Alphonse TONTY dit PALUDY

(b. 7 July 1659 , Paris, France d. 10 November 1727 , Detroit, French Settlement (now Michigan) )

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Alphonse TONTY dit PALUDY was born 7 July 1659 in Paris, France

Alphonse TONTY dit PALUDY was the child of ? and ?

Alphonse was an immigrant to the United States, arriving by 1685.

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Alphonse married Marie-Anne PICOTÉ dite BELESTRE 17 February 1689 in Montréal, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Anne PICOTÉ dite BELESTRE was born 27 August 1672 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul). Marie-Anne died 11 September in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul). Marie-Anne was the child of Pierre PICOTÉ dit BELESTRE and Marie PAR.

Alphonse TONTY dit PALUDY died 10 November 1727 in Detroit, French Settlement (now Michigan).

son of Lorenzo Tonty and Angélique Lioto

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Occupation

Alphonse TONTY dit PALUDY was a Baron de Paludy, commandant at Forts Michilimackinac, Frontenac, and Pontchartrain (Detroit), captain in the colonial regular troops.

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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Alphonse TONTY dit PALUDY married

Marie-Anne PICOTÉ dite BELESTRE-- Date: 17 February 1689 Place: Montréal, Canada, New France
Marie-Anne PICOTÉ dite BELESTRE was the child of Pierre PICOTÉ dit BELESTRE and Marie PAR

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Children of Alphonse TONTY dit PALUDY and Marie-Anne PICOTÉ dite BELESTRE:

Marie-Josephte TONTY (b.26 May 1713, Montréal, Canada, New France d. , )
m. Pierre TREMBLAY 18 April 1757 in Saint-Joachim, Montmorency, Québec, Canada

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1659 Birth
7 July 1659
Paris, France

Biography
TONTY, ALPHONSE (de), Baron de Paludy, commandant at Forts Michilimackinac, Frontenac, and Pontchartrain (Detroit), captain in the colonial regular troops, younger brother of Henri Tonty; b. c. 1659 in France, son of Laurent (Lorenzo) de Tonty, Baron de Paludy, and of Isabelle de Liette (di Lietto); d. 10 Nov. 1727 at Detroit.

Laurent de Tonty moved to Paris from Italy around 1650 after having taken part in an unsuccessful rebellion. In 1669 he was committed to the Bastille and remained there for eight years, probably as a result of the failure of an insurance scheme which he had presented in 1653 to Cardinal Mazarin. Laurent’s eight years in the Bastille coincided with Alphonse’s youth, and no doubt contributed in part to the latter’s irascible temper. In 1684 Alphonse quarrelled violently with René-Robert Cavelier* de La Salle over the wages he was to be paid if he sailed with the explorer to the Gulf of Mexico. As a result he did not participate in La Salle’s tragic last voyage. ...Read MORE...

Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003

1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity

1689 Marriage / Partner
Alphonse TONTY dit PALUDY and Marie-Anne PICOTÉ dite BELESTRE 17 February 1689, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

He was 29 years old.

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

1713 Birth of Child
Marie-Josephte TONTY was born 26 May 1713, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

Alphonse was 53 years old.

1720 - June 10 - Mrs Clements of England markets first paste-style mustard

1727 Death
10 November 1727
Detroit, French Settlement (now Michigan)

He died at the age of 68.

1714 Death of Spouse/Partner
Marie-Anne PICOTÉ dite BELESTRE died 11 September , Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

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