Hogue Ancestry – France to Canada

The ancestors of the Hogue family also have many untold stories. They start with Jean Hogue who was born about 1625 in the city of Amiens in Picardie, France. He married Marie-Nicole Dubus in 1646 and they had a son named Pierre in 1648. Pierre’s parents never left France. 

Pierre Hogue was an early settler to Canada which was then known as New France. In 1672, he sailed to the new country and arrived in Montreal, Quebec. After only a short time, he married an Indian Princess named Catherine Nachita on November 22, 1672. They had two children. Then the Princess became ill and died in the winter of 1676 at the tender age of 20 years old. At that time, Pierre was 28 years old. He remained a widower for 10 months.

Pierre married Jeanne Theodore on November 10, 1676. She was only 13 years old. Their marriage lasted 49 years. Pierre and Jeanne had many children, including a son named Francois Hogue, who was born on December 23, 1687 in Rivière-des-Prairies, Quebec and died on January 18, 1760 at the age of 72 in Laval, Quebec. From then on, the succession of males in the Hogue family tree all lived long lives, from 75 to 90 years of age.

Francois began a long line of Hogues in Canada: Joseph Amable, Jean-Baptiste, Benjamin Joachim, Joachim and Palmyre. Palmyre married Antoinette Daoust on June 14, 1898 in St-Timothee de Beauharnois, Quebec when he was 22 and she was 20. Their marriage lasted 68 years. They had 17 children, including Marie Marguerite Angeline Hogue who was the 12^th child, born on May 12, 1912. 

The photo shows my mother Angeline Hogue when she married my father Emile Roy on August18, 1937 at Jogues, Ontario. They were married for 55 years. Emile died in 1992. Angeline died a few years later in 1996. During that time, they had three boys and five girls, as well as many grandchildren and great grandchildren who can now trace their Hogue roots back to France more than 400 years ago.