Roberte GADOIS (GADOUA)
Married: Cesar LEGER 22 May 1644 Place: Québec, Canada, New France
Married: Louis PRUD'HOMME 30 November 1650 Place: Montréal, Canada, New France
Pierre
GADOIS (GADOYS)
Born
abt. 1594
,
France
Died
20 October 1667
,
Montréal, Canada, New France
Parents & Family of Pierre GADOIS (GADOYS)
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Pierre was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1636.
WORK & OCCUPATION
Occupation
Recorded occupation: first farmer at Montreal, churchwarden at Ville-Marie (Montreal)
The farmer, cultivateur, or cultivator, was a person who cultivated and exploited the land in order to get a crop.
He may have been the proprietor of his own parcel(s) of land. He could, depending on the land size, have employed other agricultural workers. If he didn't own the land, he was called a tenant farmer.
Source: tfcq.ca
Source: Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts
He may have been the proprietor of his own parcel(s) of land. He could, depending on the land size, have employed other agricultural workers. If he didn't own the land, he was called a tenant farmer.
Source: tfcq.ca
Source: Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts
Spouses, Marriages & Children of Pierre GADOIS (GADOYS)
Pierre GADOIS (GADOYS) married Louise MAUGER
Marriage date: abt. 1620
Marriage place: , France
Louise MAUGERMarriage date: abt. 1620
Marriage place: , France
Marriage notes:
St-Martin d'Igé, Mortagne
Children of Pierre GADOIS (GADOYS) and Louise MAUGER
Pierre GADOIS
Married: Marie PONTONIERE (PONTONNIER) 12 August 1657 Place: Montréal, Canada, New France
Married: Jeanne BESNARD (BERNARD) 20 April 1665 Place: Montréal, Canada, New France
Jean-Baptiste GADOIS
Married: Marguerite GERVAIS 19 February 1669 Place: Montréal, Canada, New France
Married: Marie BAUDREAU dite GRAVELINE (BEAUDREAU) 19 January 1693 Place: Montréal, Canada, New France
RESEARCH CONTEXT
Québec Genealogy Notes
Helpful background for understanding names and places that may appear in Pierre's Québec records.
Québec Place Names Through History
Québec has been described by several names during different periods of its history. Knowing the period name can make older records easier to recognize.
- Early 1600s–1760
- Canada, New France
- 1760–1763
- Canada
- 1763–1791
- Province of Québec
- 1791–1867
- Lower Canada
- 1867–present
- Québec, Canada
Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.
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GADOYS, PIERRE, first farmer at Montreal, churchwarden at Ville-Marie (Montreal); b. c. 1594 at Saint-Martin d’Igé (near Mortagne in Perche); d. in October 1667 at Montreal.
Pierre Gadoys may have been bought to the colony by Robert Giffard with his Beauport settlers, most of whom came from Perche. We find him at Quebec as early as 1636, at which time a son, of whose fate we know nothing, was born to him. From 1643 to 1645 he was apparently in the employ of the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal at Sainte-Foy. In October 1645, Hurons and Algonkins broke into Gadoys’s house on several occasions to steal food from him and beat him.
He must have moved to Montreal about 1646 or 1647. He had the honour, in January 1648, of being the first person to whom the governor, Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve, made a grant of land; 40 acres in area, it extended from Saint-Paul street in a northwesterly direction to the west of Saint-Pierre and Bleury streets. Hence Dollier* de Casson gave him the
Pierre Gadoys may have been bought to the colony by Robert Giffard with his Beauport settlers, most of whom came from Perche. We find him at Quebec as early as 1636, at which time a son, of whose fate we know nothing, was born to him. From 1643 to 1645 he was apparently in the employ of the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal at Sainte-Foy. In October 1645, Hurons and Algonkins broke into Gadoys’s house on several occasions to steal food from him and beat him.
He must have moved to Montreal about 1646 or 1647. He had the honour, in January 1648, of being the first person to whom the governor, Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve, made a grant of land; 40 acres in area, it extended from Saint-Paul street in a northwesterly direction to the west of Saint-Pierre and Bleury streets. Hence Dollier* de Casson gave him the
Source / record details
Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003
Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003
1628 Birth of ChildRoberte GADOIS (GADOUA) was born 15 September 1628, , France
1631 Birth of ChildPierre GADOIS was born 17 November 1631, , France
1636 Birth of ChildFrançois GADOIS was born 2 December 1636, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
1638 Birth of ChildJeanne GADOIS was born 26 June 1638, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
1639 Birth of ChildJoseph GADOIS was born 28 September 1639, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
1641 Birth of ChildJean-Baptiste GADOIS was born 2 March 1641, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
1644 Marriage of ChildRoberte GADOIS (GADOUA) married 22 May 1644, Québec, Canada, New France to Cesar LEGER
1650 Marriage of ChildRoberte GADOIS (GADOUA) married 30 November 1650, Montréal, Canada, New France to Louis PRUD'HOMME
1657 Marriage of ChildPierre GADOIS married 12 August 1657, Montréal, Canada, New France to Marie PONTONIERE (PONTONNIER)
1665 Marriage of ChildPierre GADOIS married 20 April 1665, Montréal, Canada, New France to Jeanne BESNARD (BERNARD)
Death — 166720 October 1667
Montréal, Canada, New France
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