Jean DENEAU (DENIAU) (DAIGNEAU)
Jean Deniau

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Translated from French:

Wire of Pierre Deniau and Jamette Gaudet, married on February 13, 1602, in Montbert, Contract marriage Pierre Deniau and Jamette GaudetJean Deniau, were born at least before the end of 1628, in Montbert, in the old province of Brittany. His/ her father Pierre Deniau is deceased on March 26, 1628. Montbert is a commune of 2246 inhabitants of the Canton of Aigrefeuille on Maine of the district of Nantes in the current department of Loire-Atlantique. Montbert is a commune of 2246 inhabitants of the Canton of Aigrefeuille on Maine of the district of Nantes in Loire-Atlantique. By his marriage, Jean Deniau becomes the ancestor of the almost totality of our families Daigneault and some Denault. In Montreal, January 21, 1664, Jean Deniau marries Helene Dodin, born on August 25, on 1643, baptized 20 November next, with the temple calvinist of Villeneuve, of the Small rock, in the current department of the Charente-Maritime, girl of Isaac and Anne Jarnet. Jean Deniau and his wife, Helene Dodin, pioneers of the Québécois ground, die both whole under the arrows of Iroquois. They spent the first years of their life to City-Marie. With this intention an idea of the life of the colonists at that time, it should well be remembered that City-Marie was a advanced station in the medium of the country of the savages, intended to protect Three-Rivers and Québec and, always exposed to receive the first blows. The colonists lived in continual fright, the day and the night. The clearing was not much advanced. Near the field which the colonist cultivated, there was always a wood, from where the Iroquois savage could leave and sink on the husband who worked in his field or on the woman and the children remained at the house. It is in this state of heart that Jean Deniau and Helene Dodin, spend the first twenty years of their household and raise a family chrétiennement and courageously. They then will be established in Boucherville which, from the danger point of view of, is perhaps still worse, since there, one does not have the military organization of City-Marie and that the colonists are more distant the ones from the others. One cannot remain indefinitely exposed with the balls and the enemy arrows without finally in being reached. During thirty years, a great number of the companions of Jean Deniau were killed or made captive by Iroquois. Jean Deniau, always on the breach, continuing to cultivate the ground corner which made live its family. Finally, in 1695, the 12 of August, in the parish of Boucherville, Jean Deniau and his wife, Helene Dodin, are killed by Iroquois. Since nearly thirty-two years, they worked coast at coast, waiting each day, without fear and without reproach, the bloody end which threatened them and awaited them. Providence their left time to fulfill their mission and to raise a family of six children born in Montreal (City-Marie). All their compatriots must be proud for it even more those which can claim them as being their ancestors, their fate is worthy of desire. The elder son, Rene Deniau, baptized on January 18, 1665, are that which binds us to Deniau, in the present genealogy. It marries in 1692, in Boucherville, Marie-madeleine Matou, girl of the ancestor Philippe Matou, known as Labrie and of Marguerite Doucinet. Marie-madeleine Tom cat, widow of Jean Hautdecoeur, lost her husband in painful goods circumstances. He was carried out on the wheel of Québec, for the murder of a merchant of Montreal. The Deniau/ Matou couple gives only two wire and a girl. The only son who melts a hearth is Jean-Baptist Deniau or Denault, born in 1697. He marries in 1736, in second weddings, Marie-Catherine Rufiange. Their daughter Francoise Denault marries in 1765, Jean-Baptist Duquette. The Deniau patronym is typically a name of Blésois and of Touraine, local deformation of the Christian name Daniel, which means "God judges".




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