Jean LEPELE (LEPELLÉ) dit DESMARETS

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23 March 1636 , Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France

Died

16 February 1708 , Champlain, Canada, New France

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Born: 23 March 1636 in Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France

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Mother: Unknown

Jean was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1667.

Immigration to New France: Shaping the Roots of Canada

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Jean married Jeanne ISABEL 10 January 1667 in Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 7 children.
Jeanne ISABEL was born 20 October 1650 in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers). Jeanne died February 1712 in Champlain, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation). Jeanne was the child of Guillaume ISABEL and Catherine DODIER.

Jean LEPELE (LEPELLÉ) dit DESMARETS died 16 February 1708 in Champlain, Canada, New France .

son of Denys Pierre Le Pele and Jeanne Girardeau

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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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Jean LEPELE (LEPELLÉ) dit DESMARETS married

Jeanne ISABEL
Marriage date: 10 January 1667
Marriage place: Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France
Source: Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

Jeanne ISABEL was the child of Guillaume ISABEL and Catherine DODIER

Marriage notes:

MARRIAGE FOUND AT IMMACULEE CONCEPTION, TROIS RIVIERES IN DROUIN COLLECTION

JEAN LE PELE AND JEANNE ISABEL

HE IS THE SON OF DENYS LA PELE AND JEANNE GARAUDEAU

SHE IS THE DAUGHTER OF GUILLAUME ISABEL AND CATHERINE DAUDIER

"JEAN WAS BAPTIZED AT BROUAGE ON 23 MARCH 1636, THE LAST SON OF DENYS LEPELE AND OF JEANNE GIRARDEAU. THEREFORE HE WAS THIRTY YEARS OLD (NOT TWENTY AS LISTED IN THE CENSUS OF 1666), WHEN HE DECIDED TO TAKE A WIFE. HE HAD TIME TO GET WELL ACQUAINTED WITH JEANNE ISABEL WHO ALSO LIVED IN HIS BROTHER'S HOME. SHE WAS BAPTIZED AT TROIS-RIVIERES ON 20 OCTOBER 1650 AND HAD BARELY TIME TO KNOW HER OWN FATHER WHO WAS KILLED BY THE IROQUOIS IN THE ILL-FATED SORTIE OF 19 AUGUST 1652. JEAN LEPELE WAS BOTH BROTHER-IN-LAW AND SON-IN-LAW OF CATHERINE DODIER, WIFE OF PIERRE LEPELE."

"ON 10 JANUARY 1667, IN THE PARISH CHURCH OF TROIS-RIVIERES, THE ABBOT JEAN FREMONT BLESSED THE UNION BETWEEN JEAN AND JEANNE."

THOMAS J. LAFOREST

OUR FRENCH-CANADIAN ANCESTORS : VOLUME VII, PAGE 151

Children of Jean LEPELE (LEPELLÉ) dit DESMARETS and Jeanne ISABEL

Françoise LEPELÉ

Born: 21 October 1667, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France
Died: 21 December 1722, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France

Married: Martin CASAUBON 14 February 1689 Place: Champlain, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation)

Antoine LEPELE (LEPELLÉ) dit DESMARETS (DESMARAIS)

Born: abt. 1669, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 28 February 1736, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France

Married: Barbe GODEFROY 20 June 1700 Place: Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

Pierre LEPELE

Born: abt. 1671, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 10 July 1703, Montréal, Canada, New France

Married: Françoise OUABANOIS 1691 Place: , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Jean-François LEPELE dit LAMOTHE

Born: abt. 1674, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 21 December 1698, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France

Marie-Renee LEPELE (LEPELLÉ) dite DESMARETS (DESMARAIS)

Born: 26 December 1678, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France
Died: 18 January 1744, Berthierville, Canada, New France

Married: Antoine DESROSIERS dit LAFRENIÈRE 26 November 1696 Place: Champlain, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation)

Marie-Catherine LEPELE (LEPELLÉ)

Born: 26 January 1682, Champlain, Canada, New France
Died: 27 April 1755, La Visitation-de-l'Île-Dupas, Canada, New France

Married: Bernard BRISSET (BRISSETTE) dit COURCHESNE 1 February 1712 Place: Champlain, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation)

Alexis LEPELE (LEPELLÉ) dit DESMARETS (DESMARAIS)

Born: 25 December 1684 , Champlain, Canada, New France
Died: 18 June 1756, Champlain, Canada, New France

Married: Marie-Jeanne BIGOT July 1710 Place: Champlain, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation)

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Birth — 1636
23 March 1636
Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France

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

1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity

1666 Canadian Census Trois Rivieres
Pierre lepellée dit lahaye - 38 habitant
Catherine dodier - 28 sa femme Ve. Isabel
Jeanne Isabel - 14 fille
françoise lepellé - 12 fille
Claude lepellé - 9 fils
Joseph lepellé - 7 fils
pierre lepellé - 5 fils
Marie lepellé - 15 mois fille
Jean lepellé - 20 frere
Marthe desmilliers - 21 domestique

The first census of New France (1666)
The French In North America: 1500-1783

1667 Marriage / Partner
Jean LEPELE (LEPELLÉ) dit DESMARETS and Jeanne ISABEL 10 January 1667, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

He was 30 years old.

1667 Census - Trois Rivieres, Quebec
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listed as Jacques Desmarets, 26 years old with wife, Jeanne Isabel, age 16

1667 Birth of Child
Françoise LEPELÉ was born 21 October 1667, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

Jean was 31 years old.

1678 Birth of Child
Marie-Renee LEPELE (LEPELLÉ) dite DESMARETS (DESMARAIS) was born 26 December 1678, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

Jean was 42 years old.

1681 Canadian Census Champlain
Jean Le Pelle (sieur Desmarets), 40
Jeanne-Elizabeth (Isabel), sa femme, 30
enfants:
Francoise, 14
Antoine, 11
Pierre, 9
Francois, 6
Marie, 3

Source: Histoire des Canadiens-Francais 1608-1880 by Benjamin Sulte, Montreal, 1882

1682 Birth of Child
Marie-Catherine LEPELE (LEPELLÉ) was born 26 January 1682, Champlain, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation)

Jean was 45 years old.

1684 Birth of Child
Alexis LEPELE (LEPELLÉ) dit DESMARETS (DESMARAIS) was born 25 December 1684 , Champlain, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation)

Jean was 48 years old.

1689 Marriage of Child
Françoise LEPELÉ married 14 February 1689, Champlain, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation) to Martin CASAUBON

1696 Marriage of Child
Marie-Renee LEPELE (LEPELLÉ) dite DESMARETS (DESMARAIS) married 26 November 1696, Champlain, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation) to Antoine DESROSIERS dit LAFRENIÈRE

1698 - The steam engine is invented (Thomas Savery, England)

1698 Death of Child
Jean-François LEPELE dit LAMOTHE died 21 December 1698, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

Jean was 62 years old.

1700 Marriage of Child
Antoine LEPELE (LEPELLÉ) dit DESMARETS (DESMARAIS) married 20 June 1700, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers) to Barbe GODEFROY

1703 Death of Child
Pierre LEPELE died 10 July 1703, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

Jean was 67 years old.

'...at least twenty-five acts, passed before notaries Cusson, de la Touche, Adhemar, Ameau, Demeromont and especially Normandin, relate the activites of Lepele from 1666 until his unexpected death at Champlian, where he was buried on 17 June 1708 at the age of 72.'

Thomas J. Laforest
Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume VII, Page 152

Death — 1708
16 February 1708
Champlain, Canada, New France
He died at the age of 71.

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