Gilles
Port de La Rochelle
Origin
Gilles and Jean are sons of Jehan Gautreau le jeune and of Marie Rouer
of La Flotte-en-Ré. Both children were baptized in the Church of Sainte-Catherine in Flotte.
, Gilles in 1644 and John in 1649. They
both spent their youth on Île-Blanche, close to Larochelle, their port
of departure for the new world.
Settlement
On march the 31st 1665,Gilles Gaudreau signs a job contract in front
of Teuleron Notary in La Rochelle, France. On april 25th, he boards a
ship called the Cat of Holland, on route for the new world. He arrives
at Quebec on june the 18th, 1665. He immediately starts working for
Jacques Bernier dit Jean de Paris, for the length of his three year
contract. At first, Gilles Gaudreau takes root on Île d'Orléan. This
is where he will mary Anne de la Vieville dite Pineau, on October the
15th 1671. Three children will be born on Île d'Orléan. They are Anne,
Gilles-Gabriel and Marguerite. On april the 9th 1675, Gilles becomes
owner of two concessions on the south side of the island, one from the
sisters Hospitalières and the other from the sisters Ursulines of
Quebec. In 1678, Gilles Gaudreau decides to move to Cap-Saint-Ignace
where he will join his brother Jean and his former employer Jacques
Bernier. On October the 14th, he obtains from the Seigneuresse of
Vincolot, a piece of land in a cove witch now bears his name,
"Anse-à-Gilles". Michel, Jeanne and Jacques will be born there. After
his wife's death, Gilles Gaudreau will remarry with Catherine Renusson, widow of Augustin Alonze. Gilles Gaudreau dies at the age of
82 at Cap-Saint-Ignace.
