Ancestors who came from 17th Century France to New France
(Quebec, Canada)
According to my research, my first ancestor to use the surname
Papineau was my Gx7 Grandfather Jean Baptiste Testard de Folleville dit
Papineau. He was the first generation to be born in Canada. His
parents emegrated from France about 1660. They cam from two reagions of
France: Rouen, Normandy (about 80 miles NW of Paris, and Bordeaux in
Southern France
His father was Charles Testard de Folleville and his mother
was Anne Lamarque. According to Father Archange Godbout, in his 40 page
publication Généalogie de La famille
Testard de Montigny, Montréal, Beauchemin 1942 (Which you would not believe
what I had to do to get a copy of), my Gx8 Grandfather
Testard ou Tètard, sieur de Follevelle, Charles (Jean &
Anne Godefroy, s 26-03-1678 Rouen) de St-Vincent, v., ar. Et archev. Rouen,
Normandie (Seine-Maritime)
Charles was the second of 6 children born to Jean Testard and
Anne Godefroy. He went by the name of "de Folleville" and his
older brother went by the name of "de La Forest".
According to Father Godbout,
Following the example several other families in Canada, Testard adopted a nickname of locality which remained the patronym of their Canadian line. Thus two sons, born in Normandy, Jean Testard de la Forest (groom in Montreal in 1659) and Charles Testard de Folleville (groom in Montreal in 1666).
This would lead one to believe that the family was from a region
of Normandy about 30 miles west of Rouen. Charles left France and arrived
in Quebéc about 1660. Here he met and married Anne de Lamarque in
1666. According to Dictionnaire National des Canadiens Francais (1608-1760),
page 1275
Groom: Testard De Follevelle Charles (Jean et Anne Godfroy de St.-Vincent de Rouen, Normandie)
Bride: La Marque Anne (Louis et Marie Papineau de Ste-Colombe, diocèse de Bordeaux, Guyenne)
Place and Date: Montréal 8 février 1666
Anne Lamarque's parents where Louis Lamarque and Marie
Papineau. Again, according to Father Godbout
Charles Testard Sieur de Folleville, born between 1636 and 1641 and married to Montreal, February 8 1666, in Anne Lamarque, 17 years old, girl of Louis, middle-class (bourgeois) man of Bordeaux, domiciled in the parish of Sainte-Colombe, and Marie Papineau.
Anyone having any more information on any of these people is not only
welcome, but encouraged, to share it with me. I also welcome more
pictures of my ancestors from anyone in the family that has any. Send
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