Duteau

also Dutôt, Dutost

Mathieu Duteau and his wife Jeanne Pouvreau lived in La Rochelle, where they were part of the large Huguenot community there (before the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685). Their son Pierre Duteau was born there in March 1607 and about 1632 married another Calvinist, Marthe Renaudin (1604-1637, daughter of Jean and Marie Robineau). They were the parents of three children: Pierre (1633-1645); Marie (1636); and an unnamed daughter (born and died 1637; her mother probably died in childbirth). Pierre now married a second wife, Jeanne Perrin (1615-?, daughter of David and Jeanne Daniau or Daniel), in 1638. They had five more children: Marie (1639-1675, see below); Charles (1641-1717, married Jeanne Rivard, 13 children); Pierre (1644-1652); Nicolas (1646-1647); and Madeleine (1649-1704, married Nicolas Leblanc dit Labrie). Pierre Duteau then died, in La Rochelle in 1658, and his widow (for reasons we do not know) decide to emigrate with all her children and stepchildren to Trois-Rivières, where she worked as a servant in the household of the wealthy fur merchant Jacques LeNeuf (uncle of our ancestor Anne LeNeuf Desrosiers). They arrived in April 1658 on the ship Prince Guillaume, where Jeanne signed an indenture of five years; her three oldest stepchildren signed indentures for three years (all worked for LeNeuf). Jeanne's date of death is not known, but she later lived with her grown children at Lotbinière.

Marie Duteau married (June 15, 1659) Michel Lemay (son of François Lemay and Marie Gaschet, see Lemay). They were maternal grandparents of Marie-Angélique Houde Bourgouin, a great-great-grandmother of Louise Boucher Martin.

The "grand temple calviniste" in la Rochelle was destroyed, but a sketch of it has survived (see above).