“César Léger was another man of dubious character. He was in Montréal as early as 1643. On March 9 of that year, he and Jeanne Mance stood as godparents on the baptism record of Élisabeth Nougatekoue, a fourteen-year-old First Nations convert.[ 130] On May 22, 1644, César married Roberte Gadois, daughter of Pierre Gadois and Louise Mauger, in the little chapel of Saint-Michel de Puiseaux at Sillery, just outside of Québec. In the summer of 1647, César was back in Québec, where he served as a witness to the marriage of Michel Chauvin and Anne Archambault on July 29. Less than a month later, on August 26, 1647, and three years after he married Roberte Gadois, César married Marguerite Bénard near Québec.[ 131] César Léger abandoned both wives. Fortunately, he had no children with either woman. There is a note in the Jesuit Relations stating that, “Léger, a young lad, arrived at the same time [June 1648] and remained in Montréal, after having lived about a year among the Hurons.”[ 132] He was at Ville-Marie as late as the spring of 1650, when he served as godparent to the child of Augustine Hébert and Adrienne Duvivier on April 19 of that year. César Léger‘s marriage to Roberte Gadois was not annulled until November 30, 1650, when Roberte Gadois married Louis Prud’homme. It is of interest that Louis Prud’homme was the one who notified Maisonneuve that Michel Chauvin had a wife back in France. There is no record of an annulment of César’s marriage to Marguerite Bénard. However, this woman wed Claude Bouchard dit Dorval on November 20, 1651, in Québec.[ 133]”

— The Women of Ville-Marie: Pioneers of Seventeenth-Century Montréal by Susan McNelley
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41Fille a Marier

Claude Bouchard dit Dorval
Arrivée de Claude Bouchard dit Dorval s'embarque sur le navire "L'Ange-Gabriel comme sous-commis en 1647 de la compagnie des Cent Associés
Sources : http://www.naviresnouvellefrance.net/html/vaisseaux2/marchands/
marchandsBodC.html#bouchardclaude

 
Recensement 1667 :  CÔTE DE BEAUPRÉ
Claude Bouchard, 55 ; Marguerite Benard, 39 ;. Jean, 15 ; Marie, 13 ; Charles, 11 ; Jean-Baptiste, 9 ; Claude, 7 ; Paul, 4 ; Marguerite, 2 ; 40 arpents en valeur.
Recensements de 1666-1667 en Nouvelle-France, référant au chapitre IV du livre Histoire des Canadiens Français de Benjamin Sulte, compilés par Jean-Guy Sénécal le 17 mars 1998
 
 
Recensement 1681 :  COMTÉ DE ST-LAURENT (île d'Orléans)
Marguerite Besnard, veuve, 50 ; enfants Jean 25, Madelaine 22, Paul 19, Augustin 4, Jean 1 ; 1 fusil ; 8 bêtes à cornes ; 4 arpents en valeur.
https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Histoire_des_Canadiens-fran%C3%A7ais,_Tome_V/Chapitre_4 
Wikisource Recensement 1681 Census selon Benjamin Sulte ''Histoire des Canadiens-français, Tome 5, chap. 4''
 
On trouve Marguerite Besnard avec son fils Jean Bouchard, à qui l'on donne 25 ans; l'épouse de Jean, Madeleine Cloustier; son fils Paul Bouchard, 19 ans; Augustin Gravel, 4 ans, fils de Madeleine Cloustier par son premier mariage; et Jean Bouchard, 1 an, fils de Jean et Madeleine.  Sa fille Marguerite Bouchard, 16 ans, est chez sa soeur Marie et son époux François Bigot aux Prairies Marsollet.  Son fils Jean Baptiste est domestique des Sulpiciens de Montréal.
 
On trouve cet acte notarial devant le notaire Louis Chambalon:
-Don. Jean-Baptiste Bouchard dit Dorval, de Montréal, à Jean Bouchard dit Dorval, son frère, de St-Pierre, I. O. de tous ses droits en la succession de feu Claude Bouchard, leur père, et en celle de Charles et Paul Bouchard leurs frères (28 octobre 1695). Vol XVIII pg 135
 
L'année suivante on trouve chez le même notaire: 
-Donation mutuelle par Claude Bouchard à Jean Bouchard dit Dorval son frère, de St-Pierre, I.O., de tous les droits successifs qui sont échus au premier par la mort de leur père, feu Claude Bouchard et ceux qui lui viendront après la mort de Marguerite Bénard, leur mère (16 juin 1696). Vol XVIII pg 159

“César Léger was another man of dubious character. He was in Montréal as early as 1643. On March 9 of that year, he and Jeanne Mance stood as godparents on the baptism record of Élisabeth Nougatekoue, a fourteen-year-old First Nations convert.[ 130] On May 22, 1644, César married Roberte Gadois, daughter of Pierre Gadois and Louise Mauger, in the little chapel of Saint-Michel de Puiseaux at Sillery, just outside of Québec. In the summer of 1647, César was back in Québec, where he served as a witness to the marriage of Michel Chauvin and Anne Archambault on July 29. Less than a month later, on August 26, 1647, and three years after he married Roberte Gadois, César married Marguerite Bénard near Québec.[ 131] César Léger abandoned both wives. Fortunately, he had no children with either woman. There is a note in the Jesuit Relations stating that, “Léger, a young lad, arrived at the same time [June 1648] and remained in Montréal, after having lived about a year among the Hurons.”[ 132] He was at Ville-Marie as late as the spring of 1650, when he served as godparent to the child of Augustine Hébert and Adrienne Duvivier on April 19 of that year. César Léger‘s marriage to Roberte Gadois was not annulled until November 30, 1650, when Roberte Gadois married Louis Prud’homme. It is of interest that Louis Prud’homme was the one who notified Maisonneuve that Michel Chauvin had a wife back in France. There is no record of an annulment of César’s marriage to Marguerite Bénard. However, this woman wed Claude Bouchard dit Dorval on November 20, 1651, in Québec.[ 133]”

— The Women of Ville-Marie: Pioneers of Seventeenth-Century Montréal by Susan McNelley
https://amzn.asia/f3jFk9z15