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The surname Chartois was first found in Normandy (French: Normandie), the former Duchy of Normandy, where this family has held a family seat since the ancient times.
The family contributed greatly to the affairs of the King and the country as Barons, Ambassadors, and in the military service and they established branches as Cartier de Boiscurtil in Lyonnais; Cartier de Couronneau in Navarre, Guyenne; Cartier Bresson, in Lorraine; Fabron, in Provence; Cartier de Saint-Plansois, de Saint-Maur, Normandy; Yve, de Marchienne, Belgium; Cartier de la Chauvellerie, de Vermette in Poitou; Cartier de St-Malo, from which the navigator Jacques Cartier came; Cartier de Forvie in Liege; Cartier de la Malmaison in Ile-de-France and Poitou; and Cartier of Geneva and Hainaut. The head of the Cartier family in Hainaut received his letters patent of nobility in August 1823 as Baron Cartier.
René Chartier, born in 1623, travelled from France to Canada in the 17th century. After arriving in the province of Quebec he married Marguerite De Lorme, daughter of Hughes and Marie, on 1st October 1669. They remained together in Quebec until René's death at Lachine on 23rd May 1701. 1
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Notable amongst the family in this period was Alain Chartier (1385-1435), French writer and courtier; Jean Chartier (1500-1580), a French painter, draughtsman, and print publisher; Jacques Cartier from St-Malo, French navigator who found Newfoundland in 1534 and claimed Canada in the name of...
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Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Robert Cartier settled in Plymouth in 1620; Pierre Cartier married Catherine Gauthier in 1675; Paul Cartier married Agnès Fortin in 1705; René.