Antoine FORESTIER

(b. abt. 1646 , France d. 7 November 1717 , Montréal, Canada, New France )

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Antoine FORESTIER was born abt. 1646 in France

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Antoine was a Carignan-Salières soldier, arriving in New France in 1665.
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Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Antoine married Madeleine CAVELIER dite DESLAURIERS 25 November 1670 in Montréal, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 3 children.
Madeleine CAVELIER dite DESLAURIERS was born 18 December 1656 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul). Madeleine died 27 January 1719 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul). Madeleine was the child of Robert CAVELIER and Adrienne DEVIVIER (DUVIVIER).

Antoine FORESTIER died 7 November 1717 in Montréal, Canada, New France .

son of Jean Forestier and Francoise Ricard

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Occupation

Antoine FORESTIER was a surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu of Ville-Marie, medico-legal expert.

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.

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Family and Children of Antoine FORESTIER

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Antoine FORESTIER married

Madeleine CAVELIER dite DESLAURIERS-- Date: 25 November 1670 Place: Montréal, Canada, New France
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Madeleine CAVELIER dite DESLAURIERS was the child of Robert CAVELIER and Adrienne DEVIVIER (DUVIVIER)

Children of Antoine FORESTIER and Madeleine CAVELIER dite DESLAURIERS:

Marie-Marguerite FORESTIER (b.8 August 1675, Montréal, Canada, New France d. 27 September 1748, Montréal, Canada, New France )
m. Jean Baptiste BISSOT 19 September 1696 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

Anne-Francoise FORESTIER (b.16 April 1682, Montréal, Canada, New France d. , )
m. Charles-François BISSOT 28 February 1699 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

Pierre FORESTIER (b.4 July 1693, Montréal, Canada, New France d. 9 July 1732, Montréal, Canada, New France )
m. Genevieve BOUCHARD dite DORVAL 9 March 1729 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

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Biography
FORESTIER, ANTOINE, surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu of Ville-Marie, medico-legal expert; b. 1646, son of Jean Forestier and Françoise Ricard, both from Sévérac-le-Château, in Rouergue; buried 7 Nov. 1717 at Montreal.

Antoine Forestier was considered, according to Ahern, “one of the most prominent doctors of Montreal.” By a contract signed before the notary Claude Maugue*, he entered the service of the Hôtel-Dieu of Ville-Marie on 20 Aug. 1681, at the same time as the surgeon Jean Martinet de Fonblanche. The agreement stipulated, among other things, that for three-month periods and at an annual salary of 75 livres each surgeon in turn was to tend the patients in the hospital. Throughout his long career – he died in his seventy – second year-Antoine Forestier, often in conjunction with Jean Martinet, acted as a medico-legal expert. Hence his signature is to be found at the end of several documents and certificates of various kinds.

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Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003

1656 - The pendulum clock is invented (Christiaan Huygens, Netherlands)

1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity

1670 Marriage / Partner
Antoine FORESTIER and Madeleine CAVELIER dite DESLAURIERS 25 November 1670, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

1675 Birth of Child
Marie-Marguerite FORESTIER was born 8 August 1675, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

1682 Birth of Child
Anne-Francoise FORESTIER was born 16 April 1682, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

1693 Birth of Child
Pierre FORESTIER was born 4 July 1693, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

1696 Marriage of Child
Marie-Marguerite FORESTIER married 19 September 1696, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul) to Jean Baptiste BISSOT

1698 - The steam engine is invented (Thomas Savery, England)

1699 Marriage of Child
Anne-Francoise FORESTIER married 28 February 1699, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul) to Charles-François BISSOT