OUR ANCESTOR FRANCOIS NAU
AT DESCHAMBAULT (1687 - 1709)
After the death of his first wife, Marguerite Jobidon, François Nau moved to Deschambault. Even before his second marriage at Neuville, he is listed in the Census as living in the Seigneurie de Deschambault. He is said to be a widower with 4 young children. He is the owner of a building and has Pierre Groleau and Antoine Bussière as neighbors.
On the 3rd of May 1696, Seigneur Jacques-Alexis de Fleury Deschambault cedes officially to François Nau a farm of 3 arpents by 30 and another to his son, François, who will be 17 at the end of the month. .
A few years later, François Nau, father, moved a little further to the west on a new farm granted on 8 August 1704 by François Chavigny, Sieur de la Chevrotière. This plot of land measured 3 arpents by 40 and was located next to the seigniorial domain of La Chevrotière and the new St-Antoine Chapel. He started again clearing his new land. It is on this farm that François passed away at the age of 63. He was buried on 20 March 1709 in the small cemetery of the St-Antoine Chapel.
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