Jacques Saurette & Marguerite Baril
Diocese of Le Mans, France — parents named on a single Quebec marriage act, and nowhere else. The French wall on the Saurette side: everything below rests on seven words written by a priest at Chambly in 1741.
What one sighted act actually says
Jacques Saurette and Marguerite Baril are known to this project from exactly one place: the filiation clause of their son Jacques's own marriage act, 7 January 1741, at Chambly (St-Joseph) — fils de Jacques Sorette et de Marguerite Bary, de la paroisse de Monceau[?] de l'évesché du Mans. That single line is the entirety of the sighted record. No French act naming either of them — baptism, marriage, or burial — has been examined for this project. Everything about them beyond their names and their son's name is inference or absence.
Marriage act, 7 Jan 1741, Chambly (St-Joseph) · graded Proven as to their identity as Jacques the immigrant's parents; nothing else about them is sourced beyond this act
A parish that resists a confident reading
The act places them in a specific parish within the diocese of Le Mans — in what is now the Sarthe department of France — but the word itself is difficult on the original image. The leading candidate is Moncé-en-Belin, a real commune still on the map south of Le Mans, though other readings haven't been ruled out. This is, at present, the single strongest unresolved lead anywhere in the Saurette research: a specific place, in a specific diocese, that has never actually been searched.
Marriage act, 7 Jan 1741, Chambly · graded Proven as to the diocese; Probable, at best, as to the specific parish
What it would take to go further
Pushing this line back another generation means French records, not Quebec ones — specifically the pre-Revolution parish registers held at the Archives départementales de la Sarthe in Le Mans, or the neighboring departmental archives, since the historical diocese of Le Mans crossed into what are now several modern departments. No one connected to this project has done that research yet. It is real, findable work, sitting on the other side of an ocean and an archive system nobody here has used before.
Graded Unproven — not a negative finding, an unattempted one
Their son Jacques crossed to New France — as a soldier, family tradition holds, though no service record has been sighted to confirm it — and never went home. Whatever else is true of Jacques Saurette and Marguerite Baril — where they lived out their own lives, whether they ever learned what became of their son — sits in a parish register in France that this project has not yet reached.