The Pelletier/Harpin Line: Into French Canada
PATERNAL LINEPaternal great-grandmother
Loretta E. Pelletier→Raymond Edward Coogan→Claire Patricia Coogan→John Patrick Long→John, Perry & Patrick Long
Loretta E. Pelletier is your paternal great-grandmother. Gateway to the vast French-Canadian genealogy.
Your paternal grandmother’s mother was Loretta E. Pelletier (1894–1951, PID: L6MR-GH5). This is where Dad’s side opens into a vast French-Canadian genealogy. Many of these ancestors were among the earliest French settlers of New France in the 1600s, emigrating from Normandy, Brittany, Poitou, and other regions of France.
Pelletier Direct Line
| Name | Born | PID | Relationship |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loretta E. Pelletier | 1894 | L6MR-GH5 | Great-grandmother |
| Louis Simeon Pelletier Jr. | 18 Mar 1862 | L7CM-XVG | 2nd great-grandfather |
| Simeon Pelletier | 13 Feb 1840 | L7GX-BJX | 3rd great-grandfather, Quebec |
| Léandre Pelletier | 15 May 1804 | K4N4-DYR | 4th great-grandfather |
| Joseph Pelletier | 10 Dec 1763 | L2PZ-992 | 5th great-grandfather |
| Guillaume Pelletier | ~1598 | LVXZ-PZG | ~9th great-grandfather, France |
| Éloi Pelletier | 2 Jun 1563 | LYFL-YQP | ~10th great-grandfather, France |
Notable Deep French-Canadian Lines
Through the Gagnon, Boucher, Allaire, Simard, Racine, Cloutier, and other families, your paternal tree includes hundreds of founding families of New France. Several lines reach back to French and Flemish noble families:
| Name | Born | PID | Relationship |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abraham Martin | 1589 | LBB6-ZF9 | ~10th great-grandfather, early Quebec City settler — namesake of the Plains of Abraham |
| Zacharie Cloutier | ~1590 | KN6C-T9G | ~10th great-grandfather, Quebec founding family |
| Mathurin Gagnon | ~Oct 1606 | L8PY-DLV | ~9th great-grandfather, France/Quebec |
| Sir William Roger V | Jun 1527 | P4WG-791 | ~12th great-grandfather, Scottish/French gentry |
| Lady Marjorie Blair | 1505 | LB2X-PTS | ~12th great-grandmother, Scotland |
| Thierry Cauchon Seigneur de Maupas | 1513 | LB3W-2B2 | ~12th great-grandfather, French nobility |
| Jean De Lannoy Seigneur de Molembaix | 11 Jan 1511 | K8H4-4HR | ~12th great-grandfather, Flemish nobility |
| Jeanne de Ligne dame de Barbançon | 1515 | L663-3CV | ~12th great-grandmother, Belgian nobility |
| Lord Leonard Bisson | 1500 | G5XB-48X | ~13th great-grandfather, Channel Islands nobility |
| Sir Jan Mercier | 1454 | GT43-LJ5 | ~14th great-grandfather, France |