Family history
The Goyetche family of Isle Madame
Jean Goyetche, a Basque fisherman from near Bayonne, was settled at Cape Auget on Isle Madame, Nova Scotia, by 1793. This site follows his descendants and the families they married into, from Arichat and Petit de Grat to New England, Quebec, the Prairies and beyond.
2,410
people
780
families
9
generations
1671–2005
birth years
Where to begin
- Jean Goyetche (c. 1763–1844) and Marguerite Mathieu, the progenitors.
- The interactive tree zooms from the whole family down to one person. Try the fan view for an overview.
- Surnames lists every family name in the tree, 534 of them.
- People is the full name index, A to Z.
- Statistics shows how long the family lived, how large it grew, and where it went.
About the data
Everything here comes from goyetche.ca, the family history Darryl Goyetche researched from the early 1970s onward, starting with conversations with his grandmother Maria in Petit de Grat. This site is a refreshed way of reading the same records. More about the data and how it is handled.