Hi Robert:
My name is Sofia Payan and I'm also looking for information that might tell me exactly who my ancestors lived and how I got my last name. I'm doing a research in college in my last name. I read your message and I do have a bit of information about your or our ancestors. I'll start from the very beginning.
-Francois Payan Dit Saintonge was born in 1655 in France.
-His son was Jacques Payan Dit Saintonge born in 1682 in Fracnce.
-He had a son, his name is Joseph Jacques Payan Dit Saintonge he was born in January 19, 1700.
-He had 3 sons, Jean Marie Payan Dit Saintonge, Dominique Payan Dit Saintonge born in November 24 1724 (he had 12 children Louise Payan St Ores 1748, Dominique Payan 1750,Marie-Felicite Payan March 1749,Joseph Payan 1752, Joacob St. Ores 1754, Jean Marie Payan December 4 1755, Etienne Payan 1771, Jean Baptiste Payan 1760, Fracois Paillant 1767, Louis Payan St Onge 1770, Antoine Payan St Onge 1773)and then it was Pierre Payan Dit Saintonge, he had 10 children and one of them is Jean Baptise Payan but he did not have any children it was his brother Pierre name after his father who had 16 children, he had 12 with his first marriage (her name was Marguerite Dolbec) and their names are Louis Payan Aug 1825 born in St-Haycinthe, Monteregie Canada, Louise Payan Jan 5 1827, Sophie Payan Dec 11 1827, Genevieve Payan Jan 9, 28 1829, Pierre Payan Jun 19 1830, Joseph Payan Jan 6 1833 Jacques Payan Dit St-Onge Jan 26 1834, Marie Emile Payan Dec 2 1836, Paul Payan May 1841, Anonyme Payan Nov 24 1844 (died the same day he/she was born) Marguerite Payan Mar 20 1847, Marie Payan Mar 1847. Her second marriage was with Francoise Dion, her children are Jean Baptist Payan Dit St-Onge, Pierre Payan Dit St-Onge Apr 6 1816, Marie Felicite Payan Dit St-Onge Apr 29 1818 and Anonyme Payan Dit St-Onge Jun 13 1821. This is all I know for now, I'm not sure if it's right 100% but I got the information in the Internet, I used the web site
www.ancestry.com,
www.rootsweb.org,
www.cyndilist.com,
www.familysearch.org and others. Good Luck. I hope I helped you in something. And I hope I didn't mixed you up with the names, they are all the same, only the birth dates are different.
Sofia Payan