Cadotte

also Cadot, Cajotte

Jacqueline Cadotte was perhaps a native of the Beauce hamlet of St-Illiers-la-Ville, southwest of Chartres. But she was married to Nicolas Gamache some 25 miles away at Bréval (church of St-Laurent), so she may have been from that town; there were Gamaches in both places in the early seventeenth century. The town is just west of Paris in the present-day department of Yvelines, and was still called "Bréhéval" in her time. The photo above is the 1908 town hall.

We know nothing about the Cadotte family, except that Jacqueline's father was named Jean, and is referred to in her marriage record as "the elder," so she probably had a brother of the same name. Jacqueline and Nicolas Gamache had already been married for more than twenty years when they emigrated to Québec, and she must have died there because he returned to France alone about 1676, leaving their chidlren and grandchildren behind.

There is another Cadot or Cadotte family in Québec but they came from Augé in Poitou, and are probably not related.

See Gamache for descendants.