Abel TURCOT (TURCOTTE)
Biography

TURCOTTE - short for 'Turkish', nickname based on ethnicity or swarthy skin tone, or an ironic nickname for one who thinks of himself as 'strong as a Turk'. Abel Turcot, 1631 – 1687: It was in 1631 in Mouilleron-en-Pareds, in Vendéé, that Abel Turcot was born. Interestingly, this commune is also the birthplace of Georges Clémenceau "the Tiger", the famous French statesman. In 1680, Abel Turcot settled on Île d'Orléans. Two years later, he married Marie Giraud at Château-Richer. As early as 1667, Abel could boast of being at the head of one of the most prosperous farms on the whole of Île d'Orléans. Indeed, he has more than fifty acres cleared and fourteen cattle in his barn. Until then, Abel Turcot had only acted as a farmer and miller for Bishop Laval. That year, the Apastolic Vicar of New France granted him one of the lands he was clearing. This is where the seigneurial mill was located and it was in the house of Abel Turcot, which then belonged to the future bishop of Quebec, that the missionary came to say mass before the construction of the first church of the Sainte-Famille. The descendants of Abel Turcot multiplied under the names of Turcot and Turcotte mainly on Île d'Orléans, on the Côte de Beaupré, on the South Shore and in Beauce.

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