Francois Godet De Marantay (Dit Marentette Sr) 3/6/1719/20 - 5/24/1785

Francois Godet De Marantay A.K.A Dit Marentette (JAQUES 3, NICOLAS 2, NICOLAS 1) was born March 6, 1719/20 in Montreal, Quebec, and died May 24, 1785 in Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario.

 

François Godet received the title Sieur de Marantay while residing in FORT PONTCHARTRAN (Fort of Détroit). The name originated from François in the mid 1700. Today Marentettes are primarily in Essex county and Michigan. Marentettes were also part of the movement by wagon trains and settled in and around Eugene Oregon. Records show that in 1755, François Marentette along with the Janisse, Goyeau, Parent and Langlois families left the sanctuary of the Fort to establish homesteads on the south shore of the Detroit River. They became the first families of European descent to take permanent residency in what is known today as Ontario.

 

Francois Godet received the title "de Marantay" and this was later corrupted into Marentette which his descendants adopted later as their proper name.

 

His signaturee on the church register is as follows, " Francois Godet Des Rivieres." No one knows why.

 

Francois 35 years old married JEANNE PARENT 16 years old on September 8,1755 in Detroit, Michigan, USA, daughter of LAURENT PARENT and JEANNE CARDINAL. They had their last of 17 children the year he died at age 65.

 

Jeanne Parent was born April 23,1739 in Detroit, Michigan, USA, and died January 25, 1814 in Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario.

 

Children of FRANCOIS MARENTETTE and JEANNE PARENT are:

 

JAMES GODET DIT MARENTETTE DIT FRANCHEVILLE, b. July 16, 1768, Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario; d. July 29, 1795, Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario.

 

ANDRE MARENTETTE, b. October 25, 1784, Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario; d. October 9, 1853, Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario; m. CATHERINE BOREL, January 28, 1817, Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario; b. 1785; d. October 9, 1853, Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario.

 

ARCHANGE MARENTETTE, b. August 30, 1772, Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario; d. August 25, 1849, Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario.

 

DOMINIC FRANCOIS MARENTETTE, b. May 16, 1763, Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario; d. April 22, 1808, Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario.

 

FRANCES MARENTETTE, b. December 9, 1761, Detroit, Michigan, USA; d. August 12, 1762, Detroit, Michigan, USA.

 

FRANCES MARENTETTE, b. August 4, 1781, Detroit, Michigan, USA; d. January 27, 1880; m. PHILIPPE JAMES LE DUC, January 7, 1812, Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario; b. October 15, 1775, Detroit, Michigan, USA.

 

FRANCOIS MARENTETTE, b. November 10, 1756, Detroit, Michigan, USA; d. September 28, 1846, Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario.

 

JOSEPH MARENTETTE, b. August 8, 1771, Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario; d. August 14, 1771, Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario.

 

LAURENT GODET DIT MARENTETTE, b. August 10, 1769, Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario; d. July 1, 1842, Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario.

 

MARIE-LOUISE MARENTETTE, b. April 16, 1759, Detroit, Michigan, USA; d. August 21, 1827, Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario; m. (1) FRANCIS BERTHELET, May 16, 1776, Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario; b. September 22, 1739, Montreal, Quebec; d. February 1, 1779, South Coast of Detroit, Michigan, USA; m. (2) ANTHONY IGNATIUS DUFRESNE, September 23, 1782, Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario; b. September 2, 1749, Montreal, Quebec; d. December 29, 1803, Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario.

 

PAUL MARENTETTE, b. June 4, 1774, Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario; d. September 4, 1809, Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario.

 

PIERRE MARENTETTE, b. March 17, 1776, Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario; d. September 24,1849, Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario; m. MARY JOSETTE VILLERS DIT ST. LOUIS, July 22, 1828, Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario; b. January 31, 1782, Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario; d. August 31, 1834, Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario.

 

TERESA MARENTETTE, b. April 16, 1765, Grand Marais in Grosse Pointe, Mich, USA/Grosse Pointe, Wayne Co., MI; d. May 26, 1765, Detroit, Michigan, USA.

 

Other things about Francois Godet De Marantay Dit Marentette

 

Oct. 15, 1767 (registered March 8, 1770) P. Potier M.J. sold to Francois Gaudet Marantet, 4 arpents and 1 perche wide, E.N.E. M. de Longueuil, W.S.W. rest oflands of Huron Mission for the price of 1,600 livres. Full depth as given to us without title in 1747.*

June 4, 1769 (registered March 8, 1770) Same to Same, 1 arpent and 1 perche wide adjoining lands of the Mission, Reserving a small square piece of land near the church.*

 

Appendix IV, Abstracts from the Detroit Notarial Records, Liber A from April 10, 1766, to Jan. 20, 1776.