Madeleine SERRE dite ST-JEAN

(b. abt. 1757 , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

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Madeleine SERRE dite ST-JEAN was born abt. 1757 in Québec Province, Canada

Madeleine SERRE dite ST-JEAN was the child of Pierre-Andre SERRE dit ST-JEAN and Madeleine BONNIER dite LAPLANTE and the grandchild of: (paternal) André SERRE dit ST-JEAN and Marie-Anne BOILARD (maternal) Jacques BONNIER dit LAPLANTE and Marie-Madeleine GALIPEAU

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Madeleine married Louis CADIEUX 22 October 1781 in Montréal, Province of Québec, Canada . Louis CADIEUX was born 14 September 1749 in Rivière-des-Prairies, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-la-Rivière-des-Prairies)*. Louis died 30 March 1830 in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers). Louis was the child of Gabriel CADIEUX and Françoise PROULX.

m. Louis Cadieux
22 October 1781
Montréal, Notre-Dame, Quebec

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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