The Mourier Ancestral House, Île d’Orléans

The “Mourier” Ancestral House

About 1678, Jean MOURIER has built a comfortable house, still existing on Ile d’Orleans (an island in the middle of the St-Lawrence River, in front of Quebec City).

This Normandy influence house, with its vegetable storage built in the ground, in order to preserve foods, is known nowadays as the “maison LA RUE”.

The Quebec City LA RUE family possesses this house for about a century.

In days gone by, in this old house, numerous friends, politicians, judges were received by the LA RUE family.

Judge Camille Pouliot, who was received many times, talks about it with tenderness in his writings on Ile d’Orleans (1927).

Jean MOURIER, born about 1630, was Jean Mourier and Anne Caron’s son, from Chenommet (Charentes), in the diocese of Angouleme, France.

On October 29, 1678, Jean Mourier, called the “Pere VERON”, 48 years old, got married to Marie Minaud, only 15 years old. They would have lived in their house right after their wedding and all their children were born in this house.

Here are the origins of the MORIER family whose ancestral house can be a real source of inspiration as per its patrimonial architecture.

In 1972, the industrial and owner Paul Gourdeau, descendant of Jacques Gourdeau De Beaulieu, Lord of Ile d’Orleans, in Ste-Petronille parish, and his wife Eleonore de Grand’Maison, started the restauration of the old house, then knowned as Genest-Larue and located on the plateau behind the Mauvide-Genest Manor, in the parish of St-Jean of Ile d’Orleans.

My sons Marc-Andre, Stephane and Benoit Morier would be the 10th generation of descendants of Jean Mourier and my five grand-children, Amelia, Anthony, Louis-Charles, Olivia and Maélie would be the 11th generation of Morier installed in Quebec since the years 1678 and following. (Yves Morier)

The Mourier Ancestral House

Around 1678, Jean Mourier built himself a comfortable house that still stands today in Saint-Jean, Île d’Orléans, Province of Québec, Canada.

This house, of Norman influence, with its root cellar dug into the ground for the proper preservation of food, is known today by the name of: Maison LA RUE.

The LA RUE family of Québec is said to have owned this house for about a century.

In days past, in this old dwelling, many friends, politicians, and judges were welcomed by the LA RUE family. When notary Georges Larue was its owner, he notably welcomed the Honourable Honoré Mercier, who would become Premier of Québec.

Judge Camille Pouliot, who had been received there many times, speaks of it fondly in his writings on Île d’Orléans (1927).

Jean Mourier, born around 1630, was the son of Jean Mourier and Anne Caron, of Chenommet (Charente), in the diocese of Angoulême, France.

It was on October 29, 1678, that Jean Mourier, known as Père VÉRON, aged 48, married Marie Minaud, who was only 15.

They are said to have settled in this house as soon as they married, and it is there that all their children were born. Such are the origins of the MORIER family, whose ancestral house can only be a source of inspiration through its heritage architecture.

In 1972, shipowner and industrialist Paul Gourdeau, a descendant of Jacques Gourdeau De Beaulieu, himself Seigneur of Île d’Orléans at Sainte-Pétronille, and of his wife Éléonore de Grand’Maison, undertook the restoration of the old house then called Genest-Larue, located on the plateau behind Manoir Mauvais-Genest in Saint-Jean, Île d’Orléans.

My children, Marc-André, Stéphane, and Benoit Morier would be the 10th generation of this lineage, and my five grandchildren, Amélia, Anthony, Louis-Charles, Olivia, and Maélie, would be the 11th generation of Moriers settled in Québec since 1678 and the years that followed. Y.M.