Marie-Madeleine GERVAIS

(b. 7 June 1772 , La Prairie, Province of Québec, Canada d. 9 February 1836 , L'Acadie, Lower Canada )

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Marie-Madeleine GERVAIS was born 7 June 1772 in La Prairie, Province of Québec, Canada

Marie-Madeleine GERVAIS was the child of Gabriel GERVAIS and Marie-Anne-Amable BABEU and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste GERVAIS and Anne LEFEBVRE (maternal) Andre BABEU and Marie-Madeleine MESNY

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Marie-Madeleine married Pierre SURPRENANT 18 October 1802 in La Prairie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 7 children.
Pierre SURPRENANT was born 15 February 1775 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité). Pierre died 11 July 1849 in Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada. Pierre was the child of Antoine SURPRENANT dit SANSOUCY and Marie-Anne ROBERT.

Marie-Madeleine GERVAIS died 9 February 1836 in L'Acadie, Lower Canada .

Gervais Name Meaning
French: from the personal name Gervais (see Jarvis ). Compare Jarvey 2 and Jarvis Altered form of French Gervaise a variant of 1 above.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022

Similar surnames: Servais, Germain, German, Gervin, Zervas, Grass, Mervis, Gervasio

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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.

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