Geneviève Genevieve Hallett

GENEVIEVE HALLET

Red River Ancestry: Henry Hallett

Mothers Of The Resistance

Joseph ‘Beston’ Pelletier (Métis), wife Genevieve ‘Ljikay’ Hallett (Métis), and family likewise grew produce to sell to the HBC. They initially farmed at Pointe-à-Peltier (renamed Armstrong’s Point after 1850), afterwards relocating, possibly in the early 1820s, further upriver to the area where Grantown was established.
Casualty Of Colonialism

She is further identified, in her son's [Janvier and Joseph] Baptismal Records as Genevieve Crise.... m: Abt. 1814 in North West Territories [10 children identified in Metis Families: Vol.4, p.381], where they were married according to the custom of the country -- d: 1890 in Fort Ellice, Manitoba. Father: Henry-Senior Hallett Mother: Catherine Crise, Cree Native-Woman

Script Affidavit by her daughter Madeline

Madeline Bourassa for her deceased mother, Genevieve Pelletier; claim no. 690; address: File Hills; born: 1800 at Fort Pelly; father: Hallett (Métis); died: 1890 at Fort Ellice = Bourassa, Madeline; au nom de sa défunte mère, Geneviève Pelletier; no de réclamation 690; résidence: File Hills; née: en 1800 à Fort Pelly; père: Hallett (Métis); décédée: en 1890 à Fort Ellice. Library and Archives Canada

Cree Indian

When Jovette Geneviève Crise was born in 1795, in Fort Pelly, Saskatchewan, Canada, her father, Henry Hallett Sr., was 22 and her mother, Catherine Dansee Cree, was 20. She married Joseph Assiniboine Pelletier Sr. about 1814, in Northwest Territories, Canada. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She died in 1890, in Fort Ellice, Manitoba, Canada, at the age of 95.