An American Family History

The name Lapointe is a dit name. It could have been a nickname for a soldier (the point of a lance) or for a family who lived on a point of land.

A dit name is an alias given to a family name.

Nicolas Audet dit Lapointe was baptized between July and October of 1680 on l'Île-d'Orléans. His parents were Nicolas Audet dit Lapointe and Madeleine Després. Madeleine was a fille du roi.

He married Marie-Louise Chabot Pouliot on April 15, 1697, at Saint-Laurent. Marie-Louise was the daughter of Mathurin Chabot and Marie Mesange and the widow of Antoine Pouliot. She married Antoine on January 30, 1696 at Saint-Laurent. Antoine was the son of Charles Pouliot and Françoise Meunier.

Marie-Louise and Nicolas's children included:

Francois Audet dit Lapointe (1699-1700),
Madeleine Audet dit Lapointe (1703, married Jacques Turcotte),
Marie Audet dit Lapointe (1704-1782, married Mathurin Boilard and Pierre-Bernard Roy),
Jean-Baptiste Audet dit Lapointe (1707-1784, married Marie-Anne Jouanne),
Marie-Grancois eAudet dit Lapointe (1709-1712),
Marie-Anne Audet dit Lapointe (1712-1759, married Pierre-Francois Pouliot),
Marie-Genevieve Audet dit Lapointe(1714-1807, married Michel Boulay and Augustin Dumas),
Therese Audet dit Lapointe (1717-1792, married Jacques Gendron), and
Louis Audet dit Lapointe (1720-1803, married Angelique Drapeau).

Nicolas Audet was granted land on the southeast side of l'Île-d'Orléans At that time, it was in the parish of Sainte-Famille. In 1679, the parish of Ste-Famille was divided and their farm became part of the village of Saint-Jean.