Simon Lereau

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Simon Lereau, son of René Lereau and Marguerite Guillin, and the ancestor of the L’Hérault and L’Heureux families in North America emigrated from France (Pays de Loire) to the Nouvelle France around 1652. He came from Saint-Cosme-de-Vair in the province of Maine, a town now named Saint-Cosme-en-Vairais in the department of Sarthe. He most likely sailed from La Rochelle.

New information from the Université de Caen Basse Normandie lists Simon as having been born in the parish of Saint-Martin in Igé and baptized on October 10, 1624. Simon Guiet and Marguerite Lereau are listed as his godparents. Igé is a few miles North of Saint-Cosme-en-Vairais in the department of Orne.

He spent his early years in the Côte-de-Beaupré, possibly at a place now called Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré. The first recorded event is his marriage contract on October 31, 1655 - a celebration at the time - to Suzanne Jaroussel, daughter of the late Pierre Jarousseau and of Jacquette Touraude, de Périgny (Charente Maritime), East of La Rochelle. Following their marriage in l'Île d'Orléans on November 27, 1655, the newlyweds moved in their just finished new house and started farming on a plot of land on the Île d'Orléans, which at the time was in the Seigneurie de Beaupré. This area of l'Île d'Orléans later became the parish of Sainte-Famille, one of six parishes on the island.