The Pelletier/Harpin Line: Into French Canada

PATERNAL LINEPaternal great-grandmother
Loretta E. Pelletier→Raymond Edward Coogan→Clare Patricia Coogan→John Patrick Long→John, Perry & Patrick Long

Loretta E. Pelletier is the Long brothers’ paternal great-grandmother. Gateway to the vast French-Canadian genealogy.

The brothers’ paternal grandmother’s mother was Loretta E. Pelletier (1894-1951, PID: L6MR-GH5). This is where Dad’s side opens into a vast French-Canadian genealogy. Many of these ancestors were among the earliest French settlers of New France in the 1600s, emigrating from Normandy, Brittany, Poitou, and other regions of France.

Loretta married Raymond Edward Coogan, see The Coogan Line for the Irish side of this family.

Pelletier Direct Line

NameBornPIDRelationship
●Loretta E. Pelletier1894L6MR-GH5Paternal great-grandmother via the Pelletier line
●Louis Simeon Pelletier Jr.18 Mar 1862L7CM-XVG2nd great-grandfather via the Pelletier line
●Simeon Pelletier13 Feb 1840L7GX-BJX3rd great-grandfather via the Pelletier line. Quebec
●Léandre Pelletier15 May 1804K4N4-DYR4th great-grandfather via the Pelletier line
●Joseph Pelletier10 Dec 1763L2PZ-9925th great-grandfather via the Pelletier line
●Guillaume Pelletier~1598LVXZ-PZG10th great-grandfather via the Pelletier line. France
●Éloi Pelletier2 Jun 1563LYFL-YQP11th great-grandfather via the Pelletier line. France

Notable Deep French-Canadian Lines

Through the Gagnon, Boucher, Allaire, Simard, Racine, Cloutier, and other families, the brothers’ paternal tree includes hundreds of founding families of New France. Several lines reach back to French and Flemish noble families:

NameBornPIDRelationship
●Abraham MartinW↗1589LBB6-ZF911th great-grandfather via the Pelletier line, early Quebec City settler; namesake of the Plains of Abraham
●Zacharie CloutierW↗~1590KN6C-T9G~10th great-grandfather via the Pelletier line. Quebec founding family
●Mathurin Gagnon~Oct 1606L8PY-DLV~9th great-grandfather via the Pelletier line. France/Quebec