On 07 May 1704, Jean Gamache, son of Louis Gamache and Angelique Minville, was born. He was baptized in the parish of Cap St. Ignace, New France on 08 May 1704.
The Birth and Baptismal Record of Jean Gamache – 1704
SOURCE: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montréal, Québec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin. Parish of Cap St. Ignace, New France, 1704. Birth and Baptismal Record of Jean Gamache, Front of Folio 27.
Click on the image above to enlarge it. Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Birth and Baptismal Record of Jean Gamache – 1704. Translated from the French the record reads:
Bap[tism] of Jean Gamache
In the year seventeen four on the seventh day of the month of May was born a son to the marriage of Louis Gamache and Angelique Minville his wife of this parish and on the eighth of this same month and year was baptized by me, the missionary priest recollect of the parish of Cap St. Ignace and who was given the name of Jean. The godfather was Eustache Fortin and the Godmother was Anne Lemieux, the wife of Charles Bernier of the parish of Cap St. Ignace. The Godfather has signed with me, the Godmother was not able to write according to law.
                                 [signed] Brother Pierre Lepoivre
       [signed] Eustache Fortin        in the mission
This record can be found as image 28/948 in the Québec Vital Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967 on Ancestry.com in the records for Cap St. Ignace 1679-1808. The record appears on the front of folio 27.
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