Guillaume was born on 07 MAY 1706 in Sorel (Sorel-Tracy), Pierre-de Saurel, Montérégie QC , the son of Michel Dagneau de Douville and Marie Lamy dit Defond.
He died about 1767. The place is not known.
His wife was Marie-Louise Fournier dit du Vivier, who he married on 5 FEB 1742 in Montréal QC . Their only known child was Louise (?-1745).
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Guillaume Dagneau |
Michel Dagneau de Douville |
Robert Daigneaux |
Charles d'Aigneaux de l'Île |
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Renée Davy |
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Marie Lamy dit Defond |
Joseph-Isaac Lamy dit Defond |
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Marie-Madeleine Chevrainville dit Fontaine |
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| Birth | 7 MAY 1706 |
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| Death | ABT 1767 |
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| Nobility Title | sieur de la Motte |
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| Alexis Dagneau dit De Quindre | godfather |
Note 1
engageur Ouest 29-9-1726 and 9-9-1728
Note 2
Wisconsin Historical Collections Vol xviii: Diary of Sir William Johnson - Visit to Detroit 1761: "Had to dine with me Capts Campbell, Bellfore, McCloud, 8 or 10 other officers and Colonel Du Quesne (Louis Cesaire) and Major La Mott, his brother, who were my prisoners at Niagara." Footnote to that article: Guillaume Dagneau Douville, Sieur de la Mothe, was born in 1706, and married at Montréal. He was in Detroit by 1750. Probably it was his son who as captain in the Indian Department was captured by George Rogers Clark at Vincennes in 1779 and imprisoned in Virginia in company with Lieut-Col Henry Hamilton. JWP Note: There does not appear to be any record of the birth of a son to Sieur de la Mothe. City of Detroit by Burton p. 923: "Thus it happened that Hamilton, Dejean and William La Mothe, captaine of volunteers from Detroit, who had been taken prisoner etc. The prisoners were kept in close confinement for some months etc. Dejean and La Mothe took the oath and were set at liberty but Hamilton refused etc. JWP Note: There may be confusion here with William Peter Lamothe b 21-1-1744, Montréal s/o Peter Lamothe and who was "Captain of a company of Volunteers at Detroit. (See Denissen p 672.) JWP Note: In Detroit to Fort Sackville, 1778-1779, Journal of Normand MacLeod there is reference to the three Dagneau de Quindres (Fontenay, Picanier and Pontchartrain) - "there were lieutenants, named Dequindre on the Hamilton Expedition, all in the Indian Department, Fontinay, François and Pontchartrain. Capt William Lamothe is also mentioned but not as a relative of the three Dequindres. He is however referred to as Capt William La Mothe of the Indian Department and the militia. Haldimand Papers, p 479: Sep 5, 1778: List of Officers, Interpreters etc in the Indian Department, District of Detroit: Fontenay, Antoine and François are listed as Lieutenants but there is no record of Lamothe. Ibid: Roll of Officers in the Indian Department, Sep 30, 1778: Picanier, Pontchartrain and Fontenay are noted but no reference to Lamothe.
Note 3
(L' Esclavage au Canada Français by Marcel Trudel): Guillaume Dagneau-Douville de Lamothe made a promise at the baptism of a Pawnee slave in 1752 to ensure the child would be raised as a Catholic. In that same year he also made a promise at Detroit that the slave could only be sold to Catholics.