♀Georgine Le Duc

Georgine Le Duc was a woman of the parish of Saint-Martin at Daumeray, four leagues from Angers in Anjou^W, whose son Louis Guertin left for New France in 1653. She was the tenth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her son Louis Guertin (1625–1687).

She and her husband Louis Gueretin had their son Louis baptized in the parish of Saint-Martin at Daumeray on 28 June 1625, entered in the register as “Louis filz de Louis Gueretin et Georgine Le Duc sa femme”. A daughter, Renée, is said to have been baptized there on 12 April 1629 and buried there on 1 June 1646. The son became a sabotier, a maker of wooden clogs, and on 24 April 1653 he was hired at La Flèche to go to New France, where he married at Montréal on 26 October 1659. By then his father was dead: the marriage act names the groom as “fils de feu Louis Guertin et de Georgette le Duc”, the son of the late Louis Guertin and of Georgette le Duc. Neither the couple’s marriage nor their burials nor their own parents are known.

Notes

Names

The tree follows the 1625 baptism, which writes the father Louis Gueretin and the mother Georgine Le Duc. The 1659 marriage act at Montréal writes them Louis Guertin and Georgette le Duc, the Fichier Origine gives Louis Gueretin and Georginne Leduc, and Tanguay’s dictionary gives Louis and Georgette Le Duc. In Canada the family name settled as Guertin.

The daughter Renée

The Fichier Origine, a compiled register of emigrants from France to New France that abstracts the French parish registers, notes in its entry for the son that his sister Renée was baptized at Daumeray on 12 April 1629 and buried there on 1 June 1646.

Was she living in 1659?

The 1659 marriage act calls the groom’s father the late Louis Guertin but puts no such word against his mother, which suggests, without proving, that she was still living.