BORN_SHORT ‎1646 St. Vivien, Pons, St. Onge, France, DIED_SHORT ‎after aug 1717 Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Canada‎, at least 71 years
Jean GELINAS (son of Etienne GELINAS and Huguette ROBERT) was born 1646 in St. Vivien, Pons, St. Onge, France, and died Aft. Aug 1717 in Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Canada. He married Francoise GERURAIRE on Abt. 17 Oct 1667 in Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Canada, daughter of Robert GERURAIRE and Marie DENISE.

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On 17 October 1667, at the home of notary Jacques de La Tousche, Jean had his marriage contract drawn up uniting him to Francoise de Charmenil, born at Saint-Maclou in Rouen, daughter of Robert and of Marie Denise. The nuptial ceremony took place at Cap-de-la-Madeleine a short time later, but a record of the marriage itself has been lost.

The census of 1681 indicated that Jean still lived at the Cap with his wife Francoise. The census taker said he was 37 years old and his wife 29. Their children then were Etienne, born in 1670; Jean, in 1671; Benjamin, in 1672; Pierre, in 1674; Francois, in 1676; Anne, in 1678; and Marguerite-Jeanne born in 1683. The family owned a gun, six head of cattle, and worked four arpents of land.

Thirty years pass and we find Jean and Francoise still living at Becancour. Two acts by notary Pierre Poulin, one dated 1 July 1717 and the other on the 13th of the same month, tell us that the couple separated in their advanced age. Francoise gave 800 livres and a draft ox to Pierre Rochereau dit Moriceau, her son-in-law, and to Ann Gelinas, her daughter with whom she wanted to live. Jean did the same with his son Etienne and his daughter-in-law Marguerite Benoit "in order that they keep him with them". On 9 August Jean completed the disposition of his property, giving half each to those who would keep him and his wife as long as it would please God to keep them alive. It is probable that they were buried in two different cemeteries, Francoise at Becancour, and Jean at Yamachiche. Their Christian faith shows itself by the requests for Requiem Masses after their deaths.

Etienne, Jean-Baptiste, and Pierre Gelinas, sons of Jean were, with the Seigneurs Charles and Julien Lesieur, the first inhabitants and the first land owners at Yamachiche, and parents of the first children born in this parish. The descendants of Etienne kept the name of Gelinas, those of Jean-Baptiste became Bellemare, and those of Pierre are Lacourse.