Noël Carpentier's origins in France are unknown, as are those of his wife, Marie-Jeanne Toussaint. We know that they were married about 1672 in Champlain, and that Jeanne was a "fille du roi." (When a "fille du roi" is unidentified in the records as to origin and parentage, she is usually an orphan, and usually from Paris.) There was a considerable age difference: Noël was born about 1636, Jeanne about 1652. They seem to have lived for a time in Cap-Madeleine, and then moved back to the town of Champlain - Noël died there on January 25, 1728, and his wife on December 16, 1708. They are buried at the Church of Nôtre-Dame de la Visitation. The cemetery is still there, but the church itself was rebuilt in the 1870s (photo above).

They had at least nine children: Marie-Madeleine (1673, married Jean Guevremont); Marie-Jeanne (1676); Étienne (1678, married Madeleine Rouillard); Médard (1681, married Jeanne Provencher); Marie-Marguérite (1684); Marie-Antoinette (1686); Marie Thérèse (1689, married Pierre Bourbeau); Jacques (1694); and Noël (1697, married Anne Deniau). The sons and their descendants were known as "Carpentier dit Bailly," which perhaps suggests that Noël came from that town, just west of Paris.

Marie-Marguérite Carpentier married (as his second wife, in 1706) Jacques Valois, a native of Saintonge and a widow with five or six children. See Valois for their descendants.