​JACQUES CÔTE
(1708-1773)

           ​Jacques Côté, born 8 Aug 1708, in Saint-Nicolas, Lévis, Québec, was the son of Jacques Côté and his first wife, Marie-Madeleine Rondeau. Jacques had three full siblings Fabien, Louise, and Jean-Baptiste and seven half siblings, Joseph, Louis Côté, Geneviève-Louise, Michel Augustin, Marie-Charlotte, Pierre and Marie-Josephte.

           ​On September 8, 1731, Jacques married Marie-Madeleine Blouard in Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Canada. Together, they had nine children; M-Madeleine, Jacques, M-Charlotte, Jean-Baptiste-Augustin, Marie-Genevieve, unnamed twin to M-Catherine, Antoine and François de Sales.

           ​Madeleine Blouard died in 1747 and on April 24th of the same year he married, Marie-Françoise Daigle also in St-Antoine-de-Tilly, Lotbinière, Québec. He and Marie-Françoise had five children; Alexis, Jean-Marie, M-Françoise, Charles, and an unnamed child prior to her death.

           ​His third and final wife was Marie-Josephte Bergeron. They married March 1 1756,(4) in Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, and had five children; Marie-Judith, Jacques-Marie, Josephte, Marie-Charlotte and our continued link Jean-Charles.

           ​​Jacques died the 13th of December in 1773,(5) in St-Antoine-de-Tilly, Québec, Canada having left a legacy of nineteen children of which less than half reached adulthood.