Michel
LEBRET dit ST-AMAND
(b.
abt. 1701
,
Bretagne, France
d.
4 March 1774
,
La Pocatière, Province of Québec, Canada
)
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Michel LEBRET dit ST-AMAND was born abt. 1701 in Bretagne, France
Michel LEBRET dit ST-AMAND was the child of ? and ?Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):
Michel married Catherine GAGNÉ 6 November 1739 in Cap-St-Ignace, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 3 children.
Catherine GAGNÉ was born 26 April 1709 in Cap-St-Ignace, Québec, Canada (Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola). Catherine was the child of Alexis GAGNÉ and Marie-Catherine CLOUTIER.
Michel married (2) Angélique-Rosalie MORIN 28 April 1756 in Québec Province, Canada . Angélique-Rosalie MORIN was born 7 December 1710 in Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Liesse). Angélique-Rosalie died 19 July 1775 in La Pocatière, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere). Angélique-Rosalie was the child of Robert MORIN and Françoise MIGNIER.
Michel LEBRET dit ST-AMAND died 4 March 1774 in La Pocatière, Province of Québec, Canada .
son of Jacques Lebret and Jeanne Chenet
Details of the family tree of Michel appear below.
Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changesFrom 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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