The various versions concerning the origins of Robert Caron the ancestor could alone be the subject of a voluminous work. All the genealogists, it seems to have written about the ancestor Robert Caron and his journey is quite intriguing.<\/p>\n
In his 30-volume work, \u201cOur Ancestors,\u201d G\u00e9rard Lebel summarizes the opinion of many of the French origin of Caron\u2019s first ancestor. He asks, \u201cWhere did he come from? Three and a half centuries have sunk to the bottom of the hourglass and genealogists have yet to find an absolutely certain answer to the question\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
In the historical research bulletin (1937), Father Yvanhoe Caron joined Father Julien D\u00e9ziel and his ancestors to claim that Robert Caron was originally from Saintonge (today\u2019s Charente Maritime). \u201cSome authors wrote Father Caron, claimed that Robert Caron came from Normandy, others said he was Breton. The more we study the origins of Canada\u2019s first settlers, the more we are convinced that amongst those who came to New France, from 1630 to 1640, a high proportion of people from Saintonge and Aunis. Robert came from Saintonge and he embarked in La Rochelle for Canada\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n
Another well-known genealogist, Father Archange Godbout, discovered that several Caron families lived in La Rochelle in the 17th century. They were for the most part Protestant, which does not mean that the ancestor Robert was. G\u00e9rard Lebel concluded that the file concerning the origin of Robert Caron remains open. He notes, importantly, that his marriage certificate disappeared with other acts entered in the registers of the Notre-Dame de Qu\u00e9bec Church before 1640. On June 15 of that year, a fire reduced them to ashes, at the same time as the documents of the registry and a large part of the contracts between individuals. Attempts have been made to reconstruct them from the memory of families and witnesses at the time, but they have remained incomplete. This explains the difficulty of genealogists concerning the origins of certain ancestors.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong>Robert Caron at the time of Louis\u00a0XIII<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Throughout life, we can pinpoint events that steer our destiny in another direction that we hadn\u2019t initially planned. Just like us, our ancestor Robert Caron certainly did not escape this predicament, but what was triggered his adventure towards New France? Certainly, it took a dose of boldness and taste for adventure to attempt a crossing with no guarantee!<\/p>\n Louis XIII – Philippe of Champaigne – Source Wikicommons<\/p><\/div>\n We know that he was born approximately in 1612 in France populated by around 18\u00a0million inhabitants, more than 4\/5 of whom are peasants. Research has never been able to determine his region of origin but it can be assumed that according to geographic sources of surnames in France that his family came from the north, namely Normandy, Picardy, Nord and Pas-de-Calais, and perhaps of the greater Paris region and even of present-day Belgium, which was then known as the Spanish Netherlands. Nowadays, the Carons are concentrated in the regions mentioned above.<\/p>\n The innumerable wars, which took place in these regions of France or it, could simply through the years written traces of his birth and the origin of his parents have disappeared.<\/p>\n Was he a soldier? Possibly but more a peasant; or did he practice a trade like weaver, mason or carpenter. Were his parents’ victims of these wars? Did he have brothers and sisters who were victims of the same fate? Had he ever been married? Did he have children that would have been born and died in France? All very legitimate questions (1).<\/p>\n In March 1632, by the treaty of St-Germain-en-Laye, England returned to New France to the French. Champlain did not return to New France until the following year and prepared for the arrival of a few families in 1634. In 1635, Richelieu slowed down the efforts of colonization and redirected the resources of men and material to reconquer the northeast provinces; in fact, the so-called Thirty Years’ War (1618\u20131648), during which France had avoided taking part in it directly, moved to the border provinces of the northeast. Richelieu had declared war on Spain; Artois must return to France and in fact, in 1640, Artois became French again but at the cost of sacrifices to which the inhabitants paid a large cost: overwhelming taxes, famines and epidemics.<\/p>\n That year (1636) and the following years were years of military defeat during which Corbie was taken by the Spaniards and Paris was threatened. This year was also a particular year of deadly heat waves where the north of France saw 500,000 people perish from the heat, infectious diseases and famine.<\/p>\n Robert Caron was an adult of about 24 years old in 1636. He was aware of an uncertain future at a time when a peasant belongs to his lord. He cannot hunt or fish; he cannot own land.<\/p>\n Our ancestor Robert then volunteered to travel to New France for a promise of freedom: to marry there, build his house, cultivate his land, and hunt. He would also have the freedom to sell his land and acquire more, which he would never have achieved in his native France! (2)<\/p>\n Translated footnotes: (2) Marcel Trudel in his \u2018Catalog des immigrants 1632\u20131662\u2019 specifies that the year\u00a01636 is not certain although 1634 was considered as a hypothesis according to other sources.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Robert Caron the Ancestor The various versions concerning the origins of Robert Caron the ancestor could alone be the subject of a voluminous work. All the genealogists, it seems to have written about the ancestor Robert Caron and his journey is quite intriguing. In his 30-volume work, \u201cOur Ancestors,\u201d G\u00e9rard Lebel summarizes the opinion of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"\r\n L\u2019anc\u00eatre Robert Caron<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Les diff\u00e9rentes versions au sujet des origines de l\u2019anc\u00eatre Robert Caron pourraient \u00e0 elles seules faire l\u2019objet d\u2019un ouvrage volumineux. Tous les g\u00e9n\u00e9alogistes patent\u00e9s, dirait-on, ont \u00e9crit sur l\u2019anc\u00eatre Robert Caron tant son parcours est intrigant.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Dans son ouvrage en 30 tomes, \u00ab Nos anc\u00eatres \u00bb, G\u00e9rard Lebel r\u00e9sume l\u2019opinion de plusieurs au sujet de l\u2019origine fran\u00e7aise du premier anc\u00eatre des Caron. Et il pose la question : \u00ab D\u2019o\u00f9 est-il venu ? Trois si\u00e8cles et demi ont coul\u00e9 au fond du sablier et les g\u00e9n\u00e9alogistes n\u2019ont pu encore trouver de r\u00e9ponse absolument s\u00fbre \u00e0 la question\u2026 \u00bb<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Dans le bulletin de recherches historiques (1937), l\u2019abb\u00e9 Yvanhoe Caron rejoint le p\u00e8re Julien D\u00e9ziel et ses M\u00e9daillons d\u2019anc\u00eatres pour avancer que Robert Caron est originaire de la Saintonge (la Charente maritime d\u2019aujourd\u2019hui). \u00ab Quelques auteurs, \u00e9crit l\u2019abb\u00e9 Caron, ont pr\u00e9tendu que Robert Caron venait de la Normandie, d\u2019autres ont dit qu\u2019il \u00e9tait Breton. Plus nous \u00e9tudions les origines des premiers colons du Canada, plus nous nous convainquons qu\u2019il y avait parmi ceux qui vinrent dans la Nouvelle-France, de 1630 \u00e0 1640, une forte proportion de gens de la Saintonge et de l\u2019Aunis. Robert venait de la Saintonge et il s\u2019embarqua \u00e0 La Rochelle pour le Canada \u00bb\u2026<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Un autre g\u00e9n\u00e9alogiste marquant, le p\u00e8re Archange Godbout, a d\u00e9couvert que plusieurs familles Caron habitaient La Rochelle au XVIIe si\u00e8cle. Elles \u00e9taient pour la plupart protestantes, ce qui ne veut pas dire que l\u2019anc\u00eatre Robert l\u2019\u00e9tait. G\u00e9rard Lebel conclut que le dossier au sujet de l\u2019origine de Robert Caron reste ouvert. Il signale, fait important, que son acte de mariage est disparu avec les autres actes inscrits aux registres de l\u2019\u00e9glise Notre-Dame de Qu\u00e9bec avant 1640. Le 15 juin de cette ann\u00e9e-l\u00e0, un incendie les a r\u00e9duits en cendres, en m\u00eame temps que les papiers du greffe et une grande partie des contrats entre particuliers. On a tent\u00e9 de les reconstituer \u00e0 partir de la m\u00e9moire des familles et des t\u00e9moins de l\u2019\u00e9poque, mais ils sont forc\u00e9ment rest\u00e9s incomplets. Cela explique la difficult\u00e9 des g\u00e9n\u00e9alogistes avec les origines de certains anc\u00eatres.<\/p>\r\n\r\n Robert Caron \u00e0 l'\u00e9poque de Louis XIII <\/strong><\/p>\r\n Dans la vie, on peut arriver \u00e0 identifier des \u00e9l\u00e9ments d\u00e9clencheurs qui orientent notre destin dans une autre direction qui n'avait pas \u00e9t\u00e9 initialement pr\u00e9vue. Tout comme pour chacun d'entre nous, notre anc\u00eatre Robert Caron n'y a certainement pas \u00e9chapp\u00e9 mais quel fut le contexte de cette aventure vers la Nouvelle-France? Certes, il fallait une dose de t\u00e9m\u00e9rit\u00e9 et de go\u00fbt pour l'aventure pour tenter une travers\u00e9e sans garantie de la compl\u00e9ter!<\/p>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1515\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"237\"] On sait qu'il \u00e9tait n\u00e9 vers 1612 dans une France peupl\u00e9e d'environ 18 millions d'habitants dont plus des 4\/5 sont des paysans. Les recherches n'ont jamais permis de d\u00e9terminer sa r\u00e9gion d'origine mais on peut pr\u00e9sumer selon des sources g\u00e9ographiques des patronymes en France que sa famille provenait du nord, soit Normandie, Picardie, Nord et Pas-de-Calais, et peut-\u00eatre de la grande r\u00e9gion parisienne et m\u00eame de la Belgique actuelle qu'on d\u00e9signait alors sous le nom de Pays-Bas espagnols. De nos jours, les Caron sont concentr\u00e9s dans les r\u00e9gions ci-haut mentionn\u00e9es.<\/p>\r\n Les innombrables guerres qui se d\u00e9roul\u00e8rent dans ces r\u00e9gions de France ou tout simplement l'\u0153uvre du temps ont fait dispara\u00eetre \u00e0 tout jamais les traces \u00e9crites de sa naissance et de l'origine de ses parents.<\/p>\r\n Mais fut-il soldat? Possiblement mais davantage un paysan; ou pratiquait-il un m\u00e9tier comme tisserand, ma\u00e7on ou charpentier. Ses parents furent-ils victimes de ces guerres? Avait-il des fr\u00e8res et des s\u0153urs qui furent victimes du m\u00eame sort? Avait-il d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e9t\u00e9 mari\u00e9? A-t-il eu des enfants n\u00e9s et d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9s en France? Toutes des questions bien l\u00e9gitimes (1).\u00a0<\/p>\r\n En mars 1632, par le trait\u00e9 de St-Germain-en-Laye l'Angleterre retourne la Nouvelle-France dans le giron fran\u00e7ais. Champlain ne revient en Nouvelle-France que l'ann\u00e9e suivante et pr\u00e9pare l'arriv\u00e9e en 1634 de quelques familles. En 1635, Richelieu freine les efforts de colonisation et r\u00e9oriente les ressources en hommes et mat\u00e9riel \u00e0 la reconqu\u00eate des provinces du nord-est; en effet, la guerre dite de Trente Ans (1618-1648), pendant laquelle la France avait \u00e9vit\u00e9 d'y prendre part directement, se transportait dans les provinces frontali\u00e8res du nord-est. Richelieu avait d\u00e9clar\u00e9 la guerre \u00e0 l'Espagne; l'Artois doit revenir \u00e0 la France et de fait, en 1640, l'Artois redevint fran\u00e7aise mais au prix de sacrifices auxquels les habitants en pay\u00e8rent un large tribut: imp\u00f4ts \u00e9crasants, famines et \u00e9pid\u00e9mies.<\/p>\r\n Quoiqu'il en soit, l'ann\u00e9e 1636 et les suivantes furent des ann\u00e9es de d\u00e9faites militaires o\u00f9 pendant lesquelles Corbie fut prise par les Espagnols et Paris menac\u00e9e mais cette ann\u00e9e 1636 fut \u00e9galement pour le nord de la France en particulier une ann\u00e9e de canicules meurtri\u00e8res qui vit p\u00e9rir 500,000 personnes, victimes autant de la chaleur que des maladies infectieuses et de la famine.<\/p>\r\n En cette ann\u00e9e 1636, \u00e0 l'\u00e2ge d'environ 24 ans, il \u00e9tait un adulte depuis longtemps. Plus que les guerres peut-\u00eatre, Robert est conscient d'un avenir incertain \u00e0 une \u00e9poque o\u00f9 un paysan est soumis et appartient \u00e0 son seigneur. Il ne peut chasser ni p\u00eacher; il ne peut poss\u00e9der de terres.<\/p>\r\n Notre anc\u00eatre Robert se porta volontaire pour tenter l'aventure de la Nouvelle-France pour une promesse de libert\u00e9: s'y marier, y construire sa maison, cultiver sa terre, et chasser. Et avoir la libert\u00e9 de vendre sa terre et en acqu\u00e9rir d'autres, ce qu'il n'aurait jamais r\u00e9alis\u00e9 dans sa France natale! (2)<\/p>\r\n \u00a0<\/p>\r\n![\"LouisXIII\"](\"https:\/\/americaron.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Luis_XIII_rey_de_Francia_Philippe_de_Champaigne-237x300.jpg\")
(1) \u201cThe peasant family of the 17th century is less numerous than one likes to imagine: the age of marriage is late (26 to 28 years for men, 23 to 25 years for women and women die. They have an average of five or six children, half of whom often do not reach adulthood. Childhood does not last long: from 5 to 7 years old, the young pass directly into the world of adults, whom they share as well work than clothing and lifestyle.\u201d\u2013 <\/em><\/strong>Au Temps de Henri\u00a0IV, Collection Andr\u00e9 Castelot, Librairie Plon\u00a01997. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Louis XIII - Philippe de Champaigne - Source Wikicommons[\/caption]\r\n(1) \"La famille paysanne du XVIIe si\u00e8cle est moins nombreuse qu'on se pla\u00eet \u00e0 l'imaginer: l'\u00e2ge du mariage est tardif (26 \u00e8 28 ans pour les hommes, 23 \u00e0 25 ans pour les femmes et les femmes meurent jeunes. Elles ont en moyenne cinq ou six enfants dont souvent la moiti\u00e9 n'atteint pas l'\u00e2ge adulte. L'enfance ne dure gu\u00e8re: d\u00e8s 5 \u00e0 7 ans, les petits passent directement dans le monde des adultes dont ils partagent aussi bien les travaux que les v\u00eatements et le mode vie.\" - Au Temps de Henri IV, Collection Andr\u00e9 Castelot, Librairie Plon 1997.<\/em>
(2) Marcel Trudel dans son \"Catalogue des immigrants 1632-1662\" pr\u00e9cise que l'ann\u00e9e 1636 n'est pas certaine bien que 1634 ait \u00e9t\u00e9 consid\u00e9r\u00e9e comme une hypoth\u00e8se selon d'autres sources.<\/em><\/h6>","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americaron.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americaron.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americaron.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americaron.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americaron.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14979"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/americaron.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14984,"href":"https:\/\/americaron.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14979\/revisions\/14984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americaron.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}