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François RIVIÈRE DIT CHAMPAGNE[1]

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  • Name François RIVIÈRE DIT CHAMPAGNE 
    Gender Male 
    Person ID I1001  Our Heritage | Bocquee Branch
    Last Modified 31 Jan 2022 

    Family Thérèse HÉROS 
    Children 
    +1. Anne RIVIÈRE,   b. 1 Dec 1691, Saint-Paul, Réunion Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Mar 1754, Saint-Benoît, Reunion Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years)
    Last Modified 18 Jul 2020 
    Family ID F486  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Champagne, arrived in May 1676 on the Saint Robert He was initially the companion of the first 20 Frenchmen who came with Regnault, but had a different destiny. Hired as a soldier by the Compagnie des Indes, he joined Fort Dauphin in 1665 with the squadron of Beausse. He remained there until the massacre of August 27, 1674 and was able to save himself on the "White Pigeon" which took him successively to Mozambique and India where he joined Ile Bourbon. Married in 1680 to a Madagascan, he had only one child, a daughter Françoise Rivière, married to a buccaneer. She died young without issue. Remarried to an Indo-Portuguese, Thérèse Héros, he had 6 children

  • Sources 
    1. [S21] Geneanet, https://gw.geneanet.org/jmlesage1?n=riviere&oc=&p=francois+dit+champagne (Reliability: 3).