Babeu Birthplaces
LaPrairie, Quebec
In the Summer of 2002 we visited Montreal and stopped in Laprairie and St. Philippe. Andre Babeu and Anne Roy were married in Laprairie in 1689. Several Babeu families still live in Laprairie. Babeu families also lived in St. Philippe about 5 miles south of Laprairie. We found that almost no one spoke English, but the people we met were very friendly and went out of their way to help us.
We visited the cemeteries in Laprairie and St. Philippe and photographed gravestones of a number of Babeu relatives born in the mid-1800s, but did not find any Babeu ancestors for our family line.
Above is the Eglise Saint Philippe. The original church burned down.
After we returned from our vacation we found this map on the Internet which includes Andre Babeu Street in Laprairie, on the way to St. Philippe.
Two useful websites found on the Internet help us to learn more about Laprairie yesterday and today. Files extracted from those websites are found here on this CD.
Old Pictures of La Prairie from Société historique de Laprairie
www.laprairie-shlm.com
Information from The City of Laprairie website
www.ville.laprairie.qc.ca/
Jean and Marguerite's son Andre was born in Lechevre, Ile Oleron, Rochefort, Saintonage, France in 1650. He was the first of the Babeu Family to travel to Quebec. Andre Babeu married Anne Roy in LaPrairie, Quebec, Canada in 1689. (Probably ALL Babeu, Babeuf and Babeux in North America are descended from this couple.) LaPrairie is about 5 miles south of Montreal.
Their son Andre Babeu and Marie-Madeliene Mesny also lived in LaPrairie, Quebec.
Their son Andre Babeu and Barbe Amable Chretien were married in 1753 in Montreal. They then lived in St. Philippe, LaPrairie, Quebec. (See the red star below). St.Philippe is a small village in the County of Laprairie- about 5 miles from the centre of the town of Laprairie.
Their son Etienne Babeu and Marguerite L'Ecuyer were married in St. Philippe in 1783.
In the 1787 Census of Laprairie there are 8 Babeu's listed: Antoine, Charles, Etienne, Francois, Joseph, Louis, Louis, and the widow Babeu. Francois has 90 acres, 15 being cultivated, a house and a barn.
Their son Etienne Babeu and Catherine Arteau-St. Pierre's son Etienne Babeu and Justine Chalifoux were married in St. Philippe, La Prairie in 1833. Their son Vinal Babeu was born there in 1835.
St. Philippe
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