Archange BROSSEAU dite LAFLEUR

(b. abt. 1735 , Québec Province, Canada d. 11 March 1801 , Verchères, Lower Canada )

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Archange BROSSEAU dite LAFLEUR was born abt. 1735 in Québec Province, Canada

Archange BROSSEAU dite LAFLEUR was the child of Pierre BROSSEAU dit LAFLEUR and Marie-Josephte LANGLOIS and the grandchild of: (paternal) François BROSSEAU and Marie-Jeanne COLLET (COLLETTE) (maternal) Andre LANGLOIS and Françoise BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE)

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Archange married Joseph AMIOT 16 November 1778 in Verchères, Province of Québec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Joseph AMIOT was born 11 December 1735 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul). Joseph died 9 March 1801 in Verchères, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-Vercheres). Joseph was the child of Jean-Baptiste AMYOT (AMIOT) and Geneviève-Angélique GUILLEMOT dite LALANDE.

Archange BROSSEAU dite LAFLEUR died 11 March 1801 in Verchères, Lower Canada .
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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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