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Personal data Nicholas Pelletier 

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Household of Nicholas Pelletier

Waarschuwing Attention: Partner (Marie Jeanne Cordier) is 206 years younger.

(1) He is married to Jeanne Roussey.

They got married between 1777 and 1785 at Berthierville, Québec.

They got married in the year 1628 at Gallardon, Centre, France, he was 39 years old.

They got married on 7 Janvier 1601 at Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, he was 12 years old.

They got married in the year 1636 at Beauce, Orleanais, France (St-Pierre de Galardon), he was 47 years old.

They got married in the year 1632 at Beaucé, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, he was 43 years old.

They got married at 1632, Gallardon.


Child(ren):

  1. Genevieve Pelletier  1646-1717 
  2. Pierre Pelletier  1639-????
  3. Nicolas Pelletier  1649-1717
  4. Marie Jean  1637-1690
  5. Jean Pelletier  1633-1692
  6. Marie Pelletier  1638-1710
  7. Louise Pelletier  1640-1713 
  8. Jeanne Pelletier  1643-1714
  10. Francois Pelletier  1635-1690


(2) He is married to Antoine Duval.

They got married on January 7, 1601 at Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, he was 12 years old.


(3) He is married to Marie Jeanne Cordier.

They got married between 1777 and 1785 at Berthierville, Québec.

They got married on 7 Janvier 1601 at Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, he was 12 years old.


Child(ren):



Notes about Nicholas Pelletier

notes on Nicolas Pelletier GenevaSwisadded this on 18 Nov 2007 At Baptism, Nicholas' godfathers Nicolas Brebier and 'c9loi Pelletier; godmother Mathurine Moinaut wife of Pasquier Pichereau. Gallardon is located in the Beauce region of France, Southwest of Paris, between Chartres and the forest of Orleans. The first time we encounter Nicolas Peltier in New France is at the baptism of his daughter in the spring of 1637. Nicholas Pelletier, his wife, Jeanne de Voissy or du Roussy, age 22 and his two sons, Jean age 3, and Francois age1, arrived at Quebec on the 11th of June 1636 aboard a vessel carrying 45 people. The captain of that vessel was Savinien Courpon de la Tour who would become the Admiral of the Fleet the following year. Some names of the other passengers were: Charles Huot de Montmagny, Champlain's successor as the new governor general of New France, Achille Brehant dit Deslisle, 7 Jesuits and numerous other Frenchmen and their families. Our ancestors were amongst the first white settlers in New France (Quebec). In the 1642 census there were less than 200 people and 6 of them were Nicolas Pelletier, his wife and 4 children. We deduce from this that he and his family were aboard one of the three or four vessels that arrived at Qu'e9bec City on June 11, 1636 under the command of Charles du Plessis-Bochart. This fleet included one carrier transporting forty-five people, commanded by Savinien Courpon de La Tour, and two or three other ships, one being the Saint-Joseph. Among the hundred or so people aboard these vessels, historian Marcel Trudel has identified ninety-one colonists, including Nicolas Peltier, his wife Jeanne, and their young sons Jean and Fran'e7ois (Catalogue des immigrants, 1632-1662, p. 62). The couple lived in Qu'e9bec City from 1636 to 1645, during which time Nicolas worked as a carpenter. In 1639, he and fellow carpenter Pierre Pelletier appraised the timber-frames of the house of the late Louis H'e9bert [Editor´s note: The identity of this Pierre Pelletier is unknown; he is not the ancestor from Saint-Martin-de-Fraigneau, who was still in France at this time]. Later, in 1647, he constructed the steeple of Notre-Dame de Qu'e9bec Church, and the next year, he installed the roof of Ch'e2teau Saint-Louis, the governor´s residence. Finally, over the next decade, he continued to hire himself out to construct and maintain various houses and barns in the area. On September 12, 1645, Governor Huault de Montmagny granted Nicolas fifty arpents of land in the Seigneury of Sillery, adjacent to St. Francis Xavier Fort, near Cap Rouge, along the St. Lawrence River, and he and his family settled there shortly thereafter. In 1650, his family is attacked by 2 Iriquois Indians, but Nicolas successfully defends his family and homestead against the intruders. In 1669, Nicolas rents out a large portion of his property to his son Jean, for five years. In 1670 he joins his son Francois, who is now know as Pelletier dit Antaya and his family in Sorel. In 1677 Nicolas and Francois acquire the property across the St. Lawrence River at Dautray, nea what is now Berthierville. The surname "Pelletier" describes a trade - that of a furrier. The taking of otter pelts was the primary business in Nouvelle-France and the trade was controlled by an association which was under the rule of the French Crown. Nicolas Pelletier was born in the town of Gallardon, just northeast of the Diocese of Chartres, France. He married a girl from his native town in 1632. He came to Quebec with his wife, Jeanne DeVoissy, and began his new life as a carpenter from 1637 to 1640 near the town of Sillery. Nicolas and Jeanne had three sons and five daughters. ***** History states that when La Mothe Cadillac landed at Detroit he was greeted by two Coureurs des Bois, Pierre Roy and Francois Pelletier. This latter name stands very high in Canada and is found in every department of science and politics. Nicholas the first of the name came from Beance (France) and married in 1675 Jeanne de Voussy. They settled at Sorrel, and left eight children to propagate their name and family. Nicholas and his family left France in the spring of 1636 and arrived in New France on June 11, 1636. Nicholas was a Carpenter-Woodworker by trade. The eldest son Francois married Marguertie Madeline Morriseau by whom he had ten children; one of them Marie Angelique, married 1709 Antoine de Gerlais, she was the godchild of the Baron D'Avugour, Gov. of Canada. Her brother Francois married 1689 Madeline Thumes Dufresne, daughter of a surgeon, whose son Francis Jean, born 1681 at Sorrel, married 1718, Marie Robert at Detroit, who afterwards married Louis Campeau. A brother (Jean) of Francois, who married Marguerite Madeline Morrisseau, married in 1662 at Quebec, Marie Genevieve Manevely de Rainville, daughter of Charles and Francoise de Blanet, de Perche, their son Jean Francois married 1685 Genevieve Le Tendre, who was godmother for Cadillac's child, the first child baptised in Detroit. She afterwards married Etienne Volant de St. Clause. Her son by Pelletier, Jean Francois married at Quebec Catherine Arnaud with whom Cadillac later had so much trouble, and who was very influential at the Castle St. Louis, Quebec, owing to his powerful family connections. There was another branch of Pelletier, to which belonged Michel, Sieur de la Prade and Seigneur de Gentilly, who married 1660 at Champlain, Jacqueline Chamboy. The Pelletier patronym comes from trade, that of lappr'eat and the trade of the furs, a trade extremely respected if on dream that the draft of the fur skins was a long time the spearhead of economy of New France. Most prolific of the Furrier is Nicolas, born in 1590, originating in Gallardon, St-Pierre de Chartes, Beauce (Eure-and-Dormouse) he marries about 1632, in this same borough, a fellow-countrywoman, Jeanne DeVouzy, born about 1614, in arrondissement of Chartres, of the canton of Maintenon. The couple Nicolas Furrier and Jeanne DeVouzy arrives early to Quebec. Nicolas is the Master-carpenter of habitation of 1637 to 1640. His ground is located in the concession of the savages on the Coast of St-Fran'e7ois-Xavier, in the parish of Sillery. In the area of Quebec, the Pelletier/DeVouzy couple has at least eight children, including three boys and five girls. Two of these girls of the couple have descent binding us to this ancestor. All of the girls, Marie, born in 1637, in Quebec, marries Nicolas Goupil, in 1650, in first wedding, then, in a second marriage, celebrated on August 30, 1655, with anc'eatre Denis Jean, said Denis, born about 1646, originating in Taillebourg in Saintonge. The second girl, the junior by the girls of Nicolas Furrier, Genevieve Furrier, born in 1646, wife on November 5, 1663, anc'eatre Vincent the Verdon, of St-Martin of 'cele of D, in Aunis. Their daughter, Genevieve the Verdon, born in 1666, become the wife of Jean C'f4t'e9, February 25, 1686, wire of anc'eatre Jean C'f4t'e9 and Anne Martin. After the death of Vincent the Verdon, Genevieve Furrier, wife in second weddings, Thomas Lefebvre, in 1669. anc'eatre Nicolas Pelletier, which is said 67 years, with the census of 1667, living with the Cape-Red, is deceased before the census of 1681. Jeanne DeVouzy is 53 years old, with the census of 1667 and is widowed 70 years, in that of 1681, in Dautray. She is buried on December 12, 1689, in Sorel, in the cradle of the Pelletier family. Sorel, located at the confluence of the St. Lawrence and the Richelieu river, is the fourth older city of Quebec. The Antaya Family Story As Written by Yves J. Antaya Nicolas Pelletier, his wife Jeanne de Voissy or du Roussy, age 22, his two sons, Jean, age 3 and Francois age 1 arrived at Quebec on the 11th of June 1636 aboard a vessel carrying 45 people. The captain of that vessel was Savinien Courpon de la Tour...who would become the Admiral of the Fleet the following year. Some names of the other passengers were: Charles Huot de Montmagny, Champlain's successor, Achille Brehant dit Deslisle, 7 Jesuits and numerous other Frenchmen and their families. Our ancestors were amongst the first white settlers in New France (Quebec today). In the 1642 census, there were less than 200 people and 6 of them were Nicolas Pelletier, his wife and 4 children. We can truly say that our family is one of the pioneer families of Canada. Francois Pelletier follows his parents until 1659. The Pelletier family lived in Quebec from 1637 to 1649. On the 22nd of March 1649, Nicolas purchased a "concession dans la Seigneurie Des Sauvages" at Cap Rouge, approx. 7 miles south of Quebec. In 1650, two Iroquois attacked Nicolas in his house at Cap Rouge but luckily he survived. Francois doesn't leave his parents until 1659. He leaves on the 3rd of February 1659 with his brother-in-law Noel Jeremie. Jeremie had married Francois' sister Jeanne on the 29th of January 1659 and was moving to Tadoussac to work as a clerk. Francois is said to be the first white settler of Lac St-Jean. He married Dorothee la Sauvagesse, an Indian in April 1660, Father Albanel married the couple. Dorothee was to die on the 13th of April 1661 at L'Hopital de Quebec, possibly while giving birth. She was buried in the Hospital basement. Francois remarried the following year to Madeleine Morriseau. When he remarried, Francois Pelletier used the name Antaya for the first time. Antaya is an Indian word that Francois Pelletier added to his name as a "dit" name. It was a French as well as Scottish tradition to add a clan name to their family names. The first time the name Antaya was written down was in 1667 by a notary, he wrote Francois Pelletier dit Nontay. The same notary wrote another contract in 1669 and wrote Anthaia. Again, in 1678, the same notary wrote Anthaya on a different contract. Finally, in church records in St Pierre de Sorel in 1748, the name was written as Antailla. There are some indications that Dorothee la Sauvagesse may have been Montagnese as the Montagnais tribe inhabited the Tadoussac region during that period. It is possible that the name Antaya is a derivation of the word Montagnais pronounced either "Montagn" or "Montanya". It is also possible that Antaya could be a Huron word. I was once told by an elderly Antaya that Antaya was a Huron name. He said the name Antaya was a nickname given to our ancestor by his Indian wife's family and it meant "coureur des bois" or "runner of the woods". With that information in mind, I searched old books & I found an old French/Huron dictionary written by the Jesuits in the mid 1600's. In it, I found the word "antaye" and it meant "by the lands" and the word "ataya" which meant "petune or tobacco". The sound of the name Antaya itself is more of the Iroquoian language (examples- Ottawa & Hochalaga) rather than the Montagnese-Naskapi language, examples of Montagnese-Naskapi names- Nikabau & Pachabanokoue. Keeping in mind that by 1635, the Huron Indians were almost exterminated by the Iroquois and had moved to Quebec to seek refuge, I think there is a strong possibility that Francois fell in love with a Huron woman from Quebec and took her back to Tadoussac where he was living. This could explain why his marriage to Dorothee La Sauvagesse was performed such in a hurry in Tadoussac, without the obligatory 3 week readings at the Church. This apparently caused a scandal in the French community and quite upset Francois' parents. Back to Francois' story On the 30th of May 1660, Francois purchased a "concession" (land) at Tadoussac and worked as a clerk at the Poste de Traite. On the 11th of May, 1661, Francois accompanied Jesuit fathers Gabrielle Druilette & Claude Dablon, adventurers Guillaume Couture, Denis Guyon, notary Pierre Duquet, Jean Langlois and Michel Leneuf, Sieur de Lavalliere. They and a few hundreds Indians left Quebec in 80 canoes. Sickness slowed down their progress and they had to spend a few extra days in Tadoussac. The road they followed was almost identical to the road that Father de Quen took in 1647. They rested 7 or 8 days alongside the Lac St-Jean. On the 19th of June 1661, they paddled up the Chamouchouane river, known as Nikouba which they renamed themselves as the Saint-Sacrement river. The expedition stopped at Lake Nikabau. They were planning to go to the Hudson Bay but had to turn around at the beginning of July when their Indian guides refused to go any further. Francois returned to Quebec with the expedition as the Poste de Traite at Tadoussac had been burned by the Iroquois. Francois Pelletier-Antaya at Fort Saurel - 1670 (Saurel is the old French for Sorel). Francois moved to Fort Saurel with his wife Marguerite Morisseau and his children in 1670. The five remaining children were born in Saurel. Catherine (1670), Michel (1674), Jean-Baptiste-Pierre (20July1676), Elisabeth (18Sep1677), and Louise (22Sep1678). They had a total of 10 children, eight of them married. Francois received at least 2 pieces of land (concessions) from the Seigneur Pierre de Saurel. He sold one in 1677 and exchanged the other one to one of his nephews, Jean-Francois in 1690. This nephew was killed by the Iroquois at Saurel on the Nov. 2nd, 1692. Francois Antaya and his wife Marguerite left Saurel on or about 1678. Francois purchased a (fief) domain on the north shore of the St Lawrence river near Berthier-d'en-Haut. Marriages of Francois and Marguerite's children. 1. Marie-Angelique- m(1) Francois Banliac m(2) Antoine Desjarlais at Three Rivers Quebec, 25May 1709 2. Francois-Xavier- Madeleine Thunes, 15Aug1689 at Champlain 3. Marguerite- Charles Boucher, 07May1685 at Saurel 4. Genevieve- Jacques Desgagnes, 14May1690 at Montreal 5. Catherine- Denis Foucault, 12May1697 6. Michel- Francoise Meneux dit Chateauneuf, 09Jul1697 at Ste-Famille d'Orleans 7. Pierre- Marguerite Rousseau, 13May1703 at Ste-Famille d'Orleans 8.Louise- Jean Baptiste Deblois, 13May 1703 at Ste-Famille d'Orleans. The region of Lanaudiere is one of the first regions to have been occupied and farmed by the settlers from France. From 1637 until 1750, about a dozen "Seigneuries" were granted. The first "Seigneur" of the "Fief Dorvilliers" was a Gauthier de Comporte. His Fief was granted by Jean Talon on the 10th of October 1672. Francois Pelletier-Antaya bought the Dorvilliers Fief from the Sieur de Comporte on the 22nd of October 1675 for 400 livres (pounds). The Fief was renamed "Seigneurie Dorvilliers-Anthaia". The Fief was situated on the north shore of the St-Lawrence river, in the islands of Berthier d'en Haut, on one side the Fief D'Autray and on the other side, land not granted of Sieur Randin's, and Ile au Foin. The Seigneurie was half a league long on the St-Lawrence River and one league deep. In the 1681 census, the Antaya family was from D'Autray, Francois (48 years old), Marguerite (37), Francois (16), Joseph (14), Marguerite (13), Genevieve (11), Michel (7), Pierre (6) and Louise (3). Possessions: 3 guns, 10 cows. Francois' father Nicolas and his brother Jean moved to the Seigneurie Dorvilliers-Anthaia on the 23rd of March 1678. Francois died sometime before the year 1688. Parish priest Louis Balthazar Keberio purchased the Seigneurie Dorvilliers-Anthaia from Pierre Pelletier-Anthaia on the 3rd of December 1754. Some descendants of Francois remained in the Sorel region. A group of Antayas moved to the Windsor/Detroit region after the French's defeat at the battle of the plains of Abraham in 1759. There, the name Antaya was written several ways, Antaya, Antailla, Antaillia, Anteau & Antieau. Other Antayas moved to the Wisconsins and changed their name back to Pelletier after they married Indians. Another group of Antayas ended up moving to the New England states in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Still another account: The Pelletiers were early inhabitants of Quebec City. Nicolas was the town carpenter from 1637 to 1640. Upon arrival in New France, they had two children born in France. In Quebec they had five girls and lastly a son. The eldest son, Jean married a Percheronne, Marie-Genevieve Manovely de Reville. Their son Francois married in 1665 to Genevieve Letendre, daughter of Pierre and Charlotte Morin from Sorel. Unfortunately, Francois lost his hands to the Iroquois, at Sorel in 1692. The second son of Nicolas, Francois married at Tadoussac in 1660, an American Indian. Only her name received at baptism, Dorothee, is known. Francois had wintered at Tadoussac with Father Albanel, a Jesuit missionary. It was he who blessed the union. When the marriage was reported in the "journal des Jesuites", it created quite a stir because no banns had been published, nor had the approval of the governor or the eveche? been granted. Dorothee died less than a year after the marriage without children. Five months after he was widowed, Francois married Marguerite-Madeleine Morrisseau, originally from Picarde. They had 6 daughters and 4 sons (3 who married and had children): Francois-Xavier with Madeleine Thunay (1690), Michel with Francoise Meneux (1697), and Jean-Baptiste with Marguerite Rousseau ( 1703). The five daughters of Nicolas and Jeanne were: Marie who married Nicolas Goupil (1650), Louise to Jean Hayot (1653), Francoise to Jean Beriau (1654), Jeanne to Noel Jeremie, sieur de La Montagne (1659) and Genevieve to Vincent Verdon in 1663). The youngest child, Nicolas, like his older brother, also married American Indian except that he married 3! Nicolas married Madeleine Tegoussi in 1675, Francoise Ouechipichinokioue in 1677, and Marie Outchiouanich, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Nanbesa, Indian Chief of the Tadoussac. The second marriage produced 10 children, all baptised in Tadoussac or Chicoutimi.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Nicholas Pelletier

Guillaume le PELLETIER
1538-1602
Étiennette MONTÉE
1543-1641

Nicholas Pelletier
1589-1674

(1) 1785

Jeanne Roussey
1612-1689

Genevieve Pelletier
1646-1717
Pierre Pelletier
1639-????
Nicolas Pelletier
1649-1717
Marie Jean
1637-1690
Jean Pelletier
1633-1692
Marie Pelletier
1638-1710
Louise Pelletier
1640-1713
Jeanne Pelletier
1643-1714
Marie Francoise Pelletier
1642-1707
Francois Pelletier
1635-1690
(2) 1601

Antoine Duval
????-

(3) 1785

Marie Jeanne Cordier
1795-????

Marie Angelique Peltier
1637-1657

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    Birthday December 7, 1594

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