Benoni NADEAU dit BELONIE

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25 March 1764 , Kamouraska, Province of Québec, Canada

Died

14 March 1846 , Saint-André, Kamouraska, Canada East

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Alexis NADEAU Marie-Ursule GUÉRET dite DUMONT

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Born: 25 March 1764 in Kamouraska, Province of Québec, Canada

Father: Alexis NADEAU

Mother: Marie-Ursule GUÉRET dite DUMONT

Paternal grandparents: Alexis NADEAU , Marie-Claire ALBERT

Maternal grandparents: Michel GUÉRET dit DUMONT , Marie-Rose LEVASSEUR

Benoni NADEAU dit BELONIE died 14 March 1846 in Saint-André, Kamouraska, Canada East .

m. Morin Marie-Euphrosine
m. Morin Rosalie

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Recorded occupation: cultivateur et meunier

The farmer, cultivateur, or cultivator, was a person who cultivated and exploited the land in order to get a crop.

He may have been the proprietor of his own parcel(s) of land. He could, depending on the land size, have employed other agricultural workers. If he didn't own the land, he was called a tenant farmer.
Source: tfcq.ca

farmer

Source: Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

Life as a Cultivateur in 18th Century New France: Tilling the Soil of History

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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Birth — 1764
25 March 1764
Kamouraska, Province of Québec, Canada

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