♂René Maillot

René Maillot (born about 1637) was a habitant of Grondines, on the St. Lawrence in New France, also called Laviolette. He was the ninth great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his son Guillaume Maillot (born 1680).

He was 44 years old at the census of Grondines in 1681, which places his birth about 1637. His parents are not known, and neither is his place of origin: no entry for him is known in a register of French emigrants to Canada, under the forms Maillot and Mailhot. He married Marie Chapacou, who had been baptized at Néré, in Saintonge, in 1658, according to a compilation of French emigrants. That compilation dates their notarial marriage contract to 28 October 1671, and no church marriage of hers is indexed in the parish registers of Québec. The couple were living at Grondines when their son Guillaume was born there on 31 December 1680 and baptized on New Year’s Day 1681. When Guillaume married at Montréal in 1704, the register described René as a habitant. Marie Chapacou was buried at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade on 25 December 1733, and her burial record calls her husband René Maillot Laviolette, adding the dit name, or by-name, that he also carried. No record of his death has been found.