The Pelletier/Harpin Line: Into French Canada
PATERNAL LINEPaternal great-grandmother
Loretta E. Pelletier→Raymond Edward Coogan→Clare Patricia Coogan→John Patrick Long→John, Perry & Patrick Long
Loretta E. Pelletier is your paternal great-grandmother. Gateway to the vast French-Canadian genealogy.
Your paternal grandmother’s mother was Loretta E. Pelletier (1894–1951, PID: L6MR-GH5). This is where Dad’s side opens into a vast French-Canadian genealogy. Many of these ancestors were among the earliest French settlers of New France in the 1600s, emigrating from Normandy, Brittany, Poitou, and other regions of France.
Loretta married Raymond Edward Coogan — see The Coogan Line for the Irish side of this family.
Pelletier Direct Line
| Name | Born | PID | Relationship |
|---|---|---|---|
| ●Loretta E. Pelletier | 1894 | L6MR-GH5 | Paternal great-grandmother via the Pelletier line |
| ●Louis Simeon Pelletier Jr. | 18 Mar 1862 | L7CM-XVG | 2nd great-grandfather via the Pelletier line |
| ●Simeon Pelletier | 13 Feb 1840 | L7GX-BJX | 3rd great-grandfather via the Pelletier line — Quebec |
| ●Léandre Pelletier | 15 May 1804 | K4N4-DYR | 4th great-grandfather via the Pelletier line |
| ●Joseph Pelletier | 10 Dec 1763 | L2PZ-992 | 5th great-grandfather via the Pelletier line |
| ●Guillaume Pelletier | ~1598 | LVXZ-PZG | ~9th great-grandfather via the Pelletier line — France |
| ●Éloi Pelletier | 2 Jun 1563 | LYFL-YQP | ~10th great-grandfather via the Pelletier line — France |
Notable Deep French-Canadian Lines
Through the Gagnon, Boucher, Allaire, Simard, Racine, Cloutier, and other families, your paternal tree includes hundreds of founding families of New France. Several lines reach back to French and Flemish noble families:
| Name | Born | PID | Relationship |
|---|---|---|---|
| ●Abraham MartinW↗ | 1589 | LBB6-ZF9 | ~10th great-grandfather via the Pelletier line — early Quebec City settler; namesake of the Plains of Abraham |
| ●Zacharie CloutierW↗ | ~1590 | KN6C-T9G | ~10th great-grandfather via the Pelletier line — Quebec founding family |
| ●Mathurin Gagnon | ~Oct 1606 | L8PY-DLV | ~9th great-grandfather via the Pelletier line — France/Quebec |
| ●Sir William Roger V | Jun 1527 | P4WG-791 | ~12th great-grandfather via the Pelletier line — Scottish/French gentry |
| ●Lady Marjorie Blair | 1505 | LB2X-PTS | ~12th great-grandmother via the Pelletier line — Scotland |
| ●Thierry Cauchon Seigneur de Maupas | 1513 | LB3W-2B2 | ~12th great-grandfather via the Pelletier line — French nobility |
| ●Jean De Lannoy Seigneur de Molembaix | 11 Jan 1511 | K8H4-4HR | ~12th great-grandfather via the Pelletier line — Flemish nobility |
| ●Jeanne de Ligne dame de Barbançon | 1515 | L663-3CV | ~12th great-grandmother via the Pelletier line — Belgian nobility |
| ●Lord Leonard Bisson | 1500 | G5XB-48X | ~13th great-grandfather via the Pelletier line — Channel Islands nobility |
| ●Sir Jan Mercier | 1454 | GT43-LJ5 | ~14th great-grandfather via the Pelletier line — France |