♂Jean Maillet

Jean Maillet was a Breton of Saint-Coulomb, a coastal parish of the diocese of Dol^W near Saint-Malo, and the father of Pierre Maillet, who settled at Montréal and married there in 1662. He is an ancestor of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006) twice over: her tenth great-grandfather by two separate lines of descent, both through his son Pierre Maillet (baptized 1629).

Life

What is known of his life comes from the parish registers of Saint-Coulomb. He was baptized there on 15 September 1590, the son of Olivier Maillet and Michelle Jourdan. His younger brother Nicolas was baptized there on 14 October 1592, his sister Jeanne on 10 November 1595, another brother, Julien, on 5 April 1598, and a sister, Laure, on 20 September 1600. According to the Fichier Origine, he married Guillemette Ruellan, who had been baptized there in 1593, on 8 November 1618. The registers tell nothing more about his parents. The couple’s baptisms at Saint-Coulomb run from 1620 to 1629: three daughters and three sons, the youngest Pierre, baptized on 1 July 1629.

Jean Maillet was buried at Saint-Coulomb on 2 July 1641, and Guillemette Ruellan was buried there on 5 January 1642, leaving Pierre an orphan of twelve. Pierre later crossed to Canada and settled at Montréal, where on 23 October 1662 he married Marie-Anne Hardy at Notre-Dame. The register of that marriage names him as the son of Jean Maillet and Guillemette Ruellan of the parish of Saint-Coulomb, diocese of Dol, which confirms the parents.

Lines of descent

Pierre Maillet’s sons Rene Malet and Pierre Maillet began two lines that met again at Vincennes in 1801, when Augustus A. Tougas dit Laviolette (1776–1849), from the first line, married Ellenore S. Renaud dit Deslauriers (1782–1822), from the second. Their son Augustin Tougas Lovellette (1809–1866) descends from Jean Maillet and Guillemette Ruellan by both lines.

Notes

His baptism is entered in the Saint-Coulomb register itself, a Latin entry that writes his name Jean Mallet and his mother’s surname “Jurday” or “Jourday”; its middle letters cannot be made out with certainty, and the spelling Jourdan is used here. The dates of his marriage and of Pierre’s baptism rest on the Fichier Origine alone. His burial is entered in the Saint-Coulomb register; the Fichier Origine identifies the entry with him, as it does his wife’s. The baptisms of the five older children (26 January 1620, 3 October 1621, 28 August 1623, 4 February 1625 and 4 April 1627) are entered in the Saint-Coulomb register itself, which writes the parents as “Jan Malle” and Guillemette “Ruallay”. The Fichier Origine calls the youngest of the five Guillaume; the register gives Gilles. The Fichier Origine also names his parents as Olivier Mallet and Michelle or Nicole Jourdan, agreeing with the register on the names Olivier and Michelle. A second compiled genealogy, Denis Beauregard’s file of the French in North America, gives his baptism as 25 September 1590. The 1662 marriage register writes the parish “St Coulon”. The surname is written Maillet and Mallet in the records of the family.