Mohawk valley of New York, son of Donald McKay and Elspeth (Elspy) Kennedy; m. à la façon du nord Marguerite Waddens, daughter of Jean-Étienne
Sept. 1777 in Trois-Rivières, Que., son of Jean-Baptiste Badeaux* and Marguerite Bolvin, daughter of wood-carver Gilles
la direction de Jean Daigle (Moncton, 1993). Anthologie de textes littéraires acadiens, Marguerite Maillet et al., édit. (Moncton, 1979), 296–306. P.-F. Bourgeois, Vie de l
July 1736 at Michilimackinac (Mackinaw City, Mich.), eldest son of Charles Chaboillez, voyageur and fur trader, and Marie-Anne Chevalier; m. 27 Oct. 1769 Marguerite Larcheveque, the 20-year-old
, Spanish wines, molasses, tea, soap, butter, and fruit. When he met Marguerite Godefroy de Tonnancour, daughter of Louis-Joseph
Jean-Pierre De Saulles and Marguerite Crevier Décheneaux; d. 20 June 1835 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada.
Having “made up his mind to
refugees near Nicolet at Saint-Grégoire (then called Sainte-Marguerite). At first he was disappointed to find none of his family there; but having been advised to cross the St Lawrence to Petite Acadie
[The author would like to thank Roch Samson, Marguerite Syvret, and the late Keith Matthews for the large body of unpublished information which they kindly made available. This material remains in the
merchant community, Antoine* and Marguerite Pascaud, transferred the seat of their business to France, at La Rochelle; as metropolitan
of Jacques Morpain, a businessman and local dignitary of modest means, and Marguerite Audoire; m. 13 Aug. 1709 at Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal, N.S.) Marie-Joseph (d. 1726), daughter of
. Launched in 1869 and officially consecrated in 1871, the Bienheureuse Marguerite-Marie mission was visited once or twice a year by a priest from Île-à-la-Crosse who would officiate at masses and administer
, seigneur, and judge; b. 3 May 1817 at Quebec, son of Michel Tessier, a merchant, and Mariane Perrault, the widow of Jean Naud; m. 4 Aug. 1847 Marguerite-Adèle Kelly, granddaughter of the
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Having been discharged from the army by 1783 at the latest, Trestler became a pedlar in Montreal. Here in November 1785 he married Marguerite Noël, a girl of 16. On 8 Aug. 1786 he purchased
because of the war he never received it. In 1759 came one of his finest achievements. Called to the home of Marguerite Chastelain and Marie-Josephte Boucher de Niverville, mother and daughter, whom their
Dec. 1843 in Saint-Gervais, Lower Canada, son of Guillaume-Eusèbe Amyot, a pilot, and Louise Gosselin; m. 27 April 1874 Marguerite-Alice-Gertrude Pennée (d. 21 Dec. 1884) at Quebec
Bordeaux (department of Gironde), France, son of Augustin Arraud and Marguerite Florence; d. 22 March 1878 at Montreal.
Jacques-Victor
, investor, concessionaire; b. 20 Jan. 1684 at Orthez, Béarn (dept. of Basses-Pyrénées), France, son of Jean-Jacques d’Arrigrand and Marguerite d’ Auger de Subercase; d. after January 1754
Guy, to various charities, and to his Indian slave Marguerite. His extensive assets included 10,000 livres in personal property, nearly 24,000 livres in accounts receivable, two pieces
Marguerite Lapointe, dit Tousignant; d. 27 Feb. 1907 in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan, Que.
Pierre-Léon Ayotte lived for most of his life
been responsible for the villages of Barachois and Cap-Pelé. Since the village had no school he set one up in the presbytery kitchen. His housekeeper, Marguerite Maillet, who had received some education
fervent zeal for maintaining discipline and the exact observance of your holy rules; she had an abundant share of the . . . evangelical simplicity that your devoted founder [Marguerite
, at Quebec, he married Geneviève Macard, the daughter of Nicolas Macard and Marguerite Couillard; Charles, their only child, was born 21 Sept. 1666 and died two weeks later
François de Beauharnois de La Boische (Boeche) and Marguerite-François Pyvart (Pinard) de Chastullé; d. 17 Jan. 1738 at La Boische or La Chaussée, buried at Saint-Laurent. He married
philanthropist; b. 25 May 1798 at Montreal, son of Pierre Berthelet*, a merchant, and Marguerite Viger; d. 25 Sept. 1872 in the same
captain in the Carignan regiment, seigneur; b. c. 1638 at Bergerac (department of Dordogne), in the bishopric of Périgueux, son of Pierre Berthier and Marguerite Bariac; m. 11
Renaud Dubuisson to establish a garrisoned post there in 1721.
On 19 Sept. 1696, in Montreal, Vinsenne had married Marguerite Forestier
June 1829 at Saint-Pierre-Montmagny, Lower Canada, son of Louis Blanchet, a farmer, and Marie-Marguerite Fontaine; m. 28 Aug. 1850 Émilie Balzaretti at Quebec City, and they had six children; d
Paris, France, son of Pierre Boisseau and Marguerite Gérin (Guérin); d. 9 Feb. 1771 at Quebec.
On 20 May 1722, following
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Gilles Bolvin was married three times. On 24 May 1732, at Trois-Rivières, he married Marie-Marguerite Lamarque, by whom he had nine children. She died in 1748, and in May of the following year he
there on 14 Sept. 1731 to Marguerite, Pierre Raimbault*’s daughter, by whom he had six children. In 1732 he obtained permission from the
of 1732–33, when he was about 45, he had married at Port-Dauphin (Englishtown, N.S.) Marguerite-Madeleine de Goutin (daughter of Mathieu
-Moselle, France), son of Pierre Boulanger, a farrier, and Marguerite Receveur; d. 12 June 1868 at Nancy, France.
Born during the French
BOURASSA, FRANÇOIS, farmer, Patriote, militia officer, and politician; b. 5 June 1813 in Sainte-Marguerite
-Joie (Fort Amherst, P.E.I.) to Marguerite, daughter of the Acadian merchant Joseph-Nicolas Gautier*, dit Bellair, and they had
, dit L’Estang, and Marguerite Dubois; d. 12 June 1810 in Montreal, Lower Canada.
Véronique Brunet, dit L’Estang, came from one
entrusted responsibility for the undertaking to Mother Marguerite-Dorothée Beaubien*. She became ill, and Sister Élisabeth Bruyère, despite her
Bruyères as his secretary. This choice, which was probably due to Bruyères’s knowledge of French, may also be explained by the fact that his sister Marguerite was Burton’s mistress. Burton created a scandal
a writ of attachment on three properties at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, one with two houses and a number of farm buildings, on part of Île Saint-Ignace, and on Île Sainte-Marguerite
and baptized the following day in the parish of La Madeleine at Besançon, France, illegitimate son of Donat-Nicolas Callet and Marguerite Jandet; d. 5 Sept. 1767 in the parish of
Pierre Casgrain* and Marie-Marguerite Bonnenfant; m. 26 Oct. 1824 Eliza Anne Baby, daughter of James
had married Marie-Catherine, daughter of Pierre Trottier Desauniers, at Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-Lévy; on the same day his brother Joseph married Marguerite, her sister. Étienne Charest and his wife
-Anne Beaune (Bône); m. 10 Oct. 1740 at Longue-Pointe (Montreal) to Marie-Joseph Lenoir, granddaughter of cabinet-maker Vincent Lenoir; m. secondly 19 May 1774 Marguerite Desroches at
Collet, a soldier in the colonial regular troops, and Marguerite Fauché; d. some time after July 1801.
In 1726 or 1727 Claude Collet came to live in
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Nothing is known of Pierre Constantin before his marriage to Marguerite-Susane Derouvray on 6 Nov. 1696 in the parish of Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures. Soon afterwards he purchased a house at Quebec and
. His ninth child was baptized at Pointe-Lévy (Lauzon and Lévis) in July 1744. He was back at Trois-Rivières in 1746, and his mother-in-law, Marguerite Véron de Grandmesnil, granted him “a piece of
(Cormier Cove), N.B., ninth of the 11 children of Bénoni Cormier and Marguerite Cormier; d. 4 Aug. 1906 in Haute-Aboujagane, N.B
testimony, contradictory as it happened, of Joseph’s niece, Élisabeth-Marguerite (Isabelle) Veau, dit Sylvain, that of a neighbour, Joseph Corriveau, the accused man’s homonym, which was, at least on
Marguerite-Madeleine de Gannes de Falaise; m. 19 Feb. 1758 at Louisbourg Jeanne Loppinot, and they had six children; d. 28 Oct. 1789 at Saint-Marc (Haiti
Montreal, the son of Charles de Couagne and Marie Gaudé; m. 28 Sept. 1720, at Louisbourg, Marguerite
. His career now established, on 11 Oct. 1745 he married Marie-Anne-Marguerite Soumande at Montreal. During the following winter he served on the Acadian frontier and then saw action with war