{"id":6422,"date":"2026-05-24T12:30:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp268347.wpdns.ca\/?page_id=6422"},"modified":"2026-05-28T19:07:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:07:05","slug":"debut-des-messier-e","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/famillemessierfamily.org\/en\/debut-des-messier-e","title":{"rendered":"D\u00e9but des Messier &#8211; E"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"6422\" class=\"elementor elementor-6422\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-52190311 e-flex e-con-boxed jltma-glass-effect-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"52190311\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-77e31bc jltma-glass-effect-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"77e31bc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The beginnings of Messier...<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-50f558b8 e-flex e-con-boxed jltma-glass-effect-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"50f558b8\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4b8cd54d jltma-glass-effect-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"4b8cd54d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"853\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/famillemessierfamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Debut-Messier.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1834\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/famillemessierfamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Debut-Messier.jpg 853w, https:\/\/famillemessierfamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Debut-Messier-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/famillemessierfamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Debut-Messier-768x346.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-12223c2d jltma-glass-effect-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"12223c2d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">\u00c9lisabeth, Martine, David\u00a0and Jacques (the uncle) are brothers and sisters.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Catherine Thierry Primot, daughter of Elisabeth, was adopted by her aunt Martine Messier and her husband, Antoine Primot, upon their arrival in Canada. <\/span><\/p><p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Michel\u00a0and his brother\u00a0Jacques are the children of David Messier and Marguerite Barc.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Charles LeMoyne, husband of \u00c9lisabeth Thierry-Primot, is the brother of Anne LeMoyne,\u00a0wife of\u00a0Michel Messier.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-52d6bfc1 jltma-glass-effect-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"52d6bfc1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\">St. Denis le Thiboult is a small locality situated 15 km from Rouen in Normandie which represents the origin area of all Messier descendants of America. Two brothers, Michel born around 1640 and Jacques around 1649, contitute the main line of New France builders. They are descendants and children of David Messier and Marguerite Barc from France.<\/p><p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\">\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\">On another side, let us point out that Catherine Thierry-Primot is David Messier&rsquo;s sister and she is Charles LeMoyne de Longueuil&rsquo;s spouse. She will become by this fact, the mother of an illustrious family : d&rsquo;Iberville de Longueuil, de Sainte H\u00e9l\u00e8ne, de Maricourt, de S\u00e9rigny et de Loire, de Bienville (Louisiana Governor), de Chatigny et d&rsquo;Assigny.<\/p><p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\">\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\">Already in 1650, Michel and his uncle Jacques settle down on a land situated in Old Montreal (McGill and St Paul). Michel&rsquo;s brother Jacques joins them in 1660; they will live in Montreal till 1678, date where Michel installs himself on his Seignioral land of Trinit\u00e9 and Cap St-Michel in Varennes, bringing with him his uncle, brother and brother-in-law Jacques LeMoyne.<\/p><p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\">\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\">In Montreal, on February 25, 1658 Michel Messier marries Anne LeMoyne, Charles LeMoyne&rsquo;s sister. From their marriage they had twelve children. Around 1690, in an unknown place (probably Fort Frontenac) Jacques will marry Marie-Ren\u00e9e Couillard of which reunion will have one child Jacques.\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\">\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\">The two brothers will pass away in Varennes, Jacques on March 22, 1697, and Michel on November 2, 1725.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7300d714 e-con-full e-flex jltma-glass-effect-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"7300d714\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-62960787 jltma-glass-effect-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"62960787\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Text comes from the volume of :<\/p><p><em><strong>Gilles Messier. Les Messier et leurs anc\u00eatres : 700 ans d&rsquo;histoire.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beginnings of Messier&#8230; \u00c9lisabeth, Martine, David\u00a0and Jacques (the uncle) are brothers and sisters. Catherine Thierry Primot, daughter of Elisabeth, was adopted by her aunt Martine Messier and her husband, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6422","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/famillemessierfamily.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/famillemessierfamily.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/famillemessierfamily.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famillemessierfamily.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famillemessierfamily.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6422"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/famillemessierfamily.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6683,"href":"https:\/\/famillemessierfamily.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6422\/revisions\/6683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/famillemessierfamily.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}