What is the family tree of bissonette.....what is the first bissonette?

Question

I have been wondering

Answer 1

This is only the possible origin of the last name Fortin, it is not

necessarily where any of your ancestors originated.

Fortin    

Last name origins & meanings:

French: diminutive of Fort.

A family from Maine, France, is recorded in Quebec city in 1652; others, from Normandy and Brittany, arrived in Montreal in 1672 and 1674.

Answer 2

Bissonette and Fortin are both French-Canadian names. There isn't "one" person who was the originator of the name. In fact, of the three lines of Fortins who came to Canada, they were by their own admission not related to each other. The Bissonette line traces back to Jacques Bissonette dit Dechaumaux

b 1645 Poitiers, France

m 19 Nov 1670 Boucherville, Canada

d 28 Dec 1723 Boucherville, Canada

He's not the originator of the name in France, nor was France good at hereditary surnames at that time (notice the "dit" name...they were legal aliases that people used and passed along to their children or not). He was simply the person who brought the name to Canada.