Jean-Baptiste Duchesne

Jean-Baptiste Duchesne (1832 with Saint-Servan - 1908 with Saint-Servan) was a missionary French and pioneer of the Oregon.

Wire of Gourlay AsRené and Jacques Duchesne, a captain terreneuva disappeared off Newfoundland in 1849, Jean-Baptiste Duchesne is in addition the older brother of Louis Duchesne, high in a family of catholic sailors.

Early, it takes part in the missions Marists of the Société of Oceania of the commander Marceau, going to Oceania since 1845, then to Oregon where it makes shipwreck in July 1849 with the ship Star of the morning, on the underhand bar Columbia River. There, in Oregon City, it creates the counter of Oceania with the survivors of the ship, accommodated by their neighbor nearest, celebrates it doctor John McLoughlin, regarded today as the father of the Oregon, catholic and French-speaking person on a Protestant and anglophone ground. Returning to Europe, Duchesne passes by San Francisco ignited by the fever of gold, causing the departure in California of his/her Louis brother-in-law with adventurous the Fanny Loviot on board of the independence of the Loterie of the gold ingots.

, Married thereafter with the lorientaise Léonie Launay, the captain with the length-course becomes an alive ship-owner in the ease, whose disappearance of two ships passing the Cape-Horn signs its financial rout.

Today, it rests with the cemetery of Lorette of Saint-Servan, with Saint-Malo, the side of the mother of Louis Duchesne.

Sources

Olivier Dour and Gregoire Clech, the Breton ones and gold rush of California, the doors broad, 2006. (biographical note)
Family archives of the Colas families and Miniac.
Role of disarmament of Star of the morning, departmental records of Seine-Maritime, Rouen.
the cemetery of peaceful, maritime account on Columbia to rivet, Dead Binfort and, 1964.

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