Who is your
ancestor? What is a newcomer?
A newcomer
is an ancestor that generated a lineage that your association was able
to identify. We found three but maybe you could introduce us to more.
There are
three known ones:
Olivier Charbonneau, ancestor to 97% of us, arrived in Montreal on September
29,1659. Taking into account all generations, Olivier had 325 descendants
before 1730, including Anne who was born in France (74th position of
married pioneers before 1680); 2513 newborns before1766 descent from
Olivier; more than 7000 descendants before 1800, of which a thousand
were Charbonneaus. We count 1904 weddings of descendants of Olivier's
branch before 1800. Including the descendants of the ancestor Jean (2nd
newcomer), we list about a thousand baptized Charbonneaus before 1800,
which places this name in 35th position of all names in 1997.
This information derives from a feature article volume
3, #2, April 1997 and is extracted from a conference given by Mr Hubert
Charbonneau and summarized by Henri Charbonneau.
