Anne Talbot was born 31 July 1651 and baptized the following day in the parish of Saint-Maclou in Rouen, Normandy, the daughter of Eustache Talbot, a master brewer, and Marie de Lalande.¹

She came to New France in 1670 at about nineteen years of age. Yves Landry notes that she brought with her goods valued at 300 livres for her dowry and received the King’s gift of 50 livres. He also records a marriage contract dated 13 September 1670 before the notary Becquet for a proposed marriage to Jean Barolleau which was later annulled, and that she did not know how to sign her name.²

She married Jean Gareau dit Saint-Onge at Boucherville on 2 November 1670.³ A marriage contract for the couple had been executed the previous month before the notary Frérot.² Gagné identifies Jean Gareau as a native of La Rochelle, the son of Dominique Gareau and Marie Pinard.⁴

The couple established their household at Boucherville, where the parish registers record their children over nearly three decades:

• Marie, baptized 10 November 1671
• Pierre, baptized 1 May 1673
• Anne, baptized 6 January 1675
• Madeleine, baptized 15 March 1677
• Prudent, baptized 18 September 1678 and buried 20 September 1678
• Jean, baptized 3 November 1679
• Jacques, baptized 26 February 1682
• Dominique, baptized 30 January 1684
• François, baptized 14 February 1686
• Anne, buried 24 November 1687
• Marguerite, baptized 18 April 1692
• Marie-Louise, baptized 27 April 1693
• Suzanne, baptized 8 March 1695
• Geneviève, baptized 16 May 1698⁵

Jean Gareau was buried at Boucherville on 6 June 1713.⁵

Anne Talbot died there on 4 August 1740 and was buried in the parish of Sainte-Famille at Boucherville.⁵

Her life in New France is documented in the parish and notarial records of Boucherville from the time of her marriage in 1670 until her burial in 1740.

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Sources

1. Parish register of Saint-Maclou, Rouen, for the baptism of Anne Talbot.
2. Yves Landry, Les Filles du roi au XVIIe siècle (Montréal: Leméac, 1992), 217, Anne Talbot.
3. Québec (Canada), Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), marriage of Anne Talbot and Jean Gareau dit Saint-Onge, 2 Nov 1670.
4. Peter J. Gagné, The King’s Daughters and Founding Mothers (Pawtucket, RI: Quintin Publications, 2001), entry for Anne Talbot.
5. Québec (Canada), Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), baptisms and burials of the children of Jean Gareau and Anne Talbot; burial of Jean Gareau, 6 June 1713; burial of Anne Talbot, 4 Aug 1740; see also Cyprien Tanguay, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes, s.v. “Gareau.”