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The life of Jean Tétard
Biography
Jean Tétard's family appears in the Protestant registers of Lintot, in Normandy in northern France. Fichier Origine identifies his baptism there on March 11, 1607. He married Anne Massier in December 1627 and subsequently married Anne Godefroy at the Protestant temple on February 3, 1630. The origin dossiers describe him as a bourgeois.
The second household included Jacques, Charles, and Jeanne, all of whom later appear in Canadian history. Other children remained connected with Protestant congregations in France. The records do not describe a single, simultaneous migration of the entire family.
On June 26, 1651, Jean and his sons Jacques and Charles formally renounced the Reformed faith in the chapel of Sainte-Marguerite at Notre-Dame-de-Cougnes, La Rochelle, on France’s Atlantic coast. A reproduction of the declaration survives with the origin dossier. It brings the father briefly into unusually clear focus: Jean participated personally in a religious act alongside two sons.
Some daughters later married in Protestant congregations. Anne Godefroy is not named in the Catholic declaration.
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With sons Jacques and Charles, formally renounced the Reformed faith at Notre-Dame-de-Cougnes in La Rochelle.
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Baptism and married household — Lintot, Normandy.
Lintot, Normandy, Seine-Maritime, France
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