Jean-Baptiste  TETREAU (TETREAULT)

Biography
'Finally, Jean, the youngest but not the least, god-son of Claude, his brother, and his half-sister, Marie-Madeleine Beaudoin, was first headed towards priesthood... At [Boucherville] on 8 July 1710, he married Marie-Jeanne Tailhandier, daughter of the seigneurial judge Marien and of Madeleine Beaudry. Jean-Baptiste Tetreau even became a royal notary and clerk at Montreal. With his wife, eh was responsible for 4 sons, 2 of whom died in infancy. He died before 11 February 1730, the day on which his widow was remarried to Jean Latour, at Boucherville.'

Thomas J. Laforest
Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume XVI, Page 198

Biography
TÉTRO (Tétreau), JEAN-BAPTISTE, schoolmaster, seigneurial then royal notary, court clerk of the jurisdiction of Montreal; son of Louis Tétro and Marie-Noëlle Landeau; baptized 25 Oct. 1683, in the region of Montreal; d. between September 1728 and February 1730.

As he first intended to take up the priesthood, he received the tonsure from Bishop Laval in 1703. Some years later he turns up again as an itinerant schoolmaster. In 1712 he received a commission as notary for the seigneury of Boucherville. He was appointed in 1727 royal notary and clerk of court at Montreal at the same time as Joseph-Charles Raimbault; his registry, which extends from 28 April 1712 to 11 Sept. 1728, contains only 104 acts.

On 8 July 1710, he married Jeanne Tailhandier, daughter of Marien Tailhandier, seigneurial judge of Boucherville; they had three sons. The exact date of his death is unknown, but we do know that it occurred between 11 Sept. 1728, the date of his last notarial act, and 11 Feb. 1730,...Read full story


Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003