Jean-Pierre DELASSE (DELAGE) dit LAFLEUR

(b. 6 February 1660 , France d. abt. 1715 , Québec Province, Canada )

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Jean-Pierre DELASSE (DELAGE) dit LAFLEUR was born 6 February 1660 in France

Jean-Pierre DELASSE (DELAGE) dit LAFLEUR was the child of ? and ?

Jean-Pierre was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1687.

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Jean-Pierre married Jeanne CHEVAUDIER 7 January 1687 in Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 6 children.
Jeanne CHEVAUDIER was born 1 November 1672 in Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste) . Jeanne died 21 February 1710 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City). Jeanne was the child of Jean CHEVAUDIER dit LEPINE and Marie-Anne MERCIER.

Jean-Pierre DELASSE (DELAGE) dit LAFLEUR died abt. 1715 in Québec Province, Canada.

son of Pierre Delasse and Francoise Claude

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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)

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