Étienne LAFOND dit PEPIN

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abt. 1615 , St-Laurent de la Barriere, Saintonge, France

Died

15 September 1665 , Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France

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Born: abt. 1615 in St-Laurent de la Barriere, Saintonge, France

Father: Unknown

Mother: Unknown

Étienne was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1642.

Immigration to New France: Shaping the Roots of Canada

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Étienne married Marie BOUCHER 30 January 1645 in Québec, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 8 children.
Marie BOUCHER was born 22 January 1629 in Mortagne, Perche, France (Mortagne-au-Perche). Marie died 29 November 1706 in Batiscan, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan) (Saint-François-Xavier). Marie was the child of Gaspard BOUCHER and Nicole LEMAIRE.

Étienne LAFOND dit PEPIN died 15 September 1665 in Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France .

son of Pierre Lafond and Francoise Prieur

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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)

A Glimpse into 17th-Century New France: Life of the Average Man

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Étienne LAFOND dit PEPIN married

Marie BOUCHER
Marriage date: 30 January 1645
Marriage place: Québec, Canada, New France

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Marie BOUCHER was the child of Gaspard BOUCHER and Nicole LEMAIRE

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Notre-Dame-de-Quebec

"...This proceeding, written up that same day by the notary Martial Piraube, was the first mention of the presence of Etienne Pepin de Lafond in New France. There is no more news of him until the day of his wedding, 30 January 1645, in Quebec. Etienne, son of Pierre and of Francoise Prieur, was a thirty year old carpenter originally from Saint-Laurent-de-la-Barriere, in Saintonge (Charente-Maritime). He married fifteen year old Marie, daughter of Gaspard Boucher and of Nicole Lemere. Marie was the sister of Pierre Boucher, the future governor of Trois-Rivieres."

Thomas J. Laforest

Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume VI, Page 189

Children of Étienne LAFOND dit PEPIN and Marie BOUCHER

Jean LAFOND

Born: 21 May 1646, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France
Died: 10 May 1716 , Batiscan, Canada, New France

Married: Catherine SENECAL 12 October 1670 Place: Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-Madeleine)

Married: Catherine Anne ANNENONTAK (ANENONTHA) 28 August 1697 Place: Batiscan, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan) (Saint-François-Xavier)

Marie LAFOND

Born: 25 October 1648, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France
Died: , , Québec Province, Canada

Geneviève LAFOND

Born: 29 February 1652, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France
Died: ,

Married: Jean-Baptiste TROTTIER 24 June 1667 Place: , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Pierre LAFOND dit MONGRAIN

Born: 24 April 1655 , Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France
Died: 7 January 1721, Batiscan, Canada, New France

Married: Marie-Madeleine RIVARD 10 January 1677 Place: Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-Madeleine)

Françoise LAFOND

Born: 8 July 1658 , Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France
Died: 2 October 1717, Montréal, Canada, New France

Married: Charles LESIEUR dit LAPIERRE 11 October 1671 Place: Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-Madeleine)

Married: Louis FAFARD dit LONGVAL 19 July 1703 Place: Batiscan, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan) (Saint-François-Xavier)

Étienne LAFOND

Born: 5 October 1661 , Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France
Died: 9 September 1689, Montréal, Canada, New France

Married: Marie-Madeleine DUBOIS 5 January 1685 Place: Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-Madeleine)

Jeanne LAFOND

Born: abt. 1662, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: , , Québec Province, Canada

Augustin LAFOND

Born: 14 May 1664 , Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France
Died: ,

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Pioneer Étienne Lafond died suddenly on September 15th, 1665, at Trois-Rivières, Québec. The parish registry does not mention a cause of death, but it's reported that 'since he was a man of uncommon stature and quality, his mortal remains were interred in the church itself.'

Early records indicate that Étienne was a servant of the Ursuline Nuns in New France and later a 'builder of houses and boats.' He became a 'great land-owner.'

In 1645 Étienne married Marie Boucher, sister of the illustrious Pierre Boucher of Boucherville. Marie outlived her husband by forty years and did not remarry. She's said to have been an 'excellent businesswoman,' possibly better than her famous brother at managing 'family affairs with authority and competence.'

The many notable descendants of Marie and Étienne include Queen Camilla of the UK, Angelina Jolie, and the Canadian political family Trudeau.
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1645 Marriage / Partner
Étienne LAFOND dit PEPIN and Marie BOUCHER 30 January 1645, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1646 Birth of Child
Jean LAFOND was born 21 May 1646, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

1648 Birth of Child
Marie LAFOND was born 25 October 1648, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

1652 Birth of Child
Geneviève LAFOND was born 29 February 1652, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

1655 Birth of Child
Pierre LAFOND dit MONGRAIN was born 24 April 1655 , Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

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

1658 Birth of Child
Françoise LAFOND was born 8 July 1658 , Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

1661 Birth of Child
Étienne LAFOND was born 5 October 1661 , Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

1664 Birth of Child
Augustin LAFOND was born 14 May 1664 , Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

1665 - Death
Death found at Immaculee Conception, Trois Rivieres in Drouin Collection

15 Sept 1665

Etienne Lafond (also called Stephanus Lafond in body of death record)

'The civil registry of the three-rivers parish may have had some deficiencies more or less, but on 15 September 1665 the missionary priest did not fail to record the death of our ancestor Etienne. Written in Latin, the inscription reads: 'Repentia et improvisia mort abiit.' That is to say that the passage from this life to the next is sudden and often unexpected... Etienne was about fifty years old and, since he was a man of uncommon stature and quality, his mortal remains were interred in the church itself.'

Thomas J. Laforest
Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume VI, Page 192
Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

1668 Trois Rivieres
'... 1668 - Marie Boucher, widow of Etienne Pepin de Lafond as well for herself as for her children. The two lots had been granted to the sieur de Lafond in 1656 and in 1650, and the land in 1656.'

Title Report
Author Public Archives Canada
Published 1885
Page 50

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