Hayot

also Ayotte, Hayotte

Thomas Hayot was born in 1609 in Soligny-la-Trappe, Mortagne (above); we do not know his parents' names. He married Marin Boucher's sister Jeanne on July 15, 1629 in the church of St-Jean there (evidently she was two years older.)

Thomas and Jeanne Hayot first appear in Québec in 1638 with their two children. At least four more were born in Canada. The children: Geneviève (1630-1651, married Claude Bouchard dit Dorval); Jeanne (born 1632, died before the family left France); Rodolphe (born 1634, also died young); Jean (see below); Adrien (1638-1712, married Marie-Madeleine Guyon and Marie Péchina); and Anne (1640-1694, married Étienne Denevers dit Brantigny and Léonard de Bord dit Lajeunesse.

Their son Jean (probably born 1634 or 1635; died between 1687 and 1692) married Louise Pelletier (daughter of Nicolas Pelletier and Jeanne Voidy or Voisy) in November 1653; he was about seventeen, she was thirteen. They may not have actually lived together for a few years, as the first child came five years later. We know of ten children: Geneviève (1658?-1727, who married Gabriel Bérard in 1673, and then Jean Turcot in 1712; see below); Jean (1661, married Xainte Grondin); Marie-Louise (1666, married Daniel Normandin in 1687); Marie-Madeleine (1666, married Michel Robert, Charles-Borromée Duval, Pierre Pérusseau and finally Jacques Larchevêque, her sister's widower); Marie-Angélique (1668, a nun); Marie-Thérèse (1671, married Jacques Larchevêque); Étienne (1673, married Anne-Félicité Bonhomme); Françoise (1674, married Claude Garnier); Jean-Baptiste (1677, married Charlotte Badel and Catherine-Antoinette Pagési); and Louis-Joseph (1679-1703).

Geneviève Hayot and her first husband Gabriel Bérard had eleven children; see Bérard. When he died sometime between 1705 and 1710, she married Jean Turcot, but they had no children; he died in 1729, reportedly at the age of 110.