Jean Deniau (Sieur De Long)

• General Notes
  • Jean Deniau was born in France, in the Sainte-Marie parish of the Montbert borough, diocese of Nantes in Brittany. On the first writing to bear his name, the notary Basset spells his patronym, Niaux. .
    
    Jean arrived in New France with the Great Recruit of 1653. Jean Deniau, Sieur de Long, thus appointed by Basset, is the son of Pierre Deniau and Jeannette Gaudet. He was surely born about 1630, because he is 36 years old at the census of 1666 and 51 years in 1681 during the seigniory of Tremblay de Longueuil. November 25, 1663, Jean Deniau signs, in front of the notary Basset, his marriage contract with Helene Daudin, daugther of Isaac Daudin and Anne Jeannet of the Ile de Ré, évêché de la Rochelle, France, whom he marries on January 21, 1664 in the church Our Lady of Montreal.
    
    In 1678, the Deniau family is established in the seigniory of Tremblay where, August 12, 1695, both are massacred by Iroquois. From their union were born six children of which one will die at an early age.
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    In Montreal, January 21, 1664, Jean Deniau marries Helene Dodin, born on August 25, on 1643, baptized 20 November next, with the temple calvinist of Villeneuve, of the Small rock, in the current department of the Charente-Maritime, girl of Isaac and Anne Jarnet. Jean Deniau and his wife, Helene Dodin, pioneers of the ground inhabitant of Quebec, die both whole under the arrows of Iroquois. They spent the first years of their life to City-Marie. With this intention an idea of the life of the colonists at that time, it should well be remembered that City-Marie was a advanced station in the medium of the country of the savages, intended to protect Three-Rivers and Quebec and, always exposed to receive the first blows. The colonists lived in continual fright, the day and the night. The clearing was not much advanced. Near the field which the colonist cultivated, there was always a wood, from where the Iroquois savage could leave and sink on the husband who worked in his field or on the woman and the children remained at the house. It is in this state of heart that Jean Deniau and Helene Dodin, spend the first twenty years of their household and raise a family chrétiennement and courageously. They then will be established in Boucherville which, from the danger point of view of, is perhaps still worse, since there, one does not have the military organization of City-Marie and that the colonists are more distant the ones from the others. One cannot remain indefinitely exposed with the balls and the enemy arrows without finally in being reached. During thirty years, a great number of the companions of Jean Deniau were killed or made captive by Iroquois. Jean Deniau, always on the breach, continuing to cultivate the ground corner which made live its family. Finally, in 1695, the 12 of August, in the parish of Boucherville, Jean Deniau and his wife, Helene Dodin, are killed by Iroquois. Since nearly thirty-two years, they worked coast at coast, waiting each day, without fear and without reproach, the bloody end which threatened them and awaited them. Providence their left time to fulfill their mission and to raise a family of six children born in Montreal (City-Marie). All their compatriots must be proud for it even more those which can claim them as being their ancestors, their fate is worthy of desire. The elder son, Rene Deniau, baptized on January 18, 1665, are that which binds us to Deniau, in the present genealogy. It marries in 1692, in Boucherville, Marie-madeleine Matou, girl of the ancestor Philippe Matou, known as Labrie and of Marguerite Doucinet. Marie-madeleine Tom cat, widow of Jean Hautdecoeur, lost her husband in painful goods circumstances. He was carried out on the wheel of Quebec, for the murder of a merchant of Montreal. The Deniau/Matou couple gives only two wire and a girl. The only son who melts a hearth is Jean-Baptist Deniau or Denault, born in 1697. He marries in 1736, in second weddings, Marie-Catherine Rufiange. Their daughter Francoise Denault marries in 1765, Jean-Baptist Duquette. The Deniau patronym is typically a name of Blésois and of Touraine, local deformation of the Christian name Daniel, which means "God judges".

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