Étiennette Alton

  General Notes:

IMMIGRATION: 29 Sep 1659 aboard the Saint-André as the indentured servant of Sieur Claude Robutel; Fille à Marier

Étiennette was baptized by Father Sébastien Cador, with saddlesmith Louis Pain and Renée François serving as her godparents. [pg 48 Filles à Marier, Gagné]

Étiennette married Marin Hurtubise, son of André Hurtubise and Renée Hermange, on 7 Jan 1660 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.¹ (Marin Hurtubise was born on 26 Oct 1631 in Rouesse-en-Champagne, Le Mans, Maine, France ¹ and was buried on 12 May 1672 in Montréal, Québec, Canada ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

Marriage Contract of Étiennette Alton & Marin Hurtubise

Before Bénigne Basset, clerk in the registry and jurisdiction of Ville-Marie on the Isle of Montréal and the named undersigned witnesses were present in their persons Marin Hurtubise, habitant living at this place, son of the late André Hurtubise and of Renée Hermange, his father and mother from the parish of Roëzé in the land of Maine, diocese of Le Mans on one side. And Étiennette Alton, daughter of the late François Alton and Antoinette Barillay her father and mother from the town of La Flèche in Anjou on the other side, in the presence of and with the consent of their friends assembled for this on both sides. That is, on the part of the said future groom: Louis Chartier, master surgeon of the said Isle, Jean Tavernier Sieur de la Forest, Allonie Delaistre and Henri Perin, all friends of the said future groom. And on the part of the future bride: Claude Robutel de Saint André, demoiselle Suzanne de Gabriél, his wife, Master Jean Gervaise, collector of the dime tax and fines for the parish of the said place, Pierre Picoté Sieur de Belestre, demoiselle Perrine Picoté de Belestre, Louis Chevalier, Urbain Brossard, Louise Lebreuil and Catherine Marchand, all regular friends of the said future bride. [Which parties] acknowledge and admit having made and granted the promises of marriage that follow: Be it known that the said Hurtubise has promised to take the said Étiennette Alton for his wife and legitimate spouse and the said Antoinette [sic] Alton has promised to take the said Hurtubise for her husband and legitimate spouse and the said marriage shall be performed and solemnized in front of our Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Mother Church as soon as is able and that it shall be advised and discussed between them and their said friends if God and our Holy Mother Church grant their consent and accord to be one and united in all goods and property acquired before and during their marriage, following the custom of the Prévôté and viscounty of Paris followed and maintained in this country. The future groom shall take the future bride with her rights, names, reasons and actions in whatever place they may be situated, found and located. The future spouse shall be endowed with the sum of five hundred livres of prefixed dower to be paid at one time, to be taken from the goods of the said future groom, unless she prefer to keep to the customary dower. And in the case that the future groom shall die first with no children having been born of the future marriage, the said future bride shall take from the clear property of the said future groom the sum of one thousand livres sterling in whatever place it may be and in addition, in case the future groom shall die before the celebration of the said future marriage, the said future bride shall take from his present possessions the sum of four hundred livres, that he wishes and understands shall be paid before all other debts that he may owe, for such has been agreed between the said parties and their friends, promising, obliging, each in his own rights renouncing... Made and passed at Ville-Marie in the said home of Jean Descaries, habitant, in the year one thousand six hundred fifty-nine, the ninth day of December before noon in the presence of Sieurs Jean Aubuchon and Guillaume Gendron, witnesses to this as required and undersigned with the future bride and their said friends, with the exception of the said future groom, who declared to not know how to write or sign his name, asked this according to the ordinance.

Signed: Tientte (Alton), chartier, j. Tavernier, h. perrin, L chevalier, louise lebreuil, Urbain Brossard, Catherine marchand, j. obuchon, Basset No(tai)re
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Étiennette next married Barthélemy Vinet dit La Rante on 13 Jun 1672 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.¹ (Barthélemy Vinet dit La Rante was born about 1637 in St-Pierre-de-Juillers, Santes, Saintonge, France,¹ died on 18 Nov 1687 in Lachine, Jacques Cartier, Québec, Canada ¹ and was buried on 19 Nov 1687 in Lachine, Jacques Cartier, Québec, Canada ¹.)

Étiennette next married Claude Guarigue dit Languedoc on 18 Oct 1689 in Lachine, Jacques Cartier, Québec, Canada.¹ (Claude Guarigue dit Languedoc was born about 1651 in Cahors, Guyenne, France ¹ and was buried on 21 Dec 1693 in Montréal, Québec, Canada ¹.)