Gilles
VINCENT dit DESMARETS
(b.
abt. 1660
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d.
abt. 1722
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Gilles VINCENT dit DESMARETS was born abt. 1660
Gilles VINCENT dit DESMARETS was the child of ? and ?Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):
Gilles married Marguerite DURAND abt. 1683 in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marguerite DURAND was born abt. 1660
Gilles VINCENT dit DESMARETS died abt. 1722
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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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Marguerite DURAND-- Date: abt. 1683 Place: , Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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Gilles Vincent dit Desmarets, not kin to the Vincents of peninsula Acadia, married Marguerite Durand in Newfoundland in c1683 and settled at Plaisance and St.-Pierre. Marguerite gave him nine children, six sons and three daughters, all born in Newfoundland: Charlotte at Plaisance in c1684; Adrien, birth place and birth date unrecorded; Barbe at Plaisance, date unrecorded; Jean probably at Plaisance; Michel probably at Plaisance; Bernard at Plaisance; Bernardine probably at Plaisance; Gilles, fils at Plaisance in c1694; and Eustache at Plaisance. Gilles took his family to the fishery at Île Scatary, off Newfoundland, by 1716, and died at Port-Orléans, up the coast, in c1722. Three of his sons married, two of them, Bernard and Gilles, fils, into the Dihars and Maisonnat families. The name of youngest son Eustache's wife has been lost to history. Two of Gilles's and Marguerite's daughters married into the Commère dit La Chapelle and Le Manquet dit Benjamin families and remained on Île Royale. One of Gilles's granddaughters, Marie Vincent dit Desmarets, married Thomas Poirée, a French fisherman, and settled at Anse-Darembourg, on the north shore of Île Scatary, where a French official counted them in April 1752. No member of this family emigrated to Louisiana.
Children:
1) Barbe VINCENT dit DESMARETS, married Plaisance ? (Acadia) about 1706 Jean Benjamin LEMANQUET dit BENJAMIN, married (Acadia) about 1721 Louis LEBON
2) Bernard, married (Acadia) about 1720 Marguerite DIHARS
3) Charlotte VINCENT dit DESMARETS, married Plaisance ? (Acadia) about 1697 Thomas COMMÈRE dit LACHAPELLE
4) Eustache, married Port d'Orléans (Acadia) about 1724
5) Gilles, born about 1695 (burial 1755), dead 1755-10-16, buried 1755-10-17 Québec, married (Acadia) about 1723 Marie Anne MAISONNAT
Children of Gilles VINCENT dit DESMARETS and Marguerite DURAND:
Gilles VINCENT dit DESMARAIS (b.abt. 1694, Plaisance, Terre-Neuve, Canada d. 16 October 1755, Québec, Canada, New France )
m. Marie Anne MAISONNAT 1723
Marguerite DURAND-- Date: abt. 1683 Place: , Newfoundland and Labrador, Canadaacadiansingray.com
Gilles Vincent dit Desmarets, not kin to the Vincents of peninsula Acadia, married Marguerite Durand in Newfoundland in c1683 and settled at Plaisance and St.-Pierre. Marguerite gave him nine children, six sons and three daughters, all born in Newfoundland: Charlotte at Plaisance in c1684; Adrien, birth place and birth date unrecorded; Barbe at Plaisance, date unrecorded; Jean probably at Plaisance; Michel probably at Plaisance; Bernard at Plaisance; Bernardine probably at Plaisance; Gilles, fils at Plaisance in c1694; and Eustache at Plaisance. Gilles took his family to the fishery at Île Scatary, off Newfoundland, by 1716, and died at Port-Orléans, up the coast, in c1722. Three of his sons married, two of them, Bernard and Gilles, fils, into the Dihars and Maisonnat families. The name of youngest son Eustache's wife has been lost to history. Two of Gilles's and Marguerite's daughters married into the Commère dit La Chapelle and Le Manquet dit Benjamin families and remained on Île Royale. One of Gilles's granddaughters, Marie Vincent dit Desmarets, married Thomas Poirée, a French fisherman, and settled at Anse-Darembourg, on the north shore of Île Scatary, where a French official counted them in April 1752. No member of this family emigrated to Louisiana.
Children:
1) Barbe VINCENT dit DESMARETS, married Plaisance ? (Acadia) about 1706 Jean Benjamin LEMANQUET dit BENJAMIN, married (Acadia) about 1721 Louis LEBON
2) Bernard, married (Acadia) about 1720 Marguerite DIHARS
3) Charlotte VINCENT dit DESMARETS, married Plaisance ? (Acadia) about 1697 Thomas COMMÈRE dit LACHAPELLE
4) Eustache, married Port d'Orléans (Acadia) about 1724
5) Gilles, born about 1695 (burial 1755), dead 1755-10-16, buried 1755-10-17 Québec, married (Acadia) about 1723 Marie Anne MAISONNAT
Children of Gilles VINCENT dit DESMARETS and Marguerite DURAND:
Gilles VINCENT dit DESMARAIS (b.abt. 1694, Plaisance, Terre-Neuve, Canada d. 16 October 1755, Québec, Canada, New France )m. Marie Anne MAISONNAT 1723
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