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- ! <http://www.genealogie.org/ancetres/bedard.htm> (online translation) Isaac BedardBedard ancestor of AmericaThe name derives from B?dard beadle and is itself a religious allusion.The ancestor Isaac Bedard was born about 1616. He married, March 20,1644, Marie Girard Larochelle. He practiced primarily the job of master carpenter.From 1644 to 1658, they brought seven children to baptism they called: Jacques Fran?ois, Pierre Richard, Isaac, Louis and Anne. Jacques and Louis were the only survivors, the others died in infancy.In 1660, Bedard left for New France, they occupied a location in the Upper Town.By 1663, they left these places, it seems to Quebec, because they had one last little girl, who bore the same name as his mother, May 12, 1664.It is said that Bedard experienced great difficulty in being accepted in the community. For example, two years later, in 1665, they went to Petite-Auvergne, Charlesbourg, asmall village of St-Jerome, in an accommodation of five arpents, theypaid 60 pounds.For 16 years, sometimes farmer and sometimes master carpenter, Isaac Bedard tried to support his family adequately, yet he had several times to resign themselves to seek help for Jesuits to meet basic needsIn the 1681 census, IsaacB?dard, a carpenter and resident of Little Auvergne, had a gun, 4 cattle and 12 acres of land under cultivation.Isaac Bedard was buried January 15, 1689, to 73 years.The Bedard have multiplied so prodigiously,there are currently beyond 30.000 B?dardscattered in all provinces of Canada and several U.S. states.Bedard family provided the Church hundreds of priests and religious who devoted themselves in the countries of Africa, China, South Americaand extreme northern Canada.She also starredinthejudiciary and in politics, in all professions, and in all scientific careers and business.This brave family can claim a part of building the French Canadian nationality.Source: The Genealogy Centre francophone d'Am?rique
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