Pierre
PION dit FONTAINE
Born
18 October 1787
,
Verchères, Province of Québec, Canada
Died
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Pierre PION dit FONTAINE was born 18 October 1787 in Verchères, Province of Québec, Canada
Pierre PION dit FONTAINE was the child of Jean-Marie-Louis PION dit LAFONTAINE and Marie-Charlotte CASAVANT dite LADÉBAUCHE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Louis PION dit LAFONTAINE and Françoise-Marguerite GUERTIN (maternal) Louis CASAVANT and Charlotte BERTRAND dite DESROCHERSm. Bourgeois Marie-Charlotte
Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changesFrom 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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1787 Birth 18 October 1787
Verchères, Province of Québec, Canada
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