Michel HACHE dit GALLANT

(b. abt. 1663 , Acadia, Canada d. 10 April 1737 , Charlottetown, Ile Saint-Jean, Acadia )

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Michel HACHE dit GALLANT was born abt. 1663 in Acadia, Canada

Michel HACHE dit GALLANT was the child of ? and ?

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Michel married Anne Marie CORMIER abt. 1690 in Beaubassin, Acadia (Fort Lawrence) . The couple had (at least) 12 children.
Anne Marie CORMIER was born abt. 1674 in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence). Anne Marie died 10 January 1739 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Port La-Joie, Isle-St-Jean, Acadia). Anne Marie was the child of Thomas CORMIER and Marie Madeleine GIROUARD.

Michel HACHE dit GALLANT died 10 April 1737 in Charlottetown, Ile Saint-Jean, Acadia .
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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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Michel HACHE dit GALLANT married

Anne Marie CORMIER-- Date: abt. 1690 Place: Beaubassin, Acadia (Fort Lawrence)
Anne Marie CORMIER was the child of Thomas CORMIER and Marie Madeleine GIROUARD

Children of Michel HACHE dit GALLANT and Anne Marie CORMIER:

Michel HACHE dit GALLANT (b.abt. 1691, Beaubassin, Acadia (Fort Lawrence) d. 11 September 1765, , Québec Province, Canada )
m. Madeleine LEBLANC 12 October 1711 in Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia)

Joseph HACHE dit GALLANT (b.abt. 1693, , Acadia, Canada d. , )
m. Marie GAUDET 27 July 1721 in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence)

Marie HACHE dite GALLANT (b.abt. 1694, , Acadia, Canada d. 16 September 1749, , Ile Saint-Jean, Acadia )
m. René RACICOT 31 October 1729 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Port La-Joie, Isle-St-Jean, Acadia)

Jean Baptiste HACHE dit GALLANT (b.abt. 1696, , Acadia, Canada d. , )

Charles HACHE dit GALLANT (b.abt. 1698, , Acadia, Canada d. abt. 1772, Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada )
m. Geneviève LAVERGNE 24 February 1727 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

Pierre HACHE dit GALLANT (b.abt. 1701, , Acadia, Canada d. , Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada )
m. Cecile LAVERGNE 1 March 1726 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Port La-Joie, Isle-St-Jean, Acadia)

Anne HACHE dite GALLANT (b.abt. 1702, , Acadia, Canada d. , )

Marguerite HACHE dite GALLANT (b.abt. 1705, , Acadia, Canada d. 13 December 1758, At Sea*)
m. Pierre JACQUEMIN dit LORRAINE 1725 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Port La-Joie, Isle-St-Jean, Acadia)
m. Robert ANGOT dit CHOISY (ANJOU) 10 January 1739 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Port La-Joie, Isle-St-Jean, Acadia)

François HACHE dit GALLANT (b.abt. 1707, , Acadia, Canada d. April 1763, Charlottetown, St. John's Island )
m. Anne BOUDROT (BOUDREAU) 30 June 1735 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Port La-Joie, Isle-St-Jean, Acadia)

Marie Madeleine HACHE dite GALLANT (b.abt. 1709, , Acadia, Canada d. , )
m. Jean-Pierre DUVAL 31 January 1733 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Port La-Joie, Isle-St-Jean, Acadia)

Jacques HACHE (b.abt. 1712, Beaubassin, Acadia (Fort Lawrence) d. , )
m. Marie Josephe BOUDROT (BOUDREAU) 20 June 1735 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Port La-Joie, Isle-St-Jean, Acadia)

Louise HACHE dite GALLANT (b.abt. 1715, , Acadia, Canada d. 20 October 1779, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France)
m. Louis BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) 20 June 1735 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Port La-Joie, Isle-St-Jean, Acadia)

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HACHÉ-GALLANT, MICHEL (the name was originally Larché; the forms Haché, dit Gallant, Galan, and Galand also appear), settler in Acadia and Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), founder of the Haché and the Gallant families of the Maritimes; b. c. 1663, d. 1737.

Michel Haché-Gallant’s origins are obscure. He is probably the son of Pierre Larché, originally of the parish of Saint-Pierre in Montdidier, bishopric of Beauvais, and of Adrienne Langlois. Pierre Larché had died by 1668, and Michel was raised in Trois-Rivières at the home of Jacques Leneuf* de La Poterie, father of Michel Leneuf de La Vallière, senior. The latter seems to have taken Michel Larché with him to Acadia to his seigneury of Beaubassin. Rameau de Saint-Père writes of La Vallière and his seigneury, “among the indentured employees, we find . . . an active and intelligent young man named Haché Galand, who was [La Vallière’s] business representative, serjeant-at-arms, and confidential agent.” In 1690 Michel Haché...Read MORE...

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

1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity

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

1711 Marriage of Child
Michel HACHE dit GALLANT married 12 October 1711, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) to Madeleine LEBLANC

1715 - September 1 - Louis XV becomes King of France

1720 - June 10 - Mrs Clements of England markets first paste-style mustard

1721 Marriage of Child
Joseph HACHE dit GALLANT married 27 July 1721, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) to Marie GAUDET

1726 Marriage of Child
Pierre HACHE dit GALLANT married 1 March 1726, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Port La-Joie, Isle-St-Jean, Acadia) to Cecile LAVERGNE

1727 Marriage of Child
Charles HACHE dit GALLANT married 24 February 1727, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) to Geneviève LAVERGNE

1729 Marriage of Child
Marie HACHE dite GALLANT married 31 October 1729, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Port La-Joie, Isle-St-Jean, Acadia) to René RACICOT

1733 Marriage of Child
Marie Madeleine HACHE dite GALLANT married 31 January 1733, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Port La-Joie, Isle-St-Jean, Acadia) to Jean-Pierre DUVAL

1735 Marriage of Child
Jacques HACHE married 20 June 1735, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Port La-Joie, Isle-St-Jean, Acadia) to Marie Josephe BOUDROT (BOUDREAU)

1735 Marriage of Child
Louise HACHE dite GALLANT married 20 June 1735, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Port La-Joie, Isle-St-Jean, Acadia) to Louis BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU)

1735 Marriage of Child
François HACHE dit GALLANT married 30 June 1735, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Port La-Joie, Isle-St-Jean, Acadia) to Anne BOUDROT (BOUDREAU)