♀Renée Moget

Renée Moget (baptized 19 November 1601) was a woman of the parish of La Trinité in Angers, in Anjou^W, who married the merchant and master goldsmith René Hardy, whose daughter Marie-Anne married at Montréal in 1662. She is an ancestor of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006) twice over: her tenth great-grandmother by two separate lines of descent, both through her daughter Marie-Anne Hardy (1633–1726).

Life

Renée was baptized in the parish of Sainte-Croix at Angers on 19 November 1601, the daughter of René Mauget and Espérance Georget; the register writes the father’s surname Maugy. A Fichier Origine record dates René and Renée’s marriage contract to 6 June 1627, before the notary Fronteau at Angers. Their daughter Marie-Anne was baptized at La Trinité in Angers on 10 October 1633, a date the same record gives; the register entry itself names her parents as “Rene Hardye Me orfeuvre” and “Renee Mauget son espouse.”

When she died is not known. Her daughter Marie-Anne married Pierre Maillet, a settler from Saint-Coulomb in the diocese of Dol in Brittany, at Notre-Dame de Montréal on 23 October 1662. The register names Marie-Anne as the daughter of René Hardy, “marchand Mtre orfevre”, and of Renée Moget, “de la paroisse de la Trinité de la ville d’Angers”. The records do not explain how her daughter came to cross from Angers to Montréal.

Marcel Trudel’s history of early Montréal, drawing on her daughter’s marriage contract of 9 July 1662, records that Marie-Anne brought her husband a dowry of 500 livres^W made up of rings, jewels and other goods. Among the Montréal brides Trudel studied for the years up to 1663, more than four-fifths married with no dowry at all.

Lines of descent

Marie-Anne Hardy and Pierre Maillet had two sons whose lines both reach the family. Rene Malet’s line leads to Augustus A. Tougas dit Laviolette, and his younger brother Pierre Maillet’s to Ellenore S. Renaud dit Deslauriers. Augustus and Ellenore married at Vincennes on 6 July 1801, and their son Augustin Tougas Lovellette (1809–1866) carries both lines, so René Hardy and Renée Moget each hold two places in the family tree.

Notes

Tanguay’s dictionary names the same parents for Marie-Anne and gives the family as of La Trinité in the diocese of Angers. Marcel Trudel’s history calls Marie-Anne the daughter of a merchant who had died; the church entry of October 1662 gives René’s trade without saying whether he was still living.

Her surname

Her surname is written differently in each record. Her own baptism writes her father’s name Maugy, and her daughter’s baptism of 1633 writes hers Mauget. The 1662 marriage register writes it with an M, a second letter that cannot be read with certainty, and “get”, so that it may be Moget or Maget. Tanguay’s dictionary of French-Canadian families prints Moget, the form used here, while the Drouin Institute’s index of the register gives Noget.