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Lalonde Family Web Site - First Citizen of Baie d'Urfe |
 | | The d'Urfé's originated in the Loire region in France and their 14th Century castle was a classical one, with moats, drawbridges, turrets, and ramparts. |
| | Their burial witnessed by d'Urfé and fellow soldiers of the deceased was "near the site chosen for the cemetery near the parish church of St. Louis de Haut de L'ile de Montreal". |
| | The first entry in d'Urfé's register is the marriage on Nov. 29, 1686, of Jean Baptiste Celoron, Esquire, Sieur de Blainville, lieutenant of a detachment of the navy and Helene Picotte de Belestre, widow of M. de Brucy, lieutenant in the infantry and one of the first landholders in the area. |
| web.uvic.ca /~lalonde/history/history/durfe.html (2837 words) |
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