Catherine (Anenontha) Annennontak (abt. 1649 - 1709)

Born about Jan 1649 in Huron Mission, Pays d'en Haut, Nouvelle-France

Wife of Jean Durand — married 26 Sep 1662 in Paroisse Notre Dame, Québec, Canada, Nouvelle-France

Wife of Jacques Couturier — married 28 Jun 1672 in Sillery, Canada, Nouvelle-France

Wife of Jean (Lafond) de Lafond — married 28 Aug 1697 in Batiscan, Canada, Nouvelle-France

Descendants

Died 11 Jan 1709 at about age 60 in Batiscan, Canada, Nouvelle-France

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Biography

Catherine (Anenontha) Annennontak was a Canadian First Peoples and member of the Wyandot Nation.

CATHERINE ANENONTA

Father : NICOLAS ANENONTA

Mother : JEANNE OTRIHOUANDET

Birth : vers 1649 bourg de ste-madeleine, par. de la conception, pays des hurons

Baptism : vers 1649 bourg de ste-madeleine, par. de la conception, pays des hurons^[1]

Catherine's exact date of birth is unknown, but has been estimated to be between January and March 16, 1649, the day her father died. Her parents had been converted to christianity by French missionaries.

On March 16, 1649, more than 2000 Iroquois warriors invaded the Huron villages. On this day, the village of Sainte-Madeleine fell. All Huron warriors were killed, including Nicolas Arendanki, Catherine's father.

Infant Catherine was able to escape this massacre with her mother. She found refuge on Ile St-Joseph where the missionaries built a fort, named Sainte-Marie. The winter of 1649-50 was atrocious with many survivors of the tribe perishing.

On July 25, 1650, the remaning survivors arrived in Québec. A little less than a year later, a new mission was built for them on the Isle d'Orléans. In July of 1654, Catherine's mother passed away. Several days later, orphan Catherine was brought to the Ursuline convent in Québec. She stayed in the convent until her first marriage at the age of 13 and a half.^[2]

Origin given on her marriage record to Jean Durand: BOURG DE STE-MADELEINE, PAROISSE DE LA CONCEPTION AU PAYS DES HURONS

Transcription de l'acte de mariage 1662-09-26 Notre-Dame, Québec, Nouvelle-France
Jean Durand et Catherine Annennontak — L’an de grace mil six cens soixante deux le 26e septembre apres fiançailles et publication d’un ban seulement (ayant donné dispense des deux autres) fait au prosne de la messe de parroisse le 24 septembre, et ne s’estant descouvert aucun empeschement légitime, Je Henry de Bernières curé de cette parroisse ay interrogé Jean Durand, fils de Louys Durand et de Madeleine Malvande ses père et mere de la parroisse de Dueil Evesché de Xaintes en Xaintonge d’une part et Catherine Annennontak huronne, fille de Nicolas Anendandto et de Jeanne Otrih8andet, ses pere et mere du bourg de Ste Madeleine, et de la paroisse de la Conception au paie des Hurons d’autre part. Et ayant pris leur mutuel consentement en mariage et donné la benediction nuptiale en presence des témoins comme les reverends pères Herosine Lalement sup, et Francois Le Mercier de la compagnie de Jesus. Le Sr Martin Boulet dit St Martin. Le Sr Jean Madny &c. — H De Berniers. (transcription de/by Robert G. Daigle)

First marriage 1662-09-26 Québec (Notre-Dame) with JEAN DURAND son of LOUIS DURAND and MADELEINE MALVANDE^[3][4]

Second marriage 1672-06-28 Lieu indéterminé (au Canada, Nouvelle-France) with JACQUES COUTURIER son of JEAN COUTURIER and of MARIE AUMOND

Events During Marriage of Jacques Couturier & Catherine Anenonta (Google Translation may not be completely accurate)

• 27 Nov 1674 - Default granted to Jean-Baptiste Peuvret, sieur de Mesnu, secretary to the Council, against Jacques Couturier and Catherine Anenontha, his wife, both in their name and in the names of Jean Durand's minor children, and order of them reassign, ^[5]

• 4 Dec 1674 - Title: Judgment condemning Jacques Couturier and his wife, Catherine Anenontha, to pay Jean-Baptiste Peuvret, sieur de Mesnu, lord of Gaudarville, the arrears of cens and rents, in their name and in the names of the minor children of the late Jean Durand and the so-called Ananonta,

Transcription of the text with modernized spelling: "From December 4, 1674. The Council assembled where Monsignor the Governor presided, and where were Messieurs de Tilly, Dupont, Depeiras, de Vitré advisers, and the Attorney General. Between Maître Jean-Baptiste PEUVRET sieur de MESNU secretary of the Conseil sieur du fief de Gaudarville applicant on the one hand, and Jacques Couturier and Catherine ANANONTA his wife, previously widowed Jean Durant, both in their name and for the minor children of the said deceased and said Catherine Ananonta, said Couturier appearing in person for the other defendants. Hearing parties and having regard to the concession contract made by the plaintiff to the said Jean Durant fire of what meets wide land between the Cap-Rouge River at high tide and the line which separates said fief of Gaudarville from that of late Sieur de Maure, now to Sieur de Laferté his son, on forty-seven arpents of [...]^[6]

• 7 January 1675 - Judgment ordering the continuation of posters for the sale by auction of the housing of Jacques Couturier and Catherine Anenontha his wife, previously widow of Jean Durand, located in Cap-Rouge, having presented no one to bid on the appointed day. :Description (from BAnQ Archives- ggl translated) -Transcription of the text with modernized spelling:

"Seen to the Council the minutes of the bailiff Roger, of the poster by him made on the sixteenth of December last at the door of the Notre-Dame church in this city, and that of the parish of Sillery, containing that for lack of payment by Jacques Couturier and Catherine his wife, previously widowed Jean Durand, both in their name and for the minor children of the said deceased, the sum of ninety-eight pounds two sol six money due to Mr. Peuvret de Mesnu secretary of the Council for cens and rentes, it would be today proceeded to said Council to the sale and adjudication of a new house located inside the Rivière du Cap-Rouge on which there is four arpents or approximately of land plowable with the plow and the pickaxe and waited until no one appeared to bid on the said dwelling and if the attorney general, the Council ordered that the said posters will be repeated for the fortnight to said ad judgment, and be served on the said Couturier and his wife so that they are not unaware of it. FRONTENAC. "

Title of Document - Arrêt qui ordonne la continuation d'affiches pour la vente par adjudication de l'habitation de Jacques Couturier et Catherine Anenontha sa femme, auparavant veuve de Jean Durand, située au Cap-Rouge, ne s'étant présenté personne pour enchérir le jour fixé, ^[7]

• 26 Mar 1675 - Order of appearance to creditors absent from the estate of Jean Durand, in the case between Jacques Couturier and Catherine Anenontha, his wife, widow of Jean Durand and the creditors of the said estate, namely Jacques Fournier, squire, Sieur de LaVille, Timothée Roussel , master surgeon, Pierre Biron, bailiff, Claude Charron, first alderman of Quebec and Jean Amiot, locksmith ^[8]

Third marriage 1697-08-28 Jean Lafond & Catherine Anenontha, Batiscan (saint-François-Xavier)^[9]

Death : 1709-01-11 Burial : 1709-01-12 Batiscan

Note

No record could be found where the name Anne nor Joigneau were used by her.

Biographie

Fille de Nicolas Arendanki qui est tué dans une attaque iroquoise le 17-03-1649 et Jeanne Otrihouandit décédée en juillet 1654 à l'Ile d'Orléans du bourg de Ste-Madeleine, paroisse La Conception, pays des Hurons

Arrivée le 25-7-1650, réfugiée à Québec

Orpheline, entrée chez les Ursulines le 21-7-1654 à Québec

(CT 23 Audouart) avec Jean Durand

Sources

1. ↑ Département de démographie, Université de Montréal, "PRDH 1621-1849," Online database, Le Programme de recherche en démographie historique https://www.prdh-igd.com/en/LePrdh. Individual #1598/ Catherine Anenonta. PRDH: Research Programme in Historical Demography (membership): Individu: 1598 : accessed 25 December 2017.
2. ↑ *Mémoires de la Société Généalogique Canadienne-Française, Vol. 7, pages 114-119, ; Ant. Champagne, C. R. I. C. ; printed in Les Voyageurs Vol. 16, no. 2, June 1995, pages 91-101 ; translated by Donald J. Daigle and Anthony Tassin, with permission of the Société.
3. ↑ :Marriage - September 26, 1662, Jean Durand, son of Louis Durand and Madeleine Malvande, of the parish of Deuil, bishopric of Naintes en Saintonge, married Catherine Annennontak, daughter of Nicolas Arendanki and Jeanne Otrihoandet, from the village of Sainte-Madeleine , parish of Conception in the country of the Hurons. Jean Durand, who was a courtier of the woods, died probably during one of his races and his widow remarried with another Frenchman, Jacques Couturier. (pg. - 634 Mariages Entre Francais et Sauvages- Bulletin des recherches historiques : bulletin d'archéologie, d'histoire, de biographie, de numismatique, etc. /, octobre 1928, octobre) (Google Translation may not be completely accurate)
4. ↑ BAnQ Archives, Bulletin des recherches historiques : bulletin d'archéologie, d'histoire, de biographie, de numismatique, etc., Éditeur-Lévis :Pierre-Georges Roy,1895-1968, Contenu spécifique-octobre, Revues, ISSN : 0701-3930, quatre fois par année, détaillée : 0000164865, pg.- 634, image pg. 58 of 64, MARIAGES ENTRE FRANÇAIS ET SAUVAGES, http://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/2657338, accessed 27 Jun 2020 by Arora
5. ↑ November 27, 1674 - Title - Défaut accordé à Jean-Baptiste Peuvret, sieur de Mesnu, secrétaire du Conseil, à l'encontre de Jacques Couturier et de Catherine Anenontha, sa femme, tant en leur nom qu'aux noms des enfants mineurs de Jean Durand, et ordre de les réassigner, BAnQ Archives, Quebec Archives, Quebec heritage, New France. Sovereign Council. http://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3354610accessed 27 Jun 2020 by Arora
6. ↑ 4 Dec 1674 BAnQ Archives Title -Jugement condamnant Jacques Couturier et sa femme, Catherine Anenontha, à payer à Jean-Baptiste Peuvret, sieur de Mesnu, seigneur de Gaudarville, les arrérages de cens et de rentes, en leur nom et aux noms des enfants mineurs de feu Jean Durand et de la dite Ananonta Patrimoine québécois, Nouvelle-France. Conseil Souverain. 4 décembre 1674 Fonds Conseil souverain, Transcription du texte avec orthographe modernisée : «Du quatrième décembre 1674. Le Conseil assemblé où présidait TP1,S28,P1013 Regroupement : Fonds Conseil souverain, Lieu de conservation : BAnQ Québec, http://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3354611,accessed 27 Jun 2020 by Arora
7. ↑ BAnQ Archives, Quebec Archives, 7 janvier 1675, Archives textuelles, Description :Transcription du texte avec orthographe modernisée : «Vu au Conseil le procès-verbal de l'huissier Roger, de l'affiche par lui faite le seizième décembre dernier à la porte de l'église Notre-Dame de cette ville, et à celle de la paroisse de Sillery..7 Jan 1675 Auction of Home pg1, 7 Jan 1675 Auction of Home pg2, accessed 27 Jun 2020 by Arora
8. ↑ March 26, 1675, BAnQ Archives, Quebec heritage, New France. Sovereign Council. 2 elements. Sovereign Council fonds, BAnQ Archive-Text transcription with modernized spelling: "Between Jacques Couturier and Catherine ANANONTA his wife, previously [...], Textual archives, 2 elements,[1], [2], accessed 27 Jun 2020 by Arora
9. ↑ 1697 Mariage Jean Lafond & Catherine Anenontha, "Québec, registres paroissiaux catholiques, 1621-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89MB-PW6F?cc=1321742&wc=HC9B-GP8%3A13629101%2C13626202%2C13629103 : 16 July 2014), Batiscan > Saint-François-Xavier > Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1680-1789 > image 138 of 915; Archives Nationales du Quebec (National Archives of Quebec), Montreal.Registres paroissiaux , Un autre filmage des registres de 1680-1789. [Montréal, Québec : Université de Montréal, 196-?]. 1 bobine de microfilm ; 35 mm. -- Comprend des actes de Sainte-Anne, probablement Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, Québec., accessed 27 Jun 2020 by Arora

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