Patrilineal Progeny of Claude Bouchard

A project of yDNA validation of deep genealogies

Luc Baronian

Created: January 12, 2020
Last updated: March 28, 2020

Claude Bouchard and his descendants

Claude Bouchard, born circa 1626, came to Canada from Saint-Cosme-de-Vair, a village now known as Saint-Cosme-en-Vairais in the modern French department of Sarthe. During the Ancien Régime, the area was part of the French province of Maine. According to his marriage contract, he was the son of Jacques Bouchard and Noëlle Touschard. (Some researchers have read his mother's name as Nicole Bouchard, but that seems to be incorrect.) He married Louise Gagné in 1654 in Québec City, who was born in 1642 in Saint-Martin-d'Igé. Unlike Claude, Louise came to Canada with her parents, Louis Gagné (born 1612 in Saint-Martin-d'Igé) and Marie Michel (born circa 1622 in St-Martin-du-Vieux-Bellême). Both Igé and Bellême were then part of the province of Perche, but are now located in the French department of Orne. Though located in separate provinces/departments, all three villages (Saint-Cosme, Igé and Bellême) are located somewhat equidistantly along a 15km (10 mi) straight line. The parents of Louise, in fact, were married in Saint-Cosme-de-Vair in 1638 and two older brothers of her father Louis were also baptized there. It is thus not inconceivable that the Bouchard and Gagné families were acquainted with one another prior to their crossing of the ocean to settle in the newly established French colony of Canada. Louise's birth in France was preceded by that of a son, Louis, who appears to have died at a young age. After coming to Canada, Louise's parents had seven other chidren born in Québec City. Louis Gagné also had a brother, Pierre, who came to Canada with his wife and children. For more details on the Gagné family, see this family tree.(1, 2, 3)

Map of the French towns where Claude Bouchard and Louise Gagné originated

Left: The baptism of Louise Gagné
in Saint-Martin-d'Igé in 1642.
Image credit: Fichier Origine.

Bottom: The marriage of Claude Bouchar
and Louyse Gasnier recorded at
Notre-Dame-de-Québec in 1654.
Image credit: Fonds Drouin.

Louise Gagné and Claude Bouchard had 12 children, all born in or East of Québec City. The eldest, Marie, became a nun (soeurs St-Paul de la Congrégation Notre-Dame) under the name of Marie Françoise Bouchard, passing away in Montréal in 1739. Two children (Jacques and Louise) died in their twenties without issue and two other children (Gilles and Claude) died within a few weeks of their birth. Their son Louis moved to La Prairie (south of Montréal) where he married and raised the single son who made it to adulthood (out of five children). The other six children of Louise and Claude (Marguerite, Anne, Geneviève, Rosalie, François and Antoine) remained on the rural lands East of Québec City (Charlevoix and Montmorency counties), on the North shore of the St. Lawrence, where they married and had a total of 68 children, which, with the addition of Louis's 5 children in the Montréal area, totals 73 grandchildren for the Bouchard/Gagné couple. Most of them remained in the same area, except for seven who moved to the Montréal area, often with their children and often in the vicinity of their uncle Louis, and three sons of Geneviève who moved to Détroit in the 1750s, which was still a French settlement at the time. As for the settlers' great-grandchildren, we find 1 in Cahokia (modern day Illinois), 2 in the Trois-Rivières area, 20 in Détroit, 92 in the Montréal area, and 326 East of Québec City: 11 on the South shore and 315 on the North shore, for a total of 441 great-grandchildren. At the end of their lives, Claude and Louise were living in Baie-Saint-Paul, a historic small town at the heart of the region now known as Charlevoix, where they passed away in 1699 and 1721, respectively.

Map of the areas settled by Claude Bouchard's descendants over only three generations

Although there were other Bouchard settlers than Claude, the modern distribution of the family name resembles this ancient settlement pattern so much that it appears he is the source of most modern Bouchard individuals living in Québec today. In fact, the family name is ranked #5 in Québec as a whole, and reaches its peak in MRC Charlevoix, where 7.8% of the population bears it, which is exactly where we found most of his great-grandchildren. Furthermore, 24,2% of the Québec Bouchard live in the nearby administrative region of Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, which, historically, is mainly a 19th-century demographic off-shoot of the Charlevoix population.(4) Genealogist Denis Beauregard estimates the couple's total descendants to be numbered between 1 610 000 et/and 2 030 000 in Québec only.(5) From the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, it is estimated that one million French-Canadians immigrated to the USA, mainly to Michigan, upstate New York and all six states of New England. Though it is difficult to quantify, thousands of descendants of Claude Bouchard and Louise Gagné must have been among the newly established Franco-American communities, that were often referred to as "Little Canadas" with their own churches and schools.

Québec genealogists often refer to Claude as "Petit Claude", in order to distinguish him from another contemporary settler, Claude Bouchard dit Dorval (from Paris). The latter's grandsons, however, almost exclusively went by the family nickname (nom-dit), Dorval, still prevalent today among the descendants. Brothers Nicolas and Michel Bouchard from La Rochelle are two other 17th-century settlers who contributed to the implementation of the name in Eastern Québec. As of today, there are neither genealogical or genetic indications that the three lineages, originating in three rather distant parts of France, are connected in history.

Proportion of the population of each Regional County Municipality with the last name Bouchard.
Source: Duchesne, Louis. 2006. Les noms de famille au Québec : aspects statistiques et distribution
spatiale. Québec: Institut de la statistique du Québec, p. 106.


The usefulness of yDNA testing in genealogy

Because the Y chromosome (yDNA) is transmitted strictly from father to son, it is perfectly correlated with patrilineal ancestry, except for the fact that women don't have a Y chromosome, even though they have patrilineal ancestry. Therefore, women cannot be tested for yDNA, but they can test their father, paternal grandfather, a brother or a paternal uncle in order to investigate their patrilineal ancestry. In most Western societies, family names are also transmitted from a father to his children, at least traditionally, and, therefore, strongly correlate with yDNA transmission. If two men descend patrilineally from a relatively recent common (male) ancestor, the markers on their yDNA should match rather closely. The further away the common patrilineal ancestor is, the more distant the yDNA match will be between the two men.

If genealogical records indicate that two men each descend from a different son of their common patrilineal ancestor, then obtaining a yDNA match between these two men is called triangulating the common ancestor. Because Québec Catholic parish records show very few gaps, allowing us to link the modern population to its ancestors who mainly came from France in the 17th century, it is now possible, with modern yDNA testing, to create a catalogue of the yDNA signatures of the original Frenchmen who came to Québec (then New France or simply Canada) in the 17th and early 18th centuries. (Several European men who settled in colonial French Canada came from other countries: Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands/Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Ireland, Great Britain... or integrated the society, often after being held as captives, from the nearby Dutch and British colonies ; some Amerindians also integrated French-Canadian society.)


The patrilineal ancestry correlated with yDNA transmission.
Image credit: FamilyTreeDNA.

In turn, once the yDNA signature of a male ancestor is firmly established, people who test and show up with a result inconsistent with their genealogy can allow researchers to spot errors or gaps in the records, or detect previously unknown adoption cases. Testing for yDNA could also allow researchers to confirm or detect Amerindian men among the founding population of Québec. This would give us a more accurate picture of how the early Europeans in Québec interacted and intermarried with the more ancient Amerindian population. Furthermore, yDNA testing can allow us to detect a relationship between two early men who came to Québec. If this family relationship goes back to France, the Québec records will generally be silent about the relationship between two individuals. In other words, we can get a better picture of how closely related the population of French settlers was before crossing the ocean.


Validating Claude Bouchard's deep lineages through yDNA testing

Two descendants of Claude Bouchard's youngest son, Antoine, volunteered to take FTDNA's Y-37 test. The results immediately showed a match between them and with four other men bearing the Bouchard family name at distances of 0, 1 or 2 on 37 markers. Another man named Bouchard took the test shortly after and once again showed up as a close match, totaling seven Bouchard men in the group (sometimes with spelling variations such as Bushore or Bouschor). All seven men had genealogies available linking them to Claude Bouchard through his youngest son Antoine.


Summary graph illustrating the seven documented patrilineal branches of Claude Bouchard that were tested using FTDNA's Y-37 test.
More complete lineages (respecting privacy of living individuals) can be viewed on the pages of the Québec yDNA Project here.

Therefore, for now, we can only say that Antoine Bouchard's yDNA signature has been triangulated. In order to triangulate his father Claude's, we need to identify and test patrilineal descendants of Antoine's two brothers who had children, Louis and François. As the graph above illustrates, the patrilineal descendance of Louis is very restricted with a single male representing his y-lineage over three generations. François's descendance is larger, but a consultation of early Québec records indicates that it was still much more restricted than Antoine's: François had 8 grandsons through his sons, only 5 of whom married; Antoine had 37 grandsons through his sons, 31 of whom married. Hence, if this ratio was maintained over the following generations, we should expect approximately one patrilineal descendant of François for every six such descendants of Antoine. Having only seven descendants of Antoine so far and no descendant of François is thus not all that surprising.

The following tree, compiled from the PRDH database with minor adjustments from Denis Beauregard's database and FichierOrigine, lists three generations of patrilineal descendants of Claude Bouchard (numbered 1) and Louise Gagné, with the addition of Claude's parents (numbered 0), for a total of five generations. The descendants of Claude Bouchard are numbered according to the d'Aboville genealogical numbering system. Descendant females who, according to the genealogies, inherited Claude Bouchard's family name are included with their spouse(s), but not their children. The names colored in red have documented patrilineal descendants who were tested on FamilyTreeDNA's Y-37 test. The pair of numbers in blue represent:
a) the number of documented descendants tested for each individual;
b) the number of sons through which these descendants are issued.

Thus, the mention Antoine Bouchard (1682--1759) [7:4] means that seven documented descendants of Antoine Bouchard issued from four different sons were tested. The individuals tested all showed up within the yDNA haplogroup R1b at a genetic distance of "0", "1" or "2", which is expected for individuals separated by 7-8 generations. One match at a genealogical distance of "4" was not investigated because he was deemed too distant, and two other matches born of unknown biological fathers were ignored.


Thanks to...

Bobbi Bushore, Denis Bouchard, D. Jay Bushore, Dorval Levasseur, Greg Bouchard, Lori A. Bouchard, Marcel Bouchard, Roland Bouchard and other people who prefer to remain anonymous for providing genealogical lineages, testing or paying for tests.

If your patrilineal or matrilineal lineage is of French-Canadian origin and you have taken a test at FamilyTreeDNA, please join the Québec yDNA Project (patrilineal) and/or the Québec mtDNA Project (matrilineal).

For an example of mtDNA validation of deep genealogies, see the Matrilineal Progeny of Jeanne Soldé.


Five Generation Tree of Individuals Inheriting Claude Bouchard's Last Name


0. Jacques Bouchard [7:1]
+ Noëlle Touschard
	1. Claude Bouchard (c1626--1699) [7:1]
	+ Québec 1654 Louise Gagné (1642--1721)

		1.1 Marie Bouchard (1659--1739)

		1.2 Jacques Bouchard (c1662--1690)

		1.3 Gilles Bouchard (1664--1664)

		1.4 Marguerite Bouchard (1665--1731)
		+ Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré 1683 René Lavoie (c1657--1731)

		1.5 Louise Bouchard (c1668--1696)

		1.6 Anne Bouchard (1670--1731)
		+ L'Ange-Gardien 1690 Louis Jobidon (1663--1742)

		1.7 Geneviève Bouchard (1672--1754)
		+ Baie-St-Paul 1686 Michel Tremblay (1662--1727)

		1.8 François Bouchard (1674--1756)
		+ Baie-St-Paul 1699 Marguerite Simard Lombrette (1684--...)

			1.8.1 Marie Madeleine Bouchard (1700--1755)
			+ Baie-St-Paul 1718 François Tremblay (1695--1755)
			
			1.8.2 Marie Louise Bouchard (1701--1735)
			+ Baie-St-Paul 1717 Joseph Amiot Villeneuve (1696--1722)
			+ Baie-St-Paul 1723 Jacques Bonneau Labécasse (1694--1748)
			
			1.8.3 Claude Bouchard (1703--...)
			
			1.8.4 Barbe Bouchard (1704--1739)
			+ Baie-St-Paul 1732 Joseph Laforest Labranche (1710--1758)
			
			1.8.5 Claude Bouchard (1705--1731)
			
			1.8.6 Marguerite Bouchard (1707--1724)
			
			1.8.7 Agnès Bouchard (1709--1743)
			+ Petite-Rivière-St-François 1741 Sébastien Hervé (1695--1759)
			
			1.8.8 Marie Gertrude Bouchard (1711--1790)
			+ Baie-St-Paul 1732 Etienne Pedneau (1709--...)
			
			1.8.9 Joseph François Bouchard (1713--1755)
			+ Petite-Rivière-St-François 1739 Dorothée Savard (1718--...)
			
				1.8.9.1 Marie Josèphe Bouchard (1741--1780)
				+ L'Isle-aux-Coudres 1759 Jean-Baptiste Perron (1737--1825)
				
				1.8.9.2 Claude Bouchard (1743--1811)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1766 Geneviève Desgagné (1737--1811)
				
				1.8.9.3 Agathe Bouchard (1745--1747)
				
				1.8.9.4 Marie Dorothée Bouchard (1747--1810)
				+ Petite-Rivière-St-François 1768 François Rouisse Martel (c1737--1789)
				
				1.8.9.5 Françoise Bouchard (1749--1750)
				
				1.8.9.6 Madeleine Bouchard (1751--1778)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1768 Joseph Perron (c1739--1818)
				
				1.8.9.7 Geneviève Bouchard (1752--1827)
				+ L'Isle-aux-Coudres 1773 Joseph Louis Gontier / Gauthier (1746--1810)
				
				1.8.9.8 Marie Thècle Bouchard (1754--1805)
				+ L'Isle-aux-Coudres 1774 Louis Lajoie (1751--1808)

			1.8.10 Marie Josèphe Bouchard (1713--1797)
			+ Baie-St-Paul 1731 Pierre Savard (c1712--1780)
			
			1.8.11 Catherine Bouchard (1715--...)
			+ Petite-Rivière-St-François 1739 André Tremblay (1719--1804)
			
			1.8.12 Etienne Bouchard (1717--1780)
			+ Petite-Rivière-St-François 1747 Marie Geneviève Gagné (1726--1798)
			
				1.8.12.1 Etienne Bouchard (1749--1814)
				+ Petite-Rivière-St-François 1774 Marie Geneviève Simard (1753--1817)
				
				1.8.12.2 François Bouchard (1751--1784)
				
				1.8.12.3 Louis-Michel Bouchard (1753--1823)
				+ Petite-Rivière-St-François 1782 Marie Anne Bluteau (c1759--1847)
				+ (illegitimate) Marie Gagné (c1771--1841)

				1.8.12.4 Barthélemy Bouchard (1755--1787)
				
				1.8.12.5 Augustin Bouchard (1757--1819)
				+ La Malbaie 1788 Marie McNicoll Duncan (c1766--1845)

			1.8.13 Jean-Baptiste Bouchard (1718--1791)
			+ Les Éboulements 1749 Marie Charlotte Tremblay (1731--1804)
			
				1.8.13.1 Marie Madeleine Bouchard (1751--...)
				
				1.8.13.2 Marie Geneviève Bouchard (1754--1834)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1768 Jean-Baptiste Dufour Bona (1742--1810)
				
				1.8.13.3 Jean-Baptiste Bouchard (1760--1790)
				+ Petite-Rivière-St-François 1782 Ursule Gagné (1764--1804)*

			1.8.14 Marie Charlotte Bouchard (1722--1802)
			+ Petite-Rivière-St-François 1746 François Perron (1704--1755)**
			+ Baie-St-Paul 1759 Nicolas Marchand (1730--...)

			1.8.15 Marie Thérèse Bouchard (1722--...)

			1.8.16 Geneviève Bouchard (1724--1758)
			+ Petite-Rivière-St-François 1747 Etienne Gagnon (1723--1784)

			1.8.17 Antoine François Bouchard (1726--1807)
			+ L'Isle-aux-Coudres 1750 Marie Geneviève Angélique Tremblay (1732--1773)
			
				1.8.17.1 Anonyme Bouchard (1751--1751)

			+ L'Isle-aux-Coudres 1775 Cécile Elisabeth Desgagné (1731--1804)

		1.9 Rosalie Bouchard (1676--1733)
		+ Baie-St-Paul 1695 Etienne Simard Lombrette (1669--1750)

		1.10 Claude Bouchard (1678--1678)

		1.11 Louis Bouchard (1680--1727)
		+ La Prairie 1715 Suzanne Lefebvre (1688--1721)
		
			1.11.1Marie Josèphe Bouchard (1716--1727)
		
			1.11.2 Louis Bouchard (1718--...)
			+ Montréal 1751 Marie Josèphe Boyer (1725--1795)
		
				1.11.2.1 Louis Bouchard (1752--1802)
				+ St-Constant 1792 Marie Apolline Longtin (1768--1850)

				1.11.2.2 Marie Josèphe Bouchard (1753--1753)

				1.11.2.3 Marie Josèphe Bouchard (1754--1785)
				+ La Prairie 1779 Pierre Lamarque (1749--1817)

				1.11.2.4 Marie Louise Amable Bouchard (1755--1805)
				+ La Prairie 1788 Jean-Baptiste Barbeau Boisdore (1725--1805)

				1.11.2.5 Marie Rose Bouchard (1756--1757)

				1.11.2.6 Marie Véronique Bouchard (1757--1840)
				+ La Prairie 1776 Pierre Poissant Lasaline (1749--1818)

				1.11.2.7 Marie Félicité Bouchard (1758--1759)

				1.11.2.8 Marie Anne Bouchard (1760--1760)

				1.11.2.9 Marie Marguerite Bouchard (1761--1836)
				+ La Prairie 1783 Michel Amable Longtin (1761--...)

				1.11.2.10 Ignace Bouchard (1763--1763)

				1.11.2.11 Pierre Come Bouchard (1764--1764)

				1.11.2.12 Ignace Bouchard (1766--...)
				+ Ste-Anne-de-Détroit 1797 Madeleine Campeau (...--...)

				1.11.2.13 Elisabeth Bouchard (1767--1821)

				1.11.2.14 Marie Victoire Bouchard (1771--1771)

			1.11.3 Marie Charlotte Bouchard (1719--1719)

			1.11.4 Marie Catherine Bouchard (1720--1720)

			1.11.5 Anonyme Bouchard (1721--1721)

		+ La Prairie 1724 Françoise Dania (c1678--1754)

		1.12 Antoine Bouchard (1682--1759) [7:4]
		+ Baie-St-Paul 1704 Marie Madeleine Simard Lombrette (1689--...)

			1.12.1 Félicité Bouchard (1705--1757)
			+ Baie-St-Paul 1729 Pierre Perron (1706--1780)
			
			1.12.2 Jean-Baptiste Noël Bouchard (1707--1778) [1:1]
			+ Les Éboulements 1734 Marie Catherine Tremblay (1717--1810)
			
				1.12.2.1 Jean-Baptiste Noël Bouchard (1736--1760)
				
				1.12.2.2 François Xavier Bouchard (1738--1814)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1761 Marie Angélique Desbiens (1738--1821)

				1.12.2.3 Pierre Bouchard (1740--1825)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1767 Sylvie Grenon (1753--1833)

				1.12.2.4 Marie Catherine Bouchard (1741--1741)

				1.12.2.5 Marie Elisabeth Bouchard (1742--1827)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1760 Jean Néron (1736--1798)

				1.12.2.6 Marie Emérentienne Bouchard (1744--1811)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1763 Joseph Bolduc (c1738--1806)

				1.12.2.7 Amédée Bouchard (1746--1822)
				+ La Prairie 1776 Marie Josèphe Denault Tailly (1759--1781)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1781 Marie Josèphe Nathalie Tremblay (1759--1796)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1798 Charlotte Simard (1755--1845)

				1.12.2.8 Antoine Bouchard (1747--1831)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1772 Marie Josèphe Félicité Grenon (1755--1800)

				1.12.2.9 Michel Romain Bouchard (1749--1813)
				+ La Prairie 1776 Marie Josèphe Sénécal (1756--1811)
				
				1.12.2.10 Etienne Bouchard (1751--1847)
				+ St-François-Régis 1777 Marie Josèphe Giroux (1750--1780)
				+ St-François-Régis 1783 Marie Anne Amable Babeux (1762--1845)
	
				1.12.2.11 Alexis Bouchard (1753--1832)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1781 Catherine Gagnon (1763--1845)
	
				1.12.2.12 Victor Samson Bouchard (1754--1841) [1:1]
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1780 Marie-Anne Tremblay (c1761--1839)
			
			1.12.3 Catherine Bouchard (1709--1710)

			1.12.4 Antoine Bouchard (1711--1776) [3:2]
			+ Les Éboulements 1738 Marie Jeanne Gagnon (1712--1776)

				1.12.4.1 Pierre Bouchard (1740--1800)
				+ Les Éboulements 1760 Marie Geneviève Grenon (1734--1802)

				1.12.4.2 Antoine Bouchard (1742--1801) [2:2]
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1764 Madeleine Elisabeth Tremblay (1745--1832)

				1.12.4.3 Louis Joseph Bouchard (1742--1743)

				1.12.4.4 Joseph Louis Bouchard (c1743--1822) [1:1]
				+ L'Isle-aux-Coudres 1769 Marie Madeleine Tremblay (1752--1784)
				+ L'Isle-aux-Coudres 1784 Marie Juste Labranche (1761--1796)
				+ L'Isle-aux-Coudres 1797 Marie Dufour (1774--1828)

				1.12.4.5 Marie Emérentienne Bouchard (1745--1797)
				+ Les Éboulements 1764 Pierre Louis Girard (1740--1823)

				1.12.4.6 Jean-Baptiste Dominique Marie Bouchard (1746--1770)

				1.12.4.7 François Bernard Bouchard (1748--1804)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1775 Félicité Tremblay (1759--1837)

				1.12.4.8 Godefroy Bouchard (1749--1812)
				+ L'Isle-aux-Coudres 1775 Marie Charlotte Tremblay (1758--1793)
				+ L'Isle-aux-Coudres 1798 Julie Desbiens (1774--1836)

				1.12.4.9 Marie Geneviève Bouchard (1749--1825)
				+ Les Éboulements 1776 Pierre François Tremblay (1751--1838)

				1.12.4.10 Marie Madeleine Euphrosine Bouchard (1751--1834)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1773 Adrien Maurice Joseph Guay / Castonguay (1746--1828)

				1.12.4.11 Marie Thérèse Bouchard (1753--1822)
				+ Les Éboulements 1772 François Lajoie (1749--1821)

			1.12.5 Jacques Bouchard (1713--1772)
			+ L'Isle-aux-Coudres 1741 Louise Françoise Rousset (1724--1795)
			
				1.12.5.1 Marie Madeleine Louise Françoise Bouchard (1743--1837)
				+ L'Isle-aux-Coudres 1764 Pierre Audet Lapointe (1736--1815)
				
				1.12.5.2 Marie Angélique Bouchard (1745--1748)
				
				1.12.5.3 Marie Josèphe Emerentienne Bouchard (1747--1760)
				
				1.12.5.4 Marie Angélique Bouchard (1749--1817)
				+ L'Isle-aux-Coudres 1769 Louis Marie Caron (1746--1825)
				
				1.12.5.5 Jacques Bouchard (1752--1829)
				+ L'Isle-aux-Coudres 1777 Marie Josèphe Ouellet (1754--1826)
				
				1.12.5.6 Marie Augustine Bouchard (1755--1833)
				+ L'Isle-aux-Coudres 1777 Jean Marc Gagnon (1755--1828)
				
				1.12.5.7 Félicité Perpétue Bouchard (1758--1843)
				+ L'Isle-aux-Coudres 1785 François Hervé/Harvey (1760--1843)
				
				1.12.5.8 Emérentienne Bouchard (1763--1842)
				+ L'Isle-aux-Coudres 1787 François Abraham Tremblay (1762--1842)

			1.12.6 Marie Madeleine Bouchard (1714--1793)
			+ Petite-Rivière-St-François 1737 Pierre Jacques Allard (1715--1777)

			1.12.7 Joseph Bouchard (1718--1803) [1:1]
			+ Baie-St-Paul 1746 Françoise Fortin (1727--1783)
			
				1.12.7.1 Marie Madeleine Emérentienne Bouchard (1747--1785)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1768 Etienne Gaspard Tremblay (1747--1831)
				
				1.12.7.2 Marie Josèphe Angélique Bouchard (1749--1749)
				
				1.12.7.3 Joseph-Marie Bouchard (c1750--1823)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1777 Marie-Jeanne Tremblay (1753--1836)
				
				1.12.7.4 Antoine F. Bouchard (1752--1816)
				+ Petite-Rivière-St-François 1780 Geneviève Thérien (1753--1806)

				1.12.7.5 Marie-Josèphe Angélique Bouchard (1754--1796)
				+ Petite-Rivière-St-François 1777 Dominique Simard (1755--1833)
				
				1.12.7.6 Jean François Noël Bouchard (1756--1833) [1:1]
				+ Canada 1780 Marie Madeleine Simard (1762--1832)
				
				1.12.7.7 Joseph Louis Antoine Bouchard (1758--...)
				
				1.12.7.8 Madeleine Bouchard (1759--1824)
				+ Petite-Rivière-St-François 1785 Louis Jacques Sébastien Simard (1758--1832)
				
				1.12.7.9 Marie Procule Bouchard (c1761--1845)
				+ Petite-Rivière-St-François 1782 Louis Janvier Gontier/Gauthier (1761--1836)

				1.12.7.10 A. François Bouchard (1764--1848)
				+ Petite-Rivière-St-François 1802 Constance Bouchard (1779--1813)***
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1815 Thérèse Boivin (1774--1857)

				1.12.7.11 René Pierre François Bouchard (1767--...)
				+ L'Isle-aux-Coudres 1796 Félicité Tremblay (1777--...)

				1.12.7.12 Ignace Bouchard (1771--1804)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1800 Suzanne Côté (1781--...)

			1.12.8 Marguerite Bouchard (1720--1799)
			+ Petite-Rivière-St-François 1742 Joseph Tremblay (1720--1758)
			+ L'Isle-aux-Coudres 1764 François Leclerc (1730--1815)

			1.12.9 Emérentienne Bouchard (1722--1744)
			+ Petite-Rivière-St-François 1743 François Perron (1704--1755)**

			1.12.10 Michel Bouchard (1725--1789)
			+ Petite-Rivière-St-François 1750 Marie-Louise Tremblay (1729--1817)

				1.12.10.1 Marie Madeleine Bouchard (1751--1814)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1770 Jérôme Isaac Girard (1742--1821)

				1.12.10.2 Rosalie Bouchard (c1753--1835)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1774 Louis Théodore Thierry Gaspard Boivin (1747--1799)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1804 Basile Leclerc (1747--1816)

				1.12.10.3 Dorothée Bouchard (1755--1839)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1776 Louis Antoine Tomothée Gauthier Larouche (1748--1830)

				1.12.10.4 Marie Josèphe Sylvie Bouchard (1757--1818)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1780 Augustin Georges Gamache (1757--1827)
				
				1.12.10.5 Louis Antoine Michel Bouchard (1760--1835)
				+ L'Acadie 1792 Marie Anne Hébert (1774--1798)
				+ L'Acadie 1806 Apolline Finsterer (1785--1861)

				1.12.10.6 Jacques Michel Bouchard (1762--1831)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1790 Modeste Fortin (1765--1850)
				
				1.12.10.7 Pierre Jean Prisque Bouchard (1765--1833)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1790 Marie Elisabeth Martine Fortin (1766--1792)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1793 Marie Boivin (1768--1809)
				
				1.12.10.8 Marie Agathe Angélique Bouchard  (1768--1805)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1787 Louis Marie Tremblay (1760--1831)

				1.12.10.9 Joseph-Marie Bouchard (1771--1786)

			1.12.11 Louis Bouchard (1729--1780) [2:1]
			+ Petite-Rivière-St-François 1757 Marie-Françoise Dufour (1739--1815)
			
				1.12.11.1 Louise Côme Bouchard (1758--1759)
				
				1.12.11.2 Louis Bouchard (c1759--1819)
				+ Petite-Rivière-St-François 1791 Ursule Gagné (1764--1804)*
				
				1.12.11.3 Jean-Baptiste Bouchard (1760--1828)
				+ Petite-Rivière-St-François 1788 Ursule Tremblay (c1767--1809)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1812 Félicité Gagné (1761--1838)
				
				1.12.11.4 Joseph Marie Bouchard (1762--1838)
				+ Petite-Rivière-St-François 1793 Emérentienne Tremblay (...--...)

				1.12.11.5 Antoine Abraham Bouchard (1764--1838)
				+ Petite-Rivière-St-François 1800 Marie Véronique Bouchard (1781--1849)***

				1.12.11.6 Abel François Alexis Bouchard (1767--1833) [2:1]
				+ Carleton 1790 Agathe Blanche Leblanc (c1768--1854)
				
				1.12.11.7 André Bouchard (c1769--1795)
				
				1.12.11.8 Madeleine Bouchard (1772--1852)
				+ Petite-Rivière-St-François 1800 François Tremblay (1775--1844)

				1.12.11.9 Elie Bouchard (1774--1860)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1805 Théophile Girard (c1779--1813)
				
				1.12.11.10 François Bouchard (1776--1837)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1808 Hélène Tremblay (1789--1858)
				
				1.12.11.11 Denis Bouchard (1778--...)
				+ Baie-St-Paul 1811 Marie Pilote (b1790--...)

				1.12.11.12 Judith Bouchard (1781--1853)
				+ Petite-Rivière-St-François 1805 Jean-Baptiste Dupéré (1777--1844)

	*Same individual.
	**Same individual.
	***Daughters of 1.8.12.1 Etienne Bouchard (1749--1814).


4. Duchesne, Louis. 2006. Les noms de famille au Québec : aspects statistiques et distribution spatiale. Québec : Institut de la statistique du Québec.