François PELLETIER dit ANTAYA

(b. abt. 1635 , France d. 14 May 1690 , Sillery, Québec, Canada, New France )

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François PELLETIER dit ANTAYA was born abt. 1635 in France

François PELLETIER dit ANTAYA was the child of Nicolas PELLETIER and Jeanne DEVOISY (ROUSSI)

François was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1636.

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Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

François married Dorothee UNKNOWN April 1660 in Tadoussac, La Haute-Côte-Nord, Canada, New France . Dorothee UNKNOWN was born abt. 1635 Dorothee died 13 April 1661 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City).

François married (2) Marguerite-Madeleine MORISSEAU 26 September 1661 in Québec, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 10 children.
Marguerite-Madeleine MORISSEAU was born abt. 1647 in Roye, Somme, France. Marguerite-Madeleine died 15 December 1707 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul).

François PELLETIER dit ANTAYA died 14 May 1690 in Sillery, Québec, Canada, New France .

"The name “Antaya” is associated uniquely with the descendants of François Pelletier and Marguerite Morisseau, who married on September 26, 1661, at the Mission Saint-Joseph in Sillery. François was the son of Nicolas Peltier and Jeanne de Vousy, originally from the parish of Gallardon, today within the department of Eure-et-Loir in France. He was the first to bear this name, and his descendants are the only ones to bear it today. It is therefore a name that belongs solely to these sons and daughters of Québec."

Source: association.pelletier.net

"...Their first six children baptized at Sillery are: Marie-Angelique, 14 Oct 1662 Francois-Xavier, 02 Dec 1663 Joseph, 22 Mar 1665 Marguerite-Agnes, 30 Aug 1666 and Genevieve, 16 Mar 1668. The other five are baptized at Sorel: Catherine, 1670 Michel, 1674 Jean-Baptiste-Pierre, 20 Jul 1676 Elisabeth, 18 Sep 1677 and Louise 22 Sep 1678. Only eight of them married..."

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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

Québec Généalogie - What is a 'dit/dite' name? When the first settlers came to Québec from France it was a custom to add a 'dit' nickname to the surname. The English translation of 'dit' is 'said'. The Colonists of Nouvelle France added 'dit' names as distinguishers. A settler might have wanted to differentiate their family from their siblings by taking a 'dit' name that described the locale to which they had relocated. The acquiring of a 'dit' name might also be the result of a casual adoption, whereby the person wanted to honor the family who had raised them. Another reason was also to distinguish themselves by taking as a 'dit' name the town or village in France from which they originated. This custom ended around 1900 when people began using only one name, either the 'dit' nickname or their original surname.

Source: American-French Genealogical Society, Woonsocket, Rhode Island (www.afgs.org/ditnames/index1.html)

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