American Association of Teachers of French Saranac Lake October 17, 2015 We’re ALL related and Samuel de Champlain had NO children Can you name your first Self 15 ancestors 2 Parents back to your 4 Grandparents great grandparents? 8 Great Grandparents 16 2nd Great Grandparents Ask your parents 32 3rd Great Grandparents 64 4th Great Grandparents 128 5th Great Grandparents 256 6th Great Grandparents 512 7th Great Grandparents 1024 8th Great Grandparents 2048 9th Great Grandparents 4096 10th Great Grandparents Total - 8,191 To get started on your French family history, you need to know: Months Pronunciation of names Days Dit names Numbers Diseases Relationships History Geography Birth Marriage Know your resources Death Manners of death – tué, noyé, brûlé You’re lucky if you have one parent with French-Canadian ancestors - even luckier if you have two parents If you have no French-Canadian connections, you can choose a famous French-Canadian and chase their ancestry Some people with connections in the North County and French-Canadian Roots Dr. Francois D’Avignon – Civil War Surgeon Brother André - Saint Peggy Facto – Alleged child murderer Clyde Rabideau – Mayor of Saranac Lake Addie Shields – Former Clinton County Historian Jack Downs – Journalism Professor and Editor Louis Riel – Métis political leader Joseph Ledoux – Founder of Dawson City Clement Gosselin – George Washington’s spy Kathie Lee Gifford Lady Gaga Hilary Clinton Jack Kerouac Leo Durocher Alex Trebek Dionne Quintuplets Angelina Jolie Madonna Avril Lavigne Alannis Morissette Maurice Richard General Beauregard Paul Michel Levesque Emeril Lagasse Buffalo Bill Cody Louis Cyr General Alexander Macomb Dan Akroyd Beyoncé Ashley Judd Wayne Lapierre Matt Leblanc Celine Dion Toussaint Charbonneau Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/dicoGenealogie/ Marriage date and place Code 1 Fathers’ Groom Names Bride Code 2 Sepulchré(e) Baptisé(e) CRACKING THE CODE CHAMPLAIN'S DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION COMMITTEE PRESENTS THE BRAVE FILLES DU ROI WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH The Filles à Marier and the Filles du Roi are your 8th, 9th and 10th great grandmothers - 10, 11, and 12 generations back from you 1530's and '40's Jacques Cartier started 1st settlement near what is now Quebec City Pope Paul III declared Indians were human beings and needed the Catholic faith Early 1600's Samuel de Champlain 1604 - Port Royal 1608 - Quebec – 28 men 1609 - Lake Champlain 1615 - Arrival of the Récollets 1617 - Louis Hébert and family come to Quebec 1625 - Arrival of the Jesuits 1627 - Cardinal Richelieu – Company of Nouvelle France Louis XII introduces the seigneurial system 1630 - Population 103 1634 - First Filles à Marier r Trois-Rivières founded 1639 - Arrival of the Ursulines 1641 - Population 200 1642 - Ville Marie founded 1653 - Population only 2,000 1661 - Louis XIV and Jean-Baptiste Colbert reorganize New France 1663 - End of the Company of New France and the recruitment of Filles à Marier Filles du Roi come to Quebec - first of 700+ 1665 - Arrival of the Carignan Salières Regiment – 1,200 - eventually about 450 stayed 1666 - European Population 3,215 - Must have arrived before September 1663 - Must have come over at marriageable age (12 through 45) - Must have married or signed a marriage contract at least once in New France or have signed an enlistment contract - Must not have been accompanied by both parents - Must not have been accompanied by or joining a husband FILLES À MARIER If less than 10% died on the crossing, the captain considered it a successful trip - scurvy, seasickness, cramped space, lack of sanitation, disease, bad weather, all added to the death rate. If they survived the boat journey, they lived with the daily threat of death at the hands of the Iroquois. If they survived the Iroquois, they had to deal with the hard life of subsistence farming, harsh winters spent in a log cabin that they may have helped build, epidemics of smallpox, typhus, measles, cholera and difficult and often dangerous childbirth. Between 1634 and 1663, only about 260 filles à marier came to Quebec - about 13 a year. They were recruited by religious and private individuals who paid for their travel and lodging and expenses before they got married. In 1663, Louis XIV sent the first 36 filles du roi to Québec. Most of the early filles were recruited by ship outfitters and merchants from cities, but later, they were recruited from the county. Men considered women from peasant stock to be more desirable. They had to present their birth certificates, and prove that they were free to marry. They also had to show they were of good character, capable of bearing children and had an aptitude for housework or farm chores. Contrary to popular belief, they were not prostitutes. Ancestors of a few CHM employees: Recor Deso Monette Wild Lavare Mathieu Barrière Racine RECOR FILLES À MARIER Françoise Fafard – Mathurin Meunier Geneviève Gamache – Julien Fortin Marguerite Charlot – Louis Loisel FILLES DU ROI Catherine Fièvre – Charles Allaire Marie-Madeleine Guilleboeuf – Jean Plouf Ozanne-Jeanne Achon – Pierre Tremblay Twice Marguerite Paquet – François Biville ¤ Catherine Rivet – Pierre Duchesne Marie Michel – Louis Gasnier Françoise Fafard's mother died when she was small and she came to Quebec with her father, step mother and two step brothers - contracted to marry as a fille à marier. She and Mathurin Meunier had 10 children -- her first 3 died before they were a year old - including a set of twins. Her daughter, Barbe, was the first French baptism in Montreal. 5 of her children gave her a total of 39 grandchildren Between 1650 and 1653 32 settlers were killed and 22 were captured Fort Ville Marie Marguerite Charlot and Louis Loisel, a locksmith, were married while there were still less than 100 people in Ville Marie. Witnesses to their marriage in 1648 were: Jeanne Mance, who hosted the wedding, Paul Chomedy, the Governor of Montreal and Charles LeMoyne, Sieur d'Iberville. They had 8 children, 4 of whom died before a month old. Between 1650 and 1672, 94 houses were built in Montreal - their's was on Rue St. Paul Fille à marier, Geneviève Gamache and Julien Fortin, a butcher, had 12 children - 7 of whom gave her a total of 46 grandchildren. As part of his wife's dowry, Julien was indentured to his brother-in- law for two years. This couple are the 7th great grand parents of a famous singer - Cap Tourmente Nicolas Gamache, the brother of Geneviève, is the 7th great grandfather of Céline Dion DESO FILLES À MARIER Marie Riton - Léonard Marie Godard - Toussaint Giroux Barbe Poisson - Léonard Lucault FILLES DU ROI Marie Chevreau – René Réaume Marie Marchesseau - Jean Michel Marie Pelletier - Mathurin Regnault Marie Varin - René Branche Marie Godard came to Ville Marie with her sister, Jeanne, as fille à marier. Marie and Toussaint had 12 children before she died 30 years later. 3 of her children died before a week old - 6 children married and gave her 56 grandchildren. Jeanne had 2 husbands. In February 1662, the Iroquois attacked Ville Marie and killed her new husband with 11 others while they were cutting wood. In November 1662, she married again and went on to have 59 grandchildren. This is the man who was sent out of the stockade at Ville Marie to rescue Jeanne's husband, Simon Roy. Lambert Closse arrived in Montreal in 1647 as a merchant and became the Sergeant Major of the garrison and died in the rescue attempt. A noted Indian fighter, he got his wife by rescuing her from the Iroquois. Fille du roi, Marie Chevreau, married master carpenter, René Réaume in October 1655. They had 13 children - 11 of them sons - and left 75 grandchildren. René built many houses in the Charlesbourg area near Quebec City. Several of their sons were in the fur trade as voyageurs, married native women, and settled in Detroit and other areas around the Great Lakes. MONETTE - FILLES À MARIER Marie Testu – André Pépin Catherine Charles - Urbain Jette Françoise Morin - Étienne Demers Madeleine Surget – Jean Clément Marie Godard - Toussaint Giroux Marguerite Maclin - Nicolas Boyer Catherine Paulo - Étienne Campeau Marie-Marthe Arnue - Pierre Richaume Madeleine Aymard – Zacharie Cloutier Vincente Desvariaux – Pierre Gagnon Catherine Fortier - Jacques Ménard Twice Marie Therèse LeBreuil – Marin Deneau Geneviève Gamache – Julien Fortin Twice Marie-Madeleine Triot – Charles LeFrançois Marie Angélique Brière - André Longtin Twice Catherine Paulo was a fille à marier who married Étienne Campeau, a master mason and tool maker in 1663. As part of the duties for being given land in Ville Marie by its founder, Paul Chomedy de Maisonneuve, he was obliged to cultivate it and defend it from the Iroquois. Two years after their marriage, the governor decided to form a buffer zone from the Iroquois a few miles west of Ville Marie on Petite Rivière and gave land to seven brave settlers and their families. Within the first year, two of the seven were killed by Iroquois arrows. By 1668 the Iroquois in the local area were conquered and they lived in peace for the next 30 years. MONETTE - FILLES DU ROI Marie Boisleau + - Jean Jolin Marie Michel – Louis Gasnier Anne Delestre – François César Twice Catherine de Seine – Jean Senecal Marie Campion – Mathurin Dubé Catherine Rivet – Pierre Duchesne Marie Deschamps - Michel Verret Catherine Ducharme – Pierre Le Roy Marguerite Raisin – Bernard DeNiger ¤ Anne LeBier – François Pinsonneau ¤ Catherine-Antoinette Eloy - Mathurin Masta Marie Le Long – Rene Dumats ¤ Twice Marguerite Argouinne – Laurent Beaudet Twice Marie Boileau was a fille du roi from minor nobility whose parents had fallen on hard times before they died. In 1665, she followed her sister to New France and became a servant to Pierre Denis in Quebec City. She contracted to marry one man but had it anulled.