Gilles VINCENT dit DESMARETS

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abt. 1660 ,

Died

abt. 1722 ,

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Born: abt. 1660

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Gilles married Marguerite DURAND abt. 1683 in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marguerite DURAND was born abt. 1660

Gilles VINCENT dit DESMARETS died abt. 1722
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Gilles VINCENT dit DESMARETS married

Marguerite DURAND
Marriage date: abt. 1683
Marriage place: , Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Source: acadiansingray.com

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Gilles Vincent dit Desmarets, not kin to the Vincents of peninsula Acadia, married Marguerite Durand in Newfoundland in c1683 and settled at Plaisance and St.-Pierre. Marguerite gave him nine children, six sons and three daughters, all born in Newfoundland: Charlotte at Plaisance in c1684; Adrien, birth place and birth date unrecorded; Barbe at Plaisance, date unrecorded; Jean probably at Plaisance; Michel probably at Plaisance; Bernard at Plaisance; Bernardine probably at Plaisance; Gilles, fils at Plaisance in c1694; and Eustache at Plaisance. Gilles took his family to the fishery at Île Scatary, off Newfoundland, by 1716, and died at Port-Orléans, up the coast, in c1722. Three of his sons married, two of them, Bernard and Gilles, fils, into the Dihars and Maisonnat families. The name of youngest son Eustache's wife has been lost to history. Two of Gilles's and Marguerite's daughters married into the Commère dit La Chapelle and Le Manquet dit Benjamin families and remained on Île Royale. One of Gilles's granddaughters, Marie Vincent dit Desmarets, married Thomas Poirée, a French fisherman, and settled at Anse-Darembourg, on the north shore of Île Scatary, where a French official counted them in April 1752. No member of this family emigrated to Louisiana.

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1) Barbe VINCENT dit DESMARETS, married Plaisance ? (Acadia) about 1706 Jean Benjamin LEMANQUET dit BENJAMIN, married (Acadia) about 1721 Louis LEBON

2) Bernard, married (Acadia) about 1720 Marguerite DIHARS

3) Charlotte VINCENT dit DESMARETS, married Plaisance ? (Acadia) about 1697 Thomas COMMÈRE dit LACHAPELLE

4) Eustache, married Port d'Orléans (Acadia) about 1724

5) Gilles, born about 1695 (burial 1755), dead 1755-10-16, buried 1755-10-17 Québec, married (Acadia) about 1723 Marie Anne MAISONNAT

Children of Gilles VINCENT dit DESMARETS and Marguerite DURAND

Gilles VINCENT dit DESMARAIS

Born: abt. 1694, Plaisance, Terre-Neuve, Canada
Died: 16 October 1755, Québec, Canada, New France

Married: Marie Anne MAISONNAT 1723

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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." Colonists of Nouvelle France used dit names as distinguishers. A settler might use one to differentiate a branch of the family from siblings, sometimes choosing a name connected with the place to which the family had relocated.

A dit name could also result from a casual adoption or from honoring the family that had raised someone. In other cases it identified the town or village in France from which the person originated. The custom ended around 1900, when people increasingly used only one name, either the dit nickname or the original surname.

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

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