Éloi Pelletier and Françoise Matte lived in St-Pierre de Brésolettes, in the Perche region (the watercolor above, showing the church of St-Pierre, is from the village's website). They were apparently not related to our other Pelletier ancestors. Their son Guillaume lived in nearby Tourouvre, where he was a coal and charcoal merchant. The Pelletier family association website translates a 1630 document from Tourouvre: “Macé Guyot… yields to Jehan Maunoury and to Guillaume Pelletier, coal merchants, living in said Tourouvre, 106 cords of wood for the purpose of making coal. In exchange, Maunoury and Pelletier will deliver 175 coal pipes and will pay 4 gold coins.” He arrived in Québec in 1641 with his wife Michelle (1592-1665, daughter of Guillaume Mabille and Étiennette Monhé), and their two sons: Guillaume (1624), who became a Jesuit priest, and Jean (1627, see below). Claude, born in 1622, had already died; his godfather was his uncle Claude Mabille. All three sons were born in Tourouvre. Tanguay also mentions a daughter, Marie, who married Julien Perreault in 1647. Guillaume's brother Antoine may have also come with them, but we do not find further evidence of him in Québec; he may have died soon after.

Gillaume was nicknamed "le Gobloteur" perhaps even before he emigrated; it comes from a French word for "goblet," and implies someone who likes to drink and have a good time. We find it used in Canada for his sons and grandsons, but not beyond that.

Jean Pelletier dit Gobloteur was baptised in June 1627 at St-Aubin, Tourouvre, and would have been fourteen when he crossed the Atlantic with his parents. He died February 24, 1698, at St-Roch-des-Aulnaies in Québec. He married Anne Langlois (1637-1704, daughter of Noël Langlois and Françoise Grenier) at Beauport in November 1649. Note that she was only twelve; it was not uncommon for French-Canadian girls to go through a formal ceremony at such a young age, but the marriages were often not consummated until years later. Their first child, Noël, was not born until May 1654.

Children of Jean and Anne: Noël (1654-1712, married Marie-Madeleine Mignault); Anne (1656-1696, married Guillaume Lizot); René (1659-1713, married Marie-Madeleine Leclerc); Antoine (born and died 1661); Jean (1663-1736, married Marie-Anne Huot dit St-Laurent); Marie-Delphine (born and died 1666); Marie (1667-1725, married Jacques Gerbert); Charles (1671-1748, married Marie-Thérèse Ouellet); and Marie-Charlotte (1674-1699, married André Mignier).

René and Marie-Madeleine had six children: Jean (1692-1728, married Marie-Charlotte Gosselin and Ursule Ferland); Marie-Madeleine (1694, married Jacques Destroismaisons); Louise (1696, married Joseph Lavergne dit Renaud); Thérèse (1697?, married Pierre-Noël Morin); Pierre (1700, married Élisabeth Lavergne); Geneviève (1702-1703). Marie-Madeleine died at about the same time as her last daughter, and a few months later René married Marie-Jeanne Godbout, widow of Jean Baillargeon. They had three further children, all of whom seem to have died young: Marie-Charlotte (1704-1705), Marguérite (1706-1709), and Louis (1709-?).

Pierre-Noël and Thérèse Morin's daughter Geneviève married François Daignault dit Laprise; their son François married Julie Gaudreau; their daughter Esther married Louis Jean; their son Louis married Célina Turcotte; their daughter was Marie-Eva Jean Martin.