Eugène RICHER dit LAFLÈCHE (1871-1925)

Born April 17, 1871 in Saint-Georges-de-Windsor, Richmond County, QC, Eugène RICHER dit LAFLÈCHE was the son of Jean-Baptiste & Julie GUIMONT/GUIMOND. In 1913, he founded the "Mission de l'Esprit-Saint" (Mission of the Holy Spirit). The word MISSION meaning MESSAGE since it was Eugène's self-proclaimed work to spread the messages of the Holy-Spirit, which, to him, included the teachings of EUGENICS, that became popular in Nazi Germany.
The group took hold in the province of Québec and soon spread to francophone areas in Canada and the U.S. A house in Westport, MA was purchased and members settled in the area during the mid-1920's; but, they have since dispersed.
At the beginning of March 2009, a former member of the mission came forth and divulged her experience of 30 or so years as a member of the MISSION, which is now considered a sect and which is still flourishing in Québec. The Québec government has been "watching" the MIssion for several years because of their unauthorized schooling of members' children, but nothing seems to have been done thus far to shut down these schools.

(1)
Jean RICHER
Marie GALARDE
Anjou (maine et Loire) FRANCE
(2)
Pierre RICHER dit LAFLÈCHE
Dorothée BRASSARD
1671-10-05
Québec City, QC
(3)
Pierre RICHER dit LAFLÈCHE
Marguerite HUBERT
1716-10-12
Québec City, QC
(4)
Pierre RICHER dit LAFLÈCHE
Charlotte NORMANDEAU
1749-10-27
Ste-Anne-de-la-Pérade, Richelieu County, QC
(5)
Athanase RICHER dit LAFLÈCHE
Marie BONIN
1785-08-04
Saint-Ours, Richelieu County, QC
(6)
Augustin RICHER dit LAFLÈCHE
Céleste LAGRAVE
1824-11-16
Saint-Pierre-de-Sorel, Richelieu County, QC
(7)
Jean-Baptiste RICHER dit LAFLÈCHE
Julie GUMOND
1854-10-05
Wotton, Wolfe County, QC
(8)
Eugène RICHER dit LAFLÈCHE
Marie-Louise Adéla DAVID
1895-02-25
Montréal, QC
For more information about the
Mission de l'Esprit-Saint
click on the title above
to be brought to their homepage.
A search on Google for
the Mission of the Holy Spirit
in Westport, MA
will bring you to the website of the
Westport, MA Historical Society
where you'll find an interesting story about the Mission.

Daniel (SUIRE) PERRON

Daniel SUIRE PERRON
born 1638-11-25 in LaRochelle, FRANCE
was the illigitimate son of
François (PERON) PERRON
and

Jeanne SUIRE

In return for an amount of money, his father, François, demanded that Daniel bear his mother's surname, SUIRE, that he be baptized in the Calvinist church & that he, the father, be given charge of Daniel at 8 years of age.
After his arrival in New France in 1662, Daniel relized that if he wanted to work in Catholic Québec & marry Louise GARGOTIN, he would have to denounce his religion, which he did in Notre-Dame church on December 6, 1663. He then married Louise (Jacques GARGOTIN+Françoise BERNARD) on February 26, 1664 in Château-Richer, Montmorency County, QC.
Daniel's father, François PERRON, was upset by his denunciation of the Calvinist religion; and he rejected him as his son, thus cutting off all ties as well as his inheritance. This resulted in Daniel's loss of the land his father owned in L'Ange-Gardien, Montmorency County, QC when he died. Nonetheless, in 1674, the court gave François' land in L'Ange-Gardien, to Daniel in return for unpaid work that he had done for his father. On the other hand, François' property on rue Sur-le-Cap in Lower Québec City, was turned over to his creditors. The PERRON family property in L'Ange-Gardien eventually became the inheritance of Daniel's 5 sons:

ANTOINE
b. 1664-11-29 in L'Ange-Gardien,
bapt. in Château-Richer under the surname of SUIRE,
m. 1691-01-15 in L'Angue-Gardien
Jeanne TREMBLAY
(Pierre+Ozanne ACHON);
FRANÇOIS
b. 1666-02-22 in L'Ange-Gardien,
bapt. in Château-Richer under the surname of SUIRE,
d. 1666-04;
MARIE
b. & bapt. unknown
m. 1691-11-27 in L'Ange-Gardien
Louis TREMBLAY
(Pierre+Ozanne ACHON);
MAGDELEINE
b. 1670-04-05 in L'Ange-Gardien
baptized under the surname PERRON
m. 1689-10-17 in L'Ange-Gardien
Charles GODIN
(Charles+Marie BOUCHER);
JEAN
b. 1672-08-10 in L'Ange-Gardien
baptized under the surname of LESUIRE
1st m. 1698-11-10 in L'Ange-Gardien
Anne GODIN
2nd m. 1706-01-25 in L'Ange-Gardien
Suzanne TOUCHET
(Simon+Marie GAGNARD)
For more information about the SUIRE-PERRON descendants
click on the title above
and you will be brought to the
Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré site
where the Revue Sainte-Anne is published.
This ancestry appears in the January 2009 edition
Vol. 136. No. 11