Nicholas Pelletier

Bef 1596 - Bef 1681  (> 78 years)

• Name	Nicholas Pelletier
  Birth	Bef 4 Jun 1596	Gallardon, Eure-et-Loir, France   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Baptism	4 Jun 1596	Gallardon, Eure-et-Loir, France   [1, 2, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 9 Nov 1674 and 1681  [5]
  Person ID	I794	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	17 Sep 2025

  
  

  Father	François Pelletier   d. Bef 29 Feb 1612
  Mother	Simone Pichereau   d. Aft 29 Feb 1612
  Family ID	F541	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jeanne de Vousy,   b. Bef 27 Apr 1612   d. Bef 12 Dec 1689 (Age < 77 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1628	Saint-Pierre, Gallardon, Eure-et-Loir, France   [1, 5, 6]
  Children	+ 1. François Pelletier dit Antaya,   b. Abt 1635, Gallardon, Eure-et-Loir, France d. Between 14 May 1690 and 9 Jul 1697 (Age ~ 55 years) + 2. Marie Pelletier,   b. Abt Apr 1638 + 3. Jeanne Pelletier,   b. Bef 19 Mar 1644   d. 23 Jan 1715 (Age > 70 years)
  Family ID	F531	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Feb 2023

  
  

• Notes

  Arrived 11 Jun 1636 with his wife Jeanne and his sons Jean and François. Master carpenter. Settled on the côte Saint-François-Xavier in Sillery about 1645. In 1647 he built the steeple on Notre-Dame de Québec church. In 1648 he installed the roof on Château Saint-Louis, the governor's residence. Nicholas Pelletier (b. 1596) = Jeanne de Vousy (1612-1689) Geneviève Pelletier (d. 1717) = Vincent Verdon Jeanne Verdon = Francois Coutu (1651-1729) Louise Coutu (b. 1684) = Jean-Baptiste Riel-Lirlande (~1670-1704) Jacques-Michel Riel-Lirlande (b. 1706) = Élisabeth Degame (b. 1711) Jean-Baptiste Riel-Lirlande (b. 1731) = Marie-Charlotte-Anne Sylvestre-Champagne (b. 1736) Jean-Baptiste Riel-L'Irlande = Marie Antoine Hénault Jean-Baptiste Riel L'Irlande (1785-1868) = Marguerite Boucher (b. ~1790) Louis Riel (1817-1864) = Julie Lagimonière Louis Riel (1844-1885), leader of the 1885 North-West Rebellion, founding figure of Manitoba Making Louis Riel an eighth cousin four times removed to TNH.

  
  

• Sources

  [S5161] Cathy Lemoine Sturgell, My Louisiana Lineage. [S5162] "Latest News about Nicolas Peltier and His Family in Gallardon." Pelletier Family Association, 29 Oct 2005. [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2025., place only. [S6799] Diane Wolford Sheppard and Gail Moreau-DesHarnais, "Nicolas Pelletier to Jean François Pelletier dit Antaya--Part I--Nicolas Pelletier." Michigan's Habitant Heritage 40:105, April 2019. [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2025. [S6799] Diane Wolford Sheppard and Gail Moreau-DesHarnais, "Nicolas Pelletier to Jean François Pelletier dit Antaya--Part I--Nicolas Pelletier." Michigan's Habitant Heritage 40:105, April 2019., says "circa 1632, France".