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1. Pierre n 19 b 21-08-1671 Boucherville m 1698 Angélique PTOLÉMÉ; engagé Ouest 24-05-1694 et 15-06-1706, engageur Ouest 16-09-1712.

ROBERT	family name, surname.
dit LAFONTAINE	nickname or title or in this case "dit" = "a.k.a." (also known as).
Louis	name.
†	this sign means deceased at the time of the event. In the case of parents, which is this example, it means that they were deceased before Louis' marriage. Hence very likely before he actually immigrated to Canada.How else would he know ?
André	father's name.
marchand	merchant, the father's profession.
Catherine Bonin	mother's name and maiden surname. In the French culture, the wife retains her maiden name in recorded documents, although she would be called Mrs. Robert in daily life.
b	baptisé=baptized, not born. The catholic sacrament registered at the church. Louis's baptism of course.
12-08-1638	date of baptism, using the International standard of DD-MM-YYYY.
Ste-Marguerite	usually the name of the village of baptism, but in this case name of the parish. See next item.
v.	ville = town or city. When this sign is used, it means that the previous name was either a parish or, rarely, a neighbourhood of the city, of which the name follows.
ar.	arrondissement = area of... in the case where "v." has already been used this becomes redondant but it is still used for the sake of consistency.It is only used to help locate little unknown villages in relation to larger better known places. It does not have any cadastral meaning.
év.	évêché = catholic diocese to which the parish and/or city belongs. In this case it has the same name as the city, otherwise its name would have been given as well.
La Rochelle	name of the city of origin, in which is the parish of Ste-Marguerite.
Aunis	name of the Province under the Old Regime.
(Charente-Maritime)	name of today's French "département", the administrative region.
d	décès = death
01	date of death, in this case the first of the date that follows. In this case the date of death is 01-01-1711
s	sépulture = burial
02-01-1711	date of burial
Boucherville	place of burial. It can be safely assumed that death occurred nearby or at the same place, but not always...
au rec 67 à Trois-Rivières	at the 1667 census Louis was at Trois-Rivières
cordonnier	shoemaker. Profession declared at the census of 1681.
[AG-LaR, MSGCF (114):219-220]	written source references of importance about Louis Robert. Explanations are given on page XXIV of the Dictionnaire.
"tree"	the tree means that this marriage is the first of the line in Canada.
m	mariage=marriage.
25-01-1666	date of marriage.
Trois-Rivières	place of marriage.
(ct 10 Ameau)	contrat=contract, the notarized marriage contract entered in the minutes of notary Ameau, registered on the 10th of the same month and year as the marriage.
Bourgery, Marie	Bride's surname and name
n 19 b 21-08-1671	né=born on the 19th of the same month and year as the "b" that follows.
engagé Ouest 24-05-1694	engagé=engaged=employed. Hence there is a document, registered on 24-05-1694, showing that Pierre engaged his services to somebody else for the fur trade to the West. The West meant the whole area between Hudson Bay, the Missouri Valley and Louisiana.
engageur Ouest 16-09-1712	engageur=employer. Pierre this time became the employer in the same type of trade.

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