Etienne Poncelet Huyet (Huillet) dit Champagne, b.1696 Sormonne
Hello dear Poncelet descendants. I wonder if any of you might be able to shed some light on my lines? I wonder if perhaps Etienne had Poncelet as a "middle" name because some female ancestor of his had this name. Then again, note that it appears Etienne's grandfather used Poncelet as his last name - very confusing, the dit names can make you tear your hair out!
Note these French records noted for his parents/grandparents are my guesses based on my best efforts to find anything on him in France. The New France records for Etienne and descendants are well documented in books and church records. Below is the detailed info copied from a post I just made to begin the HUYET surname board here on ancestry:
Does anyone have anything on this family from near Charleville France? My 6x great grandfather was Etienne Poncelet Huyet (or Huillet) dit Champagne b. abt 1696 in Sormonne, Ardennes, Champagne, France. He emigrated to New France then married in Montreal, Quebec 1718 to Barbe Fortier dit LaFortune. Etienne's dit name may be dit Huyet et Champagne OR Huyet dit Champagne -- I've found it in both forms. This couple had 7 children. Etienne was a master shoemaker and became a major of the militia in lower Canada before he died in 1776 in Montreal.
I have Etienne's father as Pierre Huillet/Huyet Champagne abt 1660-1713 of Cliron, Ardennes, Champagne, France and his paternal grandparents as Pierre Poncelet & Jacquette Varloteau.
Etienne's mother was Marguerite Somme/Saume LeNormand (could be a dit name) possibly born abt 1664 to parents Denis Somme/Saume & Anne Poirel.
Wondering if anyone has any insight into these lines, the confusing names and dit names. I would very much like to firmly establish just which original name this family came from in France. I cannot seem to find Huyet or Huillet in this region. My descendants dropped the original name/names and became simply Champagne just a few generations back but surely that is not the true name, rather just the dit name for the region from which they came. Seems Huyet (or Huillet) is likely the "real" name. But then there is also Poncelet, another monkey wrench in the works! Hoping someone will see this and share the lines with me so perhaps we can figure it all out.
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