The Paquette Family Genealogy: Sanford, Maine and Saint Georges de Windsor, Quebec, Canada

Étienne Pasquier came to Quebec, or New France, in 1665 from Poitou, France. His descendants changed their last name to Pasquet and later to Paquet when they moved in the 1800s from Quebec City to St. Georges de Windsor in southern Quebec where they farmed. In the 1890s many Quebec families moved to the New England states to find employment in textile and shoe factories. One line of descent from Etienne Pasquier left St. Georges de Windsor, changed the spelling of their surname a third time to Paquette, and settled in Sanford, Maine where their descendants remain. This genealogy traces the Pasquier/Paquette line of descent from 1665 to 2018 with emphasis on their settlement in St. Georges de Windsor, Quebec and Sandord, Maine.