THE ANCIENTS
The ancients that constructed this country of a generation to the other and so forth until us, have the right to our respect, for this reason there will be always on our site, a commemorative text for those that preceded us. If you have some texts on lived it of an ancestor, it interests us, to nourish our site, thank you for your collaboration.
Pelletier says Antaya, François,
The descendants of François Pelletier say Antaya, son of Nicolas Pelletier and Jeanne of Voissy of St.-Pierre of Galardon, ar. and év. of Chartres, in Beauce (Eure-Et-Loir), are there as much more numerous under the patronymic of Pelletier that ANTAYA. The name of Antaya would be of Montagnaise stump and would have appeared for the first time in 1641 under the ANTANYÉ shape and ANTAYA.
François Pelletier traveled with his brother-in-law Christmas Jérémie, Sieur of the Mountain, interpreter and clerk in the stations of bill of the King's Domain. François married a savage in the Station of Tadoussac, before the Jesuit Albanel, in April 1660, without publication nor any opinion. It made a lot of noise: "This marriage was hardly appreciated of the religious community, a white that gets married to a pagan is seen badly of his setting." The young turtledoves were not a very long time happy since, April 13, 1661, François' woman died to the hospital of Quebec. No child is born of the marriage of François Pelletier and Dorothée The Savage.
François Pelletier, widower, gets engaged in Marguerite Morisseau. After the publication of the three proclamations to the church of Sillery, they got married September 6, 1661 before the I am Pierre Bailloquet. Their first six children are born and are baptized in the parish of Sillery, the other will be baptized in Saurel. François Pelletier is to the King's service for the interview of the soldiers of the garrison in May 1663. The couple settled on the earth of Nicolas Pelletier, father, master-carpenter in the concession of the savages on the Coast of St. François-Xavier, parish of Sillery. September 13, 1669, the Nicolas fellow yawns his/her/its farm to his/her/its son Jean Pelletier, but reserves of the rights on the farm and one notices in the contract that François Peltier says Ontaya, brother of Jean, is his neighbor on their father's farm. François yawns his house and his farm in Dennis Ruette of Auteuil of Heaps August 20, 1669. He leaves Sillery with his wife and his children for a corner of earth that is unknown to him and where the Iroquois prowl and watch their victims to decapitate them the night.
François Pelletier says Antaya gets settled in Saurel with his/her/its wife and his/her/its children toward 1670. Their first six children baptized in Sillery are: Marie-Angélique, 14-10-1662,; François-Xavier, 02-12-1663,; Joseph, 22-03-1665,; Marguerite-Agnès, 30-08-1666 and Genevieve the 16-03-1668. The five others are baptized in Saurel: Catherine, 1670,; Michel, 1674,; Jean-Baptist-Pierre, 20-07-1676,; Elisabeth 18-09-1677 and Louise the 22-09-1678. Only eight among them got married. October 22, 1675, François Pelletier says Anthaïa buys the Fief Of Orvilliers of the Sieur of Gauthier of Included. This fief is of the north side of the Stream Saint-Laurent, in the Islands of Berthier of in Top, on one hand Dautray and of the other the earths non conceded of the Sieur Randin and with the island to the Hay. He/it should have left Saurel definitely, after the sale of his/her/its concession in Pierre Coutois says Bonnehumeur, either September 17, 1677. In this François contract inhabitant of Dorvilliers is said. The father and François' brother, Nicolas and Jean, settled March 23, 1678 in says it Anthaïa fief as being the first inhabitants of says it place. François Pelletier says Antaya died before June 1688. Marguerite Morisseau, woman of the Sieur Anthaya, died to the hotel-God of Quebec, the 15,
December 1707, at the age of 70 years. The Lord Pierre Pelletier, son of François and Marguerite Morisseau, did Faith and Homage in the name of his/her/its brothers and sisters February 17, 1723.
The cradle of the family Pelletier and Antaya is therefore in the very heart of the Montérégie. Sorel, situated to the confluent of the Saint-Laurent and the Richelieu river, is the fourth older city of Canada.
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Silvester, Nicolas,
There is certainly a family name that especially keeps the attention in this ecological period where the role of the forest is recognized more. Since the IVe century, the 33rd pope was called Sylvestris Ier, and it is because one canonized it that, December 31, one marks the New Year's Eve.
This name comes from silva, that means forest, and the Sylvain first name designating the one that there stays resulted from it. Silvanus was besides a divinity who protected the groves. Sylvain and Sylvie ensued some, as well as the Silvester patronymic.
Two pioneers of this name started some families in New France during the XVIIe century. The first was the most prolific: Nicolas Sylvestre says Champagne, son of Nicolas and Tench Colson, married to Quebec, August 20, 1667, Beard Nephew, girl of Jean and Anne Ledet. The couple had to have 16 children!
The founder of this lineage was from Bridge-On-Seine, a charming township of the former province that his nickname evokes. The church where Nicolas to receipt the baptism always exists and it distinguishes herself/itself little by an architecture conventional. The township restored it lately.
To the departure of Paris, the N 19 passes by Brie-Count-Robert (27 km) and by Came (57 km) to reach Nogent-On-Seine (18 km). She gets round this last township and a few farther (7 km) crosses the D 52. This one, taken on the left, either in north direction, immediately clears a channel and penetrate in the township.
Let's not wonder that the Silvester is numerous in North America: Nicolas and his/her/its wife generated six sons that got married on their turn. The eldest, called Nicolas, born in 1669, married in 1694 Jeanne Labadie, girl of François and Jeanne Hébert,; this last only gave him two children, because he/it died at the age of 30 years. Louis, born in 1673, started a family in 1698 with Elisabeth Labadie, Jeanne's sister, but the mourning was going to hit the couple also prematurely: Louis died six months after his/her/its brother Nicolas; the only son been born of this union had lived one week only; one had buried it the eve of his/her/its father's death.
Up to here, the circumstances didn't seem to encourage the everlastingness of the patronymic. It is the third son that was going to raise the challenge. Pierre, born in 1675, threw his claim on another young Labadie, Anne, in 1700, the sister of Jeanne and Elisabeth; 14 children were born of this union, of which ten sons, but six among them died young or before reaching adolescence. Three of the four other, however, started some families.
François, born in 1684, drove to the altar, in 1717, Marie-Anne Christmas, girl of Jean and Madeleine Danet,; five children were born of this union, of which two sons that got married. Jean, born in 1688, unites his destiny to the one of Marie-Anne Benoît said Abel, girl of Pierre and Marie Dionne, in 1715; the couple only had one girl.
The benjamin of the sons, Nicolas, born in 1699, married in 1720 Marie-Elisabeth Laportes, girl of Louis and Marie-Madeleine Massault, a marriage that was especially prolific,: 14 children, of which at least four sons had to be at the origin of domestic cells. Let's mention that a girl been born of this couple, Marie-Charlotte, had to, in Lavaltrie, January 27, 1755, to marry John the Baptist Riel and to give birth in the same way to a son first name that had to be the great-grandfather of the famous half-caste chief whose memory has just been finally cleared and that one could possibly recognize like one fathers of the Confederation.
The blood of the Sylvestre/Neveu couple flows in the veins of numerous families, because the girls who are descended of it also started some families: Marie-Barbe with Jean-Bernardin Lesage in 1686; Anne with Pierre Piché in 1697; Françoise with Laurent Matte in 1702; Marijuana with Jean of Lafontaine in 1709; Marie-Anne with André Happy in 1712 and Elisabeth with Pierre Doucet in 1716.
At the time of the census of 1681, the couple is fixed in Neuville and has five children again only; he exploits an earth of which 20 acres are enhanced and possess four beasts with horns. The son Pierre, gotten married in Anne Labadie, will strengthen the family's implantation there: his 14 children had to see the day there.
We mentioned that a second pioneer in the same way patronymic had started a family in New France. It was about Pierre Sylvestre, son of Pierre and Catherine Guillot, born February 8, 1661 and baptized five days later to the Calvinist temple of The Rochelle. October 18, 1685, to Saint-Family, island of Orleans, he/it married Marie-Marthe Gendron, girl of Nicolas and Marie-Marthe Hubert. What did it occur of this couple? One can presume that he ironed the Atlantic. at least two sons were born to Saint-Family, in 1687 and 1689. However, the genealogists mention a third, François, of them deceased in The Rochelle at the age of three years.
There is for the XVIIe century. A long time after, one finds a certain Simon Sylvestre, original of the Languedoc, that, in Sorel, August 29, 1763, therefore after the surrender of the New France, wife Marguerite Baillargeon, but no genealogical dictionary informs us about his case.
He agrees to mention that another variant of the Silvester patronymic exists: Sevestre. Charles Sevestre, printer-bookseller in Paris, married Marie Pichon, in 1627, in the church of the Saint-Etienne-Of-Mount parish. His father, also called Charles, who practised the same profession, but to a superior level, never crossed the ocean; however, his/her/its mother, born Petitpas (Marguerite), maybe because become widowed, followed his son in New France. One had to alas find it dead in 1640 "in his cabin to the Cape Diamond". The Sevestre/Pichon couple had seven children.
Charles Sevestre was first of all committed to the store of the Company of the Inhabitants, to Quebec, became judge-provost of the lordship of Lauzon, was then the first to occupy the important station of civil and criminal lieutenant of the Sénéchaussée of Quebec.
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Marie Manitouabeouich
Manitouabeouich, Marie (alias Marie-Olivier Silvester)
In 1644, Marie Manitouabe8ich an Amerindian youngster converted in the catholicisme, épouse Martin Prévost, a French of 33 years lately disembarked to Quebec. Martin is a pioneer of Beauport close to Quebec, he is born toward 1611 in Montreuil On Le-Bois close to bets in France. He is the son of Pierre and Charlotte Vien. It was the first marriage blessed officially by the Catholic church in New France between un Européen and an Indian. The young wife had been given by her parents to interpreter Olivier The Belated, that had made it raise to the French at the sieur Guillaume Hubou after having served him of godfather. After his/her/its marriage and until his death, one sees established Martin in Beauport like inhabitant, that means farmer, what didn't stop it from having a site and 
a house to Quebec, in 1667. Their children and their grandchildren will marry the Stock, Binet, Blondeau, Courville says Cadieux, David says Pontiff, Dupras, Gagnon, Gallien, Garnier, Giroux, Guillot, to Get married, Morin, Petitclerc, Salois, Sedillot, Belated, Vachon and well of others again. Manitouabeouich, Marie (alias Marie-Olivier Silvester) (girl of Roch and Outchibahabanoukoueou), deceased September 10, 1665 in Québec. a married November 3, 1644 in Quebec Prévost, Martin (son of Pierre and Charlotte VIÉ) baptized January 4, 1611 in the Beauport parish. After the death of Marie Manitouabeouich, Martin will marry to Quebec November 8, 1665, Marie of Abancourt says Lacaille, widow of Jean Jolliet and mother of the famous discoverer Louis Jolliet.
The children of Marie Manitouabeouich and Martin Prévost
1. Marie-Madeleine, born December 21, baptized December 28, 1647 in Quebec. She died and buried February 5, 1648 in Quebec.
2. Ursule, born the 13 and baptized December 14, 1649 in Quebec. She died January 1, 1661 at the age of 11 years, to Quebec.
3. Louis, born toward 1651, deceased by drowning May 12, 1686 close to Beauport, he was buried May 27 in Quebec. He married in Castle-Richer February 21, 1672, Françoise Gagnon, girl of Mathurin and Françoise Godeau. Louis and Françoises will have 5 children of which a girl Marie-Anne who will marry Jean David says Pontiff. Louis will marry in second marriages Marguerite Carreau says Lafraicheur.
4. Marie-Madeleine, born January 7, 1655 to Quebec, deceased April 1, 1662 to Quebec at the age of 7 years.
5. Antoine, born October 15, 1657 in Quebec, deceased March 16, 1662 to Quebec at the age of 4 years.
6. Jean-Paschal, born January 31, 1660, deceased in 1694 to Quebec. He married May 4, 1690 in Quebec, Françoise Marie Courville says Cadieux, girl of Charles and Madeleine Macart. Jean-Paschal and Françoise-Marie will have a girl Marie-Madeleine who will marry Mathieu Morin. After his husband's death, Françoise-Marie will put to the world two natural children: Marie-Charlotte in 1695 and François in 1711. This last will take the name of François Pascal.
7. John the Baptist, born May 16, 1662 to Quebec, deceased May 11, 1737 to Saint-Augustin, married August 18, 1683 in Beauport in Marie-Anne Giroux, girl of All Saints' Day and Marie Godard. John the Baptist and Marie will have 14 children who will marry the Petitclercs, Guillot, Salois, Sédillot, Stock and Get married. After the death of Marie-Anne Giroux, probably during an epidemic since two children also die to the same time, John the Baptist will marry Genevieve Sédillot with that he will have eleven another one children.
8. Marie-Thérèse, born June 3, 1665, deceased May 20, 1743 in Beauport, bride August 18, 1683 in Michel Giroux, son of All Saints' Day and Marie Godard therefore brother of Marie-Anne Giroux who married the precedent. Michel and Marie-Theresa will have 12 children who will marry some Garniers, Gallien, Blondeau, Dupras, Belated, Binet, Gagnon and Vachon.