Jeanne BADEAU (BADAULT)
Biography

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"Jeanne Badeau and Pierre Parent crossed the Atlantic Ocean to come to New -France. A few years before Pierre, Jeanne arrived with her parents and the family in 1647. She was among the women who were themselves responsible for the instructi on and the education of the children and who supported their hard working men. Pierre Parent and Jeanne Badeau were married at Beauport (Québec) on 9 Fe bruary 1654. Jeanne, who came from La Rochelle (France), was the daughte r of Jacques Badeau who came to New France in 1647, with his whole family to work as a rent farmer/ sharecropper for the Jésuits at the Notre-Dame-des-Anges Seigneurie. Pierre, who was a native of Mortagne-sur-Gironde in Charente-Maritime (France), was the son of André Parent and Marie Coudr ey. As was customary at that time, he hired himself out for a period of three years and reached Beauport around 1650. The husband and wife had 18 children, of whom 15 contracted 22 marriages and 194 grandchildren of whom 134 were the bearers of the PARENT patronymic."



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