Jean - Baptiste LaRoche Jr. 1696 - 1753

My sixth great - grandfather was born on September 4, 1696 near Poitiers, France to Jean-Baptiste LaRoche Sr. and Antoinette Larose dit Lavoie. He was the seventh of eleven children, some of which did not survive past childhood. His siblings included Marie Marguerite (1686) [ Marie did not make it through her first year and died before the year ended], Jean (1687), Charles (1689) [ Charles also did not make it through infancy], Gabriel (1690), Anonyme (1692), Pierre Françoise (1695), Catherine (1698) [Catherine died before her 4th birthday], Josephe (1700), Marie Anne (1702), and Marie Madeleine (1704).

I think he may have immigrated to Quebec sometime between 1710 and 1713. He married Marie Suzanne Turpin Sandrille at the age of 27 on October 29, 1723 at Montreal. They then moved a short distance to LaPrairie, PQ and had their family there. He passed away at the age of 56 on April 8, 1753 at Longueuil, PQ.