Pierre GADOIS (GADOYS)

(b. abt. 1594 , France d. 20 October 1667 , Montréal, Canada, New France )

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Pierre GADOIS (GADOYS) was born abt. 1594 in France

Pierre GADOIS (GADOYS) was the child of ? and ?

Pierre was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1636.

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Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Pierre married Louise MAUGER abt. 1620 in France . The couple had (at least) 6 children.
Louise MAUGER was born abt. 1598 in France. Louise died 18 March 1690 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul).

Pierre GADOIS (GADOYS) died 20 October 1667 in Montréal, Canada, New France .
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Occupation

Pierre GADOIS (GADOYS) was a 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

farmer

Source: Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

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.

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Family and Children of Pierre GADOIS (GADOYS)

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Pierre GADOIS (GADOYS) married

Louise MAUGER-- Date: abt. 1620 Place: , France
St-Martin d'Igé, Mortagne

Children of Pierre GADOIS (GADOYS) and Louise MAUGER:

Roberte GADOIS (GADOUA) (b.15 September 1628, , France d. 14 September 1716, Montréal, Canada, New France )
m. Cesar LEGER 22 May 1644 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
m. Louis PRUD'HOMME 30 November 1650 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

Pierre GADOIS (b.17 November 1631, , France d. 18 May 1714, Montréal, Canada, New France )
m. Marie PONTONIERE (PONTONNIER) 12 August 1657 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)
m. Jeanne BESNARD (BERNARD) 20 April 1665 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

François GADOIS (b.2 December 1636, Québec, Canada, New France d. , )

Jeanne GADOIS (b.26 June 1638, Québec, Canada, New France d. , )

Joseph GADOIS (b.28 September 1639, Québec, Canada, New France d. , )

Jean-Baptiste GADOIS (b.2 March 1641, Québec, Canada, New France d. 15 April 1728, Montréal, Canada, New France )
m. Marguerite GERVAIS 19 February 1669 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)
m. Marie BAUDREAU dite GRAVELINE (BEAUDREAU) 19 January 1693 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

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Biography
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...Read MORE...

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

1609 - Galileo's telescope is invented (Galileo, Italy)

1628 Birth of Child
Roberte GADOIS (GADOUA) was born 15 September 1628, , France

1631 Birth of Child
Pierre GADOIS was born 17 November 1631, , France

1636 Birth of Child
François GADOIS was born 2 December 1636, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1638 Birth of Child
Jeanne GADOIS was born 26 June 1638, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1639 Birth of Child
Joseph GADOIS was born 28 September 1639, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1641 Birth of Child
Jean-Baptiste GADOIS was born 2 March 1641, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1644 Marriage of Child
Roberte GADOIS (GADOUA) married 22 May 1644, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City) to Cesar LEGER

1650 Marriage of Child
Roberte GADOIS (GADOUA) married 30 November 1650, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul) to Louis PRUD'HOMME

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

1657 Marriage of Child
Pierre GADOIS married 12 August 1657, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul) to Marie PONTONIERE (PONTONNIER)

1665 Marriage of Child
Pierre GADOIS married 20 April 1665, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul) to Jeanne BESNARD (BERNARD)

1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity