Falaise. Le château et le centre-ville. Viault. CC-BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chateau_de_falaise_et_centre.JPG

Of all the people who made history during the New France era, very few of them appear in my genealogical tree. One of them though is Pierre Le Gardeur de Repentigny, from Normandy, France, and director of the Community of inhabitants, who came to Québec circa 1636 with his wife Marie Favery. Their marriage most likely took place around 1630 in La Rochelle. I owe to his grandson Jean-Baptiste—who had a natural child with Marie-Marthe Richaume in 1665—the honour of having a nobleman as my ancestor. Continue reading →

Église de Chirac, vue du sud. Charente, France. Jack Ma. CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chirac_eg2.JPG

Élizabeth Éthier, baptized on February 2, 1673, at the Notre-Dame parish in Montréal, is my 6th great-grandmother. She married Louis Forget on March 2, 1688, in Lachenaie where she was also buried in 1743. Apropos, their daughter Élizabeth (Forget) was Augustin Hubou dit Tourville’s wife, the first to use the “dit name” of Tourville.

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Montreuil. La maison du Pot-d’Étain, XVIe siècle. CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1538299

The Destroismaisons family whose “dit name” was Picard is from the paternal line of my great-great-grandmother Esther Laurendeau.

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Marennes. Vue aérienne du centre-ville avec l’église Saint-Pierre et les places de Verdun et Chasseloup-Laubat. Par Jacques DASSIÉ — Travail personnel, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62776212

Geneviève Badeau is my 6th great-grandmother on my maternal grandfather’s side. Born and baptized on November 7, 1683, in Beauport, she was the daughter of Jean Badeau and Marguerite Chalifour.

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