Banliard

or Banliac

This family originated in the Angoumois (the region around Angoulême; its arms are shown above) but we cannot pin them down more precisely. Various spellings complicate the search - Banliac, Banhiac, even Bayard. Jean Banliard and his wife Françoise Pettit were both born around 1617 or 1618 and their son François (born possibly 1641) emigrated to Québec in the 1670s. He settled at Sorel, where he was known as "dit Lamontagne." There he married Marie-Angélique Pelletier in 1680. They had seventeen children (see Pelletier dit Antaya), one of whom, Jeanne, married Jean St-Germain and was thus a great-great-great-great grandmother of Joseph Arthur Martin.