Gabriel
HOUDE dit DESRUISSEAUX
Marie-Jeanne PETITCLERC
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Madeleine HUBERT dite LACROIXSee marriage record for Gabriel HOUDE dit DESRUISSEAUX and Madeleine HUBERT dite LACROIX 
Marie-Jeanne LEFEBVRE dite DESCÔTEAUXSee marriage record for Gabriel HOUDE dit DESRUISSEAUX and Marie-Jeanne LEFEBVRE dite DESCÔTEAUXNo children are currently listed for this couple.
Helpful background for understanding names and places that may appear in Gabriel's Québec records.
Québec has been described by several names during different periods of its history. Knowing the period name can make older records easier to recognize.
Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.
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." Colonists of Nouvelle France used dit names as distinguishers. A settler might use one to differentiate a branch of the family from siblings, sometimes choosing a name connected with the place to which the family had relocated.
A dit name could also result from a casual adoption or from honoring the family that had raised someone. In other cases it identified the town or village in France from which the person originated. The custom ended around 1900, when people increasingly used only one name, either the dit nickname or the original surname.
Source: American-French Genealogical Society, Woonsocket, Rhode Island (www.afgs.org/ditnames/index1.html)
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Birth — 1692
1713 Marriage / Partner
1715 - September 1 - Louis XV becomes King of France1717 Birth of Child1719 Birth of Child1721 Birth of Child1723 Birth of Child1725 Birth of Child1727 Birth of Child1733 Birth of Child1735 Marriage of Child1738 Marriage / Partner
1738 Death of Spouse/Partner1739 Birth of Child1740 Birth of Child1741 Birth of Child1742 Marriage / Partner1742 Death of Spouse/Partner1742 Death of Child1742 Marriage of Child1743 Marriage of Child1748 Marriage of Child1749 Marriage of Child1750 Marriage of Child1751 Marriage of Child1752 Death of Child1761 Marriage of Child1761 Death of Spouse/Partner1763 - France cedes its North American posessions to Britain by the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years War (French and Indian War). Quebec City French-speaking Catholics were now under the rule of Protestant Britain under King George III.
Death — 1765View charts and other tools for this ancestor and family.
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