Jean-Baptiste SAVIGNAC

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The Savignac Family home page is dedicated to the descendents of JEAN-BAPTISTE MICHEL SAVIGNAC, who emigrated to New France around 1710. Jean-Baptiste had been born in the area of Bordeaux, France, around 1683. Upon arrival in Québec, he first settled in the area of Ile-Dupas, on the left bank of the St.Lawrence River, opposite the then very small town of Sorel. Within a few years he was living at the concession of Petite-Riviere on the Bayonne River near Berthier, where he farmed for the rest of his life. In 1719 he married a local girl, Marie-Anne Henault, and contemporary parish records indicate that they had eight children. Jean-Baptiste Savignac died in the summer of 1748 while on a trip to Montréal, and was buried there in the cemetery of Notre Dame. According to Fr. Ernest Savignac, family historian of the Pierre Savignac (1805-1882) branch of our family and author of "Pierre Savignac et ses descendants" (Oka, Québec, PQ, 1949), Jean-Baptiste Savignac was the first and only Savignac to emigrate from France to Canada (le primier et l'unique Savignac a émigrer de France au Canada) is the ancestor of all Canadian Savignacs (le pere commun de tous les Savignac du Canada). From him are descended almost every person in North America who bears the Savignac surname. (Yes, there are some who are not, but they are very few and far between.)

Jean-Baptiste married Marie-Anne ÉNAUD on 22 Nov 1719 in Sorel, Richelieu, QC. Marie-Anne (daughter of Pierre ÉNAUD and Marie-Anne RATEL) was born in 1702 in Berthier-en-Haut, Qc; died on 2 Feb 1782 in Berthier-en-Haut, Qc. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jean-Baptiste SAVIGNAC was born on 25 Jan 1722 in Berthier, Qc; died in 1749 in Berthier, Qc.
2. François SAVIGNAC was born on 19 Feb 1724 in Berthier, Qc; died on 19 Jun 1807 in Verchères, Qc.
3. Michel SAVIGNAC was born on 26 Feb 1726 in Berthier, Québec; died on 23 Feb 1809 in Berthier, Québec.