François Pelletier and his wife Simone Picheron were apparently both natives of the village of Gallardon (above) in the Beauce region, but we know nothing about their family backgrounds. They had twelve or so children: Simone (1592), Philippe (1593), Jeanne (1595), Nicolas (1596), Marie (1598), another Marie (1599), another Jeanne (1600), Éloi (1602), Pierre (1603), Nathalie (1605), Marguérite (1606), another Philippe (1609), and another Simone (1610).

Nicolas Pelletier or Peltier was baptized June 4, 1596, and trained as a carpenter; he married Jeanne Voidy or Voisy (or sometimes Vouzy) in the church of St-Pierre in 1632. (This is not the same Jeanne Voidy who married Jean Demers; they came from different towns in France and died at different times and places in Canada; but it is not unreasonable to think they were related.) They first appear in Québec in 1636, and he built houses in Québec city for a living until 1645. He built the steeple of the church of Notre-Dame de Québec and also put the roof on the governor's residence. In September 1645 he acquired a farm at Sillery, and settled there, though he continued to work as a carpenter. Jeanne died at Sorel in 1689; Nicolas died sometime after 1674.

When Nicolas and Jeanne arrived they already had two small sons, and six more children were born in Québec. Their children: Jean (1633?-1692, married Marie-Geneviève Manovely de Réville); François (1635?-a1690, see below); Marie (1637-1711?, married Nicolas Goupy and Denis Jean); Louise (1640-c1690, see below); Françoise (1644-1707, married Jean Bériau and Sébastien Liénard); Jeanne (1644-1715, married Noël Jérémie dit LaMontagne); Geneviève (1646-1717, married Vincent Verdon and Thomas Lefebvre); and Nicolas (1649-1729, who emigrated north to the Lac St-Jean frontier, and married two Algonquin women, Françoise Ouechipichinokioué and Marie Outchiouanich).

François Pelletier took the name "dit Antaya" after his brief marriage (1660-1661) to "Dorothée," a Huron woman whom he met while trapping in the western wilderness (the meaning of "Antaya" is not known; perhaps it was her real name). They had no children, and François married again within five months, but kept the name. His second wife was Marguérite-Madeleine Morisseau (daughter of Julien and Anne Brelancour), who was born in St-Pierre de Roye, Picardy. She was not a "fille du roi," but there is no record of her parents in Québec. Their children: Marie-Angélique (1662-p1709, married François Banliac or Banliard dit Lamontagne and Antoine de Gerlaise dit Saint-Amand); François-Xavier (1663-1698, married Marie-Madeleine Thunay); Joseph (1665); Marguérite-Agnès (1666, married Charles Boucher, brother of our ancestor Denis Boucher); Geneviève (1668); Catherine (1672?, married Denis Foucault, brother of our ancestor Jean-Baptiste Foucault); Michel (1674, married Françoise Meneux); Jean-Baptiste (1676, married Marguérite Rousseau); Élisabeth (1677, died young); Louise (1678-1703, married Jean-Baptiste Deblois dit Grégoire)

François' sister Louise (1640-c1690) married Jean Hayot, a Boucher cousin; they had eight children, including our ancestor Geneviève (1658?-1727, who married Gabriel Bérard in 1673, and then Jean Turcot in 1712).

So we have three different descents from this family, via Banliard, Foucault and Hayot.