François Benoit Durand b. 6 Mar 1766 L'Islet-sur-Mer, L'Islet, Québec, Canada d. 27 avr 1842 St-André, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada: Our Family History

François Benoit Durand

1766 - 1842 (75 years)

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Name	François Benoit Durand
Birth	6 Mar 1766	L'Islet-sur-Mer, L'Islet, Québec, Canada
Gender	Male
Death	27 avr 1842	St-André, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada
Person ID	I292159756131	Alwin2025
Last Modified	23 Apr 2025

Father	Joseph Durand, b. 8 août 1732, L'Islet, L'Islet, Quebec, Canada d. 29 Jul 1804, La Pocatière, Québec, Canada (Age 72 years)
Mother	Marie Josephe Pelletier, b. 1730, Ste-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada d. 3 déc 1804, Ste-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Age 74 years)
Marriage	7 fév 1757	Notre Dame, Bonsecours, L'Islet, Quebec, Canada
Family ID	F2263	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Marie Geneviève Labourlière dit Laplante, b. 31 mai 1776, Kamouraska, Québec Canada d. 16 Oct 1838, Kamouraska, Québec Canada (Age 62 years)

Marriage 28 Jul 1799 Saint-Louis, Kamouraska, Bas-Canada

Children

1. Benoit Durand, b. 21 Mar 1807, Riviere-du-Loup, Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada

d. 10 Oct 1889, Québec, Canada

(Age 82 years)

Family ID F1469 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 23 Apr 2025

Sources
[S965666108] Ancestry Family Tree.

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My earliest European ancestors in North America were probably Nicolas Marsolet and Louis Hébert. However, one of my 8th great-grandmothers, the wife of Philippe Mius d'Entremont, was a Native North American of the Mi'kmaq tribe. Unfortunately, there is uncertainty about her name. She may have been called Kjipuktuk. In modern times, the name Marie Coyote Blanc has been assigned to her, but there is no evidence that this was actually her name. Her ancestors would obviously been in North America long before Europeans arrived.

The French-Canadian lines of my family tree can be confirmed by literaly thousands of DNA links that support the family tree as mapped out. And, due to a couple of lucky DNA links to 3rd cousins in Sweden, with well-documented family trees of their own, I can extend my Swedish roots back several centuries. The German links have proved much more difficult, and in most cases, I have been unable to trace my German ancestors much further back in time than their arrival in North America.