Jacques Deneau dit Destaillis — Voyageur Grandfather

MOSQUITO LAKE by Henry Youle Hind, 1883

Jacques Deneau (Deniau) (Deno) dit Destaillis (1660-1720) (7th great-grandfather)

son of Marin Deneau dit Destaillis (1621-1678) and Louise Therese LeBreuil (1634-1727)

Birth 2 NOV 1660 • Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Death 29 JUN 1720 • La Prairie-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec, Canada

Marriage 1690 to Marie Rivet (1673-1705)

• 1688, 5 July, Claude Greysolon, Sieur de LaTourette, hired Charles Deniau and Jacques Deniau for a trip to the 8ta8ois (Ottawa Indians). Notary Antoine Adhémar.

• 1716, 9 mai.—Engagement de Claude et Joachim Deno à Estienne et Jacques Deno pour faire le voyage à Missillimakinac—Étude Adhémar.

From: "Minnesota, eh?" - The involvement of whole families in the fur trade is obvious. Not only was our ancestor, Jacques Deneau, involved but his brother Charles and a total of 19 Deneau family members are listed on 69 voyageur trips. SEE: http://laprairie-voyageur-canoes.blogspot.com/2017/03/ripples-from-la-prairie-voyageur-canoes_99.html

In all 736 contracts of voyageurs are listed for La Prairie de la Magdeleine residents, while these lists do not include the trips these same men made on their own as coureurs des bois.

• 1719, Jacques Deniau dit Destaillis accused of illegally selling brandy to savages

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2018/04/jacques-deniau-dit-destaillis-accused.html

LINEAGE:

Jacques Deniau dit Destaillis (1660 - 1720) -- 7th great-grandfather

Marie Francoise Deneau (1698 - 1751) -- Daughter of Jacques Deniau dit Destaillis

Marie Madeleine Duquet (1734 - 1791) -- Daughter of Marie Francoise Deneau

Gabriel Pinsonneau (Pinsono) (1770 - 1807) -- Son of Marie Madeleine Duquet

Gabriel Pinsonneau (1803 - 1877) -- Son of Gabriel Pinsonneau (Pinsono)

Lucy Pinsonneau (aka PASSINO) (1836 - 1917) -- Daughter of Gabriel Pinsonneau — 2nd great-grandmother

I have been collecting documents and/or archive notes for my voyageur grandfathers, and will be posting new pages for each of them -- one grandfather at a time.  SEE: https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2019/01/timeline-of-my-french-canadian-great.html for my list of voyageur grandfathers.