Magdeleine (Deschamps) Pelletier (1818)

Born 1818 in Red River Settlement, Rupert's Land

Wife of Jean Baptiste Pelletier — married 10 Nov 1845 in St. François Xavier, Red River Settlement, Rupert's Land

Descendants

Biography

Magdeleine was born in 1818. She was the daughter of Joseph Deschamps and Marguerite Houle.

Jean Baptiste Pelletier and family in article: The Pelletier Family and the Cypress Hills Metis Hunting Band:^[1]

Jean-Baptiste Pelletier b. 1815 was a signatory to the Metis petition to join Treaty Four on September 7, 1876 at Fort Walsh. Jean Baptiste died in the Cypress Hills in April of 1878. He and his wife Madeleine Deschamps had five children who signed the Cypress Hills Metis Hunting Band Petition for a reserve in September of 1878, only five months after he died. The children who were signatories were: Alexandre (b. 1840) Jean Baptiste Jr. (b. 1846), Chrysologue Pierre (b. 1849), Cuthbert (b. 1864) and Adolphus (b. 1869). Jean Baptiste’s brother Pierre Pelletier dit Assiniboine (b. 1816) was married to Jean- Baptiste’s wife’s sister Josephte Deschamps. They also had a son, Paul Pelletier (b. 1844) who signed the Cypress Hills Petition of 1878. Pierre Pelletier dit Assiniboine and his son Joseph Pelletier had also signed Augustin Brabant’s September 11, 1874 petition from Lac Qu’Appelle regard to Metis rights to land, fishing and hunting in the Qu’Appelle Valley and environs.

Jean Baptiste Pelletier married Magdeleine Deschamps on November 10, 1845 in Manitoba, Canada.^[2]

Jean Baptiste and Madeleine Pelletier in the 1870 census record of St. francois Xavier, Manitoba, Canada.^[3]

• Jean Baptiste Pelletier Husband 40 Manitoba
• Madeleine Pelletier Spouse Female 40
• Jean Baptiste Pelletier Child Male20
• Chrysostome Pelletier Child Male 18
• Joseph Pelletier Child Male 15
• Isabel M Pelletier Child Female 12
• Marie Madeline Pelletier Child Female 10

Sources

1. ↑ Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research, The Virtual Museum of Métis History and Culture. The Pelletier Family and the Cypress Hills Metis Hunting Band: https://www.metismuseum.ca/media/document.php/149538.The%20Pelletier%20Family%20and%20the%20Cypress%20Hills%20Metis%20Hunting%20Band.pdf
2. ↑ "Canada, Manitoba Church Records, 1800-1959", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6ZVH-ZHVM : 27 April 2021), Jean-Baptiste Pelletier, 1845.
3. ↑ "Canada, Manitoba Census Indexes, 1831-1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6ZVD-RLKJ : 29 April 2021), Jean Baptiste Pelletier, 1870.