Pierre PICOTÉ dit BELESTRE

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abt. 1636 , Paris, France

Died

30 January 1679 , Montréal, Canada, New France

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François PICOTÉ Perrine LAMBERT

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Born: abt. 1636 in Paris, France

Father: François PICOTÉ

Mother: Perrine LAMBERT

Pierre was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1672.

Immigration to New France: Shaping the Roots of Canada

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Pierre married Marie PAR abt. 1655 in Paris, France . The couple had (at least) 3 children.
Marie PAR was born abt. 1638 in Paris, France. Marie died 3 November 1684 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City).

Pierre PICOTÉ dit BELESTRE died 30 January 1679 in Montréal, Canada, New France .
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Recorded occupation: Sieur de Belestre

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)

Spouse & Children of Pierre PICOTÉ dit BELESTRE

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Pierre PICOTÉ dit BELESTRE married

Marie PAR
Marriage date: abt. 1655
Marriage place: Paris, France

Children of Pierre PICOTÉ dit BELESTRE and Marie PAR

Helene PICOTÉ DE BELLESTRE

Born: abt. 1656, , France
Died: 22 November 1701, Montréal, Canada, New France

Married: Antoine LAFENAYE DE BRUCY 23 August 1676 Place: Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

Married: Jean-Baptiste CELORON 29 November 1686 Place: Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Marie-Anne PICOTÉ dite BELESTRE

Born: 27 August 1672, Montréal, Canada, New France
Died: 11 September , Montréal, Canada, New France

Married: Alphonse TONTY dit PALUDY 17 February 1689 Place: Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

François Marie PICOTÉ dit BELESTRE

Born: 5 February 1677, Montréal, Canada, New France
Died: 9 October 1729, Detroit, French Settlement (now Michigan)

Married: Marie-Catherine TROTTIER 27 May 1714 Place: Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

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Biography
PICOTÉ DE BELESTRE, PIERRE, merchant, fur trader, officer of the garrison of Montreal; b. c. 1637 in France, son of François Picoté de Belestre, a doctor; d. January 1679.

He came to Canada in 1659 as a member of the contingent accompanying the Religious Hospitallers of La Flèche, who had been authorized to come to Ville-Marie (Montreal). His sister Perrinne, one of Jeanne Mance’s two lay companions on the crossing, was for some time a novice with the Hospitallers.

Dollier* de Casson, who recorded Pierre Picoté de Belestre’s arrival at Ville-Marie, declared that “he indeed graces this place in time of war as well as when we are enjoying peace, because of the outstanding qualities which he possesses for both of these occasions.” In fact, we know little about him, although he seems to have had a certain prestige among the members of the settlement at Montreal. A trader at the annual fair at Montreal, an honorary churchwarden in 1671, he received that same year a grant of land at...Read full story

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

1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity

1672 Birth of Child
Marie-Anne PICOTÉ dite BELESTRE was born 27 August 1672, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

1676 Marriage of Child
Helene PICOTÉ DE BELLESTRE married 23 August 1676, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul) to Antoine LAFENAYE DE BRUCY

1677 Birth of Child
François Marie PICOTÉ dit BELESTRE was born 5 February 1677, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)