Jean MOREAU dit LAPORTE

(b. abt. 1640 , France d. 4 February 1711 , Batiscan, Canada, New France )

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Jean MOREAU dit LAPORTE was born abt. 1640 in France

Jean MOREAU dit LAPORTE was the child of ? and ?

Jean was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1667.

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Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Jean married Anne GUILLET 26 June 1667 in Québec Province, Canada . The couple had (at least) 6 children.
Anne GUILLET was born 24 September 1654 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City). Anne died 19 November 1726 in Batiscan, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan) (Saint-François-Xavier). Anne was the child of Pierre-Simon GUILLET dit LAJEUNESSE and Jeanne ST-PERE dite CHAMPOUX.

Jean MOREAU dit LAPORTE died 4 February 1711 in Batiscan, Canada, New France .

son of Pierre Moreau and Francoise Menarde

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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.

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 MOREAU dit LAPORTE married

Anne GUILLET-- Date: 26 June 1667 Place: , Québec Province, Canada
Le Programme de recherche en démographie historique - Univeriste de Montreal

Anne GUILLET was the child of Pierre-Simon GUILLET dit LAJEUNESSE and Jeanne ST-PERE dite CHAMPOUX

Children of Jean MOREAU dit LAPORTE and Anne GUILLET:

Joseph MOREAU (b.abt. 1672, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )
m. Marie-Francoise FRIGON 8 February 1700 in Batiscan, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan) (Saint-François-Xavier)

Madeleine MOREAU (b.abt. 1674, , Québec Province, Canada d. 25 September 1713, Batiscan, Canada, New France )
m. Jean-François FRIGON 8 February 1700 in Batiscan, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan) (Saint-François-Xavier)

Marie-Anne MOREAU (b.abt. 1677, , Québec Province, Canada d. 22 October 1699, Batiscan, Canada, New France )
m. Jean BARADAT 14 November 1696 in Batiscan, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan) (Saint-François-Xavier)

Marguerite MOREAU (b.3 February 1680, Batiscan, Canada, New France d. abt. 1701, )
m. Jean-François PROVENCHER 15 November 1701 in Batiscan, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan) (Saint-François-Xavier)

Jean MOREAU dit DESROSIERS (b.29 September 1684, La-Pérade, Canada, New France d. 3 December 1757, Batiscan, Canada, New France )
m. Marie-Charlotte LEPELLE 21 February 1718 in Batiscan, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan) (Saint-François-Xavier)

Marie-Catherine MOREAU (b.17 July 1690, Batiscan, Canada, New France d. 24 November 1753, Yamachiche, Canada, New France )
m. François RIVARD dit BEAUCOUR 16 November 1720 in Batiscan, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan) (Saint-François-Xavier)

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MOREAU – Contraction of Morineau, nickname given to an individual with a more or less dark complexion, in reference to the Moorish people, encountered during the crusades. Also, from the Latin 'Maurellus', from Maurus which means the Mauritanian, again the nickname of a dark-skinned individual. Finally, can come from the name of several localities in France.

Jean Moreau-Laporte was born around 1643 in Javrezac, Charente, France. Son of Pierre Moreau and Françoise Ménarde, he married Anne Guillet, daughter of Pierre Guillet and Jeanne Saint-Père, on June 26, 1667 in an undetermined place in Quebec. From this union were born 10 children. Confirmed in Quebec in 1662, he worked as a servant and was also said to be a carpenter. He lived in Batiscan in 1666, then Cap-de-la-Madeleine. Back in Batiscan in 1681, he owns 8 arpents of land, 1 rifle and 3 cattle. He enlisted the following year for a trading trip to the Outaouais. He died on February 4, 1711 in Batiscan and was buried there...Read MORE...

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

1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity

1667 Marriage / Partner
Jean MOREAU dit LAPORTE and Anne GUILLET 26 June 1667, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

1680 Birth of Child
Marguerite MOREAU was born 3 February 1680, Batiscan, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan) (Saint-François-Xavier)

1684 Birth of Child
Jean MOREAU dit DESROSIERS was born 29 September 1684, La-Pérade, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-la-Perade)

1690 Birth of Child
Marie-Catherine MOREAU was born 17 July 1690, Batiscan, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan) (Saint-François-Xavier)

1696 Marriage of Child
Marie-Anne MOREAU married 14 November 1696, Batiscan, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan) (Saint-François-Xavier) to Jean BARADAT

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

1699 Death of Child
Marie-Anne MOREAU died 22 October 1699, Batiscan, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan) (Saint-François-Xavier)

1700 Marriage of Child
Joseph MOREAU married 8 February 1700 , Batiscan, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan) (Saint-François-Xavier) to Marie-Francoise FRIGON

1700 Marriage of Child
Madeleine MOREAU married 8 February 1700 , Batiscan, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan) (Saint-François-Xavier) to Jean-François FRIGON

1701 Marriage of Child
Marguerite MOREAU married 15 November 1701, Batiscan, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan) (Saint-François-Xavier) to Jean-François PROVENCHER

1711 Death
4 February 1711
Batiscan, Canada, New France

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