Montry/Montreuil

The origin of the Montry name has been a source of curiosity to me since a very young age. There were family rumors and speculation through the years that the providence of Montreal, Canada was named after our family.  I looked this up in the encyclopedia to find that Montreal was named after a mountain but I still don't know who the mountain was named after. After 22  years of searching, here is some of what I've found.

Our first Montry ancestor on the North American Continent was born Louis Sedilot in 1600 just outside of Paris, France.  In 1637 he sailed across the ocean to settle in Quebec, Canada. It was the custom of the French in the Quebec area to call many people by nicknames and so, just as someone might call me "Tex" because I live in Texas, people began to call Louis Sedilot "Louis from Montreuil".  Finally, he just became known as Louis Montreuil.

I found a report about him in a French publication titled DICTIONAIRE NATIONAL CANADIENS FRANCAIS.  I have made a feeble and clumsy attempt to translate with a French/English dictionary but hope to be able to have this translated by a professional some day. For now, the following is what I came up with:

Louis Sedilot came to Canada from Montreuil-les-Breches, en Picardie (as near as I have been able to determine, this is an island or peninsula close to Paris, France).  He was born there around 1600.  He seemed well and grew to live in Paris through the course of his youth. There he married Marie Challe in 1628.

When be became a widower, he married Marie Grimoult who was the widow of Bonaventure Dagnet, originally of Gif, Ils-of-France.  From the year following, let us say 1637, Louis Sedilot travelled across the Atlantic with his spouse and his daughter, Marie, from the first marriage.

When they arrived at Quebec, he engaged with the Companies of One Hundred to clear and cultivate land as a profession.  The next passage is not clear to me but I believe it says he received a commendation for clearing so much land, not for himself, but for his countrymen.  In 1640 the Company of the New France took over from the Companies of One Hundred and he renewed his contract.

In 1645, Louis Sedilot judged the times right to establish himself. In the end he, himself, gave one privilege of land to Charles Huault de Montmagny, governor of the New France of the shore of Ste. Genevieve.

Advanced in age, he dreamed to more and more establish his sons.  In 1651 he obtained more land from Louis d' Ailleboust, third governor of the New France.  Finally in 1660, he received one-third concession from Governor d' Argenson.

Louis Sedilot was able now a days to expire with tranquility; his family stayed well provided. Among the census inventory of 1667, for his lifetime of labor, he is shown to have approximately 60 acres of land, his home, and three cattle out of his stable.

He had seven children from both marriages, three sons and four daughter.  Every one of the three sons adopted a different surname:

Adrien took the name of Brisval
Edienne took the name of Desnoyers
Jean took the name of Montreuil