Le registre de la parroisse de St Louys du haut de L'Isle de Montreal (original spelling).
François-Saturnin Lascaris D'Urfé had his chapel at today's Pointe Caron in Baie-D'Urfé. It was known as
the parish of St. Louis du Haut de l'Île de Montréal. The parish was later called St-Louis-du-Bout-de-L'Île and became then the parish of Sainte-Anne-du-Bout-de-l'Île, today Sainte-Anne de-Bellevue. However
he spent only two years there because the war with the Iroquois started to escalate and he had to retreat. It was too
dangerous. He had to retreat to safer ground and that was not Ste-Anne but Lachine. He took the register with him
and gave it to the priest of the Lachine parish, Pierre Rémy. It became therefore part of the Lachine register.
I would like to thank the Montréal Archives (BAnQ Vieux-Montréal) for helping me to locate this document and allowing me to see it. It's impressive to see those ancient pages bound into a book, an ancient church register with a cover made of cardboard and linen canvas. It is fragile but the paper is still flexible. It makes one wonder if the electronic documents that we produce today will still be readable 300 years later.
These are the pages of this register signed by "f D'Urfé Curé" (F. D'Urfé, Priest). You can click on an image to see it in full resolution. Further down on this page you will find each individual page with a "deciphered" text version for better readability.
There is a total of 12 pages signed by D'Urfé in this register you can read them above or if you need them with an even higher resolution then you can click on the individual pages below and zoom in.
Text versions are provided for better readability (click on the "txt" besides the individual page images below). The spelling of words has been kept as close as possible to the original text. You will therefore see the old French "mesme" instead of "même" or "avec moy" instead of "avec moi".
It is difficult to decipher such an old text since both spelling conventions and the use of words have changed over the centuries. Please email me if you have suggestions or corrections.
Overview by page number (1 to 12)
The pages in this register are not entirely in time order. Paper was expensive and
François D'Urfé used the remaining space on a page if it was still big enough for a the new entry.
The entries have the name of the subject written as a header above the entry but the handwriting, and sometimes the spelling of the names, is different which suggests that those headers where added later.
Page 1: 1686-Nov-29, Wedding: Jean Baptiste Celoron Ecuyer sr. De Blainville & Mamoiselle Helenne Picotte de Belestre, Signed by: De Blainville, Helen Debelestre, Jaques Dumesnil Denore, Jaques Maleray, Françoise DeBelestre, Jeanne DeBelestre, Marie deBelestre, François D'Urfé
Page 2: 1687-Feb-22, Death: Claude de la mothe dit le marquys de Sourdy, age: about 40, Signed by: --
Page 2 part 2: 1687-March-01, Baptized: Marie Magdelenne Thillard (Magdelaine in the text), Signed by: François D'Urfé
Page 3: 1687-Oct-18, Death: Jean Baptiste le Sueur dit la Hogue, age: about 21, Signed by: Etienne Forbe, Michel le Bourgeois, François D'Urfé
Page 3 part 2: 1687-Nov-17, Death: Louis Jets, miller, age: about 24
Page 4: contiued from page 3, Signed by: Maricour Le Moyne, ??, Le Ber, François D'Urfé
Page 5: same as page 1 but different layout, Signed by: François D'Urfé, DeBlainville, Helene Debelestre, Dumesnil Denore, Jaques Maleray, François Debelestre, Jeanne Debelestre, Marie Debelestre
Page 6: Claude Lamothe dit Sourdy, similar to page 2 Signed by: --
Page 6 part 2: Madeleine Tillard (Magdelaine in the text), similar to page 2, Signed by: François D'Urfé
Page 7: 1687-Apr-30, Baptized: Marguerite le Moyne, Signed by: François D'Urfé
Page 7 part 2: 1687-Sep-26, Baptized: Louis Villedieu
Page 8: contiued from page 7, Signed by: Villedieu, François D'Urfé
Page 8 part 2: 1687-Sep-21, Death: Jean Vincent, age: about 45, Signed by: Cybard Courraud, Jean Dutertre, François D'Urfé
Page 9: 1687-Sep-30, Death: Jean de Lalonde, dit Lesperance, age: 47, Signed by: Cybard Courraud, Guillaume Daoust, François D'Urfé
Page 9 part 2: 1687-Sep-30, Death: Pierre Boynneau, age: 38
Page 10: contiued from page 9, Signed by: Guillaume Daoust, Cybard Courraud, François D'Urfé
Page 10 part 2: 1687-Sep-30, Death: Pierre Perthuys, age: about 40
Page 11: 1687-Sep-30, Death: Henry Fromageau, age: about 27, Signed by: Guillaume Daoust, Cybard Courreau, François D'Urfé
Page 11 part 2: 1687-Sep-30, Death: Pierre Pettitteau, age: about 20
Page 12: contiued from page 11, Signed by: Cybard Courreau, Jean DuTertre, François D'Urfé
Page 12 part 2: 1687-Oct-18, Death: Pierre Camus, age: about 21, Signed by: Michel le Bourgeois, Etienne Forbes, François D'Urfé
Rue D'Urfé in Lachine
François D'Urfé came via Lachine to "Baie-D'Urfé", then known as "La parroisse de St Louys du haut de L'Isle de Montreal" (spelling and accents exactly like this) and when he had to retreat because of the attacks from the Iroquois he went back to Lachine. To commemorate François D'Urfé, the Montreal Borough of Lachine has named a street "Rue D'Urfé":
