Basilique St-Jacques de Lisieux It was built between 1496 and 1501 by the architect " Guillemot of de Sa Maison". Robert Dufour was originating in this very flourishing parish in the 17th century. Damaged badly during the second world war of 1939 and especially in 1944, the building is used today as museum.

église Sainte-Anne du Petit Cap  1676-1876 (Sainte-Anne de Beaupré) This stone church is used to worship for two centuries, before it is demolished in 1878. The commemorative Chapel is built on its foundations

 

 

 

The descendance of Gabriel-Robert :

On May 1,1694, he marries Anne Magneron (m.1), daughter of Laurent and Anne St-Denis, they have 3 daughters:

Angélique: The elder of the Dufour family, she marries Ignace Gasnier around 1715; she will have 5 children. After the death of Ignace in 1759, she became the " Seigneuresse" (i.e. a member of the landed gentry of Canada) of one half of the Seigniory of Gouffre and managed it. Angelique died at Baie-St-Paul on August 20, 1768.

 

Marie-Josephte: The second daughter of Gabriel-Robert marries Pierre Gagné about 1718 at St-Joachim. We have very few information on her life. she died about 1723, and did not leave any descendants.
 

Agnès: The junior of the 3 daughters of Anne Magneron, born March 17, 1701 and died in 1727 during the childbirth of a daughter also named Agnès. Then it is quasi silence and we know very little on the descendants of this line. 
 

Anne Magneron dies suddenly in 1702. Gabriel-Robert Dufour remarries, on August 23, 1703, Louise Gasnier-Gagnier, the daughter of Ignace Gasnier-Gagné and Barbe Dodier. They had 8 children: 3 daughters and 5 sons: Joseph, Bonaventure, Marie-Reine, Jean, Barbe, Ignace, Louise and Gabriel. Of the 5 sons, only Joseph, Bonaventure and Gabriel will leave descendants.  

Joseph: Elder of this second family, he will occupy a significant place, as well by his personality as by his role as a "Royal Usher" on the Seigniory of Beaupré. He first lived at the Petite-Riviere-St-François where he married Marie-Anne, daughter of Pierre Tremblay, Lord at the Éboulements in 1732. By his first  marriage, Joseph had 7 children of which only one boy Joseph II, will be the ancestor of Dufour established in New Brunswick and in the States of New England USA, at 19th and the 20th centuries. His second marriage to Félicité Simard in 1750 will produce 6 children. After his second marriage he became a farmer on the Seigniory of Malbaie. He is described as "Master to the farm of Malbaye". Joseph Dufour dies in La Malbaie, September 2, 1774.

Bonaventure: born in or about 1706, he married Élisabeth Tremblay, daughter of Louis, in 1734. He leaved at l'Ile-Aux-Coudres until 1742, and will return to Petite-Rivière St-François until his death in 1783.

Marie-Reine: it appears that she may have been born about 1707. Married François-Xavier Tremblay, she had 10 children, all born locally, at La Petite-Rivière. She died there in 1790.

Jean: born about 1709 and died before 1726. It is assumed that he may have been physically handicap. There are very little know facts on this 4th child of Robert Dufour and Louise Gagné.

Barbe: born about 1711, married a widower, Etienne Simard, at Petite-Rivière in 1733. She gave birth to an extensive family, 15 chidren (3 couples of twins). One of her daughter, will be burried "near the church" with a child from unknow father. Barbe Dufour died in1799, she was 70 years old.

Ignace: born about 1712, married Marie-Reine Tremblay, also daughter of Pierre (see Joseph above). hey had only one son, Dominique who married and lived at l'Ile Jésus (Ville Laval). His line is lost in the middle of the 19th century and could not be identified.

Louise: born about 1713 at St-Joachim. She was mental retarded, died September 9 1759, she was 46 years old, "...taken refuge in the woods... in the time of war when the British were holding Isle-aux-Coudres and Quebec".

Gabriel: born about 1715, his was given the same first name of that of his father, Small farmer on the Western point of Isle-aux-Coudres, Gabriel was a ship pilot on the St-Laurent river. He will end his days drowning in Fall 1781. Married twice, he left behind numerous descendants; his 18 children and descendants equal in number the lineage from Joseph and Bonaventure together.
 

Land acquisitions: January 15, 1700 and in the subsequent months, Gabriel-Robert Dufour acquired the totality of the concession from his father-in-law Laurent Magneron and he became a farmer, as well as  a blacksmith. Established at St-Joachim, on the Lordship of Beaupré, he worked hard on his farm and also built a new house between 1703 and 1704 for his large family. Keeping the future of his children in mind, he bought more land. In 1717, he acquired a lot at La Petite-Rivière-St-François and at about the same period at Ile-aux-Coudres.

 

 

 

 

 

 His death: Based on his widow's declaration on an inventory report, it is assumed that he died in the Fall 1719 or Spring 1720. He supposedly drown on his way to work his land at Isle-aux-Coudres,