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Nicolas Audet dit LaPointe (son of Innocent Audet and Vincente Reine) was born 12 Jul 1637 in St.Pierre-de-Maille, Poitou, France, and died 10 Dec 1700 in St.Jean, I.o., Montmorency, Canada. He married Madeline Despres on 15 Sep 1670 in St Jean, Ile D'Orleans, Quebec, daughter of Francoise Despres and Madeleine LeGrand.

 Includes NotesNotes for Nicolas Audet dit LaPointe:
The first LaPointe to arrive on the North American Continent was Nicholas Audet. Prior to 1670, Nicholas landed on a point on Ile d'Orleans, an island in teh St. Lawrence, just down the river from Quebec City. The indians living on the island named him LaPointe. The surname "Audet dit LaPointe" continued to be used for three more generations.

A fourth generation descendant Gabriel Audet dit LaPonite decided to leave the island and took up residence in the Carelton-Maria area. It was during this time peroid that some family emembers decided to use the name Audet. Gabriel and at least two of his children - Charles and Marguerite - chose to use LaPointe.

In 1815 we find Gabriel and son Charles petitioning for land in Nash Creek Nb.

Some LaPointe descendants claim we descend (illegitimastely) from Louis XIV of France. I've never been able to prove or disprove this information.

Betty Saunders July 1986

Born in Maulay, France in 1637, Nicolas Audet was the son of Innocent Audet and Vincende Roy. His grandfather was
Jehan Audet of Maranzay. The place names are spelled in Old French and are known in modern text as Maulais and
Maranzais.

Nicolas sailed to Nouvelle-France (Canada) in 1663, with the French Army, part of a series of deployments sent to the
Americas to defend against attacks by the Iriquois. He was the first Audet in Quebec and was confirmed by the
Bishop de Laval at l'Hotel Dieu in Beauport on March 23rd, 1664. After his tour of duty, Nicolas chose to remain in
Quebec keeping his soldier's 'said' nickname, Audet dit La Pointe, given to him by his commander.

In 1666, the Bishop Laval employed him to work on his Saint-Joachim farm and on June 22nd, 1667 he granted Nicolas
his own land on the Ile d'Orleans. In 1668 Nicolas was made caretaker for the diocese and worked at the seignorial
manor in Quebec City.

About Madeleine Despres: Madeleine's parents were Francois Despres and Madeleine Legrand of Paris. She was born
about 1655 in the parish of St-Sauveur. In the decade between 1663 and 1673, as many as 850 girls were sent to the
colony by King Louis XIV [see link below]. Madeleine was recruited by the King's court to become a bride for a French
settler in New-France and arrived in Canada in 1670 with goods worth 200 livres and a dowry of 50 livres all provided
by the King. At her presentation to a roomful of suitors, she was chosen by Nicolas Audet and they were wed
immediately. Her new husband was illiterate and unable to sign the marriage contract. The couple settled on his
property in Sainte-Famille on the Ile d'Orleans after a second ceremony ot the parish church.

The third born of their twelve children, Pierre Audet dit Lapointe was christened in 1674. In the year 1679, when young
Pierre was 5 years old, the large parish of Ste-Famille was sub-divided to establish four additional parishes. The land
that the Audet's owned then fell within the boundaries of the new village of St-Jean. Nicolas, wife Madeleine and all of
their offspring except Marguerite, would spend the remainder of their lives there.

In 1698 at the age of 25, Pierre Audet dit Lapointe married 18 year old Marie Dumas, a neighbor who was born on the
island the year after St-Jean was founded.

About Marie Dumas: Born in October of 1680, her parents were Francois Dumas and Marguerite Foy, both born in
France: Francois in Nanteuil-en-Valles, Angouleme, Poitier and Marguerite in Hermenault, ar Fontenay-le-Conte, Poitou.

Pierre and Marie's first child, Pierre II died at birth. The patriarch of the family, Nicolas passed away in December of
1700 just one month after the birth of their second child, Louise . "Lapointe" was the name chiseled on his tombstone.
The couple's seventh child, Louis-Francois was born 12 years later. On the 17th of December, 1712, five months after
the birth of Louis, Pierre's mother, Madeleine died "after three days of illness".

Thirty three year old Louis Audet dit Lapointe married twenty three year old Marie-Genevieve Rondeau in 1745.

About Genevieve Rondeau: Born 1723 in St-Jean, her parents were Etienne Rondeau, born 1685 in St-Jean, Ile
d'Orleans and Gabrielle-Louise Moreau, born 1694 in the Ville de Quebec.

Her father's father was Pierre Rondeau born in Canada, the son of Pierre Sr, born 1642 in Marsilly, La Charente
Maritime, France and Catherine Verrier, born in 1650, daughter of Jean and Agnes Briquet of St-Pierre de Courtils,
Normandie, France. Her father's mother was Marie Asselin, also born in Canada.

Genevieve's grandparents on her mother's side were Jean-Baptiste Moreau, born 1657 in St-Laurent, Poitiers, Poitou,
France and Anne Rodrigue, born 1673 in Beauport, Quebec. Anne's father was a sailor named Joao Rodrigues, born in
Lisbon, Portugal in the year 1641 who married in Quebec, Anne Roy, daughter of Francois Le Roy and Anne Bourdais
who were from the parish of St-Germain-l'Auxerrois near Paris, France.

Louis and Genevieve Audet dit Lapointe would have nine children, but only six would survive childhood. Their second
child was named Marie-Louise and at the age of 23, she married a 53 year old widower named Giraud Regimbal. As his
second wife, she took over the care of his three young children, all under the age of eight. She gave birth to fourteen
of her own children, but sadly seven died in infancy and her daughter, Marie-Marguerite Madeleine died at the age of 18.

The couple lived on a farm in Ste-Therese, County Terrebonne. [See Regimbal link below for their continued story]

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In the late 1800s, The Canadian government told the heads of families that they could no longer carry two last names
and that they had to drop one. Today, some of the descendants of Nicolas have the name Audet and some have the
name Lapointe.



More About Nicolas Audet dit LaPointe and Madeline Despres:
Marriage: 15 Sep 1670, St Jean, Ile D'Orleans, Quebec.

Children of Nicolas Audet dit LaPointe and Madeline Despres are:
  1. +Pierre Audet dit LaPointe, b. 22 Jun 1674, Isle D'Orleans Quebec, d. 14 May 1715, Saint-Jean, MRC de L'Île-d'Orléans, Québec.
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