PENSONEAU

PENSONEAU

According to George Pensoneau all Pensoneau's in Canada & the U.S. are descended from Francois Pensoneau who arrived in Canada in 1665 as a soldier & Ann LeBer who were married in Quebec in 1673.

FRANCOIS PINSONNEAU dit LeFleur

1636/46 - Francois was born in Diocese of Saintes, Santonge, France

1665 - Francois arrived in Quebec as a soldier of the French Carignan-Salieres Regiment which had left from La Rochelle, France in May of 1665

1673 - 1 May - St. Ours, Richelieu, Quebec - Ann Leber who was born in 1647 & died 1732

1731 - 27 Jan. - La Prairie, Quebec

Children of Ann Leber & Francois Pinsonneau were:

Pierre* - b: 1674 Sorel, Richelieu, Quebec - m: 1700 Montreal, Quebec to Marie Charlotte LeCours - d: 1744 LaPrairie, Quebec
Anne Marie - 1676 St. Ours, Richelieu, Quebec - m: 1794 to Nicholas Brazeau - d:1741 Montreal

Margarite - 1674/79 - m: Pierre Senecal 1698

Jean dit Jacques - 1682 Sorel, Richelieu, Quebec - m: 1712 to Marie Bourassa in LaPrairie, Quebec

Francois - 15 Aug. 1684, St. Ours, Richelieu, Quebec -

Agnes - 1687

Marie Ann - 1693

PIERRE
b: 1674

JOSEPH
b: 1711

JOSEPH
b:1738

Children:

Francois - b: 1 Oct. 1785, St. Jean Francois Regis Quebec Canada

Augustine -

Francois & Augustine were (2nd or 3rd) cousins of Etienne, Louis, and Louison Pensoneau who settled in Cahokia in the 1790's.

FRANCOIS PENSONEAU, was my great, great, great grandfather

1786 - was born in Canada

1802 - Came to Cahokia & became a tavern keeper

1811 - July 25, Francois signed on with Capt. Samuel Levering as an oarsman & soldier for an expedition to the Peoria Lake country to keep hostile Indians in check.

At one time Francois was appointed to view a new road to be laid out from Cahokia to the Grass Point & on to Belleville.

1816 - 29 Dec. - married in St. Clair County, Illinois to Susan DeLorne (also spelled DeLorme) who was the daughter of Francoise LeBoeuf & Hubert DeLorne.

1840 - Francois died 29 October & was buried in the Holy Family Cemetery in Cahokia.

Susan & Francois eventually became the parents of five children:

Francois Desales
Julie (PomPom)
Augustin
Pelagie
Francoise* - b: 14 March 1824, Cahokia, St. Clair, Ill. - d: 1 March 1898 at 4620 Michigan Ave. of senile debility, St. Louis, Mo., buried St. Peter & Paul Cemetery - m: Joseph Michaud 14 Nov. 1840 Cahokia, St. Clair Ill.

SOURCES:

St. Louis death records

George Pensoneau

Belleville Library - St. Clair Co., Ill.

Church of the Holy Family, Cahokia, St. Clair Co., Ill.

A RECORD OF SERVICES OF THE ILLINOIS MILITIA, RIFLEMAN &
VOLUNTEERS, IN THE INDIAN WARS, 1810 - 1813

Ancestors of Mary Lorraine Blanchette

Donna Flood

Larsen Family Tree - Ancestry.com

The genealogical tree of Francois Pinsonneau dit LeFleur
http://www.deloriahurst.com/deloriahurst%20page/194.html

Inman Family Genealogy
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inmanfamilygenealogy/dat461.html#19

ETIENNE, LOUIS, & LOUISON PENSONEAU - From: The Pioneer History of Illinois by John Reynolds

Three brothers, *Etienne, Louis & Louison Pensoneau emigrated from Canada, and settled in Cahokia in 1798. They were born at the old Prairie Fort, so-called, in the Three-River Settlement, Canada, between the years 1772 and 1776. These brothers married in Cahokia and made excellent citizens. Louis occupied the ferry between Cahokia and St. Louis for many years.   In olden times the ferry between these two villages was kept below the mouth of the old Cahokia Creek. This was west of Cahokia & Louis Pensoneau was the ferryman for a long time. Etienne was a very active business man. He possessed extraordinary energies,and improved the country considerably. He made the first house, "the brick-house", so-called, in olden times in Illinoistown. He then purchased the site of Belleville from George Blair, and sold it to Gov. Edwards.   He went to St. Louis, purchased property, and died in 1821.

Louison Pensoneau, when he arrived in Illinois, embarked in the Indian trade and remained in it almost during life. He made the Illinois River the scene of his operations, and the Kickapoo Indians were his customers. Peoria was his main depot, and the prairies round about were he counters where he sold his goods. He was the first person that moved in the adjustment of the old Peoria claims. He got up a petition from the Peoria inhabitants and sent it to Hon. Daniel P. Cook, representative in Congress; and the consequence was the act of congress of 1820, authorizing the register of the land-office at Edwardsville to hear evidence and report on the claims. His report was confirmed by another act of congress, passed in 1823. These Peoria claimants stand in the same situation as any of the ancient inhabitants of Illinois who have had lands granted to them by the government. Louison Pensoneau died in 1832, much regretted.

Diligent inquiry has so far failed to discover the descendants of Etienne and Louis Pensoneau, and it is not known if they left any. After Etienne purchased from Blair the land upon which the city of Belleville stands, he built a water-mill on Richland Creek about two hundred yards south of the present site of the great Harrisons steam-mill, and continued to operate it until he sold out to Gov. Edwards.    He then returned to Cahokia, and from there removed to St. Louis, where he engaged in business and remained until his death.

About 1794, Louison Pensoneau married Miss Lizette LeCompt in the village of Cahokia, and after residing some years in Peoria, settled on a farm at Point a la Pierre, near the Grand Marais, four miles east of the Mississippi, on the Belleville road. At that place he died in 1832, and his widow continued to reside there until her death in 1841. Of this union there survived ten children, three daughters and seven sons; The daughters were Bridget, Marie, and Louisa; the sons were Louis, Paschal, Laurent, Edward, Narcisse, Charles, and Francois, the two last being twins.

Bridget was married to Amable Tramble in 1818, and died in 1831, and her husband, a Canadian-Frenchman, survived her but three or four years. They left two sons, Louis and Francois Tramble, who both died without issue: Louis, a journeyman printer, dying in San Francisco, Cal., in the spring of 1850, and Francois was drowned in the Missouri River, near Fort Leavenworth, in the same year, on his return from the Yellowstone as an employee of Jonh P. Sarpy & Co., fur-traders of St. Louis.

Marie married John Valentine, and both died in a few years after their marriage, leaving one daughter, named Louisa, who subsequently married Octav Born, a Canadian, and with him emigrated to New Orleans.

Louisa married Joseph Trotier in 1820, and lived and died in Cahokia.    She had two children, Mary and Joseph. Mary Trotier was married to Co. Vital Jarrot in 1845, and died in 1852. Her brother, Joseph, wandered to the Far-West, and is perhaps still living.

Of the sons of Louison Pensoneau and Lizette LeCompt - now all dead - Louis, born in 1800, married Henriet, youngest daughter of Jean Francois Perry, in the fall of 1822, and died where he had always lived, at Point a la Pierre, Feb. 22, 1826.His only child, Louis Perry Pensoneau, born May 1, 1824, is now residing at East St. Louis with a married daughter, his only child. The widow of Louis Pensoneau, with her son and widowed mother (nee Perry), removed to Belleville in 1833, and she died at Mascoutah, St. Clair County, April 22, 1882.

Paschal Pensoneau, the next son, in early manhood became identified with the Kickapoo Indians, married one or more of them, and died a few years since on the reservation of the remnant of that tribe, in the Indian Nation, leaving several half-breed children.

Laurent, the next son, born in 1805, married Elizabeth Hays, daughter of John Hays, Esq., and died at Point a la Pierre, without issue, July 18, 1848. His widow afterward married Bradford Broulette, and removed to Vincennes, Ind., where she still resides, her second husband having died several years ago.

Edward Pensoneau was born in 1810, and married Miss Isabella Boismenue in 1843, who died in 1846, leaving one son, Edward, now residing near East St. Louis.    Edward, Sr., was again married in 1853 to Margaret Saucier, daughter of Matthieu Saucier, who, with three children, survived him, and still resides in or near Cahokia.   Edward Pensoneau, Sr., died in 1860.

Narcisse Pensoneau was born in 1812, and married Felicite Pensoneau in Belleville in 1835, and died at Mascoutah, Ill., Oct. 8, 1878. His wife died at the same place, November 28, 1876. Of several children they had, but two survived them:    Felicite, born in Belleville, July 22, 1836, who is living and unmarried, and William Bissel Pensoneau, married and residing in Jackson County, Ill.

The twin sons, Charles and Francois were never married. Charles died in Belleville in 1860, and Francois about the same time in Louisiana.

About the time the three brothers, Etienne, Louis, and Louison Pensoneau, arrived in Cahokia, two other Pensoneaus - second or third cousins of theirs - who are not mentioned in the "Pioneer History," came to that village from Canada. They were brothers and named Francois and Augustine. They were citizens of Cahokia for many years, and both died and were buried there. Augustine Pensoneau married the widow of Jean Francois Perry in 1815, and died in the fall of 1819, leaving his widow and two children: Felicite, born in 1817, who married Narcisse Pensoneau, and Augustine, born in 1819, who was raised in the family of Hon. Adam W. Snyder, and is now residing in Belleville.

Donna Flood's Pensoneau line:

Jean dit Jacques, b. 1682, died 1712, married Minnie Elizabeth Bourasea,

They had 15 children and they are:

1. Francois Xavier 1714;

2, Marie Francois, 1717;

3. Marie Ann, 1718

4. Jacques, 1720

5. Marie Francois, 1721

6. Rene, 1724

7. Marie Marguerite, 1725

8. Mamie Francois, 1727

9. Francois

10. Paschal, 1829 Married, 1753 to Marguerite Bordeau

       1731

11. Marie Rose, 1731

12, Joseph, 1733

13. Pierre Marie, 1735

14. Marie Amable, 1735

15. Jeanne Marie, 1743

       The above were all born in Canada

Pasqual (number 10) and Marguerite Bordeau had three children:

1. Louison b. 1772 d. 1832.

     He married Lizette LeCompt in 1794. She died 1841

2. Etienne, 1774-1822. married

   1800 to Elenne Magnable

3. Louis, 1775

Louison and Lizette had 10 children & they are:

1. Bridget d/ 1831, m. 1818, 2 children. 1. Louis d.

1850, 2. Francois, d. 1850

2. Marie, m. Louisa S. Jo,

3. Louisa, m. 1820 to Joseph Trotter. They had 2 children: 1. Joseph 2. Mary,d. 1852, m. 1895 to

Vital Jarot, b. 1805, d. 1877

4. Louis, 1800-1846 m. Henriet Perry, m. 1822, d. 1882

     One child, Louis Perry Pensoneau, born 1824

5. Pasqual (my grandfather) m. Shikinah, Kickapoo daughter of the chief along Illinois River to Peoria.

Their son Steven Pensoneau m. Tilda SaltuskahLauret.

       Tilda was a child of Mary Kell Ross, whose mother was Cherokee woman, Father, Scottish Man, Kell. Mary Kell Ross's first husband was Canolis, second husband,

Eck Ross, Cherokee.

Tilda Sultuskah married Steven Pensoneau, their son Narcisse (actually Narcissus) m. Elizabeth Little Cook. Her father was Samuel Little Cook, Oo-Hah-Zhingah, Rain Clain patriarch. Elizabeth's mother was

Esther Broken Jaw, full Ponca.

6. Lauret, (6th child of Louison Pensoneau and Lizette

      LeCompt. Lauret b. 1805 d. 1848 m. Elizabeth Hays

7. Edward

8. Narcisse

9. Charles d.1860

10. Francois (twin to Charles)

Narcisse(actually Narcissus) and Elizabeth Little Cook

had:

1. Velma Louise Pensoneau Jones b. Jan 15, 1913 d.

2. Edward Richard Pensoneau

Biography of PASCHAL PENSONEAU, born 1795:

I was born in Cahokie, Illinois. I am eighty-seven years old. I was born April 17, 1795. My father was a Canadian from Fort La Prairie, across from Montreal; was of pure French blood. My mother was born in Cahokie. Her father was a native of Paris, France. Her mother was a half-breed Pottawatomie..............
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/america/donna/picturebook/pensoneau.htm

For 9 page file on the descendants of Etienne Pensoneau please contact Carol Hight

I, too, am a cousin to George Pensoneau of East St. Louis and I have been researching since 1974. I have deep connections to the French villages of the Mississippi valley in Illinois going back to 1723 in St. Philippe near Ft Chartres. I just retired, moved back to Missouri, and now have time to get back to researching on a serious level. In fact, I attended my first meeting of the St. Clair County Genealogical Society this month; I'm a charter member (28 years) and have never lived anywhere near that I could go to meetings. I also, revisited Cahokia for the first time in about 30 years! I enjoyed your site very much and will revisit it often.