Fort Albany, ransomed him. Jean died in Albany from his odeal soon thereafter. Marguerite (1645-1708) married four times and had children until the age of fifty-seven. The two sons Jerome and Joseph very little is known. Marie (b. 1649) married in 1663 to Nicholas Gastineau dit Duplessis. Jean-Baptiste dit Duvernay (1651-1708) married in 1682 to Anne-Charlotte Chorel d'Orvilliers. His great- great-grandson, Luther Duvernay, was the founder of the Societe Saint-Jean-Baptiste.

On 1 December 1662 Christophe Crevier recorded his will and shortly thereafter death took its toll. Jeanne Enard lived several more years. She kept active by dealing in the fur trade and in conjunction with her sons and sons-in-law, in the less honorable business of "eau-de-vie" (water of life; BRANDY). This was one of the reasons for the exasperation and departure of Pierre Boucher from Trois-Riviers to his eden on Iles Percees (Boucherville). In the Census of 1681, Jeanne, aged 62, lived in the region of Montreal, probably at the home of her daughter Marguerite. Mentioned with her are her grandchildren Marguerite and Jean Gamelin. After this Jeanne Enard seems to have fallen into oblivion.