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 The French-speaking Center of genealogy of America

François Noël, was one of the ancestors of Noël's of America The surname Noël came from the old province of Normandy, an aristocratic family carrying this name had considerable properties there; in the 14th century. The Noël's were established in Antons in Brittany, and Poitou. François Noël arrived from France into 1665; he would be the ancestor of one of the principal lines of the Noël's and by the fact even the ancestor of the majority of the Noël's in Canada. François was born from Pierre and Élisabeth Augustin on January 1 1639; its family came from Chiré-the-wood formerly Chiré-in-Montreuil, district and évêché of Poitiers, in Poitou in France, today department of Vienna. François took for his wife Nicole Legrand on October 22 1669 in Quebec. She was the daughter of Nicolas and Anne Duplessis of St-Sulpice, city and archbishop's palace of Paris. To the union of the Noël couple was born ten children, that is to say six boys and four girls; at least five founded families and thus contributed to perpetuate the Noël line in Canada. The grandfather, François Noël, died on May 26, 1725; his wife, Nicole Legrand had preceded François by several years, October 5, 1713. It is interesting to note that some famous characters such as the Ferland historian as well as the Honorable Honoré Mercier descend directly from the ancestor François Noël. Several others formed significant parts of  this family, as well as in France and in New-France, that is to say: Jean-Baptiste Noël, an eminent man in the French policy during the Revolution  and Marie Noël Mullet, a French poetess, born in 1883 and deceased in 1968. The family motto of the Noël line is: " All Good or nothing "

Source: Mr. Raymond Noël     Généalogie des NOEL et ST-LAURENT