flag male ancestor  Ignace  ROUILLARD dit PRONOVOST

  (b. 26 November 1735 Batiscan, Canada, New France   d. 7 June 1816 Batiscan, Lower Canada )  

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Ignace ROUILLARD dit PRONOVOST was born 26 November 1735 in Batiscan, Canada, New France

Ignace ROUILLARD dit PRONOVOST was the child of Mathieu ROUILLARD   and   Marie-Anne LEMAY and the grandchild of: (paternal)  Mathieu ROUILLARD and Jeanne GUILLET (maternal)  Pierre LEMAY and Marie-Anne GERMAIN

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Ignace  married  Marie-Anne DESRANLEAU dite CHATEAUNEUF 11 April 1763 in Batiscan, Province of Québec, Canada .  The couple had (at least) 3 children.
Marie-Anne DESRANLEAU dite CHATEAUNEUF  was born 8 June 1742 in Batiscan, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan) (Saint-François-Xavier).  Marie-Anne died 8 September 1809 in Batiscan, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan) (Saint-François-Xavier).  Marie-Anne was the child of Jean-Baptiste DESRANLEAU dit CHATEAUNEUF and Marie-Madeleine RIVARD dite LACOURSIÈRE.

Ignace ROUILLARD dit PRONOVOST died 7 June 1816 in Batiscan, Lower Canada .
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Did You Know? 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.
Did You Know? 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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