Jean LAMOUREUX dit ROCHEFORT

(b. abt. 1664 , Rochefort, France d. September 1739 , Ile Saint-Jean, Acadia )

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Jean LAMOUREUX dit ROCHEFORT was born abt. 1664 in Rochefort, France

Jean LAMOUREUX dit ROCHEFORT was the child of ? and ?

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Jean married Marie Madeleine PICHOT abt. 1698 . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie Madeleine PICHOT was born abt. 1664 Marie Madeleine was the child of Abraham PICHOT and Madeleine AUBERT.

Jean LAMOUREUX dit ROCHEFORT died September 1739 in Ile Saint-Jean, Acadia.
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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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Jean LAMOUREUX dit ROCHEFORT married

Marie Madeleine PICHOT-- Date: abt. 1698 Place:
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Marie Madeleine PICHOT was the child of Abraham PICHOT and Madeleine AUBERT

In c1693, at Plaisance, Newfoundland, then part of greater Acadia, Jean Lamoureux dit Rochefort, born in Rochefort, France, in c1664, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Abraham Pichot and Madeleine Aubert. Jean was a fisherman and served as a major of the Plaisance militia before being compelled by the Treaty of Utrecht to move from British-controlled Newfoundland to French-controlled Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island, in October 1714. He and his family remained on Île Royale until the mid-1720s. According to the many censuses taken at Louisbourg during those years, Marie-Madeleine died before 1719, and Jean, who did not remarry, became a prominent fisherman merchant with many boats and helpers. In 1726, he was counted at L'Indienne on Île Royale with one domestic servant, 36 sailors and fishermen in his employ, 6 chaloups, and a bateau ou goélette en pêche, which in that day was a respectable-sized fishing vessel. By 1728, he and his children had moved again, this time to Pointe-de-l'Est on Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island. By 1734, they had moved to Havre-St.-Pierre on the north side of the island. Jean dit Rochefort died there in September 1739, age 75. During their life together, he and Marie-Madeleine had five children, four daughters and a son, all but one of whom survived childhood and created families of their own. Three of Jean dit Rochefort's daughters married into the Morin dit Langevin, Dutraque, and Baudoin Le Cluzeau families either at Plaisance or on Île Royale.

Children of Jean LAMOUREUX dit ROCHEFORT and Marie Madeleine PICHOT:

Jean Baptiste LAMOUREAUX (b.abt. 1698, , Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada d. 12 May 1758, St-Pierre-du-Nord, Ile Saint-Jean, Acadia )
m. Marie Claire POITIER 17 July 1740 in , Prince Edward Island, Canada (Ile Saint-Jean)

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