Jacques Beauvais dit St Gemme

  General Notes:

IMMIGRATION: bef 16 Sep 1653
OCCUPATION: Limestone burner and merchant; one of Montréal's leading chalk producers; was also a stone and sand merchant and dabbled in construction. He became a soldier with the 12th squadron of Montréal's Sainte-Famille militia in 1663.

Jacques Beauvais dit St Gemme received a land grant from Governor Maisonneuve on 17 Jan 1654. In the 1681 census Jacques and Jeanne owned seven horned animals and had 28 arpents under cultivation on their land at the Côte Saint-Joseph.

Jacques married Jeanne Soldé, daughter of Martin Soldé and Julienne Le Potier, on 7 Jan 1654 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.¹ (Jeanne Soldé was born on 15 May 1638 in La Flèche, Angers, Anjou, France ¹ and died after 12 Nov 1697 in Montréal, Québec, Canada ².)