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Ancestor is complete! immigrant Fille a Marier flag   Jeanne  VOIDY (VEDIE)

Born
abt. 1637 ,  La Flèche, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France
Died
7 December 1708 ,  Québec, Canada, New France
Jeanne  married  Jean DEMERS (DUMAIS) 9 November 1654 in Montréal, Canada, New France .  The couple had (at least) 13 children.
Jean DEMERS (DUMAIS)  was born 6 February 1633 in Dieppe, France.  Jean died 5 July 1708 in Québec, Canada, New France .  Jean was the child of Jean DUMAIS and Barbe MAUGER (MAUGIS) .
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Jeanne was a Fille à Marier , arriving in New France by 1654. Learn more: Who were the Filles à Marier? The Filles à Marier: Pioneers of Love and Legacy in New France


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Jeanne  married  Jean DEMERS (DUMAIS) 9 November 1654 in Montréal, Canada, New France .  The couple had (at least) 13 children.
Jean DEMERS (DUMAIS)  was born 6 February 1633 in Dieppe, France.  Jean died 5 July 1708 in Québec, Canada, New France .  Jean was the child of Jean DUMAIS and Barbe MAUGER (MAUGIS).




Daughter of Michel Voidy and Catherine Dorbelle
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Spouses, Marriages & Children of Jeanne VOIDY (VEDIE)

Jeanne VOIDY (VEDIE) married immigrant flag male ancestor Jean DEMERS (DUMAIS)
Marriage date: 9 November 1654
Marriage place: Montréal, Canada, New France
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Jean DEMERS (DUMAIS) was the child of Jean DUMAIS and Barbe MAUGER (MAUGIS)

Marriage notes:
Marriage found at Notre-Dame de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec in Drouin Collection
Jean Dumets and Jeanne Vodie
"Jean DuMet etait fils de Jean DuMet et de Barbe Maugis de la paroisse de St-Jacques de Dieppe, en France. L'epouse s'appelait Jeanne Vedie ou Voidy (I), fille de Michel Vedie ou Voidy et de Catherine Dorbelle de St-Germain, eveche d'Angers."...
"Jean Demers et Jeanne Voidy eutent douze enfants, baptises a Montreal, a Sillery et a Quebec. Qutare garcons - Pierre, Eustache, Rene et Jean-Nicolas - et deux filles - Marguerite, mariee a Andre Bergereon, et Catherine, mariee a George Marion - s'etablirent a St-Nicolas, ou ils devinrent les souches des nombreuses familles de Demers dans cette pariosse (1). Jean Demers, par sa longue experience acquise, au prix de bien des travaux et de bein des sacrficies, etait en position de guider surement ses enfants et de les etablir aux endroits les plus fertiles de la cote Lauzon (2)."
Title Monographie: La paroisse de St. Romuald d'Etchemin, avant et depuis son érection
Author Benjamin Demers
Publisher J. A. K. Laflamme, imprimeur, 1906
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized Feb 20, 2008
Length 396 pages
Pages 35-36


So Many Children! French-Canadian Family Size in the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries

Children of Jean DEMERS (DUMAIS) and Jeanne VOIDY (VEDIE)


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marriage1654 Marriage / Partner
Jeanne VOIDY (VEDIE) and Jean DEMERS (DUMAIS) 9 November 1654, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)
Invention 1656 - The pendulum clock is invented (Christiaan Huygens, Netherlands)
1658 Birth of Child
François DEMERS (DUMAIS) was born 16 February 1658, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)
1659 Birth of Child
Marguerite DEMERS (DUMAIS) was born 4 October 1659, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)
1661 Birth of Child
Jean DEMERS (DUMAIS) was born 6 July 1661, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)
1663 Birth of Child
Pierre DEMERS (DUMAIS) was born 8 October 1663, Sillery, Québec, Québec, Canada (Mission Saint-Joseph-de-Sillery) (Saint-Colomb-de-Sillery)
1665 Birth of Child
Marie-Anne DEMERS (DUMAIS) was born 30 August 1665, Sillery, Québec, Québec, Canada (Mission Saint-Joseph-de-Sillery) (Saint-Colomb-de-Sillery)
Invention 1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity
1667 Census - Levis County, Quebec
Jean Dumestz, habitant, 40 years, married
Jeanne Voidy, 30 years, married
Francois Dumestz, 9 years
Marguerite Dumestz, 8 years
Jean Dumestz, 6 years
Pierre Dumestz, 4 years
Anne Dumestz, 2 years
Rene Dumestz, 2 months


They owned one head of cattle and had eight arpents of land under cultivation. Generally, eight arpents meant clearing land for at least four years.
1667 Birth of Child
René DEMERS (DUMAIS) was born 13 August 1667, Sillery, Québec, Québec, Canada (Mission Saint-Joseph-de-Sillery) (Saint-Colomb-de-Sillery)
1669 Birth of Child
Madeleine DEMERS (DUMAIS) was born 26 March 1669, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
1673 Birth of Child
Eustache DEMERS (DUMAIS) was born 5 May 1673, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
marriage1673 Marriage of Child
Marguerite DEMERS (DUMAIS) married 9 July 1673, Saint-Nicolas, Lévis, Canada, New France to Andre BERGERON
1675 Birth of Child
Catherine DEMERS (DUMAIS) was born 4 April 1675, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
1677 Birth of Child
Nicolas DEMERS (DUMAIS) was born 18 May 1677, Sillery, Québec, Québec, Canada (Mission Saint-Joseph-de-Sillery) (Saint-Colomb-de-Sillery)
1681 Census - Lauzon, Quebec
Jean Dumets, habitant, 50 years old, married
Jeanne Voidy, 43 years old, married
Francois Dumets, 25 years
Jean Dumets, 20 years
Pierre Dumets, 18 years
Anne Dumets, 16 years
Rene Dumets, 14 years,
Madeleine Dumets, 12 years
Andre Dumets, 10 years
Eustache Dumets, 9 years
Catherine Duments, 6 years
Nicolas Dumets, 4 years
Jean Dumets, 1 month

They owned one gun, 8 head of cattle and 30 arpents of cleared land.
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1681 Census - New France
The French In North America: 1500-1783
1681 Birth of Child
Michel DEMERS (DUMAIS) was born 31 August 1681, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
1687 Death of Child
Andre DEMERS (DUMAIS) died 4 November 1687, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)
1687 Death of Child
François DEMERS (DUMAIS) died 4 November 1687, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)
marriage1688 Marriage of Child
Marie-Anne DEMERS (DUMAIS) married 3 May 1688, Québec, Canada, New France to Gabriel DUCHESNE
marriage1691 Marriage of Child
Pierre DEMERS (DUMAIS) married 1 November 1691, Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Canada, New France to Jeanne POUILLOT
1693 Death of Child
Catherine DEMERS (DUMAIS) died 5 July 1693, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
marriage1693 Marriage of Child
Marie-Anne DEMERS (DUMAIS) married 14 October 1693, Québec, Canada, New France to Michel CUREUX dit ST-GERMAIN
marriage1693 Marriage of Child
Madeleine DEMERS (DUMAIS) married 12 November 1693, , Québec Province, Canada to Georges-Guillaume MARION dit FONTAINE
marriage1694 Marriage of Child
Eustache DEMERS (DUMAIS) married 3 November 1694, Québec, Canada, New France to Marie DUBOIS
marriage1696 Marriage of Child
Jean DEMERS (DUMAIS) married 2 May 1696, Sainte-Famille-de-l'île-d'Orléans, Canada, New France to Jeanne ARRIVEE (LARRIVÉE) dite DESLISLE
Invention 1698 - The steam engine is invented (Thomas Savery, England)
marriage1700 Marriage of Child
Nicolas DEMERS (DUMAIS) married 3 May 1700, Sainte-Famille-de-l'île-d'Orléans, Canada, New France to Anne ROCHON
1701 Death of Child
Michel DEMERS (DUMAIS) died 21 February 1701, Saint-Nicolas, Lévis, Québec, Canada
marriage1703 Marriage of Child
Pierre DEMERS (DUMAIS) married 31 July 1703 , Lotbinière, Canada, New France to Jeanne HOUDE
1708 Death
'Dix ans apres, ils decedaient tous deux dans la meme annee: jean DuMet, le 5 jullet 1708 et Jeanne Voidy, son epouse, le 7 decembre 1708. Avant leur mort, ils avaient fonde sept messes a perpetuite, dans l'eglise de Notre-Dame de Quebec.'

Title Monographie: La paroisse de St. Romuald d'Etchemin, avant et depuis son érection
Author Benjamin Demers
Publisher J. A. K. Laflamme, imprimeur, 1906
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized Feb 20, 2008
Length 396 pages
Page 37
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