{"id":2673,"date":"2008-06-25T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T07:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/25\/the-birth-and-baptism-of-genevieve-fortin-1662\/"},"modified":"2016-05-25T09:41:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T16:41:45","slug":"the-birth-and-baptism-of-genevieve-fortin-1662","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2673","title":{"rendered":"The Birth and Baptism of Genevi\u00ed\u00a8ve Fortin – 1662"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 08 Apr 1662, Genevi\u00ed\u00a8ve Fortin, daughter of Julien Fortin-Bellefontaine and Genevi\u00ed\u00a8ve Gamache, was born. On Easter Sunday, 09 Apr 1662, she was baptized in the Church of N\u00f4tre Dame de la Visitation in Ch\u00ed\u00a2teau Richer, Canada, New France.<\/p>\n

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The Birth and Baptismal Record of Genevi\u00ed\u00a8ve Fortin – 1662<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

SOURCE: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec, Canada : Institut G\u00e9n\u00e9alogique Drouin. N\u00f4tre Dame de la Visitation, Ch\u00ed\u00a2teau Richer, Canada, New France, 1662. Birth and Baptismal Record of Genevi\u00ed\u00a8ve Fortin, page 6.<\/p>\n

Click on the image above to enlarge it. Click on the link for a PDF<\/a> copy of the Birth and Baptismal Record of Genevi\u00ed\u00a8ve Fortin. The record reads:<\/p>\n

Genevi\u00ed\u00a8ve Fortin<\/p>\n

Genevi\u00ed\u00a8ve, daughter of Julien Fortin-Bellefontaine
\nand Genevi\u00ed\u00a8ve Gamache was born on the eighth
\nof the month of April and was baptized on
\nEaster, the ninth of the present month, the Godfather
\nwas Fran\u00ed\u00a7ois Fortin, surgeon, on behalf of Nicolas
\nGamache and the Godmother was Genevi\u00ed\u00a8ve Auber, daughter
\nof Claude Auber.
\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Th[omas] Morel, pastor<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This record can be found as image 17\/727 in the Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967 on Ancestry.com in the records for Ch\u00ed\u00a2teau Richer 1661-1702. The record appears on page 6.<\/p>\n

I am uncertain if the Godfather’s name is Fran\u00ed\u00a7ois Fortin and his occupation is surgeon, or if his name is a dit<\/em> name: Fran\u00ed\u00a7ois Fortin-Chirurgien<\/em>.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 25 Jun 2008: Gilles of The Nomadic Researcher<\/a> wrote to let me know that Fran\u00ed\u00a7ois Fortin, surgeon<\/em> is the correct translation. Chirurgien<\/em> is not a dit<\/em>-name. Gilles referred me to the website of the PDRH<\/a> which discusses dit-names and provides a searchable database of all dit-names known to be associated with surnames before 1800. Thanks again for your help, Gilles!<\/p>\n

At the time this record was written, France and her colonies were using the Gregorian Calendar, while England and her colonies were still using the Julian Calendar. England did not switch to the new calendar until 02 Sep 1752.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2008 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 08 Apr 1662, Genevi\u00ed\u00a8ve Fortin, daughter of Julien Fortin-Bellefontaine and Genevi\u00ed\u00a8ve Gamache, was born. On Easter Sunday, 09 Apr 1662, she was baptized in the Church of N\u00f4tre Dame de la Visitation in Ch\u00ed\u00a2teau Richer, Canada, New France. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,43,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","category-fortin","category-gamache"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-H7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19804,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions\/19804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}