Proof of Jeanne's place and date of birth has not been located; her parents' names are unknown; and the place and date of her marriage to Nicolas Peltier are likewise unknown. Based on the index to burials in the Saint-Pierre-de-Sorel parish cemetery, we know that she was buried there on 12 December 1689, but the exact date and location of her death are unknown, as is her age at death.

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Anyone who has researched the family and descendants of Nicolas Peltier knows that his wife's last name appears written in a variety of ways in the early religious and civil registries of New France. Her first name was Jeanne, but as to the spelling of her last name, we are forced to rely on the written interpretations of seventeenth-century notaries and priests.

Her surname appears most often composed of two parts, the first of which is the preposition "de." The second begins with "V–" and ends in "–Y" or "–EY"; between these are the vowels "–OI–" or "–OU–," followed by either an "–S–" or a "–Z–" (which sound the same in French) or sometimes a double "–SS–."

Likewise, no one can be certain of the origins of Jeanne herself. We do not know the date or place of her birth or baptism. We do not know the names of her parents or of any family members. The only hint that we have about her origins comes from her reported ages at the Canadian censuses of 1667 (53 years) and 1681 (70 years), which lead us to believe she was born about 1611 or 1614.

There are those who believe that Jeanne, like her husband, must have been baptized in Gallardon, but this is not the case. Record of her baptism is nowhere found in the Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul parish registers. Her name — whatever the spelling — is totally absent. In 2002, it was thought that Jeanne's baptism had been found in Gallardon, but this turned out to be untrue. On 12 April 1612, it was Jeanne Jeulin, daughter of Barthélemy Jeulin and Jeanne Hardouin, who was baptized, not our ancestor. Michel Thibault, then director of the Eure-et-Loir Departmental Archives, confirmed the baptismal record. Likewise, the individual misidentified as Jeanne's sister was in fact of no relation to her. Her real name was Catherine Deleaüe, daughter of Thomas Deleaüe and Marguerite Labbé; she was baptized in Gallardon on 30 April 1597.

Absent, too, from the Gallardon registers is record of Jeanne and Nicolas' marriage. Marriages in Gallardon were not written down until 1657, and Jeanne and Nicolas are supposed to have wed around 1632. No one yet knows where.

Likewise, neither of Nicolas and Jeanne's first known children — Jean and François — appears to have been baptized in Gallardon, either. According to the same censuses mentioned earlier, they were born about 1633 and 1635, respectively, but again, no one knows where. One day, perhaps, we will find record of Jeanne's baptism, record of her marriage to Nicolas, and the baptisms of their children. For now, without any additional proof, we can only suppose that these events took place somewhere in France from about 1610 to 1636.

Three of Jeanne's own direct descendants were known by the name "de Voisy," which is the name we use here. First, there was her grandson, François Jérémie de Voisy, son of Noël Jérémie and Jeanne Pelletier, born about 1671 and who died in 1708. There was also great-grandson, René-Charles Le Pailleur de Voisy, born in 1692, son of Gertrude Jérémie and Michel Le Pailleur. And finally, great-grandson, Joseph Le Pellé de Voisy, born in 1698 and whose house in Québec City was destroyed by an English bombardment, 8 August 1759.

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Nicolas Peltier and Jeanne de Voisy brought with them to New France two sons, Jean and François.

· Jean Peltier married Marie-Geneviève de Manovelly in Sillery on 21 August 1662. Her father had been "master of water and forests" in France, as well as a minister to both Louis XIII and Louis XIV, at Paris. Jean and Marie-Geneviève had one son.

· François Pelletier, later known as François Pelletier dit Antaya, spent the winter of 1659-1660 in the Domaine du Roi and there married a baptized Innu woman known only as Dorothée; they had no children. After Dorothée's death in April 1661, he married Marguerite Morisseau on 26 September 1661 in Sillery. They went on to have ten children.

At Notre-Dame de Québec Church, four children were baptized:

· Marie Peltier, baptized 3 April 1637 or 1638. Godfather: Pierre Laporte, agent for the Company of New France. Godmother: Marie Giffard, daughter of Robert Giffard. She married Nicolas Goupil in Québec City on 17 October 1650. They had two children, but after Goupil's death in 1655, Marie wed Denis Jean and with him had twelve children.

· Louise Pelletier, baptized 10 May 1640. Godfather: Pierre de Launay, agent for the Company of New France. Godmother: Louise Couillard, wife of Olivier Le Tardif. She married Jean Hayot in Sillery on 17 November 1653. They went on to have ten children.

· Françoise Pelletier, baptized 13 April 1642. Godfather: Jean Bourdon, Seigneur of the Seigneurie d'Autray. Godmother: Françoise Pinguet, daughter of Henri Pinguet. She married Jean Bériau in Québec City on 17 August 1654, but widowed soon after, she married Sébastien Liénard on 11 October 1655 in Sainte-Foy and with him had thirteen children.

· Jeanne Peltier, baptized 19 March 1644. Godfather: Father Gabriel Druillettes. Godmother: Louise Azarue. She married Noël Jérémie de la Montagne in Québec on 29 January 1659; he was an interpreter and agent in the Domaine du Roi (Saguenay-Lac Saint-Jean region). They went on to have fourteen children.

In addition, in the Saint-Michel Chapel at the Saint-Joseph Mission at Sillery, two more children were later baptized:

· Geneviève Pelletier, baptized between 4 May and 25 July 1646. Godfather: Jean Juchereau de Maure. Godmother: Jeanne Boucher, wife of Thomas Hayot. She married Vincent Verdon in Sillery on 5 November 1663 and was pregnant with their second child when Vincent died in 1665. In August 1669, she married Thomas Lefebvre, an interpreter and fur-trader with whom she had twelve children.

· Nicolas Peltier, baptized 2 May 1649. Godfather (and future brother-in-law): Nicolas Goupil, carpenter. Godmother: Anne Convent, wife of Jacques Maheu. Also known as Colin Peltier, and, in the Innu language, "Nicolachich," he married three different Christian First Nations women: First, in June 1673, he Madeleine Tegouchick, an Innu, with whom he had one daughter; she died in 1677. His second wife was Françoise Ouebechinokoue, an Algonquin with whom he had eleven children. In 1715, he married Marie Outchiouanich, daughter of the chief of Tadoussac, who would later tutor Jesuit priest Pierre-Michel Laure in the Innu language and assist him in the translation of prayers and the creation of a Innu dictionary and grammar book.