Michel
GAMELIN dit LAFONTAINE
(b.
abt. 1635
,
St-Saturnin, Blois, Orleanais Loir-et-Cher, France
d.
27 February 1677
,
Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Canada, New France
)
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Michel GAMELIN dit LAFONTAINE was born abt. 1635 in St-Saturnin, Blois, Orleanais Loir-et-Cher, France
Michel GAMELIN dit LAFONTAINE was the child of ? and ?Michel was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1661.
Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):
Michel married Marguerite CREVIER 10 October 1661 in Québec Province, Canada . The couple had (at least) 7 children.
Marguerite CREVIER was born abt. 1645 in Rouen, France. Marguerite died 7 June 1707 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul). Marguerite was the child of Christophe CREVIER and Jeanne ENARD (ÉVARD).
Michel GAMELIN dit LAFONTAINE died 27 February 1677 in Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Canada, New France .
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Occupation
Michel GAMELIN dit LAFONTAINE was a surgeon, colonizer, businessman.
Michel GAMELIN dit LAFONTAINE was a surgeon, colonizer, businessman.
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)
Family and Children of Michel GAMELIN dit LAFONTAINE
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Marguerite CREVIER-- Date: 10 October 1661 Place: , Québec Province, Canada
Le Programme de recherche en démographie historique - Univeriste de Montreal
Marguerite CREVIER was the child of Christophe CREVIER and Jeanne ENARD (ÉVARD)
notaire Ameau
According to PRDH, a marriage contract was signed between Michel Gamelin Fontaine and Marguerite Crevier at an undetermined place in Quebec, Canada in 1661.
"Marguerite (1645-1708), married in 1657 to Jacques Fournier de la Ville remarried in 1661 to the surgeon Michel Gamelin dit Lafontaine. She married a third time, in 1683, to Francois Renou de la Chapelle then a fourth time, in 1692 to Robert Groston de Saint-Ange. She had children until the age of fifty-seven."
Thomas J. Laforest
Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume VII, Page 42
NOTE: I think the 4th marriage mentioned above is an error. I am pretty sure that the Marguerite Crevier who married Robert Groston was the daughter of Nicolas (Sieur de Bellerive) Crevier and Louise Lecoutre.
Children of Michel GAMELIN dit LAFONTAINE and Marguerite CREVIER:
Ignace GAMELIN (b.abt. 1663, , Québec Province, Canada d. 9 January 1739 , Montréal, Canada, New France )
m. Marguerite LEMOYNE (LEMOINE) 10 November 1693 in Batiscan, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan) (Saint-François-Xavier)
Marguerite-Marie GAMELIN (b.abt. 1664, Québec, Canada, New France d. 17 November 1736, Varennes, Canada, New France )
m. Leger HÉBERT 17 November 1681 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)
m. Paul PETIT dit LALUMIÈRE 12 February 1725 in Varennes, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-Varennes)
Pierre GAMELIN dit CHATEAUVIEUX (b.abt. 1667, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )
m. Marie-Jeanne MAUGRAS 8 January 1690 in Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada
Joseph GAMELIN (b.abt. 1669, Saint-François-du-Lac, Canada, New France d. abt. 1729, Saint-François-du-Lac, Canada, New France)
Jean-Baptiste GAMELIN (b.abt. 1670, Saint-François-du-Lac, Canada, New France d. 23 December 1703, Saint-François-du-Lac, Canada, New France)
m. Marguerite MAUGRAS 19 March 1699 in Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada
Marie-Françoise GAMELIN (b.abt. 1672, Saint-François-du-Lac, Canada, New France d. 28 December 1757, Saint-François-du-Lac, Canada, New France)
m. Claude PINARD 10 October 1694 in La-Pérade, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-la-Perade)
Francois-Michel GAMELIN (b.abt. 1674, Saint-François-du-Lac, Canada, New France d. 9 August 1729, Saint-François-du-Lac, Canada, New France)
Marguerite CREVIER-- Date: 10 October 1661 Place: , Québec Province, Canada Le Programme de recherche en démographie historique - Univeriste de Montreal
Marguerite CREVIER was the child of Christophe CREVIER and Jeanne ENARD (ÉVARD)
notaire Ameau
According to PRDH, a marriage contract was signed between Michel Gamelin Fontaine and Marguerite Crevier at an undetermined place in Quebec, Canada in 1661.
"Marguerite (1645-1708), married in 1657 to Jacques Fournier de la Ville remarried in 1661 to the surgeon Michel Gamelin dit Lafontaine. She married a third time, in 1683, to Francois Renou de la Chapelle then a fourth time, in 1692 to Robert Groston de Saint-Ange. She had children until the age of fifty-seven."
Thomas J. Laforest
Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume VII, Page 42
NOTE: I think the 4th marriage mentioned above is an error. I am pretty sure that the Marguerite Crevier who married Robert Groston was the daughter of Nicolas (Sieur de Bellerive) Crevier and Louise Lecoutre.
Children of Michel GAMELIN dit LAFONTAINE and Marguerite CREVIER:
Ignace GAMELIN (b.abt. 1663, , Québec Province, Canada d. 9 January 1739 , Montréal, Canada, New France )m. Marguerite LEMOYNE (LEMOINE) 10 November 1693 in Batiscan, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan) (Saint-François-Xavier)
Marguerite-Marie GAMELIN (b.abt. 1664, Québec, Canada, New France d. 17 November 1736, Varennes, Canada, New France )m. Leger HÉBERT 17 November 1681 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)
m. Paul PETIT dit LALUMIÈRE 12 February 1725 in Varennes, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-Varennes)
Pierre GAMELIN dit CHATEAUVIEUX (b.abt. 1667, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )m. Marie-Jeanne MAUGRAS 8 January 1690 in Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada
Joseph GAMELIN (b.abt. 1669, Saint-François-du-Lac, Canada, New France d. abt. 1729, Saint-François-du-Lac, Canada, New France) Jean-Baptiste GAMELIN (b.abt. 1670, Saint-François-du-Lac, Canada, New France d. 23 December 1703, Saint-François-du-Lac, Canada, New France)m. Marguerite MAUGRAS 19 March 1699 in Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada
Marie-Françoise GAMELIN (b.abt. 1672, Saint-François-du-Lac, Canada, New France d. 28 December 1757, Saint-François-du-Lac, Canada, New France)m. Claude PINARD 10 October 1694 in La-Pérade, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-la-Perade)
Francois-Michel GAMELIN (b.abt. 1674, Saint-François-du-Lac, Canada, New France d. 9 August 1729, Saint-François-du-Lac, Canada, New France)
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GAMELAIN DE LA FONTAINE, MICHEL, surgeon, colonizer, businessman; b. in 1640 at Blois (France) if one is to believe the census of 1667; son of Michel Gamelain, a wine merchant, and Françoise Bellanger; d. c. 1676.
The first mention made of him goes back to 1661, the year of his marriage to Marguerite Crevier, the sister of Jean Crevier de Saint-François. Gamelain lived at Trois-Rivières and later at Cap-de-la-Madeleine, where he received a grant of land in 1662. He must have practised his profession there, since we find him involved in a court case with Louis Pinard, another surgeon practising in those parts, who feared competition from Gamelain. Thus, when Louis Pinard complained of the slenderness of his earnings as surgeon to the garrison at Trois-Rivières, the Conseil Souverain replied to him that, if he was not satisfied, he would be replaced by Michel Gamelain. The latter preferred to devote himself to the fur trade. In order to do so, he made use of his pharmaceutical...Read MORE...
Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003
GAMELAIN DE LA FONTAINE, MICHEL, surgeon, colonizer, businessman; b. in 1640 at Blois (France) if one is to believe the census of 1667; son of Michel Gamelain, a wine merchant, and Françoise Bellanger; d. c. 1676.
The first mention made of him goes back to 1661, the year of his marriage to Marguerite Crevier, the sister of Jean Crevier de Saint-François. Gamelain lived at Trois-Rivières and later at Cap-de-la-Madeleine, where he received a grant of land in 1662. He must have practised his profession there, since we find him involved in a court case with Louis Pinard, another surgeon practising in those parts, who feared competition from Gamelain. Thus, when Louis Pinard complained of the slenderness of his earnings as surgeon to the garrison at Trois-Rivières, the Conseil Souverain replied to him that, if he was not satisfied, he would be replaced by Michel Gamelain. The latter preferred to devote himself to the fur trade. In order to do so, he made use of his pharmaceutical...Read MORE...
Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003
Title Legends of Le Détroit
Author James Valentine Campbell
Edition 2
Publisher T. Nourse, 1883
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized Jul 13, 2007
Length 317 pages
Page 297
Title Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes depuis la fondation de la colonie
Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes depuis la fondation de la colonie, Cyprien Tanguay
Author Cyprien Tanguay
Published 1871
Original from Oxford University
Digitized Jun 9, 2006
Page 250
1661 Marriage / PartnerMichel GAMELIN dit LAFONTAINE and Marguerite CREVIER 10 October 1661, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)
1666 Canadian Census Trois Rivieres
Michel Gamelin, 27
Marguerite Crevier, 24
Ignace, 3
Marguerite, 2
Richard, serviteur, 22
Source: Histoire des Canadiens-Francais 1608-1880 by Benjamin Sulte, Montreal, 1882
Michel Gamelin, 27
Marguerite Crevier, 24
Ignace, 3
Marguerite, 2
Richard, serviteur, 22
Source: Histoire des Canadiens-Francais 1608-1880 by Benjamin Sulte, Montreal, 1882
1677 Death 27 February 1677
Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Canada, New France
Added: 12/16/1999 12:00:00 AM
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