{"id":2729,"date":"2008-07-16T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T07:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/16\/the-birth-and-baptism-of-marguerite-fortin-1677\/"},"modified":"2016-05-25T09:44:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T16:44:35","slug":"the-birth-and-baptism-of-marguerite-fortin-1677","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2729","title":{"rendered":"The Birth and Baptism of Marguerite Fortin – 1677"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 28 May 1677, Marguerite Fortin, daughter of Julien Fortin-Bellefontaine and Genevi\u00ed\u00a8ve Gamache, was born. On 05 Jun 1677, she was baptized in the chapel at Cap Tourmente, Canada, New France.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

The Birth and Baptismal Record of Marguerite Fortin – 1677<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

SOURCE: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec, Canada : Institut G\u00e9n\u00e9alogique Drouin. Ste. Anne de Beaupr\u00e9, Canada, New France, 1677. Birth and Baptismal Record of Marguerite Fortin, page 35.<\/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 Marguerite Fortin. The record reads:<\/p>\n

Baptism of Marguerite Fortin<\/p>\n

In the year of O[ur] Lord, [one thousand six hundred]
\nseventy seven on the fifth of June, I baptized in the chapel
\nof Cap Tourmente, Marguerite Fortin, born on the twenty-
\neighth of last May, daughter of Julian Fortin
\nand Genevi\u00ed\u00a8ve Gamache, his wife. The Godfather
\nwas M. Pierre Gagnon, father, and the Godmother
\nwas Marguerite Martin, wife of \u00ed\u2030tienne Racin.
\nSigned F[ran\u00ed\u00a7ois]Fillon, missionary priest.
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This record can be found as image 25\/877 in the Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967 on Ancestry.com in the records for Ste. Anne du Beaupr\u00e9 1668-1808. The record appears on page 35.<\/p>\n

This image is apparently from a transcript of the original record book since it states that the record was signed by Fran\u00ed\u00a7ois Fillon, but was actually signed by Morin.<\/p>\n

The first part of the year (one thousand six hundred) is apparently abbreviated in a manner I don’t understand (it appears to be something like “gbj C”).<\/p>\n

The Godfather is M. Pierre Gagnon p\u00ed\u00a8re. I am uncertain what the “M” stands for or why the word p\u00ed\u00a8re appears after his name. Pierre Gagnon is not the father of Marguerite Fortin, nor is he one of her grandfathers.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> Gilles Cayouette of The Nomadic Researcher<\/a> wrote to tell me that he thinks there may have been two Pierre Gagnon’s in this locality: a father and son with the same name. To differentiate between the two, clerks may have simply referred to the father as “Pierre Gagnon p\u00ed\u00a8re” and the son as “Pierre Gagnon fils”. Thanks again for your help, Gilles!<\/p>\n

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

On 28 May 1677, Marguerite Fortin, daughter of Julien Fortin-Bellefontaine and Genevi\u00ed\u00a8ve Gamache. On 05 Jun 1677, she was baptized in the chapel at Cap Tourmente, Canada, New France. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-2729","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-I1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729","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=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19820,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions\/19820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}