Marie Agathe ST-ETIENNE dite LATOUR

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abt. 1690 , Acadia, Canada

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abt. 1743 , Ireland

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Jacques ST-ETIENNE dit LATOUR Anne MELANÇON (MELANSON)

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Born: abt. 1690 in Acadia, Canada

Father: Jacques ST-ETIENNE dit LATOUR

Mother: Anne MELANÇON (MELANSON)

Paternal grandparents: Charles ST-ETIENNE dit LATOUR , Jeanne MOTIN

Maternal grandparents: Charles MELANSON dit LAVERDURE , Marie DUGAS

Marie Agathe ST-ETIENNE dite LATOUR died abt. 1743 in Ireland.

m. Edmund Bradstreet, abt. 1712, Port Royal
m. Hugh Campbell, abt. 1734, Port Royal

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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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SAINT-ÉTIENNE DE LA TOUR, AGATHE (Marie-Agathe) DE (Bradstreet; Campbell), allegedly the sole heiress of her grandfather Charles de Saint-Étienne* de La Tour; b. 1690 at Cape Sable, daughter of Jacques de Saint-Étienne de La Tour and Anne Melanson; d. some time in or after 1743, probably at Kilkenny (Ireland).

After Jacques de La Tour’s death around 1699 his children were placed by an act of the lieutenant-general of Acadia under their mother’s guardianship. Agathe spent her early years at Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal, N.S.), and married, in succession, two English subalterns attached to the garrison of the town. She first married Lieutenant Edward Bradstreet, who died in December 1718. They had at least two sons, Simon and John*, who became British army officers. Her second husband was Hugh Campbell, and after his death (before 1730) she was left with five children.

In 1729 the governor, Richard Philipps*, expressed his desire to annul the former land grants in Nova Scotia in...Read full story

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