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Hi Robert, Every thing about Jean Cote and his wife Anne Martin is a mistery. I doubt that anyone will ever be able to prove who his parents were. Below ar the notes that I have for him. Janet
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His origins in France and his parents' names are unknown, though he is possibly from Mortagne, Perche. According to the Jesuit Relations, Jean arrived in Québec on 20 July 1634, either on the Saint Jacques or one of the other ships in the same flotilla.
The Jesuit who officiated at the wedding of Jean Côté/Coste and Anne Martin was Charles Lallemand/Lalemant. He was the friend and confessor of Champlain, who died in his arms. Charles was also the uncle of Gabriel Lallemand/Lalemant (1610-1649). In 1930 Charles nephew Father Gabriel Lallemand/Lalemant was named saint because he suffered martyrdom in the hands of an Iroquoian tribe. He is part of the "St. Martyrs Canadiens".
Also present at the wedding were Guillaume Couillard who will become part of the family thru Anne Couture and Seigneur Robert Giffard.
Anne and Jean settled at Beauport, next to Noel Langlois and "Filles à Marier", Françoise Garnier/Grenier (she is believed to be the 1st single to arrive in New France). Noel Langlois granted Jean Coté a portion of the land that he owned.
There is a question concerning the year that Jean and Anne were married. Most records show that they were married on 17 Nov 1635. If that had been the case they would have married about a month after their son Louis was born and Anne Martin would have been 6 months pregnant before Jean left France. I am inclined to go along with PRDH and say that a wedding date of 17 Nov 1635 is an error and that they were married in 1634 or someone used the old calendar. (When I first started my research many dates showed up as 1634/35 for the old and new calendar.) When their son Louis was baptized by Father Charles Lalemant/Lallemant on 25 Oct 1635 the PRDH report # 57108 stated that Jean and Anne (the parents of Louis) were spouses. I have not seen the original birth records.
There is not the phrase "né du légitime mariage de" but it is not written "fils naturel" either. We are working with reconstituted records after the fire of 1640. However, since all involved were still around when it was done, it is probably quite accurate. The date of birth of Louis is correct because it fits with his age of 30 in the 1667 census (his birthday in the fall, after the census).
Jean Côté, a farmer, died 27 March 1661 in his home at Beauport and was buried in the church of Notre Dame in Québec City the next day.
Jean Costé’s widow Anne Martin and children Martin, Mathieu and Noel are listed with a “domestique engaigé” Michel Acoup in the Beauport 1666 Census. Their son Jean was not recorded with them; he was about 22 at the time and must have left his parents' home and the other children were married before the 1666 census.
As for the father Jean Coté, he died before the 1st census in 1666 and no age was given in his death records. We can only guess at his age. Most young men arrived as pioneers in their young 20s. Jean married Anne just 4 months after he arrived. He must have paid his own expenses from France to New France, because it does not appear that he had a work contract. Most young men worked out a three year contract before getting married.
Before the King’s Daughters arrived, there were so few single girls that the men did not care about their wives being older or even extremely younger. I have his birth listed at “about 1614”, it is my educated guess. "About 1614" means just that, it could also be that he was born "about 1604". Given the facts, I do believe that she was 10 or 11 years older. A lot of people change their “about birth dates” because they believe the wife was younger. That was not always the case.
According to Jette, their grandson Jean (son of Martin Cote and Suzanne Page-dit-Quercy) seem to be the first of the Cotés to have used the aka name "le frisé.
By the year 1800, there were 567 marriages recorded, where the male still carried the Côté name that originated from Jean. This was the largest number recorded that still carried the original surname.
The name Coste for genealogy purposes has been standardized to Coté because of all the spelling variations. Before 1800, there were 22 spelling variations for this surname. Coté was used 8,321 times, Coste 2,753 times, Cotte 1,427. In order to help genealogist the name used the most often became standard.
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