Marguerite VAILLANT

(b. abt. 1646 , La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France d. 27 November 1704 , Québec, Canada, New France )

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Marguerite VAILLANT was born abt. 1646 in La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France

Marguerite VAILLANT was the child of ? and ?

Marguerite was a Fille du Roi , arriving in New France by 1668.
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Marguerite married Jean DANIAU (DANIA) abt. 1668 in Québec Province, Canada . The couple had (at least) 6 children.
Jean DANIAU (DANIA) was born abt. 1651 in France. Jean died abt. 1704 in Lotbinière, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis).

Marguerite VAILLANT died 27 November 1704 in Québec, Canada, New France .

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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.

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Family and Children of Marguerite VAILLANT

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Marguerite VAILLANT married

Jean DANIAU (DANIA)-- Date: abt. 1668 Place: , Québec Province, Canada
Le Programme de recherche en démographie historique - Univeriste de Montreal

PRDH shows no record of this marriage, however the couple is first sighted in Lotbiniere in a 1681 census. There are also baptisms of several children mentioned, the first one being in 1682 in Pointe-de-Levy (Lauzon).

Jean Dania and Marguerite Vaillant

Children of Jean DANIAU (DANIA) and Marguerite VAILLANT:

Marie-Anne DANIAU (DANIA) (b.abt. 1669, , Québec Province, Canada d. 30 November 1717, Lotbinière, Canada, New France )
m. Antoine BAUDOUIN 1687 in , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Madeleine DANIAU (DANIA) (b.abt. 1670, , Québec Province, Canada d. 10 October 1758, Longueuil, Canada, New France )
m. Guillaume GOYAU dit LAGARDE 26 January 1694 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)
m. Louis DUFAULT 2 August 1711 in Longueuil, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-Longueuil)

Jeanne DANIAU (DANIA) (b.abt. 1676, Batiscan, Canada, New France d. April 1681, , Québec Province, Canada )

Marie-Françoise DANIAU (DANIA) (b.abt. 1678, , Québec Province, Canada d. 2 September 1754, La Prairie, Canada, New France )
m. Jacques DENEAU (DENIAU) (DAIGNEAU) 5 May 1705 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)
m. Louis BOUCHARD 02 December 1724 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

Marie-Marguerite DANIAU (DANIA) (b.8 August 1680, Grondines, Canada, New France d. , )
m. Andre ROBERT dit BRETON 31 May 1706 in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

Marie-Madeleine DANIAU (DANIA) (b.abt. 1682, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

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1656 - The pendulum clock is invented (Christiaan Huygens, Netherlands)

1663
Vaillant, Marguerite, m. Dania, Jean, 1668
La Société des Filles du roi et soldats du Carignan
The Good Regiment: The Carignan Salières Regiment in Canada, 1665-1668

1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity

1680 Birth of Child
Marie-Marguerite DANIAU (DANIA) was born 8 August 1680, Grondines, Québec, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Grondines)

1681 Canadian Census Seigneurir de Lotbiniere
Jean Daniau, 30
Marguerite Vaillant, sa femme, 35
enfants:
Marie, 12
Madelaine, 9
Jeanne, 5
Francois, 3
Marguerite, 1

Source: Histoire des Canadiens-Francais 1608-1880 by Benjamin Sulte, Montreal, 1882

1681 Death of Child
Jeanne DANIAU (DANIA) died April 1681, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

1694 Marriage of Child
Madeleine DANIAU (DANIA) married 26 January 1694, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul) to Guillaume GOYAU dit LAGARDE

1698 - The steam engine is invented (Thomas Savery, England)

1704 Death
Died at Hotel-Dieu de Quebec, Quebec, QC, Canada
Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

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