François SÉGUIN dit LADÉROUTE
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François SÉGUIN (1644 - ca 1701) — Jeanne PETIT (ca 1656 - 1733)

French-Canadian pioneer François Séguin dit Ladéroute was baptized this day, July 4th, 1644, at St-Aubin-en-Bray, France.

François arrived in New France as a soldier of the Carignan-Salières regiment under the command of Pierre de St-Ours. He married fille-du-roi Jeanne Petit in 1672 at Boucherville, one of the first marriages celebrated there. The couple had eleven children.

Their son Simon married English captive Deborah Cole, who was baptized "Marie Madeleine" at Montreal in 1703: her godfather was the wealthy merchant Jacques Le Ber de Senneville.

Father Lebel writes that their youngest son, Joseph, "supplied boats leaving for Detroit," part of the "lucrative fur trade." Joseph married Françoise Sauvage in 1723 at Detroit where their "ten children were born." Joseph himself "died at Fort Pontchartain" and was buried at Ste-Anne-de-Détroit in 1753.

Descendants of François and Jeanne bearing the Séguin surname include Yannick Nézet-Séguin, musical director of the New York Metropolitan Opera, and NHL player Tyler Seguin. Other notable descendants are actors Ryan Gosling and Jim Carrey.

[Sources: PRDH; Fichier-Origine [ID# 243774]; "François Séguin dit Ladéroute", Our French-Canadian Ancestors (vol.25, pp.176-184), Gérard Lebel C.S.s.R. (Thomas J. Laforest (tr.)), Franklin ("Archie") Arbuckle (illustrator), Palm Harbor, Florida, 1997]

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